Where in the world is Susan McShirley?

Sorry for my lack of posts lately. I have been crazy busy with CHA and the aftermath of CHA and then the Southern California Shop Hop.

CHA and the Shop Hop are so different. I love them both! CHA is meeting all of the stores that we do business with, seeing our reps, teaching a class for 200 store owners that requires weeks of preparation (thanks to my husband John for all his help on that).

The Shop Hop is where I meet the end user, the consumer. And I love to watch them play with our products and have so much fun with them. It gives me a lot of pleasure to see the pleasure that stickers and TUBES can bring to young and old, men and women across the board.


This past weekend was the 3rd and final weekend of the Shop Hop. I went to 3 stores and enjoyed each one. I worked with well over 100 consumers. We made Tubes and Magic Wands in Christmas, Halloween and Princess. I love seeing little ones use the products. We had them as young as 3.

The high point of the weekend was when my niece brought her 5 kids ages 10 - 4 1/2 months to a store to see me. The two youngest did not participate but the 10 year old girl (Aine) and 5 year old girl (Lillian) made wonderful Princess wands. Lillian has decided that she wants to use these for her next birthday party. She was so excited that she was practically jumping out of her skin! And the 8 year old boy (Hollis) mad a very crative Halloween Wand. I love how he used stickers to attach the paper to the wand. Who needs adhesives? LOL!

So now I can rest and relax on the weekends at least for a while. I better take advantage of that down time because not too far down the road it will start all over again! :) Thank goodness it just keeps coming at me! SRM Stickers is now 32 years old! Maybe it's time we gave a birthday party and made birthday tubes and wands to celebrate! :)