OK - Where has all the time gone - it just seems like we ate birthday cake to celebrate our 5th birthday and now we have a new president- elect, the kids are back in school, fields are being harvested, snow is in the forecast and we are counting down the days to Christmas.  The best news for all of you Scrapbook Your Story fans is that we have TONS of great holiday ideas for cards, gifts and all your wonderful photos taken from summer/fall/school and pre-holiday photos.  I'd love to list all the new products that have arrived since we attended market in July but you'd be reading on for days so hopefully you've already been by and have been reading your emails to keep updated on all the hot products that have continued to arrive.  If not, I just have to mention our most recent arrivals including the full line of Little Yellow Bicycle's Christmas Magic which is gorgeous and selling fast, clear paint canisters (in 3 perfect sizes) that are perfect for holiday goodies that you can decorate with photos/transparancies and more.  We've also received the new, hot pink Zutter binding system along with the all new Quickutz die-cutting products, new Disney (as you can expect) plus lots more.  I'll stop for now but if all else fails, remember gift certificates always light up their little faces on a gloomy day!  Our crop room is always toasty warm, free to use and available during regular business hours - we hope to see you soon...

May 2008

May 24, 2008 - What is today?  Our 5th Birthday Celebration!!!  Don't miss out on all the fun and savings!  Join us for cake & lots more!

May 11, 2008 - We will be closed in observance of Mother's Day!

May 1, 2008 - Our class/crop calendar is updated for May & June 2008 so don't miss out on all the activities that will be happening!  Please note that our store will be closed on Sunday, May 11th in observance of Mother's Day and will be closed on Monday, May 26th in observance of Memorial Day.  We wish you much happiness and hope to see you soon.  Don't miss out on all the new merchandise that continues to arrive - new albums, great travel pages and much, much more!

April 28, 2008 - We all survived tax season and it's time to get ready for National Scrapbook Day which is just around the corner on Saturday, May 4th.  What will we be doing?  We have a great, new mini-album project available in our Creative Cafe for existing and new members.  The cafe will be open from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.  Stop by and complete a wonderful mini-album direct from Creative Imaginations.  We will have enough albums (including full color instructions) for current cafe members and a few extras.  If you are a current Cafe Member, are unable to attend and would like to purchase the mini-album kit, please contact us at (217) 529-7701 by May 15th to pick up your kit.  Any albums not purchased by then will be available to our customers for sale.  The album will take at least 1 1/2 hours to complete so please plan your time accordingly. 

What else is new?  We have received LOTS of new CRICUT cartridges including Disney cartridges and great cartridges for teachers.  We have special in-store pricing so check us out soon.  We also carry replacement blades, cutting mats and more.  We also have a Cricut Expressions machine in stock at a wonderful price so don't delay.  Get yours today.  We will continue to carry all the great Cricut products so if you don't see what you're looking for, pre-order and we'll get it in for you (delivery times are based upon manufacturer's schedule). 

January 22, 2008 - News Flash!!!  Please note that all stock at our White Oaks Mall store is 45% off (and all sales are final) - yes, there isn't a typo - all stock 45% off at the mall store - Save! Save! Save!  We are including some of the fixtures with this sale (wire paper trays & all - if you're a cardmaker - you will definitely want to check out some of the fixtures!)  Please note that fixtures are cash & carry only and VERY easy to remove from the mall with our convenient location.  What does this mean? 

Yes, we will be closing our White Oaks Mall store location as of Saturday,  January 26th - BUT our Stevenson Drive location will continue to be open 7 days a week, as always.  We are disappointed that the support of a mall store was not financially feasible to continue but we are full steam ahead at our main store.  With all the new stock continuing to arrive daily at the Stevenson Drive store - don't miss out on all the great stuff (Creative Cafe, new albums, new Making Memories products & more!)

January 9, 2008 - Yippee!!!  The NEW BASIC GREY "TWO SCOOPS" has arrived - that's right - we're hopefully one of the FIRST stores to get this great new line of Basic Grey in - don't wait because you know the demand in terrific for this great line of products and you will love the new brads, ribbons, clear stamps and more!!!

January 8, 2008 - Finally!!!  The schedules for January, February and March 2008 are posted to our site.  Please review all the great classes and crops available to you and sign up early - don't miss out on all the fun!

January 4, 2007 - Happy Birthday to my Father who is one of the most admired people in my life.  Thank you for sharing your never ending work ethic with me - your values keep me going.

OK - on to business - we've been working late and long to make sure our classes and crop schedules are correct, accurate but most of all FABULOUS!!!  Remember - every Saturday you can join us in the Creative Cafe from Noon to 5 pm for a wonderful, fun project and we've decided that 2 of the 4 weeks each month will be a 12"x12" page layout that you will enjoy creating.  So, click on the left for our Calendar and Creative Cafe to check out all the great stuff we have in store!!!  We will be posting photos of the samples from Creative Cafe and classes as soon as possible so watch for even more to come!  Don't delay in signing up because you all know, crops and classes fill quickly!  No need to register for Creative Cafe - just join as a member for $5 and come on in!  Everyone is welcome...

OK - We don't know where the month of December went but everyone at Scrapbook Your Story (including Mimi) hope you had a wonderful holiday season and are ready for a terrific, scrappin' New Year in 2008. 

November 29, 2007 - OK - I just couldn't wait until December to keep you informed of the new goodies and all the activities coming up.  First, we've just gotten in all the new Making Memories Christmas papers and more.  There are beautiful new paints, embellishments, fibers/ribbon sets, calendar kits for baby girl, baby boy and general that are amazing.  The Making Memories "Season of Joy" idea book is wonderful and you will be too excited of where to start with you projects!!! 

I also just had to share my recent layout with Mimi and Santa Clause.  For all you pet lovers, remember that you can get your pet's photo taken with Santa at White Oaks Mall from 5 to 7 pm.  I snuck Mimi and the puppies in recently for photos as you will see and the Santa was wonderful as the photo shows!  If you would like the information from my layout - it's on display at our Stevenson Drive store, right inside the door!   (PS - the Elf at the mall said last Sunday when the photo session for pets was held they only had 4 pets show so let's really show them that we appreciate the photo opportunity with a handsome Santa and get your pets all gussied up for this Sunday- remember no reptiles allowed!)

We also have a GREAT super special on paper storage totes.  They are regularly $54.99 and we have them on special for only $29.99.  The even better part is - we've wrapped them for you so all those wrapped Christmas present boxes in our store window are storage totes waiting to find a Christmas tree.  The totes come with a clear cover top, 2 handles, 10 hanging file folders and hold up to 600 sheets of scrapbook paper - what a great deal!!!  We do have a limited number and when they are gone they are no longer available (but we will continue to carry the hanging files) so help us empty out our window of all the wrapped presents by surprising your favorite scrapbooker or treat yourself to a jumpstart on organizing all your favorite papers! 

November 27, 2007 - You will be so excited to check out all the information now available on our website in the Creative Cafe Section.  We've posted photos, descriptions and lots more.  We hope to see you this Saturday for our first project and opportunity to join our Creative Cafe Members. 

We also have great specials for all the Scrapbookers on your list and if you are completely stumped - Gift Certificates are always LOVED!!! 

PS - We've also just received Basic Grey Figgy Pudding line of Christmas products so don't delay - stock up today and enjoy!!!

November 19, 2007 - Happy Thanksgiving to all from Scrapbook Your Story.  Please note that our Stevenson Drive Store will close at 2 pm on Wednesday, Nov. 21st to begin holiday preparations.  The great news is our White Oaks Mall Store will be opened on Wednesday until 9 pm for those of you who won't be cooking and the mall store will also open at 6 am on Black Friday and Saturday with an amazing special buy limited in quantity so don't miss out.  Our Creative Cafe will have the 1st project layout on Saturday, December 1st so don't miss out on joining the Cafe for all our projects.  The first project will be a 12x12 layout with felt flowers - a sample is available to see and we will be building a section of our website for the Cafe Details.  Keep watching for more details and thank you for your continued support. 

Happy Fall 2007 - Where do we start to update you of all the great things that have been happening around the store???  In July, we attended CHA 2007 and basically is we saw it, we got it and the summary of that is new merchandise continues to arrive every week. 

Toward the end of August, we took my first "Camping Trip" with Mimi in tow and it rained almost the entire week.  The bad news was that poor Alex didn't get to go canoeing but the great news is that we got to visit a large mall near Valparaiso and discovered a scrapbook store within a mall (no, it wasn't an Archiver's)!!!  After shopping and getting time to speak with the owners of the store (who also had another free standing store like ours) - we realized that it just might be possible to have a store at our mall.  As the saying goes, the rest is history.  We opened our 2nd store on the 2nd floor of White Oaks Mall (outside of Bergner's) on October 1st so you can see where most of our time has been spent.

More personal, exciting news...Mimi is a proud mother (Bishon Frise) of 4 puppies, 2 boys and 2 girls.  It was a pretty exhausting delivery for Mimi and me since we labored for 3 days and if it wasn't for Dr. Janet Hill and her wonderful staff - the babies wouldn't have fared well.  They are amazing, talented professionals and if you ever need help - they are highly recommended.  (PS - Mimi doesn't care for Dr. Janet's white lab coat but without the white lab coat Mimi is convinced that she's pretty great human!)

Most of all - we appreciate your patience as I've finally gotten up the courage to begin managing our website without the hand holding of Dan (my computer guru and buddy) who is currently protecting our country over in the hot desert (and there's no chocolate fountains involved).  We all miss him terribly and hope all our great scrappers will be patient with me as I get this learned!!!

In regards to classes - we are having classes and they are going terrific.  Arlen's Holiday card class with Arlen was AWESOME and we are busy continuing to schedule more great classes.  We'll be sending you more information regarding the November classes in our weekly emails.

I also have good/bad news - the good news is our November 2007 crops are scheduled - the bad news is both are already sold out.  We will not be having any crops in December 2007 due to the busy holiday season of personal schedules but we promise to continue to bring more great crops in January 2008. 

Just another note - our CREATIVE CAFE from Creative Imaginations has arrived and we are busy getting ready to have this wonderful program set up at our store on Stevenson Drive.  There are LOTS of details to work out but you are going to LOVE this line of NEW products and FABULOUS projects.  We're very excited and again, will keep you updated via our emails.

Stay in touch and I'll do the same - Smiles,  Jill

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Don't forget, we offer fabulous classes with teachers who have years of experience and creativity when it comes to scrapbooking. See the following for a list of our upcoming events!

·  Our famous 6 to midnight crop on April 13th, $15.00. You'll have nothing but good luck cropping with us, eating a wonderful dinner, scrapbooking and winning door prizes! Reserve your spot today as our crops fill up fast! - sorry but this one is sold out - next crop is April 27th with just a few spots left!

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