My fellow family channel member and buddy Chassy Cat (host of Technogeekery) is putting out a call for her viewers to send in video clips. In her new show up today you can see clips of a little message I recorded for her show #30.

In addition to seeing me goof around on Technogeekery, you can also learn valuable information about how to upload and send GINORMOUS files over the internet to those you love, it just might save your life someday. Chassy Cat recommends: You Send It.com as well as, MegaUpload.com.

So come on over, learn something new, and laugh at me (I mean with me!). Remember Boutique Cafe is always looking for video clips from our listeners too, so why not try out Chassy Cat’s suggestions today and send us a little video clippy lovin’? You might just wind up on Boutique Cafe TV!

Watch Daria on Technogeekery>

A big big thrill from my trip to Market in Portland was the time I spent with fabric designer extraordinaire Anna Maria Horner.

The first thing you notice about her is how lovely she is in person, dark gorgeous hair cut shorter in the back and tapered forward to show off her stunning features, beautiful eyes and a tremendous smile. Then when you speak to her you feel so at ease, Anna Maria is just so real and full of life. It’s impossible to be nervous around her! (though my nerves attempted it at first)

Her booth at market won first prize and it was easy to see why, a total visual feast of the most delicious fabrics, textures and patterns. Everything holding true to her unique sense of style and movement. When we sat down in the beautiful wing-back chairs en-robed in “Drawing Room” fabric, it was the perfect place to hold our little interview for Boutique Cafe.

What I didn’t expect from Anna Maria Horner was how entirely funny she is! She had me cracking up so hard at the start of our interview that we literally had to pause and start again (something about the size our our large microphone made us all laugh uncontrollably).

I hope you’ll take a peek at my Boutique Cafe interview with Anna Maria and leave a comment for her. She really was a wonderful guest and just a total thrill to be around!

(Photo Credit: Intimate Photography by Amelia for exclusive use by Boutique Cafe)

MORE Quilt Market NEWS and INTERVIEWS Coming on Boutique Cafe.com – Check in often!!

For the past few days I’ve been immersed in the creative kingdom of International Quilt Market (in Portland). Boutique Cafe was given special access within the show to videotape and interview a plethora of our fabric and designer heroine’s and (heros). Taking along my amazing team of Megan from Brassy Apple and Amelia from Intimate Photography we worked the showroom floor interviewing, capturing and photographing, drool worthy textiles and admirable creative geniuses. We also had the opportunity to meet up with several members of the boutique designer community, it’s been the most spectacular meet and greet!

We’re on our way home tomorrow, and can’t wait to share it all with you! Now the fun begins as we edit video tape and photos to share on Boutique Cafe. Watch for our video coverage of 2008 Portland Quilt Market…coming very soon!!

Pictured in this photo (L to R): Amelia, Amy Butler, Daria, Megan

Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petton has held a recent contest for the Best Parenting Podcast and we were informed that Boutique Cafe is one of their choices! What a thrill to receive a nomination from one of you, and to hear such high praise from Ms. Van Petton herself about Boutique Cafe.

Teens Today is a website that showcases a teen’s perspective on parenting today, from her “net” generation view of the wondrous world of young people.

Please check out the fantastic list of “Best Parenting Podcasts” mentioned on Teens Today website (we’re in the Parenting with a Twist category). And be sure to leave a comment for Vanessa about why you love Boutique Cafe – we really would love you for it!

Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petton >>

Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petton has held a recent contest for the Best Parenting Podcast and we were informed that Boutique Cafe is one of their choices! What a thrill to receive a nomination from one of you, and to hear such high praise from Ms. Van Petton herself about Boutique Cafe.

Teens Today is a website that showcases a teen’s perspective on parenting today, from her “net” generation view of the wondrous world of young people.

Please check out the fantastic list of “Best Parenting Podcasts” mentioned on Teens Today website (we’re in the Parenting with a Twist category). And be sure to leave a comment for Vanessa about why you love Boutique Cafe – we really would love you for it!

Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petton >>

While in Calgary last week I was invited to attend the Premiere of The Opus movie. Many are calling this a follow up to “The Secret” but in fact The Opus delves even further into how to create the life and legacy you desire. The original cast of The Secret have joined in this amazing movie, including some new faces and the result was inspiring and uplifting. I was enthralled with the music, storyline and of course the bevy of motivational masters involved in this project (including: Douglas Vermeeren, Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale, John Demartini, Marci Shimoff, Mark Victor Hansen, Morris Goodman and many many more). The Opus was masterfully pulled together and produced by motivational speaker Douglas Vermeeren (who also is a long time friend of mine). The evening was a huge success and jam packed with a captivated audience. I spoke with several people afterwards and asked their feelings on the movie, to which my questions were met with enthusiasm and high praise. I was also thrilled to have the opportunity to meet Marci Shimoff a keynote speaker and author who was a cast member in both The Secret and The Opus.

Watch on Boutique Cafe very soon for some special guests involved with The Opus, and be sure to check out the Opus website for a screening near you!

NEW Feature! Boutique Cafe has the most fantastic prizes! So fantastic in fact, that it’s heartbreaking when you miss out on any of them! Now with our new public calendar you can browse by deadline so you never miss an opportunity to win on BC! When you click on the prize that interests you, you’ll see a section called “Where” which holds the url to the giveaway post. Simply copy this link and paste it into your browser to send you to the giveaway you desire. Now follow the specific directions at the bottom of the giveaway post and you’ll be entered. We’re currently adding to the new calendar so keep checking back.

A wonderful feature of the google calendar is the ability to add our Boutique Cafe Giveaway Deadlines into your own calendar to help remind you to join in!

Thank you for supporting Boutique Cafe, happy winning to our wonderful readers and Good Luck!

Are you a long time listener of Boutique Cafe? Perhaps you’ve advertised your momprenuer business or boutique on our website, or journeyed to our Boutique Cafe Girls Getaway Conference last year? Do you just HAVE to listen to each and every show? Do you long to be featured on the site? Whatever your interaction with Boutique Cafe we’d love to hear from you!

What do you love? How have we changed your podcasting experience? Have any of our shows inspired you with new ideas for your home and business? Are your children wearing boutique handmade clothing now? Are you blogging along with our Fashion Forward Challenges, or trying out products we recommend on the Daily Dish? Please let us know.

Here’s how to get involved… simply send in a Testimonial about your own personal experience with Boutique Cafe over the past three years. We’ll be sharing your messages and feedback on our site so other Moms like you can see exactly what Boutique Cafe has to offer.

Please send your testimonial directly, with subject “Fan Feedback” email us by clicking here. (*please include your name and url so we can link to you and give you credit for participating).

We thank you so very much for taking a moment out to share your thoughts and feelings about Boutique Cafe with us. Your participation is what makes this show and website so worthwhile. Once we have several testimonials we’ll make a page available for everyone to view and enjoy.

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. As means of celebration I have put together a peppy podcast full of podsafe music by Lee Coulter, Geoff Smith, Brother Love, and a great Giveaway for one of our commentors on this show. This will give you a small taste of what Boutique Cafe has 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!

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 for your cup of couture and so much more! Now Let’s party, click our Watch the Show button and join in the fun.

**GIVEAWAY – Boutique Cafe is giving away a TWO MONTH banner ad in our popular Market to One lucky poster (valued at $120) that’s two months of free exposure for your blog or website. To be eligible simply post a comment about our website or this show – we’d love to hear from everyone that visits. We’ll draw the winner on March 14th at midnight. Leave a comment with a valid email address for our drawing.

WINNER ANNOUNCED!! Lois from Goodies for Mom.com -Congratulations to you! You were drawn as our Winner from the Boutique Cafe / 5 Mins for Mom blog party! You have won a Two Month banner ad in our popular Boutique Cafe Market (ad value is $120).

Many thanks to all of you for participating on Boutique Cafe, we hope you’ll continue to enjoy all that we off

During the month of March 2008, Daria was featured as the official “Chick of the Month” on a fabulous website called Girl-Indie.com.

This special interview was for members of their forum and featured questions such as:
“What is Boutique Cafe and what inspired you to start it?”
“You recently announced a partnership with Mommycast, could you tell us a little more about what that means for you and Boutique Cafe?”
and
“What did you do before Boutique Cafe?” among others.

To check out the Chick of the Month interview, sign up for Girl-Indie.com and Click here to enjoy >

Thank you to Lisa and Bobbie for the honor of being interviewed on your amazing website for WAHM’s.

Last week’s Bag Challenge was such a hit, it’s time to shift gears a bit and sing the Blues! Denim that is! For our Challenge this week we want to ask “Have YOU Got The Blues?”. We want everyone to blog about your fave pair of jeans this week, it can be jeans you already own or even a scoop on some hot denim duds that you have your eye on. So what’s your personal fancy? Skinny, Flair, boot cut? Low rise? (how low are we talking?) Share it all on your blogs and remember to come back and share your url so we can enjoy and even shop!

*To participate please post your “Dream Jeans” on your own personal blog, with picture and link back to this Challenge url. Once you blog your reply to the Challenge, come back to Boutique Cafe and list your blog link our comments so we can all come to view your post! It’s a fun way to get traffic to your personal blogs + we all get to know each other a little bit better.

Tonight I have this special little treat for you. We announced a few weeks ago that BC would be launching Boutique Cafe TV, complete with video submissions from you – our community. In the first of our listener video submissions, I’m honored to showcase a familiar face… 7 year old Sophie (myangelsophie). This video is from a dance competition she was involved in. Sophie has modeled for eBay sellers for many years, and was the face of clothing company Greggy Girl. She and her Mommy Lark were our first ever guest interviews on Boutique Cafe, so it’s only fitting that we now share what Sophie is up to these days – DANCIN’. We’re proud of you girl! (To view our vidcast please press our “Watch The Show” button below)

*We invite you to tape a quick segment for inclusion in our shows and email it to me at daria@boutiquecafe.com (inclusion in our shows isn’t guaranteed and will be based on the discretion of BC staff). Perhaps you’re a great seamstress and would like to share a quick tip, or maybe you’re a mom with a great idea to get your kids to sleep at night. We’re thrilled to include YOU this year in Boutique Cafe’s videopodcasts, and feel that this will bond our community further as we get to know each other even better!

Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us at Boutique Cafe! In today’s special episode we feature loads of Boutique News, The Gals from Runaway Design podcast.

Boutique News includes:
Marvellous Mouse Designs
Almost Amy
Adagio Bleu Studios new members (123 Mojo and ACherishedChild)
Bon Ami
News on the The Etsy “Blackout” launch >
Brassy Apple

We also have our Valentine Love Notes from YOU our listeners. Have a Lovely day everyone! XOXO
Podsafe music – Collin Raye “All I Can Do Is Love You”.

Boutique Café invites you to Strut Your Stuff in our NEW Flickr group! Share pictures of your crafty crafts, DIY, boutique creations and handmade wares.

It’s time to break out the pictures and STRUT YOUR STUFF!

Designers, Crafters, Sewing Fanatics, Photographers welcome!

XO
Boutique Cafe.com

2008 marks a new chapter in the life of Boutique Cafe. Our goal is to involve our listenership even further in producing great content and building a strong BC community. We have quite an interesting demographic of listeners including momprenuers, designers, SAHMs, working women, dads with great taste in podcasts and much much more!



If you have show suggestions, comments or would be interested in guest writing articles for Boutique Cafe in 2008 we welcome your input.



Announcement!! ** We will soon be hosting Boutique Cafe videocasts, and invite you to tape a quick segment for inclusion in our shows and email it to me at daria@boutiquecafe.com (inclusion in our shows isn’t guaranteed and will be based on the discretion of BC staff). Perhaps you’re a great seamstress and would like to share a quick tip, or maybe you’re a mom with a great idea to get your kids to sleep at night. We’re thrilled to include YOU this year in Boutique Cafe’s videopodcasts, and feel that this will bond our community further as we get to know each other even better! More on this will be coming soon so keep listening (AND WATCHING).

Welcome to 2008 on Boutique Cafe! It’s the perfect time to kick off the new year with a fun filled show, chalk full of giveaways. We’re announcing the winners from our 12 Days of Christmas drawings in this episode, so if you commented in the shownotes for any of our three 12 Days Shows you are eligible.

Hang on to your socks, we have tons of loot to award and you might just be one of our many winners!

**I will post a comment in the shownotes shortly naming winners and prizes, as well as instructions for claiming your prizes.

Update: As of 10pm MST January 7th – each winner and prize provider has been emailed directly by me regarding the prize announcements. Please check your email to ensure your email has gotten to you (check your spam folders just in case).

This week, Daria dishes the BIG NEWS! Boutique Cafe is a new member of the MommyCast and Friends Family Channel – powered by Podango. She shares news of the Expo, and a few friends we made on our trip. Amelia is here with her “Guilty Pleasures” topic for Fashion Forward Friday – be sure to blog your reply and then come and post a link in our shownotes to participate.

We also want to remind everyone to get snapping those family pictures, and enter our Boutique Cafe Family Photo Contest, sponsored by Philips. You can win one of four Digital Photo Frames in the gorgeous Seasonal design. Contest closes on Oct. 25th so upload to our Flickr group for entry. More details here ». All this, plus Boutique News and our Podsafe song by Lee Coulter “Booty Voodoo”. Links include: Cherish Collages, MonaLisaBoutique, Francoise*Studio, Amy Butler Design, YCMT

**Please note, when you click on the “Listen” buttons the file will download directly to your computer. We’ve had a few server issues today which are being worked on. Thanks!

Big Announcement! News broke early last Friday morning at the Podcast & New Media Expo in Ontario, California that MommyCast would be partnering with Podango, to develop a family channel of podcasts. We are honored to announce that Boutique Cafe is a New & inaugural member of the MommyCast & Friends Channel, of family friendly podcast content. MommyCast & Friends.com will be launching soon with content that will entertain, educate and uplift today’s moms and parents. Thank you for supporting Boutique Cafe and for cheering us on in this huge opportunity!

Watch for our show later this week, where we explain what all this means for Boutique Cafe and YOU our listeners!

Boutique Cafe teams with MommyCast and Podango as one of the Inaugural podcasts involved with the new MommyCast & Friends Family Channel.

Read the Press Release here »

Things on Boutique Cafe really heat up this week, when past guest Karen from My Girl Kristi turns the tables on Daria for a change! Daria dishes about her upcoming interview with Paige and Gretchen from MommyCast, the Boutique Cafe Girls Getaway Weekend in April, and more. Music is “Betty” by The Lascivious Biddies.

We are Thrilled to Announce the Winner of our “Win With Wendy” contest. Congratulations to GINGER!! You have won a full year banner ad spot on Boutique Cafe, in our Market. Thank you to all who participated, we were overwhelmed by the great response. Watch for many more contests in the future.