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Oct. 6th, 2004 08:56 amI stayed till about ten o'clock PM last night painting at Wild Thyme. Ahh!! Green paint and painting herbal murals, wooHOO! What fun! Robyn and I will be finishing out another frontier order, hopefully we can get a new essential oil display. I want to not only carry Aura Cacia and Frontier, but Osadhi, which has some VERY nice blends. One in particular, "Devotion", has frankincense, cardamom, and Himalayan cedar. It's wonderful! Friday Robyn, Betty our chef, Jenny one of the other laborers and I will be going to Wicker Garden tea room in Cedar Rapids to "check out the competition". Frankly, with the way that Robin is doing this, with all antique china, rosewater scented linens, fresh pastries, the whole experience, I doubt that there will be much in the way of competition. We are already getting constant calls and inquiries as to when we will at last be open. We have folks wanting to book corporate and wedding parties, and right now we are doing two seatings per day on the tea room side. The retail side, of course is open for everyone.
Which reminds me, Republic of Tea needs to be called, they have some incredible white teas. It is a damned shame they don't sell in bulk, and $50+ for a case of six tea tins. That is just completely absurd! I think Robyn should develop her own line of teas. Hell, Zhena's did it, as did Frontier and many others. It isn't that hard. Tea blends is part of what we do. It really about having the time to experiment. We of course don't have the facility to mass produce. Next on the list is coffees. I want to go as high end as I can and still be salable. I personally do NOT want to bring in Starbucks. Robin rather agrees. I don't think that Anamosa, even with the tourist contingency is ready to be so commercialized. It's bad enough we have a local Wal-Mart let alone a Starbucks coffee! Seattle can stay in Seattle as far as I am concerned! They are not a fair-trade or environmentally friendly coffee company, and I want to avoid that if at all possible.
More capsulating herbs today. With the flu season coming, and half the vaccines being out, I am going to go through my own herbal stock pretty quickly at this rate. I have had at least one order for various things per day. This is great and I am pleased. The good news is that it will give me my clinical hours and hands on experience for the American Herbalist's Guild professional recognition requirements, but trying to do all this and run a household, raise a kid and rennovate a store - it's a wonder that I get six hours sleep per night. Altough, happily last night, I did get that. However, I still feel like I was run over by a combine! ;-)
( Political stuff underneath the cut )
I need to find frames for my Sekhmet and my Durga Devi prints. I have a really wonderful one of Durga that I got from Vortex in Iowa City, and two Sekhmet prints that I got off of eBay a little over a year ago. I hate to have them sit and gather dust.
Another thing I need to find frames for are three posters that were used on the set of the movie, Cutthroat Island. These were part of the prop inventor and actually used on the Port Royal set. I only ordered one, but the particular charity that I bought them from said they screwed up and didn't have the one I wanted so they sent me three of ones I didn't want. Actually, they DID have the one I had wanted and then sent me two extras of the others. Weird, but I am grateful. I guess that is ok, since I missed out on some of the fantastic costumes from the extras on the movie for those in the Port Royal scenes and on both the pirate ships and those of the British crown. These costumes were selling at rock bottom prices ($20 - $30) for some very nice complete ensembles! I think when I was bidding on them, I had to go to Chicago or old Tawy and didn't have access to a PC in order to bid again when I was outbid. Oh well. :)
Which reminds me, Republic of Tea needs to be called, they have some incredible white teas. It is a damned shame they don't sell in bulk, and $50+ for a case of six tea tins. That is just completely absurd! I think Robyn should develop her own line of teas. Hell, Zhena's did it, as did Frontier and many others. It isn't that hard. Tea blends is part of what we do. It really about having the time to experiment. We of course don't have the facility to mass produce. Next on the list is coffees. I want to go as high end as I can and still be salable. I personally do NOT want to bring in Starbucks. Robin rather agrees. I don't think that Anamosa, even with the tourist contingency is ready to be so commercialized. It's bad enough we have a local Wal-Mart let alone a Starbucks coffee! Seattle can stay in Seattle as far as I am concerned! They are not a fair-trade or environmentally friendly coffee company, and I want to avoid that if at all possible.
More capsulating herbs today. With the flu season coming, and half the vaccines being out, I am going to go through my own herbal stock pretty quickly at this rate. I have had at least one order for various things per day. This is great and I am pleased. The good news is that it will give me my clinical hours and hands on experience for the American Herbalist's Guild professional recognition requirements, but trying to do all this and run a household, raise a kid and rennovate a store - it's a wonder that I get six hours sleep per night. Altough, happily last night, I did get that. However, I still feel like I was run over by a combine! ;-)
( Political stuff underneath the cut )
I need to find frames for my Sekhmet and my Durga Devi prints. I have a really wonderful one of Durga that I got from Vortex in Iowa City, and two Sekhmet prints that I got off of eBay a little over a year ago. I hate to have them sit and gather dust.
Another thing I need to find frames for are three posters that were used on the set of the movie, Cutthroat Island. These were part of the prop inventor and actually used on the Port Royal set. I only ordered one, but the particular charity that I bought them from said they screwed up and didn't have the one I wanted so they sent me three of ones I didn't want. Actually, they DID have the one I had wanted and then sent me two extras of the others. Weird, but I am grateful. I guess that is ok, since I missed out on some of the fantastic costumes from the extras on the movie for those in the Port Royal scenes and on both the pirate ships and those of the British crown. These costumes were selling at rock bottom prices ($20 - $30) for some very nice complete ensembles! I think when I was bidding on them, I had to go to Chicago or old Tawy and didn't have access to a PC in order to bid again when I was outbid. Oh well. :)
