PITTSBURG, Kan. — It may be too late for Christmas in July, but if you ask Lisa Blessant, the Friday before Labor Day isn’t too early to open an entirely Christmas-themed business. She is doing exactly that for the second year in a row at The Christmas Shoppe, located at 1608 W. 4th St. “We were very blessed last year,” Blessant says. “I mean we were packed.