Goosie Girl Boutique

Goosie girl has been hard at work in the studio and we’re really proud to announce we have a brand new line of baby tutu dresses and costumes debuting this summer! The first of them are already in our etsy shop and ready to ship, more are underway and will be coming soon!

We announce the “Bella party dress” for infants through size 2Toddler!

This is a new style of tutu gown with a crochet bodice, full tutu skirt, halter tie and silk flower embellishment adorning the chest!

Some are simple and elegant, others are fun and whimsical, which serves our customer base so much better than a standard, one dress fits all color and style! We love making them each a little different with different colors, ribbons and embellishments, They are all ready to ship and one of a kind! More costumes are coming!

these have been received sooo well by our customers, and we can’t wait to get the costumes we’re designing up and ready to go for you!

I’m loving the new tools on photobucket, especially the new slideshow skins!
See what I made? Isn’t it cute??

Are you looking for instructions on how to make fabric boutique Raggie Bows? Well, I’m happy to inform you, you definitely came to the right place! As a matter of fact, the ONLY place for info on how to get these instructions in your little hands!!

Today on Etsy, our Raggie Bow Ebook is featured at the top of the pattern category! Whoa!! What a great honor for us to be up there next to such awesome designers & authors! Want to take a peek?

Click here to see it

If you’re ready to purchase the ebook ($15.00) and are an etsy gal, then you can find several copies of it available for sale in our Etsy shop

Les Tissus Bows (it means, “The Fabric Bows” in French!)

or you can visit our website as well

Goosie Girl Boutique

and while you’re there you can see ready-made bows, tutus, costumes, baby legs and sooo many cute gift ideas for little girls and their friends!

We accept all forms of payment through the convenient method of payment, Paypal. You can charge it, write an echeck, or use paypal funds to buy the book.

Have you already bought the book? Please leave some comments here as to what you think, and why you bought it (whether you are a seller and bought it to make bows and sell them, or whether you’re just a crafty Mama who wants to make some really cute accessories for your daughter, niece or granddaughter!)

If you are already a member of the HipGirlClips forum, you can also purchase the ebook there with a member discount applied. We’re working on getting our book listed on the You Can Make This site as well so it will soon be available in a great number of venues for your convenience!

Looking for FREE instructions? While we are not offering Raggie Bow Instructions for free, we’d like you to know that 10% of your purchase price (no matter WHERE you purchase it) will be donated to an awesome organization called Wounded Warrior Project This fantastic charity helps wounded soldiers, marines, airmen and sailors during their most difficult days by providing comfort packages to them immediately after being received at Landstuhl hospital in Germany as well as Walter Reed Medical Center stateside. They also provide injured veterans with rehabilitative services, education, family support and athletic opportunities as well. This is a charity that is SO very near and dear to my heart, so this is just one more GREAT reason to buy the official Raggie Bow Ebook and Instructions!

Sooo many people I know and love are serving, or have served in one of the branches of the US Military. It goes without saying that I try to do everything I personally can to see to it that we can support our troops in meaningful ways~whether it’s donating 10% of all my sales to wounded warriors or finding other ways that are important to our current and past heroes. I recently learned of an organization that is doing something AWESOME to salute our veterans…and I’d like to share the info with our readers so that you too can help one way or another…

Flags for Veterans

Flags for Veterans is a campaign being sponsored by Knucklehead Radio this Memorial Day!

THEY SERVE UNDER THE FLAG
THEY SACRIFICE FOR THE FLAG
THEY LIVE FOR THE FLAG
THEY DIE FOR THE FLAG
THEIR COFFIN IS DRAPED WITH THE FLAG
THEY ARE OUR VETERANS
THIS IS THEIR FLAG

Flags For Veterans is dedicated to giving the gift of the greatest American symbol to the men and women who defend it.

You can send a care package to our troops as a way of saying “Thank you” and they will greatly appreciate it. However, a pack of Oreos will last a day, a flag will last a lifetime. A 5′x 9.5′ flag is a gift that each Veteran will be able to take to the grave with them and their family can honor them long after.

Flags may be donated in any size, 3′ X 5′ and 5′ X 9.5′ (casket sized flag) are the prefereable sizes. Your donation can be specified for a Veteran from any service, from any era, or donated to any Veteran.

You may donate these flags and pay for them conveniently through paypal, or you may donate another random dollar amount. Goosie Girl Boutique is a very proud sponsor of this event. PLEASE think about making a donation to this awesome project!!

Flags for Veterans

Cookie magazine is having a contest and the prizes ROCK!! (A trip to New York City AND a $500 gift card to the Children’s Place!!)
You should totally check it out…

If you have a little one that has a style all their own, then get snapping that camera and get on it!

Styled By Mom, Cookie Magazine Contest!

Goosie Girl Boutique is offering (for a very short while) a promotional offer for Father’s Day!
We are offering one color tutus (pink, shocking pink, lavender, peach, turquoise blue, white or ivory) for only $22.00 including shipping. We have teamed up with a few fantastic photographers to bring you savings on having her picture taken at their studios in her tutu! (order by 5/20, as father’s day is 6/21!)

Photography by Patrice
Photography By Patrice
located in eastern PA, the Lehigh Valley
Located not too far for those in NJ and NYC. The Studio is 1.5 hrs from NYC and the same distance from Philly.Portrait photography with a unique perspective. Specializing in babies, children, teenagers, family, pets, actor head shots and models. On location sessions in the Lehigh Valley PA. …
Offering: 25% off services (sitting fee and prints) to Goosie Girl Customers, mention offer at time of making appointment.

Toni Hamel Photography
http://www.tonihamel.com
985.215.6573
Located in: New Orleans, Madisonville, Mandeville, Covington… Louisiana.
Offering: 30% discount on all services to Goosie Girl Customers, mention offer at time of making appointment.

These ladies are professional & top notch at capturing the sweetest moments and expressions of babies, children, and teens! Go to the Goosie Girl Website, purchase your “Daddy’s Little Girl Tutu”, make your appointment with either of them. Your tutu will be shipped within 10 days of receipt of payment, take it with you to the photography session, and then give your print of your special “Daddy’s girl” to Dad for Father’s Day! What a WONDERFUL gift idea!

I’ve discovered two new awesome etsy sellers and got some fun and funky fabric recently and I wanted to share with our readers!

If you’re looking for distinctive business or calling cards, stationery or note cards,happygirlgreetings is your gal! I just got a new bunch of awesome business cards, and I’m in looove with them. I’m a retro type of gal, and the cards she made for me are so cool! She is very fast and reliable and I highly recommend her!

After watching the recently posted video on the Goosie Girl Boutique blog on how to make a sea salt scrub, I’ve got the bug for making these types of products! I ordered the most fabulous scented essential oil from
Lemon Lollipop on Etsy. Her shop is chock full of yummy goodies…everything from handmade lip balm, candles, soaps, oils and more.

The pink vanilla frosting is simply to DIE FOR! For mother’s day I made a sugar scrub for my mom, godmother and aunt using the pink vanilla frosting and WOW I almost wanted to eat it! LOL!! Lemon Lollipop is working on creating some yummy products for me to enclose with my customer orders, and I’m so excited to share her wonderful products with my clients!

Speaking of cool…I recently picked up some way cool fabric too!! The maker of both of these funky prints is Alexander Henry. I’m not sure what I’m going to make with them yet, but does a true fabric addict really need to know that before she buys? he he

Yesterday Chicago became the first municipality ban to the sale of baby bottles and cups that contain the chemical bisphenol-A, known as BPA. The ban applies to all food and beverage containers intended for use by children under the age of 3.

But, according to The New York Times article, “the American Chemistry Council and other industry groups maintain that there is little evidence that the chemical harms children. They have lobbied strenuously against any ban on BPA, which is used in many other food and liquid containers in addition to baby bottles.”

My opinion/viewpoint…
…interesting….isn’t it? It seems to me BPA is more of an eco concern or an environmental question mark, it seems anything “green” gets through under the guise of “safety”. I’m surprised this wasn’t being overseen by the CPSC or addressed in the CPSIA of ‘08. And…it seems any legislation that makes claims of danger to children immediately passes~whether it is fair, or grounded in science or not. Don’t get me wrong, we all want what is SAFE and GOOD for children. I don’t want to see any children get sick or harmed, but if there isn’t any scientific proof then what basis does this legislation have? I’d be interested to hear more about that! And…if it’s as dangerous as some have claimed, why is this ban only happening on baby bottles and cups and applicable to children under 3 years old? Why not ALL food/beverage containers and for EVERYONE, not just children? This reminded me of the whole CPSIA issue we’ve been covering here on the Goosie Girl Blog~so I thought our readers would find it interesting. Thanks for reading!

I’ve been laughing myself silly that last few days…I need something to cheer me up with this dreary rainy weather in Chi-Town today! I found this website last week thanks to my dear friend and fellow designer, Annie of Pretty Baby Boutique I can’t help going there, it’s like a bad car accident…I have to keep looking! lol! lol! lol!

Nice…stripes….haaaa!!

Thanks Annie for giving me the link for the hilarious site,

I’m loving it!!

I just read this on the Earnshaw’s newsblast email update…

I thought our readers would be interested in hearing about the latest developments with the CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008…i.e., biggest fricken joke of the century)…and the CPSC (Consumer Products Safety Commission)…

“Last week, President Obama announced an intent to nominate Inez Moore Tenenbaum (former head of South Carolina’s Education system) as chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Robert S. Adler as a new commissioner of the CPSC. In addition, per the president’s budget, the CPSC will receive $107 million—a 71-percent increase in resources since fiscal year 2007. That number is almost three-quarters of the way to Obama’s goal of doubling CPSC’s funding.

Obama also plans to increase the number of commissioners at the CPSC to revitalize the agency’s health. For more than 15 years, it has operated with just three leaders, but Obama expressed intent to add two more posts this summer.

Inez Moore Tenenbaum of South Carolina currently serves as special counsel to the McNair Law Firm in the area of public school finance and throughout her career has been an advocate for children and families with extensive experience in administrative and regulatory matters. She has been recognized for her services on numerous task forces that provide oversight on children and family services in the state. Tenenbaum completed two terms as South Carolina’s State Superintendent of Education and ran for U.S. Senate in 2004.

Robert S. Adler is a professor of Legal Studies at the University of North Carolina and the Luther H. Hodges, Jr. Scholar in Law & Ethics at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. He has been elected six times to the board of directors of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine and has a breadth of experience in consumer product safety issues and an extensive knowledge of the CPSC. In addition to serving on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team, Adler co-authored the agency review report on the CPSC.

In other CPSC news, the commission has published a handbook for resale shops designed to help them understand how to comply with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Visit www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/thrift/thrguid.pdf. “