Month: April 2011

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WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

Sorry, but I must interrupt the ‘Progress Series’ to announce the winner of the contest we had for signing up for the Bus Tour by April 1st.

………………………………………………………..  DRUM-ROLL PLEASE ………………………………………………………..

The Winner is:  BERNICE KELLY!  Congratulations Miss Bernice!  You get a $129 dollar gift certificate to Missouri Star!  You lucky Lady.  You might have to share it with your sister…But you  know, that is between the two of you.  Hahah!

 

We still have seats available on our Bus, so don’t be shy.  Call us today and sign up.  WE will have one more contest, so the earlier you get signed up the better!!  For your information here is the itinerary for the weekend.

June Bus Trip:

Friday, June 3. 2010 and Saturday, June 4, 2010

 

Missouri Star Departs 7am Travel time Shopping time Food
Friday Jamesport 7:00-7:30am 7:30-9:00am snack
  Lucas 9:00-11:00am 11:00am-12:30pm lunch
  Creston 12:30-1:30pm 1:30-3:00pm snack
  Exira 3:00-4:30pm 4:30-6:00pm supper
Motel        
Saturday Clarinda   8:00-9:30am snack
  Cameron 9:30-11:30am 11:30am-1:00pm lunch
  Excelsior Springs 1:00-1:45pm 1:45-3:15pm snack
  Hamilton 3:15-4:15pm Home  
         

Have a great day!

~Sarah

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Part 4: The beginning of our Dream

Where we started…

Where we opened.  Crazy, huh.

Our main goal was to provide a place for Mom to work {since all her babies had grown up, she was lonely (ha) and bored} and to give her and Dad something to help with retirement.  We didn’t want to get into debt and stress about all the bills, because well, that totally defeats the purpose of having a fun-family business, right.    So that left us with $2,500 to buy fabric.  Baaahahahahahahahah!  Okay, that is just crazy to me.  We were completely clueless. Mom and I went to Quilt Market in October and met a woman who was talking about her tiny shop she just opened.  {she reluctantly told us about her having to open with only 75K}  Gulp, we were in over our heads!!

Well, we just decided we would just do what we had planned and make the best of it. If we were gonna fail, heck, at least we tried.

My brother and his friend {our business partner} built  a website from scratch, and we thought we’d start  trying to do a little internet business on the  side.  {actually, we planned on dominating and taking over the world} insert evil laughter….

Who knew we would grow and grow.  I remember our first internet order.  We all cheered with joy and awe.  WE couldn’t believe it was actually working. LOL

We had classes and offered quilting, and were so blessed by the support from our local quilting ladies.

Our first ever Class at MSQC

This was just the beginning.  Who knew how much more we would grow!?

Then…Mom broke her leg.