My Big Project

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So I have made comments about my big project I have been working on and now I am letting the cat out of the bag.  Some of you know this already.  If you live here are if you are close friends of mine.  I have been working on the new Discovery Sea Kayak location.  We just opened a new shop in Friday Harbor.  We spent nearly 5 years at the last location and we were looking for a change. Though we did not move far, a block up town, we feel it will be a better location for out business. The new shop is the old location of the Blue Dolphin on First St.  We could not be happier with the new location!  I finally got the outside of the building the way I wanted and the inside will be done tomorrow!  I feel it is a great addition to the town core and is an attention getter for sure.

We will be having a Grand Re-Opening Sale this Friday through Sunday!  So if you are on island come by and help us celebrate our new location!

I want to give a special thank you to Jenn Riggs for helping me get things together.  I know I will owe her a more formal thank you at some time.

I have a couple of preview images of the store front.  So enjoy and come by and say hi of you can.




The overall look of the outside is very eye catching!  

Here you can get an idea of the window of the shop.  Being ground level in town is amazing.  It is a lot of fun being in the shop and having so many people walk in to see what is going on.  I cannot wait to have the doors open for business!

I hope to get images of the inside posted soon.  Tomorrow I will finish the move and take some images.  Combine this with moving my personal residence to a new place. It has been busy!!

ANYWAY, hope all is well.

Comments

kandi said…
Congrats on the new location! It looks great! I can't wait to see it in person...only 2 1/2 more weeks! Yeah!
May 20, 2009 at 3:29 PM
The Chatty Housewife said…
Hey, I just walked past your shop last week. Looks good, maybe next time I'll stop in for a look.
May 25, 2009 at 9:40 PM
AKZ said…
Looks nice! I hope the new venture is going well.
June 18, 2009 at 1:13 AM
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