Every planner I've owned for the last decade shows April as a blooming month - overflowing with
activities. This year is no exception. Our Signs of Spring Craft Show is on April 10th. Last summer I asked a college art student to create these signs for me as a summer job. When it wasn't accomplished by fall, I "assumed" that it wasn't going to happen. My son, Ryan, has quite the saying about "assuming" in which I won't repeat. In the meantime I asked my daughter, Sydney, to design and paint these signs. She's shown here putting on the finishing touches. Last week I received a phone call from that college student. Unbeknownst to me, she was home on spring break painting away. Now I have ample signage. Sadie, my oldest, reminded me that my communication skills haven't been up to par lately. People can't read my mind? Darn it anyway!
activities. This year is no exception. Our Signs of Spring Craft Show is on April 10th. Last summer I asked a college art student to create these signs for me as a summer job. When it wasn't accomplished by fall, I "assumed" that it wasn't going to happen. My son, Ryan, has quite the saying about "assuming" in which I won't repeat. In the meantime I asked my daughter, Sydney, to design and paint these signs. She's shown here putting on the finishing touches. Last week I received a phone call from that college student. Unbeknownst to me, she was home on spring break painting away. Now I have ample signage. Sadie, my oldest, reminded me that my communication skills haven't been up to par lately. People can't read my mind? Darn it anyway! 
Experiencing growing pains with my kids, I know that they can be very painful. Beads in a Box is experiencing growing pains of the good kind. It's a sure sign of springtime as Mid is spring cleaning. We are giving promotions, moving offices and rearranging everything. You guessed it; the Beads in a Box office is expanding to double the size. Besides being our storeroom, asking Janice to make it her office to boot was walking a fine line of pure craziness. Good thing she can work in tight spaces. She only had room to make it to her chair and turn her chair around. Karen came up with some awesome office designing ideas and pictured here are our heroes, Ryan and Lonnie constructing our pegboard in the new office. We now will have double the hanging space. My favorite part of spring cleaning is the organizing. It doesn't get any better for me when things are organized, fresh and clean. We had a bead brigade transporting our pegs of necklaces to the new
office. Since Karen is extremely tall (compared to the rest of us), her help dismantling the top pegs was essential. Misti got the fun job of reinstalling all the loaded pegs and organizing them. Look how much fun she's having. Do you like organizing things? What are your tips for creating less chaos in your work space? I'd love to hear from you. I'm a container person and have trouble throwing cute containers away. I love finding creative new ways to use them for storage. Do you have any containers that you just can't part with? Tell me about them and ways you have found to re-use them.Before we fill our new room up with all our display items, we are having our first wholesale show for local businesses on Wednesday, March 31. We have some great new spring designs and will be giving a glimpse of the Untapped Potential line. I've been creating UP line designs to have Misti reproduce and Janice has been taking pictures of them. Janice is also working on our new logo and the third new website to be called http://www.theuntappedpotential.com/. I'm excited to see it born.
Time to hit the bricks as the next week is going to be pretty hectic!
Tootles for now, Kyla
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