Little Pink Pansy has been nominated for an award!!

You're the first to see our new logo!


Please help Little Pink Pansy win a fantastic award sponsored by NBC and American Express. We've been nominated for the Shine a Light award and if we win, we would receive $100,000 to use for marketing and promotion. WHAT AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY!!!

Here's where you come in....we need help to get 50 endorsements by tomorrow (Sunday, Sept. 13th) by 11:59PM EST. Please visit http://shinealight.ivillage.com/sbo-profile/?ProfileID=9545 to endorse us. We are a small business and need all the help we can getting noticed!

Please pass along the word to all your friends!

Thanks!!!

Celebrate Mama event in Bethesda, MD

Tomorrow is the Celebrate Mama event in Bethesda, MD. This is a great event for "mamas of all ages and stages"! Vendors have something for everyone and there are children's performances like Rocknocerous, a ballet performance, storytelling, belly dancing, and more!

Last year, Little Pink Pansy was a vendor and had a great turnout. Unfortunately we weren't able to do it this year but we will probably be attending. It's a lot of fun and a great chance to support some other local businesses.

If you live outside of the metro DC area, check the Celebrate Mama website for a location near you.

Review on Pixie Bows

As you know, Pixie Bows is one of our vendors. They have just revamped their line and their website and are getting all sorts of great press. Little Pink Pansy has already placed a large order with them and am waiting on the images so we can add them to our site. They just received a great review at Peanut Butter and Pickle so thought we'd share with you! If you see something you like at the Pixie Bows site, please let us know and we will get it for you! These adorable hair clips will soon be seen on all the celebs as they are acquiring them already. Yay for Holly and Sharon at Pixie Bows!

Check out the new Pixie Bows site!

My dear friends and colleagues (Holly & Sharon) have been working on their Pixie Bows business for quite some time. They finally have their new website up with their fresh new designs. I'm really excited about their new line, with lots of new funky clips besides just pretty bows. I will soon be carrying them on Little Pink Pansy too so go visit them at Pixie Bows and post here which styles/colorways are your favorites so I can be sure to include them on the Little Pink Pansy site too!

They also have a blog that will keep you updated on their business and feature some great hair accessories. You can also follow them on Twitter.

Post a comment and let us know what you think!

Congrats to these two mompreneurs for getting their new site up!

I've been featured at Celebrate Mama!

I've been selected as a Mamapreneur featured at Celebrate Mama! Check out the full article here.

If you don't know about Celebrate Mama, check out their website to find out more about them and their many shows. Little Pink Pansy attended the show in Bethesda, MD last May and it was phenomenal! (In fact, on their homepage, our tent is pictured on the left-hand side where a woman and girl are shopping!) Celebrate Mama is "An event, A resource, A way to do business ...for mamas of all ages & stages" and features mama-run businesses, much as we do.

Thanks to Corina DuBois, the founder of Celebrate Mama for all her hard work and thanks for the feature!

FREEBIE!!!! GIVEAWAY!!!!

My dear friends over at Pixie Bows are doing a giveaway for this cute little clip! All you have to do is enter to be eligible to win.

The girls at Pixie Bows are two of my closest friends, who happen to make outstanding hair accessories (just about the only thing my daughter wears in her hair!) Their products are superior in quality but they are also unique, cute, and different. Go register to win and read about their journey as they reconnect cross-country to rebuild their business.

Their official website will launch in October but in the meantime, you can order some of their earlier designs at our site, little pink pansy.

Wishing you and your kids happy hair days!

Featured Woman: Nina Sutton

The Chic Mom's Guide to Feeling Fabulous
by Nina Sutton

I just finished reading this handy little guide about how to be both a mom and chic. Both? you may ask. Is it possible to be both chic and a good mom? The answer is yes.

Nina Sutton is a beauty and fashion expert and mother of two who tells us how we can keep up our chic side - we do not have to sacrifice it to be a mommy!

This is a quick read guide with some tips and inspiration to help you feel your best, which also makes you a better mother (bonus!). There are chapters on skincare, makeup, hair care, fitness, nutrition, style, friends, professional lives, romance, kids, cooking, finance, and attitude. She gives you recommendations for keeping yourself looking and feeling your best, even when you are exhausted from the day-to-day grind of life with kids. She shows you at-home tips in case you don't have time or money to go to the spa or gym. It also includes a few simple recipes for quick mid-week dinners for the whole family. She includes tips from experts in all these fields but since beauty and fashion are her background, these chapters are a bit more in-depth. I think this is a guide that helped me remember that I deserve to look and feel my best too and this will be one that I will look at many times in the future to remember her skincare tips or quick and easy exercises.

Nina has also created a fantastic website called Deals for Divas. There are lots of things here that will help you look and feel your best for a fraction of the price (deals, coupons, etc.). This is definitely a page worth bookmarking.

To learn more or order the book, click here. You can be a chic mom too!

Great job, Nina!!

Little Pink Pansy featured on Pixie Bows blog

Little Pink Pansy has been featured on the Pixie Bows blog! A great little write-up about our business and our blog, thanks to the wonderful ladies at Pixie Bows. It's so great to be able to support other women in business. It's important for us to all help each other when we can. Check out the post here.

Pixie Bows Blog

Two of my favorite people in the world are also some of my best suppliers. They make the most adorable hair bows and accessories. They have been in business for several years, working side-by-side making bows and attending craft shows. However, a little over a year ago, Sharon relocated from Georgia to California and they decided to dissolve the business. Sharon continued making bows and other great items such as tutus while Holly became a mommy again to a darling little boy. But it seemed that the universe was pulling them back into business together so they have rejoined forces and made it a bi-coastal venture. Since they will no longer be able to easily attend events together, they are creating a wonderful new website with some standard designs for hair bows, flower clips, and other great hair accessories. I can't wait for this site to be launched ~ target date is October. In the meantime, they have set up a great new blog to discuss their business progress. I still have lots of bows left over from their previous collections and they can be found here. Just as soon as their new collection is complete, I assure you that they will be up on the Little Pink Pansy site. Their bows are probably our biggest seller - they're a huge hit and almost all customers are repeat customers. So browse at what we have now and be on the lookout for what's to come in the future. And check out their cute blog. Yay for moms and friends making their business dreams come true!!

Little Pink Pansy featured on Blogging Women

Look! Little Pink Pansy been featured on the Blogging Women site!! This is a great blog - it features all blogs written by women (and they're all pretty great). It's also a really pretty site too. So check it out and while you're there, take a minute to browse at all the other unique blogs written by women. You won't be disappointed!

I've been featured as a Swanky Mom

Check out the full article here.

Congratulations to Lindsey (that's me!), founder of little pink pansy, for being featured as a Swanky Mom. I may not look as hip and swanky as this little icon, but I sure do work hard to bring you the best products from women-run businesses. I am always looking for new products and ways to support other "mompreneurs". If you have something you'd like to see featured here or on our shopping site, please email me. We will soon be adding spa products, among other things. Thanks for visiting!

Featured Women: Founders of My Plate-Mate

The founders of My Plate-Mate (recently featured here on this blog) were also just featured in a Business Wire press release. Michele Wong and Paige Akabane are entrepreneurial moms who wanted a product that could help teach children independence, reduce lengthy mealtimes, minimize mess, and promote healthier eating (to eat foods other than just finger foods). These great products are small, portable, made in the USA, DISHWASHER-SAFE, and not made with any of the junk in other plastic products. They attach in seconds to any standard 8"-9.5" plate and come in blue, pink, or white. My Plate-Mate costs $7.95 - a great value - and trust me, you will use it over and over and over again.

To order My Plate-Mate, click here.

CardStix creators featured in Washington Post Magazine

The creators of CardStix (our current giveaway) were written up in today's Washington Post Magazine in the section called, "Making It". It describes how these two entrepreneurial mamas teamed up utilizing their strengths to create a great new product. Former college roommates, Erica Peale and Meredith Kole (L-R) saw the potential for something that was missing in the market and here they found their niche. I am proud to carry their products and pleased to see them featured in such a great publication. Congrats Erica and Meredith! Keep up the good work!
To read the full article, visit http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/23/AR2008042302929.html.

To purchase CardStix online, visit http://www.littlepinkpansy.com/stationeryother.htm.