a goodbye to tree stumps & hello to aprons.

We had a couple VERY big tree stumps taken out of the back patio last week!

You can see a part of the stump in the first picture...

and the second picture shows how big of a hole had to be dug.

Crazy.

Now the back patio is mostly freshly turned dirt.

I'm just itching to buy plants & landscape.

In time...in time.

In other news...We've got uniforms!

This is the first in a long line of aprons. :]

I'm hoping to create a pretty good sized apron family in the next few months.

Us employees will be able to walk in, put on our favorite apron & get to work.

Decaf or Regular?

SO exciting!

Things are getting done!

Things are looking more open & airy.

Things are being knocked down!

For example...

Remember this?

It is no more.

YEAHH!

We also have a front window.

and the other opening is looking a WHOLE lot better!

More updates ASAP!

Logo!

The page was loading. Something looked different. You saw it for the first time...it was....Café Sed's logo!!

I guess this means it's time for t-shirts, stickers & mugs.

How exciting!

There's a hole in the wall!

...That's right!

I finally have something more to blog about!

My dad took a few guys to the café and tore out a big square in the wall that separates the coffee shop from the bookstore.

We'll clean up the edges, paint it pretty, put on a countertop & have some pretty rad seating.

Here's the mess that was made:

This is the view from a corner of the bookstore.

There used to be a door where the red brick is going in...behind it is the office.

The hole that was just made makes everything look SO much bigger.

Lilly was in the bookstore...I was in the coffee shop.

We could see eachother clearly & I am so excited.

hello, my name is yellow.

Soo...I made my first purchases for Café Sed.

I'm not going to tell you anything about what I bought...

except that it's two things & you can sit comfortably on both.

and that one looks like this...

and the other looks like this...

Just like 1960

Today I rode my bike to Café Sed.

I had one goal - Make the old record player cabinet that we found look nice.

So I brought along 2 rags, Murphy's Oil Soap, a water bottle, a camera, and my iPod...

I was ready for...

this.

Let me tell you...it was gross.

Spiders were comfortable here.

The bottom was covered with their skeletons.

There was only one way I could do this.

And that way was...

plugging in my headphones to the oldies playlist on my iPod.

Oh yes.

Anything is bearable with a little Chubby Checker, Stevie Wonder & The Lovin Spoonful.

Anyway! I cleaned it.

It's still really beaten up, so I think I'm going to sand & paint it at some point.

Con mucho amor, Katie

Drawing on the wall

Just a little update.

We're putting in a "window" sort of thing in one of the walls...

so my dad & I went there the other day to measure & mark where it would go.

...I decided to do a little drawing on the wall...since it's coming out anyway. :]

We can't decide if we should take out a second window in the back or not...

Duane is getting some work done on his side of the building!

Anyone want a couch??