KiDECALS™ introduces Travel Dots™!  These luggage tags peel, stick, and stay! Perfect for picking out your look-alike luggage from the sea of black bags on the carousel!  As always, personalized with your custom information.  A set of Travel Dots™ also include traditional Name Dots™ so you can label ALL of the stuff you take on a plane, train, or cruise ship!

How many times have you left behind a sweatshirt, water bottle, blanket, or toy on the plane never to be seen or heard of again?  Stick on a KiDECALS™ dot to eliminate that problem!  I once left a whole case of DVDs on a plane.  If I had had Travel Dots™ then, I might have those DVDs today!

Travel Dots™ include 4 four inch luggage tags, 5 three inch circles, 12 two inch circles, 24 once inch circles

Personalized with any custom information you want for $35

My youngest son gets the WORST bug bites.  Whenever we go camping he inevitably gets bitten.  And they are not just bites but WELTS!!  I have no choice but to douse him in bug spray.  I have seen this new product, which I am excited to try and avoid all the chemicals!

But the bugs he does love are ladybugs!  He always spies them, gently picks them up, and says “awwww, she’s so cuuuute!”  In honor of the summer bugs we love, I designed Buggy Name Dots! Enter “summer2010″ at checkout for 15% off!

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So my dear friend Molly and I were catching up this morning after running into each other.  We have both been so busy that we haven’t seen each other in ages (well really only a week or two, but in the days when our babies were little we used to see each other a couple times a week at least!) Fast forward to school age children and juggling work, home, and school or camp schedules and it is amazing we see each other at all!

As we sat down for a quick coffee, we couldn’t stop smiling as we told each other our “goings ons”.  Our boys have know each other their whole lives. Well actually,  more than their whole lives! Molly and I met while we were about 8 months pregnant and instantly clicked.  So it seems pretty natural that the boys click really well too.  They are fierce friends which has been a true gift.

Molly now has three precious babes and she has always been one of my biggest fans and supporters.  She has bought every product I have ever launched  and most recently she bought Name Dots for her two older kids.  And today in our grinfest of catching up she says to me,

“Oh, oh! I have to tell you!  A lady called me from the park yesterday to tell me she had our hat”

Molly had left her daughter’s hat (or more likely, her daughter threw her hat off somewhere in the park) and it had gotten left behind.  Another mama found it and *tada* got Molly’s cell from her Name Dot that was neatly stuck inside the hat and called her to let her know where it was!! YAY!

A similar thing happened to us a couple of weeks ago.  We left our son’s hoodie at a restaurant in town and they called us to let us know it was there. All because of the cute little decal stuck inside!  Honestly, I didn’t even know it was missing but I am sure I would have torn my hair out looking for it the next time I needed it.  Just think of all the things we leave behind without ever knowing it! I always blame the washing machine.

In celebration of friends and success, tell me your best friend/success story and I’ll email you a 50% coupon code to be used on your next order!!  The code can only be used once but you can use it or you can give it to a friend to use!  Either tell me your story here in the comments section or email me at hilarychandler@kidecals.com

Can’t wait to hear them! Here’s to friends and here’s to sucess!

The cutest on the market, if I do say so myself!  Fun and bright colors are cool but also draw attention to any important information you need to communicate. Have a little more peace of mind knowing that caregivers will constantly be reminded of your child’s important information.New Allergy Dots and Exclamation Dots get the point across and like our original Name Dots are dishwasher and washing machine safe and will adhere to any surface!  Peels, sticks, and stays!

The text is fully customizable with your pertinent and perhaps life saving information! Here’s another idea, get a set for travel. You can put your contact info right onto your kid so when you are fighting the throngs at Disneyland you know that whoever finds the little one who got away can call your cell immediately!  Also great for your luggage, video camera, backpack, sunhat….anything that might get left behind!

Allergies and medical conditions can be a bummer.  So have a little fun and add some color and art to your medic alerts!  Let us know what you think and if you want to see more designs for this product!

Not everyone needs washable name labels, so KiDECALS is now offering an alternative!  Stationary Dots are perfect to seal letters, customize stationary, identify books, decorate folders…  Though not washable or as durable as Name Dots, Stationary Dots are just as fun!  Choose any design currently offered on the website.  Just add “Stationary Dots” to your shopping cart, include which design you want (including the one shown), and what information you want printed on your order in the “instructions to merchant”.  Stationary Dots come in the same set up as the Name Dots do: 30 large dots and 58 small dots.  Priced at $12/set.  Great Deal!

If there was ever a need for some personalized name labels, I think this would be a good place to start!  What a crazy amount of lost and unclaimed water bottles! If only these peeps had stuck some KiDECALS Name Dots on their hydration devices!  This is at our local Velodrome where it looks like I will have to start advertising my wares…

Think how much money these people could save without having to buy a new water bottle every week!  I have Name Dots sets for climbers and skiers but bikers and boarders are definitely next! Label your bottles, so this doesn’t happen to you!

My heart is hurting for the people of Haiti and for the families who have lost or are searching for their loved ones.  I didn’t find out about the earthquake until Wednesday afternoon.  Tuesday night was a no media night and early to bed.  Wednesday morning we were up in the mountains.  When we returned that afternoon, the first call on my cell phone was from my mom.  ”Are you worried about Lynnie?” she asked.

Lynn is one of my dearest and oldest friends.  We first met in Kindergarten and through us our families became close.  Lynn’s father was an economist and travelled to many different countries for his work.  In fourth grade, Lynn and her family left for Haiti.  We spent Christmas with them there that year.  Seeing first hand the terrible poverty of the country yet experiencing the beautiful hearts and souls of the people who lived there, changed the way I viewed the world.  It obviously did for Lynn as well, because up until Tuesday she was living in Port-au-Prince working on her dissertation.  Lynn is one of the smartest, funniest, and kindest people I know.  She and her sisters are like sisters to me.  When my mom told me about the devastation, my heart sank immediately fearing the worst for Lynn.

The next 48 plus hours were spent in constant concern for her welfare.  I spent hours on Facebook; posting pictures and information about her, talking to her friends, trying to find GPS coordinates for her address to give to people searching for her there.  Finally, as Thursday night approached, her family and friends received news, via Facebook, of her safety!  The power of social media!  Facebook knew before the State Department did!  I sobbed in relief.  My emotions were a roller coaster for those 48 hours.  I cannot even begin to comprehend the pain and suffering so many thousands are having to endure.

I designed this little decal that you can put on your coffee mug, your notebook, your backpack, or on anything to show your love, support and prayers for Haiti.  It is dishwasher and washing machine proof.  100% of proceeds from this sticker will go to Partners in Health.

Thanks for your support and please keep the people of and in Haiti and their families and loved ones in your hearts.

I love making people happy!  Recently I made  custom name labels for a client with her family’s favorite team colors.  They were psyched and I was thrilled they were so happy!  So, now I am offering totally customizable Name Dots!  Add your logo, a picture, artwork, choose your favorite colors or fonts.  Really anything is possible!  Make custom labels for party favors.  Create a really fun address label.  Make a cute addition to baby announcements!  Advertise your business or artwork!  

So this is kind of cool…I have been trying to get my 6 year old to memorize our street address and phone number for safety reasons.  He really hasn’t show much interest in it.  Perhaps my annoying him with constant pop quizzes had something to do with it??  After a while I gave up figuring, like anything, when he was ready to learn it he would learn it.  So this morning when he rattles off our phone number without any provocation, stunned I asked him if he had to learn that in school (it certainly wasn’t from my inadequate teaching style)??!! “No, mommy! It’s just on all of my scorpian stickers you put on everything!”  So I guess another benefit of my Name Dots is that information not only sticks to your stuff but in your kid’s mind as well! Cool, right?!

Does anyone remember this cartoon? I remember watching it with my best friend from kindergarten and her sister (hi Lynn and Anne!) and thinking it was so hysterical! We would hop around singing in those little, funny cartoon voices.  Every holiday season I sing this song at least once in my head and smile.  In all the craziness of this season, sometimes it’s nice just to sing tra la la la la!

Last year, my boys and I made “Healthy Fudge” to give out to all of our friends, teachers, neighbors, and anyone else who crossed our path!  It does seem that homemade gifts make a special impact.  This year we are making it again, and packaging it in these cute little containers I found at Target for one dollar! I will make custom labels with the ingredients and a special holiday note from us.  My decals are a fun way to personalize a gift!

Here is our healthy fudge recipe that my friend Julia helped me create inspired from a recipe by Elana’s Pantry. Both Julia and Elana are Boulder locals who are amazing gluten free chefs!  Since my younger one shows signs of asthma, we are going easy on the gluten and dairy in our house these days.  Another reason I love this recipe is because it is high in protein and the “good fats” so I don’t feel so guilty when my kids eat lots of it!

“Healthy Fudge”

1 cup of raw cacao powder

½ cup of coconut oil

½ cup of cashew butter

½ cup macademia nut butter

1 cup agave nectar

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt

¼ teaspoon of cinnamon

Mix together, pour into a baking pan, refrigerate or freeze. When hardened, cut into squares. Package with wax paper between the layers and be sure to tell recipients to refrigerate as fudge will soften at room temp!  Enjoy!