Renovations at the Store ... Busy, Busy, Busy

If any of you came by the store over the past several days you found us closed for renovations. We were closed for 3 days in order to clean, paint and rearrange the store. We have only been open for 1 year but it was time to change the colors of the store and add some interest.

We painted the store a beautiful khaki color with light chocolate accents. We stenciled beautiful Fleur de Lis around the top above the crown moulding. We also refinished the Cash Wrap and Archway in a venitian plaster with an awesome antiqued brick red faux finish. It is an unbelievable transformation.

We did all of this work in 3 days with the help of some family and friends who were kind enough to lend their creativity and hard work to the process, and we can't say thank you enough.

If you live in the area, I encourage you to come by and see the finished product. If you are a website customer, just give me some time and I will have pictures on the site. Of course we are all very tired, but very pleased with the outcome.

By the Way, I will be pouring the very first "production" of Esteem Canldes on July 6. The time has almost come to present them at our store.

Candles Are Coming Soon . . .

Hello Everyone, I just wanted to post today to give you an update on our candle line. We have been testing and retesting to get the perfect fragrance line for our candles. We have finally poured our last test and we are ready to start production. The name of our candles are Esteem Home Fragrances. It just has a nice ring to it, don't you think? I will be posting soon with a list of fragrances that you can expect to see on our website soon.

As you very well may know, Esteem Home Fragrances is our new "additional" venture since Hurricane Katrina. In retrospect, I find it very interesting the way life changes because of such a horrible disaster. I can say with all honesty that the three of us would have never considered opening a home decor and gift shop pre-katrina and we certainly would have never considered a candle making venture.

I will be posting links soon to my other blog about Entrepreneurship. This blog is still under construction right now, but it will chronicle out journey as "forced" entrepreneurs in a post-katrina world. It should be quite interesting.