October 13, 2008
CreateForLess Team
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Hello, I’m David the IT guy at CreateForLess. At CreateForLess we make sure and celebrate each employee’s birthday and some times that includes funky gifts. Last year Jennifer received a custom bobblehead to keep Dwight company. To create the bobblehead Kim had to find a sneaky way to get a front and side shot to submit to the site. It took a few weeks for the processing of the order but the result looked great!
This year I received top honors for my birthday with a new pair of CFL themed NIKEiD shoes.
The back of the shoes remind me of who I work for and who I am 
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It is amazing how many customizable products you can get online now.
Here are just a few sites I know of that allow you to create your own custom product:
Everyone at work is jealous of me and my shoes now. 
September 12, 2008
Crafts, CreateForLess Team
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Hello there, I’m Jennifer the Marketing Manager here at CreateForLess. Every once in a while, we thought we’d give Maria a break from blogging and give you a little inside information to the world at CreateForLess. We like to keep things fun in the office, we’re a craft company, so having a super serious workplace would be a sure way to kill our creativity. So a brilliant idea came to us one day at lunch after a discussion of the recent Olympics, The Office (our favorite TV show) Olympics and the intern Olympics I participated in during my days as a marketing intern. It was decided that we needed to have our own intern Olympics!
The only problem was we didn’t exactly have any interns, but we do have Ashley, our customer service representative for the summer. Perhaps you’ve chatted with her on the phone or via email? Technically she’s not an intern, but she’s a college student, so close enough! The “Summer Seasonal Employees Olympics” just doesn’t have the same ring to it. The competition would be against Cooper, the intern from Dry Cleaner’s Secret, our office building neighbors. Since Ashley is a University of Oregon student and Cooper is from Oregon State, we decided to make it a Civil War (the name of the big in state rivalry football game) theme too.
Some creativity was a must for the event, so the “interns” were instructed to design their own t-shirts for the big day. Of coarse Ashley’s “Team Craft” shirt was creativity designed with touches of fabric paint, glitter, ribbon and rhinestones. And Cooper (the non crafter) went with an OSU Beavers themed orange shirt, puffy paint and as you can see below, had the pencil lines still on it. Apparently it was very important to him that it be perfectly straight! The first event was the pipe cleaners fashion show. Ashley designed very fashionable chenille stem glasses, a necklace, crown, hair bow, earrings and bracelet. And Cooper is sporting glasses, a watch and necktie.
The other events included a basketball waste basket shoot out, a text messaging contest to test the super speed of college students’ texting ability, packing sample boxes of Dry Cleaner’s Secret and an office supply scavenger hunt for items such as expired food from the fridge, decorative birds, and a CreateForLess mouse pad. The final score was close, but Ashley was declared the winner by a slim 2 point margin! But prizes were awarded to everyone, which included college student staples - a supply of ramen noodles and macaroni and cheese, plus a gift certificate to their school’s bookstore.
Congratulations Ashley! I asked her how it felt to be the winner of the Inaugural Intern Olympics…”It was really great to represent CreateForLess. I hoped I showed enough crafting skills with my pipe cleaner creations. And I’d like to thank my coach Kim and all the CreateForLess employee judges for leaning their votes my way”. Today is Ashley’s last day at CreateForLess and then she’s heading back to school. We’re all sad to have to say good bye to our favorite intern/seasonal customer service representative. Go Ducks!
