by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
My best memory from Saturday at the Grapevine show deserves a post all to itself. It started within a few minutes after the show started, with a customer checking out at my register who announced that she didn’t need a bag for her purchase. She was...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is New Release Season – we find out about new releases almost every day. If you see something that you think we should be carrying, please take the time to let us know. Most of the best new product ideas come from our customers. Sometimes I have known...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
I am in Collinsville, Illinois (home of the world’s biggest “catsup” bottle – which I assume is different from the world’s biggest “ketchup” bottle) this weekend. To say this has been a crazy week would be an understatement . . . It started on...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
It started on Monday with the first “sneak peek” from Tim Holtz and will run for the next couple of weeks – the Summer New Releases. That doesn’t always mean you can get them right away – but it always means that you can place advance orders and then we’ll get...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
You can probably tell from the heading that you’re getting everything but the kitchen sink today (but you will be getting something from the bathroom). Let’s get started . . . This actually came out on Wednesday morning – but we didn’t know it until late...