I’d like to introduce you to someone who I only just ‘met’ 5 days ago and she’s very quickly become one of my favorite people on the planet. Let me back up a bit to Thursday when I received an e-mail from Tara Frey of Bella Pink saying she’d been given my name by the incredibly sweet Shabby Miss Jenn. Jenn I hope you got my e-mail that I sent through your website.  I may have been too wordy. :) Well, Tara (who I’ll have more to say about her fabulousness in future posts but right now this one’s all about Fifi) gave Fifi my name and told her I would be perfect for the job of setting up her new blog, which is what I’ve been busy doing the past few days. I’ve learned a lot and had so much fun and I’m excited to get to work on the next blog. Sounds like I’ve already got a few lined up. Yay! :) So here’s what we came up with for Fifi’s banner but we did a lot of fun stuff in other areas of the blog so you’ll definitely want to check it out.

So what makes Fifi fabulous in my book?

• She signs her e-mails with x’s and o’s
• She called Sunday afternoon just to chat and she has the perfect amount of french accent that I could’ve listened to her talk all afternoon but instead she seemed genuinely interested in little ‘ol me. :)
• She crafty in an elegant but whimsical way that I adore, choosing photos to use for her banner was nearly impossible!
• She grew up in Paris
• She now lives in a little cottage that has more character in each room than most people have in a house probably 3 times the size.
• She has a cabana and a hammock that are to die for.
• She’s a freelance writer and photo stylist for a number of national magazines. Half of her cover designs I actually have sitting in my magazine collection and one of them I even kept setting out on my ottoman long after it’s published date just because the cover itself was inspiring to me every time I looked at it. What are these fabulous magazines you might ask? You can see a few in her sidebar on the blog but among the list are magazines like Cottage Style, Creative Home, Romantic Country, Home Companion, Coastal Living, Style, Windows & Walls, and that’s just to name a few.
• She’s writing a book. I can’t even journal on a scrapbook page and she’s writing a whole BOOK!
• Within less than two days of her blog going live it’s been viewed over 2,000 times. That’s a lot of people who must’ve known how fabulous fifi was long before I had the pleasure of meeting her.

Kay, the list could go on and on but mostly she’s fabulous for being so sweet and giving me the opportunity to play with her fabulous photos and create a place where she can share her fabulousness with others here on the web. One comment left on Fifi’s blog already seemed to say it perfectly…

“I can’t stress enough how much I am enjoying your blog!!  It feels like an e-magazine.  Perhaps waiting for my favorite magazines in the mail won’t be as painful now that I have found YOU!!” ~ Britta

Fifi, if you’re reading this, thank you again for this opportunity. I have enjoyed working with you SO much.

So, other than learning a TON of new stuff about Typepad the past few days and putting together something as fabulous as I could come up with for Fifi I’ve been working also on the Eclectic Whimsy website and have that just about ready to go live with…again…but this time different. :) Hopefully I’ll be able to finish that up later today. I haven’t spent any time in the sewing studio but hope to do that a little today too.

Lots more that I wanted to post about but it’s a GORGEOUS day and my neighbor Nikki will be here any minute to pick me and the dogs up to head to the dog park. I’ll be taking the camera so hopefully I’ll have long overdue pics of Pixel. Hopefully I’ll have time to blog more later tonight. :)