6 Degrees

Warehouse Sale!

Did you happen to read my post yesterday? You know the one about my freakiness when it comes to shopping? And the buy 1 get 1 free sales?  Well, have I got the shopping opportunity for you!

On Wednesday, August 6th from 8 am to 4 pm, we're having a sale at the warehouse. Yes, the Scenic Route Warehouse. It's our first ever warehouse sale!

Yeehah!  We'll have lots of great deals - discontinued products at great prices, packages of products too sweet to pass up, and oh yes, YES, we'll even have some buy 1 get 1 free deals!  Sorry, no buy 11 get 1 free deodorant sales, you'll have to go elsewhere for that...

Not sure you can make it?  Let me tempt you a little.  Shoot me an email at layle@scenicroutepaper.com beforehand and I'll shoot you an email back with a coupon for a free rub-on, redeemable at the sale. Yes, a free rub-on!

Go ahead, spread the word!  Share the good news!

Scenic Route Warehouse Sale
Wednesday, August 6th
8 am to 4 pm
14575 South Center Point Way
(take the 14600 South Exit on I-15 and head West 1 mile)
Bluffdale, Utah

**park on the WEST side of the building across the parking lot from Gymcats**

A Bit of a Freak

OK, I'll admit it.  I'm a bit of a freak.

OK, a freak in more ways than one, but I'll spare you from my freakiness and share just one freaky thing.

I'm a freak when it comes to jewelry.  I love it.  Seriously.  Ask Nick.  He says I have more jewelry than anyone he knows.  But really, how many people does he know?  And really, how often does he find himself looking at another girl's jewelry collection? (And really, how about my use of the word 'girl' in that sentence.  Implies that I too am a 'girl'.  What?  You think I'm stretching it by calling myself a 'girl'?  Come on.  I know I'm turning 40 in a few weeks, but who says you still can't be a 'girl' at 39 and 11.25/12ths.  And really, don't even get me started on 'woman' or 'lady'.  I'm just not gonna go there.  Not even). 

Back to the jewelry.  I like the inexpensive stuff, the stuff I can collect (the operative word there being collect, because boy do I).  Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to turn down a diamond tennis bracelet or anything.  But it's the inexpensive stuff that makes me happy.  Guiltless happiness.

At CHA I noticed a few people with cute little square necklaces.  The size of a Scrabble letter.  They were Scrabble letters.  With fun little fronts.

So I came home and promptly spent some time on Etsy.  And some money.  (If you're not familar with Etsy, it's a really cool online site where you can buy and sell things handmade.  You can blame it on me when you start spending lots of time and lots of money there.  Go ahead, I'll be your fall guy.  Blame it all on me after you've been there.  And dropped a chunk of change).

These arrived in the mail today -

I bought them here.  HomeStudio.etsy.com.  They arrived lickety split.  Not a big chunk of change - only $6.50 each.  The best part?  If you buy 2, you get 1 free.  Buy 2, get 1 free!  How about that?  If I were you, I'd head right over there and check it out, because I bet you're a lot like me.

I'm a sucker for buy one get one free.  People that run those sales see me coming from a mile away.  Doesn't matter where I am or what it is. 

What's that you say?  Buy 11 deodorants and get 1 free?  Sure, I'll take it.  Because after all, I will eventually use all of them.

Buy 1 pair of shoes, get the same pair free?  Of course.  Because I really like them.  And when the first pair wears out, I'll have a brand new pair of the exact same shoes waiting in the wings.

Buy 3 gigantic gob stoppers, get another one free?  Well, I really only want one.  And it will take me all day to finish just one.  And when I'm done my jaw will be so sore that I won't want to look at another one for a long time, let alone 3 more.  OK, ring me up.

Hmmm....

Thinking to yourself 'she's a bit of a freak, that Layle'? 

See, I told you. 

Make it a Double

We've had really bizarre weather the last few days.  During the day it's 100 degrees and HOT, HOT, HOT!  Around 6 the last few nights it starts to get really overcast, it cools down quite a bit, the wind starts blowing and the thunderstorms roll in. 

Saturday night it was raining in sheets.  Then this showed up -

The neatest double rainbow.  You could actually see both ends of both rainbows.

I looked for the pots of gold, but nothing.

Dangit.  Those pots of gold would sure have come in handy.   Especially after the damage I did on Saturday at a few scrapbook stores... 

Liberty in Action

Yesterday I spent a few hours at one of our local scrapbook stores - Heartland Paper.  They held a Scenic Route day with a class and make and takes.

Here are a few pics of the fun, quick and easy make and takes they designed -

This one was made using our worn lined background paper and Liberty Scrap Strip.

 

This fun little chipboard to do list was made using our Appleton line.

They had decorated their windows and store in different projects using our Liberty line - how creative are these projects?!!

These banners were amazing, just like the fabric ones you see on porch railings.  They even sewed them together!

This is Joli.  She had entered a few of the giveaways on my blog over the last few weeks - it was fun meeting her in person!  Also had fun chatting with a friend of Joli's on the phone, Grizellie.  And guess where Grizellie lives?  Surprise, Arizona!  What a coincidence - that's the city we named our Surprise line after!

CHA Show Photos and a Happy 30th!

Phew.  So it's been a few days.  As much as I'd like to say things settle down after a show, they don't!  So much to do!  Sarah and I are both on the road quite a bit between now and the end of the year teaching - lots to do to prepare for that.  If you don't know Sarah, she owes Scenic Route AND she's the mastermind behind it all - she creates ALL of our products. 

Speaking of Sarah, you should know that today's her 30th birthday!  Happy Birthday Sarah!!  Ah,  to be 30 again....  ;)

Since we're celebrating, I must say HUGE CONGRATS to my friends Sande, Vicki and Janna for being named to BHG Scrapbooks, Etc All Star Creative Team for 2009.  Whoop Whoop!  GO GIRLS!

OK, now for photos from the show.  As crazy busy as I was before the show getting everything ready it figures that I'd forget something, right?  My camera.  Yep.  I realized it as I was on my way to the airport.  No time to turn around.  Good thing Vicki had her camera with her, so the following are show photos courtesy of Vicki.

Here's a few shots of our booth - Sonoma in this one.

Appleton in this one.

And Surprise in this one.

Getting ready for the show to start on day 2.

Me, Nancy (our national sales manager) and Sarah.

Vicki, me and Greta Hammond sprawled on the floor after day 2, trying to summon the energy to get up and go to dinner!

Cute Greta on the phone looking like spokesmodel for T Mobile! 

Sarah and Nancy.

So we had a great show!  Lots and lots and lots of working - LONG days setting up for the show and then longer days during the show.  I don't think we made it back to the hotel any given night before 11 and that was early.

One of the nights we did manage to work in a little fun - we went to a John Mayer and Colbie Calliat concert.  It was so much fun.  Lots of little teeny boppers running around.  Great music and good people watching.

My sister's in town this weekend and staying with us, so looking forward to seeing her.  We're taking the boys to see a movie in a bit this afternoon.  It's almost 100 degrees here - HOT summer - so it will be nice to spend some time in a cool movie theater.

All of you Utahns out there, I'll be at Heartland Paper in Bountiful tomorrow starting at noon for a few hours - they're doing a Scenic Route day, complete with make and takes and a class and some good shopping.  If you're looking for our new Surprise and Sonoma lines, I have their order with me and I'll be taking it up there tomorrow!  Even better, visit their blog here to print out a 20% off coupon your entire purchase for tomorrow (Saturday, July 26th)!

I have quite a few classes scheduled between now and the end of the year that I'll be teaching, details next week.

Have a great weekend!

And the Big Winner is....

jess.scraps@yahoo.com

YIPPEEEEEEE!!!!

BIG CONGRATS TO JESS! 

She'll be receiving a big ole box from us with all of the product in this post.

PHEW!  Back home last night after a super long week in Chicago at CHA. 

We had a great show, lots of great responses for our new lines.  Now begins the fun part, shipping out all of the orders! 

We're shipping the new products beginning on July 31st, so keep your eyes peeled!

I'll be back tomorrow to post more about the show along with some pics.

EDITED TO ADD:

Looks like today is Jess' birthday!  How fun is that?!

All the Rest...

Fitting that the song on the radio while I type this is I Make You Crazy (or something like that) by Knarls Barkley (or something like that).  Once again Typepad is making me CRAZY trying to add these images.  So excuse the skeewompisness (bet you won't find that word in the dictionary). 

Here are the rest of our non-line related products we're releasing this week!

Clear Stamps 
3 new stamps (in addition to the Party Time stamp that coordinates with Surprise and the Elementary #'s stamp that coordinates with Appleton) and a set of Clear Acrylic Stamping Blocks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Albums
4 new chipboard albums - Panoramic Window is 5" x10" with 2 cut-out window pages (5 total pages) and Scalloped Circle is 7" (5 total pages)

 

Chipboard Shapes
6 new 6x6 raw chipboard shapes

Alphabet Stickers
2 new styles, each availabe in 4 colors.  These stickers are awesome!  They're 6x9 and come in a tri-fold, you end up with between 175 and 250 stickers in each package!

Time for the BIG MACK DADDY GIVEAWAY!

Okey dokey, this one's BIG! 

I'll draw 1 name, just one.  The BIG winner will receive 1 of everything shown on this post!  That's $82 worth of brand new Scenic Route product, people!

Leave a comment on this post between now and end of day Friday the 18th.  I'll draw the big winner on Monday night when I get back from the show.

Good luck!

5 more Chicken Dinner Winners...

Here are the 5 lucky duck winners of the Sonoma Collections!

Libby
Sharmaine
Abby W.
Theresa
Michelle V.

Wahoo!  Big congrats lucky ladies!

I'll have our 3rd reveal loaded up here in just a few along with the BIG MACK DADDY GIVEAWAY! 

I need 15 more hours...

Sorry to delay things, but I need 15 more hours.  What the hell, as long as I'm asking, I could use more than 24 hours in a day for the next 2 days... I'm just saying.

Not like that will happen, so I'm asking for 15 more hours to post the winners and the REST of our new products we'll be releasing at CHA next weekend.  I'd say check back again tomorrow (Monday) around 11 am MT. 

Why do I need the extra 15 hours?  This morning we woke up bright and early for a 3.5 mile hike up a mountain.  Took us a bit longer than we planned, and we found ourselves running from the hike home for quick showers then to a big annual party on Nick's side of the family.  And we just got home.  And I am beat, beat, beat.

And I still have a bit more work tonight - last minute things to wrap up before I leave for CHA on Tuesday.

So bare with me 15 more hours.  The 3rd and final reveal tomorrow.  More good stuff.  And just you wait for this next round of giveaways, it promises to be the mack daddy of them all!

Surprise in Action!

Here are a few layouts I made for the show using our new Surprise line.

Little Sammy on his 1st bday back in 2001.  Look at those eyes crossed on the cake!

I just love the bright colors in this line.  They work so well for boy and girl layouts!

This is a photo of me on my 3rd birthday.  A LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG time ago.....  ;)   And now my friends, the secret is out.  I know you were all thinking that I was in my early twenties.  Right?  RIGHT?!