Good Witch

As a child my mom always made our costumes. She would probably disown me from the family if I went to the store and bought one. Nothing against people who do of course but its just a family tradition. This year is a big year for my daughter she got to pick what she wanted to be for Halloween she said a few things a few different times but what she ended up sticking with was a good witch. I have decided to ban the bad witches for a few more years so it's a good thing she is asking to be a good one. It was very sweet she asked Mam-ma are you going to be a Good Witch too? and then she asked her dad Dad-da are you going to be a Good Witch? I have always been a procrastinator so this weekend I will be wrapping up the costume. I have already made and remade the pink skirt with yards and yards of pink tulle. I just need a top and probably a shall just in case it's cold. Wish me luck.

Exciting Week for Sugar Toppers

This week has been exciting. Sugar Toppers has been on two different blogs Earthenwood Studios and Cupcakes take the Cake. Call me lazy but a lot of time when I go to my blog I just go to Google and type in sugar toppers then find a post and log in from there. So while at work today it was a complete surprise to see a post about my Sugar Toppers on Cupcakes Take the Cake. Thank you very much ladies for making my day. In addition I got beads in the mail yesterday and today. Words can not express how cool the ceramic beads over at Earthenwood Studios are. Melanie snuck in some sweet cupcake beads and the coolest little ceramic air freshener with my Halloween stash. I adore them all. So all you cupcake lovers run don't walk to her site and check out her line of snack beads. I will have to post pictures later this week. Tonight I would like to draw your attention to the lovely photo on the left soon to be the next topper addition to my Etsy store.

Lucky be a Lady

It turns out I have had quite the string of luck lately. And let me tell you I rarely win anything. I won a pair of Halloween earrings from Melissa Lee, last months Art Bead Scene challenge and now this lovely stash of beads from the super talented Melanie of Earthenwood Studios. She is an amazingly talented ceramic bead artist. I can not tell you how long I have lusted after her cute little beads. You can check out her on line store here. http://www.earthenwoodstudio.com

Etsy Store

The boxes are in. I repeat the boxes are now in. LOL I have no excuse to procrastinate. I just posted two items to my Etsy shop Sugar Toppers. And when I get done posting this I am going back to post more. Here goes nothing gulp. Thanks to all the positive feedback from my family friends and the sweet ladies on the flickr groups I am taking the leap. I talk like it's a huge jump tons of people have Etsy stores heck this is my second one. I guess for some reason this one is more personal to me I have more invested in it and want it to do really well so all those hopers and wishers send one out for me.

http://www.sugartoppers.etsy.com/

Bumps in the road

This week I have been patiently waiting for the awaited boxes to come in. Tonight I started thinking I never received an order confirmation. So I decided to call the box company and its official the order never went though. So I replaced my order or should I say I placed my order for the first time tonight. But the good news is the company is based out of my state they will ship out tomorrow and be here by Friday. I have almost completed my first order of sugar toppers. They are for the sweetest little girls first birthday. Thanks for being my first customer Princess Grace I really hope you like your toppers. Sorry about the bad photo I will shoot another when they are all set to box up and go.

"Make yourself comfortable"

"Make yourself comfortable"
Originally uploaded by jessilynn

This wonderful original illustration is from Jessilynn she designed my art work for my new etsy store. She is completly talented and super sweet check out her blog or her etsy store.

http://sparksfly-art.blogspot.com
http://www.SparksFly.etsy.com

Well the boxes are officially ordered. Yipee this is exciting yet scary at the same time. I picked up some super cute filler for my boxes also. That people can resuse for thier own projects or packages at home if they want. I will post photos once they come in later this week. This weekend I was able to get my toppers photographed and posted to my flickr site. Check them out here.

http://flickr.com/photos/fancypantsbeads/

How to Sugar Top

Getting closer

Sometimes it feels like I am working and working on opening up my store but not getting any closer. I work during the day a full time Job then come home to a lively 3 year old. So daily I try to squeeze as much production time into Sugar Toppers as I can. With mini production goals to get me one step closer to my ultimate goal of world domination. I will order my boxes at the end off this week. Who would have thought boxes would be such a hard item to decide on colors shapes, outside boxes FDA food safe. I ended up going with ones that I think will hold my product the best and keep them safe and sound. And I found these super cool indestructible outside shipping boxes that can hold up to 200lbs on top of them. So the the sugar can stay safe and sound inside.