On the Road

Sunday we decided to get out of Dodge for the day. Just a couple of hours west on the Thruway to The Enchanted Florist, for a crash course in shrinkwrap. Us, the No-Shrinkwrap-Ever Queens...whodathunkit?
Our friend Betsy, the floral diva graciously offered to give us a lesson. Wrangling miles of plastic wrap with a heat gun may not seem like a fun way to spend Sunday afternoon, but our need is great.

The holidays and gi-normous mountains of shipping are looming large in Basketland, and we've decided to make some changes. And of course there are those gifts for the previously mentioned "unnamed tv show". They need to be picture perfect, and out the door this week.

So, we put a positive spin on the day and made the best of it! Four hours of travel equals four hours of uninterrupted holiday strategizing... no phones and no pesky baskets to make. We conjured up our Christmas pre-book order on Saturday, with only the vaguest of design ideas floating around. We tried to ignore the absolutely best summer day ever whizzing by outside the van windows, and focus focus focus on those elusive snowmen and jingle bells. Betsy took us to her shop and it's beautiful...we loved her designs and the fact that her ribbon wall looks just like ours! We're pretty sure if we joined forces , we could rule the world, or at least our little corner of it. The shrinkwrap lesson was helpful, but almost anti-climatic after the tour and all of the shop talk with Betsy and Ron. (Ron is The Supportive Husband we sometimes wish we had...but really only sometimes.) We wolfed down a quick lunch and headed back home, confident that we'll be "shrinking" with the best of them in no time!