Many toy brands and textile makers for baby items know tiny humans (or their parental units) have a keen interest in spacecraft, asteroids, moons, and such. Often, space themed items are created by brands that we already carry. This has happened at least half a dozen times. When we last reordered our most popular baby toy, Baby Paper, we ordered Baby Paper in a recently released print called Solar.
Whenever we see a fun, exciting item that’s space themed, we do our best to add it to the regular line up and keep it in stock. We have ideas of space themed items for all ages and stages of development. If you need suggestions of which items are best for specific ages, click here (ADD LINK to gift guide blog post - coming soon) for recommendations.
Space themed items don’t need justification, yet here we are with six solid suggestions for occasions to give little ones all the space things.
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Find all the space themed things we’ve curated for space affectionadoes in our ROCKETS & SPACE collection here.
]]>In previous years, my children would receive a Valentine Card and a little candy or chocolate. They'd fill out Valentine cards to take to school. We didn't need to fill out cards for the class Valentines list since we are in virtual school. Not sure what we will do in lieu of that, if anything, but I sure didn't miss this task. Some families love this tradition, but my family members are not fans.
One of my children has been asking for a new fidget lately, so I'll likely seek out a fun little fidget or two this year. I'd also like to bake or make something special with my kids. I hope to do something individually with each child. With Valentine's Day landing on a Sunday, we have a little extra wiggle room in the day to get in some quality time. Usually, we'd prefer to get outside for a bike ride or a hike as a family, but this weekend's forecast is really looking frigid. Indoor quality time will likely be a more realistic way to win a bid for an activity together. I have a few ideas, and will likely ask each child to pick one. Here are a few of the things I am suggesting:
Chocolate may be overly represented in this list, and I am quite ok with that. We will incorporate lemon flavors which is another house favorite for Easter.
I've tried to be intentional to create some memories and start some simple yet meaningful traditions that we can carry on after the pandemic's panic has subsided. As my children get older, carrying out traditions is easier in some ways as they can do more and help more, yet harder in others. They have historically had more obligations outside of the home, so this year has definitely provided more time and an opportunity for us to focus on how we are celebrating with one another. I feel that has brought us a little closer.
What do you do to celebrate special days in your family? Has that changed during the pandemic? We’d love to hear about your traditions, and how you’ve adapted the past eleven months. How'd you spend this Valentine's Day? How do you make sure the children in your home feel the love today and every day?
]]>I quickly googled People's Choice Award + Huntsville. Yep. That's me. Being as my last name is Bailey, I was the second person listed. Nearly 50 entrepreneurs in our local area who had received a nomination were named alphabetically.
Still not knowing who the congratulatory text was from, I replied "Thank You :). Honored!"
A few hours later I became curious. Exactly who nominated me for this award? And why isn't my website ready yet with all this flurry of mention on social media, AL.com, etc? And who sent that text?
I sat back down at my desk and refocused on decisions for fonts, photos, text size and button colors for the new website, hoping to release SOMETHING before the contest ends. I have seven days.
I take a break and return to the text message. I toss the number into google. I smiled at the results. Yes, I should have known that number. It's a another local business owner, specifically the realtor we hired to help us sell our home two years ago. Thanks Rob! http://www.myhuntsvillehomesearch.com/
]]>Why REAL? Well, I've had a website for nearly 3 years now but it wasn't functional. This is my second attempt at building a website via Shopify. I started this process in January of 2017. I didn't make it past the 14 day trial before the distractions of running a store 5 days a week took over. Then I planned to write this website a few more times. Each time something completely out of my control happened, preventing the down time I needed to devote to learning something new.
By fall, I decided I'd get through the holidays, continue apologizing to people about my pitiful website, and close on December 31. I'd reopen when my website was functional.
I am hopefully about halfway through this process. Today I had a breakthrough. I kept trying to accomplish things, specifically the menu. I simply didn't have enough content to do so and get a feel for how the site would look. I didn't want to link things that really didn't go somewhere for fear that I'd forget to go back and change it before the site went live. And I really wanted to see if this would work the way I envisioned before moving forward.
After receiving some guidance from a patient shopify customer support person, I had all my questions answered. She helped me in a few places where I was stuck, despite watching a few (hours) of you tube videos. I had my list of questions ready (and another list already started for the next call). She suggested the theme I picked may not be ideal for my needs. Changing a theme is a significant amount of work (or so I've heard). I needed to figure out fast if this theme would work for me or if I was destined to change it.
After hanging up the phone, I decided to make under construction pages, products, image files, and collections. With these tools that I can easily redirect, delete or use again as needed in the future, I made progress. Now I could link things. Now I have a menu structure I can work with to "see" on my screen and click around. It's easy to now understand how this is all going to come together. I just needed a few placeholder for linking. I think the theme is going to work out just perfectly. Now, off to make more collections . . .
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