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I’m dreading Christmas with the forecast of bad weather. Last year independent retailers were dropping like flies because people could not physically get out of their houses to shop and the one day that did clear they hit the town centres in full force. This may explain that with the promise of even worse weather to come I decided to put out the Christmas decoration goods in August. And guess what? we’re almost sold out. It seems that everyone has got savvy this year and sorting Christmas now!
On the “Art For Gifts @ Christmas” all day launch, to encourage people to be organised and to keep us local little traders in business I’m doing a very fun and stupid thing. There will be 100 lucky dip tickets @ £1 each which will give you prizes of items from the shop ranging anything from £2 to £15. You can’t lose. You can also buy up to 5 tickets per person. So get to the launch as we open at 9.30am. we’re open till 8pm that day and throwing in Stollen Cake and some Schnapps. If enough people turn up to this launch then I really will go mad for the Christmas lights launch. Last few years I’ve given away free gifts worth £20 each and yes, it may happen again – all down to you, so turn up and get lucky! May not be 101 million but still gives you a nice feeling to win something for £1.
Affordable Art
Some people already know that I operate payment plans which have covered anything from £20 to a ceiling of £500. Basically you can put aside any piece of art. We split that cost over 2 or 3 months depending on the artist’s permission. There are no fees at all! One lady bought a painting for £50 and emptied the change from her husband’s trousers every night and instead of a coffee she brought it into the gallery until it was paid off. One day there was about eleven pence! She told her husband it cost the equivalent of a bit of spare change. If only he knew! So don’t be shy – if you really want a painting but can’t quite shell out for it in one go – think about a payment plan.
And technology update (that’s a laugh! I love it but can’t work it) we are now on twitter. If you follow us @cornergallery we send weekly offers that are only for the tweeters. And when we say offers, we mean totally mad offers like something reduced by 75%.