{About the Business}

Cutie Pies Custom Creations is an online business specializing in custom photo cards and fun stationery: invitations, announcements, thank yous, as well as labels, notepads, notecards, and fun items to keep your organized. Cutie Pies Custom Creations make wonderful personalized gifts for mom, grandma, teachers, and any one who deserves a little something special, all at an affordable price.

{About the Designer}

Owner/Designer Jennifer is a mom of 3 young boys who left a teaching career after the birth of her second son in 2004 to stay at home with her children. Needing supplemental income, Jennifer combined her love of photos, personalized items, and computer design to start a stationery business. Cutie Pies Custom Creations started out as an ebay store, focusing on teacher goodies that were inspired by her love of personalized paper products. Within the next year, popularity had grown, and Jennifer made the leap to launch her own website. Soon after, her stationery products were expanded to include photo cards.

Jennifer’s goal is to provide unique products that make your life a little easier, a little brighter, and preserve precious memories in the form of her keepsake photo cards. Her own family lives on a budget, and Jennifer strives to ensure that her products are not only treasured, but also affordable.

Exciting news!! Jennifer is sponsoring the HCTS blog all month, and is offering one lucky commenter a $25 gift certificate to her store!! Thank you, Jennifer!! The winner will be drawn randomly from all comments rec’d August 1-August 31, so get chatting ladies!!
Rebecca

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Today’s spotlight features:   Boden Board!

Boden Board is a fan site for the British brand Boden, and their children’s line Mini Boden.

Have you seen how well Mini Boden does on ebay? Goodness, used sometimes sells for more than retail! Do you like the style , but feel it’s too expensive? How would you like it if I told you that you can save up to 70% off at end of season, and you can earn $20 of FREE Boden EVERY month?Yes, I’m serious!! 

All you need is a friend with knowledge of how the brand works their sales. Boden Board is that friend. We send alerts the moment end of season starts, replenished stock hits the site and when great coupons are released! 

Join today, and save 15% off-use code E68F .

Oh, and hear the owner of Boden Board is a really cool chick! Giggle!!

 xoxo,

Rebecca

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Laughing Ladybugs Boutique is a little girls and toddler clothes boutique that makes shopping for girls and toddler clothes a delightful trip into the inner world of a child.Our selection of designers will be sure to meet all of your fashionneeds. Baby Gassy Gooma, Belle Ame and Twirly Girl are just a few of our top sellers. We invite youto visit our clothing store for girls to see our delightful medley of girlsdresses and children’s clothing. The doors are open all the time atLaughing Ladybugs Boutique, come on in! 

 I would like to offer all my Stork friends a special discount to use from now until June 1st. Enter code HCTS15 at checkout to receive 15% off your entire order, even sale items. And, some of the items will be cheap enough for resale! If you have a little girl who loves to twirl, be sure to check out the Twirly Girl dresses…they are fabulous!

Thank you for this opportunity to share my site with everyone! 

Diane  

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Stork Heather, Bellabuggy is going to tell us about her family’s business-Garden Party Teas. She is also offering us a discount! Thanks, Heather!

Garden Party Teas is a family owned and operated business. Barbara Roberts is our President and web geek, entirely self-taught. Dennis Roberts is a jack of all trades and bookkeeper extraordinaire (not his official title, obviously). And Heather Roberts-Nault (BellaBuggy) is the Vice-President and partner who is not pulling her fair share of the weight! As a stay-at-hom mom to three young daughters it’s hard to find enough time to devote to the business, but that situation is gradually improving and hopefully one day I’ll be able to take it all on and allow my parents to truly retire.

My mother and I loved to shop and decided to take our love of yard sales and put it to work for us. We began searching for antique and vintage tea related items and created our own little tea shoppe. We daydreamed about owning a ‘real’ tea room, but having owned a restaurant before we knew we didn’t *really* want to do that again! A small retail space allowed us to combine our love of shopping and our dream of an elegant tearoom without the long, hard hours of labor. Although we enjoyed it, we found that the amount of time required to maintain the business was more than we were prepared to handle. My oldest daughter was a newborn at that time, and my Mom was still working full-time. When mom’s circumstances changed and she decided to ‘retire’ (more on that later), we decided to rethink our goals. 

Seeking a broad audience for our unique selection of tea accoutrements, our company closed the doors to our retail shop in favor of our expanding Internet presence.

Our web store was opened in 2004 and has grown steadily every year. What began as a fun outlet has become a big job!

There used to be a commercial where a small company opened their website and gathered around the computer to watch the orders come in. At first they were excited to see one, and then they panicked when the orders started pouring in! Many days we feel like that commercial, struggling to keep up with the volume of sales we are getting, but especially in this economy we feel very blessed to have such a problem. And we look forward to many more successful years to come!

We would also love to offer a discount to my fellow Storks! Just visit www.gardenpartyteas.com and enter code STORK-10 at checkout.

Thanks!

Heather

Thank you, Heather!  

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