Squeeze the Day - Lemon Girl Boss Evening

Every once in a while, I get together with a group of local girl bosses. It's a fun time for us to catch up, idea brainstorm and just laugh! Always needed when you are consumed by running your own business. This time, I decided it would be fun to host the group on my patio. At the shop, we just got in a load of adorable new party supplies, and I fell immediately in love with the lemon products. I honestly hosted these girls at my house instead of our usual meetup up at a restaurant because I wanted to use the adorable lemon napkins and plates - yes, I know I'm silly and obviously love a reason to throw a party. The good news is, the party was easy to put together! I let the supplies be my inspiration and I kept it rather simple.

I went full out lemon with the decor. Definitely a cheery theme because of the bright yellows! I pulled our new die cut lemon shaped napkins, lemon hand towels, lemon small plates, and neon dinner plates. I also used my favorite lemon wrapping paper to snazz up tables. We have so many fun fruit napkins and plates in currently, you could really do this theme with any (cherries, bananas, pineapples and watermelons). Instead of flowers, I purchased some packs of mixed greens from my local grocery store and lots of lemons. Made for an easy and pretty look!

I kept dinner simple and ordered a neighborhood favorite, Ziggy's Pizza. The lemon theme came out with the desserts. My grandma makes a delicious lemon meringue pie, so I talked her into making one for our little party. One of the girl bosses, Sarah, also makes a tasty lemon custard pie and was willing to make one for the night. I definitely had a piece of each and loved every bite! Plus, both pies were gorgeous. Unfortunately we couldn't have them sitting out until we were ready to eat because it was warmer outside. Definitely a plus when you can have your dessert set out for decor. Drinks, I was also able to work in the theme of the evening. I found the adorable sparkling lemonade cans at my local grocery store - the bright yellow was perfect, and they were quite good. Might be my new pregnancy drink of choice when I'm wanting something fun. I also picked up some cans of sparkling rosé by Barefoot, some red wine, and a bottle of the Cupcake Sav Blanc - yes, I picked it because the top was yellow!

Overall, it was such a fun night chatting and laughing with friends. It truly was pretty easy to pull together and doable! Get together some friends, grab some drinks and add some fun tableware to have your own fun girls' night.

Lots of Love,

Home Studio Reveal

Over the past couple months, Love of Character has been busy busy with orders and I've been working in a crammed space, mainly on the floor. Made for filling orders a cluster. Well last weekend, my mother came over and we got to work on organizing my space! Dustin and I decided it would make the most sense to convert the original guestroom to a work space, and move the guestroom to the smaller room...sorry guests! At least that way, our guests still have a space, and I promise to make it pretty for you. I will admit to you all that I had a couple meltdown moments. One because I felt like a hot disorganized mess; two, because I was sad that all of the hard work we put into the guestroom and office was short lived. I needed to move on, however, and do what was best for the business (and our sanity).

This room is the perfect space for my at home studio! The amount of light alone makes it a brighter place to work. With the bed out of the room, we were able to put my standing work desk in the middle of the room. Makes it much more useful than when it was against the wall. We also had more room to organize my products, shipping supplies and tools. Check it out for yourself...

Scored this adorable yellow stool at TJ Maxx today for $30! It is a smidge high, but good for breaks.

Work table from Overstock.com - works great, but when we were moving it around, it was quite flimsy (aka put it in place and don't move it!) I also had Dustin and my father-in-law build wooden boxes to prop it up to a standing level. Without, it was a normal desk height.

Love having my ribbons on the desk where I can easily pull from. I ordered this holder from Amazon and it is meant to go on the wall, but works fine on a desk. I will say, the bars are not far apart enough to hold two rows of ribbon, but it does work great for holding washi tapes.

The work station I purchased comes with nice built in shelves - perfect for holding pretty legal pads!

With the great built ins we have, my mom wanted to make a mail station (see center section). We also put the snacks and hair tie containers on here as well.  Works as a great storage situation.

The Rifle Paper Co. calendar adds a nice pop and I can check my shipment dates. Also, how cute does my shipping tape looked stacked up instead of in a box!

So nice having the computer and my products in the same room! Makes shipping and printing orders 100x easier. The desktop backdrop is a good reminder for myself - "You can do anything, but not everything"...important for girl bosses to realize! You can find the wallpaper here.

One of my favorite parts to the room, is the new IKEA cube shelving unit. It stores my products, keeps them organized and helps them look pretty.

Last Sunday was brutal and I could not have done it without my mother (she is a tough cookie! which was much needed). It was so worth it. I feel so happy and productive in my new space. The flow is great and everything is right there. Having my work space clear to make the boxes has been much more comfortable then scrunching up on the floor trying to pull everything together. In love and feel more like a girl boss! Now back to busting out more boxes in my beautiful home studio....

Busy working on some Tiny Boxes of Party Character for a wedding next weekend. 

Made some Little Boxes of Bachelorette Character for a Bridal Luncheon - switched a couple items and viola! Look so good on the new table.

Thanks again Mom and Dustin for the help! Also, special shout out to Dustin for finishing his Masters! So proud.

Lots of Love,

Girl Bosses

Yesterday, I added a fabulous new box to the Little Box collection called Little Box of Girl Boss Character. It got me thinking, I work with a lot of fabulous girl bosses that are running great little businesses! They have beautiful work, are inspiring and help me to keep my business going as well. I was e-mailing with my friend, Angela, who runs the Wichita Mom's Blog (seriously if you are a mom in Wichita check it out!), and I got to thinking about everything a small business boss has to deal with. That woman raises two gorgeous girls, keeps a house, gets in good family time and managed to start up this great website to help other moms out. She definitely deserves the girl boss title! We were chatting business items between us and then sharing some pointers - best part about knowing other girl bosses. All about sharing the girl power.

Do you have a favorite girl boss you know? I'd love to hear about them and check out their work! I definitely encourage small helping small, girls helping girls. They also don't have to be an owner of a small business; trust me I work with a lot of wonderful girl bosses at my corporate job!

If you are wanting to send some love to one of your favorites (or a birthday gift, or congrats), check out our Little Box of Girl Boss Character! It's full of items that will help them and empower them.

Lots of Love (and girl power!),