In a few minutes I head out to work for the final day as a retail store owner. I have experienced mix of emotions about all this, but mostly I am so excited to move forward to grow Daisy Bucket Designs.
I look back to that first open house in my home November 2004. I released a few sets of custom products. Following shortly was the relase of popular kits where we added many custom creations, we learned alot those 2 years as kit owners, I remember helping Angela with her scrapbook studio and putting away all the products and realizing that 90% of what she owned was from our kits. It was an amazing journey through the history of our kits.
Since the beginning of this jouney we knew that manufacturing is always where we wanted to be someday. I knew that a time would come where Daisy Bucket creations would be in stores. Not sure if I realized really what that would take and how amazing it would be now that we are there and in so many stores.
In the mix of this growth, Melinda and I opened the store just over 3 years ago. The store and customers were an amazing source of inspiration as we grew our wholesale business. We know that it was an important step of our journey.
Today as we close that store and lock that door for the last time as a retail store owner I know that it will be the beginning of another incredible chapter of our lives and our business.
Thanks to family, friends and our {BUCKET} family for being a part of it.
See you at the store today!
11 years ago
6 comments:
Good to see you today - and am praying that tomorrow goes well too as you send your son off to college!!
I hope your day was a great one! Wish I could have stopped by1
It was nice to visit with you Thursday, and I'm sorry I couldn't stop by today. I hope it was a great day (a mixture of happy and sad). I will defiantly be stopping by to say hi and see the transformation of the "warehouse". Good luck to all of you in your new venture.
I was out of town for the weekend
:( How I wish I could've stopped by the store one more time!!
I'm not sure how I'm going to break the news to Claire....she has been talking about the Daisy Bucket A LOT recently :)
Love you!!
Oh man we have some very fun memories!!!
Those kits were AWESOME!!!
I am so excited for you! Only GREAT things to come my friend!
Congrats on your new adventure!!!
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