Sunday, August 12, 2007

CHA Summer Tradeshow Buying Report

I always love to include a few pages of us looking our "finest" while working 20-hour days at a tradeshow! Here's me and Tonya Krout, our other buyer, burning the midnight oil at the recent Craft & Hobby Association Summer Tradeshow. We buy about six months of new stuff at these tradeshows twice a year.
I like to build piles on the beds while we are burning through all the catalogues and new stuff, making final choices based on our six-month's budget. It's a lot to organize.
I had to take a picture of this, because Tonya is a mystery reader and this was her reading choice at the summer show. Hmmm.... Interesting title. Is that just a coincidence?
Here's the quick report of stuff that's coming so that you can make your plans to buy it from us. We really need your support right now. It's been a long, hot, slow summer, and yes, we have struggled to make it through. If you want us to stay here, your support is very important. Here's what's coming:

August:
New Reminisce Lines for occasions, wild things/zoo, and playing in water
New doodling templates from Crafter's Workshop
New Elsie lines from KI Memories
New Scenic Route lines
New Karen Foster lines
New Making Memories Christmas and Halloween lines
New K&Co. Halloween and Christmas lines
New papers produced by US! Look for Tanya Clark-Stover's Thoughts on Paper, coming soon!
New local flavor papers for schools and local cities
New clear stamps and boxes of rub-ons
New Basic Grey lines
New home stamp making kit and JustRite monogram stampers
New Zutter binding tool
New Queen & Co. self-adhesive felt rolls
New Heidi Grace & Cloud 9 Designs papers. (Heidi's Halloween line is AWESOME!)
New Impression Obsessions Christmas Stamps
New acrylic pieces and albums
New books from CK Media
New Fancy Pants lines
New Colorbok albums
New Inkadinkadoo Christmas and Halloween stamps
New Stampendous stamps
New My Sentiments Exactly stamps and clear stamp storage boxes
New Maya Road products, including some very cool mini albums
New Envelopments invitations

September:
New Autumn Leaves page-a-day calendars
New Hampton Arts Christmas Value Stamps
New Hampton Arts Christmas stamps and other stamps
New KI Memories die-cut papers and other stuff
New BoBunny Double Dots line
New Making Memories Noteworthy line
New American Crafts papers and albums, including their new Party line
New K&Co. Ancestry line and new scouting stuff
New Daisy D's fall line and rub-on stitching applicators. (One of the BEST new products we've seen in a while!!!!!)
New Creative Imaginations coffee, baking, Rock Star, Christmas and other lines
New Crackle Paints and other products by Ranger Industries
New Flair Designs calendar and family papers
New Hambly Studios papers and overlays
New Penny Black stamps for the holidays
New Around the Block tools, including the Phrase Maker!
New Prima papers, flowers, embossed chipboard, ribbons and more!
New Dove of the East papers with designs inspired from around the globe
New McGill punches

October:
New Creative Cafe line by Creative Imaginations
New Hampton Arts stamps
New Cropper Hopper organizational products
New K&Co. lines, including "Margo." Stunning color mixes!
New 7 Gypsies papers, ATC products and more
New Karen Foster papers
New stamps by Stampington
New stamps by Paper Artsy
New glitter products

November:
New Webster's Pages
New ink pad lines
New albums by We R Memory Keepers - faux leather and fabulous!
New Art Gone Wild stamps
New SEI papers
New stamps by October Afternoon
New stamps by Judikins

And this is just the tip of the orders at a glance! We hope you're excited!