Hello & happy Friday to you! I want to start by thanking all of you for your sweet and encouraging words regarding the twins news. I feel ever so supported and loved and that is totally what I need right now. I have loved hearing your experiences with twins, and just about babies in general. I really appreciate all of it.
Here is the final addition to the May release that made it by the skin of it's teeth to the Stationery Show! Emily, our production manager had to draw a hard line with me on this deadline as I couldn't really get my stuff together. She cut me off and said this would have to go in the July release…then she saw it. (or that's how it went down in my mind)
This card has been needed for so long and I can't wait to send it to about a hundred people. It's pretty straightforward, and goes out to all of your bright and shinys.
My mom paid me perhaps the highest compliment ever by saying: “Oh honey! I would have written this for you! This is your 'daughter' card.” It made me cry (but really, what doesn't these days…) and realize that I have not been able to write the much-requested 'daughter' card because I don't have a daughter…but my mom does, and now I will soon!
So whether it reminds you of your daughter or a dear friend or some other fabulous lady in your life… I hope you find a hundred ways to send this…so Emily will be able to sleep at night.
I would love to know what you think!
xo
LOVE this. Can’t wait to be able to buy several!
Adore this card!!! Absolutely one of your best! I will buy several for the bright and shinys in my life…Have a fabulous weekend! 🙂
well…first of all I LOVE it. when I really think about it, I am just overwhelmed by how many “bright & shinys” I have—an embarrassment of riches. Truly. I think Emily will be able to sleep very well indeed. XO
LOVE. Was just coveting a package of 24 spools of baker’s twine in every-color-and-white yesterday at Home Goods… thinking, “there must be SOME way to use it since I have to have it…” Love your use in this. Outside of the card, since, obviously, it’s adorable and pretty and I love the layout and design of this specifically. And I love balloons. And stripes. Yep, nothing I don’t love about it. Especially the twine! 🙂
Yep—spot on! Love the bright and shiny.
Love the card, it’s perfect and can’t wait to see it in person! Keep on creating…your work is amazing. Just a thought as I love to buy up cards and they can add up in cost. Have you ever thought or considered doing a special deal for facebook fans that or blog follwers…perhaps a buy 5 get one free…or buy 10 or more cards and get 20% off. Or even a weekly deal of the day/week and feature a particular card at a discount. Just a thought. I will buy the cards regardless but would likely buy more as I love a good deal 🙂
My first thought upon seeing it was: I want to send that to my daughter! Your mom is right 🙂
This card is beautiful, cheerie and fun! I love the balloons. You are a sparkly shiny thing:) keep up the great work!
I love it! You are a wonderful daughter and will be a wonderful mom too:) I am so excited about your babies! You are so blessed:):)
I longed for twin girls my whole life – ended up with four over ten years…. ah well, maybe I will have twin granddaughters. Listen to me tell you: my first two were 2 yrs 10 mos apart. The “perfect” age difference everyone said. Not! Just as hard, just Two different stages of work. I’d rather be changing two diapers than changing a diaper while engaging an active preschooler! In fact, after I had my third, I really wanted “Irish twins” for my 4th. But alas… 2 yrs 3 mos. Enjoy twins… for every tough “stage” will be over at the same time!!!
PS. I NEED this card for my youngest. She’s my bright + shiny. 🙂
ANOTHER GEM!!
SO many bright & shiny loves in my life too…
WHEN CAN WE BUY these May cards???
I like Kelly May 17th’s discount idea also!!
And Leigh, you are creating two “LOVELINGS” who will be blessed with their parents & families, loved beyond measure, will grow to be lovely & loving, creative,appreciative,caring,insightful,hard-working,bright & shiny human beings…..JUST LIKE YOU!
Yes, indeedy. . . . this is one of your all-time most fabulous ones, Leigh. Surely those two cuties-in-the-making are influencing your ever-sparly imagination. I’m so eager to order these new ones. ox
PERFECT! This card is wonderful, wonderful for a lot of gals out there but, it’s definitely the daughter card Dad and I will send YOU!!!! Thanks and good job, honey! 🙂
All I can think about is one coming out bright the other shiny….which is perfectly perfect and in the end they will be both.
Hi Leigh ~ I just had to come to your blog and let you know that I purchased two of your cards at a local bookstore today (Changing Hands, in Tempe, Arizona) and I am a new fan! I stood there in the store looking at every card on the rack and admiring the lovely detail in your art. Awesome! And then I come to your blog and see even more cuteness and find out that you are expecting twins! Ah… my heart is happy!
All the best to you on this journey! I’ll be back to see how things are going.
PS: I would love to purchase this card for my own daughter who will be turning 25 next week. Don’t blink – they grow SO fast!
I first ran across your wonderful line at a little shop in the French Quarter called “Forever New Orleans” and I was hooked. Love your whimsical, wise, “wordsmith”-ing! Just saw this card on your website and it immediately spoke to my heart and I knew I had to have it for my daughter’s memory book. I say memory, because we lost both her and her best friend since kindergarten, in a fire in their off campus house. Both were students at SIUE in Edwardsville, IL, close to St. Louis. (I know you are from St. Louis.) Love that your mom saw this as a perfect card for her daughter, which makes it even more special, as that was my reaction when I first saw it. I wish with all my being, that I could give it to my daughter, Lacy. In my heart, I am. Thank you, Leigh.