Thank you!

We are just about to enter our final day of preparation, before we go live on Monday (although there still is the weekend).

This seems like a perfect opportunity to thank some of the people who have got us to this point:

Castone Construction have been our principal contractor in all of the renovations, owner Dean Shea was keen from the outset to provide us with a turnkey solution and project manage the build for us - we're glad that he did.  A big thank you goes to Castone, they have done a superb job, on time and on budget.  They have met deadlines, followed-up, shown when promised - ideal contractors.  A special thanks goes to Wendell who has been hands on managing the job-site for us.

Their contact details are on their website: http://www.castoneconstruction.com/ Telephone: (902) 406-3395

Millroi Construction specialise in decorative concrete solutions and they have really worked a miracle on our floor.  There is no doubt that a good reason that our office feels so bright and spacious is thanks to the hard work of Matt and his team at Millroi Construction.  They have been meticulous in the project planning, ensured that they have managed to dovetail around the other construction people at the various stages of the build and even helped us out when we had a flood!  Perhaps the nicest finishing touch to Millroi's work has been the inlaying of our logo on the office floor, simply beautiful.

Their contact details are on their website: http://www.millroi.ca/ Telephone: (902) 482-2480

It's been great fun working with EyeCandy Signs - they are going through their own crazy time at the moment with moving to a new location.  Even with all of their own activity they have managed to pull together our order with little fuss at all.  Awesome job, guys!

Their contact details are on their website:  http://www.eyecandysigns.ca/ Telephone: (902) 429-8281

It's started!

John, Erin & Mike hard at work.  Euan's supervising!

We all arrived at 7.30am this morning, keen and eager to get into the finishing week and to meet with the truck delivering our equipment.

Guess what ... no truck!  They'd forgotten and should be with us, oh, about an hour ago!  Never mind.

We got cracking with putting together some of the furniture and cleaning up the windows.  The first collections of frames have already arrived, but we're good and not opening the box until we get some of this work done first.

We've got some great Eye Tunes to keep us motivated this morning - so far it's been Fat Boy Slim and The Human League.  I suspect it's going to get more 'eclectic' as the day goes on!

Almost there!

Well, we are moving into the final phase of our preparations.  All of the renovations are completed and the fab four (as I'm calling us just now!) have cleared our diaries for next week.  We are starting very early on Monday morning to meet a truck with 3 palette loads of ophthalmic instruments on them, before the downtown traffic gets busy.  To eye geeks like us, three palette loads of ophthalmic instruments is almost better than Christmas morning!  Almost!!

We're now not allowed to enter the unit before Monday as Millroi have put the last sealant on the floor and it would ruin the finish, so we are left with peaking in the windows - so close and yet untouchable!  I've included a sneaked picture from the work being done.

It's going to be a great week next week!

Vision East Expo - Sunglasses! Sunglasses!

While it was almost all work at Vision Expo in New York, there were some moments to enjoy trying on some of the cool new eyewear (for research purposes, of course!).

Here are a some pictures:

Mike modeling an ic! berlin.

Euan sporting the special edition ic! berlin "Splash"!

Euan, John & Mike all featuring the ic! berlin special edition "Psycho" collection - only sold as a set of 3!

John, Mike & Euan - a little more relaxed on the last day.  Safe in the knowledge that we now had some awesome collections to open with!

Euan, John and Mike had a hectic visit to New York.  The trip started very early on a cold Friday morning, but we were all full of excitement and energy, this was going to be a trip like no other!

The sole purpose of this trip was to meet with the best eyewear providers in the world in one single location so that we could put together the most wonderful collection of spectacles in a single location.  Read all about our trip in the various news posts.