Scrap Your Trip

Y’all are cracking me up! Everyone is someone’s favorite person…and I swear I’m Mr. Murphy’s! As In Murphy’s Law 😂

I’ve had Tiffany working on deleting everything from our site that we didn’t sell any of in 2024 and 2025. And guess what happened?

While she was working on it, you guys ordered 315 of those items. And three of you have emailed so far this week saying “I can’t find “insert blank here” on your website…and I could’ve sworn I’ve seen it before!” How funny is that? 😂

So now we have over 200 die cuts to cut just one of 😂

It’s going to take awhile for Yecy to get caught up in the cutting room from being on vacation (her girls rocked it at this year’s fine arts convention)…and now all these “onesies” on top of that.

No PPFN for me tonight (pizza party Friday night.) Sarily and I are going to be working all day on tomorrow, getting out as many orders as we can. Just like we’ve done several times in the past, any order we have everything in stock for, we’ll work on getting sent out, regardless of what month it is.

And as if we hadn’t been hit with enough bad news in the paper crafting industry lately, with Notions Marketing’s fire, but I read earlier in the week that Neenah Paper, maker of AstroBrights, etc., was hit by a tornado! 🌪️

I know it takes us a while to create our own products, but I have never been so grateful to be self-reliant 😀

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

You have no idea what you’re capable of. 😊

All too often, we as women, shortchange ourselves and believe we’re not capable. Because for many of us, we’ve been told our whole life, directly or indirectly, that we’re not. Compared to the men, of course.

To that, I say “HOOEY!”

I just spent almost 15 hours, in two hearings and two days of trial, against my landlord’s lawyer with 10+ years of experience…and won.

Now granted, I should have won, but we all know that’s not always how the legal system works, and it two full days of trial for me to prove them wrong.

Eviction claim denied…just waiting for the judge to decide on damages. 🤞💰🙏

Oh…and I somehow managed to fix laser #3 😀

I’ve had to take over 50 days off work this year for the mold remediation and another week or so to prepare for trial…all time I could have…should have…been working on getting our backlog of orders out the door.

And now that it’s finally come to an end, that’s exactly what I can get back to doing!

I end every post the same way…and you truly don’t understand the depth to which I mean it.

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

1. Never doubt the magic that is Dawn PowerWash 🤩
2. Laser #3 isn’t looking so good 😢I have another idea I’m going to try tomorrow. 🤞
3. Sarily and I took inventory last night so that Yecy has a big ole list to start on when she’s back from vacation next Monday 😀

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

Just sent the shipping confirmation emails for the last of the April orders. 🥳

I have a hot date with my washer and dryer on Sunday and on Monday, I’m going to take apart our laser machines for a deep cleaning. Yecy is on vacation all week, so I have plenty of time to get them cleaned out. We do a surface cleaning weekly, but I haven’t done a deep cleaning since we moved last year and they really need it. Plus, I’m hoping that I can figure out what’s wrong with Laser #3…and that it’s not a $1500 CO2 cartridge 😬🤞

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

177 days without a kitchen sink and washing my dishes in the bathtub is over. I was so excited that months of contractors in my house was finally going to end yesterday, but two of the four didn’t show up. So, yet another week of staying home on Tuesday and Wednesday and hoping people actually show up and do a decent job.

I’m painting the cabinets myself since I don’t want them to look like the first job they did on my shower.

This debacle is almost over and I can finally put my focus back where it belongs…getting our backlog of orders out the door.

I’ll be in the office, diligently working on getting as many orders shipped as I can, until next Tuesday.

As always, thank you for your continued patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

In case you haven’t heard, there was a recent tragedy in our industry. Notions Marketing, the largest creative arts distributor in the world, carrying 58,700+ crafting products from 600+ brands, suffered a catastrophic fire at their distribution center, which spans over 1.2 million square feet. Thankfully, no one was injured in the fire, however, they announced last week that they are pausing fulfillment for at least six months and laid off a lot of their staff.

This is going to be an extremely challenging time for our industry as manufacturers and retailers work their way through this.

Stacey from Scrapbooking Made Simple has a really good video explaining in detail how this will affect the industry as a whole.
https://youtu.be/EZZNM43iitE

We are very fortunate to have been manufacturing our own products for years, so it will have less of an impact on us. However, pretty much the entire supply of Bazzill and American Crafts cardstock was sitting in that warehouse.

We have a pretty big “stash” of cardstock, so we’re okay for a while, but color choices could get interesting in the upcoming months 🫤

I hope you have a great July 4th weekend and get to see some amazing fireworks! Three guesses where I’ll be 😅

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

What has been happening in the Paper Crafting Industry over the past few weeks. My thoughts. Please remember, these are my thoughts and opinions. Feel free to ...

More than 350 pounds of mystery boxes picked up today! I wanted to leave some room for my mailman in his truck, so the remainder will be picked up tomorrow. I know they took awhile…pretty sure you’ll think they were worth the wait!

P.S. All the issues with my slumlord and the preparation I had to do for last week’s initial court hearing that caused the delay?
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This is not for all of you who have been so incredibly supportive. 🥰

This is for the “Where the #%@$ is my order and what the #%@$ is taking so long?!?” people.

There are two of us in the Orlando office, plus my amazing volunteers. The picture below is all the days I have had to take off of work to deal with the repairs at my house.

I FINALLY have someone good doing the tile in my bathroom, but the plumbers had to come out three times. Gotta love that slumlord trying to save a few bucks!

I had one court hearing this week and there’s another one next week. Plus, Orange County Code Enforcement was here today to cite them for code violations…and then plumber has to come back for a FOURTH time to fix what they did wrong the second and third times, among other things.

Everyone else is busy working on prepping stuff for our next batch of orders (3/25 - 5/31). I’m trying to get in the office whenever I can, but I have to be honest and say that by the time the contractors leave for the day, I’m tired. 🥱

I’m doing my best to balance needing to stay home in order to have a shower and kitchen sink again with needing to be in the office to process and ship orders.

I am also going to do my absolute best to get the rest of the mystery boxes out this weekend.

If you have an outstanding order that you need for a crop or retreat, etc., please send Tiff an email at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to get it to you in time.

Now that a Judge and Code Enforcement are finally involved, I am really hopeful that this nightmare will be
coming to an end.

I truly appreciate everyone’s understanding while I deal with all of this at home.

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

Look what I got delivered! Kitchen cabinets…at least some of them.

Since I haven’t mentioned it in awhile, I bet you all thought my house was all fixed. HA! 🤬

The person they had working on my bathroom did such a horrible job, they had to demo it all again and now we’re starting over. Day 136 of no shower and no kitchen sink. But at least we’re finally making progress. 🤞

We have a court hearing next week, and they’re really pushing to get things done, so I’ve had to stay home every day this week and possibly next week too.

On to SYT progress…

All regular orders have been shipped through March 24th. That’s the day I started doing an inventory analysis of everything we needed to produce for all our outstanding orders (and the reason we were able to get three months of orders shipped out in three weeks).

Yecy has been cutting for March 25-current orders for about a week and is about 1/3 of the way done.

I’m going to run over to the office while the contractors are on a break and print out all the outstanding orders so that I can sit here and figure out the kits and matching papers while they’re working.

I have all the mystery boxes sorted out and shipped a batch out last weekend and will be able to get more shipped out this weekend. I promised at least 103 items…they ended up with 159 items with a retail value of $551.14! 😀 And that’s finally the end of all the remaining inventory my lovely former employees left me with, so now there’s plenty of room for fresh and new.

Speaking of new, what do you want us to think about making first? Since I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel (which finally isn’t a train waiting to run me over) at both home and work, there’s finally going to be some space, both physically and mentally, to get back to providing the unique scrapbook supplies you can’t get anywhere else.

Give us your thoughts so that we can start a list to get the creative juices flowing.

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

P.S. Happy National Donut Day! 🍩

Yeah…I know it’s after 1am. But guess what we just did? Printed the shipping label for the last February order! 🥳

And I say “we” because I couldn’t do it without my Friday night pizza buddy, Sarily 😇 😊🙏 She has selflessly and graciously volunteered her time two nights per week for well over a year to help us get to this point and I would not have been able to do it without her! Plus she has way more patience than me for double checking all the orders and catching my mistakes 😂

I’ll be working on mystery boxes all weekend ( I’m about halfway through all these bins of die cuts) and we’ll start shipping out March orders on Monday.

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!