Win the first of the new toddler belts!

Our friends over at Cantaloupe Corner are celebrating their 300th sale! Visit their blog for a chance to win the very first of my new toddler belts and a chance to win other great prizes.

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Cootie Pants is back!

My shop is now open on Etsy! I have many new items in development including pacifier keepers and a new line especially for my favorite fur babies: Dogs! "The Pimpin Pug" dog line will feature stuffed toys, decorative lightweight ID collars for small/medium dogs and eventually heavy duty multipurpose collars for all size dogs as well as beds and clothing. If you have any suggestions or ideas please send me a Convo at my Etsy shop or leave a comment in the blog. I have a lot of projects in the works! Check back often for updates!

Update!

So we are now in Arizona. Wow what a HUGE difference! We went from the Arctic tundra to the Desert bowl. My backyard is nothing but dirt and some rocks! We're almost settled in so I will hopefully reopen my shop sometime at the beginning of April. I have all of my equipment set up (except my embroidery machine) and all my inventory and supplies organized so it is just a matter of my getting the rest of our house set up before I am ready to start selling again.

And now some more interesting news:
I discovered something disturbing today while checking my email. Someone going by the name of Sarah McMillen out of California decided to sign up for a MyLife account using my email address,logo and business name! Considering she wouldn't have access to my email I'm not quite sure what to make of this as it was some sort of Social Networking site. It could have been a bogus name but just in case I wanted to put it out there that there is no one by the name of Sarah McMillen affiliated with Cootie Pants; so if someone by that name or any other name other than the one listed as the seller on Etsy, me, tries to sell you anything under the name of Cootie Pants please contact me! Anyhow I accessed the account and deleted it.

Well, that's it for now! See you on Etsy soon!

Boy did I put my foot in my mouth!

Not only are we moving to Arizona, I just moved out of my house! We found out last week that we were denied the extension and have to be in Arizona on the 17th! I had to quickly organize the move, send my pugs to Florida to be with my parents and get a cleaning crew to clean my house for our final housing inspection this Thursday. What a nightmare! So our stuff was loaded on the truck today and we are now in temporary housing. UGH

Yay I'm staying in Alaska!

So we are no longer moving to Arizona, well at least not for a few years. So now I get to focus on my business once again! Be on the lookout for lots of new items in the next few months. I am so happy!

A New Year Approaches

It's been a long time since I posted anything and that would be because my life has been chaos the past few months. We were supposed to have already been moved to Arizona by now but plans have changed. We are now moving in early February, MAYBE. Who knows. So until I know for sure I am just going to keep moving forward with my shop. I'll keep everything on sale for now and continue to make new products. Pretty soon I will start listing nursing covers and maybe a few other new things. It really depends on the status of our move. I hope everyone had great holidays and I wish you all a great new year in 2010!

The Generosity of Complete Strangers

So this is a quick little blurb about what happened to me today. It was so nice I thought I would share with the rest of you. After I picked my son up from hourly care I decided to go to the BX/PX and Commissary to kill some time and pick up a few things. While at the PX I found a great deal on a little tikes table that B.Lee can eat and color on (it has adjustable height too which is great!) for $39! So of course I had to get it. Here is the kicker, I had B.Lee in the stroller and this was a very large box! So I tried to carry it under my arm but it kept sliding out and hitting the ground. Well you if you know me you know I don't care what people think so I decided to prop it up on my head ala native woman carrying water style. You should have seen the looks I got from people, like I was a crazy lady! Funny, no one offered to help me! As I was going out the automatic doors (thank god for those) a lady was walking in and laughed and said "you're kidding right?" LOL I said it was the only way I could carry it! So after a few more laughs and a guy saying "Hey, you're a mom" while I explained again that it was only way I could carry it I finally got it in my car. Then I decided to go to the commissary and get some snacks. On the way out I was about to stop at Starbucks when I saw the lady again with a friend and she said "So you made it ok huh?" I laughed with her and she started to tell her friend about seeing me with a giant box propped on my head while pushing my son out to the car. She then told me that they were here vacationing from Florida, she was retired military, and they had just spent 3 weeks rv'ing all over Alaska. She said they were leaving tonight and tomorrow (2 different groups) and asked me if I wanted the food they had left. I said sure as I knew if I couldn't use it then someone in my neighborhood could. I found out they were from Tampa (I am from St.Pete) and we talked about the weather and their trip. They were very kind and they gave me a ton of food. I was so shocked and spacey that I forgot to ask their names even though they asked mine. They even gave me hugs! So here is to the ladies from Tampa, I hope you make it home safely. I gave them my business card so maybe they will eventually read this. If so thank you so much for your generosity! The world needs more people like you.