multi-tasking

i have been sick for the past two days. stupid stomach bug. but i'm finally on the mend today, and while i cannot get back into yoga and writing fully, i can do one thing: fulfill orders from my etsy shoppe! the piecemeal shoppe

i just so happened to have 2 orders to fill (one with 6 cards and and one with 19 cards). i have a whole shoppe of them, but my most popular is the one where i make bridesmaids next to the bride and customize them for the buyer. (dress, hair, colors, etc)

 i started making cards when i was on the tour bus on the new kids/backstreet boys tour in 2011. i missed home and i wanted to make cards to tell everyone. i was chronically sick, so i kept my voice-using to a minimum when i wasn't on stage, but i could write. the problem was that i couldn't find cards that said what i wanted them to say. they didn't have my personality, my quirk, and while that's probably a good thing for everyone else in the world, it wasn't good for my card-giving. so i sat in the bus and order paper in bulk, and i started on a logo. the logo i came up with was written on a steno pad. i took a picture of it, and messed with the filter and voila. the logo you see in my shoppe is that exactly. and if you notice the little peachy looking color in the corner, that was my quilt i had on my bed on the bus. the picture i took accidentally snagged a piece of it in there, but i liked it, so i kept it. happy accidents :)

upon the encouragement of my wonderful friend whitney (who also has a blog and a thriving etsy shop)--elm street life and her shop: brighter day i opened an online shoppe on etsy.com. since then, it's been a wonderful reason to keep making cards!

fast forward to the approaching months of september 28, 2012: my wedding day. i needed a card for my bridesmaids. again, nothing i found captured what i wanted to say or how i wanted to say it. so i made it of course! and lo and behold, it's been the biggest seller in my shoppe ever since.

i like making cards, even with all the craziness. it gets me out of my head when orders come in. makes me do something else with my brain.