Tidbits

Monday: Get to Know Jana and Her Wormies!

Tuesday: Learn more about Jana’s Journey of Her Wormy Business!

Wednesday: Read about Jana’s Passion Perspective Interview and her faith has played a part of the journey of developing her Wormy business!

Thursday: Real Reviews from Real Moms on why Wormies are so great for their kids!

And the winner is…

KIM RAY!!! You won a WORMY!!

And guess what…We have another winner…

ALINA SHAPOVAL!!! You won a WIGGLE WORMY!!!

You will be receiving an email soon with directions on how to customize your wormy or wiggle wormy!! We hope you all enjoyed our Wormies by Jana Passion Perspective!

If you did not win our Wormies by Jana Giveaway, you can go order your customized Wormy and/or Wiggle Wormy here!

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“When it comes to finding that special little something to give to a precious newborn baby [& older!], Wormies are your best bet! I’ve ordered several of these original and custom wormies as gifts for baby showers, young birthday parties and even Christmas. Jana does such an amazing job coordinating with you to best customize each individual Wormy. She focuses on the small details from color and pattern themes, to the style or personality of the young one, and especially each Wormies’ hand embroidered face and child’s name on the bottom. Each of these details help create a unique wormy to perfectly represent the child you are gifting! I recently contacted Jana to create two more Wormies for some special baby boys in Kona, and I can’t wait to see the first time they play with their very own Wormies! The best feeling is when the mother sends you a picture of their child at older ages, still clinging tight to their playful and cuddly Wormy.” (Kayla Jones)

 

“I have purchased many Wormies from Jana over the past years.  They are the perfect gift to give at a baby shower or even a first birthday.  Wormies are soft and the perfect size for a baby to hold and cuddle!  Jana always puts together the perfect colors and patterns, and she even embroiders the child’s name onto the Wormy’s tail piece.  They are one of a kind gifts for sure!  If you know anyone with young children, get them a Wormy!” (Jillian Albert)

“Ellie’s wormie was her favorite tummy time toy. It was so soft and easy to grab. She loved to look at the little face, and I never had to worry about her putting it in her mouth because the face was sewn on and everything was very

Jana has a deep abiding faith in Jesus Christ. Her faith permeates every aspect of her life. For her Passion Perspective Interview we asked her how her faith has played a part of the journey of developing her Wormy business?

“In the summer of 2011, I was going to Egypt and Israel for Sports Ministry through the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA), running sports camps for youth, majority of who were Muslim.  Our job was to provide coaching and encouragement to these youth, sharing Christ’s love without being able to mention Christ at all.  As I was planning, I tried to think of more creative ways to generate financial support.  After some thinking and bouncing ideas off of a few good friends, I decided to jump in head first and begin selling Wormies.  I had been thinking about how much that I loved to make Wormies, but honestly really nervous about trying to sell them.  I was ultimately scared of people’s responses and thought that I might actually fail.  The funny thing is that the exact opposite happened, I suddenly had way more orders than I ever would have imagined, and I was making Wormies like crazy that summer before I left.  Because I got such a great response, I decided to continue selling Wormies even after I got back, and have been going ever since.”

Jana at FCA Camp at UCLA as a Huddle Leader

We asked what challenges, expected and unexpected, she faced while developing her business. Jana has been extremely busy with school and coaching over the past few years, so she replied, “I knew at one point that I would have too many orders or too much to do than I had time for at one point. I did not expect that I would be taking …

A favorite part of our Passion Perspective week is to find out how our guest turned a dream into a reality by taking something she loved and turning it into a business. Before we begin Jana’s story, you must see one of her Wormies so you will understand how easy it would be for children of ALL ages to fall in love with these adorable toys.

We asked Jana about her original passion and how and when this passion began.
Jana shared with us how she originally began sewing after her mom taught her when she was in elementary school and she remembers her mom telling her of the Wormies that she made for all of her friends who were having babies. Jana said, “When I was in college, I asked my mom if we could make Wormies for a cousin of ours who was having twins, and it was then that she fully taught me how to make Wormies so I could start making them without her help. After more people around me began having babies and I received such praise for the Wormies that I was gifting, I went out on a whim and decided to first start selling them to raise money for a mission trip that I was going on. When I received such favorable support and encouragement for Wormy orders, I decided to continue to sell them and absolutely loved finding the perfect patterns and colors to match each order and bring excitement and enjoyment to those receiving the Wormies.” Jana officially started her Wormy business in april 2011.

We asked Jana what steps she had to take to make her dream a reality and she said,
“When I first had the idea, I bounced it off of a few people to see whether or …

This week Growing Weisser has the awesome privilege of introducing you, our followers, to the extremely talented Jana McAdams.

BETHANY WRITES…..”Jana has been a blessing in mine and my family’s lives ever since meeting her in 2009. I was on staff with Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. Every summer FCA does a big Sports Camp where hundreds of high school athletes come have an amazing experience of sports and Jesus. It was my first year on staff, and I was excited, but also a little nervous for my first camp experience. Big camp, new people, UCLA campus (big deal) and anticipation of pouring in to my group of college athletes (I was their counselor/mentor to be there for them as they lead their group of kids through the camp). Little did I know I was about to meet some of my life long friends at this camp. Jana was one of my huddle leaders as we called them (college-aged leaders for the kids). We instantly clicked, but as I got to know her I saw such an amazing woman of God, a sincere heart, and a genuine desire to serve the Lord. A lot of college aged guys or gals are just living it up in their own world and their own experience. But Jana was already on the path to grow deep and closer with the Lord. That’s the way Jana is, she knows who she is, who the Lord created her to be, and she is able to be right where the Lord has her. I had an amazing time getting to know her that week, but it has been cool to see the Lord continue to show up in and through our lives and our friendship. I continued to spend …

One Line A Day. Can I carve out a few minutes of my night before I go to bed to write down a line about my day? I received this really awesome present from a friend for Christmas. Now some of you may look at this and think it is crazy, but for me, I love it! A way to track my memories within my crazy life and my spaghetti brain. (Yes, I have a spaghetti brain that everything runs together and connects together like a big bowl of spaghetti… I will have to post more about this disease later). Anyways, it has been a really cool way for me to reflect just a little bit each day. And I love looking back on what has already happened on this year. So just imagine what it will be like when I look back on a few years.

Here is what it looks like on the inside.

Everyone can use something like this. Whether you are a mom, a student, a businesswoman, a blogger, or anyone for that matter, this can be a cool tool to keep your memories and daily thoughts all in one place, over a time span of 5 years! So you don’t like to journal and you barely have time to sit down and eat a meal, you might want to give this a try. Find a way to incorporate the reflection into your day and the impact could be irreplaceable.

You can buy them here:
Urban outfitters
Amazon
Barnes and Noble

Real Simple even promotes this journal! Real Simple Article

How do you track your memories?

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Recently, my friend started a book club and invited me to join her. We have similar interest in books and I was excited to have someone motivate me to start reading. We picked a book, set a date, and started reading. Needless to say, we loved our book so much that not only did we finish it in record time before our meeting, we finished the whole series!

We decided to meet for pedicures to get pampered on our “date” to discuss our book. It was an amazing afternoon. We just talked about our opinions and realized at the end of our time we hadn’t mentioned our kids once. Of course we love our kids, but sometimes mommies need a break.

I would encourage everyone to start or join a book club. There are online book clubs, but I think the benefits of sharing time with someone better manifest if you are face to face.

Our book club is very informal. We are just choosing a book and a time to get together to discuss it. Your club can be whatever you want it to be. Here are a few resources about starting a book club that I found online. (Of course I had to include Oprah)

Lit Lovers

Oprah

Happy Reading!

Are you in a book club? Do you have any recommendations for making our little book club successful?

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A few friends and I just recently threw a baby (Ba-BEE) Shower for one of our closest friends, who is pregnant with their first child! It was BEE themed and so much fun to plan! As we are all wives of med/vet students, we are all on quite tight budgets, requiring us to be creative which ended up making the shower unique and a lot of fun!

Here are a few steps to have a great party on a tight budget:

1. Use printable decorations. This will save you money and will also serve as the fun, colorful decor, allowing you to use solid color paper products which is another money saver.

I found these great bee-themed decorations online. I printed and created the signs with card stock and twine, and I used more card stock to make DIY paper flowers on small dowels. We used TING bottles (a popular Grenadian soda) and wrapped twine around them to look like bee hives.

2. Have a DIY photo booth!

Our Mommy-to-BEE does not know what she is having, so we created a photo booth to let our guests guess the gender of Baby S with some fun props!

3. Ask friends to help with food. And/or find a friend who can make and decorate a cake to go with your theme!

We planned the party to be in the early afternoon which allowed us to have light snacks and desserts. As soon as we sent out the invitation, we were already getting asked how our guests could help with the party! We decided that we could use the most help with food! We had friends bring peanut butter & honey sandwiches (The Sweet & Salty), Homemade pretzels with chocolate (Stinger Stix), “The garden” of veggies and dip, as well as …