First off, let me apologize for the slow news week. The reason for the lack of words to entertain you is that we are preparing for a minimal reopening on August 1 of our brand spankin’ new lingerie store. It’s really starting to come together and we’re very excited about the progress so far. It has been a grueling two weeks with late nights every night. And we’ve still got a long way to go.

Notice that I said that we’re having a ‘minimal’ reopening. It’s because we haven’t received all of our stock yet. We’re only about half stocked, but we do have all the fixtures and things in place. This is mostly due to the fact that, much like cars (unbeknownst to us), apparel manufacturers do not use catalogs with the same year as the year you are in apparently. We chose our product lines from the 2008 catalogs (crazy, I know) and quite a few of the lines were discontinued, because everyone should be ordering out of the 2009 catalogs. There’s a diatribe I could go into here about how it’s 2008 and I’d be carrying these items in 2008, so why is the 2009 catalog out already, but I’ll avoid it (for now).

So, we’re waiting on updated catalogs so that we can round out the remaining 40% of out stock. But in the meantime, we’ve been closed for so long that we just don’t feel like we can wait any longer. So we’re quietly reopening with what we have and once we have the full stock in place, we’ll have the ‘grand’ reopening.

So that’s what the plan is and what is going on right now. We’re going to get some pics of the new store uploaded soon. Probably over the weekend, when we have a moment to breathe. In the meantime, if you have some time this weekend and are in the vicinity of the store, stop in and say hello. We’re expecting it to be very slow since no one knows we are open, so we could use the company. Ash & I will be there all day Friday and part of the day Saturday, and our wonderful employees Heidi and Shannon will be there all day Saturday. So stop by if you have a chance!

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