A New Addition to My Baby Product Line - Hobo Diaper Bags!

I am excited to announce that I am NOW offering Diaper Bags with my original designs appliquéd to the front. These will compliment my handmade baby blankets very nicely and would be awesome to give as gift set to an expecting mother. I will most likely offer complimenting diaper changing pads / mats with the diaper bag at a later date.

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Each bag will be lined with a cotton fabric that will be Scotch Guarded and the exterior will either be a canvas, 100% cotton or linen.

Here is an example of the Diaper Bag that is now selling on my Etsy site. This bag is made of dark brown canvas exterior, lined with Amy Butler polka dot fabric, 1 interior zipper pocket, 2 sippy cup pockets, 26" canvas strap, and appliquéd with my Baby Sea Turtles design.

Approx. size: 16 x 20

Price: $60 plus s/h.

www.jgdesigns.etsy.com.

Crafty Mama's Market - Austin, TX - March 15

I am officially a featured artisan in the Crafty Mama's Market in Austin, TX. The next event will be March 15, 2008. www.craftymamasmarket.com

I'll be selling all my items such as my Baby Elephant & Mama, Panda Cub & Mama, and Baby Sea Turtles handmade baby blankets. I also will be introducing my handmade bibs and diaper bag with matching changing pad.

The vision of the Crafty Mama's Market is to create a family event that will fortify the culture and community in the Austin area.

I look forward to seeing friends and meeting new people!

Be Jeweled Designs

I am happy to announce I am an official supplier for Be Jeweled. The website currently offers my elephant, sea turtle and panda bear blankets all handmade by yours truly!


Be Jeweled has a wide selection of beautiful children's items such as tutus, pillows, t-shirts, onesies, and more!


I am excited to be a part of the Be Jeweled family! www.bejeweleddesigns.net

Panda Bear Cub and Mother Handmade Baby Blanket

I have completed the newest version of my Panda Cub and Mother handmade baby blanket. I am quite pleased with the outcome. This blanket will be for sales on my Etsy website at www.jgdesigns.etsy.com.

About a year ago I was watching either Animal Planet or Discovery Channel and I watched the show where Tai Shan, the baby Panda was born at the National Zoo in Washington DC. I was inspired and designed this modern abstract representation of Tai Shan and his mother. My son adores Pandas and I made the bear into his nursery theme was he was an infant.

My original design did not include the bamboo, but with bamboo being the only food wild Panda Bears eat, I had to add that element to the blanket.


I currently only offer this blanket on the lime green linen, but I most likely will offer more variety of colors in the future.

Handmade Baby Blankets ON SALE!

I've announced my first SALE on my Etsy website. Prices good through 2/29/08.

www.jgdesigns.etsy.com

BABY BLANKETS TEMPORARILY REDUCED!

BABY ELEPHANT & MAMA (blue, green and pink) - WAS $45 NOW $42

SEA TURTLES (LINEN) - WAS $50 NOW $48














SEA TURTLES (ORGANIC COTTON) - WAS $45 NOW $42

July 2008—Raising Money for Panda Fund

The members of Panda Unlimited from one of the Flickr groups I belong to has asked me to donate one of my Panda blankets in honor of Tai Shan, the Panda Cub, born at the National Zoo in Washington DC. Being a Panda fanatic and have always supported Panda conservation, I gladly accepted and will be making a very SPECIAL EDITION Panda blanket that will be put in a SILENT AUCTION during a fund raising event for the National Zoo. I will be soon posting progress photos of this special Panda blanket on my Flickr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/jennifergdesigns.

Baby Sea Turtles Baby Blanket

Baby Sea Turtles Baby Blanket
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Here's my best selling baby blanket that I have appliqued my Baby Sea Turtle design on 100% organic cotton. The backside is cream colored flannel. This blanket will be featured and for sale on www.bejeweleddesigns.net within the next month. For those that want a slightly higher quality fabric, see my original Baby Sea Turtle blanket made of 100% Linen.

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My Little CafePress Store

I sometimes forget that I have another little website that feature my designs and customers can buy t-shirts, infant onesies, mugs, prints, etc. It's a pretty popular site called CafePress.com. Right now I have all my designs featured because CafePress really makes it easy for store owners to upload their designs and apply to the products they offer.

The website pretty much runs itself. After I upload, apply my designs to the products, write descriptions and all the good stuff, I really don't have to anything else. CafePress handles the payment, printing and shipping. All I do is check my sales report every once in a while and see what sales have been like.

I was especially busy during the holidays and it was no surprise that my Baby Sea Turtles design was the best-selling. With the success of the site I will be creating new animal designs in 2008!

www.cafepress.com/jenniferg

On the Fence - t-shirts and onesies

I am "on the fence" as to whether to offer t-shirts and onesies. When I had samples made a few months ago I didn't have a very pleasant experience with the print shop that I used. First of all, they took forever and their customer service was less than satisfactory. I won't name them because I am a nice person, but I will never use them again. So, the hunt for a reliable and quality screen print shop is still underway. Lately, I have been getting orders from the existing stock I have listed on Etsy. So far, only onesies have sold. Thus, the reason I am re-visiting having more made. At first, they didn't sell but all of a sudden they have been.

Above is one of my t-shirts that my son is wearing. I offer this design in a 2T. The image to the left is a sample of a onesie.

Well, we'll see how my hunt for a screen printer goes. I know I have lots of choices, it's just finding the right one. I think I can really make a hit with this line and adding more of my animal designs to the shirts and onesies.

Organic Cotton Baby Blanket

I am a linen fanatic, but I do understand that not everyone has the same appreciation for linen like I do. Therefore, I have decided to offer my baby blankets in a different fabric - organic 100% cotton. The idea of organic really got me excited because organic is really the "in thing" right now. This weekend I bought some of the new organic fabric and there are a few blankets in progress right now. I can't wait to have them finished. I think they will be a good alternative to my original linen blankets. Now my customers will have options on Etsy. www.jgdesigns.etsy.com I hope they go over well. I am already impressed with the quality of the fabric and my designs look good appliqued on it. My goal for the week is to get those blankets done and get samples out!

New Project

So, I am working on a business deal with this fellow mother and business owner to sell my baby blankets on her baby boutique website called www.bejeweleddesigns.net. My Baby Sea Turtles, Pandas and Elephants blankets will soon be for sale there. It is quite exciting and I feel a bit honored because the store owner approached me after seeing my photos of my products on www.flickr.com/people/jennifergdesigns/. Her items and her website are quite phenomenal so having my blankets featured along with the other lovely items is quite an honor.

I do have my work cut out for me. Yes, I still work full-time in a completely different industry which I plan to leave by the summer. I am VERY burnt out of the industry I am in and want to move on to a career that is more suitable for me and what my true passion is - arts, crafts, design and working with people with the same interests as me.

For the time being I have to work on JenniferG Designs part-time, but I know there will be late nights sewing! It will be all worth it.

My most popular design is my Modern Baby Sea Turtles (aka Honus ~hawaiian for turtle). I am amazed at how well-received this design has become. I played around with the design quite a bit. I never want to create something that looks oridinary and common. I think I finally achieved that with this design!