Whew, reviews are posted. Order is a titch funky however, so please forgive. With any luck we’re on track for the week and can now check into a local hotel to get a little respite from the heat, we aren’t kidding. Oregonians (especially those who are 8 months pregnant) just can’t cope with 100 degree weather, we aren’t accustomed. And though some folks do have central air, we’re not among them. It’s rarely necessary here. Happy reading and we’ll be back with new reviews on Monday. Look for sneak peeks on our facebook page.

It’s been quite the week for cleeo & bea. We experienced a server outage and it’s over 100 degrees in Portland. Needless to say, we’re a bit cranky and are now having issues posting all of our reviews scheduled for this week. It may take a little bit of time to solve this new problem, but we’re working on it. So sorry for the delay. We’re sad that such things happen beyond our control. If only we could be in control of everything… Just wanted to let you know we haven’t given up on this week’s reviews. We have some darn good ones, so with any luck we’ll get them published soon. Don’t forget about the puj promo, 20% off entire purchase at pujbaby.com with promo code CleeoBea20 and our two giveaways are going strong, only a few days left to become an e-mail subscriber and be entered to win a $20 gift certificate to Milagros.

As promised, here it is. Our first-ever subscriber drawing and giveaway. Hooray. Become a subscriber by entering your e-mail in the right column of our blog and automatically be entered in a drawing to win a framed Ashley G print. We love Ashley G and want to share the love with our subscribers. We’ll be drawing one lucky winner’s name on Friday, May 22nd and will let them know via e-mail that they’ve won. This print will look great in any kid’s room, or anywhere else for that matter. It measures 8.5″ x 11″ and is neatly framed in a black frame. We wish we could keep it for ourselves, it’s that cute. Sign-up and good luck. 

Just a little note about subscribership. We post reviews weekly, usually Monday mornings, which means you’ll be receiving several reviews, in one feed, at one time. Occasionally, we’ll post two times a week, if we’ve found a product that we must rate and talk about, or if there is something particularly important to share with you, like the announcement of this drawing. Otherwise, one e-mail delivered to your inbox, once a week.

Hooray, we are officially into our second week of posting, so we thought we’d write a short report of our first week’s stats. We are happy to report that last week went really well. We had just under 200 visitors to our blog and about 500 page views. Yippee. We also can now be found on these websites: Urban Mama’s, Kirtsy, Bust’s girl wide web and the Mom Blog Network. We are working on spreading the word, so hopefully you’ll be seeing us everywhere, soon.

We found a few glitches in the blog layout last week, so if you’re experiencing any issues when viewing cleeo & bea, our apologies and we’re working on it. We’ve also come up with some things we can add to make our posts even better, so we’ll be making some minor improvements in the coming weeks.

We have just under 10 e-mail subscribers, but we’d love more. If you sign-up in the right column, you’ll get e-mails sent to your inbox every Monday, or any time we post new material. If you’re busy and don’t have time to visit the blog, becoming a subscriber will be great for you. We only post once or twice a week, so your inbox won’t be overflowing with mail from cleeo & bea, but if we have something to tell you, like you’ve won a prize for being a truly exceptional person, this is how we’ll inform you.

We’re going to continue to post sneak peeks to our facebook page weekly to let everyone know what’s coming the following week, too, so keepa watchin’. And as always, feedback is welcomed, so don’t be shy.

vintage report card