A New and Dangerous Place!!

Paula and I went shopping in Chico yesterday. I don’t remember where we were originally headed when we got off the freeway, but as we passed one of the newer business places, we saw on the backs of the building the names of the places. One of them was a name we weren’t familiar with: Paradise Scrapbook Boutique. We immediately changed course and turned in there.

And our lives were forever changed.

They had no embossing powder, which was what Paula was mainly looking for, but they had EVERYTHING else you could ever want or need. And we found many things that we didn’t know we needed at the time, but realized that YES! WE NEEDED THIS! OR THAT! OR SOME OF THOSE!!! WHY NOT ONE OF EACH????

Not only did they have fabulous wonders in the scrapbook/card making/paper craft realm, but the décor of the shop was amazing! Antiques all over the place used in clever ways to display the products. Who would’ve thought of using an old fridge to display stuff in the door and decorative papers on the shelves in the fridge?

Now, I am not a scrapbook person. Cards and mini-books are my thing. I’m also heavily into making altered books. This place had it all for that. And while I’m not interested in crop sessions, the fact that you can come and for a small fee use all their ‘toys’ to cut out dies is amazing! And when we found out that there was a mini-book class coming up in 3 weeks and that there were 3 places left, Paula and I signed up immediately. We promised to share our knowledge for good, not evil.

Stamp Tramps…you have no idea what is awaiting you!! More to come…..

PS: ‘Stamp Tramps’ is the name of out little stamp group…just FYI…no one has any kind of tattoo….not that I know of, anyway…