Tom took the kids camping for what is (hopefully) turning into a yearly tradition. Once a year I ask for a weekend to myself – in my house (that part is very important). So I can get STUFF DONE. Stuff that constantly gets put on the back burner. Most of my friends think I’m crazy for looking forward to working in isolation for an entire weekend (Seafair weekend no less) – asking me what sort of crazy things I have planned. But I honestly enjoy uninterrupted design time SO much and I rarely get it so you better believe I’m going to take advantage of it!

I had a few goals for the weekend (who am I kidding I had an hour by hour schedule that I was determined to stick to)! Among it was finally, FINALLY list some wedding invitations in the shop. I started off with the succulent invites from Alli’s wedding.?

Why does this take so long you ask? Well, I’ll tell you. For one, I had to break down the costs for each little piece and determine what I would charge. Also, the description for a wedding invitation listing is very complex: what information I need from them, how do I charge for the custom designed map, do I sell the whole thing together or for each little piece? Then there was the whole taking-photos business. These invitations – because of their shape (long and skinny) proved very difficult to photograph. I used a few of the photographer’s photos from the wedding – thank you Lacey! The rest I took myself. So after much thought and research I finally came up with a workable solution. Phew! I have several more wedding invitation sets to add but getting just ONE done made me so happy – the rest should be fairly easy.

Next up was this little project that I have had in my brain for 2 years! I seriously bought these muslin bags 2 years ago with the idea of using them to package my cards. Again, because of some logisitcal problems to consider this project took entirely too long to finish. But finish it, I did.

How cute are these little succulent notecard sets?

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