They always say that when raising children the hours are excruciatingly slow and yet the years fly by. Whoever they may be, isn’t that the truth? My mind is boggling that the little numsi’s are 2 and 4, and what blows me away most of all is not that my oldest will soon (ish) be 5, but that my youngest will be 3. When did that happen? Seriously, when did my cuddly little baby get so tall and opinionated? Where did my little girls go? And who are these boisterous, loud (so very, very loud) stubborn, opinionated kids in my house? Strange indeed. On the plus side, they are very funny, we were talking the other day about how I’m English and their Dad is Danish. I asked the kids where they are from, and numsi2 said IKEA. Which, you know is almost the truth.
Anyway! Back to shop news, it seems impossible to believe that February is almost over, again, where did it go? We’ve had more illness- pneumonia wiped out myself and the kids for a couple of weeks- and lots of snow (Hello Minnesota), and I feel a bit like a hamster on a wheel. I’ve been running and running but time keeps running faster. So the shop updates are long overdue, my etsy site is still tragically empty, my big mailings are yet to go out…But! There are new things going on, albeit very behind the scenes. I’ve arranged a few giveaways with some very exciting blogs for the coming months, I’ve finished a few new designs, my online catalogue seems to be becoming an epic to rival War and Peace, but at least I am on the closing stretch at last, and I am scheduled to partake in April’s T-Shirt Mart at the Walker Art Center, here in Minneapolis. I’m super excited about that, if all goes to plan numsi should be branching out into adult wear. Which would be fantastic because I seriously have nothing to wear.
Speaking of t-shirts, I recently made the first numsi custom order, answering a Tweeted plea for Valentine’s Day gift help from a fellow Twin Citian, toy designer, artist and blogger extraordinaire, and all-round awesome lady, Mari from Small for Big. She was looking for an I love you shirt that was mod + cool for her daughter, and I had alot of fun making one:
Obviously I haven’t yet managed to put up information for custom orders online, all in good time, but if you have any requests I would be more than happy to work with you. Please send me an email, or tweet me, or Facebook me or whatever you like.
So before I go, would like to leave you with a quick taster of the new designs coming soon to numsi. Any day now, we’ll be seeing more tufted deer, piggies, zebras, ostriches and gibbons around here. Stay tuned, it should get interesting!
