Find Your Party Zen at Botanica of Wichita!

Do you have your tickets yet to one of Wichita's best party events? If you don't have your ticket to Zen, hurry and snag one before they are all gone! Every year, Botanica of Wichita puts on a fabulous Alfresco Event and this year is going to be the best yet...I can say that because I'm on the planning committee and know all the details! What makes this year's party a good one?

1. The Chinese Garden of Friendship is OPEN! The reason Botanica switched the Alfresco Event over to an Asian theme last year was to incorporate this beautiful addition and this year's party guests will walk through the Chinese Garden to enter the soiree. You will be greeted with champagne and h'ordeuvres to enjoy while you fall into a party zen state of mind for the rest of the evening!

Photo via Botanica of Wichita

2. Food - always a major staple to any party! Party guests will enjoy delicious Asian cuisine, which includes: beef rollups, spring rolls, Asian salad, personalized hibachi dinner, potstickers, satay, Korean BBQ sliders, fried rice and crab rangoon. Plus, they are bringing in Wasabi to serve their specialty sushi and there will be delicious desserts available. For after hours, pizza of course! Seriously...come hungry.

3. Drink - two words, full bar.

4. Entertainment - Any good party has some form of entertainment. A great party has live entertainment! The St. Anthony's Lion Dancers will be performing again this year and they definitely add an Asian flair to the evening. After their performance, Annie Up! will take the stage to rock us late into the night.

5. Last, but definitely not least, your ticket purchase supports an amazing Wichita organization. Botanica Gardens is an important part of our community and such a gorgeous place to spend the day. This event is a great fundraiser for them and a way for them to thank you for all the support and contributions over the years. The event planners and Zen committee members worked hard (mainly the fabulous event planners!) to make this a fun filled, special evening for all in attendance and you won't be disappointed!

Come spend the evening checking out the gorgeous gardens, eating to your heart's desire and dancing the night away! To purchase your tickets, click here or reach out to me and I can help you. I have been going for a few years now and I promise you will have an amazing evening!

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,