April??

What a crazy week here at the store!  New computer software provided a few headaches, but we're getting used to it and have gained our sanity back!!

Can you believe it is already April 1st??  Where has time gone?  April is going to be a super exciting month!!  Who's excited for the royal wedding??  I know Laura and I are going nuts waiting for the big day the end of this month!!  A royal wedding doesn't happen often and for me, being half British myself, I am super excited!

Here at the store, our excitement for the royal wedding carries over to our British themed crop on April 16!!  And our travel, princess, and wedding lines will be on sale at the end of the month in honor of the wedding!!



We've just got a whole slew of new goodies in here and one of our absolute faves here at the store is Ohio's own Jillibean Soup!!  I absolutely ADORE the lines we've gotten in!  So many bright colors and adorable patterns!  I can't wait to use it in my layouts!!  And as you saw in a post last week, Jen met Jill from Jillibean at the Memories Scrapbooking Expo and hopefully, we can get Jill out here to do a class later in the year!  Here are some of our faves from Jillibean Soup:

Aren't these papers gorgeous?!  I just love the colors and the kraft background is delish!!  Can't wait to get some layouts done on these!!  We've also got some cool corrugated alphas from Jillibean on their way!

In the meantime, have a wonderful weekend!!  :)

Butterflies!

One of my favorite blogs for inspiration is by artist Laura Trevey down in Georgia. She always has cool ideas, fabulous taste and tons of inspiration, like these lovely butterflies she spotted on Etsy! Wouldn't they be fun to make with different scrapbook papers? Ideas ideas ideas.....

Memories Scrapbooking Expo

So today was a pretty exciting day for me. I went to the Memories Scrapbook Expo in Columbus, Oh. There were lots of people there and some great shopping but I did have something exciting happen. I was looking at a piece of Jillibean Soup paper and talking to my friend about how cute it was and a lady walked up behind me and said she has the cutest paper. I said I know I just love her stuff and she said "Thanks that is my paper." It was Jill from Jillibean Soup. I could not believe. She was super sweet. I even talked to her about coming to our store to Teach and she said that she would love to do it. YEAH!!!

Organizing...

After being up in my 'Scrap Cave'...cue 'Batman' theme....I realized how much I LOVE my organizing system.....There's a place for everything and everything's in its own place....
For my oodles of single sheet patterned goodness, I have these Sterilite drawer systems....

I adore these....so easy to see what's in them and they're stackable.  I have 4 of these babies in 12x12 and some smaller versions (8.5" x 11") for specialty papers.  The best thing is you can get these at your local department store.  I bought one at a time to spread out the cost.  Love them!!

For my Ranger paint dabbers and other acrylic paint, I have two cropper hopper paint racks on my bookcase.  These beauties are so sturdy and hold 20 paints/dabbers.  You can also fit some glues like Glossy Accents or glue sticks on this rack as well.  You can see all the colors easily and it keeps them out of the way.  So awesome and such a great deal!  We have these at the store back in the paint aisle!!

I also use a TON of plastic baskets to store all my mass quantities of embellies, bling, flowers, and other scrappy goodness that I have in the 'Scrap Cave'.  I have them in drawers and on the shelf...Everywhere you look there are plastic baskets....They're super cheap and most of mine came from the dollar store...These little beauties keep me from creating 'junk drawers' in my room!


As soon as I get a chance, I will take a few pictures of the 'Scrap Cave' and post them on here.  I organized my room based on seeing another scrapper's pictures!!  Have a great weekend!! 

So, are YOU a Scrapper?

So, this is just classic... lil scrappers...

Inspiration to go!

Lindsey and I have been taking photos of all the projects that our design team and teachers bring in over the past 6 months, but have only really been using them in the newsletter. We now have quite a collection of BEAUTIFULLY crafted projects from our amazing and talented designers here at the store. So yesterday, we decided that we're not going to hoard these pretty photos any more! Check out our Picasa Album here!

Gorgeous paper mache eggs created by Sherrie from our Design Team!

Something to think about....

We just have to share....

Where is Engagement, Ohio?

It's halfway between Dayton and Marion....  :)

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