May update

Well we are finally in the "good" part of the year...it's spring and people are walking around more and getting presents for people, and themselves. It really is nice out though I have had to crank up the A/C at the shop already and that is a noisy and fairly inefficient beast.

New site http://clothes-pin.blogspot.com/ that covers new designers, it is useful to peek at now and then!

Sodafine and Emmaluv swear up and down that the one year point is magical for businesses, and things that never sold before will sell then. Isn't that weird? Does anyone else have at experience?

I am off to the Accessories show on Monday. Yes it's a tradeshow and I didn't really want to go down that road but a lot of small designers these days are doing that route to drum up sales, so it is convenient in that way. They are exhausting and just not that much fun, however...except visiting with people! That's always fun!

I am going to hunt down the mythical leather bag line under $200 that isn't all over Park Slope already. It is a tough job.

Things are going well at the store, except that my girl is not working as much on the wknds as I'd like, so I am going to have to consider enticing someone else in for Sundays at least...ok time to open the shop!