working out the kinks

Thank you all so much for your awesome feedback so far! Apparently not everyone uses Macs though (go figure) & we’ve needed to go back in & make a few things look all pretty on PC’s. This has been delayed a little bit due to the fact that (I’m insane) I basically pushed my site live, took a quick nap & then hopped on a plane to Maui. ha! That, and even though I have this super awesome CSS guy helping me, I am a retard & spaced that he didn’t have a few key username passwords he needed to fix them for me!

So the shop is probably looking fantastic, since that’s what he DOES have access to, but the other pages might still need some TLC… which they will hopefully get soon, now that Alex has the right info! I’m so happy to have him. Sometimes CSS issues can feel completely impossible and scary, but that man knows how to fix em! So great!

Anyway, a big HUGE thanks to all of you who emailed about it. I think a ton of people see errors, but don’t say anything, so let me give you all permission now to SPEAK UP. :) I need your eyes & ears people! hehe. The good news is that it’s pretty much only hit my circle of friends & regular readers at this point, and I probably won’t be doing the big announcement email/press push till next week and we’ll for sure have these kinks worked out by then!

Maui is absolutely amazing so far. Honestly I haven’t seen much of Maui yet, but already it’s soo good to be around my two dear friends Sandy & Derek. See, they opened a restaurant here 4 years ago, but in all this time I hadn’t come to visit them (hi, workaholic!). And now, due to some medical issues and a big dose of island fever, they’re closing it down & moving back to the main land. So it was now or never!! Literally, because they close their doors on Monday!

It was an insane weekend for me to go in a lot of ways, not only because I am usually (hence why I haven’t gotten down here in 4 years, let alone can I barely get my arse out of the city on the weekends) so amped to get stuff done on the weekends, but this one especially, right!? Now that I’ve just launched!? Ya, insane. But it actually could not have come at a better time. I got about 3 hours of sleep on Tuesday night, and maybe 4 on Wednesday… so by the time I got on the plane yesterday I crashed out! Not to mention that being behind my computer for ~16-18hrs/day for the last few days and then adding ~7 hours of travel time to that, I am SORE! I am so stoked to go swim in the warm ocean right now!

Ooh, and turns out my new friend Amanda, from Samara’s Bachlorette Weekend in Napa, is here in Maui, too! OMG! So rad. So I’m off to call her, walk to the beach & find an iced coffee. Have a great weekend everyone!

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the shop is live! yay!

Finally! My goodness…this last week or so has felt like years! All the teeny tiny things to wrap up… taking photos, writing descriptions, figuring out shipping, oh my! Thankfully I’ve had an AWESOME team helping me. Seriously, how did I get such an incredible crew of friends?! I love you guys!

This whole process has been so amazing. I’ll have to tell you the story sometime, really. But I will just say that it’s pretty awesome how it all came together over the last few months. I actually dove into changing a ton of things in my business last October/November… but admittedly the holidays and end of year client work swept me away from it again. Then at the beginning of this year I launched a few other client sites, and then of course there was Noisepop and SXSW… the list goes on. There’s always something isn’t there!? :)

Well the good news is that by the time SXSW came around, I was on a mission. I had wanted to get everything around before I left, but there was just no time, so I let it go…but with the intention that when I returned I would make this happen once and for all. And I have! I’m soo stoked! Seriously I have wanted this since I was a little girl: My illustrations on products! I think with working online for so many years now, it’s just so rad to have tangible items. That you can touch, and wear! So neat.

(Sidenote: I’ve gotten so spoiled with Ali & Aubrey’s awesome editing skills these last few weeks, I feel like I want them to edit this blog post. haha. Let the record show I try to write well, but I’m no pro, like those girls – so no criticizing my errors, prease. :)

So ya, where was I? *sigh* I’m excited. haha. More than anything it’s a big, fabulous experiment! I am just totally into diving into it, learning and seeing where it will take me. So fun! It’s so neat, because I’ve worked solely on my own – Freelance out of my house – for the last four years now, and one of the big reasons I hit that wall last Sept/Oct was that I felt like I wanted to do some sort of collaboration. I have been wanting more interaction… to do something on a bigger scale, somehow. But at that time I wasn’t even sure what that was. Wouldn’t you know it, though…ask & you shall receive, because I’ve done more collaborating in the last MONTH than I have in years. And I LOVE IT.

Following my heart this last month and diving into it has brought me back to life more than ever before. I mean, I know I’m a pretty positive, happy person to begin with, but this last month I have been waking up at the same time every morning. Eyes wide open, and feeling so alive and so excited for another day! I seriously don’t mean to get all sappy on you, but the old adage of listening to your heart is probably the wisest statement ever. JUST GO FOR IT. That’s what my heart’s been saying to me. So I did. :)

Original WilloToons Shop

I can only hope that you all with stay with me, watch it grow and morph and we can all get together and have a big fun party singing and dancing and laughing! :) Seriously though, I really hope you all will give me your honest feedback. Tell me what you love, what you would change, etc. I want to collaborate with YOU.

Thanks for being here.
xo

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See related post: WilloToons Mission

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willotoons store coming soon!


willotoons store coming soon!
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The last few days – actually make that the last WEEK – I’ve been feverishly trying to finish up all the details for getting my new WilloToons store off the ground. And as of tonight I’m aaaaalmost there! Probably another 24 hours maybe? 17 hours? It can’t come fast enough IMO, but then again I of course need to make sure it’s ready.

Anyway, thanks to all of you who have asked and expressed your support. You rule! Stay tooned, peeps.

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jesse & I toast sarah hatter


wrapping it up in style
Originally uploaded by sarahhatter.

Sarah’s moving to Chicago (for reals this time), and yesterday she had us all meet up at Zeitgeist to send her off in true drinking-lots-of-pitchers-at-dirty-picnic-tables fashion.

After a few pitchers, and me running into some random old friends, we went to George’s house for dinner, where she made us some amazing pasta and we feasted with bread, butter & lots & lots of wine.

Oddly enough George lives where Jane, Sarah M and Mat used to live, and where I met many of the awesome internet friends I have now. Wild! Now George lives there with Jason (lawgeek), and it was really neat to be back in that house again, now with very different energy.

I hadn’t planned on going out at all, but I’m so glad I did, because it was so fun! I think I was home & crashed out by 11:30. haha.

I will download my photos of the day/night soon.

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