The store is finally full

We finished unpacking all of those boxes and our store finally looks full. The only open space left is now the air space. We will have to get creative when we get more toys in. Sam has found his home right in front of the front window. He has this great little message board to greet all of the children when they come into the store. View from the back
View from the front

Calico Critter playtable

Freight

This last week we recieved around 150 boxes of freight. It was more than we have ever recieved yet. It did a great job at filling up the store. This pict was a shipment from UPS that was 86 boxes. We have been busy getting it unpacked and on the shelves.

Meet Sam

Since everyone thinks that Erick is Sam, we decided that we needed a mascot. We found this Giant (almost 7 foot) teddy bear from Gund. He is ginormous!!! It took both Erick and I to lift him out of the box. He will be displayed right outside of the store most of the time to be our own version of a people greeter. He will hold a sign that will have different greeting messages on it.

Our ad

This is a copy of one of the ads that will be going out in November and December Kids Directory. I love how it turned out!!!

We have a sign!!!

Thursday was a very happy day when we saw this truck pull into the parking lot. We are so happy that the sign is finally up.

Zoomorphs

We got a demo bag of the zoo morphs toys and I wanted to find some kind of play table to use for it. I found this great little table and chairs and decided that I wanted to paint them. As I was painting them I had a great idea to decoupage some picture onto the stools. I was trying to think of what kinds of pictures I could use on them. It was then that I spotted the catolog they had sent with the demo's. I cut up the whole catolog and made this cute little Zoomorph's playtable. I found a lap table to put on the top to keep all of the parts in. I think that it turned out great. If you click on the picture you will see a lot more detail.In case you are wondering...Zoomorphs are take apart animals insects and reptiles that you can mix and match to create your own new animals.

View from outside

First shipment of PINK!!!

My first shipment of pink arrived yesterday!! I had so much fun unpacking and displaying all of this darling stuff. It was almost like Christmas.
These were some of our favorites. They are little nursing animals. They have little magnets on the babies and on the momma's. So cute!!!

Toys are arriving

Our toys have been slowly trickling in over the last couple of weeks. Although there are still a lot of holes that need to be filled in, it is starting to look like a store. None of our biggest orders have arrived yet and we still have a few more large orders to place. It is really exciting despite the way the economy is going at this time. We remember the many miracles that happened to get us to where we are today. We do not doubt that we are in the right place at the right time. We ultimately don't know what the outcome will be, but for now we are at peace with this grand adventure.Erick ordered some plush and to his surprise they included this huge white alligator as a free gift. It looks great surrounded by his lizards, snakes and tarantulas.
I went to the ABC kids show in Vegas for a week earlier this month. I would talk to Erick everyday and he would tell me about all of the toys that he was receiving while I was gone. When I went into the store after coming home I had to ask him where all of the "pink" was. Everything that had been ordered was all of the cool boy stuff. He then informed me that it was my duty to order the "pink" stuff and that I had been slacking. Needless to say I have been busy the last couple of weeks ordering lots of fabulous pink to fill the store. Hopefully it will start arriving next week. Then I will have lots of fun pink picts to post.

This is a picture of the crazy hat rack.