by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Every show so far this year, I have seen more and more young ladies in our booth – and they are excited to learn more and more about crafting (some of them are teaching their moms and grandmas what they are learning). Down the road, they are going to keep all of...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jul 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
I am in the midst of a run of six shows in seven weeks. Doesn’t leave much time for anything more than traveling and doing the show. So I am sitting in a hotel room in Minnesota this morning, a week behind in telling stories from last weekend’s show in...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jun 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
The website is back up and running – thankfully! I may tell that story someday but there is a more important item on the agenda today . . . 12 new colors of Distress Oxide Inks were just announced today – if all goes well, we may have them to ship by late this...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jun 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Our website has been down for almost two days. Apparently our database outgrew the capacity of the server it shared with other sites (nearly 5,000 items will do that) and needed to move to one with larger capacity and fewer sites to share it. The news that...
by Gregory Smallwood | Jun 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
I think everyone has landmarks that note the changing of the seasons – Memorial Day, Labor Day, Christmas, Easter. For me, Memorial Day Weekend is way too hectic to mark the beginning of Summer – instead, for the past 20 years it has been the Massachusetts show...
by Gregory Smallwood | May 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Spent last weekend on the lovely campus of Onondaga Community College near Syracuse, New York – this is simply an outstanding place to have a show, both for vendors and customers. Don’t often get a chance to look at a show from above. And this was the...
