Tutu Kachoo

As promised, here are some pictures of my fun venture as a tutu saleswoman. Thanks to all of you for your input!

My logo:


With a word like "kachoo," more exciting fonts were, unfortunately, less readable.

My cute little models:


(Olivia tried on every single tutu, and kept wanting Carmen to wear a tutu as well. Carmen was less enthusiastic.)

The booth: a bunch of foofiness.


The night itself wasn't super profitable, but I did make some good contacts and get all my girl birthday presents made for the next year (also: those who won my Craft-off - guess what you're getting? Send in your color requests now.)

While I don't think I really want to do more booths, my days as a tutu guru are not over yet. But more on that later.

And here, just because she's looking so earnest in this picture, is Carmen. Who is, as my parents put it, unexpectedly fat. I'm so pleased.

Hold Everything!

Eeek! I hate it when this happens: last night over dinner Steven and I came up with two more names that I like at least as much as Et Tu Tutu (which was winning enormously):

Tutu Kachoo
Ruffle Buns

So, my poll has been changed. Please come back and vote again!

On my end, I'll get busy getting my two little models ready for a photo shootu.

Tutupreneur

In a twist of fate, I will be selling homemade tutus at an upcoming Vendor Night for a friend's nonprofit. More details and pictures to come, but first I need your help:

What should I name my tutu store?

The two names I'm thinking of are Tutu 22 and Et Tu Tutus. Cast your vote on the left!

Ready

I have been in major nesting mode lately. I didn't really get a chance to nest when I was pregnant with Olivia. I was so busy trying to get annual reports written in time for my job that I didn't have extra time to do much of anything, and she came a week early - pretty much as soon as I'd finished.

The downside of that was that when I came home from the hospital, I bawled and bawled because our carpets weren't clean - how could I bring home a new baby to a house with dirty carpets?

Anyway, on Friday I called the carpet cleaners. Now that ugly spot in the library is gone, and all our rooms feel so light and fluffy I could just cry with happiness. At least we won't have to worry about that!

Long week

You know when you try your best at something and don’t really understand it and there’s no one else who can do it for you or even help you and you end up mucking it up and looking and feeling really stupid?

Yeah.

In good news, I get to sew tonight (I’ve given myself an edict that I cannot work on any sewing projects until my work is done.) At least I know what I’m doing there. I will have to post some of my newest projects; I’m pretty excited about them.

Indispensable

Last week, I fell asleep for an hour during a conference call...and nobody noticed.

However, today one of the other people who was on the call asked me to review her notes and add mine to them so that we could send them over to the client as a review of the call.

I was pretty nervous about doing so...until I read over her notes, and realized that she didn't have much more than I did.

Did she fall asleep too? Or did people really say nothing of significance for an entire hour?