My cute niece was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints so announcement was commenced!

I love being able to use a picture with the text over it when I get the chance. My sister also wanted it that way, so great minds think alike!


Photo cred: Xpressions Photography
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As fall is right around the corner, here is a little piece of summer before the holiday craze begins!

My niece wanted a water party, so my sister kept it simple with water games, cake and presents - just how a birthday party should be. So I designed an invitation and party favor tags.

I love how the beachball on the invitation wasn't the regular-primary-color-type of beachball and set the color scheme for the entire party. Very modern beachy. And this cake! She always goes all out with birthday cake and this one couldn't have been more adorable.

I was really excited that I got into the fall show because I was ready to get back into it again. After the talk I had with Hipster Quinn, I was really excited to try new products and have the Bazaar be my test run.

It actually turned out to not be that great of a test run because the feedback I did receive was super scattered. My Instagram followers seemed to really dig my stuff. I had a lot of random people love my Harry Potter tote bags and thought my stickers and new cards were adorable. But I didn't sell a single one at the Bazaar! How bazaar??? (Sorry, I couldn't resist...) But I've kinda learned that before - how each event is different and different items sell the best. I've never had one item be a clear winner. It's always different.

So I was pretty bummed I didn't do as well as I thought I would because I worked hard to introduce so many new products, but I believe in them and I won't let this one event stop me. Right after the Bazaar, I found out I got into the Cotton Lane Market event which will be November 11th at 6-10pm and the 12th at 10am-9pm at The Lodge at Traverse Mountain. Yay!

I have some new products I'll be doing because it'll be a Christmas show and I hope I'm able to sell my other new stuff too. So here we go again!
I got to proudly wear the shirt my husband made for me for my birthday!
I really wanted to get rid of my old designs so I had a clearance box. I was hoping to do better, but I'd say it was almost half-ish.