Love for Amy Butler

I'm please to share with you that Amy's designs have jumped on your dining room table with this delish dinnerware collection!

It almost doesn't matter what you put on these precious settings. Your food and drink will taste good just because the whole set is sooo pretty to look at!



Those of you who have visited my shop may Amy Butler designs as a common thread in some of the stationery I offer. I just love the fresh look Amy Butler has to offer in her fabric and paper designs.





At the moment I have been a fan of fusing the two concepts and creating note cards with Amy Butler fabrics!



I will have these available at my upcoming Craft Show in Crofton this Saturday. Hope others find them as cute as I do!

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Craft Show Prep

This Saturday I will be at the Crofton Town Club Craft Fair. This is my first show and preparations are in the final stages! My checklist:

Confirm booth--check
Determine inventory--check
Design packaging--check
Order packaging--check
Purchase tent--check
Purchase supplies--check
Brainstorn display ideas--check
Set up Propay account--check
Order extra business cards--check
Purchase knuckle buster--today
Gather displays--tonight
Mock set-up display--Thursday
Fill inventory--on-going

I'm grateful to have a booth mate--ThirdEyeDesigns from Etsy that will be joining me that day! It is also her first show and I think it will be a good experience for us both. I don't think the fair will be too overwhelming that we need a ton of inventory and it's right before halloween and gives shoppers an early start for Christmas.

I've decided to stock a big part of this show with note sets since the prices are not too low and not too high. I'm trying to offer bits of my shop at different price points. To hit lower price points, I'm offering handmade tags, note covers with designs not yet offered on the Etsy shop. The higher priced items from my shop are decoupage frames. I'm bringing about 7 frames. If they sell like hotcakes, that would be great! I wanted to bring more, but they take so long to make and I need to be realistic about my committment to this. I will also have my business cards ready to take custom orders on-site.

I had some unexpected travel last week for my "real" job and it cut into my crafting time (how dare they?!). So hopefully the note sets I have will do well. Hey, if I sell out, that would be a great problem to have!

Now back to scoring and trimming, scroring and trimming.....
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Just another manic Monday

Mondays at work always require "recovering" from a relaxing/busy weekend. The coffee and tea station in my new office is a blessing...


The Flavia Creation 400 in my office is more than a coffee machine. It is coffee paradise. I look forward everyday when I come to work. Each morning, this fabulous machine gives me all the options of coffee, tea, cuppucinno and chocolate drinks I never even knew existed.




All you do is choose your drink and insert the corresponding packs from this display of caffeinated heaven.


One cup is brewed (very quickly) just for me, and just the way I like it. I think later I will try something from "Indulgence." Then later, a cup of something with the foam topping pack. It's so easy to make and no more worrying about those office mates who feel they are too good to make coffee when the take the last cup!

And I can always rely on its great customer service!



Mondays may be manic, but at least I have coffee to get me through!

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Simply Cuteable

LizzyJDesigns was featured in Cuteable!


Cuteable is a great daily blog with posts on cute apparel, jewelry, toys, home decor and more. My cute note covers were featured:



These have yellow sticky notes inside and are great for on-the-go notes. Perfect example -- I'm at a conference right now and have been carring one around to jot down things I need to do and people's names I need to remember. Fits right in my badge holder.

If you are planning a wedding or party, consider these for favors. They can be personalized to your heart's desire.

Go to the LizzyJDesigns shop and get one for you and a few for a friend right now!

Yippee!

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Indie Coupons!

I've received my shipment of indie coupons from Totally Indie. What are indie coupons you ask? It is a collective of indie designers and businesses set out to give some great deals fabulous handmande stuff.


As part of LizzyJDesigns' marketing plan, my coupons will be one of 40 included in the latest packs of coupons. I've been slicing and packaging these beautiful coupons from awesome indie designers to include in my packaging for an upcoming craft show and online sales from the shop. Scoring a pack of these coupons will get you deals from indie clothing, jewelry, pet toys and of course--paper goods!

Here's the coupon you'd get from my shop.



You will also get 39 more discounts from different fab indie shops!

So get in on the action and get these coupons with any purchase from the LizzyJDesigns shop!
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