Remember the days when you couldn’t wait to open that special valentine card filled with a paper note and conversation heart candy. I just KNEW that those conversation heart candies meant TRU LUV when given by the boy I had a crush on.:)
Years later, those special “valentines” are still ones I look forward to giving and receiving. A handmade card and artwork from our children are some of the best, aren’t they? A small handmade gift from a friend says, “I’m thinking of you”. Those kinds of things are memorable and treasured because you know that it was made with a lot of thought, time, and care. You know that while they were making that item, they thought about you, and could just imagine what it would be like to have you receive it!
Well, I have those same feelings, too, when I am making something special for a friend or family member. And because I love to do just about anything “DIY”, now is the perfect time to begin some simple projects to give this Valentine’s Day.
At www.YouCanMakeThis.com, we have a variety of downloadable projects that are quick, simple, and perfect to give to someone you care about. Here are a few ideas:
We’re celebrating the holidays a little differently this year at Boutique Cafe, my new baby Lola Olivia was born on Dec. 10th and isn’t sleeping at night. Needless to say I had to find a creative way of bringing the holiday spirit to our viewers, while including some extra help from a few special friends to pull it all together. What I came up with was a wandering through various homes in our very own Boutique Community!!
This idea makes me feel like Robin Leach from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (minus the accent)!! It’s a fun little holiday jaunt into the homes of some very creative gals who give so much year-round to their families and community. We hope you feel inspired by the Christmas decor, so cozy up with your hot cocoa and visit the homes of some of our closest friends.
Happy Holidays with love from Boutique Cafe! See you in the New Year!
*** Giveaway! Boutique Cafe wants to make your holiday extra merry by giving away two (2) Zhu Zhu Pets to two Very Lucky BC readers!
Here’s how to enter. You can do as many of these as you’d like. Each one is worth one entry into our giveaway; please leave a separate comment for each:
• Leave a comment in our shownotes for this episode telling us your favorite holiday tradition!
• Become a fan of Boutique Cafe on Facebook and leave a comment telling us you joined.
• Follow Boutique Cafe on Twitter (@BoutiqueCafe) and leave a comment telling is you’re our newest follower.
• Tweet about this giveaway and leave a comment with the URL of your tweet.
• Blog about this giveaway and leave a comment with the URL to your blog post.
Include a valid email address for our drawing. We’ll draw the two winners from the comments and contact her via email. Deadline: December 26, 2009 (midnight). The winner will have 24 hours to claim her prize or a new winner will be chosen.
** Click button below to view video coverage, or view it on our YouTube channel right here>>
Dear friends, I want to share my immense joy with you as we welcome our new little daughter Lola Olivia into our family. She arrived on Thursday evening at 9:52 pm weighing in at 6 pds 5 ounces, 20 inches long, and sporting lots of dark gorgeous hair. Nathan and I are completely overwhelmed with love for our princess, we’ve waited for her for so long, and it was a very rough pregnancy/delivery. Thankfully our girl is here safe and sound, and beautiful!
Our four boys have been dotting on her and loving her up so much. They are over the moon to have a sister of their very own. Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support through my pregnancy, many of you got me through these months and I’ll never forget it. I hope to be back to Boutique Cafe very shortly, but in the meantime I’m wrapped up in Lola and enjoying each moment of her first few days. I’ll share a link to see more and more pics of our Lola, I’ll be adding more so feel welcome to stop by and gush with me over her.
With love and thanks,
Daria, Nathan
The boys & Lola Olivia
Our wildly popular 2009 Holiday Gift Guide is brimming with sweet festive savings. Enjoy this little commercial we’ve produced featuring the current discounts, promo codes and deals you can snag on amazing products & services (discount codes valid till Jan. 1st 2010).
To view the entire savings guide Click Here>> More promos are continually being added throughout the Christmas shopping season so keep checking back. Thank you for supporting these businesses, many of whom are mompreneur owned & operated small businesses. Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and jolly?!
Happy Holidays from Boutique Cafe!
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With Daria expecting a baby in December, Designer and Friend Bari J. Ackerman steps in and brings us some spectacular video coverage of Fall Quilt Market 2009!
In the third installment of our Quilt Market Coverage, Bari interviews: Our outstanding friend & designer Patty Young. Patty shares her new fabric line “Flora & Fauna” as well as her upcoming patterns, and ready-to-ship patterns. Check out Patty’s website here>>. Bari J. also interviews the very talented Anna Maria Horner about her new “Little Folks” fabric line, upcoming projects & patterns…even her new book available Spring 2010 called “Handmade Beginnings”. Visit Anna Maria’s website & blog here>>.
Please join me in thanking Bari for her outstanding efforts and contribution to Boutique Cafe. Even more new interviews will be on the way in the coming weeks thanks to her! XO Bari, we love you ~ Daria
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With Daria expecting a baby in December, Designer and Friend Bari J. Ackerman steps in and brings us some spectacular video coverage of Fall Quilt Market 2009! In the second installment of our Quilt Market Coverage, Bari interviews: the talented and lovely Paula Prass about her new fabric line “Woodland Delight”, check out her popular blog for updates on her new pattern line release. Then Miss Sandi Henderson steps into the Boutique Cafe spotlight and discusses her new fabric line “Meadow Sweet”, as well as patterns and her upcoming book called “Sewing Bits & Pieces”. Learn more about Sandi on her beautiful blog as well.
Please join me in thanking Bari for her outstanding efforts and contribution to Boutique Cafe. Several new interviews will be on the way in the coming weeks thanks to her! XO Bari, we love you ~ Daria
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Please join me in thanking Bari for her outstanding efforts and contribution to Boutique Cafe. Many new interviews will be on the way in the coming weeks thanks to her! XO Bari, we love you ~ Daria
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Welcome to show #115, our celebratory podcast for 5 years of Boutique Cafe goodness! This journey has been a real joy to go on with our our listeners and readers, I can’t thank you enough for the support you have shown for the website, podcasts and for me personally as well. This episode Daria shares her thoughts on 5 years of podcasting and supporting mompreneurs. We share LOADS & LOADS of Boutique News about sales/promotions and great finds, and also give info on how you could be our very LUCKY listener to win our 5th Birthday Ultimate PRIZE PACK!. As a tribute to Patrick Swayze, who died yesterday after a heroic battle with Cancer, we play a song called “Jennifer Grey” by Christa Couture inspired by the movie “Dirty Dancing” and featuring some favorite images of him. Thanks to Maggie of Boutique Graphics for our Birthday Banner!
All Boutique News Links Mentioned in This Episode: Gocks Frocks Unstrung Sisters Taygalook SoFunFabrics La*Tee*Da*Kids Genevieve Gail (mention Boutique Cafe at checkout for Free Shipping this month!! Free Forged showing at the USB, along with several @etsydallas members. @makestudio is sponsoring the show. Urban Street Bazaar GirleeGoodz
***5th Birthday GIVEAWAY*** – ONE LUCKY listener will receive a HUGE Prize Pack from our Boutique Cafe friends!
Prizes Contributors include – Patty Young 6-piece fat quarter set of her fabric AND a Lil’ Chef sewing pattern Tote and Tee – custom initial tee any style of winner’s choice Carla Hegeman Crim – CD loaded with complete Scientific Seamstree Ebooks (valued at over $100) Rosa Dolce Designs by Priscilla Resendez – set of 5 headbands…halloween, thanksgiving, christmas, valentines day, & 4th of july Christa Couture – copy of her most recent album “The Wedding Singer and The Undertaker” & one-of-a-kind “Christa Couture Couture” shirts Pink Papillon Jewelry by MaryAnn Daniels Springer- gift card for a custom cuff! Sandi Henderson – set of patterns, and a collection of her gift boxes Lee Coulter – his new album! Frogs and Flowers boutique – an “I spy” bag and an apron The fit tweens up to ladies (one size fits all) Greggy Girl - a plethra of Greggy Girl items and a Greggy Girl Set!! You Can Make This – $50 pre-packaged bundle of ebooks from YCMT $30 Gift Certificate to Miss Label.com
Boutique Cafe free banner advertising package for 6 months! Amy Butler Design – a selection of her sewing patterns and stationery!! And more prizes are coming in today as well!!
Several ways to win: * Comment in our shownotes =1 entry
* Blog about Boutique Cafe and share the link = 1 entry
* Share this post on Twitter and mention @BoutiqueCafe (then come back and post the link here) = 1 entry
* Share this post on Facebook with your friends (then come back and post the link here) = 1 entry
* Join our Boutique Cafe Facebook Fan Group and post about this show = 1 entry
Drawing will take place on October 1st, 2009 at Midnight MST! Boost This Giveaway on PRIZEY>> (click here, then press VOTE UP to give our special giveaway even more attention) WINNER ANNOUNCED!!!!!!!! Congratulations to Mayya @ Sew Chic and Unique on winning our Ultimate Birthday Prize Pack from Boutique Cafe with prizes worth well over $500!! Thank you to everyone for entering and for your support. We love to do hot giveaways at Boutique Cafe and this one was definitely Smokin’
I can scarcely believe I’m typing our 5th Birthday post, but its true! 5 years ago this month Boutique Cafe launched with our very first show featuring boutique designer Lark, and her precious daughter and model Sophie. Since then we’ve welcomed some incredible guests, hosted celebrities, bonded together as a community, played some fun games, held countless contests and giveaways, recommended hundreds of products for you and your family, travelled to meet each other at our 1st Boutique Cafe Girls Getaway Conference, hosted a live feed at Quilt Market, spotlighted tons of mompreneurs in our popular 12 Days of Christmas shows, and have even been sponsored by big name companies like Aveeno Baby from Johnson & Johnson! Whew, I’m tired!!
That is just a sprinkling of what we have been able to accomplish together, each day I hear stories of how members of our community have followed their dreams and gone on to great success. All the while we at Boutique Cafe have been cheering you on, bringing you new inspiration, and in several cases given our guests a platform to get their message out to the world. We are so honored to support women and moms in their businesses, its what brings us the most joy! And when I hear that we’ve made a difference to you, well it honestly touches me to the core.
I am currently working on posting a NEW podcast as well as a huge gaggle of Giveaways! Keep a close watch on the site for this in the coming day or two!
Thank you to each and every one of our listeners, readers and viewers for contributing to Boutique Cafe over the years. We couldn’t do any of this without your support, and encouragement. Here’s to another 5 years! Hugs to each of you from the bottom of my heart – Daria
We recently sent Boutique Cafe viewer Jen Holyoak as our “Special BC Correspondent” to attend the “Moms Who Make it Conference” in SLC Utah. The goal of the conference was “Give Your Life & Business a Complete Make-Over, Creating the Life You’ve Been Dreaming Of!”
Jen was able to interview some incredibly talented women, get the scoop on some great businesses, and we’re thrilled to see the fun footage she was able to snag on her new Flip Camera!! Enjoy the ride as we share a bit of the behind the scenes from this amazing summer conference, put together by the dynamic duo of Quinn Curtis & Emily Hill. Thank you for inviting us to attend, and thank you Jen for all your hard work!! We LOVE our amazing viewers! Please leave comments for the featured gals in this episode – they ROCK!
Greetings Boutique Cafe viewers! I’ll be basking in the summer sun of California with my family for the next few days. If you have inquiries feel free to send them through, I will have my laptop and will check in intermittently. Emily will still be here posting Daily Dish reviews, so stop by often. I’m hoping to capture some fun footage for Boutique Cafe while I’m there, as well as have some baby gender news this coming Saturday. We’ll be heading to an ultrasound while on our vacation and will let you know if this bundle is our 5th boy or 1st girl! Stay tuned for that news.
Have a wonderful week with your families. I know some of you are already back to school, and some are just about ready to go back. We’ll have some fun things coming up on the site soon, it’s going to be GREAT! – XO Daria
Greetings Boutique Cafe Viewers! It’s been awhile since our last show, my apologies for taking a break from podcasting over the past few months due to illness in my pregnancy. Thankfully, in a moment of renewed strength today I found this video in our “Boutique Cafe Vault” from Fall Quilt Market last year. This unseen interview is with the amazing and lovely Anna Maria Horner! I truly hope you’ll enjoy it and leave comments for Anna Maria as well.
In our chat, we discuss her book “Seams to Me”, Good Folks fabric line, new patterns available, and her exciting pregnancy coinciding with a Little Folks fabric line as well. Since we taped this back in Fall last year, Anna Maria’s beautiful little son Roman indeed arrived and is beyond precious. Congratulations again Anna Maria! XO!
It’s a thrill for me to present two interviews that we did at the last Quilt Market in Houston. First up is amazing pattern designer Chelsea Anderson of Pink Fig Patterns, and second is fabric & pattern designer Lila Tueller of Lila Tueller Designs.
Enjoy our video interviews featuring the vast talent of these two amazing ladies, as they mention some of their hot items for Spring 09. If you are attending Quilt Market in Pittsburgh next month, be sure to pop by and tell them you saw their interviews on Boutique Cafe!
This week Boutique Cafe is excited to “party down” and join the Ultimate Blog Party hosted by 5 Minutes For Mom. We love their website, and are thrilled to be able to join in the groove with many mommy bloggers across the blogosphere.
Boutique Cafe has so much to offer, but don’t stop there listen to our past podcasts, shop till you drop in our Market and Spring Savings Guide, and come back often for our Daily Dish hot product reviews and BC FINDS! We’re your Cup of Couture and So Much More! Follow us on Twitter, add me as a friend on Facebook.
**GIVEAWAY – To all our New visitors this week, welcome to Boutique Cafe. Don’t forget to bookmark us and come back often – to learn more about BC check out our About Us page. Thanks for stopping by – now please leave a comment to enter our Poken Giveaway!! We’ll draw our winners on March 27th at midnight. (*watch the video to hear what Poken are and how they can help you with your business or friend contacts)
Ever wonder what is behind the vast online Twitter movement? It seems like everyone is talking about it.
The Today Show did an interesting piece on:
- how to Twitter
- Twitter lingo
- celebrities who tweet
and more!
The online influence of Digital Moms are in hot demand these days. In the second part of The Today Show’s series on Digital Moms, Ann Curry interviews Teri Walter Razorfish, and Wendy Piersall Founder and CEO of Sparkplugging.com. They also feature Melissa Garcia – Consumer Queen who saves money – snags coupons – promotes bargains – and educates other women how to do the same on her popular website.
“Moms want to hear from other moms. They don’t want to hear from a Corporate company. They want to hear from someone just like them.” – Melissa Garcia
The key to product success is knowing your audience, and with approx. 30,000,000 women online it’s essential to reach out to them through someone they trust. I’m sure many of us remember the backlash behind the Motrin ads on baby wearing. Moms spoke up online, and Motrin pulled the ad realizing that they had offended many of their target audience.
Moms are not only influencing other moms with their product reviews, but they are also influencing corporate America. Advertisers are now reaching out to these mom bloggers and site owners, providing free products for a recommendation on their sites. Wendy Piersall, gives her advice to moms who may be interested in providing a voice online, but also stresses the amount of work and time it takes before things payoff – it can take years. “It’s really rewarding” – she says.
For most, the opportunity to reach out online and connect with others is the biggest benefit of being a mom in the digital age. Social networks provide a chance for camaraderie and friendship.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on Digital Moms and Social Networking. How does this affect what you buy? Do you utilize social networks for friendship and support?
This isn’t our interview, but we felt this was so timely and important that we would share it on Boutique Cafe. Digital Moms Laura Fortner – CafeMom and Heather Armstrong Dooce joined Meredith Vera on The Today Show to discuss motherhood 2.0, and how approx. 30,000,000 women are now online.
Everything from raising a baby & connecting for support, to info seekers, groupsters, connectors – the reasons for being online go on and on. Boutique Cafe would like to know, why are you online? What does motherhood 2.0 give you? How does it enhance your parenting experience, and how does it take away from it? We’re excited to read your comments.
NEW SHOW! On Boutique Cafe this week, Daria is joined by Tina Givens for a video interview at Houston Quilt Market. Tina shares the plans for her upcoming book, and invites YOU to help her name it!! We also get a birds eye view of her beautiful booth at Market, and all of her exciting projects for children and babies. Thank you so much Tina for supporting Boutique Cafe, we were thrilled to see you again!
You Name It!! Boutique Cafe has teamed up with Tina Givens to assist in naming her new book!! Submit your suggestion to tina@cidpear.com or by leaving a comment on Boutique Cafe. If Tina chooses your suggestion, she will award you with an Autographed copy of her book as well as some beautiful fabric!! Good Luck everyone, we’ll be sure to share what happens with you!
** To VIEW our new Video Interview – click the “watch the show” button” or subscribe to us in iTunes! Thanks everyone.
Daria sits down with amazing fabric designer & friend Sandi Henderson at Houston Quilt Market. Sandi talks about her experience showing at Market, her very popular patterns, her new “Farmers Market” line of fabrics for Michael Miller, and shows off some amazing creations. Congratulations Sandi, we love you and are so proud of your HUGE success!! Visit Sandi’s website to scoop up some goodies >>
** To VIEW our new Video Interview – click the “watch the show” button” or subscribe to us in iTunes! Thanks everyone.
Daria meets with with fabric designer and dear friend Patty Young at Houston Quilt Market. Patty shares her incredible Andalucia Fabric displayed in so many mediums which is taking the sewing world by storm – you have to get some it’s gorgeous! Thank you Patty – We’re so Proud of you! (to see previous LIVE interview with Patty here as well.)
** To VIEW our new Video Interview – click the “watch the show” button” or subscribe to us in iTunes! Thanks everyone.
If you’ve never attended a Quilt Market you’re in for a visual treat! Here’s a brief glimpse of what it looks like inside the doors. Thank you to all of the designers and sellers who participated and allowed us to capture their booths. Enjoy!!
** To VIEW our Video Footage – click the “watch the show” button” or subscribe to us in iTunes! Thanks everyone.
Daria sits down with fabric designer (and her personal hero) Amy Butler at Houston Quilt Market. Amy shows off her new book “Little Stitches” available now, as well as fabulous apron and bag designs! **GIVEAWAYS: Boutique Cafe has teamed up with Amy to offer 3 amazing prize packs – you have to watch the interview to find out all the details on this sweet swag!! Enter the giveaway by leaving a comment for Amy in our shownotes, we’ll draw our three lucky winners from comments on Jan 26. 2009.
Thank you so much Amy for taking the time to visit with us once again! (we’re still giggling about the Pot Roast comment!)
** To VIEW our Video Interview – click the “watch the show” button” or subscribe to us in iTunes! Thanks everyone.
**This episode is full of Spectacular Giveaways including: A Pinkalicious Books to Bed set from My Princess Closet(**Which was featured on “The View” this morning!!), 2 $50 eBook Bundles from You Can Make This.com, and 3 Kimberbell Doll patterns from You Can Make This.com!! We’ll draw the winners on Dec. 22nd! Good luck Everyone and Happy Holidays from Boutique Cafe.
**Due to family emergency this will be our last 12 Days holiday show. I express my sincere apologies, and thank you for your understanding as I leave town to handle some personal issues. I hope you love the Holiday Shows and we’ll be posting winners shortly. Merry Christmas my dear friends! – Daria
We’re back for our FOURTH straight year of our popular Holiday Shows! This week Boutique Cafe and guests are bringing to life the stuff christmas dreams are made of, in the first of 3 Spectacular Christmas shows. Daria interviews designers and momprenuers including Barb of Lola and Clementine, Myrinda of Sweet Girl Boutique, Leslie of L’il Darlins, and Kim of Olive Kids.
**This episode is chock full of Giveaways including: a $25 Gift Certificate to LolaandClementine.com or her eBay auctions as well, $25 Gift Certificate to Sweet Girl Boutique, $25 Gift Certificate to L’il Darlins, Bib-A-Roo from Lil Darlins, $80 Gift Pack from Olive Kids with personalized Frame Print, Placemat, Name tag and Bookmark. How to Enter: Comment under this post to qualify for our drawings. We’ll draw the winners on Dec. 22nd! Good luck Everyone and Happy Holidays from Boutique Cafe.
**We still have ONE interview space available for the 3rd and final 12 days of Christmas show. If you are interested in having your shop, store, group or designs featured please email daria@boutiquecafe.com for further details.
Boutique Cafe made some history at Quilt Market, as we are the first media outlet to offer a live feed directly from Market! What a thrilling (and scary) experience to attempt such a technical feat on my own.
Here is the raw video interview hosted on Ustream.tv of my Live interview with up and coming fabric designer Melissa Averinos about her new (candy inspired) line called “Sugar Snap”. Melissa was such a sweet person to talk with, I enjoyed our interview immensely and see huge things ahead of her, she’s just super talented. Thanks so much Melissa!
Boutique Cafe made some history at Quilt Market, as we are the first media outlet to offer a live feed directly from Market! What a thrilling (and scary) experience to attempt such a technical feat on my own.
Here is the raw video interview hosted on Ustream.tv of Myrinda owner of Fabrichound.com and myself. What a fun opportunity to hear about Market from a retailer/buyers perspective. Thanks Myrinda for taking the time to do this Live Feed interview with me!
Boutique Cafe made some history today at Quilt Market, as we are the first media outlet to offer a live feed directly from Market! What a thrilling (and scary) experience to attempt such a technical feat on my own. We taped within the press room and invited special guests Patty Young, Paula Prass and Elizabeth Cranmerto join me. Our feed went live at 11:30 am on Ustream.tv, we thank many of you viewers for popping by to support our live show with your questions and comments. You’re the best!
We loved the Live Feed option so much that we’re going to do another one tomorrow morning (Sunday) as well. Tune in LIVE to www.ustream.tv/channel/boutique-cafe-live between 11:00am (texas time) with Myrinda of Fabric Hound and Designer Melissa Averinos.(**if you sign up for a free account on ustream, you’ll be able to post questions directly to our guests).
**GIVEAWAY: Lizzy Anne is teaming up with Boutique Cafe to offer her very popular Spring UP! Quilt pattern for a lucky viewer. Simply comment under this post to enter. We’ll draw the winner on Nov. 1st!!). Click here to view the quilt pattern that made a great splash at Market!, the pattern could be yours too!! (*long arm quilting on Spring Up display quilt by Black Bear Quilting)
Don’t forget to contact us if your company is interested in sponsoring an episode of Boutique Cafe!
**If you’d like to read my blog post about our 1st day at Market, Fabric 2.0 Party and Sample Spree Click Here.
It’s International Quilt Market this weekend in Houston, Texas, and Boutique Cafe will be there covering the event as media!
This time around I’m eager to try something a little bit different for our community, and offer a LIVE VIDEO FEED from Market on Saturday!! This is of course dependent on the quality of the internet connection at the Convention Centre, so if glitches arise please bear with us as we’ll have other coverage as well.
So, if you’d like to join in a little Boutique Cafe history with me this Saturday, Oct. 25th (approx. 11:30 am Houston time) – we’ll give it our best college try, and see if we can hold live interviews, in real-time for you!!
In order to participate, you’ll need to join www.ustream.com as a member, you’ll be able to participate in the Chatboard that runs next to the video feed. You’ll be able to comment, ask questions, and say hello to our guests directly! Can you say FUN?
**Once we’re setup and ready to start streaming, I’ll send a Twitter Tweet message with the url. (if you don’t have a Twitter.com account be sure to join and then click to follow Boutique Cafe’s updates)
Dear friends, welcome to show #100 of Boutique Cafe!! (The Crowd Cheers!!) This show marks a tremendous amount of work, planning recording, editing, networking, and love for us, and it just keeps getting better! We love bringing your cup of couture and so much more.
Boutique Cafe is celebrating our 3rd Birthday this month as well, so to see how far we have come in these past few years is thrilling. Thank you all so much for supporting our show and website! We love You!
Our 100th episode features special guest – Michael Steiner of Michael Miller Fabrics. We are most honored to have him on our show to share some of his experiences in the fabric industry with us. Mr. Steiner shares the story of how it all began, and how he and Kathy Miller were able to secure their first small business loan to grow their dream. Daria also presents a few listener questions to Michael and received some exciting, funny and informative answers.
***GIVEAWAY – In honor of our 3rd Birthday, several companies have donated amazing prizes for some INCREDIBLE PRIZE PACKS! Two lucky listeners will receive identical prize packs valued at over $300 each! Please leave a comment about our 100th show, with a valid email address for our drawing. We’ll draw the winner from all the comments and contact our two winners via email. Deadline: September 30, 2008 (midnight). The winner will have 24 hours to claim her prize or a new winner will be chosen.
Both Prize Packs Include:
-Apron and matching crochet cupcake from Mellissa of Wonder Mommy
- $25 Gift Certificate to your choice of Fabric Hound or Sweet Girl Boutique from Myrinda.
- Winner’s choice of tee (excludes the twin sets) from Emily of georgie tees
- 3 pack greeting cards & 3 pack of coordinating bookmarks $15.00 value from Patty of ModGreetings
- $40 Gift Certificate from Amy of Tote and Tee
- Package of eBook patterns valued at $40 from Kim of You Can Make This
- $25 Gift Certificate to RibbonRockStar
- 1 gorgeous piece of artwork valued at $125.00 from Artisit Samantha Shirley of Two Little Witches
- 1GB iPod Shuffle from Daria of Boutique Cafe. (holds approx. 240 songs and our podcast of course!) $50
***UPDATE! Winners Announced – Congratulations to Nadia and Trisha momdot.com who have both won an Outstanding prize pack from Boutique Cafe and our contributors!! Thank you to everyone for participating, we were thrilled with the comments. Keep Boutique Cafe on your radar for many more ways to win great stuff and of course be inspired!
Show number 100 is on the way…(my computer has had a nasty case of the hiccups and the video footage needs to be re-edited). But never fear it will be up very soon, that’s the life of a podcaster.
While you are waiting we have some other BIG news! Boutique Cafe is celebrating our 3rd Birthday this month! I can’t believe that we’ve been around that long, and I know it’s because of each and every one of you that we’re able to say that. Thank you all for supporting Boutique Cafe through these past years, I know many of you have listened to each episode, visited daily and still hang out with us around the site since day one. There are so many of you that contribute your ideas, comments, suggestions, time & friendship here. We honor you, and thank you for choosing Boutique Cafe as a place to spend your time and grab your cup of couture and so much more!
To our new visitors, we welcome you and invite you to join our community of moms, momprenuers and women who have so much passion, creativity and energy. We want each person who visits the site to feel inspired by what they see, a vast collection of talented designers, outstanding products, business women, moms, celebrities, indie musicians from all over the globe – but sharing our common interests as women.
Thank you for making our Third Birthday a memorable benchmark for our show, we look forward to many more celebrations and laughter with you. Keep Tuning In!
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Remember the days when you couldn’t wait to open that special valentine card filled with a paper note and conversation heart candy. I just KNEW that those conversation heart candies meant TRU LUV when given by the boy I had a crush on.:)
Welcome to show #115, our celebratory podcast for 5 years of Boutique Cafe goodness! This journey has been a real joy to go on with our our listeners and readers, I can’t thank you enough for the support you have shown for the website, podcasts and for me personally as well. 
This episode Daria shares her thoughts on 5 years of podcasting and supporting mompreneurs. We share LOADS & LOADS of Boutique News about sales/promotions and great finds, and also give info on how you could be our very LUCKY listener to win our 5th Birthday Ultimate PRIZE PACK!. As a tribute to Patrick Swayze, who died yesterday after a heroic battle with Cancer, we play a song called “Jennifer Grey” by Christa Couture inspired by the movie “Dirty Dancing” and featuring some favorite images of him. Thanks to Maggie of B
I can scarcely believe I’m typing our 5th Birthday post, but its true! 5 years ago this month Boutique Cafe launched with our very first show featuring boutique designer Lark, and her precious daughter and model Sophie. Since then we’ve welcomed some incredible guests, hosted celebrities, bonded together as a community, played some fun games, held countless contests and giveaways, recommended hundreds of products for you and your family, travelled to meet each other at our 1st Boutique Cafe Girls Getaway Conference, hosted a live feed at Quilt Market, spotlighted tons of mompreneurs in our popular 12 Days of Christmas shows, and have even been sponsored by big name companies like Aveeno Baby from Johnson & Johnson! Whew, I’m tired!! 
We recently sent Boutique Cafe viewer Jen Holyoak as our “Special BC Correspondent” to attend the “
NEW EPISODE!!! We’re back for our FOURTH straight year of our popular Holiday Shows! In our SECOND holly jolly installment Daria interviews designers and momprenuers including Dawn of 
**This episode is full of Spectacular Giveaways including: A Pinkalicious Books to Bed set from 
We’re back for our FOURTH straight year of our popular Holiday Shows! This week Boutique Cafe and guests are bringing to life the stuff christmas dreams are made of, in the first of 3 Spectacular Christmas shows. Daria interviews designers and momprenuers including Barb of 
Here is the raw video interview hosted on Ustream.tv of my Live interview with up and coming fabric designer Melissa Averinos about her new (candy inspired) line called “Sugar Snap”. Melissa was such a sweet person to talk with, I enjoyed our interview immensely and see huge things ahead of her, she’s just super talented. Thanks so much Melissa!
Here is the raw video interview hosted on Ustream.tv of Myrinda owner of Fabrichound.com and myself. What a fun opportunity to hear about Market from a retailer/buyers perspective. Thanks Myrinda for taking the time to do this Live Feed interview with me!
It’s International Quilt Market this weekend in Houston, Texas, and Boutique Cafe will be there covering the event as media!
Dear friends, welcome to show #100 of Boutique Cafe!! (The Crowd Cheers!!) This show marks a tremendous amount of work, planning recording, editing, networking, and love for us, and it just keeps getting better! We love bringing your cup of couture and so much more. 
