Pinwheel Party!

Oh what a beautiful day outside today!  The door to the store has been open all day and the smell of spring is in the air!!!  I wanted the spring feeling in the store too, so I spent the morning making florescent yellow, pink & green pinwheels to put in my window display.  I wanted something to catch the eye of people passing by and maybe make them smile.

Pinwheel Window Display

It’s not going to take any window decorating awards but I love the bright vibrant colours and to me it looks like a Pinwheel Party!  I dunno, I like it

Sherry

Top Sellers this Christmas Season

So I’ve been really busy in the store I thought I’d share with you a few of my best selling Christmas items.

Number one on our list is our Handcrafted Pottery by Karin Seelen.  Karin does wonderful pottery pieces from coffee mugs to chip & dip sets, but by far the best seller this year in her line is our Garlic Graters.

Pottery Garlic Grater

Pottery Garlic Grater

Now don’t think that this is just for garlic, these also do a wonderful job on chocolate, parmesan cheese, ginger, nutmeg etc.  To use it you just peel your garlic or ginger and rub it along the grating surface.

It doesn’t stop there, here’s a quick bread dipper recipe:  Grate a some garlic, add some olive oil and a touch of balsamic vinegar.  Slice or tear bits of crusty french bread and dip.  Now there’s a quick way to impress your guests!

As each one is handcrafted no 2 are ever the same, some are a little larger some are a little smaller, but they all work the same and make a great gift.

Each Garlic grater comes with an instruction/recipe tag.  $14.99 each or 2/$24.99.  Save some money and get one for a friend and one for yourself

Our second best seller in Karin’s pottery are her French Butter Dishes

French Butter Dish

French Butter Dish

These are the best idea since sliced bread!  Actually they are a great way to keep your butter fresh and spreadable.  The idea behind the French butter dish is rather simple.  Butter will turn rancid rather quickly at room temperature, NOT because of the room temperature, but because it is exposed to oxygen.  Before there was refrigeration butter was kept under water to keep it fresh, the French butter dish does exactly the same thing.  There are two parts to your French butter dish, the smaller lid/bowl that sits inside a larger bowl base.  Butter is packed into the lid while water is put into the bowl base.  When you insert the lid into the base an air tight seal is created.  Since water and oil don’t mix you can keep this on you kitchen counter and always have fresh spreadable butter.

Again since each one is hand thrown, no 2 are ever alike.  $29.99 each

If you are interested in more of Karins work, please feel free to email or comment here and I’ll send you some pics.

Our next best seller is this Chickadee Plate

Chickadee plate

This is the sweetest plate with cute chickadees nestled in pine branches.  I’ve been wrapping these up with in cellophane with a box of truffles placed in the center with a large gold ribbon bow.

Birnn Truffles

 

Chickadee plate $24.99

Birnn Truffles $9.99

 

And finally two of my best selling Stocking Stuffers this year are:

Crystal Nail Files

Crystal Nail Files $9.99 ea

Crystal Nail Files are extremely smooth and gentle and yet highly effective. Metal files and emery boards tear the nail as they file leaving rough, sharp edges whereas Crystal Nail Files will seal the nail edge.  These are suitable for both natural and artificial nails.  $9.99 each

Lipstick Shape Pens

Lipstick Pens

These Lipstick pens have been going out the door faster than I can bring them in… funnily enough, I haven’t sold a single one.  Nope not a single one, but multiples at a time!  They come in 4 different colours and the ladies have been grabbing them up 4 or 5 at a time.  No wonder, they are only $2.99 each and make great stocking stuffers.

Well, those are just a few of my best of the best sellers here at Sherry’s on Main.  We are located at 157 Main St. N. Mount Forest, or you can order through this blog by clicking on the Order button at the top of the page.

Merry Christmas everyone,

Sherry

January 2011 News and other stuff

Can you believe it’s the beginning of a brand new year? We had such an amazing 2010 and we owe a great big ‘Thank You!’ to all of our wonderful customers for an unforgettable Christmas. We’ve had an amazing time chatting with you online and in the store, we really do have the most fabulous customers we could ever ask for. So Thank You from the bottom of our hearts.

I haven’t posted in a little while because I’ve been mired in paperwork, inventory and deChristmasizing (is that a word?) the store.  Some things just aren’t any fun but they have to be done.  I’ve also rearranged the store, which was fun while I was thinking about doing it, but once I actually started, the fun faded real fast.  You see, I have a small store and when I move one fixture, then I have to move EVERYTHING else, all the product and fixtures to be able to move anything else.  Then of course it never fails.  Once everything is in a disheveled mess, customers come in in droves!!  They have to slither and squirm around shelves and display units that are in the most awkward of places.  Now I’m not complaining about customers in the store, oh no, but usually it’s new faces who come in and have never seen it in a better state.  I apologize profusely and offer to move things if they are in the way, and most people understand and are quite accommodating, but I’m still very embarrassed by the state of the place.  Well, with that said, the rearranging has been completed and for now I’m happy about the new layout.  It looks as though there is more floor space and so far so good.  I’m never bright enough to take before and after pictures, but I’ve got the batteries for the camera charging and I’ll try to take some good shots of the store and post them here for your viewing pleasure

And now for a little News:

I should have posted this sooner, but… well you’ve read what I’ve been up to… but, today is my last day in the store, then I’ll be closed….. Ha had ya worried didn’t I (well maybe not)… but I’ll only be closed for 2 weeks.  Sherry’s on Main will be CLOSED from Jan. 9th to Jan. 24th.  I’ll re-open at 10 am on Jan 25th.  No I’m not taking a fantastic tropical vacation or anything romantic like that, I’ll be taking the time to restock my own line of Parson House Soap and Candle Co. soaps and candles, making other product for the store, working on some ideas that are floating around in my head and recharging my own personal batteries.  After being open for 7 days a week starting the 1st of Nov. for the Christmas rush, and I get pretty darn tired and I just need a little respite from the store.  That and the fact that I need the time to restock.  There isn’t a single bar of soap left in the store AT ALL and the candle selection leaves a little to be desired.  So when I return there will be a whole new selection of Artisan Goat’s Milk soaps available, but my Olive Oil Cold Processed soaps will take a while to get here as they need 4 – 6 weeks to cure before they can be sold.  If you have any preferences of fragrances that you’d like to see here in the store, drop me an email or leave a comment and I’ll try my best to have it available for you.

When I return on January 25th I’ll have

NEW HOURS

Tuesday – Thursday 10 am – 5 pm

Friday 10 am – 5:30 pm

Saturday 10 am – 5 pm

CLOSED Sunday & Monday

As always I do offer after hours and private shopping.  Just call the store at 519-323-0251 and I’ll open just for you

And Now for a personal note:

My husband Brian and I have taken up curling.  We really have no idea what we are doing or how the game works (apparently drinking is a major factor in the game) but we are having a really good time doing it.  Last night was our second session of curling.  Now I have really BAD knees and I have to curl using a stick, there is absolutely no way I can curl the way you see them do on TV.  IF I could get down there, it would take a week and a hoist to get me back up again!!  So as I said I curl with a stick.  We’ve seen other curlers there that have this little handle thingy attached to the broom and thought that was kinda neat.  As I curl now I have a throwing stick (that’s my technical term for it) at each end of the ice and a broom.  Well, last night as I’m coming up the stairs from changing my shoes, there’s my husband buying me my very own “Throwing Stick Curling Broom” thingy as a Birthday gift.  My birthday isn’t until the 13th of January, but it’s one of those things that would be kinda hard to wrap.  Anyway, the “thingy” as I’ll call it seems to work pretty good.  I actually put the occasional rock where the skip wanted it!!  Well we curled only 6 ends because we gave the other team quite a lathering:) (no credit taken by myself or my husband for that one) then went into the club house to do the obligatory drinking.  The next thing I know, my husband coming out with a cake all aflame and the whole room singing Happy Birthday to me:)  I had absolutely no idea he was going to do that and when he first came out I was wondering who it was we were singing to!!  Hehehe, I’m a dope  Anyway we all had a few drinks and some cake and an all round good time!

I guess he got me back for the candle stuck in his hamburger!!  Brian’s Bday is Dec 26th and he’s not much on sweets so we don’t do the whole cake thing for him.  Since everything around here is closed on Boxing Day, we decided to go out for lunch on the 27th.  I had the girls at Al Jerkeys (that’s the name of the pub we haunt) come out with a candle in his hamburger and sing to him!  Hehehe, it was fun and I managed to embarrass him a little.  But he was smiling while eating the burger

Well, once again Thank You for a great 2010 and I’m looking forward to an even better 2011 and I hope the best for all of you too.  If anything fantastical happens while I’m closed I’ll post it, but other than that I’ll see you in 2 weeks time.

Take care everyone,

Sherry