well, hello!

Hi friends! I don't know if you noticed but I took an unexpected blog break. I just missed one day, than two, than a week and a half. 

I feel so out of touch right now because I haven't read any blogs. I glanced at my reader and I saw that so much has happened with you guys in these almost 2 weeks that I've missed! So I have lots of catching up to do this week. 

Here's what I've been up to since I took a blog break: 

On September 7th we celebrated our shop's 3 year anniversary 

with live music, free food and drinks! It's crazy how time flies. 

Last week we had some chilly, rainy, fall-like days in Oklahoma. It was nice to open our shop doors and smell the rain!

This past Saturday we walked a block from our shop to watch the Cherokee Strip Parade in our downtown. We have this parade every September to commemorate Enid's land run history. I probably should have snapped a photo of the horses and longhorns or of the man on the cool old school bike, but instead I took a picture of the emergency vehicles throwing candy because I thought it was hilarious. Do other city parades show off their emergency vehicles, trash trucks and tractors?? And then of course I took a picture of our friend representing the democrats. 

 After the parade they had some cool stuff going on in our downtown square but we had to leave to open our shop. After a shopper came in with her cotton candy I got really excited and left to go get mine! I love having our shop downtown where they have a lot of awesome events. I love our little city!

I wish there was cotton candy there every weekend. 

I got accepted into my favorite craft show I love to do every year (since 2007)! It's Indie Emporium in Tulsa! So I've been doing lots of cutting and making these owl pillows of mine. Every year I say I'm going to plan my booth ahead of time and what not, but every year the night before the show I run around grabbing things that can hold my merchandise. I really hope that doesn't happen again because I usually start having stress dreams where I drive to the show and have nothing in my car. I'm hoping that sharing this problem here will throw my issue out into the universe and help me to actually plan ahead this year! It's next weekend. 

I've missed you guys!! Can't wait to catch up on your blogs. 

♥ 

I couldn't think of what to blog about today. I thought to myself, what have 

I been doing? We've been really busy at the shop; changing our window 

for summer, searching for new brands and getting merchandise, and 

thinking up new displays and a little bit of rearranging. We also just started

carrying Bombs Away's Oklahoma City Thunder shirts this week and it's 

been Thunder madness at our shop. It's awesome. 

If there's something I've learned in our 3 years of owning a boutique it's 

to keep things exciting and fresh. It not only keeps people coming

back but it also keeps your spirits up and beats burnout. 

♥ 

at the shop // new window display

Last Friday, to welcome June, we started on a new window display! 

We brainstormed and try to think up something we hadn't done before. 

Husband started describing what popped into his head and got to work...

He started by building a wood frame and hanging that from the ceiling. 

He put nails in the wood randomly and started hanging pieces of scrap

wood with twine. 

I LOVE the way it turned out. And the bonus awesome thing is that it was

free! We already had all the supplies used. 

Here's a night shot, because we had terrible glare on our windows 
during the day. We also put in our platform that we built with 
galvanized pipe and a wood top to showcase a gift item. 

We'll keep this back drop (we change out our merchandise weekly) till fall! 

We're already dreaming up our holiday window. That one is the most fun! 

♥ 

I hope everyone had a happy 4th of July weekend!
Riley, Dexter and I headed to Riley's dad's farm yesterday for a cook-out, fishing and fireworks! I love going to his dad's because he lives miles away from anything so it's very peaceful. All you hear are the birds chirping and bugs buzzing.
Here is the pond where we fished. (sorry for the poor photos, I forgot my camera so I had to use my phone.)

Dexter had the best time there. He even swam across a part of the lake! One minute he was by Riley's side and the next he jumped in and swam to where I was. We were watching him waiting to jump in and save him but he was a natural, of course.
The ground is covered in red dirt so that makes for one dirty puppy.



I forgot to mention last week that there was a movie being filmed here in downtown Enid, OK! woot woot! The movie is called The Killer Inside Me based on the novel by Jim Thompson. It's about a west Texas deputy sheriff that is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. It's directed by Michael Winterbottom and stars Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Simon Baker, Jessica Alba & Ned Beatty.
Casey Affleck was in town for a couple days driving around our downtown in an old sheriff's car. I never went to see the action myself but you can visit HERE (scroll down the page until you see it!) to see some pictures and footage.
Also, Brigid from Grey Eye Designs got to be an extra in the movie in Tulsa!! You can visit her BLOG to read her experience!