The word from the Craft & Hobby Association's HUGE tradeshow...

Well, we've just about caught up on mail and phone messages after getting back from the Craft & Hobby Association's most gigantic tradeshow of the year. We bought more than 3,000 new things for our store, as usual, and shipments will begin rolling in this week. (This is your LAST CHANCE to get many of the great papers and embellishments we currently have in stock, so get them while they're here.) The tradeshow started with a big meeting of our Crafters Home association of independent retailers (shown here). We are about 140 stores strong and working together to try to put together exclusive products and other things for our customers this year. Here we are at a sneak peak presentation that was put on by all our major vendors before the tradeshow started. Read on below to see some of our favorite products from the show. (Of course, we can't show you all 3,000 plus things, so you'll just have to come visit us several times in the next few months!)