December crop if FULL!

I can't believe it...Cool Crops' December 13th crop is FULL! There are still a few spots for Teresa's class. You do not have to come to the crop to take Teresa's class. Let me know if you want on the waiting list for our crop or if you want to take Teresa's class. You are going to love her class. It is using the new Bazzill Lickety Slip Album. This is going to fill up FAST!!!

New Products have arrived

I have been busy pricing all the new products. Everyone is going to fall in love with the new Christmas line from the Little Yellow Bicycle! And the Scrap Shack is now stocking a brand new line, KaiserCraft. Several of you have asked me about gift certificates, so I am happy to announce that the Scrap Shack will be offering gifts certificates for Christmas or any other occassion. Just leave your email in the comments and I will contract you for the details.

Back from "Fall Fling"

I just got back from my "Fall Fling" with my Dad, Brother and Sister-in-law. My Mom started the family tradition of having a "Fall Fling". Some people call it a fall foliage tour. My family calls it a "Fall Fling". We went up into northern Missoui to an Old Order Amish community of Jamesport, MO. The countryside was full of beautiful fall leaves, fields of corn ready for harvest, rolling green hills with cattle grazing and the sounds of the clip-clap of the Amish horse and buggies. We also spent a day in Stanberry, MO stomping on the very ground where my Grandmother Hildred Smith Nixon grew up. We were in the very HEARTLAND of AMERICA! I was reminded in my heart of how blessed that I am to have been born an American and to have been born to Christian parents, whose parents were Christians. The song, "America the Beautiful" kept going through my head as we drove the backroads of Missouri...

AMERICA the BEAUTIFUL

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain!

America! America!

God shed His grace of thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

O beautiful for pilgrim feet

Whose stern impassion'd stress

A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness.

America! America!

God mend thine ev'ry flaw,

Confirm thy soul in self-control,

Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes prov'd

In liberating strife,

Who more than self their country loved,

And mercy more than life.

America! America!

May God thy gold refine

Till all success be nobleness,

And ev'ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!

by Katharine Lee Bates

OCTOBER is here

my favorite time of the year! And it's just a few days until our next COOL CROP (Vickie finally named our crops) at the Russellville, Arkansas Boys and Girls Club on October 18, 2008. The crop is full and Teresa's class is sold out. If you didn't get in, be sure to come SHOP at the Scrap Shack.

I few lucky croppers got to buy some of Scrap Shack's brand new fall emblishments at Teresa's "Dream in Color" class yesterday. All of you are going to want to buy one of everything. Teresa had to have two of each of the Fancy Pants fall glitter cuts.