Hello from Malaga,
This morning seems like that Netflix movie where strange unrelated things keep happening. Strange things.
Anyway, it's still all happening all at once.. big announcement soon (probably) for AW-Aromatics.. stand by for BIG NEWS!
Last week I was telling you about why we had to visit the Police Station in Spain - if you missed it you can catch up here.
Meanwhile some good news..
Three second-hand containers now sit in our carpark at AW-Artisan Spain.. our warehouse is at capacity and we have many containers on the way from India etc.. with nowhere to put the new stock items.
We had a bit of a panic because the company took our money and then went quiet on us.. but ended well in the end. This is our temporary fix...
They need to be cleaned and painted in bright cheerful colours. I think we will need more.. but let's see.
Meanwhile in the UK.. following feedback from our lovely customers.. Rodrigo and the team have been taking better pictures of our bag ranges.. this involves fieldwork - notably to Meadowhall the big shopping centre just outside Sheffield not far from our warehouse.
Here in Spain every day a big yellow fire plane flies low over my house and skims the sea in the bay below picking up water to go and dump on a wildfire somewhere inland.
By all accounts this year they (so far) are keeping things under control.
I watched the historic Spain / England match at home, you could hear cheering and celebrations (maybe some crying) from far away in the hot night air.
So afterwards you can understand my alarm to hear some folks setting off celebratory fireworks around my neighbourhood. Stupid and Scary.
In further news.. lots of new stock arriving in the warehouse - I'm so excited to see new esoteric gemstone items..
Also by popular demand, we secured a stock of Macrame style gemstone holding necklaces..
Personally, I like the Guohua picture stones - we found them in China. Quite a specialist thing (not for everyone) - but the idea of natural million year old art - I find calming. Part of a range of products from a small family business, a mother and two sons. The Father (we didn't meet yet) is often on road trips around China and outside to secure raw stock whilst the Mother and sons work hard in the showroom and warehouse.
A super hard working family, and Coco has been getting on well with them to get some of the most exciting gemstone lines to us.
Wishing you a beautiful weekend and hope the "Blue Screen of Death" doesn't catch you..