Grand opening & Christmas Open House

what a lovely day - so many wonderful friends and family came on by - to create a project, or to have some yummy apple cider or a cookie or two:-) to come and meet the staff here at our new store on Meadowood, and to check out the fabulous products and classes we have to offer:-) 
just a few pics of the day -

wonderful homemade cookies - monster and shortbread made by my mom-in-law Marlene:-)

recipes coming soon!!

 some lucky ladies getting 1st dibs on those doorcrashers on Friday!

 I received an adorable visitor on Saturday:-)

Grandpa and Aubrey had to spin the wheel for Grandma as she bought something!

 

She won a magazine for Grandma!

Thank you, thank you! To all our FABULOUS customers, whether you made it out to the Open House or not, all your excitement and encouragement to me and the store means so much!  You are all so much more than customers, I consider you all friends and I hope you feel that each and every time you pop in to say hello. We hope to provide a friendly place full of inspiration for you for many years to come!!

S

I'm back!

and hopefully this will be the start of new ideas once again and not just renovations!  Some days lately I have been feeling like I am blogging about home improvement - that being said, you all need to see a bit more about how the Winnipeg store came together - so here you go!

our awesome customers, waiting to snap up those doorcrashers!

 Me working the till - Kathy asking me some questions!

 A Bird's eye view of the action!

 this used to be brown and all scratched up!! Look at it now - a great find at Value Village for $69.99!!

 our lovely classroom!

what a lovely day! be sure to check out the store soon!! we are just waiting for a few more racks and product and are planning for a Grand Opening and Christmas Open house on Dec 2nd & 3rd!

more exciting news:-)

I have a question for you??? Does this area of Winnipeg look familiar to you??

Well - if you are in the St Vital area, this is where it is - you are staring at the Theatres, right by the St. Vital Mall...  why in the world would I post this on my blog???

Because this is the view you will see as you step outside - after you went shopping at our 

NEW WINNIPEG STORE!!!!!!

Yes - what you are reading is true -

Mark and I have been planning and looking for space for over a year and a half, I knew I wanted a spot near the St. Vital Mall, I knew what size, I knew I wanted it to be easy to see and to find, and I knew I wanted good parking.... and the day I saw this space I was scheduled to look at 2 other spaces, I saw a sign in the window of this space on the way to the other appt's.  I saw the other spaces and did not feel good about them.  I called up this company, and they had time to show it to me and I walked in and I just felt it - 

"this is your space"

It felt sooo right - it is so perfect!  And I am soo excited to take this next journey, I have no idea why this happened so close to the Steinbach store moving and everything, as I looked at and was negotiating on this space even prior to everything with the other store.  All I can say is that God's plan is so much bigger than mine, and I truly feel like his hand has been in all of this - everything has just fallen into place & the way it has is just perfect:-)

So as I plan the next adventure - here are some pictures of the store the first time I saw it.

this last pic is a little dark, but it gives a really great view of back to front, how much space there is!  I can hardly wait to get my hands dirty and start "Creating" a beautiful space for all of you!!

The Address is 60-166 Meadowood Drive

The open date is planned for sometime in early November:-)

I will use the quote again that has inspired me during this time of decision making!

"Look for the dream that keeps coming back. It’s your destiny"

I wish you all Scrappy dreams:-)

& Happy Thanksgiving!

playing with the blog's look...

I have been wanting something a little different for a while - I guess I was over the bright colors of the blog as it was, I was in the mood to "renovate" that too so to speak:-)  So I am playing a little - made a few mistakes...HTML's are not something I understand, but I think I like it so far, it is quite "vintagey" (not a word I know!) but I will live with it for a while and see...wanted something more toned down...pretty...

sometimes we just need to play:-)
ttyl! S

p.s. going to tell you some news tomorrow, that I eluded to a while back - the Croppers that were at our CG already know it:-)    ttyl!

setting up...

Date - Friday, Sept 30th
The Place- 363 Main Street
The Goal - set a whole scrapbook store up in one day
The People involved - Sharon, Tannis, Temara, Cathy, Nita, Debbie, Jen, Jeannie, Pam, Lori, Marilyn, Jenna, Shannon, Deneen & Mark,
The Result - AMAZINGLY WE DID IT

We started at 9:30 am- starting with the sorting of boxes to different areas of the store ( most of the racking/ shelves had been put in place the night before) and sticky notes were on the wall for product placement - let the fun begin!

Nita-Spellbinder & stamp walls

 my sister Jen, quickly painting the backs of some cabinets, as now you would see those backs!

 Temara, punch wall...

 Jeannie - flowers

Debbie- window display

the chandelier in it's new home!

this was at 4:30 in the afternoon - still piles everywhere!!!

Then at about 9:30pm, I was starting to feel a little overwhelmed at this point!  My sister stayed till after 10pm (but then had to take her kids home and put them to bed!!). And then Shannon texted me asking if I still needed help - the answer was a resounding YES!!! So she came, and we finished everything off, Mark was there too, doing last min stuff!  And we were done at 1am - the store needed a few more "touches" but it was almost ready!

The only MAJOR Stress of the day was MTS, I booked the appt with them to change over my phone and internet (internet is a MUST to operate the debit machine!) 5 weeks ago... I called them at lunch again to see if they were coming, they said yes...and then I received a phone call at 3:30pm - saying they would re-schedule my install until Monday....I could NOT BELIEVE IT!!!!  I said that was not acceptable, and I needed someone today!!  Well after 3 different phone calls I got someone in on Sat morning - 8am.... do I keep up the suspense?...did they show up before we opened on Sat?...tune in tomorrow for the rest of the story:-)

putting on baseboards and other fun stuff:-)

tonight, September 29th...and we are all moved in - NOT organized yet!! But moved in and it is a great feeling! Especially after last night where we worked till 1am, and we had our kids there...and they did not fall asleep there, we are the worst parents ever!!!!- oh well, we had to get everything prepped so we could move in today!!

  So I posted on Facebook, that I installed a toilet! You bet I did:-)  So last night, it was baseboards!!  Yep - we were supposed to pay big $$ to get them installed, so we bought the stuff and did it ourself - I tell you, if this scrapbooking thing doesn't work out for me, I think I might go and be a handyman of sorts:-)

ok - now you have to see this, our NEW sign & LOGO!!!!  I adore it:-)

 

right now there is a HUGE tree, kind of blocking the street view, I have talked to the city and hopefully it will be pruned asap, but in the meantime, just look for the pretty White brick building in amoung all the ugly brown ones on our block!

so we packed throughout the day, and then at 5pm - we locked the doors and it was MOVING TIME:-)

and with the help of Lorie, Pam, Shannon & Debbie (Cottage Girls) Deneen, Candace & My hubby Mark...oh yeah and these crazy guys

Mitch, Colton & Matt - your Steinbach Pistons!

we got EVERYTHING there in about 3.5 hours!!!!  That is sooo awesome!!

seriously, who orders all this stuff???

now tomorrow, we get to make it pretty for all of you!  

See you Sat!!

S