My First Week at Anthropologie

Well, I have officially finished my first week at Anthropologie. I will admit that getting used to a new, very early schedule was/is tough, but my body did start to get more comfortable towards the end of the week. Although getting out of bed that early is pretty terrible, once I got to the store time flew by. It's amazing how fast time goes when I am creating things. I think I am really going to love this job!

My first day, Katherine (the visual manager) took me through all the normal first day things (filling out paper work, showing me around the store, ect). She also gave me the employee handbook which looked like this when she handed it to me.

A little closer look.

There were seeds in that little pouch! Such incredible attention to detail! I love that Anthro not only wants to inspire and treat their customers right, they want to do that for their employees as well!

I decided since I am now doing design/art projects all day, I needed a place that inspires that creativity. This is my Art Room!

This is the space just for me to come up with and create a bunch of display goodness. And of course since I am going to (hopefully) be producing super inspiring designs here, I felt the space itself needed to be inspiring. So, I am in the process of giving the area a little makeover that I will share with you later but here are few photos to give you an idea of what's going on!

Last week we weren't able to do much on the store floor besides take down old displays. Most of my time was spent in the art room dreaming up ideas for the upcoming displays and creating items for displays that were in the works when I arrived.

So, here's to a long and happy career with the store that took my breath away the moment I first walked into one a few years ago!