To day is a day to find my 'to-it' again. I hope! Wrapping up the school year took a bit longer this year than usual. (see my blog at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/tendertutor/). Adding to that an upgrade to our business plan and some changes at STI.
Last year, as many know, we did a total re-mod on the storefront. Adding in a forum. It was a fun and involved project. I loved the forum, but soon it found its way to the spammers. I was spending more time deleting offensive posts than being able to post or enter our new products into the store. I sat on what to do for a while. Spent even more hours looking over various forum options. Sat on it again. Until this past week when I set up a new yahoo group for the store.
You can find this group at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scrap_to_it/
For an invitation, email us at scrap_to_it@yahoo.com
We will be opening this group up to other vendors each friday as a way to offer all our members sales and specials from other sources besides STI. If you are a vendor and want to be able to post you sales and specials, please contact us.
A recruiting special will be starting this weekend. We have already begun cherry picking some awesome gifts for the winner and runners up. We hope its you!!!
A paper sale is in play at the store www.scraptoit.com
Come check it out. CHA is around the corner and we have already started to get our orders in the queue for the fall line up. We are soooo excited. But we need room and we hope the sales and savings will be beneficial to you too!!!
Sneak peak -- Christmas in July -- A continuation of our paper sale. All available papers for all the fall holidays will be listed at a ridiculously low price. Check the store (and here) for details.
Please feel free to contact us with any of your scrapbook needs.
Most scrapfully!
Joi
and the To-It! Team
www.scraptoit.com
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Growing and falling behind
If it is possible to continue to progress and still fall behind then that is me. I'm happy to say that since my last post the store and its revisions have done very well. Keeping up to date on all the new inventory as well as all our crops and events has made me fall way behind on any blog sites or newsletter dreams I once held.
If you haven't been to see the store lately, check it out. I just love the changes there and still have much more to come. All a work in progress....(me as much as the stores).
It's all exciting and continues to make me wish I could be in two places at once!
If you haven't been to see the store lately, check it out. I just love the changes there and still have much more to come. All a work in progress....(me as much as the stores).
It's all exciting and continues to make me wish I could be in two places at once!
Friday, September 22, 2006
We have a new look!!!
The last time I posted I stated that my blog and my store were lacking in attention. Well....I'm excited to report that at least one of these attention-needing items has been addressed.
www.scraptoit.com --- It's new, It's fresh, It's amazingly loaded with fun new products. And holds the promise of more to come.
If you've not been to the store for a while, come check us out.
Come play in our forum, where we offer a lot of great give-aways to members.
Sign up for our newsletter where we give you the latest on our store and some scrappy good ideas to help you preserve your memories and get your 'to-it's' together too!
As for this blog -- welll......since we re-did the store, I'm now mired in a ton of new technology I didn't have a clue about before. Talk about living under a rock! How long haven't I known about Technorati (did I even spell this right) or Squidoo let a lone at least half a dozen other things that I hadn't picked up on.
So I don't end up like my parents (sorry mom and dad -- but ya just aren't so hot with the gadgets at your house! kiss kiss) and my ds doesn't look at me and roll his eyes -- I'm on the pursuit of educating myself to the current trends.
Wish me luck!
Oh! and if you have an offer of help, explanation (spelling correction) or whatever -- have at me! I'm sure I need it!
Till next time -- back to-it!
www.scraptoit.com --- It's new, It's fresh, It's amazingly loaded with fun new products. And holds the promise of more to come.
If you've not been to the store for a while, come check us out.
Come play in our forum, where we offer a lot of great give-aways to members.
Sign up for our newsletter where we give you the latest on our store and some scrappy good ideas to help you preserve your memories and get your 'to-it's' together too!
As for this blog -- welll......since we re-did the store, I'm now mired in a ton of new technology I didn't have a clue about before. Talk about living under a rock! How long haven't I known about Technorati (did I even spell this right) or Squidoo let a lone at least half a dozen other things that I hadn't picked up on.
So I don't end up like my parents (sorry mom and dad -- but ya just aren't so hot with the gadgets at your house! kiss kiss) and my ds doesn't look at me and roll his eyes -- I'm on the pursuit of educating myself to the current trends.
Wish me luck!
Oh! and if you have an offer of help, explanation (spelling correction) or whatever -- have at me! I'm sure I need it!
Till next time -- back to-it!
Monday, June 26, 2006
Where oh Where are you Scrap-To-It!
My blogs and e-store are sorely in need of attention. I have a very sick mom who lives about 1300 miles from me. If you've ever had an aging parent, you know some of what I'm writing about. My dad isn't in his top form either. Every so often we shut down our world and pack up the car to make the voyage down the very long road from my home to theirs. It's a worthwhile and needful venture, but also very hard on the other aspects of life.
As I said, one of my goals has been to open a store in the community where I live. We're working on the business plan now trying to get the initial steps formed. I'm not sure if/when we'll actually pull it off. I still have the worries of elderly parents, and the big issue of my homeschoolers, especially the one I will just be starting this year.
My big problem is I want to do both (homeschool and own a business). I'm not sure if it is do-able for me (being an obsessive perfectionist). With one of my homeschooler almost done and another one just starting, their two curriculum and instruction needs take a lot of time. However, putting off the dream doesn't seem the right consideration either. What I hope to do is find a way to work with what I have to make the dream happen.
Wish me luck!
In the meantime...come visit the online store. We've been adding in more products daily and also working on another site altogether that we hope is better both for us and for all our wonderful customers.
If you do visit the store and wish to make a purchase..mention this blog and receive an additional 20% off. This is a one time use coupon and we are tracking these.
Scrap-To-It! www.scraptoit.com
Visit our other ventures at www.memorybuildersinc.com
Off to find my to-it for the day........
As I said, one of my goals has been to open a store in the community where I live. We're working on the business plan now trying to get the initial steps formed. I'm not sure if/when we'll actually pull it off. I still have the worries of elderly parents, and the big issue of my homeschoolers, especially the one I will just be starting this year.
My big problem is I want to do both (homeschool and own a business). I'm not sure if it is do-able for me (being an obsessive perfectionist). With one of my homeschooler almost done and another one just starting, their two curriculum and instruction needs take a lot of time. However, putting off the dream doesn't seem the right consideration either. What I hope to do is find a way to work with what I have to make the dream happen.
Wish me luck!
In the meantime...come visit the online store. We've been adding in more products daily and also working on another site altogether that we hope is better both for us and for all our wonderful customers.
If you do visit the store and wish to make a purchase..mention this blog and receive an additional 20% off. This is a one time use coupon and we are tracking these.
Scrap-To-It! www.scraptoit.com
Visit our other ventures at www.memorybuildersinc.com
Off to find my to-it for the day........
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Inventory Reduction at www.scraptoit.com
As January becomes February we are successfully re-working our webstore with the help of some very good sales.
Are you trying to find your 'to-it' to get caught up on your scrap projects?
Cruise on over to www.scraptoit.com and see some of our great specials.
Are you scrapping your homeschool portfolio? Send me some details and I'll send you a coupon for some great discounts to help get those projects completed.
Scrap-To-It! before your last week's memories are last year's memories. It is easier to keep up than catch up!
Are you trying to find your 'to-it' to get caught up on your scrap projects?
Cruise on over to www.scraptoit.com and see some of our great specials.
Are you scrapping your homeschool portfolio? Send me some details and I'll send you a coupon for some great discounts to help get those projects completed.
Scrap-To-It! before your last week's memories are last year's memories. It is easier to keep up than catch up!
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Round and Round the Holiday Season
The snow finally fell here in the midwest where normally we live hail and hardy year round, however, today my little one fights the flu. In between holding and comforting her, I am trying to get my 'to-it' together to start to scrap a few holiday projects.
I'm struggling this year with getting to my projects. Is it the cold that keeps me from getting to it? Or something else this year?
I've been reading holiday stories the past couple of days -- you know, the kind you need a tissue box for. I've been reading all the little sweet ones I used to read to my first and second graders too. I love stories about Christmas and giving and I was hoping the stories would take me to the mental space I need to get to but haven't yet.
I've had my tree up since the day after Thanksgiving. Usually that is a dedicated shopping day -- breakfast, lunch and shop 'till you drop. Not so much for the sales, but for the fun of opening up the holiday season out amongst the holiday-goers. Instead we put on Christmas CDs and made cocoa and tried to get into the spirit of things while decorating our home. It looks wonderful, but not.
I couldn't find the right lights for my yard this year. Last year I used some spiral trees and garland. While the lights work fine I didn't have the patience this year to untangle the ridiculously thin strings so the spirial could hang in its proper tree shape. I hate that it is dark in front of my house this year. There is something for me about the eery winter haze about the air and teeny lights about the neighborhood. I've never been able to describe the feeling that seems to draw me someplace unknown, yet familiar, as I look about between the cold air at the lights on the homes near mine. I want mine to have that same feel. I need to try a few other stores and see if there are some options I haven't considered yet.
Today is December 7th, the flu will pass before long and when it does I'll turn up the heat and get to work. A few good ol' Christmas stand-bys from the video cabinet and some hot Vanilla Creme and I'll be good to go for a long night of playing with my favorite stash of paper and embellishments. I hope!
I hope the holidays are full and enriching for those of you reading along here. I hope you return here again, and comment too, when your feel inclined. My goal is to make more posts in '06. Possibly even use this forum for some specials and a gallery from my scrap store.
Holiday wishes & blessings!
Joi/AKA Scrap-To-It!
I'm struggling this year with getting to my projects. Is it the cold that keeps me from getting to it? Or something else this year?
I've been reading holiday stories the past couple of days -- you know, the kind you need a tissue box for. I've been reading all the little sweet ones I used to read to my first and second graders too. I love stories about Christmas and giving and I was hoping the stories would take me to the mental space I need to get to but haven't yet.
I've had my tree up since the day after Thanksgiving. Usually that is a dedicated shopping day -- breakfast, lunch and shop 'till you drop. Not so much for the sales, but for the fun of opening up the holiday season out amongst the holiday-goers. Instead we put on Christmas CDs and made cocoa and tried to get into the spirit of things while decorating our home. It looks wonderful, but not.
I couldn't find the right lights for my yard this year. Last year I used some spiral trees and garland. While the lights work fine I didn't have the patience this year to untangle the ridiculously thin strings so the spirial could hang in its proper tree shape. I hate that it is dark in front of my house this year. There is something for me about the eery winter haze about the air and teeny lights about the neighborhood. I've never been able to describe the feeling that seems to draw me someplace unknown, yet familiar, as I look about between the cold air at the lights on the homes near mine. I want mine to have that same feel. I need to try a few other stores and see if there are some options I haven't considered yet.
Today is December 7th, the flu will pass before long and when it does I'll turn up the heat and get to work. A few good ol' Christmas stand-bys from the video cabinet and some hot Vanilla Creme and I'll be good to go for a long night of playing with my favorite stash of paper and embellishments. I hope!
I hope the holidays are full and enriching for those of you reading along here. I hope you return here again, and comment too, when your feel inclined. My goal is to make more posts in '06. Possibly even use this forum for some specials and a gallery from my scrap store.
Holiday wishes & blessings!
Joi/AKA Scrap-To-It!
Friday, September 16, 2005
New to blogging
Since I am new to this whole blog deal I don't come here often to update. Also, as you can see from my tag-line that I don't often have my 'To-It!" therefore it is a hit and miss sort of thing. However, I wanted to put a few words here to cyber-paper or as I saw on another blog one day, 'talk more to myself.' LOL!!!
Summer is over and school is back in session. Home-school that is. I am schooling my 15 yo DS in the principal approach from the FACE curriculum. I love this. It gives me a chance to really effect an individual's point of view, teaching him to be truth based, to think deeper, to feel more intently, and all the while to become the scholar he wants to become. It is a process, not an event. I also home school my almost 4 yo dd. For sure this is miss more than hit. I'm fine with that. I don't force it on her as I have many opportunities during the day to work instruction in to our normal living.
Aside from school starting, so is the business back up after our summer break. I kind of closed my doors for a time while I went home to help family. Mom had surgery and I went home to be sure all was well and help with the recovery. It feels good to get back to scrapping and get Scrap-To-It! back on track again. It is for sure, my therapy in a life where it is mom and school, and then mom and kids, 7 days a week.
I love being a mom, don't get me wrong, however, I am not foolish enough to belive it is enough. When we are enriched, we can enrich others. I find that my work helps my children as well. Teaching my DS to work/run a business, teaching my DD to find her creative place. My DD loves to scrap, btw!
So Septermber is upon us, school and preparpations for events. Colors turn in the woods behind the house and colors turn here on the kitchen table as portfolios come to life.
What does September do for you?
Summer is over and school is back in session. Home-school that is. I am schooling my 15 yo DS in the principal approach from the FACE curriculum. I love this. It gives me a chance to really effect an individual's point of view, teaching him to be truth based, to think deeper, to feel more intently, and all the while to become the scholar he wants to become. It is a process, not an event. I also home school my almost 4 yo dd. For sure this is miss more than hit. I'm fine with that. I don't force it on her as I have many opportunities during the day to work instruction in to our normal living.
Aside from school starting, so is the business back up after our summer break. I kind of closed my doors for a time while I went home to help family. Mom had surgery and I went home to be sure all was well and help with the recovery. It feels good to get back to scrapping and get Scrap-To-It! back on track again. It is for sure, my therapy in a life where it is mom and school, and then mom and kids, 7 days a week.
I love being a mom, don't get me wrong, however, I am not foolish enough to belive it is enough. When we are enriched, we can enrich others. I find that my work helps my children as well. Teaching my DS to work/run a business, teaching my DD to find her creative place. My DD loves to scrap, btw!
So Septermber is upon us, school and preparpations for events. Colors turn in the woods behind the house and colors turn here on the kitchen table as portfolios come to life.
What does September do for you?
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
About Me
About Me -
Joi AKA Scrap-To-It!
Thanks for visiting my blog, "Round and Round With Scrap-To-It!." I am a home schooling mom/scrapbook business owner. My dream is to own retail storefront. For now I'm content to play school with my litle ones while I build my business at my local crops and events. Visit the store -- visit the blog and maybe we'll find our 'to-it's' together!
Joi AKA Scrap-To-It!
Thanks for visiting my blog, "Round and Round With Scrap-To-It!." I am a home schooling mom/scrapbook business owner. My dream is to own retail storefront. For now I'm content to play school with my litle ones while I build my business at my local crops and events. Visit the store -- visit the blog and maybe we'll find our 'to-it's' together!
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