One Month, Three Days and Counting

So a little over a month ago we signed the lease on what is now Second Street Art Market. So much has been accomplished in this time, and whenever I get discouraged about the progress I'm making, I just go back and figure out how long ago it was that we even decided to do this, and what I've gotten done since then.

The website is now officially up and running, www.secondstreetart.com, and for the most part I'm pretty happy with it. There is one artist that I don't have any images for, but I've left her in anyway, just cause I like her, and I'll add photos of her work when I get them. I'll have many more artists to add either when I get their bio, get their agreement or get their photos.

We went visiting today and I met the owner of another gallery in the area. It is more of a "gallery" in the traditional sense, and she knew the former owner of our place. She and I are going to have lunch sometime soon, perhaps even Tuesday of this week, and I think we'll be comrades. She had some words of wisdom about an artist I'm already working with and I appreciate the heads up. She also has a referral for me, someone she doesn't mind "sharing" and thinks will do well up in Monument.

This week we got more display and POS stuff in, and Micki and I set up the POS "cash register" system and agreed on our numbering system as well as the layout and information necessary for item input. She'll be getting items entered this week, I'll design the little tags that will go on all the products, we'll print the labels for each product and away we go.

Some more artists brought work in, the signs for the building are designed, approved and materials ordered and I would imagine that within ten days or so our signs will be up (and I will post photos). We also received our resale number in the mail, and so were able to get our Town of Monument business license in the works.

This coming week I have to update insurance, place orders for wholesale accounts and finish getting the POS stuff setup. I also have to update the ads for Art Hop with our logo and information, as well as put together a media plan for Art Hop for Lucy and I to take and present to the other merchants and finalize participation. I should probably send "official" business cards to print rather than continuously printing new ones myself and trimming them with an x-acto blade!!

I also have to get on music in a serious way, so I'll tackle that this week as well. And find another employee, plan the opening dinner for the artists, design and order opening soon banners, and probably another ten or thirty things I haven't thought of yet.

Danielle is babysitting tonight so we can go out for dinner with Doug's parents. I'm so looking forward to some adult time and an enjoyable, relaxing dinner and then a good nights' sleep!