Scrapbooks & Stuff Blog

GREAT NEW PAPER!

We just got in a shipment of Moxxie paper, mostly double-sided patterns in many themes...

Bridal, Honeymoon, Anniversary, Circus, Zoo, Cruise, Halloween, Tea Party, Baby and more!!!

Scrappin' Dude

I was pleasantly surprised to see Adrian in my In Stitchz class today! Adrian has been a long time customer and has taken many classes including SDU over the years. It's nice to see a guy in the store scrapping!

I had a nice class of 12 students today. Everyone loved the Bazzill Stitchz templates. If you have not tried them yet you don't know what you're missing!

Memory Road

As I was trying to figure out what to blog about, I looked up at the wall and saw an old HS photo of Kobi and me from 1984! We used to go through a LOT of hairspray, can u tell?! The photo was part of our original window display when we first opened the store nearly 8 years ago.

Paint & Scrap Was a Blast!

So this morning we had our big Paint & Scrap Mom & Me class, with our neighbors Art Thyme Pottery Studio.  The class was a big success, we painted family tree themed platters and took lots of photos.  After the painting, we went over to to our place and scrapped an art themed page to put all the photos we took.  The kids and moms all had a great time! 

Meanwhile, our AC was broken since last night, and I am happy to report that we are nice and cool again!  Our excellent landlord Doug and adorable AC guy Mark got us up and running by about 3pm.  Not to mention my fab husband Oscar who drove across town from his folks house to bring fans for the crop room and front counter. 

Leinad's Little Sofia!

So Leinad had her baby and she is a darling little girl named Sofia.  Mom and baby are both doing great.  Just wanted to share with everyone!

Sassafras Lass is finally here!!!

  OMG!  Two awesome collections from Sassafras Lass arrived and we finished putting them out last night!  Fawnd of You, Too and Happy Place.  My favorite thing...all papers are double sided, and the strip that has the barcode for us to scan, well when you turn the paper around, it doubles as a border for your pages that you can cut off!  LOVE IT!!!

FREE 8x8 Albums!

OK, so if you did not read the newsletter and you're more of a blog kinda gal, we just wanted to let you know about the FREE ALBUM SPECIAL!  While supplies last, and they're going fast...when you spend $50 in the store you will get a FREE 8x8 pink colorbok album!  These are great albums and they can also be embossed with our machine!  Hurry up before they are all gone!

Plastic Bags, ugh.

 

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You guys have GOT to watch this slideshow on the impact of plastic bags.  I'm really not a forwarding email kinda person, but this one is a major exception.  Josi V., a longtime customer, just shared it with me by email this morning, and I think it just changed my life.  Check out this photo of a beautiful proud egret completely shrouded in plastic bags except for his beak and feet, how heartbreaking is that?  Not to mention the other seals, dolphins, birds, and other wildlife you'll see caught up in various messes.  I learned alot about how hopelessly expensive it is to recycle bags.  The only real solution is to just stop using them, and to switch to cloth.  Now of course, as a store owner, I have to provide bags to shoppers, but realize that there is a major cost both ecologically and financially.  Can you believe I spend about 4K a year on 2 HUMONGOUS shipments of bags?  So, if you can, try to bring a cloth bag, or bring a S&S bag back in to reuse.  We are proud of the recycling program we have for our bags, but the truth is only a small fraction come back. ~Lisa

Read All About It!

Out of the blue yesterday, I got a call from a Miami Herald reporter asking if she could sit in on a class for an upcoming story on scrapbooking! So this morning one very pleasant Michelle Hammontree showed up to interview, photograph, and observe our students in action. Pascale led the class in the Orange Layout, a beautiful monochromatic layout featuring ric rack, Stickles, and flowers. Michelle told us the story would be running some time during the first week of October, so keep an eye out!

Heidi Grace Halloween

Hot off the press, here's our newest sample page using the super-adorable Heidi Grace Halloween collection! This is THE collection for my Trick-or-Treat shots this year! Ooh, and I used that Cats Eye ink wand to ink the edges, and I have to say wow, what a cool tool.
Lisa