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Cupcake Cuddles will be at the Kidsfaire expo tomorrow and Sunday.  If you are in town, come visit us at the Babyville exhibit!  http://www.thekidsfaire.com/

This weekend was pretty tiring. My neighbor and I had the bright idea to try out the OC Marketplace as vendors. We shared a booth there and it was TIRING! We had to wake up at 4am and we were not allowed the leave the fairgrounds until 4pm. I was able to sell some stuff but not as much as I would have liked. Our aisle didn’t have too much foot traffic and the Orange County fires didn’t help either. I don’t think anyone wanted to be outside on Saturday. Well, at least we tried and we know now. Lesson learned: Stick to my target audience. The holiday boutiques for mom’s was a lot better for my type of products.

Cupcake Cuddles attended it’s first boutique show and it was a success! Thanks to my neighbor Lanya for telling me about it and thanks to my mom for helping out. It was a half day event at a local church and we had some good traffic at our table. I sold some blankets, leg warmers and the Flipper toothbrush holders were a hit!

Here’s Lanya’s booth. She makes some adorable handmade cards. www.lanyascards.net

Cupcake Cuddles now carries Hair Bows and Clippies.  Spread the word!

http://cupcakecuddles.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=14

The Flipper toothbrush holders have become very popular at Cupcake Cuddles.  Along with the blanket gift sets, they are selling fast!  HERE is another recent feature article.

Cupcake Cuddles has been featured on The Mommies United website.  Check us out!!

http://www.themommiesunited.com/2008/08/start-day-off-right.html

Click on the link above to read the post and enter to win a free Flipper toothbrush holder.

Cupcake Cuddles’ first newsletter went out to our customers last week.  Click HERE to check it out! 

If you are interested in subscribing, you can use this link to join our list:  http://list-manage.com/subscribe?u=489a976c8025ede12f8ba6dcc&id=49dce6e0f4

In case you haven’t heard already, I’m offering a coupon at Cupcake Cuddles.  Use KATIE to get 15% in honor of Katie’s upcoming 1st birthday.  The coupon is good until April 30th.

I’ve been working really hard on my business and it is just about ready to go!  Here’s a sneak peek for you people who actually read my blog.  The site is actually fully functional.  I’m just tweaking minor stuff and will be adding some more products.  Stayed tuned….I will be sending out an email to everyone to launch the site. 

I was planning on posting about this later this week and announcing it to the public next week but I got my first online order today!  Someone from Arizona?!?  I was so excited and nervous at the same time.  I had no idea how this person found my website.  Later I found out it is Liz’s friend.  Still exciting!

So…… go to www.cupcakecuddles.com.  Let me know what you think and feel free to make an order!

So I’ve been working on getting my business started.  There are lots of things to do and I have already run into issues that have caused a slow start.  I was working with a flaky website designer so I had to find a new one and start the whole process again.  Then there will issues with the label I’m printing for my blankets.  That was finally resolved and I should receive them next week.  A couple good things are happening though.  I’m learning A LOT and I found some new cute fabric for my next set of blankets.  Stay tuned for more updates.