What I Did While I Was Hiding Out All Year.

Here's some proof for people that used to call me a friend that I was indeed working while not having a social life.=)

My Favorite Big Stockings from 2011, in no particular order.  (Some of them are missing because I was in too big of a hurry to take pics, will not make that mistake next year!)  Almost all of these were custom orders, which I had an awesome time making.

Mini Stockings & Halloween will be in another post!

Ew, January

January is, and has been since I was old enough to have to go back to school after Christmas break, my least favorite month of the year. The holidays are over, the days are short and it's cold. That being said, it's a fantastic time to clean and reorganize. So we've spent the last 3 days cleaning out cabinets I forgot were there, and a fortune at target on organizers. So by February were hoping to run like a well oiled machine here at B & B, something that couldn't have been further from the truth the end of 2010 :). We scrambled through it, and a big thank you to all of our customers who made it a successful year for us.

We re in the design stage of some awesome beach bags, and hopefully a whole line of totes to be listed by April. (Think circus and vintage fairy tale.)

Recap of 2010:

Ran my first marathon.

Barnacle got 3 stitches in his tongue (won t even tell you what that cost, you wouldn't believe it.)

Designed our first Halloween line.

Had a blast doing custom big stockings for some really fun customers.

Got an iPhone!!!!

I'm going to post some pics of our favorite items from 2010 in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks again to all of our customers!

Cool New Big Stockings!

Okay so Halloween was kind of crazy.  I think it really hit me how nuts it was while half-listening to TLC  and wondering when baby reality shows and insomnia infomercials had gotten so popular, then realizing they hadn't, but the only other people up with me night after night at 3 a.m. were new parents and insomniacs.  Those of you who went to college and worked full time, you know that feeling right after finals?  Sort of the mental equivalent of running a marathon.  That's where we are right now. =)

So a big thank you to all of our customers, we learned SO much over the past couple of months and are really excited to get started on new things.  For right now we're kind of focusing on mini stockings, something we're pretty comfortable with, and are hoping to get most of our new product out by this weekend.

Last night I finished our very first BIG stockings.  I'm so stoked on how they came out. For right now we're doing these as custom requests.  I'm trying to figure out the best way to handle them, since I can only get pretty much 1 stocking per design, it's going to be a little tricky.  In the meantime, if you're interested, just send me a convo at the etsy shop with the color you're looking for and I'll send you pics of available fabrics.

Thrifty Thursday tip:  This ones a little different, but pretty useful for just about anyone, even if you're not into crafting.  Get a Staples rewards number and return your empty ink cartridges.  They give you $3 for each cartridge, up to $9 a month, and more if you start a business account.  It really adds up if you go through ink like we do.=)