12 years ago, I had the most spectacular wedding. Just yesterday, I was reminded by a foreigner that my wedding was the best wedding that she’d attended *smiles with glee*. She was not the only person who shared that sentiment and that gives me assurance that everyone who attended my wedding that day had a jolly excellent time. Perhaps ex-boyfriends were not feeling as jolly but that is why they are ex. Heh.

My beloved mother, who was so excited that her first born and only girl was getting married, toiled for months before September 2001, sewing the above teddy bears from scratch. We had bought loads of coloured felt, embroidery thread of all colours and ribbons to tie around the teddies necks and sequins and beads for the eyes. Mom had some little elf helpers in her teddy team and I loved it. The home would be filled with teddies in progress, teddy jokes and laughter, teddy cursings but lots of teddy love and we had printed just over 200 name tags for the teddies as wedding favours. What would anyone want with a little teddy, one might ask? They were meant to be potpourri scented squishies to be placed in your underwear drawers or wherever you saw fit. I loved those teddy bears and wish and wish and WISH I had kept some.

On wedding day, they were all taken home but I KNOW that many people were not appreciative of it and would have just chucked it into the bin or somewhere else and then forgotten as some normally do with wedding favours but these were favours that were hand sewn from scratch full of love. Do you know how many months my mother slaved over teddy bears till she was all teddy beared out??? She said she didn’t want to see a teddy bear for the next 10 years!!!

So yeah. I loved my wedding teddy bears. If you attended my wedding and still have my wedding teddy bear, if you do not have a use for it, can I please have it back? My kids saw this picture and asked why I did not save any for them!

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.