Happy Friday:

I love rubber stamps! Here are a few new designs we'll have available at our upcoming craft shows. Be sure to check our holiday show schedule! This holiday we'll be in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Los Angeles, & San Francisco! Hope you can come by to visit one of them. I love this time of  year!

What are you up to this weekend? Nothing exciting over here - we're just working as usual. Have a lot of work to do to prep for craft shows - it is quite a task to prepare enough inventory and everything :) Hope you have a lovely weekend, thanks for reading OHF this week. xo.

shop packaging:

I thought it was about time to share some images of my latest shop packaging. The items I use are really just some basic supplies: stamps, kraft bags, shipping tags, vellum bags, and twine.

I have a couple different items I use to package items like kraft bags, cotton bags, and pocket envelopes. They're all just so fun, I keep them all near.

The actual item itself usually goes into a stamped pocket envelope, a vellum bag with a label, or a small jewelry box, which is not shown here but I've blogged about the boxes before here.

Once all the items are carefully packaged up, they get tied with lace or twine & a special wood tag, just like the ones I used for our wedding invites. They're so fun!

I truly enjoy packaging, what about you?

ps: if you are interested in a custom rubber stamp
for yourself, contact me for pricing!

preview of new items:

To be honest, I'm not wearing much jewelry these days. I figure because I have SO much of it, I just don't know what to wear! I am currently obsessed with searching for unique finds to make into necklaces, rings, earrings, whatever!

This new collection brings lots of my new favorite things: monocles, clocks, and a calendar too! I think these are pretty unique. I'll be adding them to the etsy shop soon, just thought I'd post a preview. Thanks for all your support, friends. :)

buy 1 get 1 free at oh, hello friend:

(update: shop is sold out. thank you SO much friends.

your support is really amazing!)

i am needing to close my shop for the next 2 months to prepare for the wedding and in an effort to sell all my leftover listings and for my special 2 year blog + shop anniversary: everything in the shop is buy 1 get 1 free! all orders will come with a free hair pin as well!

to take advantage of this offer, just purchase your listings but do not pay - wait for an email regarding your payment total. once the items are sold, they will not be relisted so take advantage now! (side note about promtion: a personal paypal payment must be sent to receive the promotion + free item must be of equal or less value)

shop styling:

shop image styling:

flea market style.

so i switched up my shop photographs in a recent shop update,

using a few items from the flea market i went to a few weeks ago.

picked up this scale at the market, used it as a business

card holder at the craft show and used it in these pics.

multi-use, it's awesome! ;)

i found some of these bottles at the flea market for .50 cents.

thought it'd be nice to use for product images.

i also plan to use them for some other diy projects, stay tuned.

some lovely new pocket watches.

that's it! hope you enjoyed the images :)

100 items:

i posted a shop update last month and i typically don't blog about shop updates that often.. but this is the first time i've ever had 100 items in the shop! it was a lot of updating and adding, but it's done! i'm trying to reach 2000 sales, so any order placed using code "2000sales" at checkout will receive 10% off your order + a free gift. thanks for all the support! xo.

new to the shop:

i don't post much about my shop anymore..so i thought i'd post some images of a few new things added lately :) i have SO many products, probably nearly over 50 or 60 necklaces alone: it is so hard to find time to add everything online. but it's fun when i am able to add some new things.

happy 2.2! (22 is my favorite number, hehe)
hope you all have a wonderful tuesday.

happy weekend:

some new necklaces..


new charm buttons.. love!

so many hair pins + earrings!

these are some new things i've been working on lately. i know it's not friday yet.. but i'm down in san diego (stop by ucsd if you're near and visit!) selling the oh, hello friend line at a show so i'm going to call it an early week for me. hope you all have a fun halloween! see you monday.

xo.

customer appreciation week:

hello dears. how is your thursday going today? so i just realized that i past my 1 year anniversary on etsy! i sold my very first item on july 26 of 2008, it was so exciting making my very first sale ;)

so anyway, found paper co is having a customer appreciation week and i absolutely LOVED the idea! so i thought i'd have my own customer appreciation week the first week of august to thank all of you who have supported, purchased, blogged about my shop and brought it this far. so come back next week for loads of goodness!

and be sure to check out found paper co this week, Xenia is having lots of amazing giveaways + promos! (thanks for the inspiration friend!)

ps: sorry i am not posting the daily resource today - i'm on my way to venice for a blog social at urbanic paper! i'm so excited at all the new friends there will be! i'll share pics later! xo.

shop packaging:

so i did a post about my shop packaging a little while ago. i really did love those airmail envelopes. but then i got some vellum envelopes and decided to switch it up. so items either get placed in the kraft boxes tied with lace + baker's twine, or into the golden manila envelopes, which are then placed into the vellum bags with an 'oh, hello friend.' label.

the brown kraft bags are hand screen printed with my gocco machine. and unfortunately i made the photos too light, but there is a package with hair pins in them that is sewn closed with a piece of lace trim. i will take better pictures another time to show you. but i really do love that packaging.

you can see a couple more images in my flickr album.
i love packaging, don't you? :)

shop update:

my 4th of july sale was chosen for the 'etsy finds' articles this past weekend, it was so exciting! when i found out, i busted out my camera and took 150+ photos of new items to add to the shop (i am terrible at adding new items, i have so many things just sitting around) and added 40 new items that day ;) sold lots of compass necklaces and i now have 2,000 favorites and hit 1,000 sales! wow! i never thought i'd ever sell so many things. thank you etsy! and thank you friends, for supporting my blog + shop!

here are some new things added to the shop:

happy wednesday!

lovely package exchange
details coming tomorrow!