Lookie Boo / The House That Etsy Built

Awhile ago I was contacted by Lookie Boo about a project they were doing. They asked Etsy shops for products for their new home, and it would be featured on their website. I thought it would be a great idea to kind of get "Augie & Lola" out there, and especially the fabric that was designed for me by Ross Trimmer. 

I agreed to do it and wasn't sure what to expect. I had seen a few sneak peaks on their website and I was getting really excited. 

They had pictures done on April 1st and they should all be on their website soon! But here are a few that I got from Tiffany. 

I am really jealous of their kids room and when we move (because yes, we just found out the owners of our house want to sell, so we have to move!) I am going to decorate Augie & Lola's room really cute!

PS. I have their kids names! Jude & Ruby, SO CUTE!

And to find out who made the cute pillows, visit Lookieboo.com

Photos by: Vida Mia Photography

Giveaway!

give-A-way!

Want to win a $20 gift card to the shop? 

All you have to do is leave a comment about what new item(s) you would like to see available from Augie & Lola. Don't forget to leave your email so I can notify you if you win! 

Entry must be in by January 31st, 9:00PM/PT
Winner will be chosen on February 1st!

*gift card can not be used towards tax or shipping. open to US residents only*

cha cha cha changes...

So my friend Aymie was over after Christmas and we were talking about my website and designs and stuff.. she's a graphic designer and I envy her talent.
Anyway, she helped me fix some things on my website and then told me that she's going to change my logo. This is my second logo, and although I love it, I realized putting this bright crazy logo on everything...is going to be hard. So now I'm going for a more simple but fun look. My dear friend Anni has helped me with so much of my design stuff, creating and sending me files for everything, including business cards, thank you tags, etc. I am sad that I won't be using her creations any more..but I know changing my logo yet again is something I need to do before the year is over.. I know, it is only January, but do you even know how fast time goes now?!

Aymie sent me a few designs and I really liked a few of them. I am slowly starting to make changes with everything I do. When I first opened my etsy shop, I was all about cute cheesy fabric and I didn't care who made it..then the more I started really learning about fabric, designers, what I was doing.. I cared about more things. I started to only buy nice quality fabric, designers that I can learn about. It is really weird that think that I know NOTHING about fashion, but ask me about fabric designers, and I just might know a thing or two!
Anyway.. so I was really all about baby. Baby bibs, burp cloths, shoes and blankets. Yes, I started with SHOES, but I rarely do them now.
I knew that when Lola got a little older, I was going to get sick of "baby", even though I didn't even make her too many things!
So the time has come where I make the transition from all baby, into baby & moms (aka everyone). I am starting to make wet bags, that yes, are mostly used for moms who cloth diaper, but can also be used as a make up bag for a 17 year old, or 50 year old! I want my focus to be on everyone and not just moms with babies. I'm making box pouches, that can be used for anything by anyone.
I will always carry baby items, but I want to expand, and that my friends is what I'm doing.

I am so tired. I didn't do any sew/work tonight, except list these things on etsy:

Ships in 4 business day.

Why the title you ask? Because the fabric I ordered from spoonflower, that I had someone design for me, yes design for me because I know NOTHING about that, is going to ship in FOUR days! So hopefully by next week I will have my sweet little hands on it.

I have so many things I want to do and I feel like everyday goes by so fast that I'm running out of time to do them! But then I have to step back, and think.. I need to take it slow, enjoy what I have NOW, enjoy my kids at the crazy age they are at, screaming, running around the house, giving me a headache... ha.. I need to relax, not too much, but enough to take in the sweet things in life. I feel like I am a workaholic when I am home, yes I'm home with my kids, but it i different, and it is very hard to be a working stay at home mom.

Anyway, if you start reading this blog, you will realize that
1. I am slightly crazy
2. I talk a lot
3. I get side tracked a lot.. see above, I was talking about fabric, then I went on to talking about time and my kids!

Back to the fabric. I wanted something different, something fun, something ME! So I asked Ross Trimmer (you can find him on etsy and instagram and probably by googling his name, he's a tattoo artist in richmond) to create something. He had already made this really cool ABC print, but he changed it up a bit and made it a one of a kind for augie & lola. It is amazing. When I received the painting in the mail, I became all giddy. It is currently sitting on the bookcase below this AMAZING wood work that my friend Aymie designed (www.neighborwoodmaps.com). It is the city of Chicago, carved onto a piece of wood, so detailed and amazing. We lived in Chicago for 4 years (my husband lived in Illinois until we moved in 2007) until we moved back to where I am from, good ol' California! But I had the best 4 years in Chicago (best & worst!) so seeing it on my wall everyday brings a smile to my face, and knowing my best friend designed it, makes me even happier!

Anyway, see I'm way off subject here.
Currently I am working on my very jane deal that ended on the 27th of December. So far, my aunt and I are about 1/4 of the way done. I haven't gotten sick this deal (THANK GOD, because I have the last two deals!) and we planned a head, a little. I am planning my next deal either next week or the following week. YES, I am crazy, but the sales from the very jane deals will help with the inventory I need to build up for the STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL. I have been debating whether or not to do it, but I really really want to, and maybe I will hate it or maybe I will love it! We shall see in May!

And I'm tired, so here's to hopefully one of many late night blog posts.

Very Jane Blanket Deal

So I decided that my next Very Jane deal would be BLANKETS! Even though this seems like it would take forever to do, I feel like it might be the easiest because there aren't as many steps as all the other ones I have done.
So here are the blankets I will be offering and the minky that I think goes well with them.
White of course would go with any of these blankets.

ANY COLOR! I really love this with yellow!

Yellow, Orange, Brown are the top three. It would also look good with Dark Turquoise. you could do olive & red, but they won't match exactly. 

Light Pink, Tiffany, Pink

 I think White is really the best color but if you want a bright color I would do Pink, Yellow, Turquoise, Orange, Fuchsia, Navy.

 White is the best. But any color would work if you want it that way!

 Fuchsia, Watermelon, Pink, Light Pink

 Charcoal, Black, Tiffany, Red

 White, Ivory, Orange, Brown

 White, Fuchsia, Lime Green

 Brown, Dark Turquoise, Olive, Mango

White, Olive, Turquoise, Orange, Mango, Dark Turquoise 

 Dark Turquoise, Turquoise, Olive, Brown

 Pink, Turquoise, Dark Turquoise, Olive

 Turquoise, Olive, Orange, Ivory, Brown

 Pink, Light Pink, White, Turquoise, Olive

 White, Orange, Olive, Dark Turquoise

 White, Ivory, Turquoise, Orange

 Pink, Light Pink, White, Ivory, Turquoise

 White, Black

 Turquoise, Olive, Ivory

These are just the colors that I would pick, but you can of course pick any color!

Don't forget to "like" our facebook page to learn about upcoming deals and new products and to find out when blankets will be shipping for the very jane deal!

bow ties and hair bows

I have a deal going on through Very Jane right now! Bow ties/hair bows $3.50/each!

GiVEAWAY GiVEAWAY GiVEAWAY

Here we go!
So this giveaway will have three (3) winners.
The first prize, winner will receive their choice of any bib listed in my etsy shop.
The second prize, winner will receive their choice of a bib, burp cloth & paci clip listed in my etsy shop.
The third prize, winner will get a $15 credit (excluding tax & shipping) to be used towards an item(s) in my etsy shop.

To enter you need to leave a comment telling me how you heard about augie & lola baby boutique, please include your email address or it will not be valid!
Winners will be announced on JULY 31, 2012 at 8:00p.m. pacific time!
Please tell your friends & family to enter. Prizes will be great for yourself, baby shower gifts, or Christmas gifts!

Thank you in advance for entering!


*open to US & Canada residents only*

Busy!

The month of May was super crazy, wild, fun, crazy.. did I say crazy? May was a great month for augie & lola baby boutique. I had a lot of exposure from lilsugar.com, they did a write up on my bermuda chevron with yellow minky baby blanket.
(found here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/98032853/baby-blanket-chevron-baby-blanket-with )
June has been a little slower sales wise, which is fine, because I needed to catch up! In the next few days or weeks I will be featured on http://www.thatmamagretchen.com/ and then in August, I will be featured on http://jonesdesigncompany.com/, they will be hosting a giveaway, and my black & white chevron with yellow minky blanket will be part of it! (found here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/97319782/baby-blanket-chevron-baby-blanket-with )

You should follow both these blogs!!

Last week I ordered my first wholesale order of minky fabric! It was like Christmas when the UPS man came.
You can check out my fabric shop on etsy -  www.etsy.com/shop/augieandlolafabric
I will be adding Riley Blake & Cloud 9 fabric hopefully in July! I can't wait for that fabric to come!!

I really will try and blog more.. I give props to those that can keep on blogging EVERY DAY!!!

What do I post about?!

So I heard blogging is a really good way to promote yourself....but what am I suppose to write about?!
The projects I'm working on, the things I want to make but have no time...I don't know! Here are some blankets I recently finished. The last one is an organic cotton, Cloud 9, Monsterz Mash. The first one is red zig zag remix (chevron) from Robert Kaufman. I already sold the key one to a customer in Canada with the last name Keyes!

So currently I'm working on a few more blankets and then a wipeable changing pad. It is with PUL fabric and I have never used that, so I am hoping it goes smoothly. I also ordered some stuff to start making paci clips. I want to do a deal on veryjane.com (if you haven't checked out that site.. you should). Hopefully I'll get all that stuff this week, because I really want to start on it!

Other than that, I've been staying busy with orders and sewing new blankets.

Blog More!

My goal for March is to start blogging more...well we are already into the 6th day and this is my first post.. so I guess it isn't going too well!

Anyway, I have been working on adding new blankets to my etsy shop. It is funny that I started out making shoes, but then quickly decided to do bibs & burp cloths, and now I find myself doing blankets! I love doing all of them, but sometimes I'm not in the mood to deal with putting shoes together, or cutting out the bibs.

These are the first two blankets that I did and put on my etsy page. I LOVE the second one with the bears. It is so much better in person than the pictures. I almost don't want to sell it....

Hopefully tomorrow I can finish this really cute deer one, and another owl one (same print as the first, but in green and white minky) and then I have a few others, but on Thursday I am expecting a BUNCH of fabric for a few custom orders.

Well that's it for now... I promise to start blogging more!