just go for it!

Wednesday was a weird day for me, I woke up to great news and went to bed with great news!

Now let me say that my everydays' are not like this, and let me also back it up to Tuesday evening for you..

Tuesday was a completely normal day, nothing great, nothing bad.. normal.

I planned on bringing some materials out to the living room that night so I could work on inventory and 

watch The New Girl <-- which you should be watching!

As we got all comfy and watched a few different shows, as usual the laptop ended up open 

on my lap with twitter, facebook, pinterest and email open.

I'm not sure how it started, but I decided I wanted my hair things to get out more.

I always envied other shops that had 'press' sections with magazine covers and celebrities 

sporting their product like it was no big deal.  I didn't want to envy anymore.

So I wrote up a press letter and at 8:30pm I emailed a couple editors of magazines, 

a couple celebrity stylists and like 2 tv shows with the letter explaining who I am and what I do along with some photos of my products on models.  I closed the laptop and watched tv.

That night while falling asleep I thought to myself, 'Heather what the eff did you just do?!"

Ok so the worst that can happen is a) no response or b) a NO.

And I was ok with that.

I woke up Wednesday morning and had a couple friends that I was going to see

and do their hair (yep I still do it for my buddies!) I completely forgot about everything

as I was doing my friend Kristys' hair (aka wrecklessgirl aka ladylike) when an email popped up 

on my phone.. I had to read it a few times, but basically Seventeen Magazine 

wanted me to send them my hair goodies!  

They needed them by Monday at the latest for an ethereal shoot they were planning for 

a February issue (which could change) they wanted a good mix of products... 

& they wanted them from me!!!

(it was difficult to pick a new cover so i found some retro ones!)

Seventeen Magazine is geared towards girls & women ages 12-21 (yes huge age range!)

they have been published since 1944 and I don't know anyone that isn't familiar with them.

I want my products to have a wide range of lovers, from babies, to kids, teens to women.

So this opportunity is perfect!  I want a teen to wear one to prom, I want a women to wear one on her wedding day, I want a baby to wear one at their first photo shoot, a girl to wear one on her 7th birthday and you to wear one on a casual work day! Get it? I want them to be for everyone for any occasion =)

After talking with the accessories editor she had originally asked if she could get the items the next day, 

well I was in the middle of making some customs and trying to get the last of my orders out and there is no way I could/would neglect all of you that have got me here.. so when she said also mentioned Monday I was completely relieved!!  My mom came over on Thursday and we started figuring out designs, colors, etc.

And while I designed she finished my other orders (putting the backs on them, the labels & packaging!)

Seventeen wanted a mix of headbands, clips & halos.  The theme was ethereal. 

Now without seeing the wardrobe, makeup, set or models I just made up what I thought could work.

I had some previous designs that I haven't released yet that I threw in, 

and even some older things that I wasn't sure if I would ever release.. they all seemed to just work.

Things got a little crazy!

The one on the left is a braided headband that I haven't made in a while, but want to bring back.

(view here) the flower that is on it can be detached if desired!

this one is a tie on halo, so romantic!

When I made flowers last year for fun I had melted the edges, I decided to do that to the piece on the left to give it a more vintage dreamy look.  And the one on the right I've been saving since February I just revamped a hand cut flower I had made and never used (see here)

I also included these two 'embeltishments' they are larger pieces that have a slit through the back that you can easily slide a belt or ribbon through. You can even clip them to clothing or bags! 

I wasn't sure if they could use em, but they aren't ready for the shop yet so I just sent em!

Wednesday evening was Criminal Minds premiere, its weird we aren't huge tvshow diehards but for some reason this week we wanted to watch all the new shows.  I was still so high off the Seventeen news that when the show was on I said 'babe hand me the laptop, I'm going to find a way to message Penelope cause she wears all those hair accessories on the show!"  So around 9:45pm I sent her a twitter message and not even 5 min later we were having a 20min long twitter direct message conversation (she is amazingly hilarious!) and next week I'm sending her a box of goodies that she is going to try to wear on the show for me!!!

And yesterday I sent that package off to Seventeen Magazine.

WHAT IN THE WORLD?!

Its still all a blur to me how my day went, but it was pretty damn cool.

The moral of this story is, GO AND GET IT!

Whatever you want, a job promotion, a new adventure, your boyfriend to propose lol.. whatever.

If you want it, you are the only one stopping yourself from going and getting it, 

so what are you waiting for?

{side note: mom thanks for all the help the last few days I appreciate you so much!!}