Gift Shows Have Booth Bimbos!

Friday we spent the day at the LA Gift Mart looking for vendors for our Housewares and Home Decor / Giftware departments. I think we smelled every possible scent of candle and diffuser oil possible except for maybe rotten fish with hints of roof tar and dog fart. We found some more good sources for fun kitchen and bath stuff as well as a few good manufacturers of picture frames and home decor items. And the highlight of the day was seeing a booth bimbo - imagine that, even Gift Shows have them. I think it is more fun to buy computers, paint equipment and fixtures when you get to spend $40,000 in a snap. With most of the exhibitors at the Mart, we were spending only hundreds of dollars.

Construction progress in our absence: painters finished with all of the walls and the interior doors have been primed; wood supports have been installed on all of the perimeter walls in preparation for the fixture installation; glass has been installed in the patio door; and the concrete floor preparation started.

We ran into a big snag on Friday with the light fixtures that took us for ever to choose. It seems one of the component suppliers for Cooper Lighting is unable to deliver a needed part to manufacture our lights, so they anticipate a delay into mid-March. Well, that doesn't work for us, so now we are back to the drawing board looking for a replacement fixture or some other solution. More on that on Monday.