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Friday 28 August 2009

...they're in...they're out!!

Got another shipment of Very Vintage Christmas and Halloween sets this afternoon, which means that ALL outstanding orders are now packed and ready to ship first thing in the morning!!!! Yay!! yes, even the orders placed today are ready to go. I'm so relieved - I can't tell you all how I hate to keep folks waiting!!

It might take a day or two to get all the shipping notices out so I thought I'd post it here.

I'm hoping my supplier is recovering from their horrendous move earlier this month and that replenishment will return to what it was.

So how are you all?

I've been busy. I'm drawing like crazy, trying to get a stack of sets ready and working on a new webstore!!!!!

I'm really hoping to have an 'Official Launch Party' in a few weeks time here on my blog and on the new store. There will be plenty of inspiration, wink! and a GRAND prize!! so keep an eye out for more news on that.

So, that's it for store news, read on only if you are truly bored, otherwise call back soon as I'd really like to make a few cards in the next day or two it feels like so long since I did any!!

Waffle

Most days I can do a real good impression of a flat stomach just by pulling it all in and holding my breath, the sight of a clingy tee-shirt, actually hanging loosly across a taut tum really diverts the eyes from the accompanying purple face and puffed cheeks. So it was with a slightly dejected countenance that I stared down into little guys' smiling face as he announced, loudly, in an audience-seeking kind of way, that "Mummy, you has got twoooooo bellies!!!" 'Course we had to be in the supermarket at the time.

Sympathetic smiles and tilting-of-the-head from anyone within earshot.

Purple with embarrassment I hurried to the next aisle.

Little guy, not one to be fobbed off, carried on the monologue. "Mummy lemme see your twooo bellies!!" and promptly lunged forward to grab a couple of handfuls. In a split second, ninja-slow-motion moment I began to comprehend that little guy was actually aiming far higher than belly level and, in his two year old innocence, has no idea that they are actually called something else.

I left the second aisle mortified as the little hands landed.

23 comments:

  1. OH that is too funny!!!!! Don't you just love them!

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  2. So you are not only a creative stamp artist - you are also a stand up comedian! Kids DO say the darndest things don't they!? So glad to hear that your producer is back on track Claire!! I've missed your creations - hope we see a couple soon!

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  3. You never know what they will say do you?! So cute and so maddening at the same time - lol! I feel your pain Clair!! :)

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  4. Oh Claire that is such a great story! You just never know what little ones will say! Great work getting all those orders out! I can't wait to see what you're cooking up for the nest release!

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  5. Hmmm... I recall similar stories and oh so much more. I have no girl stories, but boy oh boy do I have lots and lots of boy and parts stories!!! I'll let the imagination run a muck with that one.

    Its good to get it all out Claire!

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  6. Writing stories should be next on your agenda :)

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  7. Wow, I am so excited about your new releases and store. I ordered the very vintage set as soon as you released and I played with it a lot . I am going to mass produce some tags to send to friends before Christmas. I love your style very much and I am sure that soon you will have to send some more sets to Finland :)

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  8. Hee hee the joys of motherhood - I am aloud to have a little snigger as this has happened to me but it was about my bottom!

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  9. Margaret Anne Clark29 August 2009 at 08:30

    Yup. Hear you. Welcome to the club. Here's your (loose-fitting) Tshirt !!!! xx

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  10. thanks Claire, for letting us know the great news. So I will tell my father to have a good eye on the postman..... looking so much forward to my new set!
    I always enjoy your - out of the life stories so much.... after you finish the stamp sets, think about writing a book ;)

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  11. I love your story! It made me giggle out loud.

    Yea for the stamps shipping and new ones being created. I will be stalking my mailman.

    Smiles,

    Brandi

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  12. This is why we have children, so we can learn to withstand humiliation! That is the funniest little story I have heard in a while! Glad to hear business is going well, cant wait to see your webstore.

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  13. Hi Claire~My Halloween stamps came yesterday and I love them! I have so many ideas in my head and I can't wait to ink them up! Continued good luck with your business, I'm sure I will purchase again!
    ~Joyce

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  14. After a really c@£p day, that made me laugh. Little people say such lovely innocent things. A friend took dd(3)to toilet the other day and my daughter reported that my friend had 'soft bits' we couldn't work it out until I was having a shower and she pointed to my 'soft bits' saying she didn't have any. She meant hair, but not on my head!

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  15. Ahh, Claire, thanks so much for the giggle for the day! Kids are great for creating them for us...AFTER they embarrass us!

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  16. Okay, I read this to my husband and we were just cracking up! We have an almost 2 year old and he always lifts up my hubby's shirt and points at his chest to yell "nippos!" Thanks for sharing. This made my day.

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  17. Oh my, Claire - thank you for sharing that story, now I've had a belly (oops!) laugh and can go to bed!

    I'm looking foward to the upcoming inspiration and new things! Keep drawing - your art is amazing!

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  18. Congrats on all the success Claire!!! That is fabulous! And I really needed a laugh today, thanks for obliging :) HYSTERICAL!

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  19. LOL! Your posts really make me giggle! As long as we're sharing, I have a little mole on my neck. Not a big one, just a little one but my 2 year old daughter has always been fixated on it. She'll point to it and say "mole". Well one day while I was changing clothes little daughter pointed at my chest and pointed. Moles!! Ummmmm o.k. :)

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  20. well - here's a card to help sell your sold out Vintage Christmas sets!! (guess you don't really need help with this wonderful set!!)

    http://createwithjulia.blogspot.com/2009/08/clean-graphic-ho-ho-ho.html

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  21. hahahahah - I kept reading and so glad because you brought a smile to my face (well, a belly laugh actually!!) Out of the mouths of babes!!! hahahahhaahah I'll be chuckling the rest of the night!!

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  22. ROFL! Ooooh, you poor thing. That is so cute though, that you'd forgive the indignity in a heartbeat. Don't know how I missed this one, but I'm glad I caught up with it now...

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