Kathy Buckworth is a multiple award winning author, TV personality and public speaker, with numerous publishing credits in both print media and online. kathybuckworth.com.

Scott Stratten is President of un-marketing.com and an expert in viral, social, and authentic marketing. His first book is set to be published this summer.

Erica Ehm is the multi-talented Founder and Editor-in-Chief of yummymummyclub.ca, the online destination for modern moms looking for adult stimulation.

Think you’ve got what it takes?! Write a blog post in response to the following hypothetical situation: Electrical storms are going to wipe out the Internet (perhaps forever). You have one day left to write about your passions: what do you want to say to the blogosphere in 300 words or less? Entries will be received until March 15, with ten finalists notified April 12th and the grand prize winner announced May 1, 2010.

Visit our BlogHer ’10 Contest page for all the exciting details and join the fun!

Mabel’s Labels is running a contest to search for its next blogger. You could win an all expenses paid trip to BlogHer ’10 in New York City, August 6-7^th, 2010 PLUS a 1 year contract as a paid blogger for Mabel’s Labels.

Entries will be accepted until March 15^th 2010. Visit our BlogHer ’10 Contest Page for more exciting details!

Many thanks and a big Mabel smile to everyone who was brave enough to enter our My Messy Room Contest!

It’s not often that messiness has its rewards but in this case one lucky winner is receiving:

An online consultation with Tanna Clark, our in-house organizational expert and owner of Complete Organizing Solutions.

PLUS $250 in Mabel’s Labels products, including our complete line of fabulous Household Labels.

All the entries were awe-inspiring and choosing just one was very tough. After sorting and categorizing and even a little labeling, we worked our way through the entries and are excited to announce that the winner is…Laura Schultz.

This photo of her daughter’s bedroom (possibly) was one many of us could relate to at one time or another. Thanks for sharing Laura! We’re sure that with Tanna and Mabel’s Labels alongside, you’ll be a neat freak in no time!

Didn’t win (or enter) this one? Check out our Bright Idea Contest, and you might win a set of Label Out Loud™ Sticky Labels to light up your wintry days.

To say we are THRILLED to be the recipients of the RBC Momentum award would be an understatement.

Seven years ago we were working through the night in a dingy basement. In those early days, we paid our first web designer not in cash, but in exchange for a foosball table.

Now we are here and our thank yous are many:

First and foremost to Carolyn Lawrence and our friends at Women of Influence, to our esteemed panel of judges, and of course to RBC, the kind sponsors of the Momentum Award. We truly appreciate your support and hard work.

On a personal note, we also want to recognize some people who have been on this journey with us.

1) It seems appropriate to acknowledge our women folk – including a handful of mothers, grandmothers, mothers-in-law and a step-mother. And since the four Mabel partners are related, some of these women have overlapping roles! They have provided wisdom and support to us. Their lives have been remarkable and their love for us unwavering. Let this be the legacy we leave our daughters.

2) Our spouses – known affectionately as ‘the Mabel widowers’. Creating and growing this business would not have been possible without their encouragement and their willingness to watch every family function transform into a strategic planning meeting.

3) Our collective 12 children – who sometimes have to suffer through having mothers who, while having one eye firmly on the soccer field or ice rink, have another eye occasionally straying to her BlackBerry. Our children were our inspiration to start a business, and continue to inspire us in so many ways.

4) The Mabel team – our staff has worked in unconventional spaces with unconventional supervisors. They have suffered through tremendous and challenging growth and change, always remaining positive and keeping the company’s needs their top priority.

5) Our customers – clearly, we love them for buying labels and we quite literally would not be here without them! But in addition to that, our customers are loyal and many have been with us through the years, providing us with feedback, ideas and spreading the Mabel word among their contacts. They have become a part of the Mabelhood community and shaped that community through engaging with us on many different levels.

We four partners have had quite a ride, and throughout it all we have remained a strong sisterhood – four different women who have laughed together, struggled together, raised families together and worked, worked, worked.

We started a business because we chose to live as dynamic business owners, enthusiastic mothers and inspired women. Thank you to the esteemed panel of judges who, by selecting us, showed that you value that choice.

Trust Mabel’s Labels for gifts as fresh (and cool!) as the season. Our personalized labels can include any text at all so let your imagination fly.

With a little creativity, address labels turn into bookplates and gift tags become stylish seals on bags of homemade treats. Kids not fooled by your hand-signed gift labels? Order Holiday Gift Tags from “Santa” to keep the magic alive for even the smartest little sleuths.

Our labels make great stocking stuffers and add-ons to other gifts; tuck some alongside books, DVDs, electronic gear…for more inspiration, please see our holiday gift guide.

Complementing our ever-popular Classic Sticky Labels, Label Out Loud Sticky Labels offer more choice than ever. With 20 fabulous design motifs, striking new colour combos and that famous Mabel’s Labels’ durability, it’s hard not to LOL!

As with all our labels, these are dishwasher/microwave-safe and UV resistant, making them fantastic for toys, water bottles, litterless lunch items and so much more. And thanks to their unbeatable quality, they will stay looking great. What a bright idea!

View all our brilliant new Label Out Loud Sticky Label colours and design motifs at mabel.ca and prepare to be dazzled!

Here is a sneak peek of just a few:

Mabel's Labels Crop Circle

Hamilton, Ontario – October 14, 2009 : A remarkable example of the crop circle phenomena has appeared in a field in Ontario, Canada. Often found in Britain, crop circles are rare in this country, making this sighting particularly notable.

Who or what has left this astonishing design is a mystery but the subject appears to be ‘Mabel’, the mop-haired mascot of leading label company Mabel’s Labels. A company representative, speaking on condition of anonymity, said: “The only cropping I’m familiar with is the cute little scissors tool in my photo editing software. By the way, do you know how to remove grass stains?” Pressed further the spokeperson added “Mabel’s Labels makes labels for the stuff kids lose not labyrinths for kids to get lost in!” Meanwhile, crop circle expert, Cornelius Wheatpacker, believes the image is of extra-terrestrial origin. “Obviously, highly intelligent beings are behind this design” he stated, adding “or not”.