Kits From Nancy's Craft Room

Wow, Nancy is just a wealth of inspiration. This is a preview of Nancy's Page Kit that will be available March 1st; however this might not be the only one for this month. That is why we are calling it "Kits from Nancy's Craft Room". That gives Nancy the freedom to create how many kits she wants to per month. We will try to preview all her kits a week or so before they are being released so you can pre-order them. You also have the option to join her "fan club" if you want. That entitles you to every kit that Nancy creates. You will be automatically added to the pre-order list so you don't miss out. We will only be making a certain number of kits plus our pre-orders and then that's it. CHA has come and gone. We started receiving catalogs from all the vendors. And started to place our orders so stay tuned to see when all the product starts to arrive. If anyone isn't receiving our weekly e-mails, e-mail us and let us know so we can fix it. Have a great week.

Tag Sale

Look at all the stuff!!!! Over 20 vendors dropped all of there stuff on Sunday and here is what is left after two days. We had women waiting for us Tuesday and boy do they know how to shop. We still have so much stuff left. Make a point this week to stop in and check out our tag sale.

We already have registrations coming in, did you fill yours out? April is coming quick.

I am working on this weeks e-mail so keeping looking for it on Friday.

Have a great week

Tag Sale Fever!!

WOW, We have over 20 vendors in our biggest tag sale ever. We have so much stuff to put out. I am still trying to figure out where we are going to put all of it. Barb and I are amazed at all the different styles that our customers have. On a different subject, rumor has it that Nancy is developing more kits for this month and for the months ahead. She had so many designs up her sleave just itiching to get out. Go Nancy!! This weeks assignment is to visit me and check out our Tag Sale. Our customers took the time to go through their stash and make the hard decision to let go of their stuff. It is only fair that we take the time to look through it all. Create something for your valentine this week.

Back and better than ever!!!

OK We are back on-line. The web site is operational after a few days of work. We will be doing some maintenance at night to work out the kinks. We had a busy week:

• New Monthly Page Kits SOLD OUT
• Our Tag Sale next week will have over 20 vendors
• New Product came in
• Registration is now OPEN for our weekend retreat

Classes comin up next week:

Acrylic x2 W/ Janene 1pm $40

Double Disney w/ Nancy

February 12th @7pm $24

Call the store for more class information.

Web Site Issues

Hi guys, I just wanted to let you know that we are having issues with our web site right now. Please be patient, hopefully it will be resolved by tonight. With a successfull store such as ours you need to have a professional image out on the web, and this is something that we have been working towards. We just didn't plan on making the transition this soon and effecting our customers the way it did. Sorry about that. A BIG thank you to everyone that called to report the web problems. Keep your fingers crossed that we will be up and running by tonight. Until then keep checking back here and the message board for up to the minute news.

Sorry Nancy, We made an Ooops

We made a BIG mistake. We took the picture (see below) and added it to the blog and the e-mail to all of our customers and then it happened. Nancy called and told us we put the pages backwards. Sorry Nancy, please forgive us.

This is the actual way that this layout should be displayed.

Nancy's Class will be held on Feb 26th @ 7pm Call the store to reserve your spot.

Show Nancy some support make this a SOLD out class!!!!

NEW Monthly Page kits

Starting Tomorrow Feburary 1 we will be offering Montly page kits ($10), by Nancy. She worked really hard to bring us this awesome kit. Call to reserve your kit before they are gone.

Here is a close up the middle with some of the colors. The greens and the blues don't really show up as well as we would have wanted them too.

Nancy also put together this Valentines Class together for Feb 26th @ $7pm 18. So sign up today so you don't miss this one.

Nancy used the papers below for this layout. Nancy also designed a Kids Class.

February 9th $20

Call the store to sign up for all of Nancy's classes and kits. Nancy will also be designing the kids camp projects this month during Feb break. The kids camp will run from Feb 19 -Feb 22 Cost is $25 per day and that includes craft and a snack. Camp runs from 10 to 12:30 just enough time for you to have some "ME Time" so you can survive the week with the kids at home.

Inventory Blow Out Sale

It was a busy morning, the website disappeared, my original blog that I typed this morning disappeared. What else will disappear? Well I hope some of our Inventory will disappear:

• 50% off selected items
• buy 1 get 2 free on select papers

Our sale will run this week only. After that we have a Superbowl crop and then we have our customer tag sale. Search your old inventory and purge your stash, bring it in turn your old stuff into STORE CREDIT!!!!

Last year we had a couple of women made over $90 in-store credit. It was like they had a mini shopping spree. Boy did they have fun.

This week your assignment is to finish your challenge and bring it in. While your here look at our sale items. Once you return home weed through your old stuff think about your style and how it has changed since your first sticker. Then call me and get your FREE vendor number and start preparing for the tag sale. The Tag sale will run Feb 12- 17th . Nobody can pass up a good tag sale.

I have to work on our weekly e-mail with Sue. If there is something missing from our e-mails let us know. What do you want to see in our weekly e-mail? Have you been getting our e-mails. If not -you need to go to our web site http://www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com/ and add your name to the list. Did you already sign up BUT haven't gotten anything? E-mail me! Your information might have changed or we might have it wrong. Don't miss an issue, Sign up today.

If you want to add us to your blog you can. We welcome FREE listings.

Check back soon, Scrap some thing today!!!

Recovering from another Awesome Retreat

Here is Erica this retreats WINNER of our Big grand prize calling her husband to tell him that she won. She was so excited. Erica have you set up your scraproom yet??

Her prize included beautiful Organizers for her Scraproom plus a Scor-it see the picture below:

Angelia Wigginton was such a great teacher. All of our scrappers had nothing but wonderful things to say about her. We always enjoy having her visit. I can't wait to have to return. We already miss her.

We also had a layout challenge on Saturday. Andrea was our winner, her layout used all the papers that we gave out at the retreat. Her winning layout is below along with her working at her 6ft of work space.

Our next retreat is April 4th-6th and we have Lisa M. Pace coming in April. Save those dates and start planning those pages. I will have more details coming about that in the coming weeks. After the retreat we have empty walls screaming for new stuff. We have boxes arriving and I am trying to put all of our stuff out as fast as I can. Nancy is working on some upcoming classes for the Kids and for Adults. Sue is always working on the weekly e-mails that we send out and the meetup board. Congrats to Deb for starting her own blog http://www.debwisker.typepad.com/ It looks great. Go visit and say Hi.

Classes for the New Year

Happy New Year!!!!!

This is just a sampling of all the new classes we are offering in the months to come. Check out our website to see when we are offering them and who is teaching them.

Don't forget to sign up to receive our weekly e-mails to keep up to date on all of our classes that we offer.

www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com

Angelia Wigginton is back for a second round in January

As we head into the last week before christmas, we start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. After braving the stores to shop for our families we have wrapped all of our gifts and wait for Christmas. We has so much going on these past weeks. The snow and sleat did not stop us from having our cookie swap and altered receipe box. It didn't stop our delivery truck brining in all of our new acylic albums in from all of our suppliers. This weather certinly didn't stop the staff of the Sheraton Danbury from coming down to bring us presents. We love Chocolate! Thanks Guys. Our registration is open for our January retreats and the Sheraton is holding some rooms for our weary scrappers.

You can go to our website: www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com

and download our registration form.

We still have some spots left for Angelia's Classes BUT they are filling up fast.

Conversation with you Mini Album Sat. 10am $50

Class Length: 2hrs Class Project: 4x10 album with 12 pages

This album with a chipboard cover is definitely designed with some beautiful products- K& Company's Wild Saffron Papers, decorative brads, rhinestones, colorful rubons, glitter accented paper flowers, intricate paper ribbon and chipboard embellishments take care of that! And there are techniques to please all.

It's Your Birthday Sat. 7pm $50

Class Length: 2hrs Class Project: 5.5x4.75 Chipboard Album & 1 12 x12 Layout

This class is all about the numbers. No matter if that number is "3", "23", or even "73", because this mini album and bonus 12x12 double page spread will please those of any age. You will create your album with KI Surprise patterned papers-The "fun stuff" includes a bit of Hambly transparency, Scenic Route Rubons, brads,ribbon, rhinestones, buttons, and American Crafts Chipboard numbers.

Be Mine Friday 7pm $40

Class Length: 2hrs Class Project: 3 12 x12 Layouts

Any day is a goof day to celebrate those we love, and with Valentine's Day near, it's the perfect time to create some "hot pages" for your scrapbooks

Home/Family Altered Album Sun. 10am $50

Class Length: 2hrs Class Project: Altered metal container & 4x4.25 mini album

So often our mini albums remain in a drawer or a box pushed beneath a desk. This class will change that! Not only will you create a mini album dedicated to your home and family, but you'll also alter a beautiful container, perfect for displaying in your home or office.

Details that count Sat. 3pm $40

Class Length: 2hrs Class Project: 3 12 x12 Layouts

I'm a firm believer that beautiful pages don't have to take hours. Instead, I strive to add meaning to my photos and stories. The Christmas themed class is sure to please with color, sparkle and lots of fun details. You will design with Scenic Route Roxbury papers, and add scents of glittered chipboard, brads, buttons, hand stitching and die cuts. This class is the perfect antidote for all those Christmas photos you have tucked away.

Goto our website to down load the registration form for our crop retreat and make sure you call the store or e-mail lastingm@optonline.net to reserve your class spot for Angelia. Have a Very Scrappy Holiday. Make sure you take alot of pictures that you can scrap at the retreat. Julie

Christmas Happenings

Like a christmas package we are waititng to open we are counting down the days til Angela Moen comes to vist and teach some of her awesome classes. I talked about them last post. This month we have some other great classes coming up.

All of our classes can be ordered after the classes have been taught. We also have a retreat coming January 11-13 @ the Sheraton Danbury. Angelia Wigginton will be joinng us again. We can't wait Keep checking our blog and website to see the classes Angelia Will be teaching. April 4-6 we will be having Lisa M Pace from Maya Road joining us as well. Save the dates for our 2008 Retreats. We also have a Holiday Kit You can e-mail us if you want to order the KIT for $20. Lastingm@optonline.net Create lasting memories...with us this holiday season

Winners, Winners everywhere!!!!

It is already November, and we have had so much going on. Sorry we haven't blogged in a while, we were busy.

We wanted to congratulate CHRISTINE for this months challenge. She used the product challenge "stickles" in her layout.

Next months product challenge is "Ranger Crackle Paint". Submissions are due at the end of the month. So get busy!!!

The last weekend in October we had our weekend retreat featuring Jeanene and Nancy teaching classes for our customers. Our GRAND Prize winner MARIA was very surprised to get this awesome prize.

Our next two months are going to be very eventful as well. You have to keep checking our blog and website to keep up to date. If you feel you are missing all of our news go to our website and sign up to receive our weekly newsletter. www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com Until we can crop again.....Julie

Wow want a great day!! I want to thank all the stores for participating in our first ScrapAround Bus Tour. We met so many wonderful people. Sue, our bus coordinator took pictures of our bus tour so I wanted to share them with you.

I also wanted to thank all of our customers who made ScrapPink an awesome weekend. We had some great ladies scrappin away. We raised over $300 for the Susan G Koman Fdn.

We also have some great classes and retreats coming up that you don't want to miss!!!

Janene Class Basic Grey Periphery Album: Learn how to create your own mini-albums from a piece of chipboard. Janene will show you how to get the "perfect" bind. In addition, you'll learnseveral techniques for creating pockets and folders. You will be able to apply these simple techniques to all of your projects. Paper featured in this project is from Basic Grey's Periphery line. 10/27 From 1-3:30

Lace-Up Book: In this class you will learn some great techniques while completing an adorable accordion book. Using Basic Grey's Infuse line of papers and die cuts along with

Daisy Bucket's -you will ink and sand. Two greattechniques to apply to any project. 10/27 From 10-12

Register for the entire weekend and receive this class taught by Nancy FREE

Registration Form: http://www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com/crop_retreat_reg_form.pdf

We also have Angela Bauer from the Button Farm

Coming in Novemeber to teach her awesome mini books

The Button Farm Angela will be joining us from the Button Farm Nov 30 to Dec 2. She will be teaching us several of her favorite books she has made. Keep checking your e-mails for more details,in the coming weeks. Registration will be open soon. Space will be limited for each class. Kits will also be on hand for seperate purchases. Angela has over nine years of scrapbook instruction experience under her belt as well as notoriety in many national publications. Her work has been published over 50 times in many books and magazines, including Creating Keepsakes, Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, Cards! Cantata Scrapbooks ETC, and a few more! Her greatest love is teaching the art of scrapbooking to others and watching people bloom with happiness when they complete their scrapbook treasures

www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com

We have so much to tell you!!!!!

Wow where do I begin!!!

We just came back from the Scrapbook Expo in Long Island. We had a great time, and we saw some of our customers and friends from the industry. Alot of people we very interested in our bus tour, they just has to check there schedule. While we were getting ready for the expo we have also been getting ready for our bus tour.

We have been collecting stuff from our distributors and putting special things together to put in the goodie bags. Sue has been working on the newspaper for the trip and the goodie bags. The other stores have been busy as well. Two buses are sold out one bus has 5 spots left. We still have spaces available- don't wait til the last minute.

Would you like to see pictures of the new store!!!

Isn't it pretty!!! We have new product and new classes- but for that you have to see our website http://www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com/ I am so sorry that we has so many problems with our e-mail. It is too complicated to even begin to go into but for now this is our address. lastingm@optonline.net We also have our ScrapPink Events coming up. Seats are filling up and Barb and I are getting excited. Deb has organized some dessert donations so we won't go hungary. We have some raffles planned plus a monthly challenge. So keep checking the blog and comments are welcomed. We love to hear from you. Create lasting memories....with us

New E-mail Newsletter

Just wanted to tell everyone that we sent out invitations to join our Lasting Memories Scrapbooking Newsletter Group. We decided to team up with Yahoo to distribute our newsletters to make sure our customers get them. Check you e-mail and if you didn't get one e-mail me and I will resend you another invite. If you did get an e-mail then please join the group so we can count you in. We can't send out an e-mail until we get enough people on our list. Create lasting memories with us. Don't get left behind join the "in the know crowd" NOW!! Julie & Barb

Scrappin NEW Store

WOW After 6 Weeks and countless phone calls and e-mails later we are OPEN for Business. We have so many things going on I don't know where to start.

• Sept 7 & 8 we will be at Scrapbook Expo at Hofstra
• Weekend of Sept 28th We will have a ScrapPink Event for Breast Cancer
• October 14th our Tri State ScrapAround **Don't Miss the Bus**
• October 26-28 Weekend RETREAT!!! Guest Teacher to be announced
• New Classes and Kids Camp

OK Now that I got the great stuff out of the way I can now tell you guys what kind of hell we have been going through.

So as you can see we were closed for over SIX weeks, and that was insane and we had NO control over it. The town we now are in took their time in granting our CO. They also went on vacation. Now we are having e-mail problems. We changed our e-mail and now knowbody is receiving our e-mails. Very Frustrating!!!!So now we can't tell all of our customers about our classes and kids camp.

Our NEW e-mail address is info@lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com

Our New Address is 267 Route 118, Somers New York.

Our website is still the same www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com

I will post more soon. Please update your address books so you can receive our newsletter.

Julie

4 Days left until we move

TODAYS SPOTLIGHT SPECIAL:

30% off Select Punches

Hurry while supplies last.

Sale Ends JUNE 30, 2007

8 DAYS LEFT OF THE MOVING SALE

TODAYS SPOTLIGHT SPECIAL:

Buy 1

select patterened paper

Get 1

select patterened paper FREE

Hurry while supplies last.

Sale Ends JUNE 30, 2007

10 days til we move

OK today's MOVING Spotlight Item is:

Memory Makers Paint

$.99 EACH

Buy 5 get one FREE

We all so have select items

30-50% off

All sales END JUNE 30