Welcome to my first blog entry!

Hi all!  Wow.  What a couple of days it has been.  The Younique Boutique is in San Marcos, California - we're right in the middle of California's largest fire storm. 

As of 3:00am on Sunday morning, our normally sunny and clean community had become a big mess.  The wind was blowing at about 60 miles per hour and trees were going down left and right.  The smoke was so bad that you could hardly breathe. My mom and dad live down the street from me and we were alerted by police that there was a large fire cresting the hills above our houses (and factory.)

We moved to my boyfriend's home about 5 miles away - West of San Marcos.  We stayed there watching the news until about noon when we received a reverse 911 call from the city alerting us to more evacuations.  Back in the cars with the four dogs (two for me, one for Mom and one for the boyfriend).  We headed Northwest to Oceanside where the sky was a lot cleaner and we were safe from evacuations.

We closed our office yesterday because the area had been evacuated.  We alerted our customers by placing what I hoped to be a noticable message on the top of the pages.  Customers have been nervously calling all morning to find out how the fires are going to affect their orders.  We have been doing our best to call everyone back and let them know that we are back in the office today and fully operational. 

There is still a chance that we might be in the fire's path again if the winds change.  I really hope that won't be the case.  You have no idea how hard it is to decide what to take with you when in an emergency like this.  Nothing seems all that important until you are at your boyfriend's mom's house and you are wearing your pajamas and you don't have your toothbrush. 

Thank you for everyone's concern.  I'm always so shocked and appreciative to see how people really band together in these times and try to help out. 

More later...