HELLOmynameisHeather

Sugar Love

Aah yes, look what came to our door in time for a late breakfast (love that holiday excuse).  Each layer offers a different selection, all separated with parchment paper and chilled.  So fancy!  Thank you, dear Jona : )

Mmm, mmm. 

Well, a Crazy Christmas it's been.  We've decorated the tree, amassed the presents, poisoned ourselves with sugar and revolutionized our dance moves on my mom's new Wii.  A few more presents to wrap and we'll be all set for a calm reflection on the meaning of it all. 

Merry Christmas everyone!
xo--Heather

Auto Obnoxious!

I just added an automatic response to my inbox to alert folks that I'd be out of the studio through Christmas and it appears to have gone berserk!  From what I can tell, it sent an "I'll be out of the studio..." message in response to every email I've received since somewhere around Oct 17th.  Sheesh!  So, I apologize if any of you are greeted with a dozen auto responses from my inbox today. I told it to only reply to emails that were less than one day old.  I don't know what went wrong.  So sorry.

I do expect to pop back in here before Christmas is through though. Happy Christmas Eve Eve -- Sing lots of holiday songs today and make a big, floury mess or two in the kitchen with your loved ones.  I plan to.

Whistle While You Work

Okay, so the Trash Ties response was amazing!  And a bit overwhelming.  We've turned our house into a full-on workshop and I'm experiencing Christmas through the eyes of Santa's elves.  Thank you for your orders.  We're making and packaging them up round the clock. I've added a post to the Trash Ties blog to answer some questions about shipping, security, applying discounts, extended coupons! and such.  If you've placed an order or are about to, you should have a read through that post.  (There's also a giveaway!)

Other than the elvish nature of this week's work, we haven't yet had a chance to break into Christmas this year.  The Christmas decorations are stacked in boxes in the middle of our living room and have been for two weeks. This year will have to be condensed, with extra Christmas effort and activities packed into the end of next week.  We'll make it particularly fun so the kids don't notice they had to wait! 

Oh gatz!  I'm getting weepy.  My friend's two daughters are over to help and they're watching Fiddler on the Roof while they work.  Sunrise, Sunset is bellowing from the other room and I can't get through that song without tearing up, even if I'm in a distant room focussed on writing this post!  I've got to wrap it up before they get to the Chava Ballet song, the one that starts, "Little Bird, Little Chavala."  Oh forget it, I can't even type it out.  I'll move on.  One of my favorite movies, anyhow!

The fish?  I'm looking forward to the fish.  I made him for our Christmas tree about 5 years ago or so.  Beyond my funky junky collection, he's one of my favorite ornaments.  I just love the idea of a goldfish swimming around in a pine tree.  A few more days to go...

Big, Big, Big!!!

We did it!  And I can't believe we pulled this off in time for Christmas -- It's Trash Ties day!!! 

My once-buttoned lips are now happily unfastened and I can freely talk Trash.

This is a big day for Isaac & me.  We spent a good half of 2007 designing, photographing, planning, re-designing, sourcing, proofing, printing, and planning some more.  There have been a few rocks on the path and a couple of big boulders, but we forged ahead.  And now here they are, cute little pink boxes of Trash Ties, looking all innocent and easily-accomplished.

Isaac just finished the new Trash Ties website today and I've started a Trash Ties blog!!  So much of my personal history is wrapped up in my adventures with Trash Ties (movie sets, patent stuff, fancy stores, big magazines, tiny apartment, terribly-sick baby, incredibly-worried mommy, rapidly-growing business, and a big decision to hold off on Trash Ties till the patent came through, etc).  I wanted a place where I could recount some of those stories, hold contests and challenges, and we could have all sorts of madcap fun with hair.  I probably said it better over there;  I'm all googly-eyed and goofy at this point.

So stop by the new blog & website and see what I've been up to for a big part of the year.  I bet you can even track down the front view of this curious photo. 

There are a crazy-ton of pictures and all of the info you need to finally see what I was wearing in my hair last Easter.  That was an accidental sneak by the way, not so much a sneaky sneak (though I like those).  And sorry about keeping quiet.  People go crazy over these and I didn't want you wanting them until I could deliver.

But yes, go read my first post over there and then have a look at The Basics pages in the sidebar and Isaac's pink palace of a website.  He even programmed a video slideshow and lovingly turned these little pink boxes into a Winter Wonderland.  He cracks me up.

And here's a coupon for your holiday shopping pleasure, good through December 10th.  You don't really need the coupon, just the code, but I couldn't resist. (BTW, and completely unrelated, if you haven't learned the words to Sesame Street's I Love Trash, then you're not truly living.)  The above code will give you 15% off your entire order -- just for you guys.  So many of you have written, wanting to buy Trash Ties without even knowing what they are - wow! And yes, the shopping cart is set up for international sales.  Follow the Globe symbol for details.

So, go to the Trash Ties blog to see what these babies can do and put that cutie coupon to good use. 

Yay for Trash Ties day!  We made it.  I'm excited to finally share these with you.  It's a good day.

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Update:  A few of you had difficulty paying through PayPal earlier today. I wanted to let you know that Isaac has since worked with GoDaddy to implement a solid and secure solution that allows you to pay directly in the store. Now everything is working smoothly!  I apologize for any inconvenience.

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Another Update:  If you've placed an order or are about to, make sure to read through this bulleted list I just added at the Trash Ties blog covering shipping dates, coupon tips, site security and a giveaway!