EXPOSURE, in more ways than one

This month we discovered the beautiful stone underneath the rotting plaster as was, so we took all the plaster off and found some pretty nice feature. Some of which will stay we hope like these arches, but most of it, though beautiful, will have to be re-plastered, due to sound levels and warmth.

On the second note, we are beginning to give our whole business some exposure. This week we sent off thousands of "opening soon" leaflets to the printers, and when I went in yesterday I discovered that Cassie had adorned the shop windows too. Now people (bad people, non community people who don't boycott big business) shopping in the Tesco express will know what the shop will become.

the ceiling came down, the ceiling goes back up.

Today will be the third, and hopefully final day of the first part of the ceiling replacement. This layer has been added for sound proofing to stop noise traveling both up to and down from the flats above. The space between each beam is different and different at both ends, so each one has to be individually measured, cut to fit and screwed in place, this is partly why it takes such a considerable time, not to mention the ducking and diving under pipes and wires that has to be done!

Note, the little holes in the beams are not woodworm, no fear, they used to house thousands upon thousand of nails, that held the last ceiling up I guess, and all had to be painstakingly removed.

Cassie and I joined the men yesterday, and cassie is also there now, finishing the job.

Fascia signs again

Well we're back to our frantic designing stage again folks. Yesterday Cassie and I worked together trying to finalise the Website design so we can get that up and running, mostly we just wanted to kick the scanner, but we made a good start and will get back to it today in the hope that soon you'll be able to look us up properly! As to out fascia, we're doing well, a lot of cutting and sticking, scanning and reshaping, tracing and color adjusting, but we're nearly there.

Stock take

This was a couple of months ago now, but I have only just retrieved the photos, but this was a fun day in the autumn when we decided to unpack the "@theWell cupboard" and discover some of the treasures we have been stockpiling for the last 3 years.

luckily the girls live in a house with a big front room!

Then we had some fun sorting and categorising!

 We definitely have some vintage...

but we've got some retro too, we will some how merge the two styles, eclectic but cool!

sortin'

I caught ellen the other day doing some sorting, 3 years worth of sketches, phone numbers, forms, all sorts in many many folders, and this was the first time we had tackled it I think.