Pre- New Year's resolution

This weekend is the start of my pre-New Year's resolutions.

 

Things I want to get done before the end of the year.

 

Organization!

 

I am in the beginning stages of hoarding.

 

Hanging on to stuff I don't need or use for various reasons.

 

Sentiment

Guilt

Pure Laziness

 

Someday I might need something for whatever...

 

I need to get this stuff out of boxes and put away.

 

If there is not a place for it, it's going.

 

If the kids don't play with it, it's going.

 

If I haven't touched it since that first time... Gone.

 

7 weeks to get this done.

 

Already started today in the basement. The kids helped me sort and after they go to sleep tonight I'm going to start chucking the junk in the trash.

 

Broken toys.

Sets with missing pieces.

Baby toys.

Dress-up that no longer fits.

 

I'm getting all happy just thinking about it.



She's making a list... or two!

Tis the season for list making.

 

My lists are a little different though.

 

Of course I have started the holiday gift giving list:

parents

siblings

nieces

nephews

and

my little cuties

 

That is just one of the many lists cluttering my desktop.

 

Tutus to make.

Tutus made to book.

Listings to edit.

Supplies to order.

Bills that need paying.

This weekends shopping list.

Mail that has to be answered.

Chores for the 3 day weekend.

 

and coming soon:

 

Holiday menus.

Pictures to order.

Handmade gifts to finish.

and hopefully

Orders to fill!

 

And now I have a list of lists.

Amateur Photographer

I have always been the person with the camera.

 

The person who takes about 100 pictures at holidays and family parties, the one who is never in the pictures because I am taking them.

 

That's me... Hiding behind the crappy point and shoot!

 

After signing my youngest up for boutique modeling and getting our first assignment, I decided it was time for an upgrade.

(Plus, I got sand in the lens of my last one and now it won't close)

 

We received some bows to shoot from

Blissful Bowtique

and got to snapping.

 

 

 

Of course I think she is adorable!

 

Doing these made me remember how much I actually

LOVE taking pictures.

 

Hopefully it is a skill I can develop and eventually I will be able to shoot my own product rather than shipping it out.

 

But, there is still a lot to learn, starting with professional editing.

 

Wish me luck! 



TuTu Tuesday 11/5

Back in action!!!

 

Getting some beautiful images back of my new autumn tutus.



 

Working on CHRISTMAS cuteness!!!

What a rush!

44 sales in the last 30 days!

 

I have put the shop on vacation mode to finish up my remaining Halloween orders and make sure they are shipped on time.

 

It has been insanely, awesomely crazy!

 

Here are some of the CassidyChristy costumes that have kept me so busy these past few weeks...

 

 

 

 

Getting ready for the Christmas rush!



Too busy

The past couple of weeks have been

 

INSANE!

 

In a good way!

 

This is the busy season for my store, lots of Halloween orders going out.

 

That will last another couple of weeks before Christmas craziness starts.

 

I'm not sure I will be able to post here regularly until the rush is over.

 

I will try!

 

I am waiting on a few more product shots from models and I will show them off when they come in.

 

 

 



What's new?

I haven't prepared a TuTu Tuesday post for today.

 

Terribly sorry.

 

I have actually been too busy this week filling orders

to make anything new.

 

Yay!

 

And, as I'm sure everyone has heard, it is back to school time.

 

I really wish you could hear the trumpets playing in my head

every time I think about it.

 

All the school supplies are packed away in the backpack, new clothes

de-tagged and washed, new shoes neatly lined up in the closet.

 

All we have left to get are socks and undies because for some

reason they are all missing.

 

I guess that's what happens when you spend you summer

lazing around in swimsuits and flip flops!

 

We had a really great summer all things considered,

 

but it's time.

 

For all of us I think.

 

The little one misses her friends and teacher.

 

The big one (though she fights it) really needs the routine.

 

Me?

 

Well, I will still have the nephews all day, but they are getting easier.