Hi Ho Hi Ho...

Well, I've been chugging along taking product photos and other fun things. I'm really pushing for it to open on Wednesday, so we will see.

In addition to that, I got sick of having to deal with blogger, and the whole trying to convert it to wordpress on my hosting. Anyway, I purchased a separate domain for the blog and will be moving it over to there, soon, too. So yes, my impatience once again overwhelmed me.

I also have decided that I love my courses this quarter. That combined with spring makes me very, very happy. I'm very excited.

Sadly though, I found out that my husband will be traveling the world for the next few months with limited internet. Since we're already across the world from each other, the internet has been a lifesaver, so hopefully I can stay busy, busy. Then hopefully he can visit or I can visit him this fall/winter. I'm excited for that.

Moving to wordpress...

Well, the launch to Simply Whimsy Stationery is fast approaching, and the blog will then be hosted on that website. I'm hoping to open Simply Whimsy over the next few days. Today is testing and making sure everything is ready to go, and I need to upload some more product photos (so exciting). I also received my wonderful notecard envelopes in the mail, and so those are ready. My product packaging is ready, too. Just all minor details now. I'll post more updates to this post throughout the day with photos and other fun items!

Busy little bee

With everyone sick including my grandmother, I have been away from my studio and now that I'm back utterly exhausted. However today I found some time to create a new design with a fun little friend:
I also officially announced my plans to sell on Simply Sweet Announcements as a wholesale/resale store only. This will begin April 1, and I will officially open Simply Whimsy Stationery then, too. Simply Whimsy will have a more boutique feel to it. I'm very excited.

So while it's 12:34 in the morning...

I'm busy working. I was exhausted at around 7:40pm, so I decided to forgo having a normal sleep schedule and take a late nap. It lasted until about 10:30 when my husband called me during his lunch, and it was so nice to hear his voice. Talking to him puts me in a good mood, and it motivated me to work some more.

So I finally started testing my new printer. It has been a wonderful purchase and is going to allow me to start printing in house, and this means I can print lower quantities of thank you cards and notecards and also not have to charge as much because I have to outsource my printing. However, I am only going to do this for my stationery sets on Simply Whimsy Stationery, and all of my custom designed notecards are still going to be printed at my current printer.

Here's a sneaky peak at one of the new notecard designs that I will be offering:
I absolutely adore that bird that I created in Adobe Illustrator. In fact, I've decided to use her on all of my marketing for Simply Whimsy Stationery, so you'll be seeing more of her. She'll have her own complete set of notecards, stationery, invitations/announcements, and address labels. Now if only I could come up with a name for her.