You may have had a few emails pass your inbox with the new Coventry Displays that we have commissioned Blue Earth Designs to make for us.
They are gorgeous, aren’t they? They are worth every penny.
I am with you that sometimes buying a display seems a bit pricey and maybe unnecessary. I always think that I could put something together in my store that will work, be original and way cheaper. I am always wrong.
I remember one year I thought I could make a nice flocked jewelry display for an odd shaped shelf for less than the custom one online. The custom one was $80. I ended up spending $100 and about 8 hours making it just so. To boot, it fell apart the minute I moved it.
A good display, like the new hand crafted wood displays that we are offering are worth their weight in products. We have found that product sell about 25% faster in a dedicated, branded display than they sell on the shelf. Over and over again, we prove this and it’s worth the investment every time.
Let’s do the math.
$85 for a Blessed Herbal Display. It holds about a $450 value in products (36 Blessed Herbal Candles)
A small store sells through 50% of their order in 30 days (18 candles). A full display sells through 50% of the candles in about 20 days (or less). Once a display gets to half full sales slow down to a crawl. No one wants to pull from a picked over dispaly so you get an opportunity to restock at 20 days, selling an additional 9 candles in that month.
9 candles at full retail (2.25 markup) is an additional $117 in sales. In 2 months that display is paid for and adding an additional $1000 to your total sales at the end of the year. (That’s just for a small store)
How much can a good display cost you - It can cost you NOT to have one!
What does peace mean to you? Maybe it means waking up with the sun on a fall Sunday morning, getting away from your kids for a weekend or, if you’re anything like me, you get your peace from a plethora of things. The thing is, we all have our own definitions of what peace is to us, and that’s okay. Like love, the meaning of peace is customizable and can vary depending on who you ask. Isn’t it cool though? No matter who you talk to, whether their peace is or isn’t your peace, it is agreed that it’s a mental place that provides complete solitude no matter the personal definition.
Did you get your pillows out into the middle of the floor, put on your meditation CD and yoga pants and light the candle? If you did, it sounds like a wonderful start to your meditation. If you are like me, you would have thought about the process and shook your head thinking, “I have 45 other things I need to do!” Honestly, I give up before I every get started because traditional meditation does not bring me joy.
They come out of the woodwork this month, all the Halloween Witches that just love October and witchy the trappings that make you feel magical. Kind of like Sunday Christians. Being a Halloween Witch is a good start, but let me give you 13 things that you can do all year long to earn that Witches Union Card and master your magical self.
You may have heard about this thing called visualization, where you spend time focused on what you want your ideal outcome to be. If you were a pole-vaulter, you would see yourself sailing above the pole and landing perfectly in the sand.
I bought myself an early birthday present. It has become a sacred icon to my journey of fully awakening my awesomeness. I stepped into the gallery, saw a painting by Naomi Haverland
It seemed like a good idea at the time…..
Welcome to 2015! Forget about some stupid unsustainable resolution and step into the most sacred journey of self-discovery! 
This is not a test. There will never be a test of your ability to be perfect. There is only the messiness of life so turn off the DIY home improvement shows, leave your overfilled cart in the craft store, close the Good Housekeeping magazine, step off the treadmill and get back into your body.
Dream big they say, dream wild, live your dreams and never let them die. But what if they are ruining your life? What if your dreams are completely out of sync with who you are today? What if you no longer want to be the superstar, you want to be the coach, the mom, the cheerleader instead? Along the way of discovering who we are we must take stock in our dreams to see if they still fit the person we are blossoming into!