New Monday: Changes in the Shop

Life recently has been incredibly stressful and hectic here recently, especially with my recent illness. To make things a little easier I will not be offering custom orders anymore, at least for now. Instead, I will be concentrating on other parts of my inventory, such as stationery accessories, greeting cards and ready-to-ship note card sets. Come fall, I will begin offering custom orders again, and will have some new designs for the upcoming seasons.

Right now I'm working on Mother's Day cards, since that's the next holiday coming up, and those who purchase my Mother's Day cards will receive a coupon code for their Father's Day card (Which I also need to get started on). Also, when you buy a Mother's Day card from my shop, you will receive a coupon code for 15% off your Father's Day card purchase.

I'm also trying to sell locally. There's a Facebook page called Porterville Buy and Sell where members of the community post pictures and posts of things they are selling or looking for. The most popular posts are for holidays so I'm hoping to get some extra revenue by putting a few posts on there. If you sell handmade goods, look for community pages on Facebook that are for selling things, I've made a lot of extra cash selling things I no longer wanted or needed, so now I'm going to try my hand at selling my cards.

Friday's Faves #9

Friday's Faves Theme: Mother's Day

With Mother's Day right around the corner, I thought today's theme was very appropriate. I hope you'll find the perfect gift for the Mom in your life! (Or maybe drop a hint to the hubby for?)

All Natural Clay Trio

Being a Mom can be very stressful and stress isn't just felt, it can be shown; weight gain or loss, tiredness, skin... So why not pamper the Mom in your life by giving her skin some special attention with All Natural Clay Trio by opheliasapothecary. It has three different masks for her to try for $25. I can't wait to try these babies out myself!

8 x 10 custom matboard silhouette pink

How about a custom portrait Mother dearest, yourself or her grandchildren for Mother's Day? Silhouette portraits are VERY popular; they're affordable and fit in with any decor! You can get one at SuzieLouLou for $25.

My Babies

You can never go wrong with jewelry. This custom necklace would make a fantastic gift, you could put her children's names on it or her grandchildren's for $38 for this particular set by hiphophippos (Love the shop name by the way).

Rhinestone Rhonda Mini Blank Book

Two words, brag book. Cute, miniature, photo album to store pics of the kids or grandkids in her purse so she can whip them out and make herself the envy of the neighborhood, cause you know she just has the cutest kids on Earth; or grandkids. You can find this gorgeous one at KandiceInWonderland and many like it (I just love her work!) $20.

Vintage Apothecary Terrarium

I don't know about you, but I've done the whole, give-mom-a-bouquet-for-mothers-day which is nice and every lady loves flowers, but why not something different that's just as lovely and will last longer? Buy her a terrarium! I've always wanted one myself, but you can get one at doodlebirdie for $38.

Vintage Circle Daffodil flower Pin

I think this is a very sweet pin. I think a vintage gift is a very thoughtful, there's just something special about vintage, don't you agree? You can find this lovely pin at HoofAndAntler for $8

Harbinger Journal

This is a great one for husbands to give their Moms-to-be, after all, being a Mom starts as soon as she discovers she's pregnant. This journal can be kept as pregnancy journal or as a way to keep track of all of babies firsts. You can find this at moxieandoliver for $95

Triple 4x6 Distressed Picture Fram

I think this is a very cool and unique idea for framing photos and would make a wonderful gift with photos of the kids or grandkids already in it! Only at roundthebendshop for $55

Magnetic Spice Rack Coral Pink

I absolutely fell in love with this idea the first time I saw it and would love to put one in my Mom's kitchen someday (It would really free up some cabinet space) You can find this and other less expensive versions (and DIY kits) at saltcityspice for $45

Marcela

If you'd like to go with something a little more traditional, like flowers, then go to floresdelsol. There you can find beautiful dried boquets. This one is $45.

DIY Foot Scrub

Some of you might remember my DIY brown sugar body scrub. As much as I like using this scrub myself I felt it wasn't strong enough to give the attention certain places REALLY needed, such as my feet.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have a problem with dry, callused feet especially at the end of winter and who wants to show off those toesies when it's sandal season? Many of us seek professional help, other's just walk out in sandals as is and many of us just hide them, am I right? So, I created a DIY foot scrub and it really helped!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup Course Salt
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
2/3 cup Olive oil or almond oil
Jar or two

Measure out your dry ingredients and pour them into a bowl then measure out your 2/3 cup of oil of choice and mix well. Once it's mixed and the clumps of brown sugar are de-clumped, pour into your jar over the sink so as not to make a mess everywhere, and VOILA! Your homemade foot scrub.

I suggest using this with your feet either dry or slightly damp, you can try it in the shower but it seems to dissolve too quickly to really make too much of a difference. Be sure to rinse. Make sure there are no open sores on your feet as the salt will cause the sore to burn.

With Mother's Day coming up, this would make a very nice gift for the Mom in your life, just tie some twine or a nice ribbon around and attach a lovely note and there you go!

Tip:

For even softer feet, use the scrub before going to bed, rinse and pat dry. Then rub just olive oil over your feet, wrap in cellophane and then cover with a sock and go to sleep, your feet should be sooo much softer when you get up in the morning and ready for a little nail polish!

Some new stuff for ya!

I've got some new items this week, as promised.

First up, is my new thank you card set, "Many Thanks." I think this one is my favorite so far. It's available in teal, black, blue and pink and I will soon be offering it in purple!

 

 In addition to that, I'm also now offering my original Thank You set in the same colors, you can view them here
Teal
Black
Blue

I also created a new monogram set. It's very simple. If your not fond of the heart I can replace it with a circle or square. The monogram can be done in teal, black, blue or pink, so it can be really customized.

And for Mother's Day, I created a beautiful green card with "Happy Mother's Day" stamped in gold. In each corner I embossed a flower design and I added a ribbon as that final touch. I will be adding more Mother's Day cards soon and then it's on to Father's Day!