Christina Freeburn - Faith Hunter 03 - Embellished to Death by Christina Freeburn

Author:Christina Freeburn [Freeburn, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery: Cozy - Scrapbooking - West Virginia
ISBN: 1940976278
Publisher: Henery Press
Published: 2014-09-23T00:00:00+00:00

TEN

The front doors to the cropping area were still open, allowing the last hour of sun to trickle into the room. The foyer already looked darker and more sinister with the waning sunlight. My fingers itched to turn on all the lamps in the multiple living room cluster set-ups. Knowing Morgan was lurking about made me want to have light filling every possible space, especially dark corners and hallways.

I stepped into the cropping area and saw a pool of layouts behind Pauline and Ellie’s vendor’s space. The women were frantically picking them up. I rushed over and helped. “Looks like an album exploded.”

“Something like that.” Ellie cast a quick glance over her shoulder. “I want to get these up before the owner returns.”

Pauline placed a handful on the table. “This is why I told you to only accept the covers and not the entire album.”

“The woman’s arthritis was acting up.” Ellie flipped through the stack pages and rearranged them. “I hope I’m putting these in the right order.”

My heart went out to her. It was hard running a small business. Any mistake, even when trying to be helpful, could result in bad press. But even worse than the mistake, was fixing the issue and creating a worse mess. “It might be best to let her know the pages fell, so she can organize the pages.”

Ellie sighed. “You’re probably right.”

“It’ll be okay,” Pauline said. “If she gets upset, we’ll offer a discount on the embossing service.”

“I should’ve listened to you.”

Pauline hugged her friend. “Sometimes the heart needs to win out over the business.”

“Pauline’s right.” I handed her the pages I picked up off the floor. “Sometimes doing the kind thing is the best decision, even if it goes against policy.”

“I just hope no one else asks for us to take a strap-hinge album apart.” Ellie scanned the room. “It was a pain.”

I looked at the stack of covers placed inside clear plastic bags beside the embossing machine. “Looks like business is booming.”

Pauline smiled and picked up the first sleeved cover. She pulled out a form and a large wooden tray from what looked like a mechanic’s tool chest. “We’re going to need to buy some hunting dies. I never knew so many croppers had albums dedicated to that sport.”

“If you’d like, I can send a list of what themes sold the most this weekend,” I said.

Ellie beamed at me. “That would be great. It’ll help us decide on the priority of new dies to add to our business.”

“We small businesses need to stick together.” I picked up a business card and one of their forms. Maybe we could have them come out to the National Scrapbook Day crop at Scrap This next year. I had a feeling Cropportunity was going to be short lived. I looked over the embossing options Ellie and Pauline offered. Vacations. Sports. Wedding. Anniversary. Seasons. Beach. Mountains.

A stack of albums with order sheets were piled up on the table. Would they tell me if Violet was getting

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