While shopping for some essentials at the supermarket on monday, my daughter decides she NEEDS to make cup cakes. Ofcrouse, I gave in and we bought all the necessary ingredients. As promised by my 3 year old, she would help make the cupcakes (I should have known better, lol). Vika was excited to first help me, but that faded quickly and she just sat back eating cake batter while I did all the work. The next time around, I should just buy her some promotional cupcake shaped cases with candy fill and call it a day!

Fitness at work?  Yes many companies offer wellness programs for their employees to help encourage a healthy lifestyle.  Wellness is not only good for individuals, it is good for companies.  A healthy work force has more energy, misses fewer days of work and therefore, has  more productive employees.  A great way to go about it is to have a theme for each month.  The Department of the Navy has come up with monthly topics to focus on.  January is helthy goals and tips, February is cardiovascular awareness, March is nutritional awareness, and so on.  There are great promotional and incentive items that can compliment your workplace wellness program and help keep everyone on track.  Promotional men's and women's health guides are a great way to get your program started.  Giveaways like promotional water bottles and lunch bags encourgage healthy eating. So embark on a wellness program at work, and get fit with the support and encouragement of your co-workers. And I am sorry but my number one recommendation health tip is stop smoking.  Try an e-cig!!

My typical everyday routine is making myself a cup of coffee, I am useless withouth it. (I'm sure most of you would agree!) With a 3 year old in the house, mornings tend to be very busy, so I'm always on the go and I use styrofoam/paper cups with a lid as a one time deal and throw them away. Shame on me! This is such a bad habit and wastes valuable resources, through this whole time I could have purchased a promotional ceramic mug and reuse it without throwing out 365 paper cups within one year. The cafe ceramic mug is a perfect substitute and looks similar to the plastic cup that I have been throwing out daily. As of this moment, I vow to do better for mother earth!

I dont know about any one else but my desk has tons of different items scattered all over the place. I wanted to introduce you to my latest find this week and it is the promotional multi-function "Desk Buddy Highlighter". This is one of my favorite items and it is great for keeping my desk tidier. My desk buddy has 4 neon highlighters, a retractable brush for cleaning the key board and a computer screen cleaner. Not to mention, the desk buddy looks alot like two of my co-workers, what do you think?  :-)

This morning at Motivators was an exciting one!  We had a visit from John Cudahy, a representative from one of our warehouses.  He brought in many interesting promotional products that will sure be a hit with our customers.  We saw new promotional flashlights, promotional cutlery and many diffrent types of promotional drinkware.  The one item that really stood out was the hand blown glass pilsner mugs.  They were extremely light and gave the liquid inside them a "floating" look.  These are sure to be a poplular seller for a wide array of our customers.  I also think our whole team is looking forward to getting a few samples for the office!