Bamboletta Blog

I’ve been trying to keep on the blog consistently, but have failed miserably! Over 10 days since my last entry..tsk, tsk.

We’ve been having lots of fun exploring our surroundings this week. There are so may great place to go to with little ones. This week we found a great place called Bright Angel Park, it’s so beautiful there. It’s a river that is perfect for little ones because it’s calm and doesn’t go past the knees. Very good place to be on these recent hot days.

I’m redesigning my website right now. I’m trying to streamline it and make it a source of information for my customers. I’ll be adding a newsletter and another blog site among other things. I found a really great illustrator to work with, we are in the works to design an illustration for the site/ price tags/ business cards. I’m not sure that this is the best timing to be doing something like this, I can tell that this baby of mine wants out. It’s moving around like a little acrobat.

I just finished up this breastfeeding doll for a customer of mine. I don’t do these very often. It was a wonderful doll to make in my ‘state’ 🙂

These are my newest dolls. They are off to their new home in Toronto. I love that the mom got a mix of ethnicities for her kids. This was a really fun order to do. I just love doing custom orders for kids, working with parents to really make something special for their child.

This week Natural Pod will be at the Island Organics Festival in Victoria. So, this weeks work for myself is as many organic blanket dolls as I can possibly make. Every week until the baby is born is now ‘booked’ with orders or trying to build up my stock. I’ve already got my Christmas orders booking up. I’m taking a limited amount of custom work for Christmas time, I need to keep my time open to work on stuff for all the different shows and events.

My parents and sister came over for the long weekend. It was so great to see them all. Something about having your mom come to your home and just basically ‘take over’ is very comforting when you are pregnant.

Off to finish ‘Lost’ season 2 and make some heads. I’m happy and sad that it’s over, I know that there is another season, but it’s not on DVD so we are going to have to wait. I’ve never been into a show this much..well except for ‘Melrose Place’, but that was a long time ago.

Good news today. I found out that ‘Shared Vision’ ( BC Mag on holistic living) is doing an article on Bamboletta. I’m not sure of the scope or size, but it’s exciting none the less. It’s funny, I’m ring to slow things down with the ‘biz’ and interest is just growing and growing. Isn’t that always the way?

Next week I am working on an order for mahardrygoods.com. I’ve created a gnome doll for the site that I’m eager to see posted, I’ll put up a pic when I’m done him. There are also a few babies and a mermaid in the mix.

Good Lord, could this baby be ANY bigger? Everything is such an ordeal right now..going up the stairs, picking things up off the floor, you name it it’s an event.

BTW my good friend Devon, who I have mentioned before is now officially blogging…http://talltreephotography.blogspot.com/ it’s pretty new, but it will be a good one, I promise!

I’ve posted up 2 new dolls for sale on Natural Pod www.naturalpod.com. I also posted a cozy sherpa banket doll. I’ll try to get some more blanket dolls done in the next few weeks. I’ve decided to only make the blanket dolls in organic fabric since they are for babies.

Nothing else exciting to report. I’ve spent most the day recovering from staying awake until 4AM! I’ve been wondering around like a bit of a zombie. Thankfully John was home so I could have a good nap this morning. I’m such a lucky lady.

This is a picture that my friend Devon from http://www.talltreephotography.ca took last week. I think my mom would be horrified I am showing this in public as everyone can see my underwear.

It’s 1AM and I can’t sleep. The irony of pregnancy, I can’t sleep yet I am so, so tired.

Today we went to the Mill Bay Family fair. It was cute. A few of those bouncy castle types of rides and some stalls. The *big* event though was the fire truck..that had it’s ladder fully extended! Ben was awe struck. It was hilarious to see all the teenage girls just hanging around all the hunky young firefighters. Lol, I’m glad I’m not 18.

I’m working on 3 large dolls for a customers order right now. It’s wonderful, I’m doing an African American, an Asian doll and one to look like their Filipino nanny. Lots of fun with the different types of hair I can do. I’ve got 2 other 14″ in the works as well for sale up on Natural Pod. John was busy tonight making all the heads. He is a master headmaker, ther is no way I have the stregnth to make them that tight. I honestly think that my dolls really progressed once he started making the heads for me. He’s even mentioned a few times that he may be up for ‘machining’..haha this is his man term for sewing. I am using some scraps of organic fabrics to make the new baby’s washclothes and I think I’m going to ask him to serge the ends. Nice and easy and a simple square, just to get him used to the machine. I took a sewing class years ago that a man was one of my classmates. He loved the serger because it was ‘like, the power tool of sewing’. I think this will be a good intro for John.

Still obsessing on Lost. We are almost through Season 2, thank God! I just can’t stop watching it. I have to admit though, before I came online and blogged, I went and read about 5 episodes worth of spoilers ahead of where we currently are. I’m so lame! I just have to know about the ‘Others’!