Hi Team,

Lisa - I'm glad you liked the blog. I agree that it could be a great communication tool for us.

I'm excited about getting more info on the plastic pieces that customers could use to adhere their own sample during the party. What a great idea.

As for the locker decorating, I'm guessing that the policies would vary from school to school. I think most schools would frown upon anything stuck to the outside even if it is easily removable. It might start a precedent for people to stick any kind of sticker on their locker and the poor janitors would get stuck with scraping regular stickers off. What my daughter's school does allow, as I'm guessing most do, are locker signs which are posters that are cut to locker sized dimensions that are decorated to show support for the team on which they play. My daughter plays the Mellophone in the marching band and the spirit moms for each instrument's section design a locker sign to be hung on the outside of their lockers to wish them luck throughout the marching season. I'm one of the Mellophone spirit mom's and we tend to get somewhat competitive to make sure that our child's section has the coolest locker sign!!! Of course, I'm planning to use some of our embellishments and the custom tool to give me an edge this year! :) I'm hoping that the winter catalog will include more musical embellishments. I was very disappointed in how little of that was in the spring catalog.

Lastly, this past weekend I went to visit another member of my team, Erika Short, who recently moved to Madison, Wisconsin. Her new home is decorated beautifully and she has some great expressions up on her walls. I took some pictures while I was there that I will share with you as soon as I'm home for 5 straight minutes! I took Nancy's suggestion, from a graphic designers perspective, and tried to capture entire wall spaces rather than just the expression itself. I agree that it's important to showcase how and where it was used.

Gina Cook