If your family is like mine, we do the Thanksgiving meal at lunchtime.  Then we have time between that and desserts with my brother’s family in the evening.  How to fill that time wisely depends on the individual – there is (of course) football, or visiting,...

Spent the weekend in “Half Hot, Half Cold, Gets Dark Way Too Early, But Thankfully Not Snowing” Madison, Wisconsin.  When I got there on Thursday, it was 72 glorious degrees outside – but at 4:00 in the afternoon it was already starting to get dark outside (and...

It seems to happen every year about this time (at least for the past several years) – but it seems to take an inquiry from a customer every year to make us think about it.  So it was again this year . . . I flipped all of the necessary switches on our site this...

Most important things first – because as much as it might seem otherwise at times, this is a business blog . . . Several new Tim Holtz items from Ranger were announced late last week – including Distress Crayons Sets #6 & #7, and three styles of Distress Mixed...

Most of the time, our show schedule for the year is pretty much finalized by August or September of the year before.  But for one reason or another, there are occasionally exceptions – and this is one . . . Last year, we went back to the One of a Kind Rubber...

Update from late last week, when I announced that Darlene, Picasso and Fred from Stampland would be in our booth next weekend in Sevierville, Tennessee . . . This is not an x-ray of my hand – or of Darlene, Picasso, or Fred’s hand.  But it is significant to them...

I’m sharing this a few days earlier than I might normally, because I know that some of you are just itching for a lovely weekend in the Smoky Mountains.  Next weekend (October 15-16) might be very enticing, for a couple of reasons – first, the long range forecast...

Just returned from a busy weekend in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  If I don’t have as much energy as usual, it’s probably because I spent part of my weekend watching a whirling dervish who reminded me so much of my cousin, Donna, when she was that age.    Tanya...

The big drawing was at 4:30 Thursday afternoon – Sizzix donated a Big Shot Express for us to give away after their demo artist Jill Tarayao spent the day in our store.   So Vanna White and Carol Merrill (aka Karen and Donna) did the honors and pulled out a winner...

It is Day One of the Fall Spectacular 2016 at our retail store – and two scenes I witnessed during my brief swings through the front door may top everything else for the rest of the week . . .   Does this even need a caption? And this one is for the locals – Judy...