{"id":8021,"date":"2014-11-03T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=8021"},"modified":"2014-11-03T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:46:13","slug":"oliver-celebrates-10-years-at-little-yellow-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=8021","title":{"rendered":"Oliver celebrates 10 years at &#8216;Little Yellow House&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_972224\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Consignment-Shop-3-300x275.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-972224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-972224\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Consignment-Shop-3\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Consignment-Shop-3-300x275.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-972224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Oliver (center) shown with interns from the Coatesville Youth Initiative, is celebrating 10 years managing the Brandywine Consignment Shop in Downingtown.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>DOWNINGTOWN \u2014 Brandywine Consignment Shop is affectionately known as \u201cThe Little Yellow House.\u201d \u00a0The idea to paint the building yellow was that of Nancy Oliver who became manager in 2004.\u00a0 In her ten years of managing the shop she has made a number of innovations\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to her arrival all merchandise tags had to be written by hand, a labor-intensive job.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of her husband, Oliver introduced computers and software to make this task more efficient and less time consuming.\u00a0 She has worked diligently to make the shop as attractive as possible.\u00a0 From the wide variety of items consigned, Nancy is able to create lovely themes throughout the store. Her eye for design is noticed and appreciated by customers who often comment on how beautiful the shop looks.\u00a0 By researching and keeping up with the latest fashion and design trends, Oliver has continually broadened her knowledge of jewelry, clothing, furniture and vintage items.\u00a0 Consignors and customers respect this and often ask for her advice or opinion.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Oliver\u2019s greatest success has been the increase in sales.\u00a0 In the past ten years sales and donations to the Brandywine Health Foundation have more than doubled.\u00a0 These statistics are indicative of her dedication, professionalism and leadership abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver said she greatly appreciates the involvement of the scores of women who generously volunteer their time, and she does her best to create a pleasant working environment for them.\u00a0 Judging by the many smiling faces seen throughout the shop, success in this area can be added to her long list of accomplishments.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Brandywine Consignment Shop or the Brandywine Health Foundation, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandywinefoundation.org\">www.brandywinefoundation.org<\/a> or call Stephanie Vargas, Associate Director of Special Events at 610-380-9080 x 105.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNINGTOWN \u2014 Brandywine Consignment Shop is affectionately known as \u201cThe Little Yellow House.\u201d \u00a0The idea to paint the building yellow was that of Nancy Oliver who became manager in 2004.\u00a0 In her ten years of managing the shop she has made a number of innovations\u00a0\u00a0 Prior to her arrival all merchandise tags had to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[108,196,4877],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-brandywine-health-foundation","tag-coatesville-youth-initiative","tag-little-yellow-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}