Governor Christie: Maybe There Is Something To This Fleece

  I am right here in the right corner!  When the shot is with Morning Joe, you can see me in the corner......this is a very funny video with some pretty famous people in it.  Hilary Clinton, Bon Jovi, Alec Balwin and Me!!!!  We gave Governor Christie a River Box made by Glen and it is featured on his bookshelf in the beginning of the video filmed in his office.

The Greatest Gift of All

I am unpacking my car full of my daughter's studio.  As, I take each load inside I am feeling tired and weak.  Has four years really gone by?  I peek, then start to dig into what I am uncovering with each trip inside, with thoughts of where am I going to put it all.  I then decide to stop sweating, relax, gather some items and take a picture and write down my thoughts.  I never verbalized to my daughter what she has been working on has meant to me.  I don't know if anyone reading this can relate to this.  But, after I gave birth to my twins, I was in total awe.  I couldn't stop staring at them.  While I was still in the hospital the nurses would give me each of them to hold at the same time.  They had been fed and changed and would peacefully sleep.  I would look at one and then the other....back and forth.....back and forth.  One time my mom witnessed this and said I looked like I was watching a tennis match or a game of ping pong.  I remember thinking I couldn't help it.  I didn't want one to think I looked at one longer then the other meaning I never wanted one to think I loved one more.  All of these thoughts led to: this is just the beginning.  Am I going to feel like this forever?????  Yes, this still goes on now...if one asks for something that must mean the other one needs it too.  From, eyeglasses, braces, contacts, new bed, etc. etc. if one gets something so does the other.   But, to think my daughter made a wish come true of something that is so hard to comprehend.   She took pictures of her twin brother and overlapped them, so you look at them at the same time.  AMAZING!!!!  I have a feeling this weekend is going to be a blur, so I will wish all a wonderful weekend!

New Hours: 12-6 Thursday thru Sunday

Happy to share Greetings from Geralyn will be open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 12-6.  We will be at Monmouth Racetrack on May 11th from 12-6.  We will be open 7 days a week beginning Mid-June.  Yahooooooo!!!!!!!

Earth Day Thoughts

The last five years for me have been so full of changes.  All good things, but most have been challenging.  On a day like Earth Day I feel really good about the type of business we have started.  Almost everyone from our generation has owned a record.  Most people walk in the doors of the store and admit they still have a box of records.  I always ask "Where is it?".  Usually the response is....they are in a closet, in the attic, the basement or garage.  I always encourage them to go home and get them out and look at them.   We were lucky, because our children had a real appreciation for our record collection and they pulled them out and played them.  They also decorate their walls.  Seeing this appreciation made me happy that they were being used again.  We also have people come into the store and say they threw away their record collection after trying to sell them at their garage sales. They are so sad when they tell me, but usually they are the one's that buy a clock of that favorite album that they miss.  So, I have made them happy, which makes me happy.  While we started making a lot of clocks we started to have a lot of covers and insides of records.  I couldn't throw them away.  Now, I make scrapbooks and the latest are these file folders.  If you place an Etsy order or an order through email, I will include a file folder FREE!!!!  And, I plan on making gift tags, postcards, magnets and bookmarks from the scraps cut from the file folders.   So, Happy Earth Day!!!!!

Risky Business

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EdxgwJhHxcI

Again what a difference a year makes.  Watching this I had so much optimism for last year.  I should go back to that optimistic attitude.  I am getting there with baby steps.  Hoping to be able to announce a store opening soon along with our hours of business!!!

Even the sun sets in paradise

I still can't believe with all that Convention Hall went through to survive

Sandy this is happening.  Politics aside.......I LOVE that building.  In February, I was doing writing on my other blog Paris London Asbury Park how I felt I was living an American Dream by having a store in Convention Hall.  I even went as far as comparing it to Disney's Cinderella Castle.  I write those words and poof!!!!  a few days later I find out there is a threat to close the building down.  The reality of it all came true yesterday when I locked the door of the store.  When, I couldn't tell customers the next time I would be open.  We hope to be open on the boardwalk, but nothing is clear until an agreement between the town and owners of the buildings happens.   It is hard to explain the awful feeling this is.  I guess it is just sickening.  I want that feeling of rebuilding and recovering back and in my wildest dreams I would never had thought this would happen.  I am hoping it all gets resolved soon.

Because We Can ('t)

  This picture was taken last year at Bamboozle.  The store each day was full of devoted fans from all over the world.  It was an amazing experience.  We were so proud to be part of it.  With the threat of Convention Hall being closed after May 1st.....I am still in a shock mode.  It is really hard to deal with the uncertainty of the future of our store and business.  I try to keep positive.  I just can't believe this is happening.  It is hard to focus on how to proceed.  Do I go back to working for someone else?  Do we move the store?  I am keeping the faith and hoping this will all be resolved soon!!!!   One of the things we would love to do with the store is sell newly released vinyl.  I would love to sell Bon Jovi's new album.  The story of the cover art brings alive what record making is all about.  It is so hard to want to do all these things and not even know our future.  Saw today Richey Sambura is taking time off from the tour for personal reasons.  Just a note that what has been happening in the music scene that is so admirable is the long duration of the groups from New Jersey.  I think it is a reflection of the Jersey Spirit.......staying alive!!!!  We don't want to see changes, because of the fear of something good coming to an end.  Well, I will get back to my finger crossing, wishing and hoping all of the boardwalk's issues will be resolved SOON!!!!  We will be OPEN in Convention Hall this weekend on Saturday April, 6 from 12-6 and Sunday April 7 from 12-4......Come see us!!!!