by Gregory Smallwood | Oct 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m sharing this a few days earlier than I might normally, because I know that some of you are just itching for a lovely weekend in the Smoky Mountains. Next weekend (October 15-16) might be very enticing, for a couple of reasons – first, the long range forecast...
by Gregory Smallwood | Oct 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Just returned from a busy weekend in Fort Wayne, Indiana. If I don’t have as much energy as usual, it’s probably because I spent part of my weekend watching a whirling dervish who reminded me so much of my cousin, Donna, when she was that age. Tanya...
by Gregory Smallwood | Sep 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
The big drawing was at 4:30 Thursday afternoon – Sizzix donated a Big Shot Express for us to give away after their demo artist Jill Tarayao spent the day in our store. So Vanna White and Carol Merrill (aka Karen and Donna) did the honors and pulled out a winner...
by Gregory Smallwood | Sep 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
It is Day One of the Fall Spectacular 2016 at our retail store – and two scenes I witnessed during my brief swings through the front door may top everything else for the rest of the week . . . Does this even need a caption? And this one is for the locals – Judy...
by Gregory Smallwood | Sep 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
We always like to have one or two (or sometimes three) special guests when we have a week-long special event in our store. It’s always better when one of our suppliers approaches us and offers to send someone here – and best when that supplier also sends along...
by Gregory Smallwood | Sep 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
This is what I have been working on the last two days – it started quite innocently Friday morning, when I opened Facebook to wish a friend a happy birthday and stumbled across a live video of Tim Holtz introducing a whole bunch of new Idea-ology holiday goodies. And...
