Hi Gina,

Thanks so much for setting this up!! This is going to be a wonderful resource for all of us.It's great to have a computer expert on our team as I think the rest of us aren't all that computer-savvy, or maybe I should just speak for myself.

We recently had two people join our team. Lisa Fitzwater (fabredwater@aol.com) is a great friend of mine and a professional interior designer. Lisa is an ASID interior designer and will help us immensly if we have questions about placement, color etc. Don't be afraid to email or blog her and ask advice! I know I won't. Lisa is the designer I worked with on my home and , if I do say so myself, it looks great! I can't say enough about how wonderful it will be for all of us to have access to her wealth of knowledge and understanding of color and great design.

Monica Smith is another wonderful friend of ours from Warsaw Indiana and we are excited to have Monica on the team!! Moncia currently teaches kindergarten and has a beautiful home on Chapman Lake. I think Monica's moniker is Dialogue Decor, but I'm not sure if that's correct. I love that name. Monica let us know if that's official. She will bring great enthusiam and ideas to our venture! I am especially looking forward to hearing from the teacher's perpective! You can give me ideas on how to present this to teachers as you know that's one of my target markets.


Nancy also had an great idea we might want to try. Nancy , as you all know, is a graphic designer and has access to some great tools for us. Nancy is going to try having some plastic-like material cut to book-mark size with a hole punched in one end. She will then give one to each attendee at a party and let them try adhering the "free" small expression they receive to the bookmark. This lets them feel comfortable with the product. If, however, they want to take their expression home and use it someplace that's fine. She thinks right now she can do this at no cost. We'll see how it goes. Nancy, keep us posted.

Thanks again Gina for setting this up. This will be a great site for us to post photos, ideas , ask questions or just vent if we need to. Having been in sales for a looooooong time I know it's great to have someone to celebrate or commisserate with!

I'll have to read the fine print regarding websites from the company. Don't want to violate any rules! I guess we should all check that.

My first party is Wednesday and I think Monica is coming so Gina will be able to meet her. My address is 10482 Tremont Drive, Fishers, IN. Gina you can take 146th to Cumberland Road. Turn right on Cumberland and take that to 106th St. Turn left on 106th and go about 1/2 mile to Tremont. You can only turn right into the subdivision and then take the first right. Follow that to 10482. We are a reddish brick house next to 2 white brick houses. The party starts at 7:00 and I should have about 8-10 people. I'm looking forward to seeing how people react.

Happy Selling and let the empire building begin ( HA HA) !!

Lisa

PS I showed the catalog to my 16-year old neice, Abby and she loved it as I thought most 16 year olds would. Is it possible for kids to decorate their lockers in schools?? Wouldn't this be a great non-permanent way to personalize those and then just take it off at the end of the year! Just think how satisfying it would be to rip off the boyfriends name if he dumped you!