Some of you are in line before the show opens on Saturday and stay until the very last minute when the show closes on Sunday.  Others come only for a single day, or for parts of both.  But there is one constant for the vendors when the show lasts for two...

Yesterday was Zoe’s Eleventh Birthday.  Birthdays are always special in my family, and the ladies in my family are really good at looking young.  I can’t count the number of times I heard “She doesn’t look eleven” yesterday – and my response was usually “She...

Spent last weekend in Novi, Michigan for the Great Lakes Mega Meet . . . about 200 miles – and 40-50 degrees – from my house.  It was in the mid-80s at home the whole time I was gone, while in Novi it started in the mid-70s, then the mid-60s, then the upper-30s,...

From Christopher Alan at Brutus Monroe . . . "Christopher Alan regrets that he will be unable to attend the Great Lakes Mega Meet this weekend. Under medical advisement he has decided to take some time off to recharge and regroup. Please know that Christopher’s...

Spent last weekend in Akron for Adventures in Stamping – it’s always one of the biggest shows of the year, and at the end of April the weather there could be anything from coveralls to shorts (and anything in-between).  What we got was dreary and damp, with two...

I have been hearing about this for a while . . . Lisa and Chris from our store have wanted to start a blog devoted primarily to the store, with make and takes and projects and tips and news and such.  Found out yesterday that it has finally happened . . . And you...

For those of us in the Midwest and Northeast, it has been a lousy Winter.  Here in Southwestern Ohio, we haven’t had nearly the amount of snow that folks along the Great Lakes or the Atlantic Coast have had.  But it has been cold, dreary and disgusting all...

After recovering from the 50-mile ribbon of winter that was the Indiana Snowstorm, we will be spending the next few days getting ready to head to our annual stop in Allentown, Pennsylvania – just got off the phone with my friend Dee Ruger (that’s not strong enough –...

We spent the weekend at the Hendricks County 4-H Fairgrounds in Danville, Indiana – this was a new location for a show that has been held since 2004 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis.  My opinion?  Better location, better logistics, better...

We have been traveling and doing shows for a long time – and it seems even longer when the time is measured in “kid years” . . . the following pictures and narrative appeared on this blog in July 2011 after our annual summer visit to Grapevine, Texas . . . I have seen...