Ladies and gentlemen, my Venti cup with the eco-friendly sleeve runneth over.  My schedule is currently full and I am unable to begin any more projects until October at the very earliest.  Full. Full-a-rooni.  Full-o-rama. Fuller than a fat kid in a cupcake shop.  Full.

If you plan to put in a request for a proposal and you’d like to work with me specifically, please know that I am not only not booking any projects at this time, I am not reviewing any requests and will not be preparing any more proposals until Tuesday, September 2nd. 

If you submitted a request and I contacted you for a meeting and you failed to make the meeting or never replied, well… that’s a bummer. Please contact me as soon as possible to reschedule if you’re still interested, otherwise, I’ll assume you’re not and move on. But I will keep your request on file, if you change your mind.

If you submitted a request for an estimate in the last week, but haven’t heard back from us yet, fear not!  One of us will be responding to you this week, we just had to find our water wings before we dove into this email.

In the meantime, your patience and continued interest is really appreciated!  We’re thrilled that you love us enough to keep us this busy, so thank you! 

It’s that time of year again!  I’ve got a bit more on my plates than I anticipated and that makes it harder for me to spin them, so I appreciate the patience of my wonderful clients. Bear with me, friends!  The train is picking up speed. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. Let’s see how many more metaphors I can mix before this entry is over.

I am currently booking for late August/early Fall, but have a couple projects in the proposal phase. If you are at all interested in working with me on a project during that time, please submit your request for proposal as soon as you can.  I only have a few spots available for early Fall.  Once your proposal is submitted, if I’m a good match for your project, I’ll email you with a suggested time to chat on the phone to iron out any details before I put together your proposal. (If I’m not a good match, of course I’ll still email you. Maybe even with a referral if you’re nice!)

As I mentioned last time, I will be unavailable from July 18-August 5th.  That means I won’t be working on any projects or be available to meet on the phone. I will be checking email periodically (though not necessarily daily) during that time, but will not be returning any phone calls until after August 5th.

I think I can safely speak for Kathy when I say we really appreciate you interest in working with us and thank you for your patience with our nutty schedules.

Happy Summer! 

Hellooo!  It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Allow me to climb out from under my pile for a moment and update this here “schedule” I keep threatening myself with.  A few projects were launched this spring and I’ve been neck deep in repeat site maintenance and some logos, so I’ve been keeping busy.  I am about to launch a few larger projects.. some cute ones!  So I’ll be doing a few proposals for new projects slated to start this summer, over the next few weeks.  I’ll be scaling back on some of the larger custom jobs to focus on preparing Femmplates™ so we’ll hopefully have a few of those available this summer too.  Feel free to fill out the Request For Proposal form if you’re interested in obtaining a proposal!

Summer looks like it’ll be busy as usual for The Moxie Girls™ but we have some fun stuff in store which may include drinks, donuts and faaaaaabulous prizes.  No matching washer and dryers but stay tuned. 

She liiiiiiiiiiives!  Actually, we’ve been very busy around here in case you didn’t notice. hehe!

Right now, I’m spinning several plates working to wrap up some projects and I’ve already booked a few new clients for the coming months, but I am still accepting inquiries… well, until I’m not anymore. I’m not quite sure when my cut off will be — there are some projects in negotiation right now. But it will only be a handful of jobs this summer, so hot-step it if you’re interested.  You can fill out our request for proposal to get started.

I will be taking my summer vacation from July 19 - August 5 and will be unavailable by phone or email (it is a vacation after all!), so if you have a project that needs to launch before then, definitely contact me as soon as possible.  Any projects I’m currently working on will certainly launch before then (barring anything unforeseen), so don’t you fret.

Have a great Memorial Day weekend!  Don’t forget your sunscreen!

I bet you thought we fell off the planet.  It’s only been like two… oh, wait...that’s ten weeks.  Oops. Sorry about that!  We have a good excuse, though, we swear. Kathy and I have been working like mad women on myriad new client projects rolling out in March, as well as a redesign of this site. Yeah, yeah, you say, you’ve heard that song before. More on that in a sec!

As we’ve mentioned, we’ll be attending SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX again this year. Our first time was in 2006 when I shared time on a panel with other blog designers discussing “How to Make $$ with your Blog Design Skills” (which made the SXSW Honor Roll that year).  The only bummer of that trip was that Kathy wasn’t with me. We skipped 2007 due to our workload, but this year, Kathy and I will not only be attending together, we’ll be presenting our first book, The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie.  Our reading is at 11:30am CST on the Day Stage if you’ll be at the conference and would like to attend.  The reading should last about 20 minutes and will be followed by a signing at the SouthBy Bookstore.  Come by and say hi!  We’ll be doing a giveaway, including a free signed copy of our book and goodies from our friends at TheBar.com.  We hope to see you there.

And now, about our redesign… we decided that in order for us to effectively finish our client projects and attend SXSW with any semblance of calm, we would postpone our redesign until the SXSW shenanigans have died down a bit. Everyone in the industry tends to release their Next Big Thing, be it a redesign, a new project or software, right before SXSW. Rather than be one of many, we’d rather wait until we can approach it in a less frenzied way.  We refuse to put anything out there that’s less than and when you rush that can happen.  There will be lots of fabulous sites to peruse during the next week or so… I’m looking forward to seeing what’s out there.

We’ve always received a nice, steady if not occasionally abundant flow of inquiries, but since Blogging with Moxie came out, we’ve received more than we could ever dare hope for. Thank you, thank you!  But, to that end, while it’s fantastique, we are but two women.  Sometimes people get testy when we’re unable to take their project, hollering (yes, hollering) that we should just “hire more people!”.  But if we hired more people, you’d be getting that person and not us.  It’s not about churning out product, it’s about doing what we love by providing you amazing, personal design and a one-on-one experience.  We care about you and your project.  And we appreciate your patience. 

Right now, we’ve had to put the kibash on new inquiries… even just “questionnaires in waiting”.  They’re knee-deep, kids!  So, until we return from SXSW and have time to scale this mountain of amazing projects, we are just not accepting any inquiries. It pains us to say that, but it’s only temporary.  If you already submitted your questionnaire to us or have otherwise been in contact with us, do not despair!  We’ve got them here and we’ll still be reviewing them in the order in which they were received when we return from SXSW.  Hopefully, we’ll be ready to consider more new inquiries by April.

Again, Kathy and I really can’t thank you all enough for your interest in working with us, for purchasing our book and for your patience.  We’re off to SXSW, so we’ll catch you on the flipside!

xo