I just wanted to say Thank You to everyone that participated in our Class Kick Off.  We had a fabulous turn out!!  If you did not have a chance to sign up on Sunday the new schedules are ready to be picked up at the store and all of the projects are now on display.  We have “Gift-Type” projects for December, Disney Week in January and some beautiful projects for your loved ones in February.

I also wanted to Thank You to all of our fabulous employees….you out did yourself.  All of our classes are just outstanding!!  Thank you for all of the extra work that you did so we could have a great day….including coming in when you were not scheduled, helping out other employees finish what they could not get done, giving advice to each other so that each project would look beautiful, coming in and cleaning our bathrooms and just taking care of each other in this stressful time….YOU GUYS ARE FABULOUS…I could not ask for better employees and friends!!!…I LOVE YOU LOTS!!!

Anyway…I am done being mushy!!!….its back to work….ha ha. 

You will be able to start collecting Memory Money on the Day after Thanksgiving Sale.  For all of you new people…any purchase that you make starting November 28 - December 23 we will match you in Memory Money.  For the last couple of years we had a silent and a live auction in January that you could then use your Memory Money to bid on the items.  This year we are going to set up a Memory Money Mall….(the best Mall ever)…that you will use your Memory Money to purchase goodies that we have collected throughout the year.  The more Memory Money that you get the more you can spend at the Memory Money Mall.

Have a great week!!
Teri

A little birdie told me that we were really crazy this year!!  We have finalized our plans for the day after Thanksgiving and we have decided that we are really crazy!!!….we are going to be opening at 4:30am….yes I know that is really early, but you are not going to believe the discounts that you will get at 4:30am…as well as first pick to our wonderful kits and pre-made pages….my husband also said that he has something in the works for the first 75 people through the front door…not sure what it is yet (he won’t tell me)….I will keep you all posted as soon as I know.

I hope to see you all this weekend for our Class Kick Off (CKO).

Teri

Another week gone by.  Another week closer to CKO.  We have some awesome classes coming up for the next three months - and some great gifts to make in December.  Class Kick Off is on 11/16 - - please come and see what we have to offer.

 You know, I have seen an upsurge in the desire to craft - let’s expand our scrapbooking knowledge and begin to papercraft - or expand our papercrafting.  We have a class now that is a beautiful Christmas Clock which puts your love of scrapbooking and preserving your family memories together with papercrafting.  It is really cool - and would make a wonderful gift from the heart for someone close to you. 

Come on in and bring your projects to work on during our Scrap&Yak’s on Friday and Saturday night.  We have fantastic Christmas paper and stamps to make wonder Christmas projects.  Call and reserve your spot to make your Christmas cards on November 23rd in our Marathon Christmas Card Class.  Our staff has done an awesome job in designing Christmas cards this year.

So… to everyone that I have seen recently - it’s great to see you.  To those that have not been in when I have been at the store, come see me - - I miss you!! 

 Thanksgiving is only 3 weeks away - let’s remember to count our blessings and remember what we are thankful for!

 See you at the store and God Bless ….. Mom (aka Barb)    

So I got back from my trip on Sunday, and let me tell you, I had so much fun.  I went with my super cool future teacher club.  Not only did I go to a bunch of amazing workshops that taught me super awesome techniques to use in my future class room, I also got to preview the new calculator from Texas Instruments, and I got to go to the Winchester Mystery House for their Halloween flashlight tour. It was my first time going to the Winchester Mystery, and let me just say, it was so cool.  I probably took about 60 pictures just there.  I took way more pictures than I can share with you on here, but when I make my layouts, I will let you all know so you can come in a see. 

Here are a few of them

Me and my VP and Treasurer

Me and my club members out at breakfast

Me excited to go into the exhibit hall

I have been trying to get all of my projects done for our next CKO (class kick off) on November 16th!  Mark your calendars and come see what we have been working on for you! 

Monday night was a fun night here.  We had 2 classes going on , one of our Technique Classes (chipboard) and my Christmas Days album class.  Christmas Days wasn’t on the schedule for that night and well,  a couple of customers really wanted to take it and since it was a little mix up on our part we just quickly set everything up for them and we all had a ball!    Our next Christmas Days Mini Album class is November 12th.  It’s a very cute chipboard album for you to fill with pictures of all the events that go on during the month of December. 

November will be yet another busy month for me besides getting ready for CKO.  My husband and i are having a big bash to celebrate our birthdays.  Woo hoo!  Then the next weekend i am putting on a mother/son dance at our school.  Then it’s time to get ready for Turkey Day!!!!  I like to have it at my house so that we can have the left overs!! 

Tina

Well I had a fabulous vacation this last week.  I guess it was more of a staycation since I stayed at home the whole week and was a Stay at Home Mom….boy did I LOVE that!!  I have never been a stay at home mom, I have always worked and envied those that got to stay home with their kids and boy do I still envy them.  But I have a fabulous store that I absolutely love and I am not going anywhere…except maybe another staycation sometime in the future.

While I was gone Mom and Jeni took really good care of the store and kept things moving a long…I do have to say that I did change things around when I got in yesterday…oops!!

The Slice is back in stock if you are looking for it.  As soon as we sell 1/2 of what we have I will do another order of them.  There was some things on backorder like the bags and some accessories….those will be ordered again and hopefully will come in the next couple of weeks or so.

We did receive some new cardstock called Coredinations.  It is really neat and has black on one side and a color on the other side so you can distress it and the color comes through the black.  I have not had time to play with it yet, but I have seen it and LOVE it!!

Here is a link to their website if you are looking for more information: http://www.coredinations.com/index.cfm

Teri

I am writing a day early because I will not be here tomorrow.  I will be going to a science teacher conference in San Jose and I am so excited.  Although, that does not mean I am ready to go .  When I leave here tonight, I have to pack all of my bags, clean my house, and study for a quiz in the morning.  In the morning, I have to clean my car, take my car for a tire rotation and an oil change, and bring April (my puppy) to Puppy Camp.  I hope that I can get all of that done before I have to go to school.  I will definietely share all of the fun things I saw and learned when I come back next week.  Oh… and of course I will take lots of pictures. 

Album Club members… I hope you will enjoy the page kit I made for you for next week. I am very proud of it.

 I hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween weekend. I want to see the pictures of everyone and their kids in their costumes at the crop next weekend.

 See you all soon.

Kimberly

I’m so sick..cough…cough!!!  Even though i have this yucky cold i actually feel better being around all the new paper, creating, chatting with Jenni and Kim and most of all teaching the alcohol inks class tonight.  I never even heard of alcohol inks until i started working here.  I absolutely love this technique!!!  Tonight was our “Hang it on the tree” class.  We had a blast using the inks on Christmas clear glass balls.  Everyone’s Christmas ornaments came out just beautiful.  The class attendees chose some gorgeous ribbon to match the glass balls.  If you haven’t tried this technique yet, you’re really missing out on all of the most unique gifts you can make this holiday season.  We have another “Hang it on the tree” class on November 19th from 6 to 9 pm.  There is still time to sign up, but do it soon!! 

Besides feeling yucky and getting through all the preparations for Croptoberfest (wow, we had some fun), the month of October has been pretty exciting.  I spent 8 days in Washington DC with my family.  We learned  a lot and have never walked so much in our life!!!!  I also had a birthday…guess how old???…40!!!!  I’m an optimist and i’m just fine with 40!  So there!!

 Tina

Well, I am very happy to say that I am feeling so much better after being sick all week, and just in time for our super fun Croptoberfest weekend! I will be here all night long with all of you night owls.  We will have a great time.  Any of you who feel like shopping for scrapbook stuff in the middle of the night, or just want to come and keep me company, are more than welcome to come on in, we will be open all night long.

 If anyone wants to come and see a demo of the NEW Making Memories SLICE, you should come in and ask me to do a demo.  I love this new little machine and I am sure all of you will love it too.  

Lastly, do you remember all of those adoreable kits we had in our seasons and family album classes? Well, right now I am working on preparing all of those kits so that by this weekend we will have them all out for sale.  I know that you are all excited about that.

-Kimberly

Yeah!! I’m doing my first blog ever!  I only have a few minutes but i just wanted to let everyone know how excited i am about Croptoberfest!!  I have been really busy gettin’ some super fun stuff for you all.  I can’t wait to see you all this weekend.

Tina