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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?!

My three year old has been screaming throughout ANY transition where I have to leave (going to bed, taking a nap, going to the gym), clinging to me like a monkey. Of course, his schtick is up 2 seconds after I leave the room as he returns to goofy, happy self, but he is totally pulling at my heartstrings and making me wonder, “what am I doing wrong??” So when my six year old marched into his classroom without so much as a backward glance, I felt a wave of pride, relief, and happiness. I only shed a few tears as my first born matriculated into his first six years of public education, better than the waterworks I was sure were to embarrass me.

So I have been working like mad on my new Name Dots, mostly to get ready for the our endless amounts of things needed to be labeled for preschool and kindergarten. I have been putting them on everything! Our lunch boxes, back packs, tupperware, water bottles, shoes, clothing tags…

Here is Desi on his first day of school with his Scorpion Name Dot on his backpack.

They are coming in super useful and the kids love them!

Today I did a little photo of some of the other Name Dots styles. It was the first time I worked with my tabletop photo studio and I am pretty happy with the results! I’m no Annie Liebowitz, obviously, really all I can do is focus and shoot. But I got what I was after. Some nice clean shots that I didn’t have to pay a fortune for!

So we had a photo shoot yesterday. I haven’t had professional pictures taken of the boys for two years when I took them to one of those portrait places at the mall where the photographer tried to make my one year old smile by tickling his face with what looked like a dirty feather duster. It was a near disaster and I was sure my baby was going to get pink eye.  So this experience was TOTALLY different! I “won” this session at our preschool’s fundraiser (I love how people say they won things at an auction, like they didn’t actually pay for it.) If you are looking for an awesome photographer in Colorado, Kirsten Boyer is your gal. She completely engaged the kids and had wonderful ideas for how to get really wonderfully natural shots.

AND we got pictures of the four of us together! I CAN’T BELIEVE IT! The last time we had a picture with the four of us together, Quincy was in utero.

I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a while now. To tell the truth, it took me a while to understand what a blog was and why one would blog. But I didn’t get texting at first either (why don’t you just call them?) and now I can’t stop. My thumbs hurt. Although I love (LOVE) my computer and all things cyberspace (well not ALL things) sometimes I think it’s just one more way to be removed from actual human interaction. I don’t want to deal with a conversation, so I’ll just text. But the real danger of technology relationships is that emails and texts have taken the tone out of a conversation…it’s a whole new generation of drama. Instead of playing the voicemail from a perspective boyfriend over and over again to tell whether he is into you by the tone of his voice, now girls everywhere have to infer into-ness without any voice modulation! Does he mean SEE you later or see you LATER? Alas, my dating days were long gone before cell phones where even commonplace but I have single friends whose social lives are now ruled by emails, texts, Facebook, and My Space. One of my twentysomething friends was telling me she wasn’t really sure if the guy she was seeing really liked her or not because he hadn’t put her in his My Space top friends yet. Naively and optimisticly I said, “Well maybe it’s kind of a pain to change your top friends” She laughed sardonically.

But tone or no tone, technology is really making us a global community. I am obsessed with Facebook. Reconnecting with friends all the way back to elementary school has been incredible. People I thought I’d never see again I not only get to see, but also get to see what they are doing, where they live, who their friends are, what they’re into…it is this nosy girl’s dream! (yes, I also like absurd reality tv and I really think it’s real and you can’t convince me otherwise!) A time suck? Yes. But how else would I get to see the wedding pictures of an old fling?

It is obvious that the Internet is connecting and helping people that would otherwise have no recourse. I mean, any time I think I have a tumor I just type my symptoms into Google and find out it’s really just gastroesophageal reflux disease aka GERD (another post entirely). So in all honesty, I want to blog to help with my business. Maybe it’s the dirty little secret that no one says, I don’t know…I am new to this community. I am not an avid blog reader, a forum poster, or even very computer savvy. But this is what I want: I want to be able to see my kids constantly but also have a creative outlet that compensates. I also want to write this blog to preserve my memories of this amazing, hard, crazy, wild time of new motherhood.  It’s definitely wonderful and it is definitely sticky! Welcome to Confessions of a Sticky Mommy and I hope you will read on and chime in…