Grand Opening!
The Grand Opening of TSF was this weekend.
Aside from the few bumps we had in the morning it went really really well. We had just great comments from the neighborhood and locals. Lots of really good positive feedback so the store definitely has been well recieved. There were lots of "This is such a beautiful store", "You've done a great job merchandising", "So inspiring"...
During the early stages of merchandising, we overheard a few comments from locals thinking that it was a "Chinese restaurant"...on more than one occassion. Perhaps because they saw a bunch of Asian people?? Haha...I dunno but I bet they feel stupid now. ;)
We had such wonderful support from our friends as well. So many people came out to see the store on it's first day. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such great people. There was one point were I think the only people in the store were just family and friends and I swear, it was packed with about 20ish people. We had so many waves of them throughout the day. It was so great.
Linda, Huong's partner, was so funny. She woke up extra extra early that morning so that she could bake 6 batches of chocolate chip cookies to hand out to people coming in. And the cookies turned out to be a big hit! By the end of the day, I think there was probably only 10 or so left....granted, it probably didn't help that Loan and I ate like 5 each. Haha...yum!
Big Milestone for TSF.
...the beginnings of an empire....
Brings a tear to my eye.
=*)
Aside from the few bumps we had in the morning it went really really well. We had just great comments from the neighborhood and locals. Lots of really good positive feedback so the store definitely has been well recieved. There were lots of "This is such a beautiful store", "You've done a great job merchandising", "So inspiring"...
During the early stages of merchandising, we overheard a few comments from locals thinking that it was a "Chinese restaurant"...on more than one occassion. Perhaps because they saw a bunch of Asian people?? Haha...I dunno but I bet they feel stupid now. ;)
We had such wonderful support from our friends as well. So many people came out to see the store on it's first day. We are so lucky to be surrounded by such great people. There was one point were I think the only people in the store were just family and friends and I swear, it was packed with about 20ish people. We had so many waves of them throughout the day. It was so great.
Linda, Huong's partner, was so funny. She woke up extra extra early that morning so that she could bake 6 batches of chocolate chip cookies to hand out to people coming in. And the cookies turned out to be a big hit! By the end of the day, I think there was probably only 10 or so left....granted, it probably didn't help that Loan and I ate like 5 each. Haha...yum!
Big Milestone for TSF.
...the beginnings of an empire....
Brings a tear to my eye.
=*)