Farewell to Faithful Scrapper store front......

Well it has been a while since I have posted anything.  It has been 3 years since I opened Faithful Scrapper.  I have meet so many wonderful people and have been able to use the shop to minister to woman.  Through the 3 years that I have been open we have had crops, birthday parties, sewing lessons, bible study, and even some counseling sessions.  Me & my husband adopted a little boy so our family has grown & life has changed.

My landlord at the beginning of this year said they really wanted to sell the building.  I was still not in a financial situation to purchase the building.  I had been struggling financially to keep the doors open.  The end of May I got a call from my landlord saying they had a potential buyer.  Well that turned into them buying the building & me moving out all in about 3 weeks.  Things were very crazy & I was extremely stressed out.  Since the closing of the store I have moved my inventory to my home.  Set up my office & sewing room.  I will continue to do business from my home.  I have had lots of custom order scrapbooks & sewing & embroidery orders.  I will keep the name & continue to do business but from a different location.  Whitworth Ranch Retreat whitworth-ranch-retreat.comin Scurry, TX has allowed me to keep some basic scrapbook supplies for sale at their location.  We will also be able to crop at the Ranch as well.  I can still order product & customers can still contact me for supplies.  You can shop on-line at Product Performers productperformers.com but you will have to contact me to order.

So I am waiting for God to open the next door & show me what I'm suppose to be doing.  I am working 2 days a week at Still Waters in Kaufman.  We are a crisis center for woman.  Maybe in a couple of years when our son starts school I could look at opening another store front.  Who knows.....well God does.  

Thank you all for all your support over the last 3 years.  I have had the best customers & have made great new friendships.  I will cherish the memories that the shop has brought to me & so many others.

It's Been a Year!!!

Well I can't believe I've been in business a year this month.  Wow how time flies.  I've learned so much about having a business & have lots more to learn.  I've met lots of great people & made some really good new friends.  I had an open house to celebrate one year in business. We had some refreshments & got to visit with lots of people.  Thanks to all who have helped support me in so many ways.  I pray that there will be many more years to come.

Now the Holidays are approaching.  Thanksgiving, Christmas, & New Years.  Right now is a great time to be working on making your Christmas cards or making gifts for Christmas.  I hope everyone is making time to do some type of hobby.  It sure is good therapy to have a hobby.  I've got a couple of new lines in recently.  A Christmas line from Lily Bee that is super cute.  Lots of browns & turquoise.  Then I got a racing line from Moxxie.  Racing is big out here.  There are 2 Race tracks in Crandall & one in Ennis.  I also just got a Farm Livin' line from Moxxie.  It is super cute too.  Will be great for my 4H folks.  I have a Valentine line coming from Jillibean that should be here any day.

On a personal note...we still have the little boy we are unofficially Fostering.  We have had him almost 3 months.  We are working with him on some delays & getting some services for him.  He has been such a blessing to us.  Christmas should be fun with having a little one around.  Please pray for God's will for this little boy.

Yeah for Fall & cooler weather!!

I hope everyone is enjoying the cooler weather.  It is such a relief after such a hot summer.  Well alot has been going on since I was on here last.  Me & my husband are fostering an 18 month old little boy.  He has changed our world & we love it & him.  On the business side...I've got lots of new product & just placed orders for new lines coming in for the next few months.  Kaufman is having a Scarecrow Festival this coming Saturday, Oct. 22.  They start with a parade at 9:00 that will go through the square.  There will be vendors all around the square & there will be live music all day.  We will have a booth setup so come by & say "Hi"  Also Still Waters will have a store front setup with lots of goodies for sale, info on the next GIRL talk & registration info for our Golf Tournament.  Then the next Saturday, Oct. 29th there is a Holiday Shopping event at Whitworth Ranch in Scurry.  This is the retreat place we went to back in August.  There will be lots of vendors there as well & we will have a booth setup.  There is a raffle for a free weekend at Whitworth.  Tickets are $10.00.    Fall is a busy time for Fall Festivals & craft fairs.  I hope everyone is starting to think or shop for Christmas.  It will be here before you know it.  I have gift certificates for those hard to buy for folks.

Back To School

Can't believe summer is over & it's time for school to start.  The weather is still very much summer though.  I hope Fall comes early & we get lots of rain.  June & July have been busy.  Had a kids camp in July.  The kids had lots of fun making items for back to school.  They made altered composition notebooks, clipboards, a pencil holder, & paper bag album.  I will continue to have a kids class once a month.  Been working on some t-shirt quilts for folks.  Have lots of things coming this Fall.  Kaufman Chamber of Commerce is having their Auction the end of Sept.  Kaufman Scarecrow Festival is the end of October along with a Holiday shopping event at Whitworth Ranch in Scurry.

 

And speaking of Whitworth Ranch we just had our first scrapbook retreat there.  We had so much fun & the Ranch is beautiful.  I actually got some of my own scrapbooking done. Got my pictures from 40th birthday which was in May, all in a book.  That's a good feeling to get a whole scrapbook done. 



Whitworth Ranch

  

 

So many Holidays are around the corner.  Already busy making Christmas gifts.  Never to early to start.  Lots of new babies being born which I've been busy making custom baby items. 

So enough about me & what I've been doing.  To God be the glory as this store wouldn't exist without him.  Hoping to host a movie date night in Sept & start a woman's bible study soon.  I meet so many woman with this business & so many are hurting or  just have junk going on in their lives.  Been reading the book Lies Woman Believe & the truth that will set them free.  It is a great book & hope to do the bible study based on this book.  

I will try & get on here more often to give updates.  Please share this blog with your friends.  Come & check out the shop or join us for a crop night.

Hot! Hot! Hot!

Well it's been a super hot summer & with no rain.  It has been a busy summer too.  As you see I haven't blogged in awhile.  Lots of good stuff going on at Faithful Scrapper.  I've had lots of classes this summer & have had lots of new folks coming.  I moved the crop room around trying to make it seem bigger.  Thanks to my friend Gena that helped move tables not just once but more like 3 or 4 times until we got it the way we liked it.  I've been getting new product in.  Trying to get the old out & in with the new.  We will be doing our first scrapbook retreat in August so that is exciting too.  Have a Kids camp scheduled for next week.  Haven't filled it up yet so hopefully there will be more kiddos sign up.  Oh the biggest of all is I renewed the lease for another year.  Yeah....This time last summer  with lots of help from family & friends we were cleaning & organizing the store.  November will be our 1 year anniversary.  God is good.

Fall is around the corner & already booking events for the store.  September we will be making cards to send to troops via Operation Write Home. The Kaufman Chamber of Commerce will also be having their auction in Sept & will donate something to them.  October we will have a booth at the Kaufman Scarecrow Festival & then a booth at Whitworth Ranch in Scurry for a business expo. 

Well just wanted to update everyone.  I will try & do better with blogging.

Summer time!!

Today is the last day of May & then here comes June.  June means summer time, schools out, pool days, vacations, & lots more.  Make sure you take lots of pictures this summer.  Your kids grow up so fast so you want to capture these summer time memories.  Here at Faithful Scrapper I've been busy with Graduation gifts, baby shower gifts, & then trying to rearrange the store.  I've been adding new products so I've moved things around making room for the new items.  The store also got a face lift. A new coat of paint does wonders to a building.

decorating canvas

custom baby shower gifts

New summer line from Jillibean Soup

We will be attending the Great Amercian Scrapbooking Convention in Arlington, TX this coming Saturday.  This will be my first time to attend so I don't really know what to expect.  Knowing me I will be overwhelmed. Then I have a vacation planned & will be closed June 9-13th.  Everyone needs a vacation even if it is just time off from work to sit around the house.  For June we will have classes on making altered tags, an envelope album, decorating a 5x7 canvas & then of course having crops.

Happy Easter

Well the store has been busy so I haven't had time to blog.  That's a good thing right?  So getting more classes set up & getting ready for National Scrapbook Day there's lots of fun coming.  Been getting a few new things in here & there.  What is the saying?? In with the new & out with the old.  Well I'm working on it.....slowly but surely.  Can't wait to see how the store grows.  It's been open now almost 6 months.  Boy does time fly.  It has been a great experience & as I call it an adventure.  God has been good & as long as I put him first in this business I know he will do great things.  Bigger & better things than what I could do on my  own.  Happy Easter to everyone...