[PRESS RELEASE] Orderly Gives Moms What They Really Want with Style & Function

BOULDER, CO – With the Mother’s Day rapidly approaching, husbands and children are searching for the perfect gift.  Enter Boulder, CO mom/designer/entrepreneur Kay Magnie McLellan who has come up with a clever solution with her line of whiteboards from her brand Orderly Chic.

“As a mom, I know how chaotic the week of an active family can be,” McLellan says.” When I started Orderly Chic, it was to make my life as a mom and entrepreneur easier. The beauty? These are not your typical plain whiteboards and each member of the family can showcase his/her personality with the wide variety of chic options.”

Orderly Chic’s one-of-a-kind message boards help brighten up any locker, refrigerator or office space with their sleek design, making it an ideal solution for families craving a little organization. “Moms have told me that they like the fact that these boards are practical and stylish”, McLellan says.

The Orderly Chic website and Amazon Store offers Grocery list boards for kitchen and Weekly Calendar for home office, Skulls, Cupcakes and Coffee Cups for mom or locker.  and Mirrors and Black list boards for dorms and gifts, and markers.

Orderly Chic is the brainchild of industrial designer Kay Magnie McLellan, who was inspired to create a line of products that eased the stress and pain of daily life after she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 2001. Orderly Chic products are available at Amazon.com. For more information on Orderly Chic, please contact Kay Magnie McLellan at 888-492-8235 or info@orderlychic.com. Visit online at www.OrderlyChic.com

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Spring Clean Your Medicine Cabinet

These mail-back envelopes make it EASY!

You’ve tackled the closets, the laundry room and the garage. Only thing left if is your medicine cabinet. But, what do to with all those old prescriptions. According to the website Dispose My Meds, more than 71,000 cases of accidental overdose occurs in children aged 18 and younger. How about the environmental impact? More than 100 pharmaceuticals have been detected in our water systems.  Needless to say, it’s important to be responsible with the disposal of your over-the-counter and prescription meds.

Enter the Takeaway Environmental Return System; we found some at the local KingSoopers, onine at Sharps Compliance, and DisposeMyMeds.org. Pack up unused and expired medications into these convenient envelopes; they include return shipping and handling and are processed by law enforcement officials. Pharmacists will dispose of returned medication into a waste bin specially designed for storing these unneeded pharmaceuticals.

 Now you can get on enjoying your spring with the knowledge that you've done due diligence!

Garage sale…or not

When it comes to Spring Cleaning, you might think Garage sale? …or not?

If you’re like me, those professional garage salers hurt your feelings. I hate how their noses crinkle up like it stinks when they examine the Little People Bus that I diligently cleaned and found even the puppy (you can tell how old am I) . I realize the bartering is a game but I just didn’t get the gene for it. The best part of the day for me was when the local charity came and picked up what hadn’t sold.

So now I skip the garage sale and inspire myself with the image of all of the garage sale items being re-used through thrift stores and charities. The idea of a child happily playing with the bus or an unemployed mom going to an interview in my retired work outfit’ delights me. Another favorite activity is to type into TurboTax my donation and see the little total change – it might be $20 on $100 worth of goods. I’m obviously not a tax attorney, and I might not even be right about the tax benefit being worth it. But I do know it is worth it to get any clutter out of my house that distracts us from our current goals and favorite activities, so it the idea of helping out someone less fortunate and getting a little tax break is all the motivation I need.

Making something ridiculous and delightful, Day 2

Day 2: I Jib Jabbed myself. This never gets old.

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Making something ridiculous and delightful, every day

Masking tape bow

I gotta confess, I can get too darn serious at this time of year if I'm not careful. Isn't it funny (not haha funny) that the holidays coincides with end-of-year medical insurance switcheroo?  So in addition to standing in line at the post office, and getting an Evite out to my family, I made a doctor's appointment and signed up for all flavors of lab work to be billed in 2011. Merry Mammogram! That's just not right.

So, in keeping with my standard coping strategies, I've made a plan. I'm going to make something ridiculous and delightful every day. I'm committed to doing this every day...for as long as it is fun.

Day One: I made a bow for a package out of masking tape. My son was headed to a white elephant gift exchange and we shared a good laugh while getting him out the door in record time. Yes, you know you're going to see this reemerge as a product idea. I wonder if I can have it out for next year?

In praise of being unrealistic

I've been accused of being unrealistic but I didn't know it was a compliment until I read 80/20 Individual by Richard Koch who is often quoted in The 4-Hour Workweek .  I’ve being holding a grudge against several characters from my past for saying “You’re not being realistic.” But now I’m picturing myself showing up on their porches saying “I’m sorry I’ve been poking that voodoo doll of you for all these years. I see now it was a compliment.” 

Why is it a compliment? Because "Reality" is simply how have things have been until now; creativity is by definition unrealistic because you’re bringing something new into the world. Every successful business, every work of art, every inspiring social movement was born of someone thinking “I see a different way than what’s been so far.” Koch says an entrepreneur shifts resources from low to a higher yield. If it were realistic, somebody would already be doing it and the margin wouldn’t exist. These pockets exist all over the place and as technology changes, new pockets appear every day. It’s like a modern day Gold Rush. When you spot one, it is your vein of gold. Why doesn’t everyone else see what is plain-as-day to you? Every little thing that made you the unique individual you are – the good things like being in a play, the bad like being bullied – honed your unique perspective so that your vein of gold may be invisible to others. You get to mine it and afterward people might say “She was so lucky!”

So now when someone says “That seems unrealistic.”  I quietly say to myself “Why Thank You” and make a mental note “Here’s a realist. I’ll need this type to keep things going after I’ve created it.”

I’d love to hear your quotes – the things people told you as a kid that pop back into your head now when you try to create something Brilliantly Unrealistic!

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Time change tip

Time change tip...

It can be maddening to schedule an online or phone meeting with someone in another time zone, especially with a time change in between. I found a quick way in Google Calendar. It's so simple I almost overlooked it! Next to the time of the appointment is a link to Time Zone. I clicked it and set the meeting to the correct time for my colleague, for example 6:00 pm in Nederlands. It showed up on my calendar as 10 am. Phew!

While we are switching clocks Nov 6th this year, Europe switched on Oct 30. So if we had set our meeting based on the tried and true "What time is it there?" we'd have missed each other next week because my clock will fall back while his stays the same.  To impress your friends and colleagues read More about time changes.