Happy Birthday to Me!

On the 4th, I celebrated my 35th birthday. Yes, I'm embracing my age and I'm not ashamed to say that I'm nearly to 40. I'm in a good place right now and loving my life.

I'm doing what I love (staying home with the kids, creating fun things), I have a super great husband and I love my friends and family. Everyone made this birthday extra great for me. I think it might be one of the first birthdays where I didn't really receive material items... but I don't care. It was the best because my closest friends all remembered it and called me or emailed me, my family members called me or sent me cards (on time even!), and I got to go to dinner at Sushi Zen. Yum!

Anyhow, the beautiful little felted pouch pictured was one of my favorite gifts. Made by my good friend, Cindy of Original Cyn Studios, I think she needs to offer it in her store. Check out her store some time! She does some fabulous crochet items!

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Just a quick note... my postcards are now up on the toy site. Check it out!

Valentine Postcard Set

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First Thursday in Seattle

This Thursday, World of Whimm will be at Stir for the First Thursday Gallery Walk. It will be only my second showing, so I am very excited! Because it's a smaller show, I've decided to take only my costumes for the head - indian headdresses, royal crowns and my new tiaras. I'll also be bringing the I-Spy Valentines.

If you are local, stop in! Also showing will be Kimberly At Stir, Ugly Baby, Woven Chains and I Make Cute Stuff. Great company and a sure bet this will be a great time!

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Flowers, Flowers, Flowers!

My daughter turns two next week. This weekend we will be having her birthday party. She will be having a garden tea party (set indoors since we live in Washington and it's cold and rainy). So, I've had flowers on my mind lately.

And whatever is on my mind, seems to turn up in my work. Lately I've been having a great time making tiaras with these crocheted flowers that I ordered a while back. I love them! And better yet... they were made by an Etsy seller! CraneCrochet is awesome! I love her flowers so much that I've ordered more. A lot more! She's making some just for my needs. Check her out! These flowers (she also does hearts, butterflies, and more) would be very cute on a little dress or on a hair clip. I think the possibilities are endless.

For my needs right now, I'm using them on tiaras. I've used them on crowns in the past and they are so charming!

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Getting things in order...

So, I'm attempting to try to work on my list of New Years Resolutions. The first - was blog more. I think I'm slowly getting back into blogging. My goal is to blog here at least three times a week. Since I have other blogs, this seems like a realistic number.

My second resolution was to get organized! Today I took a big step in getting organized. I opened a small business account. Yippee! I was also finally able to deposit the check I earned from my one and only craft fair back in December. Yep, it was made out to World of Whimm so I dragged my feet getting it cashed. So not only do I now have a small business account... but it has money in it too! Now I just need to put my new account information into Paypal and I'll be good to go! Next on the list of getting organized is to look into merchant services.

We have also been working on getting the office (spare bedroom) organized. This is half way done and I have a deadline of Friday since my mom will be in town visiting. I work much better with a deadline.

I completed the first part of my first wholesale order as well. And... I discovered that she included my products in her blog! Check her out and the store. I love her store and I think my items are a perfect fit (if I do say so myself).

Living Playing Blog
Living Playing Store

Stay tuned... I'm working on more items for her!

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