by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 1, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last weekend was my 20th StampFest Summer (previously known as StampFest Orlando until it moved to Lakeland last year). There have been 21 of them – so I only missed the first one . . . And yet I get occasional glimpses of that first show – yes, this is the...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jun 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
A lot of you remember Amy Harpool from Amy’s Magic – she was on the show circuit for years and made several visits to our store. Amy told me several years ago that she would eventually do shows again, and four weeks ago she and her daughter Ashley had a...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jun 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The most valuable benefit of my travels is the friendships that I treasure – and this story is about some of those. It all began at StampFest Orlando in 1998 – in those days, the show was still at the old Sheraton World on International Drive. We needed a...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jun 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
We start getting calls and e-mails in the spring – “What’s going on in the store the week leading up to the Cincinnati convention?” And we don’t have a clue – at that point, we’re barely working on the schedule for the Spring Spectacular at the end of...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jun 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
In the past four weeks, it feels like I have been everywhere. A weekend in New York . . . Memorial Day Weekend at home . . . a weekend in Massachusetts . . . a side trip to Maryland . . . a weekend in Minnesota. Here I am at home again, with lots of untold...
