Stick Me Designs | Stylishly Functional Diabetes Accessories

How many times as a diabetic have you heard a friend or even a stranger say “hey should you be eating that? I mean because you’re a diabetic?” Or how ’bout this one, “so did you get diabetes because you ate tons of sugar? Yup you’ve probably heard these and countless other comments from maybe well-meaning folks, but would care to not.  

How fabulous would it be if maybe you could say something without really ’saying’ anything at all. What if you could educate the many people you see everyday with a t-shirt that educates people about diabetes. Or what if you could be brutally honest without offending anyone?  

Stick Me Tees are here for you to do just that!  While there are many funny and cute tees for cancer awareness and other notable causes you don’t too often see tees for educating or informing others about diabetes.  And with so many people being diagnosed or loving someone close to them being diagnosed I had to wonder, what gives? Why isn’t anyone trying to speak their mind about diabetes, or trying to educate people with a smartly phrased t-shirt? 

So with the help of my wonderful Facebook Fans, I’ve come up with some tees that are sure to start pushing a message of humor, education and maybe just a bit of sarcasm all in good fun and all with a definite purpose. To give you a voice and to be heard! Check out our first designs!

~Got Insulin is available for pre-order now~

~This one is a big favorite~

Well we’ve been MIA, dontcha know! So I wanted to check back in with my blog readers and give you the latest scoop. Well lots of family stuff has found it’s way into my blog, business, social time. My youngest son fractured his little wrist. Poor lil guy’s only 3 and he’s been so good about it.  We had to take him to patient first and they put this tiny little cast on his arm, and now we’re scheduled for a orthopedics follow up this week to see if it is a continuing break or just a buckle fracture. 

And then my hubby had to leave for a while for the Navy, which is always so hard because then I have to run  everything and that in most cases means that my ’social’ stuff for SMD get’s put on the back burner, but rightfully so I think. My little guys needed me and I happily put them first. 

So now that we’re working to getting back to normal, I’m chiming in to let you know what’s been going on here.  

We’ve been invited to casting calls for two ‘mompreneur’/ inventor shows one from ABC, and the other from TLC! Yeah I know right two?? Go figure, so in between filling orders, tending to injured little ones, dinner, laundry, web stuff, work and a zillion other things I’ve been putting together casting videos on why I HAVE Need to be on these upcoming shows!  Just an appearance would be a huge boost to the SMD awareness and that would be a huge blessing. 

So yup that about sums it up. Thanks to all of our new customers who have found us~ Please help spread the word about Stick Me Designs - The place for modern, stylish diabetes accessories*

Well the time has come to finally announce our winner for the Diabetes Gear Giveaway!  I’d like to thank everyone who commented and shared with us all the heart-warming stories of why they should win, and who they nominated to win.

But by far the most comments came in for a little girl named Sydney! So congratulations Sydney you’ve won the $125 Diabetes Gear Giveaway!   The comments just kept a comin’ in for this brave, courageous little girl who has just recently been diagnosed with diabetes. Her will and such strength has touched so many lives, that we felt it was a nice way to say keep at it, and don’t ever give up!

So CONGRATULATIONS SYDNEY, YOU DESERVE IT!

So I read somewhere that a great way to get some ‘guerilla’ type buzz and awareness about your company is to give things to the people you admire the most or want to attract ! So I thought heck why not, so here goes.

Stick Me Designs is starting a Diabetes Gear Giveaway that is truly a Fabulous Win for the lucky winner.  Are you living with diabetes or love someone who does well check this contest out.

First here’s the Prize Pack!

**A Complete Switch Me Messenger Diabetes Bag - value $86.00

**A Stick Me Designs Deluxe Case - value $36.99

**A Bio Flip for on the go used test strip disposal - value $5.00

Total Value = over $125

Now How YOU can get it:

1)Leave a comment here about why you think you should win.

2)If you’re on Twitter -
*Follow Me  - ( you get double props for this one
*you can @stickmedesigns me and tell me why you should win.
*you can post or re-tweet on your page about the contest - hey ask for nominations from your followers, or just tweet about the giveaway
*you can even nominate someone who deserves it - maybe a newly diagnosed friend

3) Be creative and have fun with your whys, or nominations!  And flattery always you gets you everything

Winner to be Announced 2 weeks from today April 3, 2009

Happy Commenting and Tweeting!

Have you come here because you’re tired of carrying around a black medical-looking diabetes case?  Fabulous we’re here to get you into a wonderfully fresh and fun to carrying around case that you’ll be happy to keep with you and not ashamed to whip out to test your blood sugar!  We’ve just added two new designs ‘Hibiscus Poppy’ and ‘Hibiscus Skye’ two very playful and exciting additions to our Spring ‘09 collection.

And we’ve even sweeten up the deal pot for you! These two brand new designs will be available at the ‘Recession-Stimulous-Buster’ price of $29.99! But just for a bit, just long enough to let all of you who want to grab both designs! 

After all my blabbing and the “I’m so excited” hoopla I’ve been going on and on about and draining your ears and eyes with, our diabetes messenger bags and D-Mates are finally here in all their complete glory.

Yes folks the last component to our Switch Me Messenger bag the D-mate clutch arrived today and it couldn’t have come at a better time.  And I can personally attest to all the painstaking work our contractors were busily doing, at times working into the wee crack of dawn hours to help us get these babes out to you guys.

I’m so greatful for all that they have done for us, and that I can now share what we’ve been working on for so long with you.  A stylish, modern and of course functional bag that can totally change the way it looks just by ’switching out’ the designer flaps.

And because it is anyway, a messenger bag for pwd, the D-Mate Clutch is what will set our messengers apart from other diabetes bags. Not to mention that once you buy your Switch Me Messenger, you’re D-Mate clutch is included and all you have to do then is grab some flaps.  Which I will tell you now that while there is only 4 available currently, we have over 21 designs lined up to be trickled out — gotta keep you thirsty for more and coming back!

What we’ve set out to accomplish when designing this messenger was to create a diabetes bag that could:

1) We wanted our messenger bag to be useeful to many different people thriving, living and loving somone with with diabetes. Like parents of little diabetics, busy errand runners, daily commuters, corporate motivators, and/or anyone who wants a bit of modern style with their diabetes messenger bag.

2) A bag that could be used by both men and women with the right designer features and elements. Hence the idea to switch the flap to allow a masculine look or a feminine look.

3) And lastly (but not really) a way to stretch your budget a bit so that you can keep your bag fresh and full of life without scouring for a costly bag every time you get a crazy whim to do so.  One that will satisfy all of your needs to keep your supplies organized and always close at hand, but look good while doing so.  It also needed to be easily luggable(is that a word?) when completely full but not look like you’re carrying the kitchen sink, when in reality you just might be.

We think we’ve accomplished these very important points that people with diabetes have expressed to us over the past year and a few more we can’t think of now, but are sure you’ll let us know once you get one for yourself.

So enough with the gibber jabber. Go look for yourself!

With so many creative ways to go green we figured we would try to
incorporate some of those ways into our company mission.  
The first step isn’t a huge one but it is a step in the green direction.  
We will be retiring our cellophane wrapping of our cases, to wrapping
them in gorgeous re-claimed paper ribbons!  We loved the look so
much that we thought we’d share the first round of cases being
shipped out this week to some lucky customers.  So each case is
still ready to give as a gift or ready to keep for yourself, just in a
greener kinda way.
 

Here’s your dilemma:

You love Valentine’s Day.
You love your Sweetie
But candy and flowers are just overrated and old.  How can you tell your gift-getter you’d like something a little more useful this year, without huring their feelings and doing it in a unique fun way? Do so with a Nudge Your Sweetie email from us! 

Basically you make a wish list of your fave things from Stick Me Designs. Shoot us an email with that list, and your Sweetie’s email address and we’ll send them a nudge ie a link to your wish list and a discount code to checkout with!  Problem Solved. 

Want us to Nudge Your Sweetie? Contact Us and put NYS in the subject line!  But hurry if you wanna get your goodies by Valentines day!

Who knew that people with diabetes still want to express their personality and still be stylish.  I mean it’s rubbish to think that just because you have diabetes, that you suddenly want to give up your sense of style or who you were before right? OF COURSE IT IS! So why settle for a boring black nylon bag when you can have fresh, colorful and functional all in one fabulous case, designed exclusively for people with diabetes.

The wait is over and 2 of our 5 new Deluxe carrying  cases are now available at our shop.  Pink Olive & Sarengetti.  Both bold and fun and of course functional.  Our cases can hold most meters on the market not to mention your finger pricker, test strips and our exclusive Bio Flips that allow you to keep those pesky test strips contained while on the go.

We’ve got lots of fabulous plans for this upcoming year, why don’t you hop on over to Twitter and follow us or join our Sentinel so you’ll definitely know everything. (well not everything but all the good stuff anyway)

So two of the 5 new styles from our Spring ‘09 collection are set to arrive by Wednesday February 4th.  *yay* So what does this mean? Well, first we’ll preview fabric swatches here, you can see those right below this post…ok go ahead look now…I’ll wait*

Ok you’re back cool.  From what we’ve seen from previous collection launches, our styles tend to sell out pretty quickly…so what is a style-forward gal to do?  Well you follow us on Twitter:stickmedesigns. Or you can opt to pre-order yours today!  That’s right pre-ordering is now open. Occasionaly we open-up pre-ordering for those who are following us on Twitter, or who have subscribed to our Sentinel.

So how do you pre-order?  Easy peasey. You can:

1) Send us a direct PayPal payment to info [at] stickmedesigns [dot] com for $38.99 (And we’ll even pay for your shipping   **Did you see that…following us here or on Twitter has its perks…yay perks**

2) Or you can simply shoot us an email at the email address we just gave you and we can accept your credit card payment over the phone.

Or if you’d like to wait till Wednesday that’s cool too.  We hope you enjoy these colorful and style-forward additions…and don’t forget there are 3 more styles to come…

Oh and in case you’re wondering…what the heck do these bags look like? Head on over to our ‘Retired Collection’ page and see. Our designs haven’t changed but the style always does….