The Label! (Can I Get a Drumroll?)

I mentioned that I was picking up my fancy schmancy mailing labels from Julie last night, and I did. They are SO awesome; I just love them! Hopefully the label, combined with the red (Ruby red! Get it?) envelope, will make the recipients drop everything to find out what could be inside the gorgeous packaging. (It'll be my fancy schmancy business card, along with either a letter and a sales sheet for the book, or my fancy schmancy business card, along with a press release, which I color-copied for free, as you'll remember, from FedEx/Kinkos!)

Want to see the label? Here it is:

I covered up my address, so you'll have to use your imagination in that area.

Isn't it cool? Wouldn't YOU love to get something with a label this nice on it? Props to Julie; as usual, dazzling artwork. :)

I'm getting my pet boutique letters out today, as well as the rest of the press releases. I can't wait to get the other letters out! My goal is to have them in the mail by Saturday morning.

Have a great day! More later!

Scooooooore! (And, by the way, go to your local FedEx/Kinkos!)

For the ten+ years we've lived in this town, we have had to drive about 20 minutes to get to the nearest FedEx/Kinkos store, for copies. It has been a pain, because this town has about 1,000 of everything else, but only two FedEx/Kinkos, 20 minutes east of me and 20 minutes southeast of me.

Lo and behold, the higher-ups at FedEx/Kinkos decided to do something for my part of town (finally!), and they built one just a couple of blocks from my neighborhood (YAY!).

I stopped in a couple of weeks ago to send a fax and to tell the manager, who I recognized from one of the other stores, how happy I was that they finally opened a FedEx/Kinkos closer to me. I felt like a real nerd, but couldn't contain the excitement. Plus, I could be wrong here, but I think I may have made his day.

After teaching my class this morning, I headed to the nearest FedEx/Kinkos, which was not the one near me, to enlarge a sign I made into a poster for the elementary school LMC. Their poster enlarger wasn't working, but on my way out I noticed something on the counter: something bright and shiny, as if an aura was around it, beckoning me to come hither.

Nah, not really. It was a flyer. A glorious flyer: announcing that today--YES, TODAY--was the Grand Opening celebration of MY FedEx/Kinkos! They were having specials every hour and as luck would have it, during that very hour they were offering FREE poster enlargements! At MY FedEx/Kinkos!

You know where I'm going here. Actually, you know where I went. To get that FREE poster enlargement!

But the story gets even better.

From 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at MY FedEx/Kinkos, they were offering FREE color copies!! Who does that? They cost .89 each!

So I scurried home and printed out my press release, the flyer for the elementary school that I have to deliver tomorrow, as well as an ad with those tear-off phone number thingies at the bottom. At 5 p.m. sharp, I went back to FedEx/Kinkos and said, "Free color copies right now, right?" The guy said, "Yep. You know there's a limit of 3, right?" Feeling immediately dejected, I said, "Oh. Okay."

Then he laughed and said, "Just kidding. Make as many as you want."

I was the only person there! How great is that? All told, I made about 160 color copies. What a savings! So please, find YOUR FedEx/Kinkos and go there! They are awesome!

Thanks for your time and attention.