Conversations with an automated phone greeting

Whew October was a busy month! We were so busy shipping out orders - we haven't had a chance to blog. Thank you all of our customers for making Halloween 09 season so succesful!

I had to call our health insurance company today. It has one of those automated and interactive greeting service. Gone are the days where you press 1 for yes and 2 for no. Instead the greeter "listens" to your voice commands. I found out the hard way that any background noise confuses the greeter. As usual I was multi-tasking and trying to make myself and my toddler lunch. I was frying perogies at the stove. Apparenty the greeter didn't like the frying sound. It kept telling me "I'm sorry I did not understand you". Um, I wasn't talking. So I moved away from the stove. I impatiently wait as the greeter goes through the list of my choices. Say one for blah, blah, say TWO for blah, blah, blah. None of these choices were why I was caling. Then my toddler chimes in his 2 cents from the background and the greeter goes crazy. "I'm sorry I can't understand you." And it kept repeating that over and over - sometimes interupting itself to start over when my toddler launched his new string of sounds.

The advantage? Finally the greeter gave up and said 6 little magic words "I'm transferring you to an agent." FINALLY - I can talk to a REAL person! LOL

Lesson learned? Next time I am in the situation of being forced to talk to an automated greeter, I will either A) put my toddler on the phone - he gets results. Or B) I will just jabber like my toddler until I get desired results!

Princess Doll Dress Giveaway Winner is...

Sharlee from Candy Bar Wrappers 4 U is our winner! Congratulations Sharlee! Winner was picked using Random.org generator with comment #19:

Sharlee said...
Following your blog:-)

sharleeritz@gmail.com

October 9, 2009 10:12 PM

I have sent Sharlee an email with all the details. She has 4 business days to reply or a new winner will be picked! Thank you all for hopping with us during My SEO Gal's first blog hop! Check back soon - we plan to do more of these!

Halloween Costumes for Kids for less then 20.00!

Welcome all blog hoppers! If you are here for the blog hop giveaway - you can enter in the next post down or by clicking here.

We have lots of Halloween costumes priced at just 19.99! Some of them with FREE SHIPPING! You can't go wrong for 20.00 bucks, especially with our costumes, since we hand select our costumes from manufacturers who make the very best. Your 20.00 investment will last long after Halloween night, in play value for the kids! Kids love to dress up and not just on Halloween! Now lets get right to the list of the costumes that are 20.00 or less. Ones marked with a * SHIP FREE!


*Kids Camouflage Solider Costume - Show your American pride in this costume!


*Sleeping Beauty - Such a beautiful gown, any little Princess fan would love to have!


SWAT Uniform - Can you imagine your little man running around the house in this?


Girls Lady Bug Costume - Just as cute as a bug! Fits most 3-8 year olds.


Girls Bumble Bee Costume - Buzz, buzz! Your little girl will be adorable in this!


*Indian Girl Costume - Adorable little indian girl costume, size 12-24 months.


Cat in the Hat - Isn't this precious? Size 6-12 months.


I'll be adding more, so keep checking back. And of course just browse around our Milo's Creations website for our entire selection of great costumes!

First Blog Hop Giveaway Prize

We are participating in My SEO Gal's first blog hop. For our giveaway we are giving away a Princess Doll Dress! You can view them here. And here are a few pictures of them below.




These Princess doll dresses match our princess dresses perfectly! They fit most all dolls or stuffed animals up to 18" tall. They fit American Girl dolls too!

We'll choose the doll dress from one of the dresses you'll find here and pick a winner randomly on October 22nd. The winner will have 3 days to respond with their mailing address, so be sure to leave your email in your comments or have a way for us to ocntact you on your blog.

Open to US and Canada addresses only.

Ways to enter:

For 1 Entry each:

Visit Milo's Creations and then come back here and leave a comment of which product you like best!

Fan us on Facebook

Follow our blog with google friend connect (on left sidebar)

For 2 Entries, leave two seperate comments.

Add our button to your blog sidebar.

Tweet about our website on twitter. Leave the tweet link in your comment post.

Mention our site on your facebook wall or your business page.

Blog about our website Milo's Creations and leave the link to the post in your comment.

Come Hop with us during our first Blog Hop!

Hippity hop, lets go blog hopping! We are teaming up with My SEO Gal and nearly 50 other bloggers on October 7th to bring you some great prizes and meet some new friends along the way!

Here are the details:
Starts October 7th and runs until October 21st. Check back on Monday October 7th to see what prize we are giving away! Want to join in? See below for full details.

Happy October!

October is here! Only 30 more days left until Halloween! Have you found your costume yet? If not head on over to Milo's Creations to pick out one today! We have costumes for boys, girls and adults!

Maybe you already have your costume? What about accessories? Accessories can really make your costume stand out from the rest. We have princess shoes, princess headbands, elbow length gloves and cloaks! Our cloaks are the perfect finishing touch for many costumes and they keep you warm on cold Halloween nights without covering up your costume! Happy October everyone!

I think I have Crafters ADD

Hello, my name is Cheryl and I am a craft addict. I think I have Crafter's ADD. I have so many projects that I have started, because I just had to see what the final results would be. But before I could get that project finished - Inspiration struck. And so I started another project.

To my defense, I get interrupted A LOT. Its part of being a mom. I'll just settle down to crochet some longies for my son and someone spilled milk on the floor while they were trying to be "independent". Or I'll be supervising my 4 year old during his bath and a great idea will pop in my head. I'll get started on it that night after everyone is in bed. I get it half finished and I'm about to crawl into bed exhausted and my 15 month old wakes up screaming in the night. While I am rocking him back to sleep - I think of yet another great idea.

And so it goes. I'm not lucky enough to have my own craft room, where I could shut the door and keep my craft projects from curious, "helpful" hands. Some day I will strike it rich and when I do, I'm having a craft room that will be mine, all mine! Ha, ha ha. One that you need a secret access code to enter and maybe it will have to read your thumbprint to make sure you are not a imposer. Hmmm, maybe I have been hanging around my 9 year old too much? LOL.