CROPTOBER Extravangaza

CROPTOBER Extravaganza Weekend!!! October 23-25, 2009 @ Danbury Plaza, CT Register NOW Scroll down to see the AWESOME LINE UP!!!

Featured Artist: Danielle Flanders

Home Spun with Heart I am a certified K-8 teacher turned stay-at-home-mom with 2 beautiful girls and live near Albany, NY with my husband of 10 years! Creating things has always been my passion since I can remember! Scrapbooking and cardmaking were introduced to me when my first daughter was born 9 years ago. Since then I have really flourished and adore trying new techniques! I enjoy creating scrapbooks for my daughters and want them to know how we feel about being parents, how much they are cherished, and create something memorable for them to keep forever. But the process is what I really enjoy the most! I feel my style is girly, artsy, creative and a bit of shabby chic thrown in for good measure! Current Design Teams Label Tulip: Designer, April 2009 to present. Dream Street Papers: Designer, November 2008 to present. Melissa Frances: Designer, April 2008 to present. Pink Paislee: Designer, February 2008 to present. Right at Home Scrapbooking: Freelance Designer, Nov. 2007 to present. Card-a-licious challenge blog: Design Team Member, Sept. 2008 to present. Classes will be given SATURDAY. More Details to follow!!

Professional Photographer: Rob Zukowski

Understanding Your Digital Camera Sign up now- Seating is limited!! 1: 10 Top Photography Composition Rules: Rule of Thirds Balancing Elements Leading Lines Symmetry and Patterns Viewpoint Background Create Depth Framing Cropping Experimentation Class Friday Night @ 7:30 Cost $15 2: A Guide To Portrait Photography/10 Tips for Great Child Portraits Portrait photography can be one of the more challenging aspects of photography; capturing a photo that appears natural and conveys the subject's personality is a skill that takes practice. The good news is you don't need any fancy equipment to snap great portraits, because portrait photography is about capturing a sense of a person's character, rather than producing technically perfect compositions. These tips will help you move beyond simple 'snapshots' to taking some truly engaging portrait photos. Class Saturday Morning @ 10:00 Cost $15 3. Using Your Digital SLR: The Basics Digital SLR Camera Settings Explained Digital SLR's are not as easy as point and shoot camera's due to them having many more settings for you to learn how to use. These basics will is help you to understand your digital camera better. Part1.Fully automatic settings: Full Auto Portrait Landscape Close Up Sports Night Portrait Flash Off Part 2. Frequently Used Manual Settings Class Saturday @ 12:00 Noon Cost $15 4. Composition in the Wild Outdoor class: Rob will take you outside with your camera for hands on lesson. (Weather permitting) Saturday Afternoon time to be determined. Cost $15

WAIT There's more!!!

We will have a Massage Therapist with her chair offering Massages for $1 per minute. Reservations are NOT required. She will be there ALL WEEKEND!!!!! 3 G's Gold Will be at our crop 5pm Saturday. Reservations are required for this event. Turn your unwanted jewelry into CA$H. They buy gold, platinum & silver, and they pay you ON THE SPOT!! If you have any questions you can call them 973-226-2274 Karen Menard "The Cricut Lady" will be stopping by our crop. More details to follow. Don't miss an e-mail. This weekend is our SCRAP PINK Weekend. Both the Message Therapist and 3G's Gold will be donating a portion of their profits towards Scrap Pink. Plus there will be plenty opportunities for you to participate in several fundraisers.

Oops, We forgot to mention to make your room reservations.

Don't forget to tell them your with us. You receive a special room rate. www.danburyplaza.com Croptober Extravangaza Weekend October 23-25, 2009 For some self healing and renewal, plus a little shopping too! Spend the weekend with us. Click here for registration forms Different packages available. Come join us to catch up with friends, shop, crop and more.

Taking Orders for our NEW Page Kits

These are just too much. E-mail us to place your orders for these two awesome kits

Upcoming Crops From July to December

OK With the changing economy and other things we have been scrambling to set up our crops for the upcoming 6months. Set your calendar to SCRAP and join us.

• July 11, 2009 Lincolndale Clubhouse, Lincolndale, NY

• August 14-16 Crop Classix, Trumbull, CT

• August 21-23 Weekend Retreat Danbury Plaza

• September 26, 2009 Lincondale Clubhouse, Lincolndale NY

• October 23-25 Weekend Retreat Danbury Plaza

• November 13-15 Crop Classix, Harrisburg, PA

• November 21, 2009Lincolndale Clubhouse, Lincolndale NY

• December 12, 2009Lincolndale Clubhouse, Lincolndale NY

Dates and places are subject to change, as soon as more dates are available we will post them.

Look for us on TWITTER : suzyv98 and on Facebook: Lasting Memories Scrapbooking

I know it's been a while

Ok It has been a few months since we have blogged, but I have my reasons. It was kinda depressing when the store closed, and then other stores closed it was really upsetting. The New Year has brought NEW CROPS and NEW PRODUCT. We have NEW CLASSES at the CROPS If you go to our Website www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com it will have more details on our Feburary 7th 2009 CROP

After the dust settles

Well, we just survived our first crop after the store closed. And we are getting ready for our next crop on Dec 6th. Make sure you call to reserve your space by Dec 1st. If we don't get enough we might have to postpone it until January.

The firehouse is really nice. There are plenty of outlets for powerstrips and plenty of room to spread out. We have a nice little setup there. We had a pretty nice spread of NEW product and a couple of great discounts at the discount table.

We also just sent out an e-mail to the meetup group asking for cookie/card swappers. Dec 16th we are having a card/cookie swap. goto the meetup group and sign up for the swap pick one or both. Once you sign up for the swap you will be given directions to Julie's house for the swap.

Taking the show on the road....Store closing

We are taking our Show on the Road. After much consideration Barbara and I have decided to close our doors and hit the road. We are very sad that it has come to this but the state of the economy has left us no choice but to close the store.We will not be totally out of the scrapbooking loop. When one door closes another door opens. We will attempt to have a crop once a month at a local venue. In addition, we will be attending Cropclassix and Croptopia get a ways. We will continue to have the latest products, Bazzill card stock, and basic tools for sale at the crops. We have meet so many wonderful people and made life long friends through scrapbooking. We hope everyone will continue to attend crops so we can keep the friendships we have made over the last five years. All of our teachers will continue to teach classes at our crops along with our guest artist. We will continue to send out e-mails for our up to date information. Here is our schedule through March

• October 24-26 Danbury
• November 22 All day at the firehouse
• December 6 All day at the firehouse
• January 9-11 Danbury
• January 23-25 CropClassix @ Cape May, NJ
• February 27-March 1 Croptopia Get a way @ Mystic, CT
• February 7th All day at the firehouse
• March 7th All day at the firehouse
• March 27-29 Croptopia Get a way @ Parsippany, NJ

All dates and location are subject to change. Sincerely,Julie & Barb Lasting Memories Scrapbook

ScrapPink Updates

We have 4 Spots Open for Friday and we have 1 spot open on Saturday. We have more available on Sunday. Call the store to reserve your spot.

We are also open on Sunday 11 to 4 check our website for all hours and contact information.

If you are getting our e-mails then you would already know that we are having FREE Monday night crops a couple times a month. If you can't make the evening you can always come of Friday FREE day crops.

Barb and I hope to see you soon.

Look at what is coming up in October

Scrap Pink Crop 4 Cure.... Sept 26-28th

Join us Sept 26-28 at our store and at Purdy's Clubhouse to scrap for a cure. We will have make n takes and raffles to help raise money for ScrapPINK. We will also have Limited Edition Basic Grey Scrapink Mini Books for purchase.

• Friday, Sept 26 at LM 6pm to Midnight $25
• Saturday, Sept 27 at Purdy's Clubhouse 10am to 10pm $60
• Sunday, Sept 28 at LM 11am to 5pm $20

Reserve your seat now. Space is limited Friday and Sunday. Easy directions to Purdy's will be provided to all who are registered for Saturday.

Sue, has come up with a NEW soccer layout. You can order it in your team colors if needed. The cost is $10 for this layout.

First week of school

Wow, I can't believe that I just sent out the e-mail for the first week of school. YEAH! All the kids are getting on the bus and waving goodbye. It's time for you mothers to take time for mothers to take time for yourselves. Come and scrapbook.

As a treat for all you hard working mothers, we are having a FREE back to school crop on Thursday Sept 4th from 10 to 3. Add this to your schedule and make time for YOU.

We are still unpacking from our latest field trip. We just returned from a crop in Stamford, CT want to extend a BIG Welcome and Thanks to all of the new friends that we met. We hope to see them all soon at one of our crops.

Save the Date: 2nd annual CROP PINK We raised over $300 last year and hope to beat it, so grab your calendar and pencil in Sept 26 and 27th. Sept 26th we are having at the store, seats are limited, CALL and reserve your spot. Sept 27th we are having at one of our local venue so as soon as it is approved we will fill you in with those details, BUT put yourself on the list NOW and make a commitment to scrap for a cure.

Back by popular demand -Angelia Wigginton will be teaching at our crop in October. She is currently several projects for us. I can't wait to see what she has in store for us. This is something you don't want to miss.

Now that we have made time for you, you need to make time to scrap with us. See you at our next crop.

Summer is in Full Swing

I hope everyone is having a great summer. It has been a bit too quite here. We miss everyone. Sue just got back from vacation. In fact she ia having an Ice Cream CROP tonight at the store from 6 to ??? If you want to join her give her a call or stop by. We have some new layouts and kits if anyone is interested, you can go look at our website. http://www.lastingmemoriesscrapbook.com/

I noticed that with the price of gas and food these days that alot of people are really watching there hobbies pricies. I want to remind everyone that we take AC Moore & Michaels Coupons upto 30%. Also you can come and crop for FREE during the day when we are open as long as you have our key tags.

Keep watching our e-mails for new product updates. Summer CHA came and went so we should be getting our NEW stuff pretty soon. Barb and I will be packing up to head to Stamford, CT next week for the crop classix. And then we will be gearing up for Scrap Pink in September. And then our own crop in the end of October when we get back from our first CRUISE.

Stay in touch, we will have a full line of classes in the fall. Make room in your schedule to crop when the kids goto school.

Summer Hours Updates

Well we survied the CROP and we had so much fun. Denise and Janene taught wonderful classes. We missed all of our regulars that couldn't make it due to the date change. We have another crop in August with Crop Classix. If you check our website and follow the links you will see the crops that we will be attending. Sue has been cutting some page layouts with the pazzle so keep an eyeful watch on your e-mail to see what we are creating. Nancy has been in South Carolina for a few weeks now and we MISS her SOOOO much. We can't wait to see what she created while on vacation. We have NEW Summer hours. We will be closed Sunday-Wednesday, unless we have Kids CAMP. We will be open Thursday-Saturday. Check the website for hours and cropping time. Once I know more I will post. Thanks for stickin around.

Important Message

After much thought, Barbara and I have decided to restructure our business. We want to increase the amount of space we have in the store for our crops. In order to do this, we need to clear out some inventory. We will be having a 20% off sale on much of the merchandise in our store starting Tuesday July 1st. STORE HOURS FOR THE WEEK OF FOURTH OF JULY JULY 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD-10:00 AM-5:00 PM CLOSED FOR THE 4TH , 5TH, 6TH AND 7TH After our July crop retreat weekend, we will be scaling back our store hours. We will continue to have classes on Thursday evenings.

Crops will be held twice a month on Friday nights from 6pm-12am. Once a month, we will hold all day crops on Saturday from 10am-10pm. We will continue to hold Crops at the hotel four times a year. Kids classes and the kid's camps that are scheduled for July and August will not change. We will continue to offer birthday parties and Girl Scout Troop events at your request. We know that times are tough for everyone and we are doing this in hopes that it will keep everyone scrapping.

Where do I begin....

OK, Try to keep up. First of all sorry I haven't BLOGGED. The days go by so fast and then WOW it has been weeks since I have blogged. A few weeks before we went to MEMORY EXPO we partnered up with Croptopia Getaways. We will be sailing the highseas in October on our first CRUISE to Bermuda. You can join us, goto our website and click on the ship for more details. We had a great time at Memory EXPO. If you came to our booth and bought something we want to hear from YOU!! We need your opinion, so give us a call or e-mail. We will need your receipt number so have it ready. Thanks for your input.

This is Nancy's Newest Kit is available ORDER yours today

We have been getting in lots of new product since the NY Stationary Show and our inventory is stocked with the newest colors and embellishments from K& Company & Memory Makers.

LOOK How cute these are!!!

OK Now are you ready for this....We had to change our date for the retreat. The hotel totally screwed us up. As we were finalizing our plans (and confirming for the 3rd time) They were like OH by the way your dates are not available. So you can see how I started my day. I had to redo our registration forms and hope that everyone that wanted to attend can still come. Our Registration form is also on the website. I talked to Barb and because of all the problems we are having with the date change we are offering $10 off packages A&B as long as you register by June 18th.

Custom Graduation Layouts in your School Colors

Sue has been very busy. Not only is she updating our web site and taking all of our pictures for the e-mails and web site she is dabbling with the Pazzle. This is the first of many NEW layouts Sue will be creating. If you have any ideas you can e-mail the store and Sue will add it to her list of layouts.

Happiness is...June 10 @ 7pm

A big welcome to our newest Instructor Denise

Denise will be teaching classes starting in JUNE. Check our web site for MORE Classes and information from all of our awesome teachers.

Don't forget, We are having a SALE, stop by and check out our stuff. Sale items range from 30 to 50% OFF.

Well that is all for now I will try to blog in a few days, but I will be getting ready for our all day crop JUNE 14th.

Create lasting memories with us!!!!

There is always something going on.....

Congrats to Janene and Dan on their engagement. Big Hudge Brownie points go out to Dan and his Amazing show of LOVE to Janene and UNDERSTANDING of her true passion for scrapbooking. Dan you single handedly made millions of woman jealous. All the best to both of you. If you didn't know Dan placed this add in Creating Keepsake Magazine for all the world to see. Janene is one of our awesome teachers and she will be teaching her STAR BOOK class on Sunday May 18th at 11:30, the cost is $30.

A week has gone by and we have unpacked our boxes and Lisa has traveled safely back to Texas. Now we are gearing up for the next project.

It has been 2 weeks since my last post and so much has gone on as you can see. The next couple of weeks will be busy too. We have Memory Expo and National Scrapbooking weekend coming up. And next week we have kids camp Tues - Friday. I also wanted to send out a big Thank You to our newest customers that came all the way from England to shop at our store. I had a wonderful time with them and I hope they come back and visit us soon. I know when they get home they will be the envy of all their scrapbooking friends. Maybe they will cross the ocean for one of our crops, and bring their friends, wouldn't that be fun.

I love the way all these new products look. Don't you?

Have agreat weekend and we will see you at the store real soon!!!!

The boxes keep arriving and we started packing. The countdown has begun. Less than 24 hours I will be loading my truck and heading up to Danbury to our weekend retreat. I cannot express enough that our store will be closed and we will be operating out of our Mini Store at the Sheraton. Lisa arrives tomorrow night, I can't wait to meet her in person. We still have room in some of her classes if anyone wants to attend you can look at our website to see the times or if you want to buy a kit after the class you can. Well, we have a lot to get done, so I will leave you until Tuesday. That is when the store will reopen. If you miss us or if you NEED to get some much needed supplies or inspiration stop by. New Stuff is coming in everyday from CHA so if you can't wait, join us in Danbury.

Too much going on

Sorry I havn't posted since last month but we have been trying to keep up with the web page and the weekly e-mails PLUS plan a weekend retreat with Lisa M. Pace. We have new kits from Nancy's Craft Room. The last kit we put on the blog has been backordered, some of the papers that Nancy's picked are on backorder. So we put up another kit until the memories kit is available.

There is only a couple of these kits left so if you want them call me at the store. We are gearing up for our April retreat. Lisa M. Pace is packing her bags and gearing up to come to teach us some great classes. I will be posting the class pictures today on a slide show.

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.