Putting together a Yarn Shop... 3...

Actually I can't stay and chat today...

Just wanted to let you know that the moving is happening... we are in good shape and the past couple of weeks have been totally crazy... but we are getting there and it's looking great!!!

I'll let you know more soon! and have pics to share!

See you soon!
S.

Putting together a Yarn Shop... 2...

Hello Guys!!!

Here I am again with more stories from the yarn shop!

After the painting was done, we continued to look for things, the lights for the outside sign were easy to find but it took forever to get them because they were supossed to be shipped in 3 days and it took around 3 weeks...
The sign was about to come, the lights weren't ready, so the awning couldn't go up!
The awning was in the back room, so we couldn't clean that room or have anything else going on there because the awning was taking a lot of the space... it was really stressful!

Eventually the lights came in, the sign went up, the lights were installed and the awning too... so we could move the looms to the back room.
We made some curtains for the back room, to divide the weaving area from the "private" area of the shop, and some more curtains for under the kitchenette sink.

And last week, Mary Ann and her sister worked in the wall decoration for the back room... I think those are the only big walls that are not covered in slat walls... We've found a forest bamboo vinyl to put back there...

Doesn't it looks great?

We also put one on the oposite side wall, and it's wraping around the corner...

While they were dealing with the bamboos, I was balancing on top of a ladder, hanging paper lanterns to cover the ugly ceiling in the back room...

Some fun color...

You can see some of the looms in the bottom part.

Here's the curtain that devides the weaving area from the kitchenette, office and bathroom... that rod in the middle with a green curtain...

The cubes are finally in what it seems to be their official place... This ones in the front with hooks to waiting for the yarn...

So when you enter you see this in front:

and this to the left:

The window is displaying right now some looms and spinning wheels

This is the middle room

And the sign that needs to be placed...

Do you remember the dark office and the clinical bathroom???

Look at them now! The office is still a work in progress but the bathroom is ready!

So I will leave you my dears.... I'm going for my daily yanry time!
I'll leave you with the delicious 3 leches cake I made for one of the ladies Birthday last Saturday...
If you want to see the recipe, click here.

Stay cool!!! I don't know how it is where you are, but here the weather is increible hot and we have Excesive Heat Warnings!!!!

See you soon!
S.

Putting together a Yarn Shop...

Doesn't that sounds exciting?????

Let me tell you, it is!

But it is also something stressfull, full of details and things to do... it's something big... that one, as a customer, doesn't realize when enter that paradise of textures and colors that is a yarn shop.
As I've told you in previous post I'm getting more and more involved with my LYS. I've become "part of the staff", I give crochet classes and this days I've been working in crochet samples of sweaters and hats for the shop. And for the past couple of months I've been helping to put together a yarn shop, as the shop is moving to a new location...

It was around May when the owner of the shop, Mary Ann, told me that she was considering to rent a bigger space that faces the street (the shop now is in the inside of a Mall) and move the shop over there... after a couple of weeks of working with the lease and its terms, she signed the contract and the adventure began....

She got the key for the new space at the begging of June... the place had been a guitars store before, so it had little practice rooms on the side, all the walls cover with slat boards...

... and a wall in the middle that she decided to take out.

All the walls free of slat board were painted in white, the bathroom was all white,

the rooms all white, all but the office, which was a dark teal.

It had a beautiful front facing the street with a nice wood space to display things... 

So the shopping and planing began while the construction continued... and we had uncountless trips to hardware stores, Target, Menards, Good Will and practically every thrifth store in town looking for the right tables, shelves, accesories, paint, clocks, mirrors, etc...
We took out some of the doors of the practice rooms...

I helped her to look all around for all kind of things, decide the final look of the sign, the lights, the cabinets...

She ordered 30 wood cabinets, of 9x9 cubes of those "assemble your self" kind from Lowes...

You can see the pile of boxes to the right!!! can you imagine assemble 30 of those??

We had a painting day with the regular knitting group... a group of 8 wonderful ladies that helped with the painting, while Mary Ann and I assembled and assembled cubes...

So, as you can see, the chosen colors were orange and green... we did the bathroom, the outside of the rooms, primed the office.... uff, more and more... maybe you can see at the back of the last picture with the orange rooms, there's a "kitchen" at the end??? that wasn't there either!!!

We found the counter with the sink and had it installed and the white cabinets mounted in the wall...

I really wish I had tell you day to day all about this adventure, I'm not sure why I didn't... but I'll tell you more another day... I'm sure you're tired of reading by now, and I have to run...

Hope you had enjoy it so far!!!

See you soon!

S.