For those of you who receive our newsletter, we had a plate giveaway contest. If you would like to sign up to receive occasional email newsletters with specials, sales and contests, sign up here.
Congratulations Timberly! We’ll be in touch with how to receive your free plate!
I got an email just a couple days ago from someone who had ordered invitations from me. She’s a friend of a friend, so I know her a little. She said everyone loved her daughter’s first birthday invitations and I quote her… “so you ROCK!!!” Yes, it even had three exclamation points after it! Thanks for making my day, Lindsay, that was really a nice compliment. Now to the real reason I’m writing this and it is not to brag…
I thought it was hilarious: first, it is usually my husband telling me I “rock”… how sweet, huh!? and an advertising campaign I started when I was at a retirement community when I was still working full time and doing HollyDays. You see, at this community, the rocking chairs made the place. They were a serious matter to the residents. We didn’t realize how serious until one day we decide to update them. The owner of the community suggested we paint them to make them stand out better against the white building. It caused an senior community uproar. As soon as the first chair started its transformation from white to a nice dark red shade, it was over. Two chairs out of the 10 or 12 chairs were the only two that were painted before we had to call the whole project off. After the petition started circulating in the community to “Keep our Rocking Chairs White”, we realized we were losing the battle! Personally, I thought the red looked quite nice with the white building and the black shutters. Plus, I was looking at it from a marketing perspective. You know how you feel when you see the rocking chairs lined up along the porch of Cracker Barrel restaurant? You feel at home, like you want to sit down and enjoy a nice glass of sweet tea and enjoy the breeze. We were just wanting the chairs to stand out better, add a pop of color and invite people to come “sit a spell”. We made it through the rocking chair crisis and the residents realized their voice was heard.
Anyway, while I was there I started a marketing campaign “Our Residents Rock” a play on words in honor of our beloved rocking chairs. I don’t think there is a day that goes by that at least one of those chairs isn’t occupied by someone. Here’s the design with the slogan that is still on their website. I didn’t design this, I just took the picture of the super sweet spunky lady and came up with the slogan.
I have a lot of good memories from this wonderful community. Even through the rocking chair debate, I learned that you should always stand up for what you believe in. I would be mad if someone wanted to paint my chairs at my house without my permission, wouldn’t you?
Oh, by the way readers: You ROCK!!!
Thank you for all the photos you’ve been sending for our sample cards! We’ll be sending you the gift certificate codes very soon as our thank you!
Also, Amy with Marvelous Mommy is doing a HollyDays giveaway on her blog. Go here to see her review of our travel cup and register to win a HollyDays product!
Hope you have a great day!
Hey Everyone! Michelle from This Crazy Life Blog is doing a HollyDays Giveaway! She reviewed one of our products for us and is giving you a chance to win a product from our site! Michelle is a digital scrapbooking designer from Tennessee.
Go visit her blog and tell her we sent you and enter the contest!
We have our winner for the personalized plate giveaway! We are excited to announce that Amy Henson is the winner!
We just completed a logo, business cards and stickers for her business. We’ll be sharing those soon on our blog! Congratulations Amy! We are so happy for you!
{Here’s a sample personalized plate. They are available on our website}
{there are many plate designs to choose from}
Oh, and great news… the Best Personalized Gift contest has been extended… by 20 days! Now, you can continue to vote once a day, every day until July 6. Remember, this contest is just to name the top 5 products in the category, then on July 7- August 31, the top 5 will be in the official contest to name the “Best Personalized Gift”. I know, a little confusing 
so we appreciate the votes!
If for some reason you have trouble clicking the circle image above, here is a direct link:
We decided it wouldn’t be fair for us to be in a contest and you not have a chance to win something as well. How about a chance win one of the personalized plates that are in the running for the “Best Personalized Gift” award!? How exciting, huh!? See the announcement below for how to qualify. Don’t forget to vote for our plate today!
We know a good secret when we hear one! Last week we got an email from one of our customers asking about a Big Brother shirt. Oh boy, were we excited! She is expecting and to make the announcement she had us make her little boy a big brother shirt! We love it when we get to make personalized items for moms who are using our products as a way to reveal a pregnancy or keeping the baby’s name a secret until the baby is born! Usually we are making a hospital door sign for the mom or other personalized items, but we haven’t had the chance to do a big brother shirt yet… so here is how it turned out:
{We changed the little boy’s name just in case the secret is not out yet!}
{this is the image on the shirt}
Contact us if you are interested in purchasing a big brother or big sister shirt. We’ll be putting them on our website soon. Personalized shirts are $16 for sizes up to 18m and $18 for sizes 2-6 boys and sizes 2-8 girls.
And… we have a winner for our Gussy Giveaway!
CONGRATULATIONS… Raechel @ Finding My Feet! We are so happy for you! I just went to her blog and spent forever reading about her precious family.
Yippee! We had so much fun with our Gussy Giveaway!
Hope you have a great day!
Hope you are having a great Monday! This is just a reminder to register for the Gussy Giveaway that ends tonight at midnight! Go here and comment on the post to be entered into the contest! We’ll announce the winner tomorrow! Good Luck!
The contest has ended 4-12-10 11:59pm CST. Thank you- everyone who entered! We’ll have more giveaways in the future!
If you’ve been following us, you have heard me mention on several occasions, “Gussy”. Gussy is the business creation of Maggie Whitley from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her nickname is actually “Gussy”, given to her by her mom. It comes from the name of the goose, Gussy, in Charlotte’s Web.
{Maggie Whitley, “Gussy”}
Maggie actually works full-time at an advertising agency and nights and weekends sewing for her business. In 2008, she taught herself to sew and has found true joy in it ever since. We started doing business with Gussy just recently when she contacted us for some stickers to put on the packaging of all her products. We were so excited to develop an idea for her packaging! We noticed right off, the signature ruffle she puts on all her items: pouches, laptop bags and checkbook covers… how cute! We decided that a ruffle would be perfect for her stickers… and this is what we created. We used her “G” that she had already been using in her logo.
Here are the stickers on some of her products:
I just received my own Gussy bag for my laptop. Here it is! I absolutely LOVE it! It fits my computer perfectly and is much more fashionable than my last computer case!
Gussy has been so kind to offer a $30 shop credit for her store to one lucky reader! Leave a comment on this blog post to enter the contest. Contest ends at 11:59 pm CST on Monday, April 12. We’ll announce the winner on Tuesday! Good Luck!
Go here to see all of her products in her store.
Hope you have a great Friday!
Gussy is hosting a Giveaway extravaganza… seriously! She posted giveaways all day today and will continue through tomorrow. Register here for our HollyDays giveaway! While you are there, take a look at all the other fun stuff you could win just by commenting on the blog posts.
Giveaway Day ends at midnight tomorrow night. Winners will be announced on the Gussy blog late-morning on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Good luck!
Hope you had a great day!
Wow, when we said we would do a giveaway for Gussy, we didn’t know we would have such a fabulous response! 105 entries in just a few days and there’s a winner today… Meg at Twisted Tree won our $30 HollyDays credit. Congratulations, Meg! We will have a Gussy giveaway next week on our blog… how exciting!
Ok, so I have to show this picture for all of you who have been there… I had to meet a customer around lunch yesterday and my husband was so kind and came home to bring me lunch. My little girl was asleep when I had to leave, so he said he would stay at home with her until I got back. Well, she woke up as soon as I was pulling out of the driveway. When I came home I noticed something on the floor. “That’s strange, I don’t usually leave ‘those’ laying around the house”. My husband had this picture to show me… (She’s teething this week!)
She really cracks me up sometimes. I truly love being able to stay home with her and own my business. It is a dream.
Here’s another one for you, too. We just got the pictures in the mail. When we were at our last show in Anniston, Alabama, they had the cutest little bunnies to take pictures with the children. It was so much fun! She scooped up that little bunny and squeezed him like her little stuffed animals at home with a loud “Ohhhhhh” which sounds like “Ewwww”… Translation: “I love this bunny” (No bunnies were harmed, just loved on a lot!)
Hope you are having a great day!
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