Flair Additions: Cazenovia

Today Inky Hot Mess is happy to make a new flair introduction. We love living in the Finger Lakes. People frequently ask how we ended up here. Our family is originally from the Capital Region in New York (Albany, NY - the State Capital - Nope, New York City is not the state capital). We used to vacation out here frequently. Between the day trips and weekend trips, we were there almost every weekend during the summer and early autumn.

Sailboats on Cazenovia Lake

Somehow we lost our minds and ended up building our dream house in South Carolina. Inky was homesick within 6 months and wanted to move back home. Inky's husband had a company approach him with a new job and it was in New York. We jumped on it and moved back to New York, but this time we went to the Finger Lakes. The rest is history! 

Cazenovia Lake

One of the towns on the way from Albany to the Finger Lakes has a gorgeous lake....shocking I know. There's a ton of lakes in this area. There are 11 Finger Lakes and numerous other lakes. The 11 Finger Lakes were created at the same time from the same glacier 10,000 years ago. That glacier took all of our dinosaur fossils, but left some amazing soil behind which produces fabulous fruits (think wine) and vegetables (think tons of farms and farm stands) and lakes all over the region.

Kayakers on Cazenovia Lake

The first lake you come across on US Route 20 is Cazenovia Lake. It's just gorgeous! There's a quaint town - Cazenovia - on the lake. Cazenovia is the home to Cazenovia College - a small, private, liberal arts college. Lots of historic houses are in the area. There's lots of history as well, not to mention the historic sites. 

New York State Historical Sign

Inky absolutely loves Cazenovia. It's a small town and it's pretty calm and quiet even with the college there. Not much traffic except during the summer when lots of people come to the lake. Apple picking isn't far away! 

Inky has brought Cazenovia and flair together. There are 2 new pieces to this collection. The first is Cazenovia Flair.

The second is Cazenovia Lake Flair.

And we have the Cazenovia Flair Collection where you receive both pieces of flair.

Check back soon! You never know what will appear in Inky's Travels next!

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Do you follow Inky Hot Mess on Instagram? Did you seriously just say no? For real??? Well, if you love Cape Cod you need to change that right now. Here's how to find our Instagram: CLICK ME!

Did you start following us on Instagram? Ok so now you can win these sweet new flair! Remember our new product line Inky's Travels? Inky loves to travel and one of her favorite places on earth is Cape Cod. So she decided Cape Cod would be our next release. She has a list about 20 feet long of places, beaches, activities, lighthouses, and famous bridges from Cape Cod so there will be a few phases to Cape Cod.

Phase 1 is being given away on our Instagram! You can only enter to win on our Instagram. We will ship these flair to the USA only. This does include Alaska, Hawaii, and our military bases! A random winner will be chosen on April 6th at 1 pm EST. To enter, you have to like the Cape Cod Flair photo we have up on Instagram and share it. Seriously. That is all you have to do!

New Series Introductions

Today Inky Hot Mess is introducing two new series. Inky has been hard at work behind the scenes and she is thrilled to being these new series to you! We will be expanding on them each month.

Our first new series is I Love New York. Inky absolutely loves living in New York. She relocated elsewhere for a few years and was incredibly homesick so when the opportunity arose to move back to New York, she jumped at it. Now she's in the Finger Lakes and feels like she's sitting in heaven every day.

I Love New York will feature different regions of New York. There's so much more to our wonderful state than New York City and so many people sadly miss out on so many things. Today we are kicking off this series with the Finger Lakes. We have 2 flair collections that showcase all 11 Finger Lakes.

Remember, all of the Inky Hot Mess flair is 100% Made in the USA! We are very proud of that. Our flair is also hand assembled in the USA right in our studio in the Finger Lakes.

The Finger Lakes Flair Collection: Lake Names contains 13 pieces of flair. There are 11 Finger Lakes and 2 extra flair that say Finger Lakes. In the photo, we have arranged the pieces from east to west. People often ask about the names and how to pronounce the names. The names are all Iroquois. Each lake has it's own translation. We'll share more about that in the future! We won't give you annunciation lessons online. And really, Skaneateles Lake is not a tricky one to pronounce once you learn. neither is Canandaigua Lake. Spellchecker really dislikes these names! It must give spellchecker little heart attacks whenever it sees us type them.

The Finger Lakes Flair Collection: The Lakes contains 12 pieces of flair. This collection includes the 11 Finger Lakes and 1 piece that says Finger Lakes in the same font. Each piece of flair (minus the Finger Lakes one) has an image of the lake and the name of the lake laid over it.

Our second series introduction is called Inky's Travels. Inky is designing scrapbooking items based on her travels! Everything from the Finger Lakes can be found in here. We are introducing the Great Lakes this month.

The Great Lakes Flair Collection: Lake Names contains 8 pieces of flair. There are 5 Great Lakes, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence River, and Saint Lawrence Seaway pieces.

We will be adding to both I Love New York and Inky's Travels again in February. If travel is your thing, make sure to stop back on February 28th! Will it be flair? Will it be embellishments? Will it be journaling cards? Where will the be? Only Inky knows and she's not sharing with anybody just yet. All we know is that she is holed up doing research.