Hello, how exciting!!

Posts : 22 Join date : 2009-08-29

Hi there,

My name is yasmin, I have four boys, YES BOYS, 8, 5, 3 and 10mths.

I started my business back in march after a visit to my brother in sydney and seen all of his daughters, bows, clips, layered bows and headbands. I loved them soooo much and found his wife imported them all from America. I looked around on the net and seen there was a market for it here in aus especially in Tassie. I then attempted to make a few bits and pieces and found...............I COULD DO IT cheers

and I LOVED doing it Very Happy

I got so much great feed back and everyone loved my stuff so now I have a website called somethingforbella.com I sell on Ebay and Etsy and facebook and wholesale locally and in our shop front at our petrol station. I now have a back log of orders am doing a happy dance but all am alittle stressed at why did I feel the urge to create more work for myself when my plate is already full!!

oh well it is a distraction from the kids and the businesses.

cheers
yasmin www.somethingforbella.com

Subject: Hi Yasmin, Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:43 am

thanks for joining out forum,

just went and had a look at your sit and it is beautiful, I understand what you mean did you really take on more I am like you with 4 children Brianna 16, Dillon 12, Jorja 5 and Hudson 4 and I just dont have time to do anything. I am in the middle of 200 korkers for an order and I hate making these!

I find that it is very acddictive to buy more and more ribbon,flowers and so on, I just carnt help myself.

Trace

Posts : 22 Join date : 2009-08-29

Hi tracie, my youngests name is Hudson too!!

I cant help myself with buying buying buying too, so many pretty things to make, so little time!\

yas

Posts : 102 Join date : 2009-08-29 Location : Sydney

Hi Yasmin, welcome! 4 boys! Wow, I think I'd be making bows too just to get my girly fix!

Subject: Re: Hello, how exciting!! Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:31 am

Hey Yasmin,

how old is your Hudson? my boy just turned 4 in July and is my youngest. He is my angel as 18 mths I nearly lost him to meningococcal and meningitis so I am very lucky to have him. To see him in a coma was heartbreaking, no he is full of beans and keeps me constantly on my feet chasing him around

Trace

Posts : 102 Join date : 2009-08-29 Location : Sydney

Tracey wrote:: Hey Yasmin,

how old is your Hudson? my boy just turned 4 in July and is my youngest. He is my angel as 18 mths I nearly lost him to meningococcal and meningitis so I am very lucky to have him. To see him in a coma was heartbreaking, no he is full of beans and keeps me constantly on my feet chasing him around

Trace

Gosh, Trace how awful that must have been for you and your family. I'm glad that he's made a full recovery. Meningococcal is so scary.

Subject: Meningococcal Sun Aug 30, 2009 9:08 am

Yes never felt so helpless in my life to have my son laying there in a coma and nothing I could do. I was so lucky as I just thought that he was trying to sleep off a virus until a few hours later when he had a convolsion on me, so I rushed him straight to the hospital. He was even in pain when I was carrying him into the emergency department from the infection in the fluid in his spine and brain.

I never thought that I would know anyone with this let alone my son end up with it. Now I know all syptoms and would never chance any of my children being sick, I always take them and get them checked out now.

We were just so lucky that I got him to the hospital when I did as I would have never forgiven myself if something had happened to him

Trace

Posts : 28 Join date : 2009-07-26 Age : 46 Location : Perth

Hi Yasmin, welcome to the site. Can't wait to get to know you all better and wrap the whole world in bows!

Lots of warm welcome hug!
-Christie

Posts : 22 Join date : 2009-08-29

Hi thanks christine
My hudson is 10mths old. A joy atm. Yes, a girly fix is exactly it!! I am a girly girl too so it is a great release!!

I am so happy that your hudson is ok, unfortunately for my cousin, her 11month old boy died while he was in that coma you were talking about tracie. It was devasting and the hospital kept sending her home in the weeks before he slipped away Sad

yas

Subject: Re: Hello, how exciting!! Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:20 am

Welcome Yasmin,

4 boys OMG. I am such a girly girl I would go stir crazy not to mention 4 kids. Seems 4 kids is a bit of a common thing with the ladies so far on this forum.

I have 2 girls Miranda 6 and Heather 4. Heather will be a school next year so I will have a little more time to promote my website.

I am so glad that we can all meet and chat like this (about Australian issues and such) instead of being on the end of US converstations. Not that they are all bad but the CPSIA thing over there is crazy. I am all for looking after the kids but some politians just don't know when to stop.

Janine

Posts : 88 Join date : 2009-08-27 Age : 51

same, the cpsia is scary and having to do batch number and lead testing is getting a bit to much.

Great to have a group of Aussie girls with the same interest, I'm on the move and slowing my bow making until fully relocated and hope to do the markets as well as my website. I just have kept the name and will start again.

I packed away my sewing machine and overlocker, but no one is allowed near my ribbons.

Posts : 22 Join date : 2009-08-29

Hi cheryl I was wondering what CPSIA is? sorry b/feeding atm so 1 hand typing Cool

Posts : 88 Join date : 2009-08-27 Age : 51

cpsia is Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (had to look that on up)

From my understanding , is that all products sold to anyone 12 or younger has to be tested for lead and other substances.

Subject: Re: Hello, how exciting!! Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:38 pm

G'day Yasmin,

Welcome to the BOYS CLUB Laughing

. I've got 4 boys (5 including our nephew who lives with us) and 1 little princess.

Look forward to getting to know you & your bows Smile

Cheers Rubes flower

Subject: Re: Hello, how exciting!! Wed Sep 02, 2009 8:05 pm

Hi Cheryl,

Where are you moving to?

Posts : 88 Join date : 2009-08-27 Age : 51

I'm moving from Brisbane to Bundaberg.

Posts : 22 Join date : 2009-08-29

Thanks Rubes

Wow you must be very busy too! Do you have a website Rubes? Maybe you have posted it somewhere I am making my way through all the posts! lol

Subject: Re: Hello, how exciting!! Thu Sep 03, 2009 12:12 pm

No I don't have a website as I am still VERY new to all this lol, just my Facebook atm

MY FACEBOOK ALBUM

Cheers Ruebs flower

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