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Sweet Notions Rocks In February!

Sweet Notions had a very busy February--this is the first chance we've had to update the blog after being on the road for over a month!
A quick summary:
Feb 8-9 -- First SN Boutique Sales Event at Cellar 17 was a success, thanks to JeanneMarie and her staff! We made many new friends, a few of which will be helping with the upcoming sorting party Sat. 13 in Tomball, TX  to clean and tag all of the great items received the past month while traveling.
Feb 10-16 -- The original event in Hico was postponed due to weather, however, our good friend Cindy from Australia braved the snow and ice that week to come and check out what we were up to anyway!
Feb 17-21 -- Rescheduled Hico event. We moved our first Boutique Event to Friday & Saturday in Hico with the creative design gathering happening simultaneously all day Saturday -- both events ran as smooth as silk. Thanks to Heather with Bliss and Trish at Sugar Moon.
Feb 22 --The Matryoshka Haus team flew in from London. Upon landing in Dallas Shannon and I promptly picked them up in the loaded Sweet Notions 4 Runner and trailer and headed off into the sunset, first stop, Stephen F. Austin in Nacagdoches, TX. This was to be the teams first experience helping with a Sweet Notions boutique event, and, wow, did we ever have a great experience with the help of the ODK honor society gals! This was our first campus show and we now LOVE universites. We hope to have the opportunity to do more of them soon.
Feb. 24-28 -- The first US Matryoshka Haus board meeting, in Kerrville, TX. More encouraging than could have been expected, Shannon has put together an incredible and capable board with a real heart for championing the progress of Matryoshka Haus and Sweet Notions.
Mar. 2 -- Sweet Notions first intern, Elizabeth Jones, arrived in Austin from London for a 5 month stay. She was introduced quite quickly into meetings!
Mar. 3-7 -- The team splits up. Half of us head to the farm outside of Hico to meet up with Matt and Miriam to discuss sustainable agriculture, and the other half heads to Tomball to get the office organized.
Of course,  we consistently worked at setting up new shows, established collection events, put together organizing parties to help get people involved and we're always training and developing the staff -- not too bad for a single month! We're still very excited about the potental of 2010.

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