After having a shop for one full year many lessons were learned, and for now at least, it’s closed.
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Hanging out your shingle for business is always fraught with challenges of some kind.  Doing so in a quaint little arts village has indeed been that, just possibly on a smaller scale.  I’ve done service oriented business over the years, primarily web development or hosting, but that didn’t hardly prepare me for running a specialty retail shop.
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I have been so very blessed to live most of my life without any terrible physical injuries.  Oh there have been plenty of illness, allergies, a bout with fibromyalgia which seemed to be more un-diagnosed stress than anything, and that brain tumor.  That has changed. more »