July has certainly been a busy month for us! About two weeks ago we attended Toy Insider’s Sweet Suite Blogger Bash in New York city. It was truly an amazing experience, and gave us the opportunity to meet so many interesting people of all ages; from bloggers to traditional media reporters. Since I am writing to you from where I live in Barcelona, our creator (my creator as well because she’s my mother) Loretta and her dear friend Leslie took on the task of holding court at the My Sibling My Pal table during the event. However, getting to the finish line of the event wasn’t a walk in the park because we are such a small company. There was no team of event planners in black t-shirts to help us transport all of our products or to help us with the other preparations needed before the big night. In fact, my mom Loretta and my brother Danny took a road trip from New Jersey out to Long Island a week before the event to personally deliver the swag that we would be giving away during Blogger Bash.

Speaking of swag, we had plenty of it! My mother was able to recruit everyone from friends and family to help her make 400 bracelets that were given away during Sweet Suite that read “Peace begins with me”. We were inspired to put this phrase on our giveaway item because it comes from our favorite character My Pal for Peace’s booklet that teaches about being a peacemaker. The bracelets were given out during the event in hopes of spreading the word to as many people as possible about who we are as a company and the values that we hope to teach young people through our dolls. We feel so grateful to have been given the opportunity to participate in an event as exciting as Sweet Suite, and can’t wait to go next year! Check out these great photos of Loretta and Leslie working the crowd. We are so excited to see what the future holds and to keep in contact with all the great people that we have formed relationships with thanks to Blogger Bash and The Toy Insider. Check out our photos from the event!