New tags with logo

The work in a shop is never done.  Lewis got back from his second trip in two weeks.  He seems to be trying to cover most of the east coast several times over this year.  Now we have to play catch up.  We took the plunge and ordered new round tags with our logo.  They have plenty of room for us to write detailed descriptions and prices.  We had gotten so far behind on our pricing.  We knew the prices of items, but getting everything properly tagged was another matter.

New white tags with black strings gave us more incentive to get back to work and tag.  After doing a few everything looked so neat, that we just worked harder.  In fact now we are determined to redo all the old tags.

What a difference a tag makes.  Our old tags were hap hazard and looked messy.  The new ones are sleek, looking much more professional.  Now we are really getting prices on every item.  Our old customers might die of shock. 

Hitting the Road again!!

Last week Lewis was all over the North and Midwest.  This week it is down to Asheville NC to visit his friend Chris and to pick up a neat bedroom set that he purchased near by.  We're not so sure that the lure was not the Sushi Pictures that Chris kept sending to Lewis via his cell photo before he ate it all up.  We all salivated over those photos.  We have just gotten sushi in the Thai Pot, a restaurant across the street, good but limited..  At last we have gotten some, otherwise we had to go to Williamsburg or to Richmond.

He went down via Ronoake, VA and into the Mountains of North Carolina.  When he comes home it will be across the State of North Carolina and up into Virginia.  As usual I'm here operating the shop while he's gone.  We emptied out parts of the shop in order to fill her back up again.  Lewis takes this job seriously.

He will not be going to the Brimfield Shows this next month.  We have had some luck in the past up there in July.  Sometimes you can get better prices on purchases as that show is slower than the ones in May and September.  Chris is a trooper and he will be in his spot on the main road at the meadows.  He takes his helper Temple, so he can go buying too.

Work work work....the more we get the harder we work!!!

We have just gotten in some fabulous pieces.  Lewis had to enlist the help of his brother Chris in hauling in his goodies.  They traveled far and wide in their search for quality pieces.  Chris lucked out too! It is in deed fortunate that the two brothers enjoy antiquing together.  Chris goes for the historic American pieces and believes he found a piece from Williamsburg.  He will take it to be checked out by the powers to be in Williamsburg.  Chris grew up taking his bike into Colonial Williamsburg and loved American History.  We moved from Williamsburg to Va. Beach when Lewis was a pre-teen.

Lewis loves the great designers of the Deco and early modern periods for their classic designs that look modern even today.  These early pieces were made with the same attention to design as the pieces made 100 years earlier.

Lewis has been working feverishly even since.  He is cleaning,  polishing, and wiring.  Yesterday and the last few days the big project was cleaning and french polishing a huge parchment covered console, by Dassi, that sits on a green marble base.  Today he steamed clean the upholstered pieces that he acquired.  Cleaning and polishing two chandeliers. Our man Friday, Ray, worked equally hard .

If you can make it to our store come by and check it out or check out our shop's website www.lewistrimble.com . We will be listing some of our new finds this coming week and the next couple of weeks.  We are always getting in lots of interesting pieces.   There are always things coming and going in the shop.  What Fun!!!