Happy Halloween everyone! Tonight is going to be so much fun.? Disney would be proud; we are representing Peter Pan this evening.? We are going with 2 of my nephews, so we will have Captain Hook, Peter Pan, Wendy and Tinkerbelle wandering the streets of
Charleston tonight!? ?

I totally feel like life is on fast forward.? I’m getting calls and emails from friends, who have seen the recent article, http://www.goosecreekgazette.com/articles/2007/10/31/community_news/121101nemom.txt?

I have gotten interest from a grilling store in Denver, I met with my graphic designer today to discuss our next round of work (brochures with real products, photos for the website, advertising etc…) and I received and email from
Taiwan giving me the tracking number of my NEXT 100 sets!!!? One thing I had forgotten to mention about the weekend getaway.? I was talking to the gals about how the response has been so positive that I was worried that 50 sets would not be enough as some people on the waiting list have told me they want to order 5 at a time!? I had tossed around the idea of ordering 100 to be air freighted, but the freight cost would have killed me.? This is where sometimes you just need others to bounce ideas off ?of and you find yourself saying “DUH, OF COURSE, why didn’t I think of that??!!!”? ?

They had suggested ordering 100 sets in bulk with the packaging broken down and I could assemble them here (literally at my kitchen table after the kids go to sleep) to save on freight charges and also labor costs.? ?Shortly after I wrote the last post on Monday, I fired off a quick email to
Taiwan explaining this to them.? They must have already had all the machinery still set up from the little sample run, because I got an email this morning saying that 100 sets where in route as of this morning!? WOW!!!? Now the pressure is ON!? I need product shots (still need really good ones, my last ones didn’t work out like I had hoped…), I put the pressure on my poor web guy to get my shopping cart / e-commerce / new and improved website done, I’ve ordered packing supplies such as bubble wrap and boxes for different size orders… my brain is tired tired tired.? I’m so excited and so scared and so many things all at once, I can’t really think straight.? And then there is the guilty about what I am NOT thinking about.? ?I’m NOT thinking about gathering the girl’s stuff for trick or treating and NOT doing more with their school and NOT really all there when they talk to me in the car and want to play ISPY.? I can actually now play ISPY while my brain is who-knows-where!? I can actually ISPY on auto pilot.? The norm these days is for me to get in the car and arrive at a destination, and not remember how I got there.? I hope other Mompreneurs are doing the same thing…then I won’t feel so bad!? ?

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Leslie Haywood, Founder and President of Charmed Life Products, Inventor of Grill Charmsâ„¢? www.grillcharms.com