Tickety Bu Bamboo Luxuries for Body and Home

In 2011 I developed a new colorway every week. It was a lot of work, but so rewarding pushing my creativity and looking for new inspiration everywhere. I have not been creating new colorways at quite the same pace as last year, after all I’ve slowed down a bit with Tickety Bu. But I do have some fun new colorways to reveal, all with a story to tell of their own.

Sugar and spice and oh so nice. A colorway inspired by a great client.

A recent custom inspired this colorway. The name Burning Sky came after the colorway was done, as it just spoke to me, the colors of a sunset burning down in a clear blue sky.

Pinkie Square Promise is a girl’s club color in all it’s hot pink glory. So get your pinkies out and make a promise to a girl you love!

I was a huge Sid and Marty Krofft fan when little. I especially adored Sigmund & the Sea Monsters. It was my favorite show. Now that I’m introducing my own kids to classics like this, I can’t help but be inspired to create something fun. Sea Monster is dark blue with bold swaths of orange and gold and lots of green throughout as a result.

Inspired by the fun and vibrant nursery this little one calls home.

That’s a phrase that’s been muttered a lot in my world lately.

I started using it a year ago as it’s what I tell my disfluent son when he can’t formulate the words fast enough to keep up with his quick mind. It helps calm his body so the words flow more smoothly. It’s become a trigger for him to realize when he’s getting worked up. It soothes him.

It’s also one of the first things the doctor says to you when you go in for an appointment, as they listen to your lungs, check your heart, your blood pressure and all the other things they tick off on their forms. I’ve been to the doctor’s office 7 times this year alone and we’re only just getting started.

It has also been my internal mantra since my diagnosis last week of Hashimoto’s Disease and Adrenal Fatigue. Just like with my son, deep breaths help calm my body and they take the edge off any stress I’m feeling. Stress is something to avoid when your adrenal gland is worn out and not up to the task, like mine is right now. Taking a deep breath also helps take your mind off the pain of various procedures and tests and being poked and prodded. It also helps quiet the uncertainty and questions that arise from having an auto immune disease that most certainly sounds a lot scary than it will end up being when not in the throes of a full blown thyroid storm.

It seems only natural that this be something that I need to do more of in business too, for now, for my family and my health. So that will be my theme for the year. I’ll be taking things a bit easier and a bit slower. This means that I won’t be doing quite as much at each stocking, my turn around times will be a bit longer and my custom slots will be a few fewer.

In short, I’m going to take a deep breath.

I have been thinking and thinking of something fun to do to celebrate 1,000 Tickety Bu fans. A giveaway for sure, but what? Originally I was thinking a Mezzo Bu. It’s a well loved item after all and it’s getting chilly out now, the perfect time to snuggle up on the couch. But then I was thinking it would be a great time to promote the kitchen cloth. And what about something to pamper you with like a pillow case? Ack, too many choices. So, I’m relieving myself of the pressure and making you pick.

When we reach 1,000 fans (and yes, I most likely will need someone to point it out to me when it happens as I’m really bad about checking things like that), I’m going to go to random.org, let them pick a number for me and I’m going to count down to that number in my fan list and voila! A winner will be picked. That winner will receive a $50 gift card to Tickety Bu to be used on any in-stock items they want.

Just a little gift to the fans for all the support, love and enthusiasm for the Bu. Many, many thanks.

We’re off on our last hurrah of the year, to Florida. We’re going to take the kids to the Magic Kingdom, where my oldest son took his first steps. We’ll show both the boys the ocean for the first time and we’ll play way too hard I’m sure.

Any orders placed from 9/15-9/25 will ship on 9/26 when I return. I will be completely out of touch while gone, I’m not taking my laptop. (I know, the horror! Not sure how many days of withdrawal I’ll have to go through, but I want to just live in the moment the entire time I’m gone.) I promise to return all emails and questions when I get back home.

Have a great week everyone! And I promise that this time I’ll post pictures when we get back.

I get a lot of questions about the Tickety Bu hooded towel. Most often the question is, how does it fit? So, I thought I’d post a bit about it and show them in use.

My kids love their hooded towels, but not just for bath time. They often play with them as they make a great super hero cape and princess cloak. But they also love to take them to the pool to use when we go swimming. It’s a great summer for all your activities.

These are my two oldest with their towels on our first 80° day, when my kids demanded I hook up the sprinkler. My daughter is 7 and 4’4″ tall, while my son is 4 and 3’6″ tall. They are both very tall for their ages and still have years of use from their towels. The hood is contoured for a great fit as your child grows, so it’s full coverage when they are an infant and then less coverage when they are older, although the fit is perfect no matter what the age. I imagine my daughter will grow out of the novelty of the hood before she’ll be too big for it.

I added the last shot because I think it’s funny. It’s the classic, “If I can’t see you, you can’t see me” thought in action.