half past exhausted

we're here but we're not exactly settled, there's still a box or two wandering around. but i did make my first official grocery run tonight and tomorrow {er...today} i plan to do some official first laundry. by next wednesday we should be all settled. and i give that timeframe just because the last of our ikea crap gets delivered on tuesday...yay for more cut up knuckles and assembly mistakes! but in all seriousness, i have to give mad props to IKEA, for under two grand we furnished our entire apartment. and that money came from all the furniture/items we sold in syracuse. so our bank account isn't feelin' the burn.

i'm soooo glad the moving part of things is over for now. {i was so sick of our temp place i can't even tell you} now for the settling in part...

{and thanks to you all for the responses to the last post!! thanks to the input, i'll be tweaking version two a bit, printing some business cards and then redesigning all the packaging for future products!}

in the meantime

vote for your favorite! {do you see a theme here people?}

the shop should be back in the next week or so....

until we meet again

we're not getting internet installed until friday, so it may take a few days to get pics of the new apartment up.

got a full day of moving in tomorrow! in the rain of course. wish us luck! (and that nothing gets broken...)

user error

sorry about the general wonkiness to the blog this morning. with the demise of ringo, i'll have to find another uploading option for my headers. so this one might stick around for a while...

anyway, it was a lovely weekend with a visit to ikea and purchasing a new tv, all in preparation for the big day! yep, we move in this wednesday. what's that you say? less than two days away? yes indeed. i get to reconnect with all my cute shoes and framed pictures and kitchen gadgets! a girl couldn't be happier. this girl couldn't anyway. you try living without all your stuff for over a month....kelly can attest to this!

so can you see the empire state building back there? i took this photo lastnight while enjoying the gorgeous summer weather we've been having here lately. the husband and i like to sit and people/dog watch. we pay more attention to the dogs though. we're even starting to recognize dogs we've seen before. it's very funny. {plus you can't beat that view of manhattan}

calling all visitors

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just to let you know, we'll have a place for you to sleep. this is our new couch courtesy IKEA. unless there are more than two of you. in which case we have a nice uncomfortable hardwood floor for ya. enjoy.

these things i miss

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besides my friends and my house and my church, i really miss my sewing machine. as in really really miss it. so in the meantime i'm sketching out all these projects i want to work on and picking up fabric along the way.

this is two yards of material that i bought at big lots for 5 dollars! yep, big lots. amazing isn't it. i love the look of this, it's going to make a great big bag for me to travel on the subway with. it'll get filled with maps and sunscreen, comfortable back-up shoes and mace. can't you just see the possibilities.

one week to go

and then we get all our stuff back and move into our apartment! big ikea trip this weekend to pick out all the furniture. so excited to be getting fun new space-savvy stuff. i fought the urge to buy a new pair of rainboots today. because really, who can fit two pair of wellys in a 500 sq ft apartment?

then comes the calm

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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
louisa may alcott

happy birthday

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to the brooklyn bridge.

leaving for CT today. going to try a different route and head over the bridge and up manhattan. we'll see if it saves us any time....

in preparation

brooklyn_bizcard.jpg, originally uploaded by tinkerellen.

for the return of the shop in a few weeks. i need to order new business cards with the address change anyway, so i thought about redesigning the whole look of all the promo materials. (i am a designer, this is what we do... constantly changing everything.)

what do you think?

this is the business card. there will be matching 2" stickers and matching mailing labels. of course i'll redo the shop header, but i may keep the packing the same. i don't know about that one. i may change it later on.