Happy Memorial Day! May 25, 2009

Well, we have been busy, busy, busy! Working on the new site and a big 2-day photo shoot. It was crazy-chaotic, but I know we got some fun stuff. My photographer, AK Vogel is great…check out her site: www.akvogel.com.

I am hoping the new site will be up in a week or so…but I’m not making nay promises…we still have a ways to go. I will alert the masses when it’s D-O-N-E, DONE!!

In the meantime, here are a few cute customer pics…

benton…

and anna…

PRECIOUS baby girly’s! Thanks to Lakely and Becky for sending…

If it isn’t raining, it’s COLD! May 19, 2009

So it has me obsessing over SUNLIGHT! Thus, a new design…

This weather is making me FOUL!!!! Help me..

Tons of New Stuff… May 13, 2009

Designed all of these over the last 6 months or so, and haven’t had time to post…but they are FINALLY on the site…PHEW. (Did I say I HATE adding stuff to my site MORE THAN ANYTHING!!!?)

3 Squares

Cupcake

Fish Fight

Jumbo Letter

Love My School

My School/Grade Rocks1

Scallop Initial/Name

The Great Frame Up

The New Mod

Very Cherry

We’ve Got Your Number! May 11, 2009

These were created for one of our stores, and now they are available to you too!! We will get them to the site ASAP. We already have Patchwork Tees (one of our special lines)
but these are sold as shown. Either way you look at it…yep, we’ve got your number.

You’re Invited… May 9, 2009

Okay, not really, but this little one is having a party Another  invite design, and yes, there is a cupcake tee to match!

New! Back to School Gear… May 7, 2009

I know, I know, summer hasn’t even started, but with one starting kindergarten in the Fall, I am already obsessing. I am having these new goodies photographed by a professional, as I am giving up (my photos leave a little too much to be desired) but since I am impatient, I am posting my not-so-great representations here, now.

Anyway, at Sequoyah, where my children go to school, kindergartners are required to carry large totes, rather than backpacks. The totes we are offering are super roomy, heavy-duty canvas—just what the teachers ordered! And for the bigger kids, backpacks. We’ll add to these to the site, but may wait til our new site is ready. If you want to place your order now, just shoot us an email.

Here is my little pre-school graduate at her graduation “ceremony”. Ha. I don’t think we had those for pre-school when I was little.

More Phylliss Hoffman… May 6, 2009

This magazine really is so pretty…if you haven’t seen it yet, you should check it out. Again, my invites were included—a fourth of July design.
More to come in next issue too…I am having fun working with these guys! I think the photography is wonderful.

Another super quick design… May 5, 2009

So Much to Do…. April 21, 2009

So Little Time. I know, we’re all in it together. This world has gone bonkers…never any down time. or maybe it’s the phase of life I’m in…juggling way to many balls. On Saturday alone, we had THREE games, between soccer and baseball. Anyway, this week, still working little by little on the impending changeover to our new name, look etc. Filling orders, writing a little bit for CityView, doing more art for Celebrate with Phyliss Hoffman and illustrating TWO BOOKS! (This one is tres cool….I can’t wait to see them once they are done, hard cover, book jacket and all!) Thought I’d share this one invite I just completed…it was the customers cute idea (the tent)…

and a customer photo…

Now I need Your Help!!!! Stinky has a bday coming up…he’ll be 9. His bday is in summer so we always have pretty small parties, a few friends to the movies or a party at home. This year we promised him he could have a big to-do, but when asked he comes up with stuff like Chucky Cheese. I’m sorry–I know it’s HIS Party, not MINE, but I’m not sure I can stomach the big CC. Please send me your ideas!! If we pick yours, I’ll send you a gift certificate to spend at Kat in the Hat. Thanks in advance!!!

and one more cute kiddo in a kat tee!!

Happy Easter! April 12, 2009

Not sure what’s it’s like in all of the homes across America on Easter morning, but I’m pretty sure we aren’t the ONLY ones who start the day off feeling a little less than, well, holy.

It starts out like this. Sun is up, birds are chirping..I am alone in bed. I wipe the sleep from my eyes and stumble downstairs. Hubby is watching TV and drinking coffee. Good start, right? But wait, what time is it? 7:30…WHAT? Early church is in one hour. Kids are still asleep, baskets have yet to be plundered, eggs are still in hiding…and I HAVEN’T HAD MY COFFEE. “Well”, we reason, “we’ll just go to Sunday School”. It’s settled. But as the coffee gives me a jolt, I belt out “Jesus Christ is Risen Today!”…and the guilt starts creeping in…”we can’t not go to church on EASTER!” Okay, so we’ll go the 11:00 service. settled. We get the kids up, and as we are enjoying  a nice breakfast…hubby says…”you know we could still make early church.” It is now 5 til’ 8.

And then the hell breaks loose…pj’s flying, whining at higher and higher decibels per second, yelling, muttering….the kids are eying the Easter Baskets and then me with THAT look (the ‘how can you be so cruel’ look) and then, some how, some way…we scramble out the door and actually get a SEAT in EARLY CHURCH! Whoa. Lovely service of course. Henry looked so handsome in his first ever coat and tie, music was beautiful…and of course, I never tire of hearing the story of the resurrection.

But then the second course begins. PICTURES. Hubby turns into pure evil incarnate when picture time arrives (you notice he is not in any of them. grrr.). The kids refuse to smile, the seats are wet with dew, my heels are sinking into the muddy yard, the sun is shining DIRECTLY in my eyes…it is pure torture. This year I didn’t force it. We took a few (terrible) shots, and we were DONE. The plundering was done, the hunting…we changed into our grubbies and now….now, we will have a lovely, blissful, Spring day. Hallelujah, Praise God.

Also, a nice review posted today (or yesterday…not sure). (www.peekaboopicks.com). Here is a screen shot.