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It’s a beautiful day!  Spring is just around the corner.  That makes all of us very happy. Someone told me a story about a customer who had checked out at Wal Mart and gotten to her car and realized that she had a shirt over her shoulder that she had not paid for.  Her little [...]

You know they always say that it is the American Dream to own your own business.  Rick Cox, who has been our warehouse manager for 30 years is going to realize that dream.  He is leaving by Design to roll the dice and run an existing business.  Anyone who knows Rick knows that this has [...]

Our Christmas Music at by Design is now officially ended and I would consider it a success! We had 4 different groups in on Saturdays between Thanksgiving and Christmas. They were very diverse–from a Jazz Trio to a Chamber Orchestra to a Women’s Church Choir to a Youth Choir. It was a lot of fun [...]

The Circle of Life — Always, always, always, the most important thing that can happen, on any particular day, is touching or being touched by another human being.  I recently had a neat conversation with a customer of ours.  She had called about her Grandmother.  She had moved into a new home and was looking [...]

I always tell my designers that the best sound that I can hear from the floor is laughter.  It is not brain surgery that we do.  No need for stress.  No lives hang in the balance.  This isn’t to say that what we do for our clients isn’t important.  It can be very important… but [...]

I recently worked with a client who had special ordered a table.  She wasn’t satisfied that the table was right for her room.