Breathe

Sunday night the mayhem started. Loads of emails, inquires on wholesale pricelist, custom orders and regular orders. Last week was very laid back, I worked on designing 7 new items and the new color PDF catalog. This week has been non-stop 16 hour days. My brain felt like it was going to pop. So yesterday I escaped outside and ran to the store looking everywhere for a day planner. No one had a planner for today, they were for August 2010-August 2011. I need one today. I came home and checked on Etsy for a planner. I found one. Its a DIY planner and calendar. So bought it and started printing out pages.

Today, I went to Target again and bought a half size soft covered notebook for my new planner. I also got the clear plastic pocket dividers. Now I can breathe, everything is all written down.

Exciting News: I had a Little Miss Heirlooms contact me about one of my products. She wants to review it and put in her online magazine. Its a magazine all about kids products.

I've also booked 3 giveaways, two of which came to me and said they wanted to host a giveaway on their blog. The other one is my sponser blog. I'll post links on Twitter and Facebook closer to the dates.

Third Shift

Well, the kids and I are back on third shift. This time I'm not liking it at all. I get up around 3 pm and then I'm up until 7 am. Mia went to bed around 1:30 am and slept until 3 pm. She must be going through a growing spurt, I think she drank a bottle every 3 hours. Emily took a nap around 2 am and got up around 3:30 am then back to bed around 5 am. She is still asleep its 5:18 pm. She did wake up to watch about 15 minutes of her new Piglet movie from netflix then she was out again. I stayed up all night making One Word flashcards. I made one for Little Girls in 2 sizes and Anniversary Cards in 2 sizes. Then my printer ran out of toner and I couldn't get the new toner installed so I cut Animal ABC flashcards the rest of the morning and went to bed around 6:30 am.

Get some Sleep

I crashed out last night around 7 pm. Mia went right to sleep after getting drops in her eyes and a bottle. I woke up around 1:30 am wide awake. I went to my studio and had a few orders to fill. So got busy working on orders. Orders done by 2:15 am. UMMM. its now 6:02 am and I'm still awake. New posting - done. Updated flashcards -done. Printed new flashcards - done. Ate stouffers early morning meal - done. Uploaded new pictures - done. Cut out flashcards - done. Make new packaging labels- done.

See lots done. But soon I'm going to need more sleep :))

Hot Chocolate and Late Nights

Right now its 3:52 am and I'm sipping on hot chocolate with marshmellows. I'm working on Sweetheart Valentine Flashcards using vintage couple and valentine cards. I was orginally going to make only 14, but they are too cute to have only 14 so I think I'm going to go ahead and make 31. One for each day. One for 31 friends. 31 one ways to scrapbook about how you love someone.

Everynight, I hope that the kids will go to bed sort of early, so I can get some designing done. I have cherry chocolate and strawberry dipped journaling tags jumping around in my head and sweet heart mixed number tags ready to print whenever the new toner gets here. I've never been much about celebrating Valentines, but it sure is fun to create new stuff. How can you go wrong with Pink, Red and Chocolate.