The mystery has been solved – Ranger has finally announced the three colors that make up the Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Ink Winter Set  . . . This description of the colors is theirs – I don’t think I could find words that are that “descriptive” when you take...

Many of you already know that the carving of Halloween pumpkins is a tradition in my household.  Ryan says mine always look the same – every year I try to make mine different, but I guess I’m just not that creative with a carving knife in my hand.  When...

I should have known better – I sent an e-mail out to our list yesterday and tried to include video for the first time.  Should have sent it to myself first to make sure it would work – when I got a copy later in the day, I got some warning about “Active X...

Before I do anything else, I owe a very heartfelt Thank You! from my family to all of you who took the time to send responses to the blog piece about my mom that I wrote on Monday.  I printed every one of them and took them to her on Tuesday afternoon – she was...

I have been off the blogging grid for several weeks.  There were/are stories that I wanted to share . . . things going on during shows and in the store . . . but there was a story from my personal life that I wanted . . . needed . . . to share first.  And I...

We are in Anderson, South Carolina this weekend – and Saturday I heard the same question all day long.  “Where’s Sue?”  Seems that our good friend Susan Pickering Rothamel from USArtQuest impressed a few people when we were here last year.  But Sue has...

If you’re on the e-mail list, no doubt you saw the note I sent out late yesterday about the Tim Holtz Seasonal Distress Ink Limited Edition 3-Pack Set.  What a mess – first Tim and Ranger offered only 12 sets per store/business (those were gone in no time), then...

Karen called me this morning to come to the store and take pictures of cards that Pat Adams created for a class she’ll be teaching at some point in the next month or two.  Now I am not a terribly creative person, so a lot of times I’ll see a new project and more...

That was not my comment – Karen says that’s what she heard from several of the Make It/Take It crowd this morning after they participated in a “project trifecta” designed to introduce the masses to our new instructors Chris Mach, Corinne Jones, and Debbie Cosenza....

Sunday was my mom’s 72nd birthday.  Back in the spring, her sister Nancy came up with a good way for us to spend it – she gave us four tickets and a parking pass to the Dayton Dragons game.  This is a big deal – the Dragons have sold out every home game...