Say Goodnight

I've been humming this song a lot recently: "Awways look on the broight side of life, du du dih du..." Monty Python fans can whistle along.

It's been more than six months since we announced our intention to close our downtown Pomegranate and consolidate everything at our original River Mall Avenue farmhouse location. We were in the middle of our lease, so needed to have a new tenant in place before we could leave, and now it's done and in forward motion. Our next door neighbor, Lulu's, is going to take over our space in February, and we're sure she's going to do really well there. More light, more space for all her cute stuff. It's all good.

Sunday and Monday (1/11 & 12) both Pomegranates will be closed, so that we can do a major flip around with our inventory and sale items, which we've dredged up from both stores, storage, and I don't know, probably the garage, too. We'll reopen Tuesday at noon with all kinds of sale goodies, and will likely keep adding things over the next few weeks. There will be some great stuff at great prices, including a few utilitarian type display pieces that might be good for another shop or storage. But for the thousand or so people who have wanted to buy our vintage dental cabinet and other prime display pieces: don't get all excited. All those items are moving over to our River Mall Avenue location -- but as we figure out what we can fit in, no doubt some pieces will end up being for sale.

You'll just have to come visit us in our soon-to-be new and improved original location. As much as I hate to leave downtown, I am excited to get back to one store and really put some fresh energy into it. We have all kinds of ideas to make it even better (just wait till I pull together my vision of a little french laundry room on the front porch), but the full realization of that will take some time. We do have some great things to bring in (especially vintage), and we hope you stop by to see what's new. After Tuesday.

It was a very difficult decision for us to give up our wonderful downtown space, but it's all about survival now, and we're doing what we think is best for our business (and our mental health). So I've been trying to focus on the good things, coming soon: a couple of days off together (oh yeah! walk the dogs! play scrabble! read one of the hundreds of magazines I've got stacked up!). Robert gets to watch the superbowl, real time! Go to work with Mollie every day! Get back to work on our website! Breath!

Downtown sale starts Tuesday at noon; we'll be there until the end of the month.