I have so many ideas for this site and my shop, but they all have to wait. My real job is going nuts right now. After a painfully slow spring and summer, I’m getting hit hard with new clients, new projects, and tons of crazy deadlines. I’m absolutely not complaining. It’s actually a huge relief and I’m rocking it, but it means that my sewing machine will be collecting dust for a while longer.

I can only promise to try to get back here soon and share some pictures of a few things I managed to make last month before things got completely out of hand. And I definitely do still plan to restock the shop with fall/winter items. I have a few prototypes already, and plenty of supplies. It’s really just a matter of production time.

In the meantime, I’m proud to announce that I now have my own tab on Offbeat Mama — check out the brand spanking new Resources page!

And I’ll close with a moment of cute from DandelionBoy’s uber-crafty robot-themed 2nd birthday party:

After weeks of obsessing – and still probably nowhere near done – I’m making this site public and starting to let people know about The Vocabulary. Right now there are only six baby shirts and onesies in the shop, but I’ll be putting up the new baby/toddler pants soon. Those will be followed shortly by some women’s skirts. I also have some really awesome women’s short nighties on the agenda and some items for the home and men’s t-shirts. Stay tuned. :)

UPDATE: If you’re viewing this site on a Windows machine, the fonts probably look like crap. Sorry! Everything looks so pretty on my Macbook. I didn’t think I’d done anything to the WordPress theme that would create a platform/browser compatibility issue, but obviously I did. I’m working on fixing the problem… whatever the heck it is!

UPDATE 2: Problem seems to be resolved. Looks like it was simply my anachronistic preference for Courier over Courier New that borked everything. All I had to do was accept the New Font Order and let go of the 55-year-old loveliness of Courier. I’m told most people can’t tell the difference. Oh well.

Posts dated November 2008 and earlier have been imported from my previous Ballsy blog. I’m working on going back through to clean them up and restore categories and tags.

I may at some point add some back-dated posts to fill in significant events from the interim between the time I stopped blogging (two months after my son was born) and the time I launched this site. In the meantime, these photos of some of my crafty projects will have to suffice.