We always like to have one or two (or sometimes three) special guests when we have a week-long special event in our store.  It’s always better when one of our suppliers approaches us and offers to send someone here – and best when that supplier also sends along...

This is what I have been working on the last two days – it started quite innocently Friday morning, when I opened Facebook to wish a friend a happy birthday and stumbled across a live video of Tim Holtz introducing a whole bunch of new Idea-ology holiday goodies. And...

I said yesterday that I would spend most of today working on new items that have been announced.  And by mid-afternoon, I haven’t spent a second on them.  Instead, I have spent most of the day taking pictures – editing pictures – posting pictures – and...

My head has been spinning – partly because of the cold that I have been test driving for the past couple of days, but mostly because every time I think I’m caught up with all of the new items that have been released – I’m not. This was the most recent one – Sizzix...

I told you it might take until Monday to get all of the discontinued Spellbinders dies on one page . . . It didn’t – all 267 of them are now here.  And 50% off the MSRP while Spellbinders still has stock to ship to us. And now I am off to a little girl’s birthday...

I spent half the morning working on what I thought was a great idea (more on that in a minute).  But every now and then, I checked e-mail on my computer just to make sure I was keeping up.  And there it came – “Do you know about the new Christmas stamps and...

Sunday was my mom’s birthday.  Unlike many, the numbers don’t bother her – she turned 77.  I have always enjoyed having young parents, though I could never have done it myself.  I have fond memories of Mom’s 40th birthday – I was just starting my senior...

I already knew that my Saturday was going to be full – but it got even “fuller” when the high school football game I was announcing on Friday evening was suspended by lightning.  The athletic directors, coaches, and officials met and determined that the game...

I was out of the office yesterday.  For once (rare this summer), I am not away at a show.  But when I turned on my computer this morning, many of the messages that I read asked the same question – “Why aren’t the new Tim Holtz Crayons on your site yet?”...

You get the best of our weekend when you go to our booth at a show.  But I hope you realize that for us it is a working weekend – we spend a lot of time on Friday getting our booths ready for you, and often our evenings involve much more than dining out and...