Back to work!

My family & I took a brief trip to the Caribe Resort in Orange Beach, AL.  What a fun place!  We had a blast!!

We saw the beach a little

Vegged a little

and smiled a lot!

 

 

 

Happy end of summer, everyone :(  Hope you all had a wonderful one… our biggest bonus was a successful heart surgery for my girl!!  YAY!!!!  Finally after 8 long years, my baby girl is cured of her heart condition.  Praise the Lord!

& a little product plug… what a great gift this makes for that 6-12 year old boy… a Who Dat pillowcase & water bottle set.  Perfect!

Now for the pardon – I am swamped with orders that came in over the break.  Please be patient as I work hard at getting caught up! 

Order status, store closure

I have been working non-stop for the past two weeks trying to get all of these back to school orders printed, packed & shipped… thanks SOOO much for all the business :)  It’s been keeping me crazy busy & for that I am SOOO grateful!!!

All of the orders placed BEFORE July 28th have been printed, processed & shipped as of today.  All other orders will be processed after my store closure which ends on August 13th.  Gotta take care of some things here & then I will be back in full swing come August 13th!

Am I nuts?

Okay since Emma Kate’s surgery was a HUGE success… I now have time to stay open a little longer before the kids head back to school!!!  So… if you are in the New Orleans area & want to come see the goodies up front & personal, you can do so at the Helen Brett show (a.k.a. “The Jewelry Show”) this Saturday, July 31st through Tuesday, August 3rd!  I am in booth 355 & will have Melissa & Doug toys for cash & carry as well as personalized goods for order taking only!  I will not be personalizing on site due to last minute preparations… Show hours are 10am till 6pm Sat, Sun & Mon & Tues 10am till 3pm.

I will have all of the new stuff there on display if you need to come get a peek!

See you there!!!

Just a quick reminder!

Only a couple more days till I will be closed for a couple of weeks. Get those orders in ASAP so I can get them out to you! I will still be taking orders… BUT nothing will ship until the break.

Thanks for your business!! Happy Late Summer!!!!

Are you a Kelly’s Kids Rep?

If so, I just created this image using the pictures from Kelly’s Kids website to create this email invite.  You can save this image to your hard drive and send it off to your hostesses!  They can then fwd the image to their guests in addition to or to replace the postcard invites. 

If you rep for a different company, I can create an email invite for your hostesses as well!  Email me for details!  cs @ laurieslagniappe.com

enjoy!

Fun waterproof labeled water bottles!

A little team fun for you tonight!  i did these for my high school alma mater's volleyball team for their upcoming LSU team camp :)  i think these are some lucky girls! 

these are a less-expensive alternative to the white original printed bottles on the site.  they're 25 ounces and have a waterproof label on them.  Handwash only!  $12 each including the bow :)  I do offer a team discount so please email with inquiries!  Right now I have red (12), green (12) and silver (11) left.  may stock more depending on response.. going to put them up on the site in a few! 

enjoy!

Binders, Boxes, Bow Holders and Bag Tags :)

Lots and lots of ‘em, too!  Here’s a few horrible shots of all of them… enjoy!

Leia Binder

Kate Binder

Grace Bow Holder

Maddie Grayce lunchbox

More pics are on my iphone (including bag tags).. but having trouble getting them over to my computer.  These pics are horrible!  So sorry… need to learn how to shoot better pics!  They don’t do these products any justice whatsoever! 

nite nite!

Lots done this morning…

Which leads to this post!  I have a few very exciting new things to share with you today… Firstly, the website has been updated to reflect the same design as the new blog design

Secondly, I added the Mini Me Tabletop collection… I have been trying to add the Mini Me selections to more products but I’ve been a bit slow with it… sorry!

and Lastly (and most exciting!) I have made the site a little more “iPhone-friendly”.  Meaning, when you view the site on your iPhone, it will already be zoomed to where you can actually see the text.  It’s not perfect – I would have to host an entirely new site to get it to be totally iPhone compatible but consider it just a little “tweak” to what you were getting before.  This is what you’ll see when viewing in regular vertical format

It looks even better when viewed in the landscape position.

and the really neat part is, you can save the site as an icon on your iPhone home screen!  It’s so easy to do… See that little + (plus) sign in the image above?  Click that & this is what you will see…

Click “Add to Home Screen” & you will see this next:

You can type in whatever you want in the box but the default is “welcome to…”

Then you go to your home screen & see this!

Neat, huh?!  BTW, you can do this w/any website out there… this was new to me today!  Oh & I have no clue what half of these aps are… my kids go to town on this phone!!

So, there you have it… new stuff for today!

On another note I will be taking a brief pause in business coming up & wanted to let you all know ahead of time.  I will be closed from July 28th – August 13th in preparation for Emma Kate’s 2nd heart procedure as well as the start of school. 

I know it’s kind of a long break (2 1/2 weeks!) but I need this time to be there for her, to help get the kiddos ready for school AND get the fall/holiday designs & selections up & running!!  This is a good thing… LOTS of new stuff & designs are in the wings… can’t WAIT to share!!!!

There’s a chance – if I can cross off all my “to-do’s” which are infinitely long – I will reopen before the 13th.  I will still enable the shopping cart but orders will be delayed in shipping out until after the 13th.  If you need something during that time, please do email me… this iPhone has not allowed me to break away from work at all… So… that’s that!

Hope you’re all enjoying the summer!

*enjoy!

Busy workshop

I have always wanted to post pictures of every item that leaves my office… I just absolutely stink at taking pics!  I am too hurried to get everything out of the door and to the post office, I never have time to snap pics.  I have often saved images of the files I am working on but if I tried to save a pic of every single cup insert or cup that went out of here, my computer would surely blow up!  So, I am going to attempt to start blogging again showing you pics of what stuff looks like around here before it leaves.  Proving that I actually DO work :)  Most of what I will post will be new designs… not so much every pen that I do (geesh) or every cup, etc…

Emma Grace Bow Holder

Abby Binder

 

Various pens…

Brook party tags

Drew Bowl

 

Jeffrey Binder

 

Elizabeth Binder

 

Gabby Binder

Andrew

 

Bella

 

There are many more pics to come.. just gotta get them in a few at a time!

enjoy!