Lillie and Her Friends and a Free October Download

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About a month or so ago we met two new girls who moved in down the street named Bayley and Chloe. Lillie has had so much fun playing with them and they are just so sweet and good to her. Here are a few shots of them. Chloe and Bayley are wearing our Fairyland Thermal in Pink which we now have restocked and all three of them are wearing our Briar Hat in Gray.



 


For this weekend only we are offering $5 off on this thermal. 
Just type in "THERMAL5" when checking out.













 I finally took photos of our family room today. I should be able to get them edited this weekend and will post them next week. In the meantime here is a free download of the October print I put in that room. Just click the image below it will bring you to our site where you can download the PDF file.

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I hope you all have a wonderful Friday! I will be back tomorrow with a giveaway and then next week have a tutorial on how to make eyes pop in photoshop and post on our family room and where we keep all the toys!

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Colonial Williamsburg and our Hope is the Thing With Feathers Tote

Last week was a LONG week here with sick kids, lots of doctor's appointments and very little sleep. Fortunately our weekend was much better! On Saturday we celebrated the engagement of Quinn and Lindsey and Sunday afternoon we spent down in Colonial Williamsburg. We spend a lot of time down there but I haven't brought my camera lately. I brought it Sunday, though, and got a few shots. It was a beautiful day and finally felt like autumn! I love this time of year.



 
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I still don't have a shot of BOTH the girls that I like. Lillie was actually smiling for the camera which she hasn't wanted to do in months so I got quite excited that I might get a good photo of them. Well, of course Lola decided she wanted nothing to do with that:






Oh well! SOMEDAY I will get a shot where they both look semi-happy!
Lola just wanted to suck on her little fist and snuggle with her Daddy.









 We also have a new tote available in our shop! 
It has our signature design - our birdcage logo and the first line of one of my favorite poems,  
"Hope is the thing with feathers..." by Emily Dickinson.


It is just $7.95!







I hope you all have a wonderful Tuesday!

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Gymnastics, Opening Day, and Shipping

Whew! The last 48 hours around here have been a bit of a whirlwind! It has been fun, exciting and a little bit crazy. We are so grateful to all of you! We appreciate all of your kind e-mails and support so much.



We had considerably more sales than we had anticipated and will be hard at work getting everything shipped on out to you all although it may take a few days. We are sold out of quite a few items and are getting low on several others. Although we will be replenishing many of them it may be several weeks before they are back in stock. We also were excited to offer a huge CLEARANCE section that has items that are between 25% and 75% off their original prices.



Also, I thought I would take a few minutes to answer some of the questions we got today:



First, we had a couple of customers have trouble checking out. They were using Windows 7 so we are hoping that it was just some glitch with that and not our site although we are looking into it to see if there is anything we can do to make the checking out process easier for those of you using Windows 7. We have contacted our host and they have looked into it as well. So far we haven't been able to duplicate the problem so we are hoping they were just random isolated incidents but we will continue to look into it.



Second, we had some questions about our increase in shipping prices. This one has been both tricky and frustrating. The way our new site works is different than Etsy. Our shipping charges are based on the dollar amount you spend not the individual item or the amount of items you purchase. That makes it so that you can purchase one item, like a hat, and get charged the same amount as if you bought a tutu or several clearance items. Obviously this can be a bit frustrating if you are purchasing a small item like a hat or onesie versus if you are purchasing a sweatshirt or tutu. We are toying with a bunch of ways to fix this but haven't found a solution yet that works completely and doesn't cause new problems. We did increase the range for the most inexpensive shipping option to include all of the hats so the shipping prices on the hats have gone down! I have been absolutely thrilled with the transition to our new website. I thought we might have quite a bit more trouble with the switch-over so this one small thing doesn't seem too bad as long as we can eventually figure it out. Until we do we are going to leave things as they are, but please know we are trying our best to get this figured out so that we can charge less shipping on our smaller items, and at least for now the shipping on the hats is better.



Third, ahhh - international shipping. For the past two years this has been one of the single most frustrating things for us. When we first opened Dear Lillie we offered First Class International Shipping. We charged as little as $4 to ship to Canada and not a whole lot more to ship everywhere else. Then we started having packages get lost! When you ship International First Class the post office will give you a customs number but they really can't track it for you. This led to quite a few headaches trying to locate packages and if a customer said they didn't receive it we would always send them another one. I started dreading seeing an international address on an order because often it meant I would be sending out two of the same item to a customer and therefore was often losing money on those sales. Finally, after a particularly frustrating stretch of packages getting lost we decided to stop shipping first class and just ship using International Priority Mail. You can click here to see the pricing on that. Based on the weight of our packages and the destination it generally costs us between $21 and $39 to ship internationally. Because of that we charge $24.95. Even though that number seems ridiculous we still often end up losing money on the shipping of international packages. I know this is very frustrating for our international customers if you just want to purchase a $9.95 item you certainly don't want to spend $24.95 to have it shipped. We completely understand that and find it extremely frustrating as well. We want to be able to go back to shipping First Class but it just makes us so nervous after the experiences we have had with it. We love all of our wonderful international customers and want to make sure you are able to purchase what you want without the crazy shipping charges. Jason and I have been discussing it and if we do decide to offer that option again will let you all know.



Okay, enough on that! Fortunately shipping has really been the only issue we had today which is such a relief!



I had hoped to have a decorating post ready for today but thanks to Irene and not having power for almost five days I am quite a bit behind, as usual. So instead I thought I would share a couple pictures of Lillie. She had her first gymnastics class on Wednesday! I was so depressed because I didn't get to take her to it. Lola had an important doctor's appointment that morning and even though I tried to get Lillie into another time slot I wasn't able to. Instead good ol' Uncle Jason came to the rescue and brought her. She loved it so much that she didn't want to leave when it was over...(and thanks to that I don't know if Jason will ever want to take her again - haha). I, however, cannot wait to take her next week!





 Here she is in her new little leotard and headband she stole from Dana:
























No pictures, Mommy! 












 












Along with bringing Lillie to gymnastics Jason has even been helping out with Lola. I was trying to shoot some product photos the other day which was hard with her in the Bjorn so he offered to take her. When she is really fussy putting her in the Bjorn is often the only way to calm her so he got stuck putting her in it. Now before you think, "Awwww, what a sweet uncle" let me just inform you he spent the entire time muttering, "this is NOT what I signed up for..." and "this was NOT in my job description." =)
























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I hope you all have a wonderful Friday and a fabulous Labor Day Weekend! And thanks again for making yesterday so exciting for us! We truly appreciate you all so much!

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The Audrey Hepburn Tutu

Sometimes I HATE hotmail! This is the third time in the last 6 months or so that a whole page of e-mails disappeared. This weekend I finally began to attack our inbox which I had pretty much ignored since the last few weeks I was pregnant with Lorelei. It was quite the task but I had made it most of the way through (and vowed to myself to NEVER get that behind again!) when the whole second page of e-mails disappeared with the last 20 or so I still needed to respond to. So, if you wrote us any time between March and mid-July and did not get an e-mail back this past weekend (hopefully the majority of you did get yours) please let me know or resend your e-mail and I will try to get back to you as soon as possible!








As we prepare to reopen we have been busy reshooting some of our products. We are changing quite a few things about how we will be selling items and one of the biggest things that will be different is that everything that is for sale will be ready to ship. We hope that this will help make things much easier for everyone as we continue to grow and expand. The biggest change we will be making is that we will be moving from Etsy to our own website. We think this will be so much more user friendly as you will be able to purchase multiple items in different sizes all at once and not have to wait for things to be relisted. I am planning to do a full post soon with all of the details on the upcoming changes which I am so excited about! Anyway, the size of the photos is different on our new site so there are quite a few products that I have been retaking pictures of including the Audrey Hepburn Tutu:













Lucky for me Lillie, like most kids, is enthralled with planes and one flew overhead right as she plopped down!































 








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I hope you all have a most wonderful Wednesday!











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My Little Tomboy Princess

My lovely little Lillian has decided that she HATES to have her picture taken. Pretty much all of the photos on here that were taken on here over the past year I had to tell her that I was taking pictures of the tree behind her or of something/someone else in the photo and then she just runs around and plays and I try my best to get something half-way decent. More often than not I just end up with a ton of photos of the back of her head or her hands held up over her face, so I always get quite excited when I get shots where she is actually looking at the camera. 








This past week we traveled from New Hampshire out to Indiana (or Indi-dana, as Lillie calls it) to spend some time with Jon's family. One of the nights that we were there we went to his uncle's house. They had a lawn that was a little kid's heaven - complete with swings, a little tree fort and a creek with a bridge. Lillie's great-grandfather had given her a large hollyhock that she put in
her hair as soon as we arrived and she thought she was quite the little
princess. She had a ball and spent much of the evening playing in the creek with one of Jon's younger cousins, Tyler. I think the highlight of her night was when they caught two crawdads. While they were playing the sun was setting and the light was just so beautiful sparkling off of the water that I tried my best to sneak a few pictures before Lillie knew what I was up to.  I love that she is in some ways a girly-girl and in some ways such a tomboy. She loves everything pink and princess related but also loves to be barefoot running around in the dirt or getting soaked in the creek while hunting for bugs, crawdads and fish.









 








 

















Here Lola is with Grammy and Coach (Jon's mom and dad).



I think Lillie has been whispering to Lola "Whatever you do, do NOT look at the camera!" 












"And if you do look at the camera, make sure you do NOT smile!"











































We had a wonderful time with Jon's family and now are finally getting settled in back at home and are busy working like crazy to get everything ready to reopen our shop on September 1st. Ahhhh - there is so much to do!



I hope you all have a most wonderful Monday!





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