Grand Opening Preparations and Changes

Our store officially has it's first stocking on October 7. Hooray! But suddenly I feel under the gun. I have a Turtle Butt I'm almost done with and 3 diapers finished, of which one will be FFS.

So far I have been packaging all my bath products in glass bottles and jars for the reusability and recycling factors. I'm thinking of discontinuing anything in bottles and packaging the other things in plastic ziploc-type bags, or maybe find some type of biodegradable bag to use instead. The glass just makes so many more shipping headaches... they're fragile and heavy. I'm thinking to continue offerring jars and bottles locally but selling on the shop only things that can be packaged differently.

New and Exciting News

So my big new is... in October I am going to be joining a HyenaCart Collab called "Serenity Tree" with several other ladies. Our first stocking should be somewhere around Oct 1. I am very excited because I think this will be a good opportunity for things to take off a little for me. We will be actively advertising, plus there are some other more established WAHMs there.

Other news, I finished up Em's Shetland Shorty yesterday, though it had a bit of a mishap. I was letting my toddler help me with weaving and trimming ends and he cut the corner of the tie off... there were a few minutes of sheer panic, and a good hour of unstable emotions, but it's all fixed, washed, blocked, and drying.

Oh, other exciting news, I am officially selling Turtle Butts now. I mailed the licensing agreement back to Adorabubble Knits this weekend. Hoorah! It's a neat pattern, very unique and quite adorable. The nice thing is it's something cute you can do for boys too. Most "cute" patterns are girly (her reason for doing this pattern in the first place!).

After the Weekend

Well, I made it home. I was up in Grand Marais for the North Shore Dragon Boat Festival in Grand Marais. It was fun, but our team didn't do so well. Anyway, it created a bit of a pinch to get things done, but I did it! I had a few orders last week that I got off and I'm so proud of myself for it!

While I was gone I made a new drawstring for dd's Turtle Butt (it actually ties now), started one for ds, and plugged away a bit on the Shetland Shorty I'm working on for SIL. So now I've spent all morning on the computer reading about the Ravelympics and figuring out what projects I'm going to make, which means figuring out what I'm making everyone for Christmas. I've also got to work on some web development stuff here. I'm working on my diaper and wool pages on my computer and will wait until they contain most of what they need to before I put them up live. Stay tuned!

Victory

La la la! I figured out how to post a photo!

Anyway, here is Turtle Butt all done. It's on my babe at this very moment, and oh how I love 100Purewool. The only problem is my drawstring was too short... imagine that. I always make my drawstrings too short because I don't want to "waste yarn". Customers' drawstrings are always fine, it's just my own. Anyway, isn't it cool? I have to make another now for my toddler. I think I'm going to do it with the same brown and a blues/browns variegated yarn (Patons "Wedgewood" colorway) only switch up the pieces so the inside of the turtle squares will be brown instead of variegated.

Anyway, I have to get the kids to bed. Dh is gone until probably after 10 so I get to do all the fun stuff tonight. :)