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Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful fall weather. I love the fact that in Illinois we get such a variety of weather. It so nice to have the mix to keep us guessing. Remind me that I said this during the freezing cold this winter.
Coming up at DL. Next Saturday we are offering our 2nd Cricut Class and Crop. There are 2 classes on Sat. one for 6" machine in the a.m. and one for the 12" machine in the p.m. This is a free class if you bought your machine here at DL. If you didn't get your machine here you can still take the class for $25.oo. Even if you have to pay the 25 it is a great value. One of the biggest things we here from people about the Cricut is that they use it but they are not for sure all the things it does or why is does or doesn't do something they want. Even if you feel pretty confident in what you are doing you will gain a ton of ideas and info in this class. Sat nite will will be offering our 2nd Cricut Crop. This crop is for Cricut owners only. Similar to our Friday nite crops in that you get snacks, chocolate, classroom tools, door prizes and a great space to get tons of work done. The differences are you also get more space to work, power to keep your Cricut at your table, 20% of this months cartridge "Stamped" plus samples, ideas, and handouts using this cartridge, door prizes include coupons for cricut products, and the best part of the night is you can use any of the cricut cartridges. This alone is over a $1,000 value and we just did get in 4 new ones. You must sign up for the crop and classes ahead of time.

If you do not own a Cricut yet you need to. Those of you who know me know I'll be the first one to say you don't need to own even half of the tools for scrapbooking, card making and paper crafting. However, this machine really does shine out. I can't even begin to type all they ways I have used this machine. So stop by sometime and I can give you a run down. Christmas is coming and from what I've heard most of you deserve a Little something extra.

Onto what we got in yesterday. We have had a lot of requests for things to do with feeding the ducks. So we had a laser die cut made. It is very cute and should be in with the farm animal area. Christmas is still coming in. We got in 3 winter and Christmas lines in from Creative Imaginations. All very cute with epoxy stickers, chipboard and several coordinating papers. If you haven't started your Christmas cards the sooner the better the selection.

Provo Craft just released a great line of chipboard shapes at a great price. Julie already has them up in the first aisle of the store. They also released some great chipboard shaped boxes that would be great to decorate for gifts.

You should also be coming in on a weekly basis to check out all of our sales. With inventory fast approaching we must get rid of a lot of last years products. There is sale stuff everywhere and more being added all the time. The classroom has a ton of paper 3 for 1.00, the last scrapbooking aisle has 18 feet of marked down stickers and embellishments. In each theme area also has markdowns in it of discontinued products. To top that all off Monday starts our 25% off Fall and Halloween aisle and the Martha Fall and Halloween. Yippee. This is all I know for the week. Fall blessings to you and your family. Karen

new K & Co, Karen Foster

Funny how a change in routine can offset your whole plan. No school on Friday so no blog. We spent the day running errands and Sam's first trip to the dentist. All went great and of course I have the photos to prove it. Love this cooler fall weather. The perfect weather to go to the pumpkin patch. We are headed to The Great Pumpkin Patch in Arthur Il after school.

So here is the run down on the new products in yesterday.

Karen Foster: same great style we all love but new and refreshed themes. They include: Ballet, Mother and Father, Patriotic, Christmas, Track and Field, Basketball, Potty Training, Shaving and Hair Salon, Game Night (cards, ping pong, bingo, dice, video, and more), In Memory, and Baptism

K & Co. : Oh my absolutely love the new line called Wild Saffron. This line is great. It has a shabby look but yet brighter colors, a great mix of floral and print. I could see this line being used for many different looks. Rhonda should get it out today and it will be on the first end cap by the shopping carts. We also got in the new Ancestry.com line by K & Co. We will be adding this to our already existing heritage aisle. Classic K the Margo line is also a new shabby line with a bit more pastels and floral. All you girlie moms will be excited. One thing I was reminded of when marking all of the new K & Co is they sure do have great prices. Their glitter paper is still just $1.oo a sheet. Many of the companies have gone to $2.00 or $2.50 a sheet. Their embossed and 3-D stickers are also so well priced $3.99 and you get a big sheet with a lot of detail.

K & Co. also released 3 limited value packs. These would make great gifts. 1) is a paper value pack for 29.99 you get 200 K & Co papers that have not be released before it also comes in a 12 x 12 keepsake box. 2) is a 12 x12 file box filled with the traditional K & Co styled products you get 200 papers, 98 die cuts plus the great heavy duty file box with 6 dividers. 3) is a embellishment value box for $ 39.99 this box contains over 3,500 pieces. These are all non reorderable so if you want one better get it while you can.

We are still expecting new products from the show. I'll keep you updated. I did get a notice that the new Martha Christmas is coming in. See you all soon and have a great weekend. Karen