It's always amazing to me the difference a little paint and wallpaper can make, and for very minimal expense. Actually, there was practically no expense in this project since all of the paint and wallpaper we used were left over from my kitchen! James bought to bookshelves at Target for $29.00 and he spent about $10 for the metal stripping and screws we used as a border. Not bad! As I'm sure you've guessed by now, this new booth will contain lots of Coca-Cola products and some other "diner" type things. I told him he needs a juke box to put right in the center! ;-) Wouldn't that be fun?!

When we got home last night we priced a whole bunch of his merchandise that he'll be putting in this booth. It's going to look so great! Oh yeah, the booth isn't done yet. He needs to get a panel of some sort to put between the two bookshelves to finish out the "wall" on that side. (Most of the booths in this joint contain primarily junk, scattered all over the place. We don't want you to be able to see any of it from our booth!) He'll probably get it all finished up today and "move in" tomorrow. Pretty exciting! I'll try to make him take the camera with him to take pictures of the finished product. Still, for one day, I think we got a lot accomplished and it's looking great!

James loves his booths and the whole buying-and-selling thing. To find a great deal on something, then sell it for a profit gives him some kind of strange rush. Well, I think Katie has some of his blood! James walked past her room one night after we'd put everybody to bed. Katie was wide awake just staring out into space. James asked what she was thinking about and she replied, "Well, Dad, I was just thinking... If I had $100 I could buy a whole bunch of Girl Scout cookies. Then I could set up a table and sell them and make a whole bunch of money!!!" James told her that she'd probably have to do something other than Girl Scout cookies and that a lot of kids start out with a lemonade stand. A few days later she saw an illustration of kids with a lemonade stand and just went nuts. "Mom!!!! This is what I want to do!!!!!" So yesterday I went down to the store and bought her a can of frozen lemonade and one of pink lemonade. We took some pitchers and cups and her table and chairs over to Sister Tammy's house. (Tammy kept the kids for us while we were working on the booth yesterday). I had drawn the letters on the sign with a pencil, then Katie traced them with a marker and decorated it. Tammy said she sat out with her stand for two and a half hours!!! The grand total was $11.25. Can you believe that?! What a racket! When we got back to Andrews and went to pick the kids up I could see that same light in Katie's eyes that James gets when his ventures are successful. She'll probably have a booth of her own right next to her Dad's by the time she's 12! Ha! Here's a picture of the little entrepreneur.

That's about all the news from here. Today it's back to normal house stuff. Laundry, irnong, maybe even a little school for the kids. ;-) Have a great one!

~Becki~