If you have liked these Saturday Stella & Dot posts, today’s post might just be for you. For three more days (through October), if you sign up as a Stylist, you receive $450 of jewelry for a $199 investment. On top of that, in your first 21 days as a Stylist you receive two 50% off orders. That’s the entire jewelry and handbag line at 50% off.

So even if you have no interest in ever hosting a trunk show you get $251 of jewelry of your choie for free just for signing up. The best part of becoming a Stella & Dot Stylist, even if you never want to actually sell jewelry is that you get to pick out the jewelry you receive in your starter kit. This is different than how other direct sales companies work.

If you actually do want to sell jewelry, I would help you out and train you how to do it (it’s super easy!) It’s free sales training, which I have really appreciated coming from the R&D side of business my entire career.

Here is a link to more information. Let me know if you are interested. Happy Weekend!

Expect that second Oktoberfest post on Monday!

At the moment, your favorite expressions are, “What are my options, Mommy?” and “all day long” as in “I want to watch Backyardigans all day long.” Your favorite meals are pizza and oatmeal with chocolate chips. Your favorite color changes daily but yesterday it was purple and pink. You will only wear dresses and now that it’s getting cold, you are a fan of tights. You are able to pull even your tights and panties down to go potty and poo poo by yourself. You love to go to the zoo and shop at Costco with dad. You could jump up and down all day long. Dancing is in your blood and you have amazed many onlookers by your unique, spontaneous dance moves. You love your grandmas. You have a least a dozen books memorized and you love to read. Your little sister is enamoured by you and is captivated by everything you do. Gracyn is your best friend. Your favorite part of the day is when mommy picks you up from school and you still come running the minute you see me.

Finally, listen to your body and your maternal instincts. I was planning to take a nap today because I feel really run down from this whole ordeal but then something told me to get in the shower. I took a HOT shower and massaged the clog area lightly because I vowed to be nicer to myself today…I couldn’t handle any more pain from compression massage. Then I heard Eloise crying from her crib even though she had only gone down for a nap ten minutes earlier. I finished showering, dried off and then went to get her from her crib. Even though it was not time to eat, she nursed and removed the plug. We were both supposed to be sleeping and instead my instinct told me to shower and hers told her to wake up and cry and then eat and voila, the issue was resolved.

To celebrate this week’s Christian Holy Day (Sunday) here is the entrance to the cathedral in Freiburg, Germany.

I’ve been a bit absent this week because there has been A LOT going on. It’s really one of the craziest weeks of the past few years.

I think you will understand why I haven’t written when I tell you we have been dealing with an ear infection, nursing strike, clogged duct, two Stella & Dot trunk shows, the biggest and most exciting promotion of my career (and of course celebrating that) and the extra work that comes with doing two jobs (new and old job) on top of all of the usual stuff. Not to mention, we still don’t feel like we have really caught our breaths since vacation and I have about three vacation blog posts yet to write.

The whirlwind is going to continue for a little while so my posts will be less frequent for a couple of weeks. I do hope to get at least Oktoberfest Part II up this weekend though.

It is not every day that you watch your husband get dressed in lederhosen, your toddler watch the smurfs in German and your baby eat her feet while you sit cross-legged on a hard hotel bed covered in white sheets extracting breast milk using a hand pump.  Yet this was exactly the scene on the [...]

For Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the designers at Stella & Dot came up with the lovely Tribute Bracelet.