Dear Blog Readers,
We have become the kind of blogger we never wanted to be — the kind who has a "read our blog" button on our website but the newest post is months old. We blame Facebook for this — it's so much easier to write something there and we seem to have more followers there than we did here on the blog. Still, we can't quite bring ourselves to give it up altogether yet — so instead, we're posting this little note to explain our lack of current entries. Please do check out our facebook page, we think it's fun, if not quite as long form.
sincerely, the Joie de Blogger.

Saturday, June 6, 2009

What things can be yellow?

Some things that can be yellow at Joie de Vivre are suns, moons, and stars. Bees are fine too, as are rubber ducks, rubber chickens, and anything with a smiley face on it. But there are lots of things that can't be yellow. Glow in the dark fairies and plastic mini maracas to name two items. Right now we have a little display of glow in the dark fairies. It holds one or two each of pink, green and blue . . . and probably forty yellow ones. When it started out, we had equal numbers of all. If someone wants four of them, they'll buy one of each color, but if they only want one, two or three, they will not buy the yellow. Same thing with our mini plastic maracas, and once you have an entire display of only yellow. . then no one buys any. To restock, we must buy an assortment and the whole process begins again, leaving us with even more yellow - the curse of the assortment. There are some items I've had to stop ordering for this reason only. Manufacturers just stare at me blankly when I mention this problem. .. but other store owners know exactly what I mean!
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  1. AnonymousJune 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM

    Aha -- now I know that all the 'goodie bags' you'll be raffling off will be filled with an assortment of yellow-ness! Fun !!
    Thanks for the invite (did you really hand-write them?). I'm one of the perennial Xmas shoppers who comes in for a huge haul about a week before the holiday -- and my friend Loretta, who used to accompany me before she moved to New Mexico, is so delighted that she is home for a visit and we'll both be coming to the bash (probably on Sunday, not sure). So many congrats on being a shop which has not grown old as the years have passed.
    Loraine Murtagh

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