Summer 2012

Animal Planet By Sue Marquette Poremba

Your Furry Friends

GIFT SHOP recognizes that retailers like you often bring a pet into the store. Our Facebook request to check out these cute cuddlies brought an avalanche of submissions! We feature a few here—all submissions will be entered into our Store Pets contest. —Coming soon.

Shelby is always a big hit with our guests and definitely helps sales, as people regularly come in and say, “I just had to come in and see that cute dog!”

Submitted by Tracy Stolese, Arabesque, Shelburne, VT

Store dog, Vera, works hard in the Vera Bradley room.

Submitted by Marion Mitchell, Marion’s, 
St. Petersburg, FL

Lenox raised $200 for vet care for homeless kitties so they could find a home. The popular store kitty helps unpack, helps with accounting, grabs the faxes that come in and attends all events.

Submitted by Cynthia Sutton, Silver Barn, Columbus, TX

Humphrey’s birthday is an annual weekend event for the shop. He insists on being in shots taken of displays and has an uncanny way of choosing the most comfortable and most expensive pillows in the shop at any given time.

Submitted by Heidi Hill-Haddard, HiHo Home Market, Gardiner, NY

Sue Marquette Poremba

Sue Marquette Poremba is a freelance writer based in State College, PA. She specializes in technology, engineering, energy, and IT security topics. She has also published over a dozen essays and is the author of a book about the Philadelphia Phillies.