Getting Ready for Holiday Open House

The week of Thanksgiving is always especially chaotic around Pendemonium. It's a good chaos, but can make me a little weary at points. Every year, the weekend after Thanksgiving, we hold our annual Holiday Open House at our retail shop in Fort Madison. That means the days prior require the traditional Thanksgiving cleaning, re-arranging and festive decorating. We spend a good part of Thanksgiving Day putting on the finishing touches, this has turned into a tradition in itself. Oh yes, we still do the turkey and all the trimmings, we mesh that all together with the shop activities and amazingly it works out pretty well - we haven't burned anything yet! It helps that we live just a flight of stairs up from the shop. So, today is day one of serious preparation, we've all been scurrying around trying to decide which pens will get displayed, how we're going to display them and making sure they are all working and writing properly. I think we'll have some nice surprises for everyone who stops by for our Holiday Open House this weekend.