Ben and I are retiring from craft shows for the rest of the year. Portland Saturday Market is actually doing a week long event up til  Dec. 24th that we were considering, but with 40F weather, rain, etc… I think it’s a better idea to pass.

This is our first Christmas with Kitty Baby Love and there was no way we could have anticipated the response we received from online sales. When we first started the business, we had hoped to get at least 365 sales by the end of the year… a sale a day. As of today we have 571 sales on etsy! It’s such a wonderful feeling to know that something we work so hard on is becoming successful. Mostly we are grateful for the opportunity of being work-at-home parents.

Mikah is already 7 months old, crawling around, and has 4 teeth. There are so many things we would have missed if either of us had to go away or he had to go to daycare. Instead we get to stay at home and be with him everyday. Thank you to all of our customers and supporters for this opportunity!

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First our website is finally live! It still needs some tweaks and additions, but the shop and shopping cart is working. Features we love include:

A secure shopping cart experience
We now have an SSL certificate which ensures security when you enter your credit card information on our website. You can verify this by checking the weblink and seeing that instead of http:// it reads https://

User registration
You will be required to signup in order to make a purchase. When you do that you now have an account with us and can track your order history (including when and if your item has been shipped yet) straight from your account! You can also write reviews on items and save items in your shopping cart for a later purchase date.

Coupon codes!!!
Yes that’s right- we’re going to be handing out discounts left and right (ok, slight exaggeration..) now that we have a system set up to automatically do it (etsy currently does not support this feature). A Halloween coupon will be revealed soon… we encourage you to stay tuned so that you can test out this new feature ^_^

Here is a screen shot of our new site… we appreciate any feedback you have on it including if it looks tweaky on your system/browser

And while on the topic of website updates we recently changed our etsy banner in reflection of the fall season…
Out with the old… and In with the new! What do you think?

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