Now to the good stuff!

We here at Loop De Lou have a friend named Carol. And she is one of the coolest people we know. She draws, paints, makes home made jewlery, and I’m sure she could do some flips for you if you wanted. Or maybe not. Carol is so talented. And we heart her very much. She has agreed to giveaway some of her cool jewels in conjuction with our paper. What a great combo!

Check out what you could win:

necklace, earrings, and a sitter NP…..what else could a gal want?

So here is what you need to do to win:

1. Go check out our friend Carol at  www.cmshroo.blogspot.com You can also visit us at www.loopdelou.com if it tickles your fancy.

2. Come back here and leave us a comment (you can just tell us all about yourself! we love our LDL customers! or tell us why you want to win!)

3. We will randomly pick a comment number and contact you via email.

Make sure you are leaving a comment on this blog post and not another one. We will only pick from the comments on this post. Thanks so much for stopping by! Now get off your computer and go enjoy this lovely weather!!! Or, you know, you could go shopping at www.loopdelou.com!

Please tune in this week for a very exciting giveaway!

Why do we love vinyl labels? Well they are water resistant! You can put them on sippy cups, bottles, lunch boxes, and run them through the dishwasher. They are great! I have my own personal labels that I put on all of my tupperware and carrying dishes. That way if I ever leave them somewhere….people will know who they belong to! But probably if they didn’t have my name on them, people wouldn’t guess me at all because well….the cooking….it’s not my strength.

Bag tags are great for the little ones diaper bags or back packs. They also work great for luggage tags.

Now this bag tag is a poor attempt to recreate one on the computer without a “real” picture of one. But you can get a much better idea at www.loopdelou.com.

Here is what you need to do to win:

1. Visit www.loopdelou.com

2. Come back here and leave us a comment telling us your favorite vinyl label design

3. We will randomly select the comment number Monday morning!

And that’s it! And make sure you check back next Friday because we are doing a joint giveaway with our friend, Carol, who makes jewelry!

Good Luck!

I wasn’t sure if that was “public knowledge” yet. Or if we’re just “in the know” at LDL. Our business is very important you know. It would be comparable to GM if we went under. I’m not sure how I could live without my multi-million dollar bonuses. I guess I would find a way.

Anyway….it is difficult in this economy to sell something like paper. Our products are cute (it’s possible we are bias on that!), but they are not a necessity. With the social networking industry booming, it seems that sending a hand written card is something of the past. Instant communication through texting, email and facebook statuses, let people know where you are and what your are doing at all times.

While I’m a big fan of the texting and the facebooking, I wonder if we have lost something special in the midst of this digital world. Have we lost the joy in sending and receiving mail. I’m not sure about you, but I sure do love getting something besides bills in my mailbox! But then I know I am part of this issue also, because I do love to get on facebook! And my favorite is to post pictures of my little boy and have people talk about how cute he is!

So it makes me wonder….what do you, our loyal Loop De Lou customers think? In this age of tightening our purse strings, what do we need to do to sell more products? I figure instead of sitting around in a meeting, trying to figure out this question…..we go directly to the consumer….that would be you! We would love your feedback on the issue and also love to hear stories of how the economy is affecting you. That way we could send you a note of encouragement!

Stay tuned for the giveaway this week!

Here is what you could win:

a 3 set of Note pads (small, large, and skinny) any design of your choosing! Each pad can be the same design with the same name……or they could all be different! WOW! That would make 2 gifts for someone else and one for yourself! (Or you could just keep all three….you know since you won them and all!)

check out these notepads

Here is what you need to do to win:

1. Go to www.loopdelou.com

2. search around the site a little if you so choose

3. come back here and leave a comment telling us which designs/products you like best

4. We will randomly choose a number and the comment that matches that number is the winner!!

We will leave this giveaway open for the weekend. We will announce the winner Monday morning and then we will contact you via email. You then will get to pick out the designs of your choice!

Please let’s play fair and only leave one comment!

Thanks for stopping by and happy shopping!

Anyway….we are doing our very first blog give away! Now, if you have been a fan of LDL for awhile, you know that we particitpated in some give aways on another blog site. We had tremendous success with that, and now that we have our very own (functional) blog…we decided we could do our own.

We are spreading the word through a little social network called facebook. Not sure if you’ve ever heard of it before….it’s up and coming. But please feel free to tell all your friends (real life and facebook) about our blog. (oh and also the FREE stuff).

The give away will take place THIS FRIDAY! The post on friday will have all the rules and regulations and blah blah blah. Not that there will be many rules because we’ve never really liked to play by them. You know, that last statement is false…..all of us here at LDL are rule followers. As “bad” as we would like to appear, it’s just not true. We couldn’t be rule breakers if we tried.

So ALL of this to say…..check in with us this FRIDAY to win free, personalized stationery. It’s all so exciting!

This is our new blog! It’s very exciting because now you can leave comments. So please leave comments. Our blog would be so sad without them. It would be like leaving the house without your earrings. And you know how that feels.

We want to use this blog to preview some new things with our business and also as a place to host special give aways. So you might want to subscribe to this blog, not only for the fine literary content you are sure to witness, but also for the free stuff. Ok, I guess mainly for the free stuff.

Loop De Lou is undergoing some changes this year. We are very excited about this revamp. We are coming out with one catalog that is small and portable. Now, if you’ve been to a LDL party before, you know that nothing about our previous books were small. They are large, hard to transport and a little overwhelming. So we came up with a solution: simplify. Simplify is our goal for 2009. We are picking our most favorite designs (and creating new ones!) and putting them all together in one place. Our sales reps will be so happy!

The new catalog is scheduled to make it’s appearance “pre-holiday”. So in other words, end of August. Anything not featured in our catalogs will still be available online, unless we discontinued the design. Which we are doing a lot of. Because you wouldn’t still tight roll your jeans today, things change….we have to keep up with the trends!

So thanks for stopping by. Our next give away will be scheduled for next week. You won’t want to miss it!