Sorry Tom, you did not win the pen, Jackie Dean won it. She is a real cutie! [
] The opening went well, I just got burned out over the last couple of days. It was a steady stream of people from 9-5, never a rush of folks, just steady all day. Not many either, about 50 people showed up. 1 IAP member, Dennis from Mesa. The Stipula/Visconti rep helped out all day, we did manage to gang up on a lady and sold here a $600 Davinci FP [
] I was always taking to someone all day and never took any pics, I thought my kids would do that. They didn't. I was a little disappointed as my writing desk and some other cabinets, never made it. The store still needs a lot of work, stuff on the walls, trim the slat wall and get some art up. But here are acouple of pics. Total sales for the day, around $1,600.00, but the best part was, we sold mostly fountain pens to first time users. So once they get the bug, they always come back.
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The loby is share by PenWorks & the insurance office
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Bowls from my friend Burt Heikens and Gary Max's stuff on the top shelf
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The small bowls are mine and Bert did the bigger ones
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Back wall with refills & pens
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mostly my stuff in this cabinet
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Other companies pens, they can take a peak into the shop, thru the smal windows.
The shop is not as big as I would have liked, but who's shop is ever big enough[
] It is 14x33 , but the cieling is 18' tall, I have a roll up door, a second floor 14x30 for storage and a roll away ladder to manuver around the shop.
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This is the east wall, couple of work desks, pen kits, blank storage, sharpening center, sink.
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The west side
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good view out the door, can leave it open, most of the time I am turning.
Well that's about it for this weekend. [
] I have a demo coming this Friday night at the traveling Woodworking show and then a two day demo & sale at the Scottsdale Artfest 2006 the following weekend. It should be non stop till the end of the year. [:0]