Christmas Came Early

After the nail biter of a BYU - Utah game this evening and finally winning in overtime I decided to give Jason his Christmas present early!! Stay tuned tomorrow for some great church wear... we have been promising to wear our cougar getup if BYU stomped on the Utes (maybe stepped on is more fitting), which they did, so we will come through. There is a hardcore Utes family in our ward, so victory will be grand tomorrow!

For Traditions Sake

If you recall when Paisley was almost 1 month old we spent our first Thanksgiving alone. as we were getting the turkey ready we noticed that she was smaller than our turkey so we got a picture. Now as we have another baby near Thanksgiving we thought we should compare Jarom to our turkey this year. He is definitely bigger than our bird! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Email Orders

It has recently come to my attention that most people probably do not have an Etsy account. So in order to reach more people and be as successful as I can be, I would love to invite anyone interested to order an I Spy Bag through my email. If you have seen an I Spy Bag on the store site (thepurseplace.etsy.com) that you would like please email me the description and I can sell it over email. If there isn't one on the site you like but would still like to order one please email me. I have a lot of really cute fabric that is in the process of becoming an I Spy Bag, they just aren't finished. I am preparing for this busy holiday shopping weekend and for Cyber Monday. If you would like to specify that the I spy bag is for a girl or boy so the choice of fabric is appropriate that would be great! Please send your email orders to purseplace.etsy at gmail.com (email broken up to discourage spammers) Also, please feel free to tell your friends, family and anyone you think would be interested!

Business

As you all know since I posted it on this very blog, that I have been making and trying to sell purses online. Well I have expanded my online store to include I Spy Bags. Mom and I made a couple while she was here. I listed a couple of them on my store on Wednesday and on Friday two of them had sold!! In the meantime Jason and I were selling something on Craigslist and the lady that called and wanted to buy it owns a children's second hand clothing store in Salina. During the conversation I asked her if she would be willing to carry some of my I Spy Bags to sell in her store. She was really excited to do that for me! Today we took up three bags (I wanted to put most of my finished bags on my online store because I was excited to have sales) Anyway, by the time we got home from doing our shopping in Salina I had a message on our answering machine from her saying two bags had already sold!! She asked me if next time I brought up bags if I could bring about six!! YAY! It is nice to finally have success since my purses didn't go too well. Since it is the holidays however I have slashed prices on my purses and we are having a Holiday Sales Event!! Fell free to check it out... thepurseplace.etsy.com

This is the outside of the store where my bags are and here they are at the cash register in the store. She just opened her store a few weeks ago and the major advertising for her store begins Tuesday... I gotta get more bags up there!!

Bus

My first sale!

So today I received an email saying that I have received a payment and I honestly was thinking "What kind of scam is this?" I almost deleted the email without looking at it. when I did decide to open it I noticed it was a paypal paymeny for 2 of my I Spy Bags on Etsy!!! I was very excited! I've had my purses on Etsy for over a month with nothing happening, but the I Spy Bags have been on for a couple days and BAM-O! Two sold!! I've just put up two more that I finished today with high hopes for success!! Go ME!!!

I Spy Bags

If you notice on the right hand side bar in my Etsy Store I now carry I Spy Bags. This is a fun little project my mom and I took on while she was here. She is a lot better at making the bags than I am but we pushed out a few and now I'm taking over - practice makes perfect right?! They are really cute and really fun. Paisley loves her bag. It is excellent in the car. It is also a great quiet toy for church! Also along with the I Spy Bags the purses are now having a Free Shipping sale!!

So funny!! Love it!