Quickutz! We all want it now!

Hello everyone!

I hope this cold weather does not have you down in the dumps! If so come on in to Windy City Scrapbooking and get the new releases from Quickutz!! Did you know if you pre order your platform now you can get the heart die to go with it for FREE! No, that is not a typo-just preorder your platform and you will also get the border heart die for free! I am so excited about the new platform to come for the revolution to come I can hardly wait for Mid March to get here! I guess the new dies that were just released will just have to do! I know I am getting the baseball and the magetic wand for sure...and I think I am going to get Rockstar as well just because I love the name!

Speaking of Rockstars… I have another story to tell you about from CHA! Let's see how much we can embarrass Susan this trip (that would be me talking about myself in third person :) Our rep from Quickutz, Spencer, took Christina and me out to dinner last Monday night with some other stores from around the country as well. We of course were having a good time and did not cause too much trouble (I know define trouble to me and then I will tell the truth.) Well Christina told the guys it was my birthday and they decided to sing to me. The men of Quickutz serenaded me with the Happy Birthday song and I don't think I stop blushing for two hours afterwards.( I felt like I was in college again being serenaded from my husband's fraternity and that was a long time ago!) This had to be the best birthday present in a long time(in fact, my husband said "Does that mean I don't have to get you a present now? wink, wink?) .Thanks Christina for opening your big mouth!! LOL! And if you haven't heard I have a slight crush on a certain someone at Quickutz! And let me tell you-all your dreams can come true at Disneyland!!!! :) I thought I would share a few pictures from the evening and tell you to stay posted because the rockstar men of Quickutz will be visiting Windy City Scrapbooking this summer and I have a few tricks up my sleeves before then!





TTFN!Susan(Don’t laugh too much at how silly I look!)

Do you know who this is?

I am sure most you do! But low and behold I had no idea! Now before you start giving me a hard time let me tell you how the story begins...Christina and me we at a private party for Creative Imaginations on Saturday evening and we were hanging out with our friends Danelle Johnson, Melodee Langworthy and Alison Wong having dinner. The next thing I know a few more ladies join us at the table but I am really not paying attention because we were looking through the catalog trying to order NEW things for the store. Well the next thing you know Danelle comes up and asks me if Ali left? I thought she was talking about Alison Wong from Creative Cafe--oh no it was not that simple. Ali comes back with her plate and Danelle says I thought you said Ali left and I said I don't know where she went and then Danelle said "I mean this Ali-do you know who she is Susan?" Like a fool I said no-well for goodness sakes it was ALI EDWARS! The WHOLE table is laughing, Danelle is laughing so hard and I was as red as a tomato! Ali Edwards loved it--she said it was so nice to sit down and just relax. There is more to this story but I think you had to be there. But as I am trying to back pedal and say yeah I know who she is (I mean I have read a book or two! :), but I never really looked at her face. Basically I made the biggest fool out of myself and I just keep laughing (as did Christina!!!). Ali was so nice and she really did not care at all, it was VERY refreshing to hear that from her. So of course I had to call Alraynita and tell her my story and she told me I was fired from Windy City Scrapbooking...again in my defense I may not be up on all that but I was trying to order more goodies for the store! I think Al will forgive me when I show her a few more pictures.


Hopefully someday when I meet Ali again she will just laugh if she remembers me-I know she had to be the sweetest person I meet all show!


To make matters worse who is the first person I see the next morning at Basicgrey-yep, you guessed it! Ali Edwards! So of course the joker I am said"Hey who are you again?" and thankfully she just laughed and gave me a hug. I think my face was still red from the day before! So that was the first time I made a fool of myself but of course it was not the last time! I don't know what it was about this show that my head was not on straight. As I post more pictures remember my job while I am there is to help order product(I feel like I am being defensive :) but sometimes to have a good time you just have to Simplify(meaning not worrying what other people are thinking) and go with it!




Here are a few more pictures from that evening at Creative Imaginations! The new Creative Cafe stuff is awesome! I really hope you all come in to a Happy Hour and check them out! They are pretty simple to do and you have a project already done! We do have kits available to buy if you can't stick around for the actual Happy Hour but they are so much fun you will want to!

Have a great day! Happy Birthday to me(the 15th) and later today I will share more photos and more stories!

-Susan

Happy Valentine's Day!! And more from CHA!

Hello everyone! It is so nice to be back home in Chicago (yes cold weather and all, but I missed my family!). And boy oh boy are the boxes going to be rolling in pretty soon! Our UPS man Mr. Harold is not going to be very happy with us with all of our boxes!

I wanted to say Happy Valentine's Day to all of you! Don't forget we have our lollipop tree on Valentines Day which is either a prize pack or a discount between 10 and 50% off! Come have a treat on us!

Christina and I did make it home safely and all in once piece! I have lots of pictures to share with you so I will be doing that as well! Plus we have a contest we are going to need LOTS of people to vote on so be watching the blog for that. As Christina said earlier I do have some funny pictures to show you as well-pretty much me making a fool out of myself! Nothing new right?! :)

I have to share a few photos from a new company we will be carrying here at Windy City Scrapbooking-Clear Scraps! They have awesome acrylic albums in a variety of shapes and sizes. Be watching for Alraynita to be using some of these in her upcoming classes (I know she is going to be doing a birthday album soon!). The pictures at the top of this are from Clear Scraps.

Also one of my FAVORITE booths to go to is Technique Tuesday. They have the most AMAZING samples. Each and every time I go to their booth I want to take a picture of every single sample they have! I mean it! So you will see several photos from Technique Tuesday. Don't forget we have a promotion with them that if you buy $50 worth of Technique Tuesday you can choose a collector set for free. If you don't know about this program or who this company is-just ask!

I am going to post more tomorrow to keep you hanging on but we do have some funny stories to tell!

Until next time-Susan

Back in Chicago -- WAY over budget

So, I wanted to be able to post on the blog each day from CHA, but it didn't quite happen that way. We had a free but SLOW internet connection in our hotel room, so posting and downloading photos was a challenge. Now I will try & inundate you with lots of great stuff we ordered for Windy City! Of course, I tried to stick to my husband-created budget, but I went "a bit" over that {you know how that goes with SB supplies} so the store will SOON be stocked again with TONS of great stuff like patterned transparent sheets, new Basicgrey, new birthday items, new specialty papers, new QuicKutz, etc. However, I am SOOOOOO tired today since the pane was delayed and I didn't get home until after midnight and was still too pumped up to sleep! So, I have not organized myself enough to create a list for you of all that is coming, but I can post a few more photos. These are photos from the beginning of the trip. Susan has the rest on her camera, and I never had the chance to download them onto my computer so she PROMISES to download them to the blog soon. until she does, I will post what I can, and I will also try and find a funny or slightly embarrassing photo of Susan to post on the site until she starts posting photos for you! (We had a REALLY good time out there as you will see!) Hope you enjoy & thanks for reading our blog! -- Christina

New stuff! New Stuff! New Stuff!

It's been awhile since we last posted, and we PROMISE to not let that happen! For those of you who have seen the store recently, it is looking a little (and I stress "a little") "empty", but now all that is changing! Inventory is over (for the most part) and the manufacturers are beginning to ship NEW products to us. As I write this, Susan and I are in Anaheim on our yearly buying trip to CHA (our industry's winter trade show) and by, are we buying some great stuff. We are going to try and post a bunch of photos so, please bear with us as you receive a lot of feeds this week. If you see anything you like, let us know and we'll give you a call when it comes in! :)

Have a great day!
Christina


Here are some photos -- look on with envy, but realize that you will soon be able to find all of these goodies at Windy City Scrapbooking!

Crown clear album (should be here real soon!)
New glitter glue from Hampton Art for Creative Cafe (April)



And perhaps Christina's favorite find -- from 7gypsies, the revolving clear stamp holder! :) Gotta love the organizational stuff!