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THE DICK EMERY SHOW

Well I'm not shy of a hard days work but...BLIMEY yesterday was hard!!!! it was also hilarious, Ricky and Jamie were like Dick Emery and Son....."Here Dad I think I've done it wrong again" "You stupid boy"!!! We had to take up all the laminate flooring just to turn it round the other way, so it doesn't even look any different, but I will be asking everyone to PLEASE say "Oooh what a lovely floor" just to make me feel better. I am now rather good at laying floors so if anyone wants any floor laying done I'm available on a Monday!! I'll not be bringing Jamie though as his measuring skill are awful, we've got loads of offcuts if anyone wants them!!! Back there again today, putting up more slat wall and moving the counter, ect. I'm looking at it all at the mo and thinking OMG why did I start this, but I won't say it loud as Ricky would shout back "I told you so" and we never want to let the men be right, do we! Oh, by

IT'S BEEN A WHILE .....

Since I last blogged.....SORRY!!! Things have been a wee bit busy and it's going to get a lot busier....The christmas fairies are coming....To re-arrange the shop, making it all fresh, new and exciting for you lovely people. By the way Ricky (my husband) and Jamie (my son) ARE the christmas fairies but don't let them know that, I'm having great fun with this mental picture of them in Tutu's with gossamer wings on their backs!!!! It's more likely to be a workers belt and builders bum!!! PHWOAR!!! I would like to wish you all a very MAGICAL CHRISTMAS THANK YOU ALL for your continued SUPPORT and here's to a FANTASTIC NEW YEAR Have a great one everyone Marion xxx

PJ Crop!! and 'Loyalty' night :)

We are having another PJ crop in the shop :) Come and join us on the 13th of December from 6pm til midnight... We have a few spaces left if any of you lovely ladies are interested. The cost is £15. Please call the shop to book on 01268 530933. And now the fabulous Marion is back in the shop (all refreshed and more tanned than any of us), planning will begin on our January classes. We have had so much interest in our classes lately but unfortunately (for you ;)) they have been all fully booked. The new year will bring some simply delish new classes for you all. Sign up for our newsletter via http://www.sugarandspicecrafts.co.uk/ to make sure you get the most up to date class lists and the chance to book straight away...! Just to remind you all too we have all the *new* HSM papers and Hannah Montanna papers and stickers in. Along with my fave paper brand atm... October Afternoon. The papers are such a great quality, vibrant colours and soooo gorgeous. If you have little boys too, the ni

NO MORE PICCY'S.......

.....only tears.....BOO HOO, we're coming home, BUT the GOOD NEWS is our flight is delayed 3 hours so we've got 3 more hours of sunshine to soak up before we get back to wet and dreary ENGLAND. THANKS SOOOOO MUCH AMANDA, the fact that our flight is delayed and we haven't had to vacate (oh that sounds so American) the house at 11 am has been a god send. We've had THE MOST FUN and some fantastic FOOD and some rather nice CHEESECAKES as well. Jamie and Nicky left a day before us and I can only assume that they are home safe and sound as, I suppose, with most 18 year olds they forget to let you know!!! Don't worry Jay I'm only your mother!!!! We managed to pack in the parks all last week, good really as the schools were off this week and they became really busy, got quite a bit of shopping done and have relaxed for the last few days, so now I feel really chilled out. See you all soon in CHILLY ENGLAND. Love to all xx

NOT LONG NOW......

.....Till we have to return home.....BUT we will come back with so many great memories, we've had such a brilliant time and whilst I have missed all of you, I haven't missed the stress of work, this has been a complete chill out!!! THANK YOU to all you girls holding the shop together and doing such a great job and SPECIAL THANKS to my MUM, she's a real star!!!!! Ricky celebrated his 44th birthday out here so we went to the CHEESECAKE FACTORY (god we love that place)!!! and they all sang happy birthday to him What is it with 18 year old boys that they have to pull a funny face!!! All the boys went SHOOTING the other day, I've already done that in Las Vegas, I'm quite a dab hand with an OUZI !!! they all decided to fire revolvers and were pretty damn good, Luke rather liked the look of the MAGNUM although I don't think Nicky was too impressed. We're off to relax at Aquatica today, sorry not meaning to rub it in but it is lovely out here and we may as well make

HAVING FUN FUN FUN !!!!

I'm not rubbing it in but we are having a GREAT time. The boys went golf the other day so the girls went....... SHOPPING, of course and then we had a pedicure We went to the mall at Millenia, let me tell you it puts Lakeside in the shade, it's one of the nicest Malls, very POSH. Took a piccy of the christmas tree with some of us standing under it, just so you can get an idea of the size.....It's MASSIVE We've also popped into Celebration, this is such a lovely little town, Desperate Housewifes rings a bell, very Wisteria Lane Hey what's going on with the website, we've never had so many orders in such a short space of time!!!! Thanks GIRLS for all your help!!! Sorry I didn't leave enough envelopes ect. It's good to know you're loving our stock, THANK YOU!!! There's been some exciting deliveries while I've been away, so I'm looking forward to seeing it all and saying "oh yes I remember ordering that now" and getting it on the web

THE STORY SO FAR

Well it's been a few days since the last blog, that's because we've been BUSY!!!! We went to the new water park AQUATICA, it's really lovely, it looks like they've bought in loads sand from the early learning centre, it was lovely, the rides were great. OOPS I DID IT AGAIN..... got burnt that is, but this time i forgot to take a photo and it's not so bad now. Jamie and Nicky joined us on Sunday, they've been to Disney and Universal and whizzing round the parks as there are just no queues. WONDERFUL !!! We went to Seaworld on Monday, again no queues!! Sorry forgot my camera again. We're off to Macy's today as they've got a big SALE on, so we'll see what's on offer then I think we're off to GATORLAND (very touristy) and then maybe the CHEESECAKE FACTORY, well I bliming hope so anyway. Right off to have my morning bagel now and cup of English tea (we bought out PG Tips) xxx

WELL WE'RE HERE !!!!

Hi all Well we made it, after a rather noisy (screaming kids) and smelly (pooey kids) flight we got here and WOW how lovely is this house We've stayed in a few houses in Florida and this is by far the best, it's absolutely amazing and soooo large I WANT ONE !!!!! We got a tip off by Amanda (the lucky girl who's mum and dad own this) to grab the downstairs bedroom, there's 5 in total, and well, the bed is soooooo big I haven't seen Ricky at night for three nights now!!! The whole place is stunningly furnished the kitchen is ginormous and there's absolutely everything that you could need. I also want a top loader washing machine and a much bigger kitchen with central island, that's not tooooo much to ask, is it? I would certainly recommend this house, it's also really conveniently located for all the attractions just contact amanda on http://www.yourtouchofcraft.com/ and treat yourself. We went to Universal Islands of Adventure on Friday and I got coerced

EXFOLIATING ??????

OK, so what is this exfoliating thingy ???? I thought I'd had a real good scrub, in fact I didn't think I'd have much skin left after all that scrubbing....... and still it wasn't good enough What is it about going on holiday with a size 8 rather gorgeous, rather tanned young beauty that makes you soooo vain !!!! Hopefully she'll eat LOADS of burgers and fries out there and will have to ask to borrow some of my clothes. xxx

SNEAKY PEEK!!!

Just wanted to share this with you..... Yummy Spiral Bound books, Sparkly letters and rather gorgeous glittered snowflake die cut 12" x 12" cardstock.......soooo strokeable These are just a few of the new goodies we've just received.

November kits...

As you may have noticed, the November kit is up and on the shop webby http://www.sugarandspicecrafts.co.uk/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=50&products_id=606 just here... It is the brightest kit full of texture and scrappy goodness for you to enjoy... There is a huge array of products in this kit... I gurantee it will get your mojo flowing :) And an early happy birthday to Barbie who is celebrating tomorrow ;) ~Happy Birthday~

SEX PIZZA AND TWIDDLEYBITS

Yes, I did say SEX, PIZZA and TWIDDLEYBITS...... the SEX was Sex in the City, the PIZZA was Dominoes and the TWIDDLEYBITZ, well...... the TWIDDLEYBITS are GORGEOUS NEW YUMMIES from AUSTRALIA and BOY are they YUMMY, the CHRISTMAS TREES are to die for and the PRINCESS CARRIAGE is just STUNNING!!! For those of you who get the LETS MAKE CARDS magazine check us out in SHOP TALK, we've even got our piccy in there, I did ask them to airbrush us, obviously they forgot. I'm on a countdown for Florida, I'm taking my trusty laptop so I'll keep you updated of my holiday shananigans (your request, not mine, I'd like to add) It seems you loved my CHICAGO updates. We've also taken delivery of the NEW IMAGINISCE FAIREST OF THEM ALL range, for all you BIG and LITTLE PRINCESSES out there. We have a massive order on route from AUSTRALIA with some fantastic new designs from KAISER, I'll let you know when it's arrived. I'd like to say a great BIG CONGRATS to the lovely L

6 Weeks of fun!

Wow, Six weeks flew by! I am talking about the beginners course that has just finished. We had 2 groups of lovely ladies all eager to learn their new hobby. Some had done scrapbooking before but came along to learn some new techniques and some were complete virgins! There were some complete light bulb moments, like when some of the ladies actually discovered that journaling was therapeutic and started journals to write all there memories ready for when they do their pages. There were also funny moments like when one of the Tuesday night ladies stitched her stitching template onto the page! Oh and who could for get those wonderful cupcakes that Sue baked for our last session - yum yum! Thank you ladies for being really super, you were a pleasure to teach. Don't forget to register on the web site and look out in your inbox for a update on the Off the Page course. Now to the next 6 weeks of beginners which starts tomorrow...... HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Love Nina x

Sneaky Peek...!

Here is the kit that will be avaliable from the 1st of November...! This is just a weanie little peek of some of the goodies which will be featuring in the bursting full November kit :) This one is going to go fast, so get in quick... It's a kit full of brights, we will be bursting into November and celebrating Fireworks night with a huge Bang, Whoosh and Whizz! For those of you reading who are card makers and the scrapping bug hasn't bitten you... yet... We run beginners classes with the wonderful and scrap-tastic Nina which are held on Saturday mornings and Tuesday evenings. We still have a few spaces left on both days. Not only will you walk away with 6 LO's to begin an album but you'll also learn a wealth of techniques to keep you going for a long time afterwards. (Many of these techniques can be used on cards and other papercrafting projects too!) For more info or to book feel free to call the shop on 01268 530933 or pop in :) And lastly for those who have managed

Sshhh!

Sshhh! It's a secret ;) Tomorrow I will be in the shop and willbe adding the finishing touches to the November kit... We are all SOLD OUT of the October one (for those of you who bagged a kit, well done!) I will be adding a sneaky peek this month so you can by all means ring a reserve one by paying for it in advance... otherwise it's a free for all on the first when the kits go up for sale. A big thank you to the ladies who were in my class on Sunday, I hope you 'family trees' are now all complete with photos and filling your albums or waiting to be wrapped as gifts, as some of you suggested. Thank you for the funny stories too ;) Tales of ham sandwiches being choked on, ransacked bedrooms and firemen :P They were totally hillarious. This Sunday I am following on from Marion's card class with my heart felt mini book on Sunday afternoon... and no doubt this weekend will also be just as loud!

YAY !!! they're back !!!!

Sorry haven't blogged for a while, been rather HECTIC!!! We've got the Australian scrapbook magazines back in, YAY !!!! for those of you who got some last time and some of you bought about 14 each (greedy)!!! you'll know JUST HOW GOOD they are. These have got to be the best on the market and at ONLY £3.00 each they are fantastic value. We've also just taken delivery of the yummiest Gelatins Clear Stamps in their CHOCOLATE designs and to go with them the Gelatins CHOCOLATE EMBOSSING POWDER that smells of CHOCOLATE, along with CHRISTMAS PINE and EXTRA FOAM LATTE (vanilla). We also got a wonderful SURPRISE today as we opend TWO boxes, yes TWO boxes from our friends KAISER, showing us all the NEW YUMMIES now in stock so what have we done about it....... well we're putting in a rather LARGE ORDER of course.!!! Nina's working on some MORE CHRISTMAS CARD CLASSES (we hear you)!!! Polly's sitting opposite me working on the KAISER CHRISTMAS PINE TREE, and it's loo

So for those who have brought our FABBY Oct Kit!

Here is the link you have been waiting for to let you access the kit blog! www.sshhhhsugarandspicecrafts.blogspot.com We have a couple left, so if you are in need of a Mr.Campy fix... call the shop and we can put it by for you ... be quick though as they are selling out fast :) Secondly a huge thank you to you all who have booked Crimbo cards with me. We sold all 20 places by yesterday morning and they were only released Friday afternoon! Thank you! And of course another thank you to the ladies who booked the all day extravaganza of Crimbo goodies... we will be creating the perfect Crimbo canvas and pudding album. ;) And did you all watch Ugly Betty? Is Betty finally going to get her groove on with Gio? And boy Coach Diaz is HOT... defo one for the lust book ;)

As promised!

Here it is! We have just a few of these gorgeous kits left (grab one while you can!) It contains : 3x 12" x 12" Bazzill in coordinating kit colours 1x Large scalloped Bazzill piece 1x 12" x 12" thin cork 1x 12" x 12" vellum 1x Fancy pants 'Papa' 1x Cosmo cricket Mr.Campy (!) Natures walk 1x Cosmo cricket Mr.Campy (!!) Happy campers 4 metres (approx) of ribbon (Velvet, satin, gingham and the gorgeous knicker kind :) all held together with a dimante pin) 1x Maya road acrylic house keychain 5x Mother of pearl buttons 2x Acrylic arrows 1x Full pack of Making memories kraft stickers (a mamouth three sides of sticker heaven!) 1x Full pack of bazzill paper flowers and lastly... a unique Sugar and Spice stamp, which you cannot buy ;)

Apologies.

Sorry I am sorry about the kits this month! What with all the excitement of Ally Pally and the packing and unpacking of all the new stock we have atm... October's kit is late. Marion did take them to the Make A Wish crop in Romford last Saturday, so if you brought one... thank you and you are a lucky bunny ;) This months kit consists of all Autumnal themed papers and colours... if you like the cosmo cricket 'mr.campy' range, then you'll love this one! It has some funky textures going on too ~ from velvet to acrylic and then to cork. Yes, cork! Honestly you need this kit ;) And as I am in the shop tomorrow... piccies will be posted. That is unless they are all sold out! We are all busy designing our November/December classes too (keep your eyes peeled). Many of these will be good as Christmas gifts (or if you can't bare to part with them a little something for yourself :) ) The dates will be released soon! For those of you who are eager to do something now, we did ha

YOUR STAND MAKES ME FEEL SICK.........

With EXCITEMENT!!!! I want it ALL, was one comment of many from some of the fantastic shopaholics at ALLY PALLY. It was an absolutely brilliant show, CREDIT CRUNCH ! what credit crunch??? If any of you are reading this THANK YOU for all your lovely comments, we put so much effort into getting the stand just right, it still amazes me how it takes us 5-6 hours to put it up and it comes down in 1.5 hours, but not without ALL the help I get, you GIRLS were FANTASTIC, SUPER, BRILLIANT and you made it such fun, even though I was a complete WIMP (THANKS BEV, BANANA FROG)! I got a wee bit ill on the Saturday and nurse Maggie MADE me take a bit of a rest in the car for half an hour, but I felt so guilty as the stand was PACKED nearly all day, sorry for those of you who couldn't even get onto the stand. Sadly I still didn't feel good on Saturday night, so I didn't go out with the CTM girls, but our lot did and Oh! what a night I missed, but I'll not worry as one of the other girl

JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME

I think in the last couple of days I've lost about 10lbs worrying about the deliveries not turning up for Ally Pally.........and then.............they arrived all on the same day..... so I celebrated and ate lots of choccy biscuits and promptly gained about 12lbs. I really was getting stressed (ask the girls) we ALL put soooo much effort into these shows. So if you're up there come and say HI and we hope you LOVE all the gorgeous NEW YUMMIES. If your not able to go to Ally Pally just pop down to the shop as we've kept some of the most stunning NEW PRODUCTS back for you guys. We've made some fantastic samples and are offering some brilliant kits, don't worry they'll be back in the shop on TUESDAY. I'm really looking forward to the MAKE A WISH CROP on Saturday 4th October (tickets are still available). Then my card classes start the following week...... Oh boy am I looking forward to my hols in November !!!! I've just found out that the house we're sta

FA LA LA LA LA

Yay!!!! The stamps have arrived. Phew..... Panic over!!!! You know what they say.... it's all about being in the RIGHT place at the RIGHT time. Well that was true for some lucky ladies yesterday. THEY managed to get their hands on them. It looks like they're going to get to use them before ME!!!!! This week has been amazingly busy, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR CUSTOM, we really appreciate your business. We're still working like crazy to get everything ready for Ally Pally, don't forget to come and say HI if you're lucky enough to be there. Nina started another beginners course yesterday morning and WOW how enthusiastic were you lot !!!! It's so lovely to see such eager and excited faces we hope you keep enjoying your new found creative outlet and we look forward to seeing your creations. Polly's teaching all day today, enjoy!!! sorry i'm not there Lisa & Loretta, big hugs. I'm off to do a birthday party for a very SPECIAL LITTLE GIRL. Happy Bi

Exciting news :)

Just to totally get you hyped up and excited... Marion has designed and ordered her Christmas stamps!!! So, real soon they will be in the shop ready for you to use on layouts, cards and all those paper crafting projects you have planned for Crimbo ;) I promise you as soon as they arrive we'll blog and tell you with sneaky pics too... Happy Tuesday!

A new little place to hang out!

For those of you who have been buying our kits (thank you) we have finally managed to gather together the kit blog! Find us here ~ http://sshhhhsugarandspicecrafts.blogspot.com/ And for those who haven't brought our September kit yet, full of new pink paisley goodies... what are you waiting for?! For this month only we are allowing all of our customers the chance to see our blog but as from October it will be purely a blog for our kit buyers, so make sure when you buy you leave your e.mail addy so we can send you an invite! Other news is that we are all working so hard getting things ready for AllyPally, which is only a few weekends away *yikes*... We have the best little packaged products coming with us... booty buttons, awesome acrylics and chunky chips :oP. Along with our usual fabby kits (we have a great Crimbo canvas one ~ just wait til you see it!) and our mini albums in all shapes and sizes. I will be in the shop that weekend, teaching my Spin LO and the felt mini, which we

OH WHAT A DAY and NIGHT !!!!!

Thank you to everyone who came to our annual BIRTHDAY SALE DAY yesterday, we had such fun it was lovely to see you all and lovely to meet all the new ladies. Your comments were really appreciated it's always lovely to hear that were doing it right. Well done Nina on doing over 70 MAKE & TAKES, you go girl. In fact she was so good that we completely sold out of the demo products so we quickly improvised, changed the product and then....... SOLD OUT of that as well. A BIG thank you to Lisa who brought us some lovely marshmallow cakes to share! Not to be out done POLLY was showing some fantastic DEMOS with some of our very own gorgeous SUGAR AND SPICE products and guess what?????? We SOLD OUT of those as well. So today we're making lots more, don't worry if you didn't manage to get your hands on them they'll be back in stock on Tuesday. And, as if we weren't busy enough, in the evening we headed over to Nina's 30th birthday bash :) You looked lovely! Where

Balloons, banners and busy bees!

Just snatching 5 minutes to tell you how fabby our birthday celebrations are going :) Nina is busy making and taking, while I am busy playing with staz-on and stamps and the most yummy-est acrylic shapes and albums :P We have been packed solid all morning and very, very busy! We have unfortunately sold out of some of the wonderful, scrapper-licious products we stock and who can blame us when we are offering you a huge 20% discount off everything we have in the shop!!! No doubt Marion will be around later or tomorrow with piccies, today she has been rather like David Bailey and has been snapping away at us all...

Happy birthday...

...to us!!! :) today we are five ;) We start celebrating with you all tomorrow with 20% off all shop stock (including all of our new yummy American stock too!) and a free raffle ticket with every purchase. Those of you lucky enough to draw out a number ending in 5... will win a prize! We have free make and takes, demos and lots of goodies to tempt you :) And of course there is always our fabulous company :P Also we have a shop birthday to celebrate, as it's Nina's 30th party tomorrow night too! And to remind you we still have a handful of September kits left... so if you want one... you better be quick!!!

Only three days to go...

...until our fabby September kit is released! I can't tell you how gorgeous these papers are. There is a nice mix of papers suitable for girls and boys... We're on a count down now! :P

Things to make you smile...

... it's our birthday very, very soon and on the 6th of September. We are offering a massive 20% off all shop stock, make and takes, a free raffle and lots of fun and games! We open at 10am so come along and join in the fun! Now, here's some little things to make you smile :) These are all the new papers we have in the shop that are ready to go out but we have no room! These are some of the new halloween goodies we have in :) Can I just say these are glittered and sparkly and fabby! We also have matching rub ons to go with them... They are beautiful :P And to celebrate our birthday even more... here is a sneaky peek of our September kit! Which has a birthday inspired stamp to help you celebrate along with us! Just look at these cute pictures of the new pink paisley mixed in with beautiful new glittered journo'ing spots, ribbon, acrylic stars, chipboard (shapes and patterns may vary), button booty and of course an exclusive Sugar and Spice stamp! And as it's our birthd

...tomorrow!

... I will be in the shop tomorrow with Barbie and unpacking more goodies that we have had delivered over the past few days. Have you seen all the new papers we have? We have the best and cutest halloween papers and of course a heap of sparkly, strokable and pretty papers too :) And lastly September's kit will contain some of these fabby new papers and embellies! Over this week i'll be offering a sneak into what will be in the kit... We will be taking pre-orders of this one ;) So if you want to be especially sure you get your mitts on one, pop into the shop! I can tell you it's going to be a bumper one this month!

Busy!

We are all so busy here in the shop today... We had our gianormous delivery of gorgeousness! We are swamped in buttons, paper, chipboard, alphas, acrylic shapes and albums, tim holtz-y goodies, flowers albums and yumminess! Hooooooooray! Also we are busy trying to do the impossie~puzzle and fit all of the new yummies onto the shop shelves ;) Paper is an impossibility! We are packaging gorgeous booty's of buttons, jars of buttons and other scrumminess. If you haven't noticed, we have popped our August kit on sale in the shop ( www.sugarandspicecrafts.co.uk ) so pop along and have a peek at our awesome August kit. For those of you who have already brought the kit (you know who you are!) we are opening a special kit blog next week which will have some fabby ideas and page sketches for you to get you mojos going :P And just to make you smile (and your back manager groan!)... We are getting our Superb September kit ready for sale next month!

CAN YOU GUESS WHAT IT IS ?????

Ok ladies here's one for you.........look at the picture below and tell us what you think it is, there's a little prize for the 1st correct answer. To enter just leave your answer via the comments box and your name, and we'll get back to you. GOOD LUCK
I have to confess that I am really quite excited about the new lot of classes coming up. I think they might be our best ever! I keep seeing peeks of what Polly is doing and Marion's card classes are getting booked up fast. Me on the other hand have a few tricks up my sleeve.... a birthday layout with super cute mini birthday bunting, a mini album to showcase your top summer photos, a spooky but sparkly spider web Halloween layout and a Halloween box for treats that you could make for the trick or treaters or maybe they are too yummy to give away! All ideas are stored here.... This is my book of ideas,small enough to fit in my bag but big enough to sketch in. Do you have a book of scrapping ideas? If not start one today!! Also another exciting class thing for me is the scrapbooking beginner course which starts on 20Th September. Oh to see those eager newbie faces again! Do they know they are entering in for a life time scrapping addiction?! Loves and Bugs Nina x x x

Excitement...

... it might be here on Friday! The fabby new stuff from the states, that is! Can I just tell you how excited we all are as this shipment contains all of the new halloween papers and 541 lbs of scrap-tastic goodness. I should have all my class samples ready and up on the shelf on Friday and Nina is a busy bee getting together her samples too ;) Marion has began to put together her classes for the shop and the make a wish crop. So pop in and book as the classes are already begining to fill up and we wouldn't want you to miss out! We are also selling the make a wish tickets in the shop for the enormous crop in Romford which is on Saturday the 4th of October, tickets are £20 for the whole day (10am til 5pm) and not only do you get your own cropping space but also a goodie bag! There are also additional classes which can be booked, these will be released at a later date. And lastly we have just a few of our wonderful kits left in the shop... they have been flying out of the door :) Tha

MORE MORE MORE.....

Just uploaded LOADS of new YUMMIES on the site so you can have a SNEAKY PEEK of what's on it's way, within the next week or so. I'm loving the HAMBLY SCREEN PRINTS and the SCRAP WITHIN REACH papers are just gorgeous and as for the KAISER well.... it has probably been one of the most popular lines we've EVER HAD, there's just soooo many SCRUMMYLICIOUS products, I'll be adding more just to keep you salivating.. ANYWAY enough of work for just one minute...BIG BROTHER, it has got to be a fix, no offence to RACHEL but how did she stay in over STUART??? and that NICOLE....well she just needs a bloomin' BIG SLAP, I can't even think of one nice thing to say about her, so I'll say nothing at all. Did anyone see X FACTOR on Saturday, how funny is that. In fact it was so funny that I had to watch it again on Sunday night, just to see the two brothers from Wales singing (allegedly) Misterious Girl, I get confused with my self as one minute I'm screaming wit

Rooooolllls of Ribbon!

We have just this minute finished adorning our ribbon shelves with our gorgeous new ribbons... well, most of them (I secretly think that Marion has a ribbon fetish as she has bought soooo many new ones!)... ;) We have finalised our class lists, projects to follow but the papers and ideas are all down on paper... You can see them on the shop site ( www.sugarandspicecrafts.co.uk ) and of course if you are interested in joining us do phone or pop into the shop and book! We would love for you to join us for a paper project or two and a few choccie biscuits. The doodling class went amazingly well yesterday and we saw the most creative designs popping out. Thank you ladies for the fantastic class and the laughs... and lovely lemon yum-yums :) And a belated happy birthday to Jayne who was celebrating a certain special birthday. She kept us giggling with her little tales ;) Who is in your lust book? And our new kits have been flying out of the door too :) So if you'd like one you'll ha

Sneaky Peek...

... this is an exculsive for our blog watching laydee's! Our new kit for this month.... It is a scrummy-licious pizza box of goodness ;) It has the best products on the scrapping market atm... Kaiser goodies, paint dabbers, pearls.... and lots more goodies! Including an exclusive rubber stamp which you cannot buy anywhere! This fan-tabulous box of delicious paper goodness will be avaliable from the shop at a special price of just £20.00 just for you creative ladies... It will be avaliable for general sale on the website on Friday...

... hooray!

... I hear the new goodies are in ;) (lots of happy dancing here!) Hooray! After much waiting and frantic searching. I just can't wait to get into the shop tomorrow and have a good peek at it all IRL, rather than a catalogue ~ yes, it's all very lovely in a catalogue but nothing beats RL does it?? I also have the doodle half the day class running on Saturday, which still has spaces... you honestly don't have to be good at drawing. I have a fabby cheats way of doodling too. We show doodling on lettering, doodling using patterned paper as a guide and free doodling. The hardest it gets is drawing a heart and ladies I know you can all draw a heart :) We are also coming up with fabby, brand spankin' new classes starting in September... So just keep a look out for our sneaky peeks. Pop into the shop for full reveals, once they are up here on the blog! And of course we will be announcing all the new yummies coming into the shop which Marion ordered from CHA here too... ;)

"THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON HIP HIP HIP HORRAY"

Yay......... we're all smiles again at SUGAR AND SPICE. All the NEW KAISERCRAFT goodies have come in and BOY are they YUMMY...... We've got:- PAPER FLOWERS (much better value than the Green Tara ones) DOUBLE SIDED PAPER .... oh just to die for!!! FELT FLOWER STRIPS.... oh sooo yummy !!! BLING.... in words, shapes, flowers and itty bitty flowers RUB-ONS.... well they're just coming out of our ears !!!! PEARLS.... in some of the most gorgeaous colours !!! CARD & ENVELOPE PACKS..... Great VALUE !!!! and last but not least..... some of the BEST wooden ALBUMS, in the shapes of FAIRY CASTLES, HOUSES, CARS, TRAINS oh and so much more!!!! I could go on and on and on, but I'm hungry and I want my dinner, so you'll just have to pop on in. SEE YOU SOON

FEELING SAD !!!!! THEN HAPPY AGAIN....

Well we sat and waited and waited and waited and oh I could go on...... BUT our order didn't arrive, Boo Hooo!!! So after the initial temper tantrums and sulks we decided hey what the heck, lets design something amazing...... and so we did. Paula and I sat down on Sunday and started off with one idea and after about three "ooh but what about if we do this and we do that" came up with our NEW "The 12 Days of Christmas" not to be confused with the one we done LAST YEAR, this is oh, so different and you are going to love it, we're keeping it under wraps at the mo. Oooh we're such teasers, BUT we will give you a sneaky peek.

Yummies!

Today, is a post full of goodies! Not really brand spankin' new goodies but goodies that we hold all year... Our ribbons : Just check out all the gorgeous colours and textures and patterns... Sold by the metre or in our special bundles with felt flowers. Our papers: This is just a tiny, itty, bitty selection of the papers we have in the shop at the mo. Brights, black and whites, pastels and all colours and patterns imaginable! Our custom made books: We have a huge selection in the shop made with plain chipboard, blackboard and acrylic. We also have samples set up in the shop too... just to give you a little bit of inspo ;) And finally... in the shop we are all waiting for a knock on the back door. We are desperate to get our new kaiser order in and ready for Ally Pally! But while we are waiting for all the yummy scrummy-ness to arrive from Kaiser and the states we are a hive of activity working hard! Keep your eyes peeled for new classes (!) birthday party celebrations (which in

A LITTLE BIT OF INSPIRATION

Hi, for those of you that have been lucky enough to get your hands on our NEW STAMPS here's a few examples that we've managed to do in our BUSY schedule. Time needs to learn to slow down. I should actually be a size 8 by now, but something went wrong on the way.

BAck to the grind!!!!

Well, I'm back and in the land of the living, actually got over my jet lag really quickly this time. Have just heard that we should be getting all the NEW KAISER stuff in within the next 7 to 10 days. OMG where is it all going to go. The rest should arrive by the end of August, if not before !!!! My new STAMPS have arrived and we've been playing with them today. I'll pop a few piccy's on soon, SORRY but I left my camera at the shop. If anyone out there is watching BIG BROTHER can we all VOTE REX OFF pleeease..... he is sooooo annoying. For those of you that voted for us in the CRAFT AWARDS last year, THANK YOU (we got runner up).... and HEY..... you can VOTE again, if you think we deserve it. Ally Pally is sneaking up on us, it comes round so quick, maybe because it's 2 a year, DOH !!! So we're going to be getting lots of yummy samples ready for that. I can see a really BUSY time ahead this next two months, so if you see any of us sitting in the corner and rock

NEARLY HOME

It was our last full day today, the sun was shinning bright so we went .............. to the cinema!!! We saw Journey to the Centre of the Earth, I'm assuming it was meant to be tounge in cheek, as it was sooooo far fetched it was UNBELIEVABLE. Then we went........Shopping, this time to the WOODFIELD MALL, but apart from some shoes for Ricky, I much preferred the WESTFIELD MALL, had a lovely lunch in Ruby Tuesday's. I don't think I could dare ask Rick to take me to another shopping mall, I do believe he's all shopped out, he's been an absolute DIAMOND driving me all over the place and I really mean ALL OVER THE PLACE. So we're about to start packing getting ready for our journey back tomorrow, and then it will all be over and I'll be in the shop on Sunday. It seems like ages ago that I was at the show, I've already had confirmation that one company has shipped out. Boy that was quick!!! Thanks for sharing with me and see you all soon. xxx

Summer love....

Hello!!! I know I haven't blogged on here before but everytime I have gone to Blog I have had blogfright!! So here goes........ Last night I taught the lovely Tuesday night ladies They made a star book and started the I shrink plastic club! They now have a 4 week break so I just wanted to say have a super summer. Also I am so excited hearing some of the goodies Marion has got for all of us lucky girls! Cant wait to have her back, the place is not the same without her. loves & bugs Nina x

A DAY FOR SIGHTSEEING

It started off really sunny and then just as we were about to go out the door it became overcast, made our way to downtown Chicago and went to NAVY PIER. We were recommended to take the architectual tour or as I would call it the boredom tour, basically it's a boat ride that takes you through a part of the city looking at the buildings, ZZzzzz, ZZzzzz oops sorry I must having dropped off again, BUT it was a good excuse to sit and close my eyes and have a breeze blow on me, By the way by this time the sun has come out in FULL. Check out this piccy, you can even tell the necklace I was wearing, needless to say I'll be putting sun lotion on today. We then went on to see Soldier Field the home of the CHICAGO BEARS (very impressive) and then to Wrigley Field the home of the CHICAGO CUBS (in case there's any men reading this) Back homewards bounds (hotel) and to do a bit more shopping, Jane if you're reading this, I think I got you mag today. then obviously we needed some foo

A DAY FOR SHOPPING

Well when I looked out of the window it looked a bit overcast and drizzly, so I convinced Ricky that we REALLY should go SHOPPING. So off we went to Gurnee Mills, THANKS (VICKY, CAPTURE THE MAGIC) got some bits, bobs and bargains there, oh and had some JAMBA JUICE, also recommnded by Vicky. From there we went to Michaels ( a bit like Hobby Craft) a SUPER TARGET and........ a HOBBY LOBBY. in all the years I've been coming to the US and all the States I've visited, approx 14 I've never found a HOBBY LOBBY, so I was well chuffed. again, thanks Vicky. So we park the car and get a photo (see below) I have to hold myself back from running for two reasons really, one this body was not designed to run and two I needed to keep a bit of dignity if only for Ricky's sake. Get to the door and..... NO it wasn't closed, I know of you were thinking that ! BUT we only had 30 minutes before it did close !!!!! Managed to get a book for MAGGIE and not much else really, but HEY HO at le

Not long now....

....until normality returns to the shop and you get the fabby Marion back! On Sunday I ran my first of two full classes... I hope you all enjoyed them ;) I cannot wait to see the different LO ideas Jayne comes up with! And to see them all with piccies in too. Thank you for being such wonderful ladies and bearing with my mad moments of panic as we sped through two classes full of stitching, cutting and ribbon. I think everyones jacobs ladders worked, didn't they?? I think we have spaces for Saturday still for Nina's two beautiful LO's 'All torn up' and 'Nature's Beauty'... I just need the pens for the cricut now! They are up in the shop so pop in and have a peek, see if you fancy them. TTFN!

AND SO THE SHOW ENDS

Me again.... we'll it was the last day today, there were still bits I didn't get to see, sorry Fabby I didn't get time to see the BRAD MAKING MACHINE, don't worry I've just slapped my hand..... It's been a brilliant show, we've got some really EXCITING stash on it's way, some things we'll have to wait a little longer for......aaawwww...... I know me too !!! Now what did we get today???? let me see... first there's LITTLE YELLOW BICYCLE, CREATIVE ACRYLICS, APPLE PIE (SOMETHING) i can't remember the full name, SORRY but I'm tired... Some rather gorgeous buttons, great new ALBUMS, the cutest new BRADS & EYELETS (hey NINA, strawberrys, cherries and watermelon ones) and wait for it .......... CUPCAKES, yes cupcake brads they are just yummy. There was lots of HALLOWEEN AND CHRISTMAS obviously. So here's a few designs and displays We've got some fantastic little acrylic pieces coming. Check out this little design, it's so cute..

WOW !!! WHAT A DAY......

Had a great day today getting some rather LUSH goodies for you lucky scrappers out there. Making their way to Sugar and Spice are designs from Heidi Grace, Cloud 9, Hambley Screen Prints, Kaiser (this one's a biggie), Dream Street & Scrap Within Reach, to name a few....... We've got papers, papers and just few more papers, chipboard, glitter paints, epoxy quotes, clear stamps, ribbons, ribbons and more ribbons, oh and a few more ribbons, brads...... oh I could go on and on and on, but I won't bore you. Now we need space to put all these yummy goodies, so go on get yourself down to Sugar and Spice and help us clear some space, we're giving double loyalty points on all paper/cardstock purchases, not available with any other offer. To receive this offer you MUST mention that you read it in the BLOG. Available until 5pm on Sunday 27th July 2008. Now here's a few sneak peaks and some more..... and some more ..... and some more...... Just thought I'd share