Fall Prints are Arriving

The new designer fall prints are slowly starting to arrive. I received a few yesterday, and expect a couple more by next week. The remaining ones will be here right around the beginning of September, just in time for the busy fall season. I anticipate ordering one or two more to round out the collection after one particular designer I love introduces her new fall fabrics. I think I am a little 'slow' given how most retailers operate. We went to buy summer sandals for the boys at the end of May, and I received a Back to School coupon for shoes in the bag. Sheesh!

A Sneak Peak

The fabric has all (almost) arrived for the Ceewee Basics line & thought I would give everyone a sneak peak at the new fabrics! As stated earlier, these sleep sacks will be ready made, affordable, natural fiber sleep sacks. No polyester at all, promise. I tried to select some neutral, some fun, and one unisex for a total of 5 different flannel fabrics. Those of you who have bought over the years might notice the friendly frogs fabric...its been with me from the start & is always popular so I decided to include to introduce the new line.

OOO--and I almost forgot! Ceewee Baby organic sleep sacks are featured on neatostuff.com! Check it out!

Attack of the Clone...or Why Karma was Right

I love my 2 boys, but every once in a while I toy with the idea of adopting a little girl. Two boys I can control. Three, I am not too sure. Hence, adoption and guaranteed gender selection. Whenever I get these pangs, I have my 6 year old niece come to visit. I love her to death--she is the only girl in the family, and gets her fair share of deserved spoiling because of it. As she gets older though, the drama increases. Yesterday she was carrying around a pad and a pencil, keeping a copious tally of what my boys had done to please or displease her royal self, so she could equitably select who she would sit next to at dinner. My boys treat her like they would a fairy pixie. They are enchanted by her, but a little wary of losing favor with her and suffering her wrath.

So today we went to the pool to burn off a little steam. As I stood there in the pool, watching her have a fit on the side because I was standing back too far to catch her in the 3 feet deep section (which she can easily stand in), it hit me. Why I love her, yet am so perplexed by her over-dramatics and general craziness. She is me. I remember acting the exact same way when I was her age. I then thought of 3 things: 1) my mom was a saint to have not strangled me, 2) my sister is a saint for not strangling my niece, and 3) I was meant to be the mom of boys. Jumping out from behind doors to scare them, squirting a hose at them while I water the garden, wearing silly teeth at dinner. It all makes them roll with laughter. My niece just rolls her eyes.

I hope she has boys, too.

More on the new line next week..I am enjoying the remainder of the nap brought on by the swim at the pool, and then back to action!

Re-opened....

Sunday night I 're-opened' the store again after a wonderful vacation. We toured Colorado--saw Golden, Rocky Mountain National Park, Vail, & Denver. It was the perfect storm of boy vacation: dinosaurs, trains & cowboys. It was a blast and the weather was perfect. A few people apologized for the warm weather, but after escaping the 100 degree heat of North Carolina, the 80 degree days felt lovely. After Colorado we went to Tennessee for a reunion with my husband's family. it was great seeing family again we hadn't seen in a while.

So I am rejuvenated, incorporated (finally got the LLC--check something else off the to do list!), and ready to get to work. Some new fabrics came in while I was gone. Other fabric should still be coming, if the mills still have stock left. Right now is just an "off" time for fabric between the spring lines & fall lines being introduced. I am looking forward to fall lines though--that is primarily when great new flannel becomes available.

I updated the website a bit to make things easier to navigate. Other changes were made to the sacks as I mentioned in a previous post. I also moved a bit of fabric out of the store and into the clearance section. That was now 3 days ago--and it is going fast! I want to move older fabrics out of the studio to get ready for introducing the new Basics sleep sacks for this fall. I found a great lady to help me work on getting the new line ready and am getting really excited--if only the rest of the fabric were here so we could finish it. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks it will arrive so the line can "debut" by the end of August for the cooler fall weather.

And in case some of you haven't noticed...funky monkey is back. I wrangled a bunch of it this time, so hopefully it will be around through the fall & winter. Hopefully.