Hello! You are reading pearls of wisdom and rick-rackery by run-on sentence maker Sarah Neuburger who runs this online shop called The Small Object. The Small Object actually began oh-a-way-back-when in 2004 and is run by me, just the one lady train and is the place where I sell the stuff I make + design. I live in Savannah, GA and agree that's an amazingly beautiful place with all the quirky small city charms.
Now, what you are reading is The Steno Pad which is the blog for The Small Object. The Steno Pad is essentially a great word for an otherwise very guttural word also known as a blog. You are welcome to use photos on your blog/website if you credit and link back to The Small Object and you don't have to ask first. Just credit me and we're good to go. I also try to answer all questions back at the original post. Read even more about this steno pad here. Below are links to embarrassing podcasts and answers to things you might now be thinking.
For all those happy couples out there, why not top your cake or cupcake tier with a glowing beam of two happy smiling faces! Yes! That's one happy piece of sweet goodness.
Sharing is good. Here are a few things you can download and print out as often as you like until your heart's content and you never have to pay me a dime. Seriously, it's all free. Just scroll down on the link below to find the one you want.
These are the things you folks seemed to really get a kick out of making and doing. For all you folks who are just joining us, here's the best of what you missed in the step-by-step and holiday category (bottom of the list). Hop on board!
You can shop our products through this website by clicking on "products" at the top of this page (underneath the photo of my hand posing as a teapot). Orders are accepted for both international and domestic purchases. If you prefer, you can also shop online through our Etsy shop! The choice is yours! Though, to see the complete collection, click here, because I don't have everything listed over at Etsy.
People can say very nice things about us and it makes me most happy. Sometimes, they even include us in their books. You can view the list of all the major mentions (click here), cause that makes me even happier. :) The list includes links to download Adobe pdf versions of the articles. You can also find most of the online mentions by searching for "press" (click here). I try to make it comprehensive but frankly, sometimes I miss a mention or two, or three or four. Who knows. I try.
Over the holidays, I found a good sale at Neiman Marcus on their embossers. I have never been to that site before and don’t recall what lead me to even look there but all their stationery was discounted so I bought up some for family gifts and some for us.
I found the design above one at Williams-Sonoma. I love the simplicity of them on our gifts. This may truly be the last gift tag we will ever need. The shop also got a couple. This is one.
And more recently, while reading, watching and researching organizations to donate to I was also browsing the various Etsy collective shops and in the Hearts for Haiti shop and found this seller, I love her apple sleeve design very much. It is all completely overwhelming to me and makes me wish I had skills to help more directly rather than donating cash. If only I were a nurse or owned a food distribution service or president of some drug company, right? Then I could really be useful on a grand scale. But then I heard a story of violinist Philip Kates on NPR and it made me think differently about all the ways one can offer help and hope to each other. You can read the experience in his own words here.
It got really cold here for awhile. I found a new/old wool blanket for us. I love it with the pillows I made of us as a gift to her. I made them using techniques in Amy’s Bend-the-Rules with Fabric book which I love. It’s a great resource with tons of information, its like my encyclopedia of how to get images on fabric which is awesome. Super helpful.
And another gift from the holidays, this one to me. A snowlight from naochina. (This is the medium.)
While looking around for that Matchbox Mouse from the last post, I came across Childrensalon and this image from their site. It’s the mouse box but oh so much more.
A big blue bow. That bow has been driving me crazy!! I love it so much. I have to start wearing one. And then I made these folks on clips.
And in other news, me as rabbit food. I should have used as my photo for issue #28 of this joy+ride. I was super excited to be included! It was posted over the holidays but I’m a bit backlogged posting press stuff so if you didn’t see it before, you may be interested. It features a camera phone picture taken while glasses shopping and details on the one color I find hardest to love. (And yes, I did end up buying those glasses because they are too funny to me. But true, I also hate them because they are keep falling down.) Plus, a sneak peek at something for my Together Forever Etsy shop that I have yet to launch. I keep telling myself soon!!
My cousin is expecting their first baby. This my cousin that called me one morning and asked me to fly out to Yellowstone with him that afternoon. (Actually, he called for my brother but he spent the night with a friend. So, I got the free trip.) The trip was amazing. Even with the Prince tape that was stuck in the cassette deck of the car we borrowed once there. To this day, whenever I hear Prince I think of that trip. And he the one that asked me to read at his wedding which I thought would be no big deal. And then I get up there. See all our family, see the two of them and choked my way through the words not really knowing what the heck I was saying anymore. Needless to say, I’m super excited for them! I’ve been shopping and the things that this baby is getting from me so far are these which I think says far more about me than the baby!
* Sophie the Giraffe Teether by Vulli, available here.
I know. It does seem a bit like a glorified dog toy to me, too. But folks say their babies love it and if I can’t splurge on it, who can!
* A baby wrap from both Miracle Blanket and a SwaddleMe cause I fear my cousin will get all annoyed with the fussiness of the Miracle Blanket one.
* Plus, a car seat. For all the trips to come see me and vice versa. :) Now for the waiting, I have a few plans of things to make and give them from me so I’m sure the time will fly by!
