Remodeling Complete...just in time!

Here it is, the final results of our remodel! Doug, my wonderful husband,  built a 24' wall unit, 10' of check out counter space, 3- 8ft slatwall gondolas, and 4-4' gondolas. It was a family and friend effort of us all telling him how he should do it. LOL The store was literally transformed in less than 10 hrs. with all the old display moved out and the new in place. Ashley busted her tail to put out the merchandise on the new displays as they were ready. Eight of us, put in a full night until 2 a.m. and was back up here at 9 a.m. getting ready for the two year celebration as though nothing transpired. The Crop Room definitely became a crop room! My husband stated he has done more cropping in that room than all the ladies combined, hee-hee! He was deep in sawdust and even cleaned up the mess all the way to steam cleaning the carpets all before 1 p.m. when the days festivities began.

I know everyone thought the store was cute before, but this is what I had envisioned from the start. I hope you enjoy the new look as much as I am. Several deliveries will be coming in this week and we'll have room to put them out! Wow, I am so exicited.

Two Year Anniversary

Here are just a few of the lovely ladies that joined us to celebrate Photolicious's two year anniversary. Twelve ladies in all made this card using "Tilda on her elbows" by Magnolia stamps. None had ever used a Copic and should not had been able to produce such quality after just one class. But they had an excellent teacher, Barbara Hardeman combined with their crafting talent and cabam- total cuteness! They also created a Tim Holtz necklace with Amy Gaskins, Tattered Angel tags with Ashley Nixon, and then a one page layout with me using the Cricut, Gypsy and markers to create their own background and then stitched some vellum on to that page with a sewing machine. A day full of new techniques for all.

Let the card making and Copics begin...

I'm am so excited to announce our Copic and card classes will be soon begin!! I found Barbara Hardeman blog surfing, and of course when I saw her blog title of "Stampelicious", it definitely caught my eye! And I'm so glad it did! She is from Waco, so she'll have a little jaunt to make to come visit us. She is a SAHM but her nest is now empty at the time. She also has fostered 35 babies over the years. She has excellent teaching skills and does not want you to leave with any project unfinished! She explains to me that the ease of the Copic markers are what makes any of her colored images remarkable. Her favorite line of stamps are the Magnolias Stamp company out of Sweden. Their characters are big enough to really play with the ink. I am working on getting them into the store because I fell in love with them as well!

You can meet Barbara and do a free demo with her anytime between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. while we're celebrating Photolcious's TWO year anniversary on Saturday, April 10th. Until then check out her blog or come into the store and see her many samples she left! If you need to buy one of them, they are for sale. Just ask.

Don't forget Amy and Ronda's classes are just around the corner! Look for the date and sign up!

Pieces of You to Inspire the Crop Room

Hey everyone we're decorating the Crop Room now and ofcourse the best idea was to let everyone put a piece of themselves in the room we all enjoy! So here's what we're doing. Pick up to 3 of your favorite scrapbook projects and take a great picture of it. Make sure you camera is set at 5 MP or higher because it will be enlarged for the wall and/ or display window. Include your name as you want it credited. Email to k-thornton@windstream.net Deadline is Sunday, March 21. Thanks and enjoy!

And the Winner is...

Amy don't get mad, but Doug picked a number between 1 & 6 and he chose #3- You know who that is, Miss Cheryl Lane! You have a $25 gift certificate now, to add to your stash of scrapbook winnings. LOL Thanks everyone for making great comments!

This Friday we'll be recieving in a couple different lines for Valentines. And re-stocking the Bazzill with some new CS colors and Dotted Swiss papers. Early next week, some of the new cartridges will be in for the Cricut.

I'll post my last two favorites tomorrow and have another winner from that new post.

CHAW 2010 Releases in store soon!

Okay ladies! Here's a few of the new releases Photolicious will be getting. Maybe we all need to reminded of better days, with all the great choices of vintage designs by several different companies.

From Ranger:

New Tim Holtz® Distress Inks

Perfect Pearls™

Pigment Powders Kit

From Ten Seconds Studios

Click here to see all in these three lines

Then from Sassafrass Lass comes...

Click here to see companion papers

Two of my favorite companies have alot releasing and I'll wait until tomorrow for another posting on that. I see great things in our future!!

Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of Christmas Workshop

Tim Holtz has a another 12 Tags of Christmas for this year! They are gorgeous and I want all of us to have them! How cool will they look on the gifts you've worked so hard to make your friends and family? This workshop will be an all day affair giving you all the supplies and techniques to make these wonderful tags. You will get 12 kits the day of the workshop and bump up your scrapbooking stash with awesome materials for future projects! Here are nine pictures of the tags he has posted so far to give you a great idea of what the workshop will entail. As soon as all are posted, I will set a date and cost. Remember, 90% of the materials used will be yours to keep! Check out the website calendar and contact us to let us know if you want to attend this workshop on http://www.myphotoliciousgifts.com/