We’re back from our little vacation and are relaxed, recharged and fired up to take on our projects!  Kathy and I are also preparing to review the many, many wonderful inquiries we received over the mid-summer.  If you have submitted an email inquiry only, please make sure you submit the Request for Proposal form.  Chances are, we’ll be asking you to do that anyway and then your request would be at the end of the line.  Boooo!

Did I really say “fired up” back there?    I did, didn’t I?  Sorry, my cheerleader is showing. Go fight win, etc!

If you have otherwise emailed us, we will be responding to those in the order they were received. Thanks so much for your patience and for your inquiries. I know I personally feel renewed and ready to not only finish the projects I’m currently enjoying, but take on new work for the Fall season.  Kathy and I both will be updating our availability as we respond to requests and prepare proposals when we reopen our schedules September 2nd.  Thanks!

Here’s hoping everyone has a safe and sunny Labor Day weekend!

We recently resent our email blast from yesterday (the one about Femmeplates™), so we apologize if you received two versions.  That’s not normally our M.O., but we were told last night that our emails haven’t been arriving with any content for those who view them text-only, so we wanted to try to remedy that. If you happen to get a funky email or one that is missing content or anything, please drop us a note and let us know.  We’d appreciate it!

A final reminder that we will be out of the office Wednesday, August 20 through Tuesday, August 26th. We’ll be back in the office Wednesday, August 27th to respond to any emails we may have received. This is the one time of year that we give ourselves a much-needed break, so we won’t be responding to any email until we get back.  However, if it is an emergency (like the Internet is being taken over by an army of Lolcats or Melrose Place returns to prime time), we will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible.  If it’s truly urgent (like your site is inaccessible or you’re getting a database error) please contact your host directly for a more timely and effective response.

And, finally… it’s time for cocktails!  Don’t forget to join us on Saturday, August 23rd from 5pm - 7pm for some casual cocktails at the Lei Lounge. It’s nothing blown-out, just us girls having some tropical $4 signature cocktails, like Chinese Cosmopolitans and Hawaiian Mojitos on a beautiful Saturday evening in a cabana with some delicious snacks and attractive people serving us. What’s not to like?  If you’re in the area, please consider swinging by to join us for a drink — we’d love to meet you!

Ok, he’s not our uncle. That would be weird.  But he is our hero!  Bob of Scratching the Itch not only helped us build our fancy little Femmeplates™ shopping cart, but he figured out that wacky Internet Explorer error that was happening for some people. Woo woo!  *jig*

We’ve relied on Bob, or Deltus as some may know him, to come to our rescue with various scripting hang-ups over the last five years. He’s a real peach.  Thanks for all you do, Bob!

If you have tried to purchase one of our new Femmeplates™ blog design templates, but have received an error like this:

The recipient of this shopping cart link is not an approved shopping cart user. Please review your selection and try again.

... please drop us an email!  We’re not sure what’s causing this issue, but it only happens sometimes in Internet Explorer only.  Our research shows that we’re not alone in this issue and we’re doing whatever we can to fix it as a soon as possible. In the meantime, if you get any crankiness from IE, try using Firefox or just shoot us an email and we’ll send you payment link directly.

We’ll hopefully have these kinks worked out soon.  Thanks!

Ok ladies… no pushing, no shoving, no line cutting and no hair pulling.  Femmeplates™ are finally available for purchase!  We know, we promised these on August 11th but an unfortunate run in with some stubborn code set us back some.  Not to mention, I was out of town while Joelle hammered away at the set-up so that didn’t help move things along any faster.  How helpful of me!  However now, we have it all pulled together and working smoother than Kenny G covered in cream cheese.  Now, don’t go throwing darts at us if you run into anything hinky on checkout.  We’ll get any kinks ironed out I’m sure.

Femmeplates™ came from our desire to do some less restrictive creative work without the usual rules and regulations set forth with bigger projects.  We love designing pretty much anything but sometimes it’s fun just to do whatever hits our artsy fartsy button.  So we’ve unleashed a handful of premium cute stylish templates to choose from with a variety of price and license options to fit your needs.  We’ll be adding more new designs as the year goes on so the stash will get larger but for our premier Femmeplates™, we though this grouping would strike some of your girly chords. 

So go ahead and head over to our new Femmeplates™ selection and browse around. Viva la Femmeplates™!