Vintage Fabrics

Over the past three months, I've gathered a huge supply of vintage bedsheets. With our wedding colors/theme being vintage florals, I've snatched up all that I could on my many trips to the thrift store - on half-off days, of course. My first project was handmade napkins. Those obviously took a lot of fabric as my mom and I made about 100, and each napkin is roughly 16" square, unfolded. The next project on the list was my bunting. I plan to string it along anywhere it'll go. It'll also act as the edge of our "pews" to create a sort of aisle, but that won't take too much. And I plan to string it along the top of our barn (what I call our three-shed shed as well. Then I moved on to the alter chandelier and decor. My bffs helped cut the strips and tie them onto my dowel rod for the alter and onto some strips of yarn (to later be strung along our chain link fence to pretty it up a bit).

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That took quite a bit of fabric as well. The last major fabric-related project on the list was my table runners. I was going to make them double-sided but then decided that, due to the length of our three guest tables (32' - four 8' banquet tables put together) and my stash of unmatched sheet sets, I just wouldn't have enough. Now that I'm making the runners single-sided, I'm going to have gobs of fabric left over.

What's a girl to do? Well immediately my mind goes here:

Okay, I know - horrible picture. But there's something about aprons that makes me just want to, well, make them! And with all of these beautiful vintage fabrics sitting around me, I want to throw my wedding to-do list away and get crackin!

I'm even thinking of starting to sell fat quarters in my etsy shop of these fabrics because they're so fun to collect.

Maybe one of these days, too, I'll actually attempt a skirt with a zipper out of some of these. My biggest obstacle, though? The lining. These fabrics are way too thin to get away with no lining, and adding lining is just so much work. Plus, getting the full skirt just right has always been a challenge for me. Maybe when the wedding's done and I'm going through planning withdrawal I can get going on developing a pattern. So exciting!

A New Face

What is it about having a bazillion and one things on my to-do list that makes me want to get crafty? As in, unrelated-to-the-wedding crafty?

A few Fridays ago, after I ticked a few things off my wedding to-do list (and with plenty more on it), I decided to redesign my etsy shop banner. And business cards. And develop a new print piece for a new product I'm brainstorming. No joke. Annnd two hours later it was nine o'clock and J and I decided it might be a good time for dinner.

I took it from this:

to this:

What do you think? I'm thinking it's cleaner, more modern, and more me. I'm pretty happy with it. Now I just need to get those new business cards printed and begin to work on that new product design I mentioned. But, I do have self control. I'll wait til after June 11th for both of those things. After all, I'll need something to do once I start my planning withdrawal. And we all know I'll have it.

Curtones

Double score.

The curtains that I've chosen in the past few months have been plaguing me. In addition to picking the wrong ones and not realizing it until I'd hemmed six pairs (that's 12 curtains, people), we also chose some really heavy white ones for the living room that are too long. After the hemming fiasco, though, I really wasn't down to hem any more, so the living room curtains are just dragging the floor by about 5" at the moment. Not cool.

J and I have been eyeballing them for a few weeks, muttering how ugly they are and how heavy they look. So I perused west elm (my favorite for curtains!) and found these bad boys (Y, I know you're laughing at me right now!):


Nice, airy, and green - our main accent color for the living room. What's better is that the size and color we want are on sale from the already good $29 regular price down to $12.99. And (here's where the 'double score' comes in!) then I found a coupon code for 20% off (20MORE) items already on sale. PLUS, they come with free shipping. So really it should be 'triple score'!

The grand total: $11.01. Can't beat that!

They'll need a little hemming (sigh), but I think I'll actually fake a serge just to keep things in tact without weighing down these lovely light guys with a heavy hem. Wish me luck with that!

Giveaway Winner

Out of the whopping 9 entries to the giveaway in celebration of my 100th sale, the winner (according to Random.org) is:

Kaath

Congratulations! You've won a $50 gift certificate to be redeemed in my shop!


And a HUGE congratulations to Kerry (of fancy notion) and Craig on their wedding day!


Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

A Buck One (Giveaway!)

Bumping this for those who haven't entered yet!

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Okay, I know I've only been back for one post, buuuuuuuutttttt......

I hit 100 sales over the weekend!

In celebration of my 100th sale (!), I want to offer my second giveaway.

The winner of the giveaway will receive a $50 gift certificate to be used in my shop, http://www.milkmoneyshop.com/.

The $50 can be applied to shipping (and to taxes, as well, for Maryland residents).

Now for the details.

To enter, comment* on this post with your favorite holiday and why (mine's Thanksgiving!).

Comment entries will be accepted through Friday, 10 DEC at 11 pm EST.

I’ll then use random.org to pick a random winner and will announce the lucky duck on Saturday, 11 DEC.

Happy commenting!

*One comment per person.

Vintage Treats

Check out one of my new favorite pieces for the shop:

Wouldn't it be so glamorous at a holiday party? With a black cocktail dress?

I suppose I should've posted it on my shop earlier than this week. Whoops. I'm still not very good at this whole shop ownership thing.

Fellow etsians and bloggers of Mae +Day featured a pair of my earrings on their blog this week, and I'm so happy they did because I was able to discover their blog and their shop. I was blown away by their vintage finds. Here are some of my favorites:

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Some days I want my home to be modern and bright. Other days I could live with stacks of vintage finds and be perfectly content. Do you ever have that struggle? I think I'll strive for a happy medium.

Pin-Up

Annnnd another project.

Aren't you guys some lucky ducks*?

This bad boy wasn't too hard at all. Except for the fact that it was my project, which automatically makes it about 3 times harder.

Here's the before (from my mom's house, before we moved):


Just a regular bulletin board. Plain. Boring. Ugly. But functional.

And here's the after, covered in some fun and simple IKEA fabric:


I used my trusty staple gun to secure a layer of white fabric underneath the IKEA fabric. Since the IKEA fabric is relatively thin, I wanted to mask the transition between the cork and the metal edging of the board as much as possible. Plus I wanted to sturdy up the fabric a bit so it'd be less abused after all those pins get to it.

As for making this project difficult, after stapling one side of material, I checked to make sure the hooks on the back of the board would be on the right end for hanging - since the fabric has an obvious "up" and "upside down". But because I was looking at the fabric from the back, where it wrapped around, I confirmed incorrectly that it was on right. And once I finished I realized my error. If you look really closely, you can see the little hook sticking out of the bottom of the bulletin board in the close-up. That's a little L bracket that I painted the color of the wall. I hung two, and they're acting as a miniature shelf to hold the bulletin board up. It works fine for now, but when I pin something up I have to be careful not to knock the whole thing down. Silly me.

And speaking of making things harder, J and I went to put together this IKEA lamp this weekend (which came without a shade, by the way), and it was totally crooked.

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Then we tried attaching the lampshade we bought to it, and it didn't fit! We figured we could ghetto-rig it and position it where no one could see its wonkiness, but then when we plugged it in, it wouldn't turn on! The light bulb couldn't get screwed down enough into the base at first. We finally got it to work, then it turned off again, so J screwed a little tighter, and the bulb burst everywhere! Thank goodness the babies were safe!

And then J went to hang the curtains in the living room tonight, and the rods we bought are too short. What a freakin' idiot I am! Back to IKEA I go.


I'll post about my first wedding dress shopping experience later this week. I know that's what you're here for - not my staple gun craziness!


*Pun unintended but perfect!

Check

I have been so excited to show you guys this project. It just took me a while to actually complete it. Like three months, a while.

I bought this chair at the thrift store for about $6. I thought it would be a good starter project for learning how to paint wooden furniture and recover cushions.


There was another one, too, with arms. I was so tempted. So tempted. But I held back. Baby steps. Because who knew how this one would turn out once I got my messy mitts on it.

I decided to paint it mustard yellow. Leftover paint from a bookshelf J was doing for me earlier this year (and which is still sitting at his warehouse waiting for its finishing coat. It'll be a great addition to my craft room!). I then hunted down a really nice print in mustard yellow from etsy to go over the cushion.

Here's a collage of the "during" process - including primer, fancy!:


Annnnnnd here's the finished piece:


I could not be more happy with the results! Granted, there are mad paint drips and I missed some spots on the undercarriage, but I think the fabric goes really well with the paint we already had. Plus, it goes well with my yellow pops in my slowly-but-surely-coming-along craft room.

Here's a breakdown of the total cost of the project:

{ chair } $6
{ fabric, 1 yard } $8
{ sanding block } $2.50*
{ Kilz primer, HUGE container } $15*
{ staple gun } $15*
{ staples } $10

*I already had two of these things so really I didn't have to pay for them again, but you can see that this project is totally affordable. The Kilz container is literally so big that we primed a few rooms with it. Definitely way more than what you need for a little chair like this. And you could probably get away with using a regular stapler, but I was having serious trouble. J and I had already bought a staple gun before but never bought the staples, so I bought those for this project.

Grand total: $56.50

Okay, so maybe that's a bit high for redoing a chair, but it looks exactly like I want and a lot of these items are reusable.

For my next project, I have an antique vanity bench with a similar upholstery to the original on this chair that I'm going to remove. I'll repaint the bench as well. I'm still trying to decide, though, what style to go for. I recently bought a modern grey print fabric from IKEA with the bench in mind, but I really like how this bright chair turned out and might want to stick with the bright style.

But then I think about how much I like how this chair turned out that I'm leaning toward matching the bench. I also have a huge antique wardrobe that I want to refinish in mustard as well, but I know that's going to be a HUGE project so I'm putting it off. Again, baby steps. I just have to remind myself of that.


"Baby steps" reminds me of What About Bob? Anyone else?

Sparse

Ohhh blog, how I miss you so.

Yesterday I started my first day at my new job. Unfortunately, I have no internet on my computer. Sounds strange and I can't get into it here, but basically I'm cut off from the rest of the world. And no cell phone, no radio, no music. I feel like I'm living a boring life. Hopefully the work will be better than my last job, but I'm making these other (granted, very first world) sacrifices as I hope.

J and I have been talking over some wedding venue options, which is very exciting. I've already scoured etsy (allllllll last week at my old job. it was glorious) for some halfway unpredictable invitations. I've considered trying to DIY our own - either on Photoshop or with some custom stamps - but after researching some printing options, it all seems too daunting - and expensive - to me.

I have some ideas for a semi-DIY Save the Date, though. But then I think, I never bought into all that stuff before. So why now? I mean, couldn't I just email our invitations? Part of me thinks yes, absolutely, it's 2010. The other part of me thinks of some of our guests - grandparents - and wonders if online invitations is a good choice. Then I remember that grandparents from both sides of my family have email that they check regularly. Though J's grandmother doesn't, should we really base our invitations on one person? But then I think, it's for a GRANDPARENT, hell yes we should base our decision on that "category" of guest. So I'm confused on that front.

And though I tend to love stationery, I rarely send it and I'm not sure I find it to be very important for our wedding. But as soon as I started planning, I got excited to find/design our invitations - and, really, our Save the Date. Is that a sign that I DO care about the paper pieces for this shindig, or am I looking into it too much? Am I too worried about being tradition - or even being not traditional? Where do I fall on the spectrum of wedding craziness? Do I NEED to fall on the spectrum? SHOULD there be a spectrum? Oh boy.

In other news, I have my second craft fair coming up this weekend - at my elementary school! If you're local, you should come check it out. It'll be at Bond Mill Elementary in Laurel from 9 to 3. I'm hoping to make some serious cash money to pay off some of my shop debt.

Curtain Craze, Continued

Still dreaming about curtains over here.

I’m thinking of these for our bedroom:

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Too bad they’re $50 a pair, and we’d need two pairs.

I’m kind of eyeballing these, too, from West Elm:

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The very first day that J and I owned the house, we went over and removed all the doors. Bedroom doors, closet doors, everything – with the exception of the bathroom door. What? I’m modest.

So now almost all of our closets are still gaping open, though I’ve since used some of the beat curtains that I messed up for my craft room closet.

J’s thinking about something like this, on a track, for his closet (in our master bedroom):

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I love the texture and think it’d look great against our purpley blue walls.

As for the office, the walls are currently papaya (a fun orange) and the ceiling is a very light blue-green. Sounds horrible, I know, but it’s actually quite fun. J installed our blinds in their yesterday, which look like this:

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… and I got the inspiration to find some curtains that are mostly white with some flecks of blue – to bring out the color of the ceiling, since a lot of people have said they don’t really notice it.

Still trolling for those. I’ll keep you posted on all my curtain adventures, though – don’t you worry!


Once I have a few more of these things done, despite having stuff crap scattered about, I’ll begin posting some “after”s. Though I don’t think we’ll have true afters for a few years (!).

New bloggy

I guess this is my hedonistic day.

I checked my Google Analytics for my shop this morning and saw that I had a pretty significant spike for Monday and Tuesday. I used the handy Traffic Sources tool and discovered that it was all coming from here.

The author, a beautiful woman who was about to burst with baby, bought one of my headbands at the craft show. She then kindly posted about it with some equally beautiful photography.

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Also check out the adorable banner she made for her new baby:

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I love the photography on her blog of her four other children. Amazing to have so many that young.

A Holler at my Shop

The awesome Rose of UnikApparel, a fashion + style blog that features unique emerging shops and designers with work at affordable prices, currently has a feature up about my shop. Go check it out.

No, seriously. Do it.

Happy Friday!

Stumped

Happy Monday, everyone. Hopefully you're not having a case of the Mondays too bad.

I thought I'd start off the week with a crash. Pun intended. You'll see.

This is what the back of our house looked like when we bought it:

It was covered in greenery (which I kind of liked - oooh! a jungle!) and algae caused by the side of the house always staying damp, never seeing sunlight, because of this huge tree:

Jeremy has been itching to take this tree out since literally the first day we saw the house. He thought it was too big and took up too much of the front portion of the back yard. Plus, our bedroom and the office never receive any natural light from this side of the house because of the tree - which is not cool for a natural light freak like me.

While I thought the tree was nice because I like all trees, I could see his point. Plus, we have PLENTY of other trees in the yard, so it's not like it'd be totally barren once it was gone.

Last Wednesday, J and his dad got to work on removing part of the tree, which shared one large stump but was actually two trees. By the time they were done, one tree was left... the tree that was much closer to the house and was actually leaning toward the house. Scary for me.

They decided to tackle the second tree Thursday, so I got out the video camera because I wanted to document them either crushing our house with the tree as they cut it down or to document them successfully cutting it down. Watch the video to determine the result. (Sorry I couldn't make it bigger - it's my first time uploading my own video.

And by the way, there is actually a cable tied around the tree and attached to the back of the little green truck, which is being driven by J away from the house in an attempt to get the tree to fall away from the house. J's dad is manning the chainsaw, and J's brother-in-law is instructing J from the bridge. So nerve-wracking to watch!

At about 1:04, you can see the tree start to sway. Around 1:23, you hear me sarcastically say "Great" because I'm envisioning sleeping with a tree that night in our bed in the master bedroom that's about to be crushed.

This is what our backyard looks like now:

There was tons of ivy all around the stump, so J spent the majority of Saturday afternoon cutting and pulling all of that out. I think he took about seven full trash cans of yard waste to our compost pile and then filled up the back of his work truck with all of the vines. I helped for about forty five minutes and was sore for the rest of the weekend.

He uncovered these, too, as he was cleaning the area under the tree:

A stone bunny with a detached ear, a dirty baby doll (creepy), and a trash bag full of pots and pans. I told you it was a big tree!

Craft Fair Recap

Well, the craft fair was a pretty big success - for my first one and my worries of selling nothing.

My alarm didn't go off (user error) and I got pretty lost on the way there, making for a late start in setting up, but overall it went well. I was worried that no one would come and that I wouldn't sell anything to those few poor fools who made it there. But alas, people came (not a terribly good turn-out, but that's alright), friends and family supported (thanks, J, mom, Nanc, Janet, D, R, Y, and Angie + Josh!), and I sold things. To 12 people, to be exact.

Okay, granted, five of those people were among the supporters just mentioned, but seven people were STRANGERS! I even recorded them on my Purchases tracker that way.

I sold 20 pieces total and made four new pieces while sitting there, one of which sold about 10 minutes after I put it down. Also, two of the three pieces I made last week in frantic preparation sold. What does that tell me? Either my taste is improving or the quality of the work - or both.

Annnnd I had a free raffle for a $25 gift certificate and already announced the winner - from my 11 submissions. Not bad. J thinks I should really push the free raffle to build up a solid base of newsletter recipients, which is where the collection of their email addresses came in. I think he's probably right.

So while at the start of the morning I thought it was going to be horrible, wondering if another crafter was selling dignity that I could buy, by the end I felt a kind of high from it. And then when my stepmom reminded me of our new neighborhood's elementary school craft fair coming up - at the same elementary school I attended, hollller - I think I'll try it. It's in a few weeks and hopefully people will be more desperate for holiday gifts by then. Plus, registration is $15 cheaper than this weekend's fair was.

Sorry I don't have pictures. I'm so bad about that. I even brought my camera to take a shot of my set-up, but I think you can hardly call it a set-up compared to some of the other crazy booths people had. Including A Cup of Green Ginger's booth, a beautiful shop with tons of vintage-materials-incorporated goodies. My only purchase all day was from that booth, where I bought a "wallet" in a delicious pink floral fabric. I just love it. In fact, it's sitting in front of me right now.

Thanks for the virtual support and for the support of those who attended!

Thank Yous

Happy Friday, everyone. I couldn't be happier for it to be here. If I could kiss a day, I would.

You know those invitations I mentioned, that required practically a sweatshop to get done by the deadline of my stepdad's wedding? Well here they are.



Thanks, mom, J, D, Y, and R, for all your help! I seriously wouldn't have found time to put in the probably 15 hours these would have required for one person.

Sorry the photos are so blurry. I feel like I'm always saying that. I took them quickly, as we were late for the wedding and facing Redskins traffic.

You can see from the bottom corner of the picture above that I took inspiration from their wedding invitation for the thank you notes.

I also had a custom stamp made with their names, which they wanted on the bottom inside corner of each card:

Typically I would have gone with something hand-carved from etsy, but this time I chose a more commercial site because I needed it quickly.

And here's the stack of 71 of the finished product. Whew! Just looking at them makes my hands cramp from all the cutting and appliquing. But I was very happy with the finished product.

Now on to the next project: the holidays.

Happy weekend!

Freak Out

Nothing exciting is going on with me this week. With the exception of my usual neuroses surrounding my job discontent, nothing to report.

However, I am getting quite anxious for this craft show tomorrow. Some of my fears:

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Can't worry too much about this one since I didn't put much time into actualizing a scheme, like this.

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J's sister, B, gave some words of encouragement by reminding me that my always-exposure to them probably dampens my impression of them. Sweet, but not sure I buy it.

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I can see myself doing this. This is the absolute number one reason why I did not want to do a craft fair. It's always so awkward, as the potential customer, checking out someone's table. So why wouldn't it be uncomfortable from the other end, too?

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Definitely not my strong suit. But because this is an event filled with etsians from my etsy team, I should introduce myself. Get out there. Be friendly. This is where my social awkwardness could become a problem.

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Okay, so obviously I should wear one of my pieces. Not that it matters because I'll be at my booth all day. Really, what's the chance of someone seeing the piece I'm wearing while I'm NOT at my booth and saying, "oh, I love that!", allowing for an intro about my shop? Slim to none.
Also, I'd like to wear a dress, tights, and boots, but what if the other crafters are bumming it? Too many decisions.

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I've read that you should bring your craft, if possible, to work on. It's also a great conversation-starter, apparently. Nice idea. Not sure I'll be into that. I think I'll be on such high-alert, freak-out mode that I won't be able to focus.

And there's the potential to make zero dollars from all this stress? What did I get myself into?


Oh well. Happy weekend!

Craft Fizzair

Okay, I know I've been a bad blogger.

And I'm about to be an even worse one because I'm here solely to announce my first craft fair! It's this weekend in Gaithersburg, so if you're local you should stop by. There will be tons of other etsians from the DC area, there to represent etsy team etsyCREST.



Here's the official press release:

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The Capital Region Etsy Street Team (CREST) is proud to announce our 1st Annual Falling for Handmade Craft Fair in Bohrer Park, Gaithersburg MD. This year there are over 2000 products and 50 Local Etsy Artistians. You’ll find handmade crafts such as the traditional quilts, beautifully detailed paper crafts and custom design jewelry of the latest trends and styles.

Come visit these local artists and beat the early holiday rush shopping! Date: Saturday October 16, 2010 TIME: from 10am – 4pm. Location: Bohrer Park, Gaithersburg, MD. FREE Parking.

Local Sponsors from the National Center for Children and Family and Gaithersburg High School Activity Clubs will be there to display their artistry and support for the arts community.

For more information, please feel free to visit. http://www.etsycrest.blogspot.com/

About Capital Region Etsy Street Team (CREST)
The Capital Etsy Street Team (CREST) is a group of Etsy sellers passionate about handmade crafts and crafty living in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area (NoVA, NoMD, and WDC). The Street Team is a Support Team of network for local artists on Etsy, providing encouragement, sharing tips and ideas on selling our products, running a successful business and identifying local venues to promote and sell handmade crafts. The Street Team coordinates activities, training and learning for all members.

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A big thanks to Jennifer of craftystitches for putting this all together. Go check out her shop for some amazing bridesmaids gifts or a sweet gift for yourself!

Hope to see you this weekend!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Wooooo. Here comes a weekend wrap-up. Haven't had one of those in a while.

This weekend was GREAT. Just what J and I needed.

Friday night we went out to celebrate a best friend's birthday. We had dinner and then went back to her house for cupcakes. Pretty sweet.

Saturday we went to the annual Walk for Paws, an event put on by the Animal Advocates of Howard County. This was our fourth year going with J's family. We all bring our dogs, meet other dogs, play dog games, and win prizes. Oh, and our dogs enjoy the free dog ice cream. Very fun. These events are pretty common for most rescue organizations, so check out yours nearby - it's a great event for the family.

Afterward, we stuck with J's family and checked out a local petting zoo/maze/pumpkin patch as well. We spent hours there. It was tons of fun for all of us, but I think J's 2-year-old nephew enjoyed it the most. J and I felt like we needed a kid to attend. Ahem.

That night we did some stuff at home and then went over to our neighbor's for some firepit time. They built it the week we moved in. I like to think of it as a welcome gift, ha.

I also finished the handmade thank-you cards I was making for my stepdad's wedding. I took some pictures so I'll share them soon. Thanks, D, R, Y, J, and mom for your help!

Sunday we went to the wedding, which was a very casual outdoor wedding on the bay. It was beautiful. And J loved it because the Redskins game was on for everyone to watch in the mansion where the wedding was held.

Whew. Obviously we got very little house stuff done, but hopefully this week will be a bit better.


I was hoping to dedicate this week to making some things to bring along to the craft fair I'm participating in this coming weekend, but I got some very bad news for my shop this morning.

Apparently I didn't file my business's Personal Property stuff last year or this year. First, I didn't know about it and never received anything in the mail prior to this weekend. Second, when I got the document I thought it wasn't that big of a deal because I had no personal property for the period it was for.

But then when I read the finer print, I discovered that you must file every year whether you were (a) doing business during the period and (b) whether you made a profit and (c) whether your business had Personal Property AND that the filing fee is $300.

Can you BELIEVE that? And because I'm a year behind, really I owe $600.

Let me just tell you - with all the house stuff, I really don't have an extra $600. I'm thinking I might have to close the shop if I don't figure out a way around this. Total bummer.

Soooo maybe my week will be spent on the house instead. Yikes.

Holiday Prep

I don't know about you, but I started my holiday shopping around April of this year. I know, I'm neurotic like that. I literally need a closet in my new house dedicated to gifts because I buy so many.

With the holidays approaching, I'd love for my little shop to beenfit. I'm thinking of offering some gift packages for the holiday season in my shop.

I recently placed an order for gift certificates, which I think will be a great holiday item for giving, but I'm trying to brainstorm some other ideas.

I'm thinking of offering suites - in much the way I already do for brides to give to their bridesmaids - for a group of friends so that a shopper can come to my shop and buy five pairs of studs for five friends.



I suppose another way would be to offer "Buy two or more, get $x off" but I'm not too keen on that idea. I'd rather my shop not have "SALE" plastered all over it. Something about that makes me feel not good. Granted, I love a sale, but I think I respect the shops with no sales more. Strange, I know.

Have any other good tips for preparing a shop for the holiday season? What lures you in?

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In other news, J and I moved in to our new house last Sunday (!). It's been a week of finishing the small details that we didn't have a chance to finish before we moved, such as sanding and painting some of the spots near the new base trim that we added.

Hopefully this weekend we'll get the doors on and finally be ready to unpack!

Happy weekend!

Milky Way

I am totally in love with milk glass.



Something about it just makes me feel at home.


I'm thinking of opening a new shop. I feel like I say that a lot.