I spent most of yesterday putting together an e-mail to send out to our list announcing our annual “Virtual Convention” – complete with pictures, links to video demos, sale items, and such. The e-mail also included a last minute announcement that we have added a show...

We received an e-mail from Copic yesterday that the price of Copic Ciao and Sketch Markers will be going up 50 cents effective August 1 (Ciao $4.79, Sketch $6.99). In typical Marco's tradition (we do everything backwards), we put them on sale again for a few weeks --...

It always seems to get really busy just before I leave for a trip – and it doesn’t make any difference whether it’s a business trip or a pleasure trip.  This time it was pleasure, but there was business to tend to beforehand . . . Gary was adamant that his new...

Welcome to Karen & David’s second grandson, Bryden Michael Ihle, born about 6:15 p.m. on Thursday, April 28.  6 lbs. 14 oz. and 20” long.  As I hear it, mother and child (and grandparents) are doing nicely.

It's in our store in Dayton and it lasts all week -- the 5th Annual Marco's Paper Spring Spectacular from April 25 thru May 1!  Seven days of fun and frivolity, with Free Make & Takes and Demos, 25% to 40% Off Selected Items -- and a Different Product Line on...

I have been home from the Akron show for several days, but between duties at home, monsoon rains, prep for next week’s Spring Spectacular in the store, and prep for my golf trip next week, I have never posted a few choice images from the weekend.  So here goes ....

We spent last weekend with hundreds and hundreds of friends in Allentown, Pennsylvania.  This is the show that used to be in Pennsauken, New Jersey – but moved to Allentown when the Expo Center in Pennsauken was sold and the new owners announced it would be torn...

Welcome back!  I received a lot of really nice feedback from folks who came along for the ride during the first installment of this year’s Arizona adventures.  Brace yourselves – you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet . . . The picture at left doesn’t say a lot, until I...

I’m really not sure how to approach this – for some of you, a handful of pictures and a little narrative will be more than enough.  But there are a few of you who have told me how much you enjoy the sights and sounds, and I don’t want you left hungry for...

For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting (yeah, right) the pictures and narrative from my Arizona trip, I haven’t gotten to that yet because we’re frantically filling preorders for the new Spellbinders dies.  The first batch came in on March 16 (the same...