.... and the winner is.... THE TRUCK

Yes, that's right, the truck beat me to Ontario- yay! I'm excited and of course a bit nervous too. I phoned the driver to get an update about where she was and she sounded a little surprised. She had already dropped off the truck and phoned my dad to let him know where it was. We weren't expecting to arrive today and it was early.

I'm excited my truck is there because now I know it will be there for both trade shows, www.scrapfest.ca and www.creativfestival.ca but I hate that it is so far away. Hurry up Thurs, I need to get on that plane! lol

My poor Dad, he lives in Brampton so I don't get to see him very often and I haven't seen him in 2 yrs. He heard lots about my truck and what I was doing, but hadn't seen it, so now it's in Ontario and now he actually has to drive it to his house. Poor guy! Even my husband doesn't like to be seen in a giant lime green scrapbooking truck and now my dad has to too. Oh, the things our family will do for us.... lol.

The other reason I feel bad for my dad is that he is also getting shipments for me in Ontario. Most of my orders I had shipped directly to me, but I also had about 6 shipments come from Ontario and the U.S. so they are going to his house. One order is direct from Neat Nix and they have the most awesome scrapbooking buckets that are just fantastic. They are also collapsible which is great for traveling with. (I think I need 2, one for all my tools and the round one for garbage) I have 10 boxes of them coming direct to his house. Yikes!

Plus, he told me he just got 4 boxes of stuff from California. I'm also excited about that order because that means all my GLIMMER MIST arrived. Yes, all 200 bottles of them. If you're going to Scrapfest, you don't want to miss out on Trisha Ladouceur's classes. She is the Glimmer Mist Queen and will rock your world with it. Her projects are so kick ass that you will love her forever. One thing I love about Trisha's classes and projects is that she helps you to think out of the box and use things in a new way. I've seen her projects for Scrapfest and the upcoming cruise and they're just amazing. Check out her blog.

I also have to mention my great friend Terrie Moxam. Originally my husband was going to come with me, but then he decided it would make more sense for me to have a scrapbooking fanatic friend go. I talked to my friend Terrie and she said, "do you need to twist my rubber arm? Of course I'll come to Toronto." So she is taking time away from her awesome husband (yep, I have to compliment him, he's now accusing me of being a "wife stealer" lol) and come and work her butt off with me. She is great, she reminds me of everything I forget and absolutely loves scrapbooking and what we do, so she will be a great help in Toronto. She truly is an amazing woman! We're going to have FUN, right Terrie? Ok, we're going to work our butts off, but we will have fun too. I've been told that we're staying on the Sat night at the hotel because the girls are going out. What???? I need my sleep, I'm too old to party when I've been working my ass off. I love my bed and pillow. lol

Have a great week everyone and we'll keep in touch from Toronto.

Kelly

Spot the Lime green Truck Contest from Alberta to Ontario

Hi everyone,

We are shipping our mobile scrapbook store (lime green cube van) all the way from Edmonton, Alberta to Scrapfest. Yes, that's right, we're crazy and we love to have fun. We decided to bring our store all across Canada so that we can meet all the awesome scrapbookers from Ontario that we keep hearing about and share our dealership/business opportunity. http://www.memoriesinmotionscrapbooking.com/

Here's the contest:
Spot the lime green truck on the bigger truck, take a picture of it, say where you saw it and email it to me at: kelly@memoriesinmotionscrapbooking.com and you could win a $100 shopping spree. That's right. Every day I will be phoning the driver and finding out where she is just to make it a little easier, watch for daily updates.

So, the lime green truck is leaving tomorrow (Apr 8) a.m. from Edmonton and scheduled to arrive in Calgary some time and then head to Regina. It should reach it's final destination (Mississauga) Tue or Wed (Apr 14 or 15). And we fly out Apr 16, Thurs.

Watch for the truck girlfriends and you could be a lucky winner of a $100 shopping spree!

We'll be in Kitchener, April 17 & 18 at Scrapfest (http://www.scrapfest.ca/) and

Mississauga, Apr 24 - 26 at Creativ Festival (http://www.creativfestival.ca/)

Dealership Opportunity Session:

Apr 18, Saturday 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Scrapfest Studio

Kitchener, ON

Private consultations, Apr 21 - 23, Brampton Ontario

Cheers and happy hunting for the lime green truck!

Kelly and Terrie

kelly@memoriesinmotionscrapbooking.com

http://www.memoriesinmotionscrapbooking.com/

We're Going to Ontario!!!

Yes, the crazy lady has found a way to ship the big lime green truck/mobile store all the way from Edmonton, Alberta to Kitchener, Ontario. We are attending two shows, Scrapfest and the Creativ Festival. Check out their websites for details on their events www.scrapfest and www.creativfestival.com

Along with selling products (and we're really excited about some of the stuff we're bringing with us) we will be doing dealership opportunity presentations so that we can show you how you too can own your own Memories in Motion Scrapbooking business.

Dealership Opportunity Session:
Saturday, April 18, 2009
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Scrapfest Studio
Kitchener Memorial Auditorium Complex

We will also be in Brampton from Sun, Apr 19 til Apr 23 and then we will be setting up for the Creativ Festival at the Mississauga International Centre Apr 24 - 26.

If you would like to set up a private appointment to meet with me in Ontario, call me at (780) 297-0019.

Excited about meeting the awesome Ontario Scrapbookers!

Kelly

PS- Watch for the lime green truck being shipped from Alberta to Ontario, snap a picture of it and then email it to me and you could win a prize!

Planning a Road Trip to Scrapfest

My latest challenge has been to find a way to ship my mobile store all the way to Kitchener, Ontario and back. Who would of thought I would want to take on that task and risk, only me, the crazy woman! lol. It would definitely be cheaper to drive it there, but I want to make sure it gets there in one piece and without a stressed-out driver (me) and also without a stressed-out husband waiting to hear if he has to come get me. And why Kitchener you ask? Because that's where Scrapfest is Apr 17 & 18 and my good friend Lisa is organizing the biggest and best scrapbooking show ever. Check out her website at: http://www.scrapfest.ca/ My other good friend Trisha Ladouceur will be teaching there and let me tell you, you don't want to miss her class, guaranteed to be awesome! So awesome, she can't even tell me about it. Ugh!

So, today Trisha and I are on the phone and she's reconfirming that I'm a psycho woman for doing what I'm doing (in a good way) and especially in today's economy and recession, who is going to want to buy a mobile scrapbook store? Well, there is no time like the present to get into your own business even though everyone says we're in a recession (what we're in a recession? People are still buying supplies from me and my business has grown). Everyone knows that with your own business your income can be as large or as small as you make it. This is the time to break free from making only $15/hr at a job, this is the time that you can make $$$$ with your scrapbooking passion without chaining your self to a long-term and expensive lease. With a mobile store, you also do not have expensive overhead and staffing costs and you end up putting way more money into your own pocket and that's what we all need. Anyways, Trisha and I had a very good talk and then she had this major breakthrough for me and proceeded to tell me that there's actually another show in Ontario, the weekend after and wouldn't it make more sense for me to go to not ONE, but TWO scrapbooking shows.

OH MY GAWD!!!! Now, I'm calling Trisha a psycho woman for not only making my already crazy life crazier, but her crazy for giving me another crazy idea to make my life crazier. (I don't think that made sense, but anyways, we're now both crazy). She told me that the Creativ Festival is the following weekend and I should have a booth there too since that way I would have two shows to make money at plus meet even more potential franchisees plus blah blah blah. Plus I could spend the week meeting potential franchisees and go on some morning shows and I could go sell stuff in front of the CN tower and I could....... Oh my goodness, my head is hurting already.

So then I proceed to phone Rita from the Creativ Festival and now she's excited about me coming because now that means we can also get some more media involved and ..... even more yikes. Wow, is that ever a big show, 20,000 attendees and 50% of them are scrapbookers, check out their website at: http://www.creativfestival.ca/ Both shows are definitely a MUST ATTEND event for everyone. I know they both have fantastic events planned.

So, eventually in April, watch for pictures of the truck getting ready to go on a road trip and we'll follow on a plane. The truck will be on the train and we'll be on the plane, who's going to get there first????

Have a great week everyone and I look forward to hearing from you. We're still looking for some out of town events to attend on National Scrapbook Day, let us know if you know of any.

You know what is going to be the worst part of this all? Telling my husband that I'm going to be gone for 10 days, doing 2 shows, plus.... well, you get the picture, it's going to be crazy, but it's going to be a great crazy and I'm so looking forward to helping more women get into their own mobile scrapbook stores. Who knows, maybe I'll even just sell mine there and not have to bring it back at all???? Hey, I know he'd like that one. lol Then I'd just have to build another one to service all my great customers that I have here.

Wonderful Friends

One of the things I am most grateful for is my friends. I have many friends of all types, some are rich some are poor, some are successful and some are not, some are successful in other ways besides money and some are not so successful. Each of my friends enrich my life in some way and I have learned over the years, that I cannot live without them. Even though I do not get to communicate with them or visit them or call them or even email them as much as I would like they are all in my hearts in some way.

I remember as a kid how I would wake up on a Saturday morning and go over to my grandparents' house and wait to see who would show up for coffee. If someone wasn't coming over, then we were going to visit someone. And nowadays, there is no way you would just pop in to someone's house and visit, it always has to be a planned event. It seems like our generation has cocooned so much that we forget who brings us happiness in our lives besides our family and that is our friends. We seem to forget to make time for our friends and socialize. Whenever my husband and I get together with our friends, we realize how much fun they are and wonder why we don't hang out with them more often. My parents and grandparents were always socializing with their friends and family. And they always had so much fun.

What made me think about our friends at Christmas was a teaching job that I was at on Friday. Every Friday morning since September, I have been teaching scrapbooking at a drop-in centre for low income people and people in need. I have really enjoyed teaching there because they have no expectations. They don't expect me to create masterpieces, they're just happy to get out of the house and have a place to go to socialize and make some pages. Never once have they complained about not learning anything and they just love whatever it is they do because they take my idea and make it their own. And they are just happy that I take the time out of my day to come and be with them and show them something new. They all gave me gifts and cards for Christmas and I brought them donuts. Their handmade gifts were so special and are something I will treasure forever. They helped me to realize that Christmas doesn't have to be this big major commercialized event. It just has to be something little and special. And now I consider these girls to be my friends, they're awesome!

Thank you to all my friends you make my life special and I hope in some way I touch your lives. This is the year for me to spend more time with my friends and not cocoon so much.

Have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

BoBunny Serendipity Clear Album

Last night I decided to play again with the clear albums. I just got in the new BoBunny Clearly Mixed Up albums and are they ever fun to play with. They're acrylic albums, but all the shapes are mixed up. When you see the one I played with, you'll see what I mean. I also used the Fancy Pants new Arctic Chill line and that is just to die for, it is so awesome. Keep in mind, I added some extra pages into this album plus I also added some of the fancy pants artic chill transparencies cut in the same shape as some of the album pages. I didn't take picts of all the pages, just a couple, but you get the idea. They also have some different types, so if you'd like to see them, let me know and I'll get you pics of them. They're definitely lots of fun to work with.

Melissa Buhler published too

I forgot one other thing, our web designer, Melissa Buhler - she was also published this month. She is an awesome scrapbooker too, plus she designs great websites. I'm really excited about her new printing company called Green Pixel Printing. Check it out she caters especially to scrapbookers and knows what we need. www.greenpixelprinting.com