Big Announcement! News broke early last Friday morning at the Podcast & New Media Expo in Ontario, California that MommyCast would be partnering with Podango, to develop a family channel of podcasts. We are honored to announce that Boutique Cafe is a New & inaugural member of the MommyCast & Friends Channel, of family friendly podcast content. MommyCast & Friends.com will be launching soon with content that will entertain, educate and uplift today’s moms and parents. Thank you for supporting Boutique Cafe and for cheering us on in this huge opportunity!

Watch for our show later this week, where we explain what all this means for Boutique Cafe and YOU our listeners!

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Perhaps it’s the total thrill of having something that I’ve planned finally come to fruition, but my stomach is full of fluttering butterflies at the thought of this weekend. Our Boutique Cafe Girls Getaway Weekend is set to be an outstanding time and the attendees are buzzing with hilarity and excitment! There are so many incredible women coming to this event and I’m awed by the response, support and sheer fun that we’ve recieved and taken part in already. On our planning board we’ve had a chance to get to know the attendees even better in a smaller forum, it’s become a special little place and I look forward to being in there each day. Plus knowing that in only a few days I’ll be meeting these lovely ladies, well that’s just WICKED!

My nerves are definitely a factor in these next few hours before everything gets rolling. I know I’ll be fine, my main thing is just making sure everyone enjoys their weekend and feels it was well worth their time to attend. Pray for good weather, calm nerves, great chatter and loads of shopping deals. It’s going to be a blast to get back and post all the pictures and video we grab while there. Stay Tuned…

As Summer fast approaches and your family trips are planned, don’t forget about Boutique CAFÉ! You will need your daily cup of couture as your children yell from the back seat for the hundredth time, “ARE we there YET?” We want to travel with you and are excited for you to take us along!

We want you to go BIG, BOLD and BRAVE Boutique Café style! While you are playing on vacation, snap a few pictures of you or your family promoting Boutique Café at a landmark significant to your vacation. Make a sign, a t-shirt or write it in the sand!!!! Get creative. We want your pictures from Disneyland, the beach, the Eiffel tower or wherever you go! Make if funny, make it famous and make it GREAT! Send your submissions to WHERE IN THE WORLD CONTEST with the name of your location and we will add it to our ongoing gallery “scrapbook.” coming soon.

**2 Lucky Winners will be chosen at the end of the summer to win our Grand prize of a FREE IPOD !!!! from Boutique Cafe. And Second prize of a $100 EBay gift certificate from our friends at Journal Modiste

Send in those pictures to win and check the site often to see the “scrapbook” as it is updated all summer long.

*note- only REAL vacation pictures will be accepted and posted on the site. Please do not send fake or photoshop photos of a copy and pasted person in front of the Pyramids. Thanks to Journal Modiste for being a valued sponsor of this event and helping us discover “Where In The World Is Boutique Cafe?”.

My podcast Boutique Cafe is rocking and rolling with our 30th episode this week! I can’t believe how much fun we’ve had doing this, though I assure you it’s no small task. Boutique Cafe takes up hours and hours of my days and nights to make it go. I’m very lucky to know have incredible help from Megan, Susan, Robyn and my contributing editor Emily. With all the podcasting going on there hasn’t been much time for blogging but I hope to pop by and share some recent events from time to time as I love the chance to just download it all in one place. BLAH!!! there it is! LOL!

Back in January I invited JenTheMom on our show and we chatted about blogging and how to get started. We mentioned super Mommy blogger Very Mom and went through some of the great services out there to get every mommy blogging about her life, her kids and her dreams! Well I’m excited to report that blogging has REALLY taken off in the boutique community recently with new blogs popping up each day. It’s fun to see people expressing their interests and creativity in the blogosphere and I could get lost in them most days. Some that you may want to check out would be -

Designing Minds – this blog if for all the hot ebay boutique designer gossip and keeps everyone in the loop!
Posh Designers – this is a blog developed by a buyer and fan of boutique children’s clothing. Fun! Go buyers Go!

and new ones I just found out about are :
Tote and Tee
Winipoo
Boutique Adventure
Say it Ain’t Sew
Domestic Diva’s Disasters
Skewed Vision
Right in all scenarios
Vintage Threads

Here’s to all of the listeners and visitors at Boutique Cafe! I can’t believe the great response we’ve had in our first 9 months! PAR-TAY!!

It’s a very special day today – my baby sister Courtnee is turning the BIG 3-0 and I taped a quick little test movie for the occasion. Have a wonderful day sweetie – don’t eat too much cake
Love,
Dee
Watch Birthday Movie here!