Our new blog header

After many late nights chasing pixels, our logo is finalized, so good-bye to the blog banner with a photo of the beautiful cream rose from our garden:

and hello to our new banner, based on the big sign that will go over our shop:

We're hoping Sign Up Sign Company will be able to fit us into their schedule to come on Monday. Larry Ormbrek will actually bring the vinyl lettering and graphic and lay it out on the floor of The Living Room. Saves us trying to find a way of lugging a 12 foot by 4 foot sign board to his Bothell shop. Thanks, Larry! He and his wife, Susie, have been great to work with.

It was Laurie Sperry's really terrific idea to put our 3 target retail areas (furniture, art, tea & treats) on the window signs, rather than the overhead sign, since over the years, our specifics may morph, but our overhead sign will stay the same. Thanks, Laurie!

I was thinking about those 3 target markets:

Furniture relates to physical, practical necessities...

Art relates to the tug of beauty on our emotions and spirits, whispering...

Tea & treats relate to fellowship with other people...

Of course, all 3 overlap quite a bit, but there's me, categorizing and always looking for ways that the natural reveals facets of God's nature to us.

Love to you!
Katie

Privacy Policy

I think this post is required by our ad publisher, per information provided by Gracey at photographyofgrace.com on Google's AdSense help forum. Thanks, Gracey!

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy describes what personal information we collect and how we use it.

Routine Information Collection

All web servers track basic information about their visitors. This information includes, but is not limited to, IP addresses, browser details, timestamps and referring pages. None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site. The information is tracked for routine administration and maintenance purposes, and lets me know what pages and information are useful and helpful to visitors.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Where necessary, this site uses cookies to store information about a visitor's preferences and history in order to better serve the visitor and/or present the visitor with customized content.

Advertising partners and other third parties may also use cookies, scripts and/or web beacons to track visitors to our site in order to display advertisements and other useful information. Such tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is subject to their own privacy policies.

Controlling Your Privacy

Note that you can change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have privacy concerns. Disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites. The best option is to disable or enable cookies on a per-site basis. Consult your browser documentation for instructions on how to block cookies and other tracking mechanisms.

Special Note About Google Advertising

Any advertisements served by Google, Inc., and affiliated companies may be controlled using cookies. These cookies allow Google to display ads based on your visits to this site and other sites that use Google advertising services. Learn how to opt out of Google's cookie usage. As mentioned above, any tracking done by Google through cookies and other mechanisms is subject to Google's own privacy policies.

About Google advertising: What is the DoubleClick DART cookie? The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher’s website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.

More info about internet advertising and your privacy can be seen at http://www.networkadvertising.org/

Contact Information

Concerns or questions about this privacy policy can be directed to tlr.kenmore@gmail.com for further clarification.

Testing the AdSense waters

You may notice a new presence on our blog. I hope it's not too overbearing. Advertising.

I'll probably be tinkering with the settings over the next few days, but let me know what you think of it!

If the ad publisher puts up ads for flattening your stomach, they will be removed as soon as I can get my fingers on the keyboard. I hate those ads! I leave websites, or shrink them so they only show the little window I want to read.

Original Liz Marshall watercolors - Seattle Retail, Merchandise Services - Kijiji Seattle

We've been learning to post our inventory on Kijiji classified ads. You can start here, and then click "View poster's other Ads":

Original Liz Marshall watercolors - Seattle Retail, Merchandise Services - Kijiji Seattle

Shared via AddThis

So, you may ask, what does it feel like to be a poster?
Rather rectangular, I imagine.

We're on Craigslist, as well, but Kijiji is cooler. Just needs to become better known.

Here's one of my favorites of Liz's watercolors:

 

As with all of Liz's work, there's a charming story behind the picture :^)

We're open!

Actually, we've been open for 4 weeks, but have been too busy for blogging. So much has come together, it's good to look back and see that our hard work has been guided in steps of blessing.

We began our pilot opening on July 31, 2009, and hope to have our Grand Opening when our big overhead sign is installed and when we have all our administrative ducks in a row. Nice ducks :^)

I think my favorite part so far has been meeting so many people and finding favor. We really are each other's riches. I hope my co-owners will add to this blog from time to time, so you can get their perspective, as well.

Hope to put up more photos here because the transformation really is glorious, but meanwhile, check our our updated website: http://www.thelivingroominkenmore.com/

and the facebook page Elisha put together (I'm trying to add photos of our inventory):
http://www.tinyurl.com/tlr-fb

and check out our coupons on our google map listing:
http://www.tinyurl.com/tlr-map

Hope to see you soon in The Living Room :^)