Family Business!

So, as some of you know, we have embarked in purchasing our very own family business. We now have a Promotional Product/Printing business. We invested in commercial equipment that is capable of screen printing on t-shirts and other items of apparel. We also have a vinyl cutter for home decor, signs, car wraps, etc. And last but not least, we have a pad printer which allows us to print on any hard or plastic surface. We can print on things like, cups, mugs, pens, golf balls, keychains, stress relievers, etc. (over 800,000 items). We set-up our shop in our basement and work from home.

Our company name is STELLAR SPECIALTY PRINTING...and we have our very own website: www.stellarco.com

Derek and I have learned so much already about this industry and continue to learn every day. We enjoy the limitless opportunities in this industry. We enjoy getting involved with our local community as well as serving other companies and organizations around the country.

So far some of the things we have done are: assisted a church group in designing embroidered caps for their fundraiser, ordered 1000 pens for the local political 9-12 (based off of Glen Beck) group, embroider polo shirts for a local cleaning company with their business logo, designed art work for an order of stadium cups for a family reunion, screen-printed shirts for an electrician here in town, screen-printed shirts for 12 yr old girls at church, sticker labels for a carpet cleaning company, plastic bags for a golf course, etc.

We have steadily been receiving business opportunities from friends and family, just by word of mouth. We look forward to marketing more and visiting more companies to offer our services to. We are excited to get into the schools to do sport and band events or fundraisers. Cassidy has already been marketing for us too. She's so excited and so cute about being a part of our business. She will help us by sharing what we do with anyone wherever we go. All I have to say is... we now own a family business...then she immediately tells them..."Stellar Specialty Printing!" Sometimes I don't even have to mention anything. One day we were at the park and I was talking to my friend about just everyday things...and I guess she was listening as I was pushing her on the swing. Out of the blue she said to my friend.."How about ordering some pens?" She was hired on the spot! :)

We look forward to the growth of our business, learning new skills, understanding the meaning of hard work, extra money to spend, working together as a family, meeting all kinds of people and their businesses, but most of all help others to promote their business and to help them succeed in whatever endeavor they are involved in.

Derek always says with this business... "Everyday is a good day!" If you think about it...it's true. Whether it's helping someone get the word out about their new business, celebrating a marriage with their personalized items to remember their day, providing apparel for a sports team that earn their way to the playoffs, a family reunion that unites people to create memories, fundraisers to help raise money for good causes, and so forth.

If you need any of our services please let us know. :)

The Stellar Team

We used t-shirt vinyl to make these shirts while we were training on our equipment.

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was fun. On Saturday morning we went to the mall for an Easter egg hunt. The mall was chaotic and there were lots and lots of people. It was disappointing the way they organized the event. Most children didn't even get one egg, and some were crying. Cassidy was fortunate to be standing at the right place at the right time where one of the staff members dropped the eggs.

The best part of this event at the mall... was our daughter making the choice to share her eggs with other children that didn't get any. As well as witnessing a young teenager showing kindness and being a good Samaritan to a mother with young children that needed help, even if it meant she lost her chance to get eggs for herself. That was the highlight of this egg hunt experience.

When we got home we colored eggs and Cassidy enjoyed decorating them with stickers as you can see in the picture below. As we decorated eggs we had the chance to listen to church conference. After decorating eggs we played with Cassidy's new Easter gift her...Play-dough Ice Cream Shop. Cassidy looooves to play with play-dough. It was so fun and it almost looked so real to eat. That night when Derek went to Priesthood session of conference Cassidy and I went to "Girls Night" at the church bookstore. They have drawings for free gifts all night and special buys. Well, we actually had our number drawn and won some great books to read. Yeah!!!!

When Derek got home Cassidy and I sent him off on his very own Easter egg hunt. Us girls had so much fun sneaking around and hiding his eggs. There was even a "Golden egg" with green inside. :) It was fun watching him on the hunt. It made me smile to hear our daughter's giggles as he would get closer to finding one of her eggs. But she couldn't resist in helping her daddy find the eggs that she hid. It was so cute. At one hiding spot she hid 3 eggs at the same spot. Funny girl. Luckily, Cassidy didn't see me hide my eggs. Otherwise, it would have been a very short egg hunt.

Easter weekend was pretty special this year, because we were able to listen to our Prophet speak and other amazing church leaders all weekend in General Conference. It's a world-wide broadcast conference from the Church. They give inspirational talks to inspire us and teach us to be better.

We had the privilege to have Aunt Barb join us for some of the conference. We enjoyed her company and our conversations. Unfortunately, she wasn't able to stay for Easter dinner but we were grateful for the time we did get to spend together . For Easter dinner, we invited our good friends: Jaime and her cute kids Tyler, and Rachel (Jeff had to work).

We tried something different this year. Filling our Saturday with all the fun Easter activities and reserving Easter Sunday to celebrate the true meaning of Easter, the life of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

Cassidy's decorated egg, she insisted on placing the same stickers next to each other in groups. She explained she wanted to place her stickers like Noah's ark with the grouping of animals.

Easter Egg Hunt at the mall

The Golden Egg! I thought I was pretty clever to hide it in our ceiling vent. But no fooling my clever hubby.

Inspiring Video...Stephanie Nielson

I have kept up with this beautiful woman's life story...as most people have. She has touched many hearts including my own. Enjoy!