Sadly, Scrapafrass is coming to an end. My business partner Jill and her husband are relocating for his job. While I could have bought her out and continued on my own, I just feel that's more than I want on my plate right now. So we're doing a 50% off sale May 5 through May 23. Now is the time to stock up!
Wishing you all the best Jill and Gary!
Showing posts with label Scrapafrass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scrapafrass. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
National Scrapbook Day
Scrapafrass is celebrating all month long with different "Deal of the Day" specials...come and play with us for National Scrapbook Day!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Stuff and more stuff...
Medical Updates:
Ian...ended up removing two of his stitches and partially removing a third. To heck with going in to the doctor...I removed the last ones myself. Just like his brothers, he'll have a nice little scar on his eyebrow. I think Mark's joke about the kids and him creating the cross with their scars is covered now {rolling eyes as only a mom can do here LOL}
Me...for the most part I feel the elbow has healed. The arm is still a bit weaker than I'm completely happy with and I have pain when I twist it suddenly.
Grounding Updates:
Cam is still grounded...currently till May 11th. It's having absolutely no effect on the attitude issue that landed him the extra weeks. He still complains about going to church where the other three are excited to go and want to start Sunday school.
Alex is still grounded...currently till April 28th. And yet he was caught climbing the fence again. He missed school yesterday because he couldn't/wouldn't find a school shirt.
Both boys continue to fail at keeping their rooms clean. Mark has gone through both rooms at least once if not twice in the last two weeks and came out with large garbage bags of stuff...some of which is in the donate box, some in the garage to be sorted, and more than I care to think about went out with the trash yesterday morning.
Ian and Robbie Updates:
Ian has become and rivals Alex as a food mooch. I've lost count of the amount of food that has gone missing from the kitchen. While frustrating in and of itself, the real problem is that he won't eat at meal times and is fast becoming pickier than Cam.
Robbie, is cute and being the typical 2 year old. He has a set of lungs on him so there's no worry that he won't be heard over his brothers!
Mark Update:
Mark is loving the E&D Department. He has more opportunities to telecommute which with today's gas prices is awesome. We heard today that there are some layoffs coming down the pike at GES...mostly in other cities...but Mark was assured that the E&D Department wouldn't be making any cuts. Due to some shifting of shows, Mark may have to travel next year. Not sure what all that means right now but of course neither of us are thrilled with the prospect.
House Update:
Mark has finished painting all but the downstairs bath. The upstairs is done except for the kids rooms and bath. The two bathrooms are on the list for this weekend. My goal is to get my scrap area under control LOL actually I've made a pretty good start on it and after all it's kind of become my office. All in all, it's feeling a bit more like home.
Scrapafrass Update:
I'm in the process of loading more handcrafted items and a few more idea books. Jill and I are hard at work creating more cards. Jill is also trying to focus on page kits while I'm trying to focus on pre-made pages. We're gearing up for National Scrapbook Day (NSD)...May 3rd...with a month long celebration. We're kicking things off with a huge sale and then having different "deal of the day" promotions each day. It should be fun. We were hoping to host a NSD crop but weren't able to come up with a venue for it plus locally we would be competing with an Expo and all the crops hosted by other stores. I'm going to start working toward something for next year tho'.
Ian...ended up removing two of his stitches and partially removing a third. To heck with going in to the doctor...I removed the last ones myself. Just like his brothers, he'll have a nice little scar on his eyebrow. I think Mark's joke about the kids and him creating the cross with their scars is covered now {rolling eyes as only a mom can do here LOL}
Me...for the most part I feel the elbow has healed. The arm is still a bit weaker than I'm completely happy with and I have pain when I twist it suddenly.
Grounding Updates:
Cam is still grounded...currently till May 11th. It's having absolutely no effect on the attitude issue that landed him the extra weeks. He still complains about going to church where the other three are excited to go and want to start Sunday school.
Alex is still grounded...currently till April 28th. And yet he was caught climbing the fence again. He missed school yesterday because he couldn't/wouldn't find a school shirt.
Both boys continue to fail at keeping their rooms clean. Mark has gone through both rooms at least once if not twice in the last two weeks and came out with large garbage bags of stuff...some of which is in the donate box, some in the garage to be sorted, and more than I care to think about went out with the trash yesterday morning.
Ian and Robbie Updates:
Ian has become and rivals Alex as a food mooch. I've lost count of the amount of food that has gone missing from the kitchen. While frustrating in and of itself, the real problem is that he won't eat at meal times and is fast becoming pickier than Cam.
Robbie, is cute and being the typical 2 year old. He has a set of lungs on him so there's no worry that he won't be heard over his brothers!
Mark Update:
Mark is loving the E&D Department. He has more opportunities to telecommute which with today's gas prices is awesome. We heard today that there are some layoffs coming down the pike at GES...mostly in other cities...but Mark was assured that the E&D Department wouldn't be making any cuts. Due to some shifting of shows, Mark may have to travel next year. Not sure what all that means right now but of course neither of us are thrilled with the prospect.
House Update:
Mark has finished painting all but the downstairs bath. The upstairs is done except for the kids rooms and bath. The two bathrooms are on the list for this weekend. My goal is to get my scrap area under control LOL actually I've made a pretty good start on it and after all it's kind of become my office. All in all, it's feeling a bit more like home.
Scrapafrass Update:
I'm in the process of loading more handcrafted items and a few more idea books. Jill and I are hard at work creating more cards. Jill is also trying to focus on page kits while I'm trying to focus on pre-made pages. We're gearing up for National Scrapbook Day (NSD)...May 3rd...with a month long celebration. We're kicking things off with a huge sale and then having different "deal of the day" promotions each day. It should be fun. We were hoping to host a NSD crop but weren't able to come up with a venue for it plus locally we would be competing with an Expo and all the crops hosted by other stores. I'm going to start working toward something for next year tho'.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Little Business...
Tomorrow...
Scrapafrass is having
an April Fool's Day Sale.
No Fooling!
Take 40% off
your entire order.
One day only...April 1, 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Moving Billboard LOL
A friend is a demonstrator for UpperCase Living...rub-ons for your walls! Well, this product works wonderful on car windows too. So wherever I go I'm advertising the store! Yes, me the one who won't let bumper stickers touch my vehicle. Yes, me the one who laughed at Mark for putting his Angels cling on the window. I'd better get cracking and get more product loaded on the store!
Saturday, February 9, 2008
What an awesome day!
Had a babysitter come in...the boys seemed to like her and they didn't scare her off LOL
Went to the Scrapafrass workshop...did a bit of creating...did a bit of marketing and selling...got a couple new leads. A good morning.
Went out to lunch with the girls...can't remember the last time I got to do that! Really.
At the open crop I completed one whole layout...way to turn them out LOL The good thing though is that in prep for the crop I put together some page kits for myself so I'll be able to work on those as I have time. Having not been able go to crops while in Oregon with Mark's crazy schedule and my working full time, I need to find my groove for crops because I see many more in my future.
Oh, and here's our business card! I love how it turned out.
ETA: This is the correct card and colors...wahoo!
Went to the Scrapafrass workshop...did a bit of creating...did a bit of marketing and selling...got a couple new leads. A good morning.
Went out to lunch with the girls...can't remember the last time I got to do that! Really.
At the open crop I completed one whole layout...way to turn them out LOL The good thing though is that in prep for the crop I put together some page kits for myself so I'll be able to work on those as I have time. Having not been able go to crops while in Oregon with Mark's crazy schedule and my working full time, I need to find my groove for crops because I see many more in my future.
Oh, and here's our business card! I love how it turned out.
ETA: This is the correct card and colors...wahoo!
Friday, February 8, 2008
Saturday 2 Peas Challenge
I haven't done one of these in a while with so much going on but I've got a bit of time tonight even if it's slightly early for the challenge!
Challenge~ What are you scrappin plans today?
Well, this is super easy LOL. Saturday entails a babysitter for the boys and Mom gone all day!
Challenge~ What are you scrappin plans today?
Well, this is super easy LOL. Saturday entails a babysitter for the boys and Mom gone all day!
1) in the morning I'll be heading out for Scrapafrass' first workshop!
2) lunch out with the ladies...not a picky eating child in sight (at least not any I need to deal with!).
3) and open crop! I'm not prepared for it but man am I looking forward to it.
And I've been scrapping!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Scrapafrass
We've got a logo...wahoo! We should have business cards by the end of the week and a banner for the store shortly there after. It feels really good to have these things coming together. We made our first sale...to Jill's mom LOLWe've got our first workshop this Saturday. Jill will be teaching it and I'll be promoting the store.
I try to spend about 4 hours each day focused on the business...right now my main goal is to get the products loaded. Jill is focusing on all the pieces we need to get in place to buy wholesale. We're both trying to design new goodies for the store. I'm hoping to purchase a new product...premiering at CKC in Portland in just a few weeks...for the store within the next couple days.
We went to PMA/Memory Trends over the weekend. We found one new product from a company out of Vancouver Canada that I really want to get for the store. Jill and I want to focus on "being green" with our kits...buying scraps and opened embellishments to re-purpose in the kits. While at Memory Trends we found one manufacturer that we should be able to work with toward that end. Exciting stuff.
I'll be doing sneak peeks on the Scrapafrass blog soon...so stay toned!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
A little shameless advertising...
Valentine's Day is right around the corner! We have handcrafted Valentine Cards in the store and more coming every day. So be sure to stop by Scrapafrass
Our ongoing store sale is buy 3 handcrafted cards and get a 4th of equal or lesser value for free. It's our Build Your Own Card Set promotion. Enter promotion code: 4for3
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Scrapafrass...
is up and running. Please stop by and take a look around Scrapafrass
This is a fun and exciting new venture for me. I'm surrounded by boxes of product that needs to be organized into working order and this is just the first week LOL
I met Jill through the Meet-up group I've mentioned before and this store is her brain child. After talking through emails, getting together and becoming friends I joined her and we became Scrapafrass. The store offers kits and handcrafted items along with other paper crafting products. Even if you don't scrapbook or make cards I hope you'll stop by and give me feedback.
Mark is being amazingly supportive. It's more than just wanting me to have/develop friends. It's more than support of my hobby. He really wants to see Scrapafrass succeed. Love that man!
This is a fun and exciting new venture for me. I'm surrounded by boxes of product that needs to be organized into working order and this is just the first week LOL
I met Jill through the Meet-up group I've mentioned before and this store is her brain child. After talking through emails, getting together and becoming friends I joined her and we became Scrapafrass. The store offers kits and handcrafted items along with other paper crafting products. Even if you don't scrapbook or make cards I hope you'll stop by and give me feedback.
Mark is being amazingly supportive. It's more than just wanting me to have/develop friends. It's more than support of my hobby. He really wants to see Scrapafrass succeed. Love that man!
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The wait is almost over...
We
are
Sharp, Sensational, Seasoned, Shocking, Scandalous, Sparkling, Shabby-Chic, Sinful and . . .
COMING SOON!
It is SASSY . . . It is SWEET . . . It is SPICY . . . It is SCRAPAFRASS!
Are you on the edge of your SEAT . . . SWEATING with anticipation . . .
SENSELESS with curiosity . . . SPEECHLESS with awe?
Come and see us on
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
for our
Spectacular
unveiling!
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