by Gregory Smallwood | May 27, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m sure a lot of you take classes at your local store. I never realized how much prep time goes into one until we started offering classes in our store and I noticed that the teachers are always there! So today I’m offering a look behind the scenes for...
by Gregory Smallwood | May 25, 2009 | Uncategorized
I think everyone has a snickerdoodle recipe. This one came from my wife, and she got it from the Betty Crocker Cookbook when she was little. I was always a chocolate chip cookie kid, so I had never had snickerdoodles (and I thought the name was silly) until we started...
by Gregory Smallwood | May 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
This is the Make It/Take It card that Dawn Cutter led in our store last Wednesday. Dawn was very thorough — gave me a detailed list with supply and assembly instructions. Now that you’ve seen where we’re headed, this is how to get there. It’s...
by Gregory Smallwood | May 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
This is what remains of my favorite two-wheeler (some of you may know this contraption as a hand truck). It has a nice wide base and I have used it for nearly ten years when setting up and tearing down our booth. Only the tires have been replaced over the years...
by Gregory Smallwood | May 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
This was an idea suggested by a customer, who wanted to know what a day on the road in that big truck was like. So I started snapping pictures Thursday morning. Some of them turned out well, and some are truly awful (but as you’ll see, I guess they’re...
