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...
by Gregory Smallwood | Sep 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
I said yesterday that I would spend most of today working on new items that have been announced. And by mid-afternoon, I haven’t spent a second on them. Instead, I have spent most of the day taking pictures – editing pictures – posting pictures – and...
