AHC Giveaway! - Closed!

I love doing giveaways and have done a couple now on other blogs but wanted to do one on my own.
SO! In celebration of the new shop and of this new blog (I guess this blog isn't super new anymore but relatively new), I want to give away one of my favorite necklaces in the store -- the Collage necklace -- to one winner!

Just comment to enter. And if you follow the blog, retweet, reblog or do something else to spread the word on both the shop and this blog, you will get an extra entry. Just enter an additional comment to let me know that you did (Otherwise I might not know!).

Giveaway will end next Wednesday, 9am CST.

Good luck friends!

** Make sure to leave me your email address so I know how to get in contact with you!!

AHC

The new shop is finally open! Go take a look >> > > AHC

Almost There

One of the surprising things about opening up a new shop is not so much just making the thing you want to sell but everything that comes with it -- how the shop will look, branding, merchandising, packaging etc. I actually really love this part.

One of the things I really wanted to do was make a stamp with the new shop logo. I shopped around at various stamp-makers' online stores but never really settled on anything or anybody to commission the stamp from. Then a couple of months ago, the nice Margaret of Paper Pastries wrote and asked if I was willing to do a trade with her. I took a look at her store and saw that she sold custom stamps (as well as other super cute pens, pencils and stationary sets) and I thought that this was too perfect. So I sent her a Summer Bounty Poster and she sent me a custom "AHC" stamp.

I've been working on the AHC bags this weekend and I think they are looking great. It has been fun and frustrating figuring out what to sell in the new shop so the sort of mindless busy work of stamping bags has been calming and therapeutic.

And yes that is 24K gold all over my work desk.

Go check out Paper Pastries! And Margaret's blog!

Sneak Peek: AHC

Within the next couple of weeks, I'll be opening up a brand new shop! Here is one of the items that will be in it. Stay tuned!