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d get it on the container and it is shipped through customs and in our w h we are talking about 8 12 week cycles here then you need to take into account the other item we are trying to reorder at the same time to get on the container to get shipped here b c we want to be like ikea and keep our costs down but deb does a great job on it she handles all of that i just push the easy button lol that is one of the challenges i don t think some people without an intimate knowledge of supply chain understand that they just get mad that things aren t in stock my philosophy is if we always have everything in stock we have too much inventory that is a lot of cost to be carrying all the time in terms of stock so in this way we want to be like ikea b c it helps us keep our cost down even though we don t have the ikea scale of volume on our side hope you all have a great week posted by caroline 5 22 2007 12 24 00 am 2 comments sunday may 20 2007 some scenes from today and a rak winner wow who knew that a party for a mere 1 year old boy could take so much out of me we had a beautiful day today for noah s party here are a couple of photos of the fun i must say i am really proud of my cake but we all had fun and that was the best part of it and we did pick a rak winner from my last rak giveaway the winner is wendygibson and since i haven t gotten to her question yet i thought i would answer it here do you ever feel overwhelmed with all that you do if so how do you deal with it wendy this is a great question yes i have days too days that i feel like for every 2 steps forward i take i take 10 steps back days when it seems like all we have are people unhappy with x y and z or we have a deadline that is coming up on those days i try to take a step back say a prayer for what great blessings we have and go out for a run life often times is about perspective and it is only i that can change my perspective then i get back into it and tackle the issue at hand and everything is cool again so wendy please email me at info at mayaroad com i will try to answer my questions this week posted by caroline 5 20 2007 10 14 00 pm 8 comments the day started off sucky well i think we are pretty much set for noah s party tomorrow i decided at the last moment to go ahead and purchase a cake at costco and i decorated the cake with a race track made from crushed oreos i then added a green infield and piped greenery around the track i even included some lifesaver bumpers around the infield and i am proud to say that i made the happy birthday sign with some scrapbook supplies i had for the cake too all i need to add tomorrow are the cars and the mr potato head holding the checkered flag i will be sure to get lots of pictures tomorrow so here is the part that sucked i got up at 6 15 am at precisely 7 03 am i started running 4 miles and it pained me so b c this was the slowest 4 miles i have ever logged being somewhat of a type a personality i am ultra competitive lots of times with myself the 4 mile run today is to categorize us in the group you are supposed to run with for the marathon training program and just so you know when i was in my prime i was in the second fastest group green b1 with blue a being the fastest group and with my time today i will probably be in the yellow c3 which is right next to the red group which is slowest while the run was physically taxing i think it was more taxing on my pride than anything sigh but you know what i have to start somewhere and at least i am getting back into this can t wait for tomorrow i hope noah has a wonderful bd will share lots of pictures when we are done posted by caroline 5 20 2007 12 37 00 am 2 comments friday may 18 2007 happy friday to ya ll i hope everyone has had a great week we are gearing up here for noah s first bd shindig so that has been keeping me sorta busy i know in the past that people have asked me what i do with my mini albums and such well i decided that i would display some of them for noah s party this way people can see how he has grown in the last year i mixed it up with photos and put them all on our mantle like this this is a wonderful way for people to share in what you do ok i will pick the rak winner but i might have to wait til sunday after noah s big party there is a lot for me to do as i am also now signed up for early half marathon training which means at 6 am tomorrow i will be heading out to do a 5k time trial ugh but i need to get back into it i do want to answer some more questions so let me continue down the list which do you love designing more new goodies for maya road or layouts for your design team work i think quite honestly i love the layouts the most the new goodies are fun but really very stressful too it isn t like deb and i have a slew of helpers that we just say hey here is a concept of what we want in the colors we want and volia we show up at the tradeshow and it is there no if only you all knew the gory details it would make your toes curl a bit but i love making and coming up with new goodies too but just not all the stuff that comes with it question for you is your thoughts on the publishing end of the scrapbooking craft in other words do you think publishing is on the decline with the magazines in different states of flux do you think most magazines are disenchanted with some scrappers that have attitude and are sticking to layouts from manufacturer design teams to fill content and correspond with ads wow this one i could write pages about i mean there are arguments both ways about this 1 the magazines are a business they need to do stuff that makes sense as a business that means making money 2 if they have their own inhouse design team with people that met their deadlines and produce quality work then it only makes sense to go with that 3 at the same time you could be missing out on someone with mad crazy talent out there if you limit yourself 4 some of it is luck and timing i will sometimes see 2 galleries of 2 people that to me have equal amounts of talent one will turn out to be a huge name but the other will not is it for lack of submitting is it for connections i don t know but some of it does have to be being at the right place at the right time what is your secret to juggling baby career mr and also finding time to do things for yourself like run you also forgot that i love love love sleeping i really don t function well without 8 hours a night you know deb and i talked about this and to be quite honest we are both workaholics i mean i love my maya road job that is fun to me almost like not working but you know what mr has also provided me the ability to work on most days from home that in turn means i get to see baby noah a lot i am also blessed b c god has worked everything out for me my friend who lives down the street watches noah about 5 hours a day then i get him and we hang out and then he goes down for a nap and i get to work again then we hang out as a family most nights and when he goes to bed i get back to work i don t run as much as i should but i am about to change that i am also blessed b c the warehouse people love noah they ask for him to come visit is noah going to have a brother or sister anytime in the near future l you are funny lol um not anytime soon but david and i are going to start looking at our journey to adopting a baby girl from china seriously in the next 6 months or so ok that is all i have time for today but have a wonderful weekend and i will be checking back in with a winner soon ps i still need the last rak winner to email me if i don t get an email back in the next couple of days i will choose someone else to replace that winner posted by caroline 5 18 2007 01 27 00 pm 6 comments wednesday may 16 2007 happy wednesday wow i have a lot i want to say today so let me get started i had posted a couple of weeks ago about using our stamps in cool ways have you thought of making your own labels by stamping onto clear mailing labels or even self adhesive cardstock here is what i did the other day i stamped one of our foundations journaling stamps onto a piece of dcwv adhesive cardstock i used the ranger ink for crispness and voila this is what i got now when i need a label i just cut out and stick and go so easy clear images are hot right now so try using them on transparencies or even the self adhesive mailing labels and you are good to go next we are moving our w h next week the good news is the place is bigger but the bad news is that we have to move and i think that i just might have to put noah to work check out how he is doing with these sets of fibers i had brought home he is bagging them like a pro and today jonathan and his parents stopped by on their way back to cali they got to hang out with us for about 2 hours it is funny b c you can finally notice that the kiddos are deliberately trying to check each other out rather than have it be a random occurance here jonathan inspects noah s toes and thanks to everyone for their questions i don t think i will have time to answer them all in one post so i am going to start here and get through some of them and tackle some more each day til i am done i will post the rak winner on friday but here goes on the questions and answers what where do you turn to for inspiration when you are creating new products deb and i look everywhere for inspiration online in magazine in clothing on bottles and even in our heads in fact i just handed deb a program from my church b c i loved the colors that were on the bulletin i would love to know how you keep coming up with new ideas for new products and are you going to expand your lines to make different things eg papers there were a couple of questions on papers at this time we have no immediate plans for papers so all you paper companies out there can rest easy kidding seriously though paper is not our core strength and we don t have plans for it to be we do plan on doing some different things with our lines sometimes it is a matter of the number of hours we have in a day and the cost to do things my question what is the crazierst idea you have had for mr that hasn t made it to production ie when you guys were mucking around or being silly this one makes me laugh b c there are still some things on our list i can t divluge all of our craziest things as one day they might make it to production with tweeking we did have our hubbies offer to model underware woven from our fibers ribbons at the tradeshow but i think that we want people to buy our stuff not run from our booth in horror do you wish noah will scrap when he grows up if he wants to david and i hope to cultivate in him a passion for what he wants to do he does have tremendous interest in my supplies right now do you listen to music when you run and what would be is on your ipod actually this is an interesting question i used to listen to my walkman when i ran cds tended to skip since i ran outside a lot david asked me to be more aware of my surroundings and not listen to music so i could pay attention to traffic etc and i have not run with music since like 1999 also now noah and i tend to run together so i try to enjoy it with him on my ipod is a lot of different music from techno sasha and digweed to r b mary j blige to folk music nancy griffith sp to 80s music how long have you been scrapping for i was talking to deb the other day and she was at my parents house cleaning out some old stuff and she found a scrapbook i put together in 1986 so at least since then but seriously scrapping not til about 2000 now that you and d are mothers are you going to have baby inspired chipboard and ribbons lol well we have some things that are suitable for babies but at this time no specific baby ribbons etc i live in durban south africa where can i purchase your awesome mr product from in our country we do have customers in south africa you can email us at info mayaroad com and we will try to find you one my question is what do you do to unwind after a very stressful day or week i run watch some tv chill out with david and baby noah and consume massive amounts of m ms what inspires you when you create your layouts do you read all the idea books or buy magazines i buy a lot less magazines than i used to i used to buy them all but now i find that i buy only the ones that are more my style to be honest one of the things that drives me to create is some challenges i issue myself for example i keep a stack of stickers embellishments rubons that i have started using but having finished using in a pile that i hold together with a clothespin my challenge to myself often times it to work that pile down so i can start opening a new pack yeah crazy i know or i will try to pull out this crazy piece of patterned paper that would seem impossible to use but i make myself try different things with it to make a lo work cut it down add plain cardstock try a b w photo my daughters name is maya which is why i started buying your products but i want to know if you create your personal items with only mr products or are you an equal opportunity creative spirit i have to say that i am an equal opportunity creative spirit i would say if you too my stack of los and you took an average of how many is mr stuff used in there it would be about 25 of each lo project q what got you started with all this running and do you think about when you run you know sometimes i think about this and to be honest there were 2 reasons that i started running the first was to lose the 20 lbs i put on in college and get into shape and the second was that some boy broke my heart in college and rather than sit around and mope about it i decided to show him lol well that turned into me running b c it made me feel better and then i started getting fast and winning races and now i am back to the huffing and puffing with baby noah ok that is all i have for now so have a great night i am off to do a lo using some of those labels i made with our stamps posted by caroline 5 16 2007 01 21 00 am 6 comments monday may 14 2007 happy mother s day i hope all the moms had a great day i got 4 great gifts today i played the best soccer today that i have in the entire season david made me a mother s day layout i will have to post it this week david and i got to go on a date night date and the biggie baby noah took his first unassisted non couch holding steps we are so proud of him what a great present for him to give me i also got the chance to create the following things for noah s bd party next week this is a quick and easy album i got ready for noah using some page protectors 5 pieces of patterned paper a sheet of stickers some rubons and chipboard letters this way when the party is in full swing i can be busy taking photos and as quickly as the photos are developed i can create him an album in less than 1 2 hour next we have more pinwheels i made from left over paeprs i had that will either line the lawn or i will put as a centerpiece and finally wha...