During the month of December, Mabel’s Labels will be donating a portion of sales from our Holiday line of labels to a local family in need.  Thanks to our Community Relations Committee for spearheading this initiative once again this holiday season.

Pick up a set of Holiday Return Address labels for your pre and post holiday cards. The Stocking Stuffer Combo makes a great gift for coaches, teachers, community friends and anyone else on your list this season. At $5 each it’s a perfect add-on to any gift!

Worried that the kids are starting to recognize that Santa’s handwriting looks oddly similar to mom or dads? Our Santa Tags will ensure the magic of Saint Nick and Christmas is kept alive for another year! Shop Mabel’s Labels Holiday Products today and help us give back to a family who could use a extra hand this year!

Christmas is quickly approaching, yes like 7 weeks away! We are starting to get our gift  shopping done and preparing for the weeks ahead. When I think of gift giving my thoughts keep going back to those children at the orphanage in Haiti that were just in awe over their labels. I think back to times when I have received personalized gifts. When I was a little girl my Grandparents sent me a set of pencils with my name etched on them. My cousins and I spend time every summer at my Grandfather’s house and he has always had towels embroidered with our names on them, and as we got married and had children had towels made for them as well. Later on we spent Christmas there and all of our children’s stockings had their name embroidered on them. It was really something quite simple to do but that little extra effort just made us all feel so special.

The Mabel’s Labels Loot Bag Combo is a great gift at Christmas if you want to go for that personalized touch. The children’s faces just lit up in Haiti, “that’s me!” they would say. Something undeniably belonging to them. This year why don’t you share a personalized gift!

Instead of using a gift tag you can attach a Loot Bag Combo and write who it’s from on the back. If your kids are in sports or Scouts or anything like that it can be expensive getting individual gifts but these are the perfect size and price! Also, great for giving to teachers. Last but not least this little pack of labels is the perfect size for a stocking stuffer!

Can you think of any other creative ways to give labels?

Photo Credit: Our Kids Private School Expos

Meet top PS-12 private and independent schools at Canada’s largest school Expo that is taking place in Oakville, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario!

As a friend of Mabel’s Labels, we are pleased to offer you VIP admission passes for a family of 4, to the upcoming Our Kids Private School Expos.

Chat with school representatives, parents, students and experts face-to-face and learn about many different schools in one day, at one location.

Photo Credit: Our Kids Private School Expos

Find top schools for kids and teens at the Private School Expos:
• Meet the leading PS to 12 private and independent schools
• Attend free information seminars to help you choose and finance your child’s education
• Choose from day or boarding, single-sex or co-ed schools that focus on: arts, sports, education, special needs or an all around academic experience
• Learn about scholarships, bursaries and tax credits
• Speak with current students, staff and heads of schools

Photo Credit: Our Kids Private School Expos

When and Where:

Toronto: Saturday, October 15, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Roy Thomson Hall, Toronto

Oakville: Sunday, October 23, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Oakville Conference Centre–Holiday Inn

To ensure free admission, please use Promo Code: MABEL, when registering online: www.OurKids.net/expo

The 5th Annual, United Way of Burlington and Greater Hamilton CityQuest Challenge was on Saturday, September 24, 2011. CityQuest is presented by the Hamilton International Airport and is a fundraising event to generate funds for at-risk-youth programming in the Burlington and Hamilton communities. The challenge is a city-wide scavenger hunt with teams of four scouring the community to find hidden gems, face fun challenges and try to accumulate as many points as possible to walk away the champions.

Mabel staffers Catherine, Melissa, Diane & Kim worked together as a team and had a blast participating in the challenge! They also did an amazing job of hosting bake sales & rallying friends & family to reach their fundraising goal for the United Way.

Team Mabel had to gather such items as a spare tire, a hard hat, fuzzy dice, eye glasses, movie poster and more! They also had to try to visit as many checkpoints as we could throughout the city. At each stop, they had to answer questions about the location. This Challenge enabled the team to see different parts of our beautiful city, Hamilton.

We are lucky to have Melissa, Diane, Catherine & Kim as part of Team Mabel! Way to go!

- – UPDATE: Congratulations to Lisa Almagro! You are the winner of a Big-Ol-Bag of Swag from Mabel’s Labels! - –

We are very excited to announce that Mabel’s Labels Facebook Page reached the milestone of 30,000 “Likers” today! Special thanks go out to Summer Jew Bowers who was our 30,000^th “Liker”. To celebrate this milestone we have put together a Mabel’s Labels tote bag FULL of Mabel goodies and will be giving it away to one lucky fan.

To get your name in the hat for this awesome bag-o-swag simply leave a comment letting us know where you are from and how you first heard about Mabel’s Labels. The winner will be chosen at random.

Thanks for being a part of The Mabelhood community. It wouldn’t be the same without each and every one of you!

Contest closes Wednesday August 31, 2011 at 12:00pm EST. Winner will be announced on Thursday September 1, 2011.