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Pepper Lou turned 1 today! Time to celebrate by planning the next festival! ❤️

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Pulling out some customized work from da vault, yo!

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This...

I have been trying to write for a while now. I have all these amazing ideas, but its really hard getting my thoughts onto paper. Thus, my ideas never really come to fruition. Do you have any advice?

Write the ideas down. If they are going to be stories, try and tell the stories you would like to read. Finish the things you start to write. Do it a lot and you will be a writer. The only way to do it is to do it. 

I’m just kidding. There are much easier ways of doing it. For example: On the top of a distant mountain there grows a tree with silver leaves. Once every year, at dawn on April 30th, this tree blossoms, with five flowers, and over the next hour each blossom becomes a berry, first a green berry, then black, then golden.

At the moment the five berries become golden, five white crows, who have been waiting on the mountain, and which you will have mistaken for snow, will swoop down on the tree, greedily stripping it of all its berries, and will fly off, laughing.

You must catch, with your bare hands, the smallest of the crows, and you must force it to give up the berry (the crows do not swallow the berries. They carry them far across the ocean, to an enchanter’s garden, to drop, one by one, into the mouth of his daughter, who will wake from her enchanted sleep only when a thousand such berries have been fed to her). When you have obtained the golden berry, you must place it under your tongue, and return directly to your home.

For the next week, you must speak to no-one, not even your loved ones or a highway patrol officer stopping you for speeding. Say nothing. Do not sleep. Let the berry sit beneath your tongue.

At midnight on the seventh day you must go to the highest place in your town (it is common to climb on roofs for this step) and, with the berry safely beneath your tongue, recite the whole of Fox in Socks. Do not let the berry slip from your tongue. Do not miss out any of the poem, or skip any of the bits of the Muddle Puddle Tweetle Poodle Beetle Noodle Bottle Paddle Battle.

Then, and only then, can you swallow the berry. You must return home as quickly as you can, for you have only half an hour at most before you fall into a deep sleep.

When you wake in the morning, you will be able to get your thoughts and ideas down onto the paper, and you will be a writer. 

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Love to all from my editor and I! 😘😘😘

Thanks to everyone who “liked” us on FB and who “follow” here on tumblr! We have big plans for 2015, Yo! So stay tuned…

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Whoa guys... this whole Facebook thing is happening... it's gettin' real, yo!

Check it out and "Like" the page here : https://www.facebook.com/pepperloupaper

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My newest buddies keeping me company whilst I work... 🐚🌱✏️_____ #pepperlou #plantfriends #airplants #robincharlotte

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A million thanks are in order! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you...

Share with someone just how appreciative and grateful you are ♡

Five colors:  Gray, Peach, Lavender, Light Blue, and Orange

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Smile?

Just Because ♡

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Saved a spot just for you! ♡

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Meet Walter.  I predict we'll be seeing more of this guy in the future...

Pepper + Walter = ♡

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Sometimes we need to put on our big person britches and simply say, "I'm sorry"... 

Real talk.

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"I ♡ You" Hand Set (10 different colors):

Peach, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Light Blue, Indigo Blue, Lavender, Gray, and Black...

♡ Pepper

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... busy on the Etsy shop...

Pepper's got some work to do...

Hand Set:

"Thumbs Up", "Peace", "I ♡ You", "Fist Bump", and "Hang Loose"

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Travis-Carr Factory... Joey's now a professional card folder... #besthusbandever #pepperlou #whistlewhileyouwork #blastingtotoanddexysmidnightrunners #smallfirespress

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WhAaaa!!!! SO much Pepper Lou goodness happening tonight!!! One zillion, trillion, billion thanks to @smallfirespress for doing *such* an amazing job on printing the cards, they're beautiful! 😍 can't wait to see everyone at Cooper Young Fest this weekend! #pepperlou #smallfirespress #cooperyoungfest #nosleepytillsunday #birthdayweekend

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Lot's of "to do's" in Lou-ville this week...

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A little sumthin that Small Fires Press is working on for me...

♡