Monday, May 14, 2007

Mothers Day at The Treasure Station

Working the day before Mothers Day is always fun at The Treasure Station. We do carry a few Manly Man Gifts but really seem to cater more to the female customers and children, so a Mothers Holiday is great. I am thinking it really should be a Mothers Weekend, we have earned it after all.
Quite a few of my customers today were men looking for the perfect gift and being myself I was full of ideas. One gentleman just found out his wife collects antique mirrors and we had a great one for him. I wrapped it extra special so he would get great points, then asked if this was the only gift or if was going to add a little something to it. He looked at me funny and said yes he will be looking for something else saying he knew that would be a good idea.
This is a wrapping day for my customers, so the gift doesn't arrive in the plain paper bag (even though ours are darling red check bags).
Another interesting man bought a wonderful Jim Shore, Heartwood Creek, statue for his wife which I wrapped then decided to buy his Mother a Jim Shore Angel for her Mothers Day Gift, when I offered to wrap it for him, he said no, that's ok, I don't need it to be wrapped. Hmmm, was I too slow with the first wrapping??? What to do, what to do, so I used a gift bag, great tissue and ribbons, that makes him a winner for both the women in his life and both were individualized.
Our biggest sellers for the day were the Jim Shore Heartwood Creek lines. Always popular and we carry so many of them. All the customers ask to be sure we are getting all the Christmas ones for this year and are happy when I say yes. The 2007 Line is going to be great this year, items are already arriving but we are holding off putting out too many or we will become a Christmas Store.
Hope we made a lot of Mothers happy this year, your husbands and children were thinking about you!

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