Tag: vacation

further along

Well, things have been a little different around the emporium for the last few months. Our proprietor volunteered with a local theater production company as their box officer during the month of June. She’s also been sorting through the stash of fabric and notions in addition to working at a Full-Time Day Job for a great company that let her take two entire weeks off to go back to the East Coast for a birthday gathering for her mother. All of her older sisters were there for an historic group visit and lobster-and-clam-bake.

While she was there, she worked on her sister’s organic farm and attended an all-school reunion for her junior high school, the same school that her grandmother attended, in the town where her mother grew up. She also got to sing in an impromptu rock band who called themselves the Ad Hocs– at the reunion dinner for this organization. The school gathering was attended by more than 150 former students and instructors. The building is now owned by another school but this is the place.

In the meantime, things have changed a little with regard to product sales via the online web site. We’re taking orders but are mostly doing in-person sales and repair jobs; doing our best to complete projects that need completing. Please stay tuned for availability of products. And feel free to drop a note anytime.

 

Emporium open once again for visitors

Hope is the Thing with Feathers — Emily Dickinson

Our proprietors have returned from their vacances with new energy, new project plans, new pen pals and plenty of inspiration from the old country!

We cleaned the Emporium shelves and opened the windows to make room for new creative energy. What inspired us? A number of things.

If you listen, you will know. Can you hear the birds? How about the pedestrians greeting one another, perhaps in another language that you may still find familiar? Can you hear the distant revving of a motor scooter or the closer ring of a bicycle’s bell? Can you smell the loaves of fresh bread from the boulangerie/patisserie, nearby? See the red geraniums in the window box?

Or you may take a walk and view the deep green leaves of very tall trees and an ornate iron gate to a park. If you listen now, you hear the water of a fountain and the calls of ducklings swimming just beyond the trees. There’s a cylindrical, red box near the gate at the end of the tree-lined street. It’s time to mail those letters! And on the same block, near an ancient church, is a time machine. (Well, it’s really a phone box, but it will always appear as a time machine to many of us.) Some of us may even think that if we get to the correct phone box and dial a certain number, we’ll be magically transported to other places.

The contrast of the rich reds and deep greens, the sunlight and the birdsongs have recharged our batteries. The proprietors highly recommend a train trip to you; we learned how to navigate four new train systems that were almost – but not quite – like the ones we have in the U.S. If you don’t have access to a train, read your favorite short story aloud to someone you care about and find out how relaxing it is to take a vacation, in your mind, heart and life.

Thanks for your patience as we assemble our new work, renewed and grateful for the respite.

Stay tuned for additional pieces on the Etsy site and for journal entries about the adventures of the Theme Song Committee.