Furbaby Contest Winner :)

Congratulations to Vivian are in order!!  Her little guy, Toby (aka Pig) was voted the cutest furbaby by my facebook fans!  Vivan is the winner of a booty bag from my Etsy shop!! 

I will be back in touch on Sunday after the big show this weekend.  If you are a local and want to check out the show head on over to the fairgrounds Friday or Saturday for this 33rd annual Arts and Crafts show. 

Have a great Thanksgiving everyone, eat lots of turkey and pumpkin pie :)

Jules

Sola Cafe

A few weeks back I met with Tiffany Lach at Sola Cafe about having my bags on consignment there after my big show next week.  The meet was incredibly fast (the bags speak for themself in person) and I was on my way out the door with a handshake agreement and a pumpkin spice latte in 15 minutes!  Not to mention that I sold a bag in the lobby before I ever got to meet with Tiffany!  I am over the moon excited about my bags being on consignment there, and my decision to approach Tiffany was cemented as earlier this week she was given the Prospera Business Networks 2010 Women Entrepreneur of the Year award!!  Since this article came out in the local newspaper her business has been booming even more!

If you are a local and haven't experienced Sola Cafe yet, stop by and see them at the corner of Kagy and South 3rd just down from the Museum of the Rockie.  The food is funky and eclectic (like me!) but amazing and very local.  Plus her pumpkin cheesecake is to die for!

Have a super Saturday :)

Jules

P.S.  Thanks so much Kate for turning me on to Sola in the first place!

Breast Cancer Awareness...

Not sure if you all remember that I attended an event in late October for Breast Cancer Awareness, put on by my lovely friend Brandi :)  Anywho...  she just sent me some photos of that night!  I wish we had gotten a picture taken together, I am actually kinda bummed about that now that I think about it!  The pictures were taken by Jessie and turned out super cute!

 This little booth set up is usually what it looks like when I attend a farmers market.  There will be lots of changes for the BIG event on Thanksgiving weekend :)  Already I have so many more purses than pictured here and hoping to have even more for the event.  The countdown has begun and I am really hoping that I can keep up with my self imposed expectations!!

Have a great day!

Jules

Which banner do you all think?

Need some help here everyone...  My first Ecelectique Banner is amazing, but very bright.  I really do like it, but I thought the shop needed something more subdued so I had another one designed.   Now I am really not sure!!!!  So please, let me know which one you think should adorn my lovely shop :)

Number 1)

Number 2)

So speak now or forever hold your peace folks and let me know which one you like the best!

Jules

Furbaby Photos are up!!

Now onto the second stage of the furbaby photo contest.  The pictures are loaded onto the Eclectique Butterfly fan page and are waiting for your votes!  If you don't already "like" my fan page, you will need to click "like" before you can vote for these cute fuzzy little guys :)  But it's worth it to cast your vote...

May the best pet win!!

Jules

More Etsy love...

I just can't get enough of Etsy...  I love finding new and unique treasures around every corner and most of all I love to pamper myself which leads me to my next incredible shop find :)  This shop is founded by an 18 year old college student, Caitlin.  This girl has it all going on!  She features some scrumptious looking cold processed vegan bath bars, dust salt soaks, linen sprays and milk bath powders.  I find it amazing that she does this, keeps up with school and attends local shows with her wares.  I certainly wasn't that organized at 18!

Her shop is appropriately named ReviveYourBath and this is my fave item in her shop right now :)

Be sure to stop by her shop and give her some Etsy love :)

Jules

My new sewing machine ;)

I boogied out to Belgrade at lunch on Monday and picked up my new Necchi sewing machine after my trusty Singer took a nosedive on Sunday.  It took me a little bit to get used to it, but it works like a dream!  This baby sews through TEN layers of denim!!   This machine has all the bells and whistles on it.  I really like the double stitch feature and all of the decorative stitching patterns.  It's super heavy duty metal instead of a plastic casing, this baby is made to last.  I picked this machine out in August when I picked my Singer up from getting serviced.  I got to sit down and play with several machines and this was the one that I felt would work the best for me.  The shop owner had told me I was a lucky girl because the machine was on sale for $329 and I could even put it on layaway to fit my budget needs.  That was all I needed to hear, where do I sign!!  I was impressed that I could get such a good quality machine for that price.  Funny thing is I didn't even do any research on this machine when I got home and other than making monthly payments on it, I really kinda put it out of my mind for a while.


Fast forward to this morning when I was trying to find a picture of it to post here, I just about dropped out of my chair when I found out the suggested MSRP.....    $799.....   I am a liitle in shock that I got a brand new, out of the box machine for less than half of MSRP!!  I almost feel guilty!  But seriously, the machine is amazing and I whipped through two more bags on Monday night and got four more done Tuesday night and two more on Wednesday night!  I took last night off from sewing...  I could barely keep my eyes open :(  I am fast approaching my new revised goal of 60 booty bags by show time in a little over two weeks.  I have almost every minute of my days and nights scheduled to be able to hit my goal.  No goofing off for me!

Have a great day everyone ;)

Jules