tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19224263383438860632024-03-13T17:15:17.017+11:00Made With Love-Cards And CraftsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-14916822813739652582014-01-07T01:41:00.003+11:002014-01-07T01:45:06.434+11:00Do you really NEED to attend that conference?So you stumbled across this advertisement mentioning that there was this AMAZING conference coming up that would significantly benefit you as an Entrepreneur. Do you:<br />
a) Sign yourself straight up no matter what the cost?<br />
b) Put it in the 'maybe' pile as you don't know if you NEED to go?<br />
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c) Freak out at the thought of strangers being around you and the introvert in you wants to stay home in your comfort zone?<br />
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Well I am usually the person screaming out 'C!' and as scary as it was I am really glad I went.<br />
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Here is WHY it was so great for me to go to a conference that was 2000KM away. Yes, you read that correctly. If you asked if I am crazy for doing so, most of me on the way there would have agreed with you.<br />
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I had first heard about the conference 'Mumpreneurs on fire' around June last year and although I am not a mum I signed up for the newsletter and they had a competition going to win a 3 day pass to the event. The conference wasn't only just for mums and not being a mum myself wasn't made to feel excluded or that I didn't deserve to be there. Was a really welcoming atmosphere!<br />
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I genuinly wanted to know more about the conference and after seeing the line up of speakers attending and what their topics were I knew it would be so beneficial to my business to attend.<br />
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Besides, I had always wanted to go to Adelaide and after the year I had so far I really wanted a holiday and knew I deserved it.<br />
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And boy was it well deserved!<br />
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I believe things happen for a reason and if it is meant to be it is meant to be.<br />
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Call me superstitious or whatever but I do believe it!<br />
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So August came around and this email landed in my inbox, which I had to read twice!<br />
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I had won the pass to the conference.<br />
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I remember where I was when I got the email I was staying at my Aunts for a few days helping her and my Nan organise my pops funeral.<br />
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It really was such a positive thing and I never win anything especially an opportunity like this!<br />
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So I knew I had to talk to my husband and discuss if we could afford for me to make the trip and after talking things over with my Aunt and Step Mum along with my ever supportive Hubby they told me I deserved the trip and that I would 'Kick yourself if you don't go' which I know I would.<br />
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My holiday to Adelaide, the 2000 KM journey there, the conference and the friends I met will be memories and moments I will remember for quite some time!<br />
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The most beneficial thing of being in a conference with only 80 like-minded business women was the networking created.<br />
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I have since spoken with those I met at the conference and have created such a strong network of support it is just so motivating and inspiring to know that you are not alone!<br />
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So do I think you NEED to attend that conference coming up?<br />
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Without a doubt YES you NEED to go! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-22174449614790114812013-12-11T13:24:00.003+11:002013-12-11T13:35:00.121+11:00Wrapping up 2014Hi everyone,<br />
How is your holiday planning going? Many presents being beautifully wrapped and placed under the tree? I know I have started although eagerly awaiting the arrival of majority of mine.<br />
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I wanted to let you all know some exciting things heading into 2014 but wanted to wrap up the year that has been 2013.<br />
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Firstly and most importantly I wanted to thank all my amazing customers for their support this past year.<br />
This year has been hard for me for many reasons but mainly due to my health. It has really made all the difference having supportive and understanding customers and patient too. Being sick was out of my control but your support while I had my bowel removed and was recovering was something I will never forget. Those who sent messages and emails of support really helped on days that felt dark.<br />
I also want to thank you for your patience while I have been sick with unexpected pancreatitis since September, which I am hopeful that it will be eliminated for good after surgery in January.<br />
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If you tell a teenager you forbid them to see that boy they are hot for, they don't listen do they and by telling them you forbid something only makes them want it more?<br />
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Well that is what I did this year, except I am no longer a teen and already have the boy lol. I was told to take it easy to just relax, which my step mum actually commented this past week that it would be a miracle if I relaxed. I am someone who likes to stay busy and focused. I have a plan and I need to stick to it.<br />
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Well being told to relax and take it easy only made me more determined to work harder and to push boundaries I only ever imagined of accomplishing!<br />
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I am so proud of things that I have achieved this year both personally and in made with love.<br />
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Made With Love reached over 14,000 likers! I remember thinking I would never get passed 100! I appreciate every single one of your comments and likes on posts. Love having your support!<br />
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I finally got a <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.com.au/">website </a>which is absoloutley amazing! A massive thank you to my incredible web designer Wendy who has been so supportive and always helping to update my website for me and is so efficient as well. If you want an amazing website that looks just as amazing on your phone or ipad oh and is affordable too, contact <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sitefreshwebdesign">SiteFresh Web Design</a>! They have a xmas special on at the moment too!<br />
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This year also saw <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.com.au/in_the_media">made with love in the media</a>! For some of the media can be found on my <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.com.au/in_the_media">website</a>.<br />
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I was also asked to guest blog post for <a href="http://www.thehandmadebusinessmentor.com/2013/09/is-your-business-safe-from-you.html?spref=fb">The Handmade Business Mentor</a> and asked to be a regular craft/DIY contributor for <a href="http://www.mouthsofmums.com.au/diy-make-super-xmas-lollipops/">Mouth of Mums</a>.<br />
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August this year saw a special program released called 'Mums who LOVE Made With Love' which 24 mums were selected from applicants to be apart of a unique Made With Love experience where each mum would receive a full birthday stationary pack in exchange for a review. I have created so many different themes since August such as Minions and trains, Madhatter tea party, bubble party, playschool party, vintage carousels, Lego Ninjago, TMNT, and giggle and hoot inspired designs with some exciting themes coming up!<br />
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So far to date I have created a whopping 4000 handmade invitations! All made by me and made by hand!<br />
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I have started accepting orders for 2014 birthdays and already have bookings up until November- no that isn't a typo! With layby/payment arrangements available to make things more affordable and easier all that is required is a $20 deposit. To order or enquire you can do so via my website order form here.<br />
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I do offer loyalty rewards for all invitation orders such as:<br />
* 10% off repeat invitation orders<br />
* FREE gift with invitation orders either set of cupcake toppers or a deluxe handmade card<br />
* FREE express post on orders over $100<br />
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Next year I am working on a monthly subscription where you will receive a DIY kit and tutorial to create a project. I am looking into sending out kits and tutorials each month.<br />
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I am also wanting to send out a monthly newsletter which will have info on the latest product/product of the month, a DIY project and also will have info on any competitions where you can win Made With Love that month. Will also include any special offers or be the first to see product releases.<br />
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I have about 5 orders to post out before Xmas and I am done for the year and will be taking a couple of weeks rested break as I have been working really hard to make sure all orders are out in time for Xmas! So if you have any questions you can always contact me through my website, email or facebook page and I will be available to answer any questions.<br />
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Thank you so much for all your Santa Key purchases and support! $1 from every Santa Key sale gets donated directly towards the Kmart wishing tree appeal helping less fortunate Australians enjoy some Xmas cheer. I will be heading out and purchasing $150 worth of gifts to be placed under the tree! Thank you!<br />
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If you are looking for some Xmas crafty fun I have created the 12 days of a DIY Xmas with some fun activities the kids will enjoy! You can find these <a href="http://www.madewithlovecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/on-12-days-of-diy-xmas-made-with-love.html">here</a>.<br />
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In February we will be turning 3! Have some great celebration ideas in play and hope that you will be as excited as I am!<br />
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Thank you so much again for all your support this past year and look forward to an even bigger and better 2014!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-54633365337398151492013-12-08T02:50:00.002+11:002013-12-08T02:50:52.728+11:00On the Ninth Day of Xmas Made With Love showed to me...... How to play a new game this Xmas Eve!<br />
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Santa can't deliver his present this year because his beard has fallen off and he needs your help in finding it for him!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #464646; font-family: 'Century Gothic'; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.795454025268555px;">How you can help is by playing 'pin the beard on Santa'! You can purchase the game for $2 from </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/172114788/pin-the-beard-on-santa-colouring-in">here!</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">I have created the perfect game for your children, and of course adults can play too!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Introducing pin the nose on Rudolph!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">This massive A2 sized posted is printed in black and white which not only means that Rudolph needs to be coloured in (giving your children a task to complete) but when he is all coloured in and his nose cut out the game can start!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Simply put the poster up on your wall and with the same concept as 'pin the tail on the donkey' you need to pin the beard on Santa (using bluetack or sticky tape).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Have each child blindfolded and asked to spin around then place the beard where they think it should go.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">The kids will have so much fun watching each other play and realising how close or how far away they were from the target!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">The closest to where his beard should go wins the game!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">I have created this to be printed off at your local officeworks for $1.49 (www.officeworks.com.au) and it is to be printed off as a black and white A2 plan. You can even upload to their website and have them delivered to you.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Once Xmas is over you can roll up the poster and put away for next xmas!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Guarantee to have a blast with this game!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">You are purchasing two files one is the large A2 poster and the second is Santa's beard.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-37626292414539536232013-12-08T02:46:00.000+11:002013-12-08T02:46:02.269+11:00On the Eighth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me....... How to pin the nose on Rudolph the red nose reindeer!<br />
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Something has happened and Rudolph has lost his nose! He needs your help so that he can help guide Santa's sleigh!<br />
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How you can help is by playing 'pin the nose on Rudolph'! You can purchase the game for $2 from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/172115286/pin-the-nose-on-rudolph-colouring-in">here</a>!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">I have created the perfect game for your children, and of course adults can play too!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Introducing pin the nose on Rudolph!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">This massive A2 sized posted is printed in black and white which not only means that Rudolph needs to be coloured in (giving your children a task to complete) but when he is all coloured in and his nose cut out the game can start!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Simply put the poster up on your wall and with the same concept as 'pin the tail on the donkey' you need to pin the nose on Rudolph (using bluetack or sticky tape).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Have each child blindfolded and asked to spin around then place the nose where they think it should go.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">The kids will have so much fun watching each other play and realising how close or how far away they were from the target!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">The closest to where his nose should go wins the game!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">I have created this to be printed off at your local officeworks for $1.49 (www.officeworks.com.au) and it is to be printed off as a black and white A2 plan. You can even upload to their website and have them delivered to you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Once Xmas is over you can roll up the poster and put away for next xmas!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">Guarantee to have a blast with this game!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Guardian-EgypTT-Text, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; line-height: 25px;">You are purchasing two files one is the large A2 poster and the second is Rudolphs's nose.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-71839988470448975422013-12-08T02:08:00.001+11:002013-12-08T02:08:28.973+11:00On the Seventh day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me...... How to make a keepsake from the holidays!<br />
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If you love cherishing memories and if you love doing craft then I have the perfect project for you where you can create a holiday keepsake this year.<br />
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Using a verse that I have created each page to be decorated will have something to do with xmas.<br />
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This is an image of the verse I created for a print which I will be printing off to display as part of my home decor. I can print this off as an A2 sized posted at officeworks for $10!<br />
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I have had this project in mind for a while and wanted to create something that you can turn into a holiday keepsake by collaging images from magazines, from drawing your own images, from adding in photographs and the possibilities of what you can use this for are endless.<br />
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Perfect to put away in their keepsake boxes to pull out at their 21st birthday.<br />
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This project is perfect for letting your imagination roam freely as each page is up to your interpretation. I have also included a few pages I created to give you an idea.<br />
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Each page is 14.8cm x 10.5cm in size so plenty of space to go crazy with your scissors and glue (within reason of course).<br />
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So are you ready to have fun?<br />
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These are images of the PDF printable each page (which will be not be watermarked when downloaded):<br />
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Now lets make this DIY keepsake book!<br />
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To make this holiday keepsake book you will need:<br />
*<a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/172127201/diy-holiday-keepsake-project-printable?">The PDF printable which can be purchased from here for $1</a><br />
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*You will also need other materials depending on how you decide to do each page such as cardstock, paper, photos, magazines, embellishments and more!<br />
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You will need to <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/172127201/diy-holiday-keepsake-project-printable?">purchase this project from my etsy store for $1</a> to create this project. This can be purchased from here. You will not receive a watermarked version, this image above is for example purposes only. It is an instant downloadable file once purchased you can download and print the file.</div>
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You will need to cut each page into 4 rectangles that are 14.8 cm wide (half an A4 width) and 10.5cm high (half an A4 in height).</div>
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You will need to hole punch each page. Depending on your type of punch you could be able to hole punch more then one page at a time. I have hole punched the top left corner. You could also punch the sides to make it into a binder book as well.</div>
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Thread the pages through the key ring (jump ring) making sure that the pages are in chronological order. I have used a jump ring with a hook so that it can hang and be displayed in my home. I have no idea what or where I got it from just happened to find it sitting on the bench- score! Love when you can find purposes for things otherwise deemed useless!</div>
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Start decorating each page with however your imagination sees fit! The possibilities are endless! I created an angel for the A page.</div>
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Other pages I created for examples are below:</div>
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If you LOVED the tutorial I introduced to you on day 2 of a DIY Xmas where I showed you how to make a pretty and easy round bauble decoration for your tree, then you are going to love this one just as much!<br />
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Basically following the same steps as the round bauble but instead this is a round scalloped bauble,<br />
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Want to make this? Then follow the tutorial!<br />
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*Paper can use any pretty paper, doesn't have to be double sided. For this tutorial I used Kaisercraft xmas paper.</div>
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*Circle scalloped Paper Punch- For this tutorial I used 2 3/8" punch from Stampin Up! You can use any circle punch to create this tutorial yourself. (This punch I used can be ordered from Made With Love).</div>
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*Scissors (to cut the twine)</div>
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*Twine- I absoloutley LOVE Whimsy Farm Twine which I have used in both this tutorial and the first picture. You can purchase 100m for $5 (plus postage)! The quality is really amazing!</div>
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*Glue- I used glue tape for this tutorial but you can use any glue you like.</div>
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*Bone folder- These are used to create finer creases</div>
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Select which paper you want to use and begin punching out your 9 circles. I find it best to hold the punch upside down so you can see your placement of paper and how it would look when its punched. I also try and punch as close to the edge as possible that way I can re use the scraps in the centre (I have boxes and boxes of scraps I WILL use one day). </div>
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Finding the centre of the group of joined circles fold this so that the centre spine is revealed like in the picture above.</div>
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I hope that you enjoy this day 6 tutorial! Be sure to come back tomorrow for day 7!<br />
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Does it drive you bonkers every Christmas or School holidays when your children harp at you because they are bored and claim they have nothing to do?<br />
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Introducing this whopper of a activity sheet that is bound to keep your kids occupied for hours to come!<br />
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Measuring a MASSIVE 420mm x 594mm this A2 sized activity sheet will amuse them for many hours!</div>
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There is the Xmas word search, colouring in, guessing the flags of the world Xmas baubles, guessing how many circles are shown and of course a joke that I am sure the parents would enjoy having a giggle. After all who doesn't like a silent night?</div>
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This file can be <a href="https://www.etsy.com/au/listing/171790411/xmas-activity-sheet-a2-in-size?">purchased from my etsy store</a> for just $2 and is an immediate downloadable file. Simply take the file into your nearest officeworks and request to print an <a href="http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/print/posters-and-plans/black-and-white-plans?productname=bwplan">A2 black and white plan for $1.49 a sheet</a>! </div>
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If you like I can arrange printing and posting the activity sheet to you for an additional $12 Australia Wide which covers postage, purchasing mailing tubes and printing.</div>
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I will also have the cheat sheets and answers available to you.</div>
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I have edited the image to show you the different answers of the flags of the world baubles, how many circles there are (will check one more time when my eyes aren't going cross eyed on me) and have colour coordinated the find a word which hopefully makes helping your kids find the answers easier! The colour of the elf is just my interpretation as well.</div>
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In this tutorial I will show you how to make this angel that measures 15cm from the tips of the wings and is 15 cms high. This angel will be used in tutorials to come during the 12 days of a DIY Xmas.</div>
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*<a href="http://bit.ly/IH6kI6">PDF template which you can download here</a></div>
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*white cardstock</div>
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Download the <a href="http://bit.ly/IH6kI6">PDF template from here</a> and print it out. Grab your scissors and start cutting along the outline of the large scalloped circle.</div>
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Your shape should look like this.</div>
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You should now have a drawing like this.</div>
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You should have 3 pieces that look like this.</div>
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On the reverse of the large white scalloped circle trace the 3 pieces cut from step 4 onto the scalloped circle. You should now have 3 lines as shown in the picture above. Now cut along those 3 lines and you should now have 3 pieces.</div>
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Then grabbing the cream piece of cardstock turn it over and trace the circle.</div>
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I am going to show you just how easy it is to make yourself a pretty Xmas banner this year. This tutorial comes complete with all the templates used in this tutorial which can be downloaded as PDF'S. </div>
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This tutorial shows you how to create a banner spelling our 'JOY' but you can apply all these steps to create any combination of words such as Christmas, Merry, Peace, Xmas, Noel and you can even do your family's surname.</div>
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*Xmas paper- I used 3 different sheets of Kaisercraft paper for this tutorial. You can even use xmas wrapping paper if you wish!</div>
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*Cardstock for the letters- I used Stampin' Up! Real Red and Wild Wisabi cardstock.</div>
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*PDF Templates which the <a href="http://bit.ly/1eVpky7">banner can be downloaded from here</a> and the <a href="http://bit.ly/1eOJF7m">alphabet template</a> from here!</div>
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*Scissors</div>
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*Glue or 3Dimensional foam dots- I used Stampin' Up! Sticky dots only need 3 per letter</div>
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*Hole punch- I used fiskars hand hole punch 3/8" circle. Can buy from any craft store or officeworks.</div>
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*Pen, pencil or marker</div>
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*Ribbon approx 1-2m used for this banner will need more if you use longer words</div>
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Download the <a href="http://bit.ly/1eVpky7">Banner Template PDF</a> and print this out (black and white option onto normal printer paper is perfect). Then cut along the black outline.</div>
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Your cut out shape should look like this.</div>
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Select the piece of paper you wish to use and turn it over. Place the banner template you just cut out on the reverse side. HOT TIP: Line the banner up with the edge of the paper which means one less side to trace/cut!</div>
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Now using your pen/pencil/marker and ruler trace around the outline of the template. I suggest having something heavy in the centre of the template you are tracing to avoid it moving.</div>
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It should now look something like this!</div>
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Your shape should now look like this!</div>
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Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all your banner pieces are cut out. You should have 1 piece per letter of the word you are spelling out.</div>
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Now download the <a href="http://bit.ly/1eOJF7m">Alphabet template from here</a> and print out. Black and white option on normal paper is more then suffice. Only print the pages that have the letters you need. To spell out 'JOY' I needed to print 5,7 and 12 only.</div>
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Now Cut out the letters you need. If your letter has a centre piece like A, B, D,O,P,Q, and R don't cut the centre out as I will show you a hot tip below!</div>
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Grab the piece of cardstock you are using and the letters that you want cut out in that colour and place back to front on the reverse side of the cardstock, like how I have in the picture above.</div>
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Now trace around each of the letters. Don't throw any scrap cardstock away as you will need it for later tutorials!</div>
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Your letters should now look like this. The 'O' kind of looks like Rudolph's nose, doesn't it? Don't stress about how it doesn't look like an 'O' because I am about to show you what to do.</div>
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Now that we have already cut the 'O' we can now create the centre piece. Using the letter template letter (the printed O) cut out the centre white oval. Place this upside down on the reverse of the paper. Make sure that it is the same paper that the Letter O is going to be displayed on as it is important that the papers are the same. Will give the illusion that you have cut the centre piece out, but we both know it is only a glued piece!</div>
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Now trace the oval or centre piece as shown and then cut it out when you have finished and glue onto the letter as shown below.</div>
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Choose your ribbon you wish to use and cut the length required ensuring there is plenty on the ends to tie and hang. For this tutorial I used 1-2m of red grosgrain ribbon.</div>
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Now you have finished your banner and it is ready to be hung! Hope you have fun adding the easy and fun banner to your Xmas decor this year! Would love to see your creations you made </div>
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Please credit Made With Love Cards and Crafts.</div>
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Here I will show you how to make these fun. cheap and easy Xmas decorations in under 10 minutes! Trust me it is so easy!<br />
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*Paper can use any pretty paper, doesn't have to be double sided. For this tutorial I used Stampin Up! Season of style Designer series paper stack. (The paper used in the first picture is Kaisercraft xmas paper pads) Both paper pads can be ordered through Made With Love.</div>
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*Circle Paper Punch- For this tutorial I used 1 3/4" punch from Stampin Up! You can use any circle punch to create this tutorial yourself. (This punch I used can be ordered from Made With Love).</div>
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*Twine- I absoloutley LOVE Whimsy Farm Twine which I have used in both this tutorial and the first picture. You can purchase 100m for $5 (plus postage)! The quality is really amazing!</div>
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Select which paper you want to use and begin punching out your 9 circles. I find it best to hold the punch upside down so you can see your placement of paper and how it would look when its punched. I also try and punch as close to the edge as possible that way I can re use the scraps in the centre (I have boxes and boxes of scraps I WILL use one day). </div>
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Begin folding your circles in half. Which ever pattern you want to see on your decoration you fold so this is on the inside of the circle. If you only have one sided decorative paper, you would have the pattern on the inside with the white on the outside. You wont see the outside colour or pattern as it will be covered.</div>
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With your bone folder run this along the folded crease until your crease is defined and your folded circle should be completely flat.</div>
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Grabbing one of the circles now folded and properly creased apply the glue to one side only, usually the top of the folded circle, as shown in the picture above.</div>
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Now get two folded circles and join the surfaces that have been covered in glue together. To best line them up place on your workspace like I have in the picture and once they are aligned press both folded circles together.<br />
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Repeat this step and process until all the folded circles are paired. You will have one set of 3 and 3 sets of 2 folded circles together.<br />
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Start to glue two sets together like shown. Repeat until all sets of folded circles are now joined as one (see picture below).<br />
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Turn over the group of circles so far and apply glue to both sides of the folded circle as shown above.</div>
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Cut a piece of twine. This will be used to hang your decoration. I recommend cutting a piece no longer then 15cms.</div>
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Fold your piece of twine in half and then tie a knot on the ends like shown in the picture below.</div>
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Finding the centre of the group of joined circles fold this so that the centre spine is revealed like in the picture above.</div>
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Then place the knotted twine in the centre of the spine fold and begin to unfold the sides so that the two pieces with the glue on them can be joined. Like in this picture below.</div>
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You should now have a pretty bauble decoration that is ready to be hung proudly for display on your Xmas tree!</div>
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Are you wanting to give gifts out to your child's classmates, looking for fun stocking fillers or some great and unique name tags for Xmas day lunch?<br />
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Then look no further as I am about to show you how to create some 'super' fun gifts for under $0.50 each!<br />
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Introducing to you the Made With Love Cards And Crafts PDF printable of super hero lollipops!<br />
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I created 25 of these for under $10- and I went all out and bought the real chubba chubb branded lollipops too!<br />
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These are great to make and handout but also to have the children involved. Trust me when I say they will be proud to hand to their friends and say that they made these!<br />
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Not only are these inexpensive and easy to create but these super lollipops will really help to make your Xmas extra super!<br />
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You will need:<br />
*Packet of lollipops- I used a 25 pack of chubba chubb branded ones<br />
*PDF printables which can be downloaded from here<br />
*Scissors<br />
*Sticky Tape<br />
*Hole punch- I used a fiskars 3/4" hole punch you can get from officeworks, spotlight, lincraft etc<br />
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<span style="color: #ba321f; font-family: Century Gothic; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://bit.ly/xmassuperlollipops"> You can download the 'Super Xmas Lollipops' PDF file here!</a></span></span></div>
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Step 1: Print the PDF Printables (I recommend printing onto white cardstock). You can print these from home or you can print them at your local officeworks for $0.88 plus $0.20 for the cardstock. You can download the Super Santa Lollipop printables from <a href="http://bit.ly/santasuperlollipops">here</a> and you can download the Super Xmas Lollipop Printables from <a href="http://bit.ly/xmassuperlollipops">here</a>.<br />
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Step 2: Cut out the capes along the outlines. Also cut out the eye masks if you wish to have these on your lollipops.<br />
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Step 3: Using the hole punch, punch a hole in the top middle of each cape. This is where we will slide the lollipops through!<br />
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Step 4: Slide the lollipop through the hole you just punched and wrap the lollipop stick with a little sticky tape to create a stopper, so that the cape stays in place and doesn't fall off!<br />
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Step 5: Now stick on the masks (if you wish to add these) and repeat the above steps to create a whole team of super Xmas lollipops.<br />
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Step 6: Hand out and enjoy spreading the Xmas cheer!<br />
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*If you want to add names or messages to the recipients you can write these on the underside of the cape which is white.<br />
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Hope you enjoy this easy, fun AND inexpensive classmate gift!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-80865827336730146872013-12-03T02:01:00.002+11:002013-12-08T02:53:06.518+11:00On the 12 days of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me...Hey everyone and Merry Xmas!<br />
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I wanted to do something fun and exciting this Xmas and decided to do a 12 days of DIY Xmas where each day I will create a different crafty and fun tutorial for you to do at home with your kids this holiday season.</div>
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When reading the blog post headings you must read it in a sing song voice, trust me it makes you get into the Xmas mood!</div>
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So there will be 12 posts (I know I am a couple of days late posting but hope these great tutorials make up for it) and I just know you will love making your xmas filled with 12 days of a DIY Xmas!</div>
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12 days of a DIY Xmas:</div>
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1) <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/on-first-day-of-diy-xmas-made-with-love.html">On the first day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me.. How to make super fun treats!</a></div>
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2) <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/on-second-day-of-diy-xmas-made-with.html">On the second day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me...How to make decorations for the Xmas tree!</a></div>
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3)<a href="http://bit.ly/IH6vTD">On the third day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me... How to make an angel!</a></div>
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4) <a href="http://bit.ly/IDTKZV">On the fourth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me... How to make a Xmas banner!</a></div>
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5) <a href="http://bit.ly/1cXqffh">On the fifth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me...How to occupy my kids this Chrissy.</a></div>
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6) <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/on-sixth-day-of-diy-xmas-made-with-love.html">On the sixth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me... How to make a scalloped bauble for my tree!</a></div>
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7) <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/on-seventh-day-of-diy-xmas-made-with.html">On the seventh day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me... How to make a xmas keepsake project</a></div>
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8) <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/on-eighth-day-of-diy-xmas-made-with.html">On the eighth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me... How to pin the nose on Rudolph the red nose reindeer!</a></div>
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9) <a href="http://madewithlovecardsandcrafts.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/on-ninth-day-of-xmas-made-with-love.html">On the ninth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me... How to play pin the beard on Santa game</a></div>
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10) On the tenth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me...</div>
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11) On the eleventh day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me...</div>
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12) On the twelth day of a DIY Xmas Made With Love showed to me...</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-62617874858646328392013-11-23T05:07:00.003+11:002013-11-23T05:07:44.453+11:00Mums who LOVE Made With Love: Simone's reviewOne thing that I have loved about the Mums who LOVE Made With Love program is that I have gotten the chance to get to know my customers more and one that I have enjoyed working with has been Simone who has a blog called 'Diggers And Dandelions'.<br />
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If you loved the Super Santa Lollipops, Simone was the one who had approached me about designing and making them with her idea!<br />
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I love following Simone's blog and fb page she is so imaginative and resourceful and comes up with the most amazing and practical parenting ideas like creating inexpensive classmate gifts! I am hoping if I am ever lucky enough to have kids that Simone and her blog is still around- as I am sure going to need all the parenting tips and ideas I can find!<br />
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Anyways back to business.. Simone has shared her experience of Made With Love and it was so fun creating this order for her son's Alec's birthday! She has also shared the party itself! So much thought and detail went into the planning!<br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">What is your name and what do you do? </span><div>
Simone currently a stay at home mum <br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">What is your child’s name and the age recently celebrated? </span></div>
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Alec turned the big 3! <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Alec loved bubbles, I wanted to try and do something a little different... His older brother suggested a bubble party. Alec loved the idea so I ran with it. <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #990000;">When you were dealing with Talya from Made With Love, How did you find the customer service? Was it above/below expectations, satisfactory/unsatisfactory, poor or average. </span></div>
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Talya was excellent.. She looked into different ideas, chatted about the party constantly and kept in contact at all stages. She even pinned ideas for me to look at related to the party on Pinterest! How is that for service! <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: #990000;">Did Talya help create the excitement during the entire process for your upcoming party needs? </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">His yummy cake! The cake bunting Simone made using letters that were excess of the invitations.</td></tr>
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Excited... He put one in his room, carried one in the car and showed everyone! <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Everyone loved the invitation and all still have them displayed, especially grandparents. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The quality was excellent, I even used one invitation with the bubble mixture... It has seen wind, rain and the entire 3rd birthday and is still looking fantastic.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-13910670923139994862013-11-23T04:37:00.000+11:002013-11-23T04:37:34.205+11:00Mum's who LOVE Made With Love- Melanie's ReviewYou may remember back in August (cannot believe it is November already) that I announced that I would be offering Mums who LOVE <a href="http://www.madewithlovecardsandcrafts.com.au/">Made With Love-Cards And Crafts</a> an opportunity to be apart of an exclusive review panel where each mum would receive a set of handmade invitations, banner, card and cupcake toppers all matching the theme of their choice!<br />
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I am proud to say that I am loving the opportunity working with so many different mums, who each have varied ages and themes of birthday being celebrated!<br />
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My name is Melanie Flaskis. I’m a registered nurse and mum to 3 year old Elysia and 5 month old George</div>
<br /><span style="color: #990000;">What is your child’s name and the age recently celebrated?</span>Elysia, she turned 3 in September<br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">What was your theme of the party being celebrated?</span>Elysia was very much into tea party play so we decided on a mad hatters tea party theme with elements of Alice in wonderland incorporated but not focused on the movie as she hadn’t seen it.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;">When you were dealing with Talya from Made With Love, How did you find the customer service? Was it above/below expectations, satisfactory/unsatisfactory, poor or average</span><br />Talya’s customer service more than exceeded expectations.<br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Please describe why you gave this rating.</span>Talya was genuinely interested in wanting to provide a product that genuinely reflected the party theme / colours and my daughters interest. She clearly takes a great deal of pride in what she does. Her communication of ideas was regular and if she was unhappy with an aspect of her work, she would take the time to do it again (even though I was more than happy with the first ideas, she exceeded expectations each time).<br /><br />Another example of this was I needed to change the date on half my invitations because we were having 2 small parties. Not only was this not an issue, Talya created a different background colour for the second invitation, giving it it’s own unique look but not deviating from the theme at all.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;">Did Talya help create the excitement during the entire process for your upcoming party needs?</span>Absolutely. It was great receiving email updates with photos of the invites/bunting/card at their different stages and gave me inspiration as to what else i could incorporate into the party decorating too. This also helped to build the excitement with my daughter as she could see what was being made just for her.<br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">What were your first thoughts or reactions when you received your order?</span>I was blown away; the details, layers and colours were more than anything i had anticipated. All made by hand and clearly with love<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;">What was your Child’s reaction? (if old enough to give a reaction)</span>When Elysia opened the parcel, her exact words were: “Oh.... WOW! Are these for me? They’re so beautiful! Thank you so much ! <br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">What was the reaction or feedback received from your invited guests?</span>All invited guests asked where I’d sourced the invites as they’d not seen anything like them before . they loved the personalised card and bunting and commented on the intricacy of the work and time taken to do them<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #990000;">What did you think of the quality of the invitations?</span>They were sturdy, colourful and each one was the same as the other. The card stock used was of an excellent quality and there were multiple layers to each invite. <br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Are you planning on doing anything special with the invitations? Such as framing or placing in a keepsake boxes etc.</span>I have kept 2 invites, her birthday card and bunting which have all gone into her keepsake box. One of the invites has been pasted into her baby book (it spans 5 years).<br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">How likely are you to want to refer Made with love to your friends and families?</span>Each time a birthday/special occasion arises, I encourage my family and friends to contact made with love if they’re after something beautiful, unique and most definitely memorable.<br /><br /><span style="color: #990000;">Do you have any feedback or comments you would like to offer?</span>Talya, your work is outstanding and you should be so proud. Your products are unique and your attention to detail will ensure this business will be very successful now and into the future. I look forward to planning my sons first birthday invites for May 2014 with you!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-62247216615694053052013-11-14T19:51:00.003+11:002013-11-15T10:06:44.509+11:00Have a Super Xmas with these Super Hero Inspired Lollipops!End of school year coming up and you are needing some class gifts or are you looking for something fun this Xmas?<br />
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A couple of months back Simone from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Diggersanddandelions">Diggers and Dandelions</a> <a href="http://diggersanddandelions.com/">blog</a> contacted me about creating a collaboration project.<br />
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Simone had been wanting to give each child in her oldest son's class a end of year gift. She wanted something cost effective, practical but also was unique and different that would have kids excited and talking about their cool gift. Also had to be something that a child would be proud to give out.<br />
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So Simone and I got talking in more depth and she mentioned she had seen the superhero lollipops for birthday parties as party favours and she began searching if there were Xmas themed ones.<br />
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She realised she had this amazing idea and asked if I could turn her idea into not only a design but as a FREE printable for all to use.<br />
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I began creating these a couple of months ago and am proud to not only show you these designs I have created but to also offer you to download these for personal use.<br />
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Simone put the pdf files onto a USB drive and took to her local officeworks for printing. Was $0.88c/sheet and an additional $0.20c for cardstock. Simone also lined her cutouts with black felt to create more of a flying/cape effect!<br />
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There are two files for you to download for your own personal use (which I ask that you attribute Made With Love-Cards And Crafts when sharing online). These are downloadable via dropbox and the links are under each set of images. Don't click on the images as they are only JPG versions. For higher quality please download the PDF via dropbox.<br />
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The first file is a Super Santa design that has 2 pages in the PDF document. On the first page is 7 santa capes and the second has 7 santa faces.<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/santasuperlollipops"><span id="goog_90663948"></span>You can download the 'Super Santa Lollipops' PDF file here<span id="goog_90663949"></span><span id="goog_90663938"></span><span id="goog_90663939"></span>!</a><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">The second file is a Super Xmas design that has 14 capes and 14 eye masks.</span><br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1ie47Sj"> You can download the 'Super Xmas Lollipops' PDF file here!</a><br />
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Instructions:<br />
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<li>Simply print either or both of these PDF printables onto cardstock. </li>
<li>Then cut out the outlines of the capes and masks/faces.</li>
<li>The faces/masks can be stuck to the lollipop with normal sticky tape.</li>
<li>Use a hole punch to punch the circle hole at the top of each cape, which you can slide the lollipop into place.</li>
<li>Adhere the lollipop and cape with sticky tape (on the underside of the cape).</li>
<li>Now you can give these out to your child's classmates, teachers or can even be used as stocking fillers on Xmas Eve!</li>
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I hope that you enjoy these files and that it brings much joy and Christmas Cheer to your children, their friends and your family.<br />
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Please remember that these are for personal use only and are <span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;">© </span>Made With Love-Cards And Crafts www.madewithlovecardsandcrafts.com.au.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-81754045528121437102013-11-08T14:06:00.001+11:002013-11-08T14:06:42.229+11:00Attract The Attention You Deserve!<div class="MsoNormal">
Recently I went away to Adelaide (I live in Coffs Harbour,
NSW) to attend the ‘Mumpreneurs on Fire conference’ and other then being
inspired about new things to do in my business, I learnt about positive affirmations
and how by practicing this you attract positive things in your life.</div>
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Developing a positive mindset can be one of the most
powerful life strategies you can have and can be life changing to not only your
professional life but your personal life as well.</div>
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I spoke to an attendee about her experiences and she told me how everyday she practices these
techniques to attract what she wants or attracts the right people she wants not
only in her life but in her business as well.</div>
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She went on to tell me how many years ago she was looking
for a career change and someone mentioned “Oh you would make an amazing flight
attendant”. Although she knew she wasn’t tall enough for a cabin crew position
she went and applied anyway. She said for weeks she would write “I am an
employee of x airlines”, and she would write this over, and over in an
affirmations journal she kept and you know what? She actually got the position
of cabin crew with the airline she wanted and worked there for over a decade! </div>
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You always hear people saying “If you think positively you
attract positive to your life”. I had always thought “Yeah right” being more
prone to thinking negatively. But in all honesty since attending the conference
I have changed how I think and I have been attracting positive attention, and I
think I deserve that.</div>
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At the start of September I was diagnosed with recurrent and
acute pancreatitis and every two weeks I would have a pancreatic attack and be
hospitalised for a week. My last one was at the start of October and I was
starting to get anxious about my impeding holiday as I didn’t want to get sick
on the way there or while I was there. </div>
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I needed the holiday after the 18 months I have had (in
short I lost my dad to bowel cancer, I was diagnosed with stage 4 endometrosis
and placed in a medically induced menopause, found out I needed my large bowel
removed as the growth was on the verge of becoming bowel cancer, and then
having the debilitating pancreatitis). </div>
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All this (and more) has happened the last 18 months and I am
only 22! So I really deserved this break.</div>
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For the weeks leading up to my well earned holiday I kept
saying to myself “I don’t have pancreatitis” or “I will not get pancreatitis
while on holidays” and most importantly “I am on holidays. I am relaxing. I
deserve this”.</div>
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It has now been over a month since my last pancreatic
attack, much to shock of my doctors as they had predicted the next attack would
be the worst one imaginable.</div>
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So we all know Xmas is fast approaching which means my
busiest time in my business.</div>
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I can’t afford nor will I get sick over the coming weeks. </div>
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So I am going to continue with positive affirmations and
positive thinking. </div>
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If you want to have a go at attracting the positive
attention you deserve and want to join me as I embrace this new approach to
thinking, then you will need to do any of the following:</div>
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<li>Go and grab a writing book or journal. Each day divide the
page into two sections. Top section for ‘positive affirmation’ and the bottom
section for ‘Today I am grateful for’.</li>
<li>Find some quotes you find inspiring, positive and
motivational. Put these somewhere you will see either at your desk, on the back
of the bathroom door, as screensavers on your computer. What I did was create a
calendar and each month has an inspiring quote, I got it done via vistaprint.</li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-56068240756414730662013-11-06T17:13:00.000+11:002013-11-06T17:19:10.858+11:00Why Build A Brand's Awareness?Quite often I get asked why am I so focused on building my brand's awareness. My answer always is that "Brand Awareness is key!"<br />
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Honestly when I started MWL almost three years ago (yikes time does fly when you do what you love) I had set some pretty high goals for myself. Those who know me, know that I only do things to my standard which is usually crazily high and that I have high expectations of myself. Which I do.<br />
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One of my 5 year goals was to be recognised as a household name or that when people thought 'handmade invitations, cards and party supplies' that they thought of MWL.<br />
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Some thought that this goal wasn't realistic, heck at times I thought it wasn't realistic but I still kept it as my goal.<br />
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So over the past nearly three years I have spent a lot of time and energy creating what I call brand awareness.<br />
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And you know what??<br />
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It is working!<br />
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The other night I called my internet provider as my internet was ridiculously slow. I had a very lovely (and Australian) worker who actually understood what the NBN was (Yes I called my internet provider about my NBN and the first two consultants asked if that was an internet service?).<br />
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I explained how crucial the internet was as I ran an online business which relies heavily on having internet access.<br />
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She asked me what the name of my business was.<br />
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I told her that it was Made With Love-Cards And Crafts.<br />
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And I will never forget her response.<br />
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She excitedly screamed into the phone 'OMG!! I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR WORK!! I AM A LIKER OF YOUR PAGE AND SO IS MY SISTER!'<br />
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It honestly made my day knowing that people know of my work or my business.<br />
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It made me realise that one of my dreams and goals is coming true!<br />
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So if you dream it, DREAM BIG!<br />
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If you want it, GO FOR IT!<br />
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Hope that has offered you some inspiration or hope that you can acheive anything if you set your mind to it.<br />
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I know I have a long way to go before I become a household recognised name but you have to start somewhere!<br />
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Happy hump day x<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-90717596150466842252013-11-02T14:59:00.002+11:002013-11-02T14:59:25.982+11:00Talya Goes To Adelaide: The Mumpreneurs on Fire ConferenceOne of the main reasons I was going to Adelaide was to attend the <a href="http://mumpreneursonfire.com/">Mumpreneurs On Fire Conference</a>. I was so lucky enough to win a ticket to the conference and as I believe that opportunities exist where we least expect them, I knew it was an opportunity I couldn't refuse.<br />
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The conference was organised by Kathryn Hocking from <a href="http://www.reveriecoaching.com/welcome">Reverie Coaching</a> and this was the first year it ran and had an incredible two days of amazing speakers with an optional third day business planning session.<br />
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The speakers over the two days were so inspirational with their own stories and journey but how they had aspired to running their business as well as being mums and entrepreneurs.<br />
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It was really inspirational to hear some of the entrepreneurial mums speak about how they turned their idea into a multi million dollar business was rather impressive.<br />
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I am always quite impressed when I hear 'Multi Million Dollar Business'. Immediately I go into this day dream of what it could mean for me. Most of the time it involves dreaming about diamond rings.<br />
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The conference was held at <a href="http://www.thebeachouse.com.au/">The Beach house</a>, Glenelg. It was this impressive indoor amusement park for kids. There was ferris wheels, dodgem cars, water slide, carousel rides and more.<br />
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We were upstairs in the conference room that had the most beautiful and distracting views of the beach and the ocean.<br />
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On the Tuesday 22nd October I decided I wanted to go shopping at Westfield West lakes as I thought I needed cocktail attire for a cocktail event the following day.<br />
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One of my all time favourite shops to shop at is <a href="http://www.citychic.com.au/">City Chic</a>, and I hate how the nearest one to where I live is a good 5 hour drive!<br />
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So of course I went shopping and found some amazing dresses, cardigans and formal shirts. My husband had said that "if there was something you could do in Adelaide that you can't do at home go for it and have fun". So I interpreted it as "Sure, go ahead and spend $400 on clothes at City Chic because we don't have one at home, so go for it".<br />
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Don't worry when I told him I went shopping at City Chic his response was "I know I saw the purchases on the credit card... but its okay I told you to have fun".<br />
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With advancement in technology like having your internet banking at the touch of your finger tips its so easy for husbands to track a wife's spending!<br />
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I decided to stay in Glenelg for a few days while the conference was on to save the commute in peak hour but because it meant I could sleep in longer and didn't have to wake as early!<br />
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I stayed in the <a href="http://www.oakshotelsresorts.com/oaks-liberty-towers/">Oaks liberty towers apartment</a> which were across the road from the conference venue so a nice short walk. The apartment was so spacious and quite posh. I was impressed that the courtyard was three times the size of the one I had back home!<br />
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So we had to be at the conference nice and early to get a seat we wanted and of course to get our goodie bags!<br />
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At 9AM the conference kicked off with the event organiser Kathryn welcoming everyone to the event.<br />
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The first speaker of the day was Karen Gunton from <a href="http://buildalittlebiz.com/">Build A Little Biz</a>. If you haven't heard of Build A little Biz you really should! Karen makes visual marketing exciting and fun! She really has a lot of passion and excitement for visual marketing and you can really tell from hearing her speak.<br />
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We got to experience the most delicious morning tea both days of the conference with gourmet yogurts from <a href="http://www.moopremiumfoods.com.au/">Moo Premium Foods</a>. I have heard a lot of Adelaide friends rave about their products and were only available in Adelaide, so it was on my 'to experience in Adelaide' list. They generously provided morning tea both days of the conference. They have the most scrumptious products.<br />
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What was a great thing about the breaks (morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea) you really got to get to know other people sitting at your table and also at the conference. Hearing their business ideas or hearing about their businesses was great to hear. Was great to see the networking beginning and ideas being bounced between one another.<br />
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We got to hear Cindie Smart from <a href="http://www.freerunpress.com.au/">Free Run Press</a> talk about her business and experience and how it grew from an idea into having several successful niche magazines.<br />
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When you hear 'business plan' or 'create a business plan', do you instantly think "oh em gee, how boring"? Well I always have until Helen Roe from <a href="http://theorangelantern.com/">The Orange Lantern </a>talked about how there is a creative business plan for creative minds. Was fun doing the activities and opened my mind up to different ideas I want to implement over the next year into Made With Love. As part of my ticket I won to the conference I got to experience the 3rd day which was a whole day working with Helen on creating a creative business plan. If you ever get the opportunity to do a workshop or class with Helen, I do reccomend it! She makes business plans fun!<br />
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After lunch we got to hear from Indy Hilditch from <a href="http://indyvisual.com.au/">IndyVisual Designs</a> where she talked about 'branding like the big guys' and the importance of creating a culture to go with your brand. She is having a branding masterclass coming up. So if you want to learn how to brand your business check out the masterclass here.<br />
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I loved speaking with Alli Price from <a href="http://www.motivatingmum.com/">Motivating Mum</a>, she was just so full of energy and I loved how she spoke about networking and the importance of having a mumpreneur network. I am what some would call and introvert but she had some great tips on networking. If you are a mumpreneur and feeling alone in your journey being a business women and a mum check out her website and see if there is a networking group near you!<br />
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Another inspirational Mum Entrepreneur was Mel Sears from <a href="http://onthegro.com/">On The Gro</a>. I had seen her business around the online world mainly in advertising on different sites but it was impressive to hear her speak about how she had this idea and went through the process of getting it manufactured to distribution and retail. She has quite an impressive set of awards as well to go with her amazing and innovating products she sells.<br />
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The last speaker for day one of the conference was <a href="http://lindachaousis.com/">Linda Chaousis</a> who spoke about 'Dream It. Visualise it. Attract it'. It was a great session and introduced me to changing my train of thought patterns. She spoke about positive self talk, and positive affirmations.<br />
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To end the day 1 of the conference we had a cocktail networking function where we spoke to different attendees and learnt something about them. For those who know me really well would understand how hard things like that are for me. But I gave it a go and put myself out there, and I am proud that I could do that.<br />
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The next day was Thursday the 24th of October and was another day jam packed with inspirational and motivational speakers.<br />
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The first speaker for the day was Lucy Cornes, the owner and founder of <a href="http://www.sheshopped.com.au/">She Shopped</a> which if you haven't heard of her business yet, stop what you are doing and go to facebook and search 'she shopped'. Seriously what are you waiting for? Lucy talked about the importance of social media in your business and how to create raving fans! It does work as I rave about the she shopped experience all the time!<br />
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After morning tea (where I had a passionfruit flavoured Moo yogurt) we heard from Clare Fitzgerald about the importance of video in business and how we could incorporate video into our current business.<br />
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We heard from Paige Rowett who is the owner of <a href="http://www.yourmarketinghub.com/">Your Marketing Hub</a> where at first she got everyone up and jumping around imitating a video on the screen- we felt like idiots but definitely helped in having everyone more energised and ready to hear about SEO. Search Engine Optimisation is about getting your website, business, name shown up on search engines. It is always preferential to be towards the top. We learnt lots of things about SEO we otherwise would not have known and I must admit hearing someone who has a passion for SEO speak about SEO does make you feel more excited in making sure your SEO is working for you.<br />
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<a href="http://samanthaleith.com/">Sam Leith</a> was such a fun speaker to listen too with her story and most importantly her strategy of 'ditch it, delegate it, leverage it'. She spoke about how if there is something you hate doing- don't do it, outsource it. It was great listening to her ways to work smarter not harder.<br />
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When Amanda Daley from <a href="http://fuelurbanwellness.com/">From Urban Wellness </a>spoke about the role stress plays on our health the whole session I was sitting there saying in my head 'omg that is how I feel'. Everything she spoke about really resonated strongly with how I was feeling and I kept saying "I must get in touch and work with her". She has some amazing formulas for helping women to reduce their stress and I can't wait to work with her more closely.<br />
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I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Kathryn for giving me this opportunity to attend the conference and have taken so much away from it.<br />
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After the year I have had, I really deserved and needed this break!<br />
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Before I began my journey to Adelaide, I volunteered selling bandannas for CanTeen for their national bandanna day. It was amazing seeing all the people in the community who not only knew about national bandanna day but proudly supported the day as well.<br />
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When I got to where the stall was to be, it wasn't even 8.30am and there were already a line up of people waiting to buy bandannas!<br />
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Once I finished at the stall I still had so much to do before I left on the 10pm train to Sydney. I still hadn't packed and had a couple of rushed orders to make before I left. But I managed to pull it all off with plenty of time to get to the train station. Up until 4 hours before the train was due to leave I still didn't know exactly how I was planning on getting to sydney or more so how I could avoid the 9 hour stop over the following day.<br />
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Here are the two custom Hoot and Hootabelle inspired name banners I created for twins Ruby and Coopers upcoming first birthday!<br />
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So 10pm came and I headed on down to the train station ready to start my exciting trip. I was bursting at the seams with a mixture of excitement and nerves especially as I was praying I wasn't going to get sick while away but importantly while travelling.<br />
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Some of you might remember the last 6 weeks I have been suffering from acute recurrent pancreatitis and have spent several week long hospital visits trying to manage and control this painful illness.<br />
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In fact just earlier that week I was in Sydney for a couple of days seeing a specialist and booking in a procedure for a couple of weeks time, to hopefully fix the pancreatitis.<br />
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So I got to the train station in Coffs Harbour and boarded the train. An hour into the trip I highly regretted not booking one of those sleeper carriages so I could at least get some sleep. If you have ever traveled on the country trains you would understand how uncomfortable it is to try and sleep cramped up. Lets just say I didn't sleep a wink!<br />
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My amazing husband found a device at work that day that allows you to plug a portable hard drive into it and it creates a wifi network between your iPad and the media share device so you can watch tv shows or movies on your iPad. It certainly made the trip to sydney go quicker!<br />
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So I got into Sydney Central Station at 7am and went and booked my luggage ready for the next train which was due to depart at 3pm. I also left my pillow and carry on bag in storage so it wasn't as much to carry around with me for the next 8 hours.<br />
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My phone, iPad and the media share device had gone flat at this point. I found a waiting room which had chairs, tables and powerpoint stations set up so I sat charging my devices for the next hour.<br />
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I had this brilliant thought to go looking for a nice, home style cafe to have a lovely breakfast. I was trying to avoid eating anything that could trigger a pancreatitic attack.<br />
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I went for a wonder and found heaps of coffee shops and little cafe's but they all looked too crammed or didn't have any tables left to sit at, so I kept on walking.<br />
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I had this brilliant idea to walk to circular quay and Darling Harbour. "An easy walk" everyone said. I began walking in the direction of the Harbour and following the signs, going on a real adventure. At one point I was at the entertainment centre and for some reason decided to take a left turn.<br />
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Do not ask me why.<br />
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I ended up walking this massive hill then took another left turn at an intersection which also went up another big hill. I kept walking and ended up in Broadway. Turned the corner and I was back at the railway station. By this point I was regretting the heavy backpack that was still on my back and for not putting it in storage for the day.<br />
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Determined by this point to find somewhere to sit and still wanting breakfast I just settled for a sausage roll. By this point I was just frustrated.<br />
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Sitting there eating my sausage roll I get approached by about 5 people begging me for money or telling me their life story about how they can't support their children. A couple of them began harrassing me and following me around, grabbing at my handbag and backpack. I was really scared.<br />
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I got back to the platform where the train was expected to depart in another 6 hours and decided to just stay put until the train. I hadn't had any sleep, I was stressed and exhausted and was really hoping that this 'holiday' was going to be worth it. I really needed the break.<br />
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I sat there reading my magazines waiting for the time to pass and got talking to a really lovely couple. There was one lady who approached me who wasn't so friendly.<br />
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She first asked if I was waiting for the train to Adelaide. I replied "Yes" and she just dumped her bags and walked off. When she returned she asked what ticket I had if it was a Red, Gold or Platinum ticket. I said I had a gold ticket which was a single cabin. What she said next made me so angry I wanted to yell at her.<br />
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She went on to tell me that "You won't fit in the single cabin as you are too fat. I am much skinnier then you and I have trouble fitting in the rooms, they are quite pokey afterall. I was lucky I could afford the extra $1300 upgrade to have a twin cabin to myself so I have the extra room and space. But the food is fantastic which looking at you I am sure you love your food."<br />
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Then she walked away. My jaw was just dropped and the lovely couple sitting near me were flabbergasted by how she spoke to me. I hate how people judge me and don't understand just how much medical stuff I have that cause my weight problems. I didn't ask for this and I hate how people treat me as though it is my fault. I don't eat crap constantly in fact usually have a salad every night with a little bit of chicken. I don't drink any alcohol. I do all the right things but it is just hard.<br />
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So add feeling sad and angry to my list of tired, stressed and anxious. I felt like crap. I just wanted to throw in the towel and head back home. I was wanting to give up completely on my holiday and return to the comfort of my home and support of my husband.<br />
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At 12PM the train came into the platform and the excitement and nerves picked up once again. This time it felt real that I actually was going to make it to Adelaide and on this holiday I had looked forward to for months!<br />
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The train was a kilometre long, so long that it had to be split into two to fit on the platform, one on platform 2 and the other on platform 3. It was interesting watching the train set up and preparation happening.<br />
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At 3PM we got to board the train and it departed around 4pm. Although the rooms were smaller then I expected I still thought they were spacious and more then enough to sit in the lounge chair and to take in the remarkable scenery. I was starting to feel more at ease.<br />
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The restaurant manager came by each guests room to book in a time to eat dinner, I was scheduled for 9PM. But he went on to say that as the tables are fixed with fixed chairs it could be uncomfortable or squishy and embarrassing for me at dinner time because of my size.<br />
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He walked off to the next person and I just closed my door and sobbed. What a start to the holiday I was so looking forward too!<br />
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I decided to walk down to the bar carriage and ordered a drink (non alcoholic) as all drinks including alcohol were free for the entire length of the journey. I sat their quietly drinking to myself just hoping no one notices me.<br />
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That lady who horribly approached me when I was waiting for the train came and sat next to me and continued on her rant about me being fat. I finished my drink and returned back to my room to spend time alone.<br />
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Because of the tragic and devastating bushfires we had to divert the blue mountains so instead of heading through the mountains to Bathurst, Parkes and so on we went down through the illawarra region through to Yass, Goulbourn, Cootamundra then overnight went back up to Parkes and through to Broken Hill etc.<br />
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Going through the Illawarra region we passed some more remnants of bushfires and there was one house, car etc that was completely burnt and destroyed. My heart ached for all those people who had lost so much.<br />
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The time came for 9PM and I headed on down to the dining carriage where I was told I would be sitting in the bar/lounge area with another passenger. I didn't feel as embarrassed or singled out at that point.<br />
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The meal was amazing! I chose the roasted duck and must say it was quite a meal! In fact all the meals they cook are of top restaurant quality.<br />
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After dinner I headed back to my room where I was able to enjoy a good nights sleep, I was pretty exhausted by that point!<br />
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The next morning we were woken at 7am and announced breakfast had started being served. We were a few hours out of Broken Hill and experienced from breathtaking scenery. There was so much red dirt!<br />
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One of the reasons I took the train option was to experience and see parts of Australia I haven't experienced before.<br />
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I saw the incredible Menindee Lakes and was fascinated by how massive it was. I also got to see heaps of the wildlife I wouldn't normally see outside of zoo's or captivity. I actually saw several herds of wild Emu's! It was incredible!<br />
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Surpsiringly I had mobile reception most of the way and was able to upload pics to my instagram along the way.<br />
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One of my favourite shots would have been this scene that had bright green fields on one side of the fence, white fields towards the back, lavender fields in bloom with red soil at the front. The contrast of the colours was just absoloutley beautiful!<br />
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I got into Adelaide at around 5PM and was met by my amazing friend Karynne the owner and designer behind <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChookShedDesigns">Chook Shed Designs</a> with her most adorable little Lucy!<br />
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Karynne and I have been friends online for quite some time, we met through our businesses and talk everyday online. We hadn't had an opportunity to meet in person and my trip to Adelaide was amazing for one of those reasons.<br />
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Karynne and her family kindly let me stay at their house when I wasn't at the conference for a few days. I had such a blast hanging out with Karynne and Lucy and getting to know them more. Was even more fascinating watching Karynne sew and create her amazing teasets!! She has incredible talent!<br />
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So this was the journey down. Stay tuned to hear all about the 3 day Mumpreneurs on Fire conference event and the incredible guest speakers!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-36343019200997241942013-10-28T18:53:00.001+11:002013-10-28T18:53:07.835+11:00WE ARE A FINALIST!I am just bursting at the seams with excitement to announce that the Made With Love 2013 Santa Key Design has been awarded a finalist in the <a href="http://craftawards.com.au/Craft2013/default.asp">2013 Australian Craft Awards</a>!<br />
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I am extremely excited and proud to be sharing this news with you all!<br />
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Bummer I have to wait until the 1st of November to learn if I am a winner or not!<br />
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You can view my entry <a href="http://craftawards.com.au/Craft2013/entry_details.asp?ID=12429&Category_ID=5477">here</a>!<br />
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I would love your help to 'rate' my design (with a '5' if you really love it) will help to improve my chances!<br />
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But check out the special certificate I get to print out and frame!<br />
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You might remember back in August I announced and opened applications for 'Mums who LOVE Made With Love' which is a review panel of several mums, which due to the overwhelming response of applicants I ended up choosing 24 mums, who over the course of the next year will receive a set of party stationary (invites, card, banner and cupcake toppers) for their child's party in exchange for a review.<br />
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I will introduce you to Jenica and her review of her experience with Made With Love for her Son Lucas "Lukie or Pookie" who celebrated his second birthday with a Minions and Trains theme.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">What is your name and what do you do?</span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"></span>I’m Jenica, and I’m a stay at home mum to Lukie, as well as wife to Simon who is a medical intern.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">What is your child’s name and the age recently celebrated?</span><br />
My son is Lukie, and he just turned 2! I can’t believe how big he’s getting…<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">What was your theme of the party being celebrated?</span><br />
Lukie has two obsessions at the moment – and I mean OBSESSIONS. He loves “mimyums” (minions) from Despicable Me, and he’s absolutely crazy for his “choos” (trains).</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">When you were dealing with Talya from Made With Love, How did you find the customer service?</span><br />
Talya is BEYOND amazing. She goes out of her way to make sure you’re happy, takes into consideration everything you tell her even if it seems irrelevant, and her attention to detail exceeds any I’ve ever seen. Nothing is overlooked. She was amazingly creative at incorporating two themes that have nothing to do with each other, and not only came up with an awesome design, but came up with SEVERAL awesome designs, which I ended up basing my entire party on. </div>
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Because Talya is awesome!<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Did Talya help create the excitement during the entire process for your upcoming party needs?</span><br />
Honestly (bad mummy moment) I had no excitement for my son’s party until I started discussing things with Talya. I had some ideas floating around in my head but figured I’d just throw some stuff together the week before. While talking with Talya not only did she ask the right questions to create her AWESOME invites, decorations and card, but she also got ME excited and planning for the party, which I honestly don’t think I would have done more than a few days in advance if it weren’t for her.</div>
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Holy Crap!!! I was blown away. The packaging alone was incredible, but opening it up and seeing all the wonderful pieces she had made was like Christmas. The banner she made was incredible and I must have spent five minutes just staring at it before I even opened the rest of the package. The invites were so amazing – I can’t fathom how much time it must have taken to design and create them with all the tiny pieces! The cupcake toppers were super cute, and much sturdier than I expected. His birthday card was the best though. She even decorated the envelope! I couldn’t believe how amazing everything was.</div>
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Keeping in mind that Lukie is little and not fully verbal yet, he took one look at the invites and yelled “MIMYUM CHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!” so he knew what it was right away. Which is a testament to Talya’s work, because I made several minion decorations and pictures and he didn’t even look at them. He was SO excited to see his two loves combined together.</div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">What did you think of the quality of the invitations?</span><br />
The quality is amazing. This is not your typical throw away invitation. They were sturdy and well made (nothing is coming apart on them despite being handled by toddlers), and they were INCREDIBLE. I couldn’t get over that each TOOTH on EACH minion was placed and stuck individually. WOW! They were far beyond what I had expected.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Are you planning on doing anything special with the invitations? </span><br />
Invites, his card, a cupcake topper, the banner and extra cut outs that I ordered will all be used for scrapbooking. Some extra invites that I collected back from people (yes, they are THAT awesome) will be framed and used to decorate Lukie’s room when he has his own bedroom.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">How likely are you to want to refer Made with love to your friends and families?</span><br />
I’ve already told my friends, my mums’ group and random people looking for invites on facebook to check out Talya’s work. It’s AMAZING<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Do you have any feedback or comments you would like to offer?</span><br />
Talya is amazing. Her work is amazing. That’s all you need to know.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minion Dave guarding the cupcakes</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Train track leading to the party!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birthday 'Mimyum' in his costume playing with minions and trains</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the table and cupcake toppers in use</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adorable cake trains!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Birthday 'Mimyum' Riding on the track</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Minons and Trains- Can see the cupcake toppers used</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-67371529750579310482013-10-02T16:50:00.001+10:002013-10-02T16:50:19.439+10:00Is it a dream or is it reality?What started off as a romantic jet set away soon saw reality crashing back down.<br />
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It all started when my husband suggested or more romantically demanded that I need a break well that we need a break.<br />
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Turns out he had this whole romantic holiday planned and it truly was beautiful!<br />
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We spent a gorgeous two weeks in a over water bure in Fiji and were waited on hand and foot, literally with medicures and pedicures and the facials too!<br />
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We renewed our wedding vowels which was so intimate and romantic, celebrating 5 strong years.<br />
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After touring the majestic island and swimming in the picturesque waters it was time to say goodbye to fiji and to jump on the cruise ship home.<br />
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That was when things took a rather unusual turn.<br />
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Here on the cruise liner I bumped into one of my old friends who is now this jet setting multi millionaire after having launched and invented this incredible product, which was just loved and adored by so many. Had been admiring his success for years, success that I wish would happen to come my way.<br />
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We got chatting and he mentioned that when the cruise ships gets into the Ports of Brisbane that we should follow him back to his 'pad' or should I say mansion for some drinks and he will fly us anywhere we want the following day.<br />
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Itching to get some craft and orders done more so some Santa Keys I asked if he could drop us off to our house back in Coffs Harbour. Told him the airport is quite fine as there was no need to escort us back to our humble abode- more that I was slightly embarrased at the fact we only rented this beautiful 3 bedroom house compared to owning a 20 bedroom mansion fit with butlers and maids.<br />
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Instead in mid air when approaching the Coffs Harbour Airport we struck some turbulence and engine failure and had to make the quick jump- skydive down out of the plane and into what we thought was our home..<br />
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In fact we landed on what appeared to be the set of Home and Away at 'Summer Bay'. Here we were greeted by the producers of the show who offered me a part! Yes me! I was quite shocked and Russ was a bit peeved that he wasn't offered a part but they told him he was far too old! I couldn't help but laugh.<br />
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Off I went to get my hair and makeup done. It was only going to be for a few episodes but my character 'Tayla' happened to be on a soul searching journey to find herself. or something like that.<br />
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I think Russ went off to snorkel and play with rocks.<br />
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After what seems like 2 days of filming Russ and I decided to head home along with my nice cheque from being on the show.<br />
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I don't recall how we got home but all I remember is waking up thinking "That would have to be one of the most wackiest dreams I have had in a long time".<br />
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I then remembered I hadn't infact been away for a romantic holiday or happened upon a tv set.<br />
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I had yet again been in hospital for acute pancreatitis, the past few days.<br />
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I woke feeling like I had been on this amazing adventure but I realised it was more then likely the morphine contribution to my dreams.<br />
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Ahh how much I would love to escape to Fiji for 2 romantic weeks though!!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-50341118659255791152013-09-26T12:04:00.001+10:002013-09-26T12:09:39.386+10:00September the month that was!Oh September, you sure did show me that there was the good, the bad and the ugly to the start of spring.<br />
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What a month it has been! Certainly trying on many levels....<br />
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BUT<br />
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I haven't given up yet!!<br />
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Maybe I should start with the ugly and work my way to the good.. Trust me there is some really exciting news!<br />
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Well September saw me in hospital for acute pancreatitis and was discharged after a week as they couldn't find the cause- they think it could be due to a subsequent illness from the rare inherited gene, the same one that was the reason for my bowel removal. So have to take it easy and monitor it.<br />
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*Laughs to self* Take it easy? Not only are those words not in my vocabulary now is not the month to be taking it easy!<br />
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Being sick saw me behind in orders, which I was frantically trying to catch up and ended back in hospital. Only for 24 hours this time. But frustrating all the same, still tire easily.<br />
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THEN while trying to catch up on the 300 PLUS items needing to be sent out oh low behold my cutting machine broke and needs to be sent back for repairs.<br />
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WHY once trusty side-kick... Why?<br />
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I ordered $300 worth of promotional materials only to have them arrive askew, cut off and upside down. But I don't have time to have a new order sent out as my deadline needs these in Adelaide by the 1st of Oct for sample goodie bags!<br />
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So I think that was all the ugly and bad stuff I am allowed to share (trust me there is more)..<br />
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So are we ready to hear the awesome stuff?? The news that has me quite excited??<br />
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Well, not in any particular order of the rate of excitement but I really hope you are excited for me too!<br />
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I was so lucky enough to receive a 3 day pass to this exciting and upcoming conference called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MumpreneursOnFireConference">'Mumpreneurs on Fire'</a> it is in Adelaide in Oct 23-25th! I am so excited and call tell others are too as there is only 14 tickets left.. that's right only 14 tickets! I have the privilege of creating the 80 thank you cards to be given to attendee's. Have created these to match the conference branding, colours and values. Sneak peak below.<br />
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So I have been busy planning my holiday and I haven't felt this excited in ages!! Also need to thank my supportive husband for allowing me to go from Coffs Harbour to Adelaide.<br />
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I have never been to Adelaide but have always wanted to go, and after the year I have had especially with having my bowel removed and recovering, I am excited to be able to do something for me!<br />
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I am so excited to be meeting a really close friend for the first time in person. We met through our handmade businesses and have chatted everyday for the last 18 months. She kindly has offered for me to stay there when I am not at the hotel for the 3 days of the conference. I cannot wait!!<br />
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I have booked my hotel which is only 1 min from the conference (I am not a morning person would be an understatement) so it was convenient for me!<br />
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I have also booked the train,<a href="http://www.greatsouthernrail.com.au/site/indian_pacific.jsp"> Indian Pacific</a> heading from Sydney to Adelaide. I have heard it is an experience and it already seems to be. I got my own cabin to myself and all these other perks! If only there would be wi-fi or mobile service along the way!<br />
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Speaking of internet we have had the NBN co come and install our new NBN service this month and just waiting for them to turn up and flick the switch now. I am looking forward the most to having faster internet, mainly to have my husband stop his 'lag rage' when playing his online games.. yes Lag rage is a real thing as most of you would realise if you have teenagers that game!<br />
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I have a friend who is making me the most gorgeous plus sized clothing to wear at the conference. I received one of the gorgeous dresses today and am picking out more options to wear to the conference. She also has a handmade business so stay tuned for the reveal!! Massive thanks to Meilling from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SewaholicCreations">Sewaholic Creations</a>.<br />
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But wait there is more!!<br />
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Made With Love-Cards And Crafts is now officially trademarked pending!! YAY!! Massive thanks to Jaqui from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MMWTrademarks">Mark My Words Trademarks</a> for her amazing help!<br />
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I also had the first ever mini magazine/catologue printed called 'Made with love cards and crafts: It's all in the detail' which is a glossy 12 page booklet introducing you to the brand, the designer, the products you love and special offers. These look absoloutley amazing. You can <a href="http://bit.ly/15eoETp">read the online version here</a>. Massive thanks to <a href="https://www.facebook.com/likeindyvisual">Indy Visual</a> for designing these!<br />
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The booklets and marketing materials will be packaged up to be sent to Adelaide to go in the conference bags! You should see my packaging so far it looks absoloutley divine and all branded in MWL colours and of course handmade. Will show you a teaser below. Each different colour is a different piece of cardstock too! All hand punched!<br />
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In case you hadn't heard we were featured in <a href="http://bit.ly/1f37No8">Babyology </a>who did the most amazing feature article, and an absoloute surprise, especially while I was in hospital! Also keep an eye out for MWL in the upcoming xmas buying guides!<br />
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Speaking of upcoming issues we were asked by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tickletheimagination">Tickle the imagination</a> to create an Australiana themed Santa Key in yellow and grey! Cannot wait to see the issue! Below is a sneak peak of the Santa Key sent.<br />
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Seems everyone is loving the Santa Key this year, with a lot of upcoming media attention and also have been nominated for the 2013 Australian Craft awards for the Santa Key design. If you love the design too would love your rating! You can <a href="http://bit.ly/15QRI1H">rate the Santa Key here</a>!<br />
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I feel like I am forgetting to tell you some more exciting news, I swear there is more!<br />
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So leaving September on a positive note this week we see the return of many favourite tv shows Oh how I have missed Grey's, Hubby is excited for the new Marvel tv show (if you haven't worked it out yet he is a big nerd).<br />
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But if you haven't heard of BellaBox Australia before you do now! I signed up for $15 a month you get a box delivered each month filled with the latest and greatest beauty products and a magazine. This month I received so many items with some products worth retail of $15 or more!! I think it is a fantastic way to sample the latest products available without leaving the comfort of your own home. You can find out more about BellaBox <a href="http://bit.ly/1fFpvhU">here</a>!<br />
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:<br />
Currently I have had to close custom invitation orders until further notice as I have such a backlog of current orders and need to focus on the xmas range. Please also note from the 16th-30th of October I will be away in Adelaide and unable to do orders until I return. I will be on holidays. Please note that this does not affect current orders.<br />
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That is all for now<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-58340109308929360412013-08-27T23:54:00.001+10:002013-08-27T23:54:28.643+10:00You want to get personal with your customers? I can help!We all know the key to your businesses success isn't just all about having a raving product (although it does help) but it is also about the impression you leave on your customers.<br />
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You want to aim for a memorable and lasting impression on your customers and I want to help you get personal with your customers.<br />
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So you have been there from the start of the customer's interaction, you have guided them through ordering and checkout, and then you have the order all ready to be packaged and sent.<br />
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Do you just whack the order in a satchel and off it goes or do you take the time to make sure it is well presented?<br />
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For me I have taken the well presented idea literally and have ordered high quality satin giftwrap in my business branding which I wrap the order up as a gift.<br />
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But every present needs a card and that is where I can come in and help.<br />
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I have decided to offer businesses the chance to get even more personal with their customers through purchasing personalised and customised thank you cards. BUT these will be like no other thank you card you have seen because these have been made just for you, your customers and your business. Simply write a note of thanks which trust me will have your customers feeling all warm and fuzzy.<br />
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A thank you card or note is a beautiful gesture to show your appreciation or thanks whether it was<br />
for receiving a gift, or if someone had helped you in terms of your business you are thank your customers for the support of not only your business but of your family and your dream.<br />
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You will remember when you received a thank you card before how it made you feel all warm<br />
and fuzzy inside and you created a memory. This is exactly the same feeling and experience we are wanting to create for your guests who purchase from your business.<br />
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Your customers would have left your business all mesmerised with how great your business was and would<br />
have created a memory to go with this experience! Sending a thank you card for their support,<br />
and purchase will have an ever lasting memory of your business.<br />
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When writing your thank you, remember how you felt when you received their order or when you were making it. Focus on that feeling when you are writing your message, it will show your genuine appreciation<br />
for what they have done for you and your business!<br />
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A lot of love and care has gone into the making of each card, they are made with love which will reflect on your customer service.<br />
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There are different types of thank you cards that can be created and customised to suit your businesses branding and needs.<br />
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You can email me to discuss this more. Will be doing a special price for businesses.<br />
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You can even arrange to have handmade cards made to send to your customers for Christmas, which is fast approaching! Get in early to secure your very own personalised handmade thank you cards for your business today!<br />
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Email talya@madewithlovecardsandcrafts.com.au with subject heading 'Business Thank you Cards'.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1922426338343886063.post-84602685771749959592013-08-21T19:07:00.001+10:002013-08-21T19:18:37.923+10:00IS YOUR BUSINESS SAFE FROMYOU? AN UNEXPECTED? ILLNESS?<br />
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These are ALL possibilities of what can go wrong in our handmade businesses, BUT are you prepared for when things go wrong?<br />
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From not only personal experience but through my studies and certifications in business and management, it is always a great idea to have a contingency plan in place.<br />
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Think of it as your back up plan or as your game plan for the unexpected. Either way you need to have some sort of plan in place especially when you are doing project management.<br />
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Wait did I just hear you say, "I don't think I need this or it won't apply to me or my business"? You will be surprised at how important it is so before you finish reading to this point just see why it is important to have a back up plan!<br />
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So you have a handmade business, that is fantastic and massive congrats!<br />
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You work endless hours to create a product, to do the photographing and editing, PR and marketing, you answer a lot of customer enquiries AS WELL AS being a mum, a wife, running and managing a household. I bet you have had many a sleepless night while you are up working hard to get your business off the ground or you go to bed in the very early hours of the morning e.g 3am as you have been pushing for a deadline.<br />
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So YOU work hard but what happens if something unexpected happens and you don't have a contingency in place, what will you do? Will all your hard work and slaving hours into your business be for naught?<br />
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I would like to say No, but without understanding or knowing the importance of a risk management plan it well and truly could be!<br />
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So I will talk about two different types of contingency plans that I use in my everyday use of my business. I don't mean that everyday there is a use for the back up plan, but I have it there just in case.<br />
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Remember that not only will having a contingency in place help you but it will also be beneficial to your client and in most cases will actually protect your customer service!<br />
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I have one for my overall business and then I have one for individual projects such as each individual order I receive.<br />
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You might have been wondering why I have a terms and conditions document that is supplied to customers upon placement of a custom order. Some have told me its too long and detailed, but it helps all parties to understand what is expected of them with the order and explains why certain things are done the way they are.<br />
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You also might have been wondering why it is that I ask customers to contact me approx 8-12 weeks BEFORE their party? This is to ensure that there is plenty of time and notice for the order in the event that I am off sick for a week, or if there is a natural disaster and I am unable to send or receive packages crucial for the completion of the projects. But it is also to help me ensure that there is time to act if something goes wrong. Could be underestimating the materials used to complete an order and have to await the arrival of more cardstock, glues, cutting mats, printer ink, blades etc. I always try to have one if not two packets of the item there to replinish my stocks, but sometimes that is not always the case and I do run out.<br />
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For example you might have noticed that in my listing of the Santa Key I have stipulated that these will be available within 3-4 weeks. This partly is because I am waiting for a stack of cutting mats and cardstock to arrive which give or take the slow postal system here can be anywhere from 1-2 weeks. I also don't just order 1 of the item, I generally order 3 or 4 of each item needed.<br />
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An example of recently where I enforced a contingency plan was when the glue I use was being discontinued and a red version of glue was being introduced and replacing the clear glue I use and need. It took me over a year to find and trust in this one specific glue used on all my projects. So I asked everyone I knew to head to their local store and purchase whatever stocks of the glue this one specific supplier had and post them to me. People thought I was nuts and didn't need that much glue! But trust me I do! One friend ended up arranging 264 of the glues! But I am worried about what happens when I run out as I can't seem to find anywhere to purchase these from direct from the wholesaler.<br />
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But I am not nuts or crazy or going overboard, because I NEED glue! Can't do much papercrafting without glue now can I?<br />
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I remember once, when I didn't have a backup plan in place I had not long gotten my awesome Silhouette Cutting machine, and it was a thursday night, I was buried in a stack of orders I was frantically trying to get out and had a deadline with this order due Friday. I was half way through when oh behold, my cutting blade just snapped! I didn't know what to do, I sat there crying for hours and the closest online store that stocked these was on the Gold Coast, in Queensland, a good 5 hour drive one way! I had only just had my machine for a couple of weeks and was told blades last for up to 6 months, so why would I think to have a back up of blades? Well after that fiasco I ordered 5 blades and ensured I always had at least 4 on hand at all times. Don't worry I didnt make the drive to the Gold Coast I just had to explain to my customer that it would be a couple of days delayed. Thankfully they were amazing and understanding. But didn't help that I was angry for not having a back up supply.<br />
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So the same principle of a contingency plan can work in your sewing business whether it is knowing somewhere that can service your machine in the event that it stops working, or ordering double of the fabric needed for a single project incase you cut or sew it wrong, or having back up supplies of needles/threads/rotary cutters etc.<br />
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In the even that you are unable to complete a job whether it is from becoming too overwhelmed and stress, becoming sick or something beyond your control has happened, it is always great to know if someone can help you and your customers out whether it is a friend or family member stepping up to the task or if you contract your work to another designer.<br />
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Let's think about the more tangible risks to your business.<br />
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INTERNET-What happens if your internet is not able to be provided for a x period of time? Your provider might not be able to organise anyone to come out to your place of business to fix the issue. Do you have a back up? I have one of the telstra wireless broadbands (pre paid) that I take with me on any business trips. Even if the place is supposed to have internet, what happens if it doesn't work and your stuck with no internet access and you run an internet based business. Bit of a pickle isn't it? I know when I went to hospital for 4 weeks I took my laptop as the hospital had wireless broadband available. But when I got there, it was available but wouldn't connect to my room as it was too far from the receiver. So I had my trusty prepaid internet that I was able to connect my laptop, phone and iPad to all so I could still keep in contact with my customers and to try and keep things running as smoothly as possible. One thing you don't want to do is have customers contact you and they feel you are ignoring or do not care about them, which isn't the case as you just don't have internet access. But all the same it will improve your customer's experiences if you are prepared and have a back up.<br />
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INSURANCE- What happens if there is a natural disaster and your house floods or if your house burns down in a horrible fire and you lose everything? What will you do or manage things if you don't have insurance? I am not saying that insurance will make everything okay but it will certainly make things easier for you. Can even be income protection insurance or insurance on your credit cards or debts. What happens if you are unable to work, would your family be able to eat? These are things that although we don't want to think about we need to be prepared for.<br />
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I can gurantee no matter what business you have you will need a contingency plan for risk management of your projects and business.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0