Whats coming up

This is the coolest spinner card! It will be one of Jane's 3 for $3s on Feb February 2. The time will be only at 10:30. We may repeated the card with different stamps as we are all ready running out of the ones used!

February 3rd is Super Bowl Sunday. We again will be open that day from 11 to 5pm. For $8 you will have complete access to the classroom supplies and equipment, a spot at our table to work, games, prizes and surprises. There will be snacks too. So bring your card making stuff or scrapbooking stuff to work on.

I'll have more of what is going on in February soon. But did want to tell you that in March we will have our Spring Used Stamp Sale and of course the March of the Flamingos will be back.......

Working Hard

Sorry you haven't heard from me in a while. We have been pretty busy restocking. We now have a nice supply of Valentine stamps and Easter stamps continue to arrive. I'm very happy to announce that we now stock Shrink plastic. So many interesting things can be done with it from making jewelry to stand alone art pieces. Jane does the most wonderful things with shrink plastic. She draws little landscapes and then bakes the plastic to shrink it. She then makes pins from the pieces. The small landscapes have also been incorporated into cards.
Orders from Inkadinkado and My Sentiments Exactly have also arrived. We are waiting on a large order from Hero Arts....
Well have to get back to unpacking boxes.....

Back to Work

With Grandson Baby James back home in South Carolina work has returned to the Artfull Hand.
Just this week we have gotten in two brand new stamp companies...Nature's Blessings and Dandelion. Nature's Blessing is an eclectic company with a bountiful inventory of images. They do stock Alice in Wonderland theme stamps... So I now have them, mounted and unmounted. Dandelion stamps is a line of small image stamps. All kinds of critters, flowers and sayings. Dandelion is not their complete name. For the life of me right now I can't remember the complete name. Their images are on the cute side but not cutesy. They retail for $4.55 very reasonable in this day and age.
I'm hoping to get some samples made to show you the quality of these two lines.
We are also working hard on re-stocking with new merchandise after the year end sale and then inventory. ( I hate inventory ) But I had a pleasant experience during counting on New Year's Day. I was counting some stamps, 4 at $7.75, 3 at $6.25, 1 at $4.50 when I got a whiff of cherry tobacco. The kind my dad used to use in his pipe. I turned around expecting to see him the scent was that strong. But of course he was not there. My dad has been dead now close to 17 years. He and my mom ran a Quick Shop which turned into 7-11 shop. I helped with inventory there for a number of years. That is where I came to loathe counting stuff. I understand the necessity but still hate to do it....
After I realized that he wasn't there I just smiled and asked silently to myself if I was doing it right...and went back to counting stuff....

Artfull Hand Tees

Baby James, Sarah and Mike made these Tee-shirts for me for Christmas. The girls and I will wear them when there is a special event in the shop. James is showing off my favorite color....Flamingo Pink! The shirts come in several very nice colors. We will be so colorfull in the new year.
By the way.... that hand print does belong to James. He was a real trooper to imprint 12 shirts! (No not really-Mom and he did one and then Sarah took the design to a company and they printed up the twelve shirts.)

Stamping with James

Baby James was able to make it to the stamp store on New Year's Eve Day and do some stamping. Mom helped a little.
While he was there he took a phone call for his grandma. He blather on for some time, (he is a real talker even at 10weeks old.)
He was very good in the shop. He cooed and smiled at a number of customers,(always good for business!)
2007 closed out on a very good basis. I'm hoping that the nice daily gross will be a spring board for the new year.