Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Newest in shop!

I have added the sleep masks to my shop! What is neat is not only can you purchase one mask for your kiddo, but I have a listing for a party pack! So if your little girl is having a birthday party sleep over or just a fun slumber party then you can purchase masks for them to wear!
Masks Section of shop

Purple mask

Pink Mask

Party Pack!

I also have added some new bracelets to my shop too! These are bracelets with barrel clasps and you can even get the names embroidered on them! Here is the link to those!
Barrel Clasp Bracelets

Friday, January 9, 2015

Kids and Reading

This morning I came home today from taking my son to school and I the roads were bad. I live in Colorado and when it snows it is usually cold and last night it was raining and then started to snow and was cold. So the roads this morning were icy and so I came home and sat at the computer to relax and de-compress. I made myself some coffee with my nice new milk frother I got for Christmas and check my email, facebook and twitter. I came across this tweet that Parents Magazine posted about reading to your kids. Talks about how reading to them at an early age will encourage them to become readers and like and want to read.
Now when I was pregnant with my son I read to him in my stomach. We had one of those microphone things that you put on your stomach so the baby can hear. We didn't read a lot to him when he was younger, but when we turned say 2 then we started to read every night to him. Now that he is 5 and in Kindergarten learning how to read himself we are starting to read to him more and encouraging him to read some of it to us. We are also starting to read more chapter books to him since he is old enough that he will keep his attention when there are no pictures to look at.

I am curious as to how many of you that have kids read to your little one when you were pregnant and how often you read to them now?

If you would like to see the article I read here is the link to it! I follow them on twitter and they post some really interesting stuff!
http://www.parents.com/blogs/parents-news-now/2015/01/08/education/new-study-reveals-reading-aloud-to-kids-does-matter/

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Teething!

When my son was a baby and was teething I tried many different things to help. We tired baby orajel, teething rings, pacifiers, and other things. The one that he seemed to like the best though was either ice in a washcloth or just a wet washcloth that I put in the freezer. So I thought what would be a great cobination of the two for me to make? I came up with the idea of a TEETHING POUCH!!! So here is the newest addition to my shop. I hope that it catches on and mom's try it for their kiddos.
So here you can put ice cubes in it.

It has velcro to close


It is made of 100% cotton yarn so its OK for babies mouths. You can either put ice cubes in it for them to chew on or you can wet the entire pouch and stick it in the freezer! Pass this on to your friends and families! Here is the link to see it in my shop!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/217710967/baby-teething-pouch?

Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Working on lighting in pictures

I am working today on using my new camera and trying to get some good shots of my items. It is hard but I know if I keep working at it then I will get the hang of it. Today the light is very bad too and usually I am working with natural light but today is snowy and cloudy and cold! So my light isn't great, but here are some of the shots I have taken today. Any advice would be helpful!
I tried both flash and no flash.

I lightened it up a bit with Picasa.

My puppy was helping lol

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Getting more traffic!

Well after a long time of not getting a ton of views and traffic to my shop I am finally getting more to my shop! I am participating in 2 groups on facebook that is helping tremendously! I also am coming up with a few new item ideas, one of which is for sale in my shop! The kids sleep mask is now for sale and I am going to be making more of them and adding them as a pack to market for girls slumber parties/sleepovers! Here is the one I have for sale now:

Here is the link to it if your interested in buying it!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/216963613/crochet-child-size-sleep-mask

I am not going to give much info on the product that will be added this week but it has to do with teething for babies!

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Virtual Sale!

My shop and many other wonderful shops are participating in a Virtual Sale today! Some come on by and see all the wonderful items!!! Today at 7pm EST! Here is the link!
Virtual Sale Link

Friday, January 2, 2015

Twitter Party!

Took part in my first Twitter Party today! It was a great help to my stats in my shop! Here are some of the gorgeous items I saw! All you can find on Etsy. Also my shop is participating in a Etsy Virtual Sale. Here is the facebook link!
https://www.facebook.com/events/880647398622366/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

There will be lots of other shops there also! So come check it out! Tomorrow Jan 3rd from 7 to 10 pm EST time.


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Thursday, January 1, 2015

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you all! I hope you all have a wonderful 2015! I rang in the new year with my husband and my 5 year old son watching Back to the Future Trilogy last night. Found it fitting cause in the second one they go to 2015, which my son found funny cause what they thought back in the 80's that 2015 would look like is nothing like that!
He managed to barely make it to midnight then went straight to sleep. I wasn't sure if he was going to make it or not. I worked on some inventory while we were watching the movies also, and rang in the new year this morning with a sale! So maybe that is a sign that its going to be the start of a great year!
Happy New Year from my family to yours!