Assuming you can use five minutes of video to get you in the holiday spirit (yes, I know it’s August – have you been in your local department store lately?) – here’s a piece from Memory Box that highlights their 2017 Holiday Collection . . . Since many of you who see...

Birthdays have always been very special in my family – and today is Mom's 78th. This picture was taken yesterday as I dropped off a gift at a baby shower she was attending - thanks to my friend Carol Pearson for touching it up from 1,000 miles away so I could use it...

It is Saturday – and I am at the mail center.  Doesn’t seem all that unusual – until I mention that I have not been here on Saturday since June 24.  Six of the past seven Saturdays, my surroundings have looked more like this . . .   And on the oddball...

I got a call this morning from the store – “You have to see this – Tanya is setting up on the front walk!”  I just laughed – it really wasn’t a surprise – and went to the store at lunchtime to see for myself . . . This is our friend Tanya Doner-Kostynuk from...

I see lots of t-shirts when I am traveling – some pledge allegiance to sports teams, some to brand names (I am always amazed that people pay for shirts that advertise for Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Under Armour and more).  But t-shirts with unique messages are the...

I have so much catching up to do – this seems to happen every year during the summer show season.  I think my best bet is to try to sit down each day and share a few images that I have observed over the past few weeks, interspersed with new releases and the...

It is said that good things come to those who wait – and a lot of you have been waiting for the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform since January 17, when we started taking advance orders for it. It is here – and the general consensus is that it was worth the wait.   These...

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...

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...

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...