The contest has ended 4-12-10 11:59pm CST.  Thank you- everyone who entered!  We’ll have more giveaways in the future!

If you’ve been following us, you have heard me mention on several occasions, “Gussy”.   Gussy is the business creation of Maggie Whitley from Minneapolis, Minnesota.  Her nickname is actually “Gussy”, given to her by her mom.  It comes from the name of the goose, Gussy, in Charlotte’s Web.

{Maggie Whitley, “Gussy”}

Maggie actually works full-time at an advertising agency and nights and weekends sewing for her business.  In 2008, she taught herself to sew and has found true joy in it ever since.  We started doing business with Gussy just recently when she contacted us for some stickers to put on the packaging of all her products.  We were so excited to develop an idea for her packaging!  We noticed right off, the signature ruffle she puts on all her items: pouches, laptop bags and checkbook covers… how cute!  We decided that a ruffle would be perfect for her stickers… and this is what we created.  We used her “G” that she had already been using in her logo.

Here are the stickers on some of her products:

I just received my own Gussy bag for my laptop.  Here it is!  I absolutely LOVE it!  It fits my computer perfectly and is much more fashionable than my last computer case!

Now for some super great news…

Gussy has been so kind to offer a $30 shop credit for her store to one lucky reader!  Leave a comment on this blog post to enter the contest.  Contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on Monday, April 12.  We’ll announce the winner on Tuesday!  Good Luck!

Go here to see all of her products in her store.

Hope you have a great Friday!

We are trying to finish up our Cottontail’s Village Arts, Crafts & Gift Show orders, but we had to take a break to go visit our friend’s store we told you about just the other day.  Today was her grand opening!  We had a lot of fun shopping.  We bought some really cute things!  Here’s a look at her store front.

Did you see the super cute polka dot balloons?!  Well, we have great news… she got them from us!  We will be selling the oh so cute balloons just as soon as we get them up on the website.  In the meantime, if you would like some, you can just contact us via email or phone.  We’ll be glad to send some your way.  They come in Pink, Chocolate Brown, Lime Green, Red, Yellow, Blue, Robin’s Egg Blue, Wildberry and Purple!  Great for birthday parties (or cute store grand openings!).  Here’s a closer look…

Here’s her sign from the logo we designed.

Hope you have a great weekend!

I have a dear friend, Tiffany Townsend, who is opening a shop.  It will have new and consigned items for Children.  We are SO excited for her!  She has been working so hard to make sure everything is ready for her grand opening THIS SATURDAY!

Her store is in Hueytown, Alabama, which is near Birmingham.

She will open the doors for the first time at 10:00 am on Saturday, March 13.

1355 Hueytown Road Suite 101 Hueytown, AL 35023
(between the Dairy Queen and Library)
205-541-0460

The store hours will be:
Tuesday-Friday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm

She’s even sweet enough to let me put a few of our HollyDays products in the store.
We’ve had the privilege of designing her logo and some other fun items for her!

Hope to see you all on Saturday for the grand opening!  She will have refreshments and giving away some of our HollyDays products.  Birmingham Bargain Mom wrote an article about the store.  In the article, she says we are her sister store.  That isn’t quite correct.  Tiffany just has a few items of ours in her store {but I love her like a sister }

I wish you all the best and much success, Tiffany!