Thanks to all of you who placed preorders for Tim Holtz’ new Distress Marker sets and have been waiting patiently for them to arrive.  We received word from Ranger overnight that our first shipment of full sets will arrive tomorrow (Wednesday).  We will...

One the things I treasure most about our travels is the friendships we have made over the years.  At every show, there are faces that I have to see before the weekend is complete.  Some of them are vendors, some are customers, and some help us set up and...

You’re going to need some reading material while you’re making those Chocolate Chip Caramel Bars (if you’re reading this on Friday, the recipe is coming tomorrow).  And if you’re a Tim Holtz fan, this is right up your alley. Click on Tim’s picture and you’ll go...

I love the NCAA basketball tournament.  I don’t watch a lot of college basketball during the regular season, but once the tournament starts, I’m hooked.  And the first two days of the tournament, with nonstop games all day long, are the best sports days of...

Wow, did I get an education yesterday – about beer.  Within minutes after I posted that picture, I started getting e-mails from people who knew that “Craft Beer” was not a typo – apparently it is another name for “microbrew”.  I was even sent a link to a...

I was on the way home at lunchtime, headed for a dentist appointment.  As I passed a local carryout about halfway there, I saw the message board underneath the gas prices and the gears in my brain started turning.  I couldn’t wait to get out of the dentist’s...

They’re here – the new Spellbinders dies.  And they have taken up a whole room at the mail center . . . They cover a table . . . they block the refrigerator and the microwave. They cover a desk that usually holds gift card envelopes . . . they displaced the...

We were very fortunate last weekend.  Under normal circumstances, a couple of strong thunderstorms on Friday during setup and cold/wind during the weekend might have irritated me.  But less than 100 miles south, tornadoes destroyed towns and families – by...

I spent one day on my soapbox last week, grumping about the delay in receiving the new Tim Holtz Distress Markers.  But if I’m going to do that, then I need to be willing to shower the praise when something comes in early.  It happened today . . . The first...

  My friend Bill Begley (his wife Becki is my childhood nemesis who became my dear friend in adulthood) posted this on his Facebook page this morning.  It brought tears to my eyes, because it reminded me so much of Zoe . . . She loves to lie in the warm...