Okay – one of my new year resolutions was to blog more and here I am on the 14th doing my first post of the year – man, I am lame! I sort of feel like my blog has been taken over with Serendipity’s and it anything I write just gets lost in all of it. We are moving the site onto a new system that will split the two up – a place for Serendipity’s and then a place for real blogging. I’m pretty excited (and nervous) about this new cart – dang I hope it can handle the upload traffic. They web people assure me it can so let’s hope! I’m happy with what I’ve got going on with Big Cartel but I need more organization on the ‘back end’ of things to do things like calculate taxes and accounting stuff. I hope to have it launched within the month .. now it’s a case of working on content and testing, testing, testing!
Don’t mind the messy paint – but here’s our new office/storage space! When it’s more done I’ll get another picture of it!
This time of the year always brings around introspection for me. I finally took the advice of my business guy ,Clemens, to incorporate Bamboletta. So, now Bamboletta is Bamboletta, Ltd. This felt like a very grown up move for the business as now I’m going between appointments with lawyers, accountants, bookeepers and the bank. Bamboletta is beyond being in my basement, beyond just being me now – we employee over 25 people now – and doing the Ltd., is a way to have things run smoothly. I’m in the process now of selling Bamboletta as Christina to Bamboletta, the company which I admit is a bit weird. I want Bamboletta to be around forever and be something I can pass along to my kids one day – I’m just in awe and gratitude that it’s gotten here to this point. I have to admit I’m a little freaked out – not in a scared freaked out kind of way (well, a little) but an exhilarated and excited way.
More LB’s on their way! Yay!
After a panic-y few months of no Little Buddy headcovers to be found ANYWHERE we finally sourced some out from Italy. They arrived this week and my mother , Antonia, stayed up through the night sewing the headcovers so that we can resume our Little Buddy dollmaking. What is a headcover you ask? It’s a piece of medical tubing that we stuff with wool ,shape into a head and then cover with the doll skin fabric. So – to make a long story short there will be more LB’s coming soon! We have 20 for next week and then not so many the following week but then back to a normal level after that. I miss those cutie pootie LB’s!!
And about the Pocket Dolls – Jennie , the gal who makes the pocket dolls, is making pocket doll making a regular gig. We can now expect pocket dolls on an ongoing basis and they’ll probably be a regular feature in uploads.
Happy New Year to you all. I know I go on and on about this all the time but I really am so fortunate to have such an amazing customer base. Thank you so much for all your support throughout the years!
One more thing, we will put up a 9,000 fan giveaway early next week .. Shauna is finishing up the special dollie this weekend! So stay tuned!
xo
Christina
And here is 12 seconds of prince from his concert I went to last month. Best. Concert. EVER!
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