new business venture

I just went to the bathroom and while I was in there I was thrown into a funk as I leafed through a Pottery Barn catalog with the pages of home decorating porn. I mean, you start to think that you, too, can have a really organized home if you just order the $89 Catalina bath caddy. Why? Those aren't real houses. Then I realized I want to start a magazine. It would be a shelter magazine, you know, devoted to home and storage and chic closet organizers and all. The difference would be that instead of filling it with pre-planned photos we'd be a guerilla organization. We'd show up, unannounced, at people's homes and photo them with full trashcans and dirty socks on the coffee table and a messy sink. This would be both interesting in a celebrity-voyeur way ("hmm, did you know she likes to leave empty Starbucks cups on her bathroom counter, what is that, fifteen of those empty mocha lattes?") and interesting in a regular magazine way ("hmm, I like the red and orange towels, looks nice") so we'd get lots of readers.

Feel free to steal this idea, I am too busy to get it off the ground. Just make sure to give me the cover one month.

too much to do

Arrgh. It has been ages since I posted. We've been busy and I have had minimal down time. Christmas is coming and we are getting all the holiday displays up in the stores. This year I really haven't had any opportunity to do any displays and I miss it. My available work time is so short that I can't really spend time 'playing' with rearranging the beads. I did go in last night to set up for a bead show we had at Ornamentea for about four hours. I took Nora and she just hung out on the floor, rolling around and making squealing noises. That won't last, a few months from now I won't be able to just plop her down and work nearby. Right now she is still amused by watching me as long as I talk about what I am doing. This means I narrate my activities which could be either funny or really annoying to adults who are listening. Nora is enthralled. She's my best audience.

Oh, an update on the hiring...I have interviewed almost ten people this last week and they were all pretty good. A few were really stellar and we'll probably hire them. Whew. It's been pretty tight with the schedule so now-hopefully-we can all breathe.