It’s that time again, I am set up for the First Friday weekend at Good Juju.
And I am ready for Valentine’s Day, with a booth full of hearts, roses, crowns, and cherubs.
Being in retail causes a twisty relationship with holidays.
In the midst of Christmas week, I was cutting out hearts.
You have to be a couple jumps ahead to sell holiday decor, so here I am, still chomping on candy canes and sipping cocoa while I create romantic crafts.
That’s okay. I love holidays and I very much enjoyed my Merry Valentine craft afternoons between Xmas movies with the grand fairies.
Not the whole week was as much fun as time with the grand fairies or with my craft supplies. We discovered a major, hidden water leak that had rotted out the whole back wall’s support system in the hearth room.
Luckily, my talented son was here to carpenter it all back to normal. In the meantime, we had three days of chaotic mess, door open (or off) in the cold, and expensive Home Depot runs while the guys worked their frozen little bottoms off to get things fixed.
The hens thought it was great fun to have an open door to wander in whenever they liked. And I zipped through taking down all of the Christmas decorations in record time to make space for the guys to work.
It was pretty bad. Did I mention the words, rotten, chaos, and expensive?
Yep, those sum it up.
But I also have to throw in “blessed”.
Because, while it was cold, it wasn’t horrible or icy, and the guys could work on the outside. And our boy was willing to extend his vacation to do the emergency repairs. Who knows how many months it would take to get this fixed if we waited on setting up a contractor?
But with Adam here- 3 days and DONE!
I was able to keep right on with my Valentine Christmastime crafting.