Birthday Blocks

This isn’t an Etsy shop, but it is a hand crafted item company! Have you seen the stickers with “I’m this many months old” on them? This store comes from that concept! Here’s Megan with an overview of her shop!

Birthday Blocks started off as an idea spark after my son was born, and several of my friends had also had children. My Facebook news feed was suddenly overwhelmed with pictures of chubby infants, and several images that I nicknamed, “Milestone Moments.”  We’ve all seen them, a kid propped up in a chair with a handmade sign or sticker on their shirt that proclaims to the world they they are 3/6/9 months old and still SO CUTE!   I hadn’t actually done those for my son, since I didn’t know about the trend until he was about three months old. I’m a little too OCD to start the tradition if it wasn’t originated at his birth.

Dumb or not, it stayed with me, so I started experimenting. I tried a few different designs, and had some serious trial and error issues. Over the course of a year or so, I worked on perfecting the look and feel of the blocks.  It was slow going, and friends were the first (wonderful, thoughtful, amazing) people to place orders.I had just launched my crafting blog, C’mon Get Crafty, so I was on a constant lookout for crafty ideas. The blocks themselves I bounced around in my brain for months, often while casually remarking to my husband things like, “I mean, I’ve never seen something like that,” or “Most baby milestone picture props seem to be stickers” or even “I dunno, it’s probably a dumb idea.”  (Confidence is a wonderful thing.)

Over time, I started getting more orders. I also started getting some really great feedback. As I progressed to a more professional look on my blog, I toyed with the idea of a website just for Birthday Blocks. There were a lot of times I had great intentions of just hammering away and getting it launched. I set deadlines that I missed constantly, caught up in the craziness of everyday life, moving across the country, and being a wife and mother.

So while I still haven’t done everything I want to with Birthday Blocks, I’ve found my happy middle ground; doing something I love and enjoy, making some money whilst doing it, and keeping my personal life and role in my family in balance.

Birthday Blocks is part of the giveaway next week! So head on over to her store using the above links and check out all the cuteness that Megan makes!