Ahh....

::Citrus::

A fresh new look for the blog with a new banner. It reflects what's really going on these days in the studio - mobiles and baby rattles. Lot's has been going on I just can't show it off 'cause I have no means of capturing it - no camera. It finally pooped out on us. Error 99, error 99! That's all it was willing to say. So it's in the shop. I've scraped by and managed to get a couple new mobiles in the shop by using a friends camera (Thanks Danielle!) - until it's battery got too low. I'm just not having much luck here with cameras. Well let's keep our fingers crossed that the "genius" camera guy at Cardinal Camera can make it work again. And I'll be back to regular postings.

Natural Kids Earth Day Celebration

As many of you I'm part of this really awesome Etsy team - Natural Kids. Well we all got together and decided Earth Day was just the right holiday to celebrate with store discounts and promotions, a really awesome free PDF full of recipes, tutorials and activities (that is, if you find the Gnome) and a bunch of different blog giveaways. For many of us (myself included) this celebration starts today and runs the whole week of Earth Day (April 14th - April 22). You can find out more by checking into all the shops that are participating on the Natural Kids website. Each shop lists their promotions (and an explanation about the "find the Gnome" game) in their "shop announcements". Check them all out, there is SO much to see, lot's and lot's of treasures to be found.

Our first Blog Giveaway is being hosted by the lovely Magic Onions. Hey look! see someone familiar?! This giveaway will be open until Earth day April, 22. Go on now, sign up and tell all of your friends about it!

Advertising

Sqrl & Bee Studio has been advertising. That's right. And it's certainly been a learning process that's for sure. But we're getting somewhere.

You can find us at::
Design Sponge (though this one might be over now)
Scoutie Girl
Website Bakery

This list will be changing pretty much every month as we spread the love.

The Belly

So many people are asking about my belly. It's a funny thing. And now (of course) our precious camera is having issues. We've at least gotten it to the point where we can take pictures again, we just can't see the menu. No camera means one sees anything I make - this is not a good thing. If you can't see them how can you know if you want them? I'm panicking a little. I LOVE this camera and it's too darn expensive to replace. So keep your fingers crossed that it's just a software update that it needs.

Anyway the reason why I'm posting - well it's that much asked about belly. Here it is making it's debut. We are almost 27 weeks (6.5 months) and everything is going smoothly. She's quite the busy girl these day, I swear she's building herself her very own little empire in there.

Handmade Philly Book Exchange

So I signed up for this really fun project with a local group of artist that I'm part of - Handmade Philly. I signed up probably a month or so ago and of course( a habit of mine from time to time) I procrastinated until the very last minute. But this time I'm glad I did. Oh I should say what the project is. Well as you can deduce from the subject it is a book exchange. We are in two groups ('cause it's such a great idea so, so many people wanted to join in) and we all have a book/journal (handmade or not) and we do a entry or so and pass it on to the next person in the list. Pretty simple and pretty darn fun too 'cause after almost a year you get your book back filled with tons of art, inspirations, scribbles, writing, thoughts, whatever that person was into at the time. I'm excited. So above is my book - it's a little book The Little Book of Art. It's about 4"x5" and it's handmade by me, with much help from the resident expert book make himself - the boy, The Bee - Andrew.

So back to procrastination and why I'm happy about it (this time). Well the month goes by and I keep reminding myself that I have to get this book together and I never have any idea of how I want it to look, how big, what's it made of, all that stuff. So I just keep putting it off - work needs to be done, mobiles need to be made. And I keep thinking what am I going do with this thing? I let it stew - this is one of my best strategies for project that are quite figured out - I just let them stew. You who also say I just procrastinate them or put them off, but in the end it feels more like stewing. Because they needed it, my brain needed to figure them out more before I could start. Anyway I digress.... Check it out my friends look at all the fun books flying around the postal service this week.