Written:  May 9, 2008
Spoken:  May 10, 2008

Dear Friends, Neighbors, and Long Time Visitors,

Welcome back to the CHRISTMAS SHOP!
We’ve missed you!

Approximately 90 days ago, if someone had suggested that we should reopen the Christmas Shop we would have said to them “You’re Crazy”.  After all, during the past two and a half years we had sold out all of our merchandise, had an incredible two day auction of 1,000 pieces of antique furniture and accessories, had several yard sales of everything from office equipment to supplies, from vacuum and cleaning supplies to computers and cash registers!  We had parted ways with the long time worker family of loving and experienced staff members.  NOW, today approximately 90 days later, we ARE reopening.  We actually believed that we could put the whole thing back together in 90 days.  And we almost made it.  What a challenge – trying to redo about 12,000 square feet of space – clean carpets, paint, go on buying trips, come up with new ideas, reestablish old ones and create some new ones, polish, collect furniture, overhaul fourteen heat/cooling systems, telephone/intercom systems, and just this morning we started to learn our new “touch” cash register systems.  What we are really saying is WELCOME BACK! Welcome back to something old, something new, something borrowed something blue-red-and green.  Over the next few weeks, watch the trees get decorated, watch all kinds of new merchandise appear, watch the magic and the sparkle really shine again.  Come back often, we think you’ll be surprised.  What’s old?  The Christmas Shops, the Gallery, the Bird Room, the Jewelry Shop!  What’s new?  Six Antique Shops, the Glass Spinner giving demonstrations, History Island – a museum shop, the Outer Banks Fudge Company- serving coffee and sweets and the T-Shirt Boutique.  Some things old, some things new, some things borrowed, and our walls are blue-red-and green.

WELCOME BACK TO SPARKLE LAND!   Edward Greene & Richard Lacerre

PO Box 265  Manteo, NC 27954  252.473.2838 © Christmas Shop 03/16/2010
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