Extra Ballots!

As you know our birthday celebration is going on until the end of the week. For every $25 you spend, you get a special ballot to enter for a chance to win various goodie packs (five packs in all at approximately $50 retail each).

Now I have a way you can get EXTRA ballots. Any of you that have one of our "original" rental membership cards or even just a business card like the one above, bring it in before 3PM on Saturday and receive 10 EXTRA ballots.

This will be the true test to see how many of you have cleaned out your wallets over the last five years (just kidding)!!!

Happy Birthday Matt!

I can't believe it, I actually made a card one whole day before I had to give it! I was so impressed with myself! I don't know if anyone is like me, but I always find myself making the card at about the same time I am supposed to be at the event! If only one day I will be as good as some of you, and actually have a stock pile of cards... I'll keep dreaming...

This card came together so quick! It is all product I've been dying to use, especially the super cute elephant rub-on! The Basic Grey "Ambrosia" line, is one of my absolute favourite lines Basic Grey has ever released! I love every paper, rub-on, chipboard and embellishment in the entire collection! The colours are exactly me. On the inside I used a rub-on from the same package that says "Be Yourself. Everyone else is taken." Cute eh?

I'm so excited to see what Basic Grey will come out with next. Kim and I will see in a couple of weeks when we head off to CHA. Last year I was in a crowd with about about 75 other ladies impatiently waiting for the doors to open on the first day of the show. (Basic Grey ships in the order that you arrive at their booth, so you want to make sure you get there early!) The second the doors opened, we all sprinted across the entire convention center, all of us out of breath as we reached the Basic Grey booth just to get our number, I think I was 31. This year I'm training on my Wii Fit... I'm gonna get number 1!!! Lookout Ladies!

While I'm still blabbing about Basic Grey, I should show you guys the newest card pack... it's from the new "Bittersweet" line.. too cute... and easy... I made this one night while watching a movie. Barely anything thinking involved. Just what you need some nights when you want to create, but don't want to pull everything out. Eight cards, and they even have envelopes now,...bonus!

Kell

Happy 5th Birthday Paper Pickle!

We've come a LONG way, baby! This is a polaroid picture of our original store which was located on Kent Street in Chatham. We rented a small (400 sq. ft.) space from Joe Comiskey. Oh, how we LOVED our little store. It had our same pickle green walls and wall of stamps...just on a much smaller scale. I still remember listening to Hey Ya by Outkast and painting those walls with Kell and my brother, Jeff. Just picture this group of ambitious siblings shake it to that song!

If you have not heard this song before, check out the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xe9Ur0wEsY
......Shake it like a polaroid picture!


That was five years ago and here we are today! And it is all thanks to you! Without your support, we would not be here. I have always been a firm believer in shopping locally and supporting the stores and entrepreneurs that have taken the leap to make a business work (and that is not an easy thing to do in this community!!!!) Everyday we make decisions on where we are going to spend our money. If we choose to spend it with the big guys every time, we should not complain when we see the little guys closing up and we no longer have any selection in our city! Being a small business owner has been a dream come true for me, but has also been the most humbling experience at the same time.

Enough of my rambling....let's talk about the sale to celebrate this momentous occasion!!!

The entire store will be BUY 1 item, get the 2nd 50% OFF. The only items that are excluded are nestabilities. These will be 15% OFF, as we keep our everyday price on these low.

We will also have a ton of Fancy Pants items and other items at 50% OFF. Shop early and often as we like to add items to our sales table each day! Sale runs January 13 to January 17.

Oh yeah...we will also be doing a ton of giveaways throughout the week. This will be unlike any sale you have seen at our store before!

Don't Mind my Formatting...

Please don't mind my formatting on the last email! I am still just catching on to this blog thing. I promise NEXT post will look better!!!

Classes are Back!

Well happy New Year! I hope you all had an amazing holiday. Kell and I had a great Christmas and even had the chance to enjoy a few extra days off but now we are energized and ready for a great 2009! As usual, we have a lot of things up our sleeves...I have a feeling this will be our BEST year yet!

Just have a look at the cards Linda and Pauline have come up with for January's schedule. Two very talented ladies...some very wonderful classes! If you haven't taken one of our classes yet, I think you should treat yourself to one! After all the work you did preparing for the holidays, you deserve a little ME time!

You can call to reserve a spot in the class (519-351-5220). You must pay within 48 hours of reserving a spot (stop in to store to pay or call with credit card information) or your spot will be released. If for some reason you cannot make it to class, you are responsible for finding a replacement.

"Oh to be a Kid Again" by Linda
Linda has two very adorable children's cards for this months class. The cards speak for themselves! This is a pencil crayon class. You will learn Linda's magic of shading and working with pencils and gamsol. You will also work with flocking, patterned paper, the distressing tool, nestabilities and more.

Dates....Tuesday, January 20 OR Thursday, February 5 OR Wednesday, February 11

Time: 6:00pm

Cost....$15

Mandatory Supplies....scissors, adhesive, pencil, ruler

Suggested Supplies....pencil crayons





"With Sympathy" by Pauline

Unfortunately, we have to make sympathy cards but many of us don't know how to. You don't want to cards to be too cheery but you don't want them to be too solemn though either. Pauline has created two cards with just the right amount of class. You will work with the nestabilities, the cuttlebug, distress inks and more.

Dates....Wednesday, January 21 OR Wednesday, February 4 OR Tuesday, February 10

Time...6:00pm

Cost....$15
Mandatory Supplies....scissors, adhesive, pencil, ruler
Suggested Supplies....Distress Ink (Weathered Wood), Mementos inks (Rich Cocoa, Angel Pink)