Back from CHA

I know I promised I would try to blog while I was in Florida at CHA but I just didn't realize how busy I would be, you with think after three shows I would know that it is several days of going full throttle. I am going to try to sum up the trip for you guys by saying it was wonderful!!!!

There was 7 of us that ended up going. Me, Emily, Janet, Laura, Mary Beth, Vicki and Kathy. We took some great classes from Tim Holtz, Hero Arts, Technique Tuesday, Spellbinders, Quick Quotes, SRM Stickers and Cosmo Cricket just to name a few. Hopefully we can show you guys some of the new things we learned in the weeks to come.

As far as new products go I must admit I spent way too much money but that is the fun of it, isn't it??? If everything I ordered would come in at the same time it would probably close to double the current inventory at the store. I am going to try to name of few things I picked up. The new lines from BoBunny, Graphic 45, Basic Grey, Karen Foster, Paper House and Bazzill (to mention a few). I also got embellishments from Petaloo, Me and My Big Ideas, Clear Scraps and some others that I can't think of right now. We ordered stamps from a new company called Shirley's 2 Girls that I think you guys will really like, especially you Copic fans. We also ordered some stamps from "My Favorite Things" also a really neat stamp company. We will be getting new tools and albums from We R Memory Keepers and new storage from Cropper Hopper (Advantus). We ordered the entire alphabet in a acrylic and chipboard letters so that you will be able to create your own word albums (yes there will be classes on this).

One of my favorite and most exciting things I did was to order a Kodak Photo Machine for the store so that you can print your pictures at the store and then pick out your stuff to do your pages. We hope you guys will take advantage of this service. I was really pleased with the quality of the pictures and Kodak as we all know has a wonderful reputation in the photo industry. We feel like we can offer you a much better atmosphere to edit and print your pictures than the long lines at Sam's and Walmart along with a comfortable bar stool to sit on while you print. This should be in the store in the next couple of weeks and I promise to provide more information soon.

A list of August Classes went out today on the Yahoo List please call us to register. I am already getting shipping notices so I think product should be arriving soon. I hope to see some of you guys really soon. As always if you have any requests or suggestions please feel free to drop me a line almostheavenscrapbooking@verizon.net . Happy Scrapping!!!