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...

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...