Before I hit the road today...

I'm taking a small trip over to Cleveland to visit the other love of my life, Laura Beth, to check out a fabric store and do some other "girly" things. But before I do, I thought I'd post some pictures of some recent additions to our shop. As I mentioned, I'll be working on the Etsy shop this week, so bare with me - it's on it's way! Until then, here's some pictures to tide you over :)

Patchwork Stuffed Baby Ball

Stuffed Alphablocks

Horsey Coat Hook



Patchwork Baby Quilt with felt hearts

So it's been awhile (since the beginning of summer!) since I've posted. I promise I have a decent excuse, though. I got married AND found out we're pregnant with twins! Needless to say, my time has been a little tied up. Between sickness and being tired and working on aprons and Cooper Young Fest when I could, the blog fell by the wayside. But I'm here to say "no more!" From here on out, I will resolve to be better about posting. And I'll be working on the Etsy shop this week for anyone interested in doing a little shopping :) For anyone who's been following LFS for awhile, you might notice the products are shifting towards more kid and baby friendly stuff. It's my way of nesting, I suppose, but with the twins on their way, I figure shifting that way makes total sense! But we'll still have a lot of our old standards, so not to worry!

So I've got to get to work! But I'll leave you with a small handful of my favorite photos from the wedding:

Designs By Mandy

My close friend, Mandy Weimar, whom I've worked with for 5 years now, has been the designer behind a lot of our formal business packaging (i.e. invoices, business cards, purchase order forms, etc.). She also does a majority of our stuffed creatures that we sell in our shop. If you've ever come out to Cooper Young Festival and stopped by our booth, she's been there with us for the past 2 years, and you've undoubtedly seen her cute face.

As a gift to me, she designed some new business cards for Love For Sale! They are so perfect and so darling and it's a really wonderful design:

Mandy does business designs for a handful of other company's and has a really cute and clean aesthetic. If you're interested in talking to her about designing for you, you can email her at designsbymandy@gmail.com.

May flowers bring baby showers

I've had so many orders come in over the past month for baby shower gifts! I love that there's new babies being ushered into the world at the same time as new spring flowers. It's a sweet thing to think about.

Emily ordered a baby set for a shower shes attending this afternoon. Coincidentally, the shower's being held at Muddy's Bake Shop, which I think is a GREAT location for a baby shower!

The "baby set" includes a blanket, a bib, and a changing mat. This set was for a little boy, and I think it came out pretty cute:

Shirts to look forward to...

Going back to the BFF (Bicycle Film Festival), I thought I'd share a preview of 2 of the shirts we'll be selling at the event! Again, we're doing several bicycle themed items for the event. But these will be posted in the Etsy shop at the beginning of June as well.

(the LFS Etsy shop is under construction right now, but should be up and running by the end of next week so keep those eyes peeled for updates!)

Coaster Swap!

I saw this over on Candace's fabulous blog, Sparkle Power, and thought it would be a great deal of fun to join in! While this blog is still pretty new, anyone out there that DOES read it and is interested in joining should do so!

Kindred Crafters is hosting a coaster swap! They're even going international with it! Imagine the fun...

Go to this link and join in if you're interested! Sharing is caring :)

Bicycle Film Festival

I'm really excited to announce Love For Sale will be participating in the 9th Annual Bicycle Film Festival. It will be held in various cities across North America as well as other countries. In Memphis the festival will be held at the Brooks Museum, Friday, May 29th and Saturday, May 30th in Overton Park.

This is copied and pasted from an email I got about the event:

"The Bicycle Film Festival is a celebration of cycling in all forms. It started 9 years ago when a man (Brendt Barbur BFF Director) was hit by a bus while on his bike. He decided to turn the experience into something positive, and the result was the Bicycle Film Festival. The BFF goes to less than 20 cities in the world, including Milan, Paris, Chicago, NY, etc., so we are very lucky to have it in Memphis this year."

So if you're in the area the last weekend of May, please come out and show not only your LFS support, but some bicycle support as well! We'll be there all day Saturday with a craft booth, selling a lot of bicycle themed goodies as well as some of our traditional LFS merchandise.

For more information on the Bicycle Film Festival, visit http://bicyclefilmfestival.com/