May 23, 2010

Well, the open house has come and gone. It was a wonderful time with friends of ours visiting and customers looking at music. We received flowers (I'm still amazed by that) and cards and well-wishes. We could only smile all week long.
Our process of setting ourselves up is continuing as Norm continues to update and upgrade the catalog (a humongous deal) and I continue to set up accounting and the customer area. We are getting in stock orders and working on the web site. I think that is the slowest in coming. Oh well. We are gearing up for the festival in Rochester, making plans, deciding what to bring.
A customer on Saturday suggested we do another "open house" in fall for those who are preparing for the church year. So we may do that. We are also talking about summer hours.

May 2, 2010

I decided to look around a bit on this page to see how on earth some of my favorites blogs look so neat and mine so.....hmmm. Anyway, I figured out how to add a picture and I'll work on this more each weekend.
In the "what am I doing" area, I am now trying to enter 7000 titles into Quick Book. Sigh. Yes, I know how to paste from Excel but you still have to double check entries. Check me out next year. heehee.
The highlight of the week was when Twyla came back and helped me to decorate the teal wall with handbell notation posters. It's very pretty. My crappy pictures don't do it justice. I'm still working on the alphabetical boxes. Yeesh. I need to put in overtime. :)
Another handbell director came and we had fun comparing mallets. That was really fun!! I need to get some Schulmerich ones there so that people can really try out different kinds.