A Clean Room, A Stink Bug, and A Craft Fair

Hello friends! I hope you're all doing well as I write on this mid-weekday Wednesday. It's been a bit chilly here in Colorado lately, which has allowed me to actually get quite a bit of work done while staying warm inside! For one, I completely re-organized the upstairs "tutu room", which is a HUGE task if you have never seen it before. I would say it's safe to state that 360 of the lovely 365 days a year; the tutu room qualifies for a great episode of Hoarders, however I do always seem to know where things are (or so I thought, until I actually went through everything and found things that I've purchased multiples of simply because I thought I needed to....yikes maybe I do need to be on that show) and the area is CLEAN just very very full of fun things. Anyway, I started out with 4 sorting boxes; 2 for trash, 1 for seasonal merchandise and 1 for Goodwill/ARC. I ended up with 6 trash boxes, 2 seasonal boxes and 4 Goodwill/ARC donation boxes. As a result;  a room that I never really knew existed in my home!! Princess Dy - as I refer to my pink Dyson, the love of my life (in line after Owen of course but possibly equal to the love for Chris) even had the extreme pleasure of getting to make the floors look like new! She was very happy I'm sure. Hooray! Anyway, moving on.

Where the "business" side of the job is done.

So I typically receive a few emails a day with custom Tickled Tutu order requests. I even have a special hanging file folder for which I print the "Best Of" if you will, of the custom order request emails, because sometimes they are quite hilarious and on those days when I need a good chuckle, I walk to the file and begin reading. I have always said that I LOVE custom orders, and that is the truth. I am a creative person and LOVE working with creative people, so when approached by someone who has a new idea, I love to make it come to life. Yesterday, I "met" (well I guess I didn't meet this client since our communication was via email, but I will say met just because I want to) an awesome client who ordered 3 outfits, one of which was custom. I haven't asked her permission to disclose her name, so we will just call her Jill. Jill has a daughter who chose to be a "stink bug" in her school play. lol. It's really hard for me to write about this without laughing, and I'm not totally sure why, but something about the name "Stink Bug" gets me every time. Well Jill didn't seem extremely thrilled about putting her daughter in a brown and black sweatsuit to represent the bug, so she had a custom order request of a brown and black Stink Bug Tickled Tutu. I laughed each time I communicated with Jill and I laughed nearly the entire time making the tutu and then I laughed harder when my 2 year old son asked me "Mommy, what you doing?" I replied: "Making a Stink Bug tutu." He looks at me, looks at the tutu: "Stinky.....Daddddddd Mom's making a stinky tutu." :D So the tutu is complete, and I hope that Jill's daughter makes the cutest Stink Bug known to man because she certainly made my day yesterday.

I am sure this little girl will be the cutest Stink Bug ever!

In conclusion, I am now spending my time preparing for the Highlands Ranch Holiday Craft and Jewelry fair, while of course filling other Tickled Tutu orders. I haven't done a show in about a year and I'm really looking forward to this one, which is on November 5th if you're in the area--I'll even through in $15 off your purchase price if you mention the secret password "Stink Bug" at our booth. :) As I said before, I hope you are all doing well, and thanks for taking the time to catch up with the happenings at The Tickled Tutu today!!

Have a great week!

<3 TT