5/14/2009

yesterday was a good day. i did a little of everything. i delivered, made arrangments and cleaned and organized for memorial day. it seems like they are trusting me a little more each day and that feels nice. i've been left alone at the shop a couple of times and once for 2.5 hours all by myself.
so these ladies came in and they wanted to give their friend a nice gift. their friends had a still born a year ago and it would've been her 1st birthday so they wanted cute little things to put on her headstone for her birthday and they wanted it fast. they wanted one big one and two little ones. i was going to have bruce help me but he was bookkeeping and i decided to just do them and do them fast. the big one took me 10 minutes from when i started greening until i was done. the other two took 15-20 minutes each. after they were done, i added ribbon and stuff to make them cute and tie in to each other a little. they ended up so cute! i just loved them! it was sad to see them go when they came to pick them up. i remembered when bro. romney had said that doing funeral work or work for the dead was a very spiritual experience. he said that sometimes he prayed for the spirit to inspire him as to what they would enjoy and how it would best help the family. i said a little prayer and received help by being able to have them done within an hour. about 5 minutes after i finished they came in. and they were so happy and kept saying how cute and perfect they were. it made it all worth it. they were kinda picky and so i was worried they wouldn't like them but they were better than what they had asked for. on one of them they wanted a banner that read 'happy birthday' but i thought that would be weird and it would've costed them $10 more. i just used polka dot ribbon to make it look babyish and partyish. :) i wish i could upload those pictures but maybe i'll just have to post them on facebook since these pictures aren't working.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2125803&id=193307924&l=6698bddca4
you can see the pictures here.
i organized all the paper mache for the gravesites for memorial day. it will be nuts next week.
i delivered 3 arrangments and it took me an hour because one of them was on the salem hwy and first of all, i didn't know where it was; second of all, it was in fremont county. then i had to come all the way back into rexburg and go to cougar court on trejo. and then back. anyway, i now know a lot more of the town! :D