December in the Mall

Our weekends in the mall in December will be:

December 11th & 12th

December 18th & 19th

We have a few new Christmas lines and some new paper and matching embellishments on order.

At the mall this weekend

We'll be set up at the mall this weekend, October 2nd and 3rd.  Friday is 4-8, Saturday is 10-4...we start cleaning up a half hour before closing if we don't have any customers.  

Fall in the Mall

Our next weekends in the Perinton Square Mall will be October 2nd & 3rd and October 23rd & 24th.  Hours are Friday 4-8 and Saturday 10-4. (Though we usually start cleaning up 1/2 hour before closing time if there aren't any customers)

Last weeks winner

Congratulations to the winner of the tabletop supply caddy this past weekend, Sue Rockwell.

Our August weekends in the Perinton Square Mall will be August 7th &  8th and August 21st & 22nd.  Hours are Friday nights from 4-8PM and Saturdays from 10 AM to 4 PM.

We're working on birthday page kits for next month, we still have one of each of last week's summer, pool and halloween available for purchase.

Supply Caddy winner June 13th

Congratulations to the Laura Rosato, winner of the Tabletop supply caddy the weekend of June 13th.

Our next weekend in the Perinton Square Mall will be July 17th and 18th.  We'll have new Summer page kits and Halloween kits.

Mini Store details

Oh, my, I hope that I haven't gotten your hopes up too high!  I have been overwhelmed with excited emails this week after my announcement.  My intent is to provide a source for cardstock with a few other goodies added each month.  I thought that if I made up kits, it might encourage those of you who haven't had time to scrapbook lately to put together a few easy pages once in awhile.  I've got the cardstock covered.  Obsessive as I am, I put together a spreadsheet with all of the colors I have so I'd know what I still need to order.  At this point, I've got over 300 colors to start with next week...49 of them are blue  ; )

I'll be set up in the corridor just outside of the Rite Aid store, at the west end of the mall.  It will be set up kind of like a show booth with tables for product.  If you've attended or stopped in to shop during one of our all day crops, it will be a similar setup, except in the hallway.  Since I don't have many racks left, cardstock will be sorted into crates by color.  I'm keeping the cardstock in the packages so that the colors are labeled and the individual sheets don't get damaged.  I'll ask you to save me the empty packaging so that I know what needs to be reordered.  I do have a few paper racks for the patterned paper which I will match to cardstock for you ahead of time so you don't have to dig through the crates.  I'll also have matching flowers, brads, etc for the lines that month.  If you want something special...punches, special adhesives, etc, I may be able to order them for you, but won't be stocking those things regularly.  Since I'll only be renting the space on the weekend, I need to bring everything from home, set up and tear down each time, so will stock product accordingly. 

Now, the most important thing for you to remember, I can't take credit or debit cards.  I have electric power to run the computer but not a phone line to run cards through, so can't offer that as an option.  I'm sorry, I know it's inconvenient.  I used to use my cards exclusively, but I will say that I have started to try to use cash or checks more so that I actually keep track of what I'm spending.

Mini Store opening...

Okay, I have to preface this by letting you know that my husband thinks I'm totally crazy...

He doesn't understand that I need a selection of more than 30 different blues to get just the right color of cardstock to match my patterned paper. Of all of the comments I've gotten from customers, this is the most common...you miss the cardstock selection that Scrapbook Creations had. I do, too!!! 

So, I've decided to rent some space in the corridor of the Perinton Square mall for a mini store. It will only be open on Friday nights (from 4-9PM) and Saturdays from 10 AM til 5 PM, and not every weekend, so you'll have to keep an eye on your email or my blog. I'll do at least 2 weekends a month and see how it goes; the more people I have shopping, the more likely I'll be able to add additional weekends. In June, we'll be there on Friday June 5th, Saturday June 6th, Friday, June 12th and Saturday, June 13th. The following weekend is a maybe, as Tricia and I have dance recitals (I'll bet not many of you knew that I have taken up tap dancing...at least that's what our teacher calls it). The weekend of June 26th is Matt's High School graduation so that's a definite NO.

I've got over 200 new colors of Bazzzill cardstock sorted and all over my living and dining rooms, it's only about half of what we used to carry, but I promise that it's a great selection. The cardstock price will still be $.59 (less than Michael's $.69). I'm also planning on a new paper and embellishment line or two each month that I'll offer as individual pieces &/or as kits. I'll post pictures of the kits early in the week so that you can plan on coming in to purchase one if it's something you like. I won't be re-ordering paper lines, but may be able to re-order matching embellishments if they are still available and we have matching paper left. 

I'll also have custom school titles and mascots for Fairport, Penfield, Victor and Honeoye Falls-Lima to start. If they go well and I get enough requests, I'll add custom paper for those schools and titles and mascots for additional schools. 

I hope you're as excited about this as I am. Although I love having my life back and not working 7 days a week, I really do miss all of you and the business. I'm hoping that this will be a win-win situation for all of us, I get my scrapbook business fix, catch up with many of you and you can find a few new products and lots of cardstock to match all of that patterned paper that you have at home!