WIP Week Continued

WIP week is back with a couple of embroideries I am working on. Above is the Retro Baby, which will be framed and below are some samples to send someone for a project that may or may not work out...

UPDATES!!

The shop is open and ready for business! As I was loading stuff in I even got a sale! Thank a million Linda!! From now on the shop will be updated with new things on the 1st and 15th of every month.

The dollhouse is going back tomorrow with not a single regret. It is just too fragile to be a child's toy and I really really want my kids to be able to enjoy it and when I put my furniture in it the scale was waaaaay off. I should have realised that it would be too small for my stuff. I can't afford the furniture that goes with those houses and, again, the kids couldn't play with it. So off it goes and I am completely fine with it.

A WIP of the Shop Variety

I almost forgot about this WIP! The little lovelies handmade June 1 launch date is looming ahead all too quickly. I have plenty of fun stuff to introduce to you, though most of it will be familiar things that I have talked about with you all before. I am working on Peggy and Cecelia dolls and have been toying with the idea of little family doll sets. The baby that monkey requested has been embroidered and is just waiting to be stuffed with fluff and sewn up. Daddy dollie is still in the works.

Since I made the Mama doll (formerly Lola) she has been a staple in my kids day. She is a perfect size to clutch and carry around the house. Right now we have a playtime ritual of putting our dolls to sleep and giving them kisses. We have two AG dolls and Mama doll (who is a perfect size to be a doll's doll...) and all get lined up and kissed by peanut, covered with a blankey by monkey and drift off soundly to sleep.

This morning, in preparation for the June 1 grand opening over at Etsy I made a colossal list of things I need to do, starting with getting a postal scale so I can weight things and mail them off from home. Two kids, several packages, a line at the PO and unhelpful counter staff is a hell that I hate to enter, which explains the growing mountain of packages that need to be mailed out. I realize that if I am going to have the least bit of success with little lovelies handmade a postal scale or baby sitter will be in order. I think the scale will be cheaper.

little lovelies handmade

Official Launch-June 1

Lily Claire Designs is no more. Not that it ever really was, but you know. On June 1 I will launch little lovelies handmade at etsy and on this here bloggity blog. I need to get through Baz Biz and all that craziness and then work on some fabulous stuff for the little lovelies handmade store. I'm sure that lots of buttons and pattern girls will be involved. I'm predictable that way.

But first I need to get my butt to the post office and mail off the millions of swaps I'm doing. No, I haven't forgotten about you girls, I just can't chew gum (get ready for a show) and walk (mail out my swaps) at the same time. The same day the organizing bug bites, maybe the time management bug will too. Ha!

So about that fab postcard up there...my friend Stacey of Babycard Expressions made it and my business cards. Pretty crazy cute, huh? She's adding design services to her repertoire, so if you have any business card/letterhead needs she's the go to gal for it! She has even started a new wedding invitation business called Lovely Inks. Go check her out.