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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Design of the day

So sorry that I haven't had a chance to post this earlier, though I do have to say and confess that I had already posted this yesterday on my Facebook page (not much patience here, can you tell?), but I haven't been feeling all that well today.  Guess that now that the kids are feeling better it's time for mommy to feel a bit under the weather...

Introducing Cécile, our newest headband.  I just love the way that this headband came out.  It has a beautiful delphinium flower in tones of a bluish green and hints of purple with some peacock feather accents and birdcage veiling on a thin cream color headband.  


Cécile will be in my Etsy shop for 20% off until tomorrow at 11:59pm.  Discount will be reflected in price.

Don't miss out!!!

XOXO

Lizbel


Friday, September 9, 2011

Believe...

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. ~ Walt Disney


I found this quote a while ago and I hadn't gotten around to sharing my thoughts about it.  So here goes...

Not long ago I had been feeling down, stressed and to be quite honest questioning everything and everyone I came across.  I literally felt like giving up and closing down the shop and forgetting about everything that I am passionate about.  Why???  Well, part had to do with just feeling down and the other part had to do dealing with other peoples negativity.  You might be thinking to yourself "so what?" or "I've felt like that before" or "oh well, whatever".  Well let me tell you, it's not easy or comforting feeling this way but I have a wonderful support system around me, great friends, amazing family and more importantly a husband that believes in me no matter what and you know what??  It helped!!!

At one point I thought that I was no good or that I lacked what it took, but thinking more about it I realized that that was what some people wanted me to think or feel and I've come to a conclusion - I was not believing in myself and I was questioning not others but myself, my ideas, my work, me.  I was allowing others to influence what I thought of myself but no more.  I owe it to those that believe in me, my beautiful daughters, my amazing and supportive husband but more importantly to myself to continue on and believing in my abilities and what I can do, not what I cannot do or what others think of me.  So with that said, I wanted to share a little bit about myself.

I've been creating handmade stuff since I was a teenager and maybe even before then.  My mom is a very talented woman and she used to sign us up for different classes that would be offered in neighboring schools when we lived in PR.  Yes!, I lived in PR during my teenage years in a small town towards the center of that beautiful island where we didn't even have a movie theatre in town, (the closest back then was an hour away), so in order to keep us entertained and, of course out of trouble, my mom would attend these classes, from decoupage to cake decorating.  Besides that my mom always sewed our clothes (I think that she had to with 3 girls) and I never saw her complain about it, on the contrary I saw the pleasure she took in sewing our dresses and how her face used to light up when we wore them; the satisfaction that she felt was something that I always wanted to experience and so I used to sit down while she sewed and eventually she bought me my first pattern, (it was a "Sew n Easy") and fabric and allowed me to make my own dress while she sat nearby and made sure she was answering all of my questions.  That's how I got started in all of this.  Then I had my first daughter and I began sewing again and came to find that long lost passion for creating and sewing, but it wasn't until I had my second daughter that I realized that it would be much more satisfying to start creating more things, though I worked full time and really didn't have the time to pursue it more.  I created my very first headband 10 years ago and here is a picture of it.



So now with my new found belief in myself I will be creating and hopefully posting a new item/design daily and for that one day in particular that new item will be on sale at an introductory price.  Besides the daily item, I will choose an item of the week as well, it may be a completely new item or an older item from my Etsy shop.

This weeks current item of the week is my newest set The vintage newsboy & diaper set with matching booties (click on the link to see listing & other items).  The introductory price is $45 ($60 original price) and will be listed at this price until tomorrow September 11 at 11:59pm.



The item of the day will be posted tomorrow, so please come back and check it out.  In the meantime, I hope you can stay and take a look at my Etsy shop.  Follow me here and on Facebook for deals, giveaways and much more!!!

Thanks for all your support!!!

XOXOXO
Liz