I own, live and dream StampOut. My thoughts are never at peace or quiet. I'm constantly coming up with ideas, talking about them & driving everyone crazy. I'm currently striving to find a balance between work and family. I love, Love, LOVE my work.
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I’m probably the least judgmental person I know. I truly believe deep in my heart that all people are just doing the best they can with what they have been given. When someone cuts me off I just assume that they have an emergency. If I get cut in front of in line I just figure everything happens for a reason and that person might have saved my life by making me 1 minute later…you get it. WELL…I can think of 2 times in my life when I truly judged. 1. BC (before Children) I saw a drooly baby and told a girlfriend “I WILL NEVER have a baby that drools!” My 9 year old still drools, and I was that mom that always had to wear a diaper cloth over my shoulder because everyone said “UM, he is drooling" Karma upped the anti and he spit up all the time too! One problem I didn’t have with Hunter or Faith was potty training, SO…2. I had a lot to say about a child that would ask for a pull up! “Clearly if they are asking for a pull up you know what they need, set the child on a potty and VOILA, the child will go? Then along came Jadeyn, one of the brightest three year olds (turning 4 in June) that WILL NOT go in a potty!!!!! We were both so stubborn at one point that it became a medical condition. MY CHILD WOULD NOT GO unless I put a diaper or pull up on her. She would go weeks without going (#2) and she was making herself really sick. I was forced to back away from the entire issue trying to re-train her brain AND body that it isn’t yucky or bad to go poo poo, it’s a good thing J . She still struggles and she won’t go, so we have to help her out, she actually reminds me to give her mineral oil every day. She can reasonably discuss any issue with us, school pickup, drop off, play dates, she discusses different activities for each day of the week, what she won’t talk about is going on the potty? When I try to encourage her to go on the potty she refuses, she screams, arches her back so I can’t set her on the potty and I worry that she will regress to NOT going again. I’m not a newbie, I’ve tried everything! M & M’s, prizes at the potty, reading, letting her run around naked, taking things away, telling her that when she can potty then she can have privileges, we have had the pee potty party set up and ready to go “when she did potty” (she never did) She has watched us all go, nothing has even seemed to crack the issue. I believe Karma is kicking my bootie right now. I think I will actually have the world’s first child in America that goes to school in a pull up!
Girls reading this…bite your lip! Learn from me! Don’t judge, or comment on the way anyone else is doing the best they can, because when you least expect it, Karma WILL get you, it has a strong hold on me right now. Sorry Jadeyn.....
It started out with two girls and their fascination for all things "SUPER CUTE!" The two girls shared a desire to turn their passion for design and creativity into a career. Alli and Lisa have a "We can make that” complex. Between the two girls there has not been a "crafty challenge" they haven’t attempted. They have made just about everything under the sun that they think is "SUPER CUTE!". The girls are on a never ending mission for custom items that will compliment the Stamp and Stationery line they have created and are currently finding success in. In most cases when they venture off for new items they end full circle back to stamps and stationery. There is usually some wine and a lot of laughs included along the way. For example: did you know that to turn a profit "WITH labor included" on a complete set of custom water bottles for an 11 player girls soccer team, the price would need to be $1,737.86 for the complete set. Don't Laugh! With that you get a Custom team colored water bottle with a coordinating bow, each bottle with the players name and number. (Thanks to Alli, Lisa was ready to scratch the number altogether! LOL) Don't tell either one of these girls that something can't be done…they find great pleasure in proving that theory wrong!
We have seen some "SUPER CUTE" Blogs and of course…you guessed it! "We can do that too!" SO, off we are on yet another adventure, only this one we invite you to share in the fun and good times. We laugh about having the only blog around that we are going to actually admit that we have husbands that are not so supportive of our obsession and feel we could be much more productive cooking dinner or cleaning the house.
We look forward to sharing with you more about us and learning about you along the way. Where we end up is yet to be determined....
Quick Stats: Between Alli and Lisa: 2 Boys, 3 girls, 2 husbands and 2 yappy dogs.
