Mom was here for almost 3 weeks. It is amazing the relationship that we have being 41 years apart. As though we were sisters in a former life. Julie & Paul came for 5 days and it was so nice to also see that not only am I sisters with my oldest sister, but we are great friends. We shared good conversation and good food nightly until they left. As nice as family is we are happy to be sharing time home alone again. The long weekend is here and I can hardly believe that we have 3 days off.
Spent Friday with the Heller's & Sarah R. Love those guys. Can't wait to post some of the pics. Buddy the Elf was out in rare mullet form.
Yesterday we watched a movie “Stranger than Fiction” and started to cry when I saw the bakery pictured in the film. It looked so homey, so inviting so “REAL”. I know Kevin & I go back and forth on this but I really feel like our lobby is so sterile and organized my creative side is literally choked out of it. It doesn’t encompass who we are or what I want the bakery to be. While we are both very anal on keeping production spotless and meticulously organized, I feel our public space really needs to be more inviting.
Step one, I know needs to be the drink cooler…and opening up the front counter.
I have also been considering having a regular paint a mural in the kids area (www.tollipop.com ) and ditching the furniture for some mixed & matched comfy pieces of furniture from a hotel liquidation place.
I am torn though because we invoke a certain feeling by having the glossy stained concrete floors and beautiful marble countertop…do I totally screw up the “look” by making it more homey feeling?
Our community board for example is anything but a community board. It is a select group of clippings about us and the bakery and how we bake bread and what we put into it….it has virtually noting about our customers or our community other than the occasional perfectly placed ad for the local art walk or jazz festival.
Today I feel like going in there and just tearing down the walls and throwing flour all over the walls and plastering the community board with pictures of our regulars. Am I crazy?????
