 Hi Longmont. My name is Karen Stallard. I'm the membership director with the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce. The Longmont Chamber has been working hard to support our local businesses and connect the community during this challenging time because we don't think that being physically distanced means that we can't still socially connect and support one another. So I'd like to tag in Jessica Wanasek, the Chamber Event Director, to tell you a little bit about what we've been up to. Hey everyone. So the Longmont Chamber of Commerce has been hosting daily Facebook live events Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. over on our Chamber Facebook page. We are featuring a local business or a non-profit while having fun interactive activities, giveaways, and just connecting with our community. We wanted to share the fun with you after the facts. So we are airing all of our episodes from last week with you here now so you can enjoy. And we hope that you see some familiar faces from around Longmont. And remember, if you ever want to see the live thing, just tune into the Chamber Facebook page at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or check out a themed list of businesses over on our Chamber website, www.longmontchamber.org, forward slash llama is open. And find a business that you would like to support. Enjoy the show. Hi everybody. Thank you so much for joining us today. We're just going to give a second here for, we're going to let the audience kind of come in and get comfortable. We are so excited. We are on our way into what we're on Wednesday of our Businesses Open Facebook live event. So we're just going to give it a few minutes here, just maybe another second or two. We're going to let the audience come in. Hi everybody that I see you. I see you out there. Let us know you're here by commenting in the comments. Another second here. Well, first off, I'd like to introduce myself. If you don't know already, my name is Jessica Wanasek. I am the event director with the Longmont Chamber of Commerce. So excited to have you guys here today. Like I said, we are continuing our Facebook live. Longmont is open for business, even though it's not business as usual, but we are kicking off today. This is our very first. We shop Wednesday. So we're going to do a little bit of retail therapy with an exciting guest today. So we're so happy to have you. We are really proud to be able to showcase all of our amazing businesses who have changed the way that they're doing operations during these days. We hope that you guys, you know, we're having a great time doing this. We hope that you out there in the audience are enjoying these little windows into what these local businesses are doing for you. So glad to have you aboard. You can also check out the complete list of businesses that we have over on the Longmont Chamber page. And that is www.longmontchamber.org forward slash we speak Longmont. And you'll find it underneath. The Longmont is open tab. So you will see that. And you'll also see it. I'm running. You'll see it kind of going across the screen on the bottom here. So let us know that you guys are here by commenting. We have an exciting giveaway that we're going to be doing at the end of today's stream. So we won't know that you're here unless you say hello. So hello, everybody. So with that being said, the retail business that we are highlighting today for we shop Wednesday is Ivy Rose. They are an adorable little boutique full of on trend clothing, jewelry and accessories for women of every generation. So with that, I would like to introduce the owner of Ivy Rose, Miss Rosemary Beaker. She'll be with us. There she is. Hi, Rosemary. Hi. How are you today? Wonderful. Beautiful day. Sunshine streaming in the window of my store. So I know I love it. I love it. And we're so happy to have you here and showcase a little bit of what you're going to show us today. So I would like to kind of ask you, I guess, let us know a little bit about what Ivy Rose is doing. How long have you guys been in business? We've been in business two and a half years. So we're pretty new to downtown Longmont. But we're loving it. And we love our customers. And it's been fun to be here and giving the women of Longmont a place to go and get something new to wear, which is which is needed. I'm kind of a clothes horse myself. I love shopping and I love the boutiques and all that. They're so cute and adorable. Where are you located exactly? Let everybody know where you guys are. We're at Miami Main Street, right downtown or a couple doors down from the roost and a couple doors up from my crochets. So kind of a little restaurant row here. So and we're on the east side of the street. Awesome. Well, that's now everybody will know where you are. They have no excuses to not come see you when you get open, right? Yes, hopefully we're opening soon another week or so. That and that leads me into my next question is tell us a little bit about your hours of operation these days. Right now, we're only able to shop virtually. So the general public can't come in. But you can see everything that's in the store through a FaceTime appointment or a Zoom appointment. And then we also post things on Instagram and Facebook and also on our website. So you're able to see something there and you can give us a call or shoot us an email or message us. And we can process that order over the phone. We'll do curbside pickup. We'll deliver to your house if you're pretty close or ship it to you for free. Oh, that's awesome. That's awesome. So you've you've found a way to adapt and and keep business going somewhat, which is which is great. We love to hear that. Absolutely. Yep. Now, I know the state we're kind of slowly starting to move into that reopening phase that this very delicate, slow reopening of stuff. So can you share a little bit? What do you think your reopening strategy will look like? Well, we will continue as always to do if someone wants to do a virtual shop, if they're, you know, want to be completely safe, we'll still do the virtual shopping. But we will also do private shopping by appointment. So someone can come in just one on one time with with me and shop the store. What we'll do is that similar to what we do with virtual shopping, we'll have a rolling wrap, we call it our white glove service, and that I will pull out the clothes for people so they don't have to like touch everything. So I will just pull things we'll go through the store, we'll grab items that you like, we'll put them on a rolling rack. And then once we have those selected, you're able to try them on. And when you're done trying them on the things that you don't want, we're going to put on like a little quarantine rack and have it sit for 24 or 48 hours depending on what the guidelines tell us as far as you know, how long a virus might live on the fabric. Yeah, put that aside so that we know that those have already been tried on and keeping everybody safe. We'll also have marks on the floor where you know, six feet are from like the register and we'll have hand sanitizers and probably have gloves available so people can put on a fresh pair of gloves and walk through the store. So well that shopping by appointment will be important. I would imagine we'll have limited hours to start. Probably won't be open the same as we have that in the past, but limited hours but always shopping by appointment for individuals and small groups. Very cool. It sounds like you've got it all kind of planned out and we look forward to the day where you know, we can move beyond the appointments and just come in and say hi to you. I know I'm an extrovert so I am missing that. I'm a people person and I'm missing my people right now so. I'm totally free. I'm missing my people too and getting the feedback from the clothes and yeah having people in here so. Oh absolutely. Now for people to schedule their appointments and all that, do they just go to your website? Yeah they can go to any social media, Instagram, Facebook, our website, there's an email, there's a phone number and anyway they feel comfortable reaching out to us. We're here for them. Awesome, awesome. Well I want to, I know Monday I think was my first day that I actually put on real clothes other than my day sweat so I know I'm looking forward to today's demonstration and I'm already eyeballing a couple pieces behind you so I'm looking forward to that. But before I turn it over to you, I want to let everybody know who's tuning in. We see you, keep commenting. One lucky winner is actually going to, or actually one lucky viewer who comments is going to win a virtual, is it $25 gift card from you today? $25 gift card and we can email that to them so they can get it right away. Awesome, that's awesome. Okay so for those of you guys who are tuning in, I have a little challenge for you. It's a fill in the blank okay and this is how we are going to pick our lucky winner today. So here's your fill in the blank. My favorite item in my closet is blank and when you get that posted in the comments so we can see that and I am going to now turn it over to you. Rosemary you have the show and show us some goodies. All right I will do that. Well we were really lucky that today is Wednesday and we call it wardrobe Wednesday and each Wednesday we try to put together a collection of mix and match items that create a mini wardrobe for you and we can start from scratch with something in our store or we can use something that you have, a favorite piece or favorite two pieces and we can build a wardrobe around that piece or those pieces for you. So what I did today is I have these lovely dress forms as my models today and all of us together create this mini wardrobe for a wardrobe Wednesday. So I'm going to walk you through the pieces and let you know kind of what inspired me to put it together and how it all works together and how it might work in your wardrobe and we usually start with one piece. So this was the piece that I started with. It's a little dress with some lace on the bottom and it's got some pretty colors in it. So those colors in the dress kind of build the whole wardrobe so things kind of coordinate from a color tone and a pattern. So we're going to start over here with a jean jacket over a striped dress and I know I hear this a lot that you don't like stripes because they make you especially horizontal stripes because they might make you look a little bit wider than you want to be but don't be afraid of stripes. There's a stripe for everybody type and it just depends on how thick they are and how the item is designed. So this one has a little panel with vertical stripes here and horizontal stripes here so it's quite flattering to a lot of figure types. It's also a little bit longer. For those tall people out there this would be a good dress to go to and I have put it with a white jean jacket and a jean jacket is a must in almost every wardrobe be it white, blue, green, black you can layer a jean jacket over a lot of different things especially in Colorado. The Colorado girls know how to rock a jean jacket. So this one I put over the dress for now but it could go over almost everything in this wardrobe for you. The second item, second dress form is a little bit dressier top it's a blouse it's a very lightweight blouse and for those of us that are doing a lot of zoom meetings these days this is a good business look for you and later you can put it over put it under a blazer in your wardrobe. I paired it with black cropped skinny jeans and they're cuffed and you can put the cuff up or put the cuff down so again these pants would be great in an office setting back in the business world. Then we come to the dress that I started this whole wardrobe with and I put the dress with a very lightweight wrap and I tied it here on the dress form but this wrap can also be just worn down in a loose so it's very similar to what I'm wearing it's got a little asymmetrical line on it so you can wear it either way depending on your mood or depending on the style of the dress you're wearing it with. This dress we've had in several different color ways over the years and it's perfect again with a jean jacket it's also great with cowboy boots you could put leggings under them if you were a little bit taller and of course flip-flops it might even be good for a bathing suit cover up so a very versatile dress it has a just a thick strap on top so very easy to wear for a lot of different body types. Then moving on we have just a tank top it looks very similar this one was self knotted but this one actually I pulled it through the belt loop so it's just a very simple tank has a lot of cool colors and it's got black and yellow and red and blue and so you can wear it with quite a few things it would go well and I'm part of the wardrobe here too I have this pink girl top or wrap and a tank top here so this would go all this for quite well and then these jeans we do very well with this kind of a jean it's not dry and again this would make good business casual look it would pair well with a blazer you could also use this white jean jacket from over there the black wrap with pink wrap here so quite a few things to put with these jeans and I want to talk a little bit about what I'm wearing I am wearing button fly jeans which are super trendy right now so if you don't wear your button flies in your wardrobe you should try some on they're pretty fun to wear also I have white jeans on and again like the stripes I've heard a lot oh I can't wear white jeans you should try white jeans you'll find they're a good staple in your wardrobe but we do have these jeans in a blue color too if you really really can't do the white I love the tone of tone so I have a tank top on with this wrap and I think this is a great combination that you can put on with any bottom so white jeans blue jeans black jeans so a tone on tone be it black and black white on white is always a good look and an easy way to create a wardrobe for yourself lastly we have this beautiful lace dress wonderful straps for it and this again will go far in your wardrobe you can dress it up with like a pair of canvas uh or or espadrille shoes you could dress it down with cowboy boots you could put got the white jean jacket over here you put that over it for dressier you can put this black cardigan over it um or you can just wear it with flip-flops so lots of ways to wear that dress um in the summer especially now that it's getting a little bit hotter outside so this is our wardrobe and it was to be able to bring it to you live and like I said we do these every Wednesday so there's lots of lots of ideas that we can bring to inspire you awesome well um you can talk to me I want one of everything just one of each yeah just put it in my basket and I'll be over to pick it up and let me tell you too that um we we keep things as affordable as possible so for the most part um uh nothing in our store is over 69 dollars so our tops are in the like 25 to 39 dollar range and our dresses are 39 49 59 dollars so um very affordable and we can do a virtual shopping tour for you and we can put a mini wardrobe together for you the other thing I want to say too is that um this we have a black lace dress so we can substitute pieces in this wardrobe to fit your body type so if this black lace dress isn't your style we have black knit dresses we have black jumpsuits we have other things that we can substitute same thing like for this floral dress if that doesn't work for your body style we have other floral dresses that we can use um that would work well in the wardrobe so we'll we'll make it work for you super cute I'm just I'm having fun reading some of the comments um for Chris McGrath said that his favorite uh his favorite item is at the cleaners he dropped it off before COVID um but it's banana republic soft three button sweater that's awesome um so those of you guys who are just coming on and in the comments we asked the question um just a second ago a few minutes ago about uh to fill in the blank and it's your your question is my favorite item in my closet is blank and so we're gonna take uh your guys's comments and um Rosemary's gonna do a drawing here shortly for a virtual 25 dollar gift card um that you can spend in her store so that that is exciting so some of these comments are fun um let's see Holly Glesner says thanks for doing this to our for our amazing local businesses Cassie loves her boyfriend jeans um I do too some of my favorites uh see Karen one pair of pants that she still fits after quarantine I think I think we're all kind of falling into that what did we say at the chamber we were saying we're we've gained the quarantine 19 so it's it's not it's not gonna be pretty afterwards but so this is fun um anything else that you feel like you need to um or you want to share with the viewers rosemary well I think that um just knowing that you can shop virtually um and you can shop safely by apartment when we open up you can do one on one and um and then on your unlimited hours we will follow um a very strict protocol so that you can feel safe shopping in our store and you know we're here to have to work with you to put your wardrobe together um with you oh awesome okay I am just well we're gonna get ready to do the the drawing here and we just get a count okay so I um rosemary you need to pick um I'm gonna give you a letter okay okay um let's see an h a c a t an m or a g h t c m or t I will say c c all right let me go back to our and it is drum roll drum roll our winner today is cassie uh I'm not sure gumson anderson is our winner awesome so congrats cassie um so what we'll do and rosemary do you want um let's see do you want me to connect with cassie and or we'll do that and then I'll I'll get our phone number and call and process that over the phone okay so we will um cassie I will get your information here soon as soon as we're done here and and you will get your $25 virtual gift certificate which is which is fun and then you're gonna have to come back and show us what you get yeah there we go right social media posts for sure absolutely absolutely we're all it seems like we're all living on social media these days well um rosemary I want to thank you I really appreciate you taking the time out of your day uh to come on and share some of the the beautiful pieces that you have behind you and a little bit about what your store is doing now and in the future so we we look forward to it I look forward to coming in and saying hi to you when when I can yes and I know right fingers crossed they tell us May 9th right we're waiting for Boulder County to just confirm that yeah that's I know I'm I'm watching that date as well so if you guys want to schedule um or if you have a question or if you just want to go check out her uh website rosemary's website go to um it's visit ivyroselongmont.com you can also follow her here on facebook um so go check out all the beautiful pieces that she's got going and rosemary thank you so much thank you for inviting me this was great absolutely bye bye thanks thank you so again we we really appreciate you guys checking in with us every day at four o'clock we're having a fun time doing this um we I we like I said I am missing my people and this is a way for us to connect with you guys the local uh Longmont community and the awesome businesses then everything that you guys are doing out there keep up the good work um we are going to continue to keep doing these live events um as long as they're needed you know I see this going on into the summer so if you're interested in being on one of these lives um shoot me an email it's jwanasek at longmontchamber.org and we will see about getting you scheduled for one of these um also tune in again tomorrow right here at four pm for our thankful Thursday where we're going to highlight and help out a local nonprofit in the area so please come back stay tuned and in the meantime um give I'm giving you guys a virtual hug give yourself a hug for me and we'll see you back here uh tomorrow stay well bye bye