Well, I’m not actually depressed about it or anything, but it does make me sad that last night was the last new episode of Glee for he next 4 months… If Modern Family and How I Met Your Mother decide to take a long hiatus too, I may actually get depressed.

Yesterday, I spent the day exchanging emails with the awesome Michelle from Flock Shop in Chinatown.  She’s going to be carrying almost my entire line in her super cool/urban/trendy store.  Wow.  I can’t believe I just typed that sentence… Toys that only my friends and family knew about just a few months ago are now going to be in a store for the public to see!  And hopefully it won’t be the only place you’ll find Janie XY.  I’m in contact with a few other places too so you’ll have a nice selection of stores to find my goods.  :)  I will make sure to keep you posted!

If you’re in the LA area and want to check it out, it’s at:

943 N Broadway
Ste 103
Los Angeles, CA 90012

My good friend, Jeannie, emailed me to let me know that I got into LAist.  Our booth is pictured in their article about the awesome shopping at Unique LA.  Take a peek!

But can you blame me? My days have been something like this for the past few weeks:

Wake up 7 am, sew what I can before going to work, come back from work, put on a Golden Girls DVD and sew some more until about midnight. As the days got closer to Unique LA and my trunk show at Bare Soles, I would be waking up at 7 am, and sewing until 2-3 am.

After about 14 hours of sewing straight, I can guarantee you that you start becoming a zombie or at the least hallucinating. I started thinking that the past month was all a big dream and that I never even got into the shows… and there was one night I was convinced that I really didn’t teach myself to make a toy. Crazy.

Now that I’ve gotten an acceptable amount of sleep, I’m still pinching myself. I couldn’t believe the response I got from my toys and my booth display! LA Weekly came by to take a picture, LAist, a few blogs, and people with huge cameras that didn’t introduce themselves… so please, if you find a write up about me somewhere, please let me know!! (Comment, or email me at jane@janiexy.com) I was totally flattered when my fellow vendors were shocked to find this was my first show ever. It reassured me that the sleepless nights I had trying to think of a display had finally paid off.

Our table at Unique LA

And, if that wasn’t awesome already, I met some really awesome people there. Customers as well as vendors. More on that later…