Good help is hard to find...

but sometimes you get lucky.

Yesterday was the first day on the job for my new shop assistant, and I've got to say she rocks bigtime! She has a great combination of picture framing experience and massive Clue. First we managed to tidy up parts of the shop that desperately needed it, then I showed her how my mat cutter and glass cutter worked and she picked up on it right away. She also served as a great second brain to help debug some equipment issues I'd been having... Later in the day a customer came in with a bunch of pieces to mat (it's a charity job I promised to do for the local school district; I should get lots of quality exposure). Then the phone rang, and C. kept right on dealing with the customer. Afterwards, C. went to town cutting and fitting mats like there was no tomorrow.

I think we'll get along just fine :)