The Lampshade Lady Blog

Happy Holiday Shop Schedule

Time sure flies when your busy. Tonight is the Solstice, Dec. 21. It was a beautiful day here in Vermont. I take Wednesdays off and checked off my to-do list. Yikes, today it was long. I needed an oil change for my car so I tied it in with errands in town. First I prepped dinner, I'm the Wednesday dinner person....so knew it would be a good call to make dinner before a crazy day, yes it surely was a great plan. Homemade Calzones. YUM. Then boxed up an etsy order to ship out, dropped off 2 shades on the way to town and then filled in all my holes on my holiday list. It was fun. I ran into my good friend Elizabeth buying candy at our great shop Mother Myricks, found fun stuff at our super bookstore, The Northshire Bookstore, found a few goodies at The Mountain Goat and then headed down to The Orvis Store for a couple more great gifts. I love the fishing department there; the sales guys there are always so nice and very helpful. They always come up with great ideas. On my way out of town I stopped at my friend Janno's shop Flower Brook Pottery in Dorset and topped off my list. She's got lots of beautiful gifts and her pottery. It's nice living in a small town where you know the shop keepers and see other friends out and about on a sunny day.

Tomorrow, Dec 22nd is my last day in my shop till after the holiday. 10-5pm

I will be closed until next week. I am planning to be in the shop on Wednesday, Dec. 28th. My Lampshadelady Etsy shop will remain open and shipping will start again on the 28th.

 An article was published on Tuesday this week in our area newspapers, The Manchester Journal, Bennington Banner, and Brattleboro Reformer. Manchester Journal. It's a bit of a quirky article. I've had many an article written over the years but this is not my most favorite. If you read it you'll see. But all press is good. Definitely need to get my hair done....that will be a January project. I might be getting old but happy to get rid of all those gray hairs.

Hope everyone has a nice holiday, eats great food and enjoys their break.

xo

judy

 

Lakes Lampshade Shop Info

Recently I gave up my very tired and outdated website and will be working more on my blog as website. I am posting some business info here. (I made a granny mistake of giving up my domain of lakeslampshades.com and a slot machine company decided it was a good  bet. It's not me, sorry if you have gone there) The address to my blog is lakeslampshades.net                                 Live and learn, dumb mistake on my part; I didn't even think about it. I post most often on my Instagram feed, Lampshadelady.

SHOP HOURS: Open 10-5 Monday, Tues. Thurs, Fri and Saturday usually. Closed Wednesday and Sunday. There are times that I am away but generally keep regular hours. If you are coming to visit from a distance please call me 802-325-6308 or email me judylake(at)vermontel.net to make sure I am there.

Location: 60 School ST., Pawlet Village, VT  2 doors down from Machs Market off RT 30. Pawlet is 25 minutes north of Manchester, VT and 40 minutes south of Rutland, VT. Rt 30 is on the Western edge of Vermont.

My Etsy Shop is called Lampshadelady and is a great place to buy and see my inventory from my Pawlet Village studio/shop.