It has been a busy start to 2013 for this firefly family so we think it’s about time to celebrate!  So on Saturday, March 16 we are throwing a little party for all of you!  Lots of action is happening at all THREE of our locations… To kick off the GRAND OPENING of our third location in Ann Arbor we are giving away free goodies (like that cute bag pictured above) to our first .

The last two days of our fast and furious facelift were the most work.  Once again I have to thank our team for all their hard work, late nights and extra shifts needed to pull this off.  We are about at 90% completion in these photos.  This week we’ll put up more artwork up on the walls, add tree branches budding with paper lanterns in a few displays, light up a marquee sign that .

We went through our share of colorful paint on Tuesday.   Our fabulous firefly team is doing an amazing job helping us transform our whimsical space.  We are so grateful to have such a positive, flexible and hard working crew.  Thank you gals! Now… if we could only teach Piper how to paint trim work. The back half of the store floor also got covered in chocolate brown paint.  The only thing we didn’t .

It has been 6 years since the last time we gave our original Berkley location a makeover and we decided it was time to mix it up again.   Inspired by our latest location we’re turning our current sherbet color theme into a more punchy palette.  Also we are saying goodbye to a lot of our traditional shelving and adding more industrial spool table tops. First the un-fun part… tearing apart the store after the .

After many weeks of preparation we happily opened our doors on Detroit Street this Wednesday. It seems so long ago when we originally looked at the space and to be honest, it’s still sinking in that it is finally a reality.  We had a blast putting everything together and are delighted with how it turned out!  Here are some of the classic before/after shots… Talk about the power of paint, right?  And now for .

We are finally entering the pedal to the metal week at our new shop in Ann Arbor.  Everything is finding it’s place (including the awning) and this week it’s all about getting pretty products placed in the shop. Here’s a quick tour of how things are coming together…  My dear friend, Aly stopped by on Saturday & yarn bombed our lengthy limbs we have scattered throughout the store.  I’m also loving these cool vintage .

Another week has flown by at our new Ann Arbor location.  Steve has become the master of creating our check-outs from old doors… this will be his fourth & fanciest one yet.  And God bless Katie, our new manager for painting TWENTY window panes and our GIANT bumpy brick wall.  Her and the color, grape leaves have become best friends.  We’ve also found many terrific treasures on craigslist… claw foot tub, retro sofa & .

Normally I spend a good amount of time behind the computer during the work day but this paint roller will be my tool of choice the next couple weeks.  Slowly but surely our new shop in Ann Arbor is taking shape.  Thankfully our new manager, Katie also is swift with the brush and has been painting daily while we were at the Atlanta gift show last week. And we’ve been using Steve’s muscles to .