Gift Rep Sandy

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Had some warm beautiful days in north central Idaho this past week!  Spent some quality time outside enjoying the sun, the view and my two cats, Jazz (shorted from Jasmine when we found out it was a HIM and not a HER!) and Rodger.  Some of the joys of being self-employed is picking your own times to work, and often, in my case, it comes in 2-3 hour blocks with time off to be lazy.

This morning I caught up on my housework before settling in my computer chair for my first block of work time.

Idaho Gifts Wholesale, my main wholesale site, is getting ready for a new product line launch.  I’ve been spending hours inputting a line of dry mixes to my site and am very excited to get it listed for all my customer.  When I am done with the product input, adding pictures and publishing, my newsletter will go out to the 400 or so buyers on my email list announcing the line.  An exciting time!!

Also working with my husband, Malcolm on some new blogs sites.  Malcolm and I have a great working relationship (well … most of the time!).  He has his expertise and I have mine.  We often help each other with our strengths and weaknesses.  Malcolm is a great idea guy, sees the big picture and can plan projects ahead.  I am the exact opposite as I like to  sit down and ‘get it done’.  When we work together, we make a great team as we balance each other.

Tomorrow I will be heading downtown (10 miles down the hill) to Orofino to met a gift store owner from Pierce.  She ordered some custom labeled Idaho Redneck products for her new store.  I am looking forward to meeting her as alot of my on-line customers I never see.

I’ll check in with you later ….

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One of my very favorite sales trips (and you will probably hear this often because I have some many great gift store buyers!) is to Lochsa Lodge — in the north central mountains of Idaho.

The Lodge is located on Highway 12 — better known as the Lewis & Clark Trail Highway — about 10 miles from the Montana border.  The drive from my home in Orofino to the Lodge is about 2 1/2 hours.  The road is narrow and winds around the mountain side next to the Lochas River, but it is some of the most beautiful river scenery in the state of Idaho!

Calm day on the Lochsa River

I arrived at the Lodge later than  planned.  Road construction slowed me down during the last stretches of the road.  Between road painting  trucks, construction vehicles, and bumpy surface due to the dug up roadway, I arrived late — and right behind a tour bus stopping for lunch!  The Lodge was buzzing with people and activity.  Quite a change from the miles of isolated road between the forest and the white waters of the river!

Lochsa Lodge

My trip to the Lodge is an annual visit in the late spring.  Even though Lochsa Lodge boasts that it is open 365 days a year, the buyer places large orders only once in late spring — so I waited as the staff and the buyer serve lunch to the tour bus riders who had chosen the Lodge for their lunch destination that day.

On my way back down the mountain, I stop at a few other gift shops to take more re-orders.  There is a new buyer at one of my stops, so I spend time explaining who I am and what I gifts items I sell to their store.

Driving back through the construction on the way home is tiring, but all and all, it has been a good day for Gift Rep Sandy!

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