Entrepreneurs don't sleep

It's a dirty little secret, or perhaps, not such a secret. Here it is, 4:18 in the morning, and I am about ready to call it quits. Yesterday, after a very full day with the girls, I got to work in the evening on some website enhancements.

As with all new things, there was a learning curve. One brilliant email from a friend got me on track with creating animated gifs in Photoshop and a brilliant hour or two spent with my husband, who works at Enflyer, got me on track with my mailing list signup sheet. And now, if you go to my website, you'll see a pretty little rotating gif that allows you sign up to my mailing list. In fact, there are going to be multiple lists going forward. Dear sweet hubbie is gonna help me get that properly configured soon. I hope.

Meanwhile, there is a display issue that irritates me so I've got a message up on a help forum about that. It's always something. And now, should I go to sleep, finally, or is it about time for breakfast? I'm starved!

A little fun

Yesterday, I got an email offer from Adobe to upgrade from Photoshop Elements to Photoshop CS2 for $299 and I clicked on that link so fast! I have never been able to correctly create animated gifs in Photoshop Elements; the animation was always fixed at .01 seconds. I called and spent hours and hours on the phone with Adobe and got them to reproduce the issue but it just never got resolved. It was mostly because I so desperately wanted animated gifs that I forked out the money for Photoshop Elements in the first place. Sure, it did to other useful stuff, but this was a huge issue.

It took me about 2 hours to track it down but I did finally figure out how to do animated gifs in CS2! So here is my first properly slowed down animated gif, actually viewable by the naked human eye!

P'kolino Play Table Dadlabs.com video

This video from Dadlabs demonstrates the P'kolino Play Table and also the toy version. When I went to JMPA, I met Antonio (featured in the video) and my daughter got to play with the toy size and full size Play Table. Antonio was so taken with her because he had never seen any child of any age correctly use the demo version of the Play Table. She kept going back again and again to the P'kolino display. She especially enjoyed corresponding the demo version to the full size version.

To be honest, I was not sure I was going to start carrying furniture at SoBeBabies. After seeing how my daughter interacted with the P'kolino furniture and other toys, I knew I'd be a fool to not take advantage and stock these wonderful items. We are in the process of getting them set up at our home and my girls really adore this stuff. And so do I! Our ottoman came yesterday and my husband was thrilled. My daughters are having such a blast with this stuff!

P'kolino Furniture

I am so psyched! We got the first of our P'kolino furniture in and the girls absolutely love it. They fought over the Klick for the first day. The second day, they fought over the Silly Soft Seating. Thank goodness all is peaceful here again!

I was surprised that my older daughter, nearly 8, fit perfectly in the Klick. It looks like she'll be able to enjoy it for a bit and I'll be getting some larger furniture for her shortly.

They both adore the crayons and sharpener. We are still waiting for the rest of the items.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

SoBeBabies makes every effort to limit our environmental impact. That is somewhat ironic in that shipping in and of itself is resource intensive, but for many of the items we stock, the only way to get them is online. We do some sales in person and will perhaps open a physical boutique...read more

Englacha II - a Sneak Peek!

Oh wow! This isn't quite out yet but have a look at the new Englacha Baby Stroller! This stroller is so cool! Ever walking and your baby is in the sun and there is nothing you can do about it? Poof! Here is the solution! Just turn the top part so your baby can face away from the sun and you keep walking! Nifty, yes?