Join us for our popular National Scrapbook Weekend Crop!  Enjoy 36 Hours of nonstop cropping fun from 10:00 a.m. Friday morning until 10 p.m. Saturday night.  Of course, you are free to leave to get some sleep at any time. This year’s theme is “A Night at the Oscars!”  Yes, we know the Academy Awards are in March and the crop is for two days; but we wanted to give you plenty of time to study your movie trivia!  Upon arrival, find your seat by looking for the goodie-filled tub with your name on it!  Enjoy a pasta dinner Friday night, popcorn, and our favorite sugar and chocolate chip cookies served at midnight.  We’ll also treat you to breakfast, lunch, and pie on Saturday.  As always, there will be free beverages throughout the crop.  Prizes for games and drawings will be awarded throughout the weekend including a $100 Shopping Spree and a Midnight Murder  Mystery Movie Hunt throughout the store!  Everyone takes home a prize, but the real mystery is who will take home the Oscar for Best Scrapbooker!  Registration begins March 5 at 10:00 a.m.  Payment must be made at time of registration, absolutely no exceptions.  Stop in or call the store with a credit card (319-354-0432).  Let us know if there are others you want to sit with. This crop always fills up fast, so gather your friends and reserve your spot today! (This crop is not eligible for Club5 1/2 price crop.)

Our representative from Technique Tuesday will be here this Friday (weather permitting) to host a catalog party and help you in the creation of a free make and take.  Simply step into our classroom any time Friday, February 12, between 3:00 and 7:00 p.m. and Peggy will have a make and take using Technique Tuesday stamps ready for you to make.  Then, if you wish, you can order any stamp from Technique Tuesday and receive 20% off the price plus receive a free mini stamp set for free!  Technique Tuesday stamps in the store will also be 20% off!

Since Peggy is traveling from northwest Iowa and snow is predicted, please call ahead (319) 354-0432 or watch the website for a possible cancelation.

Remember that we will also be having our regularly scheduled Stop-in-Saturday Free Make & Take on Saturday morning,  February 13, at the new time of 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The temperatures are finally back to normal and it's time to get out and enjoy it! Stop in this Saturday, January 16, anytime between 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. for a free Make & Take. Simply step into the classroom and Patty will have a fun project for you to create. Please note the new time for Saturdays this year.

Cosmo Cricket has come out with some awesome new lines. Check them out on their blog by clicking here and while you are there, leave a comment mentioning our store. They will have a drawing later on for a free collection to one of the stores mentioned. Of course, if we are a winner, we will share with our customers who commented. The more comments for us, the more chances we have to win!

A reminder that we will close New Year's Eve at 2:00 p.m. Also, this is the last day to take advantage of our Inventory Reduction Sale and collect Reindeer Bucks. Happy New Year!

(Memories on Fifth Reindeer Bucks are redeemable January 1 through January 31, 2010, are nontransferable and have no cash value. All Reindeer Bucks must be presented at the time of purchase—no exceptions.  Memories on Fifth is not responsible for any lost, misplaced, left at home on the counter, eaten by your dog, or accidentally thrown out with the wrapping paper Reindeer Bucks.)

The January/February 2010 Newsletter is now ready to view.  Please click on the Newsletters tab above and choose Jan/Feb 2010.

Well, it seems impossible, but the show is now over.  We had a great day zipping around the convention hall from booth to booth, trying to order from old favorites while also searching for new companies to order from.  The big buzz for the show was a new company called Flower Soft.  We had some customers ask if we carried it before the show and we had heard a little bit about it.  We ordered some amazing Christmas and everyday card sets along with a large amount of the actual Flower Soft.  This stuff is so cool and will be so fun to work with.  It kind of reminds me of puff paints, but all you do is glue the Flower Soft on and you are done.  Another similar product we found was called MuddPuddles.  It comes in a jar with the glue already mixed into it, so you simply put it onto your project and let it dry.  There is an awesome sand that will work great for beach, sandcastle, and sandbox layouts and cards.  There is also a neat green that looks so much like a golf green after it dries.  Both of these new products are acid-free and safe to use in your scrapbooks.  We also ordered from another popular new company, Nikki Sivils.  She had some cute themed papers.  Bella Blvd. was another new find, and we grabbed some cute mini stamp sets, great boy and girl and camping paper from them.  Although, not a totally new company, Pink Paislee is new to us.  We will carry some of their Halloween, Christmas, Fall and Valentines collections.  We orderd the entire collection of the hot new "Smooch" paints from Clear Snaps.  These paints come in little bottles similar to nail polish and have a small applicator tip for detail painting - very cool and acid-free.

Our first stop for the day was at American Crafts.  We spent over an hour there ordering from their new lines of paper, ribbons, stamps, and embellishments.  We also purchased most of their new faux-leather 12x12 albums and their entire collection of new stamp markers.  The stamp markers allow you to color your stamps directly onto the stamp itself and then stamp the image in several different colors all at once.  We ordered some new acrylic and chipboard albums and minis from Clear Scraps, including a camera album.  Doodlebug, as always was one of the cutest booths.  Their booth is just darling usually decorated as a candy shop, cafe, or ice cream shop.  We ordered nearly all of their new page topper stickers and rub-on sayings to match, and all of the papers and stickers and multi-brad packs for their new Halloween and Christmas lines.  Oddly enough, their Halloween line has pink in it.  Sounds weird, I know, but it is incredibly cute and totally Doodlebug.  They also offered some white wood organizational items.  We found them to be a bit pricey, however, so we only ordered in the 9-drawer unit.  Of course, we can special order in the other items if anyone is interested.

We could hardly wait to get to one of our favorite manufacturer's booths, Little Yellow Bicycle.  We weren't disappointed with their new selections, ordering the entire Valentine's collection, as well as most of the others.  Jenni Bowlin had some cute new things also, including new chipboard buttons, journaling tags, bingo cards and letter stickers.  Paper Wizard had some amazing new laser embellishments.  Their individual states were finally finished and we ordered one of each.  Provo Craft has a new instrument called the Gypsy that is kind of like a hand-held computer that will allow you to design directly on it and then plug it into your Cricut later to cut.  We will probably only do special requests with it since it is another high ticket item.  QuicKutz has a great collection of holiday dies that we will be getting in soon and has a new letter press tool that is awesome.  We have not decided for sure if we will carry it, though, as it requires that we purchase the entire package; which is quite pricey, as you might guess.  Let us know what you think about it.

There are many more companies that we will be ordering from in the next few weeks that were not at the show, but for now, all of this should keep us well-stocked.  Shipments should start arriving as early next week, and like I said before, the new My Mind's Eye will be in the store either tomorrow or Monday.  Laura has been busy uploading pictures again from today, so head back over to our Memories on Fifth facebook page to view product, booth, and sample photos.

After today, we really have to make more room.  So once again, our sale for Friday, July 31, 2009,  will be 25% off of merchandise from all manufacturers highlighted above (excludes Epic, Silhouette and Cricut since they are already value priced).  This time, we will run this sale through the weekend, so these discounts will be good until Sunday, August 2, 2009.

CHA officially opened this morning and our first stop was at Bo Bunny.  Along with a nice selection of their new themed offerings and new colors of double dot papers, we made the decision to add blue and red to the chipboard alphabets and albums that we currently carry.  We then headed over to WeRMemoryKeepers.  We added several new album colors and page protector choices along with selections of their new themed lines. We were impressed with some of their awesome tools, including a cool rotary cutter pack.  They had lots of new Dollar Stamps as well. We picked up lots of fun papers and stickers from Moxxie and a cute little calendar kit.  All of you Technique Tuesday fans will be excited to hear that after a short recess, we will be bringing back some of their quality stamps (Ali Edwards fans will love her stamps) and Technique Tiles into the store as well as two awesome class kits for September and October.  The Robin's Nest has added Tear Drops to their popular Dew Drop embellishments and, as always dazzled us with their glitter papers.  The new Tattered Angels Halloween Book Class will thrill our devoted Tattered Angels students.  Watch for it in late September or October.  I think it's the best one yet!  Of course, we got all of their new Glimmer Mist colors along with all of the new chip tiles, and a sampling of their Bingo cards and stamps.  Imaginisce, as always, had some of the cutest lines we saw.  We loved the boy line so much, we ordered the entire line, and almost all of the others.  We also ordered every single Dollar Stamp they offered. We passed by My Mind's Eye and agreed after seeing it in person that we had made a wise choice to preorder the entire booth (should be arriving at the store sometime next week!)  We loaded up on new stacks and embellishments from another of our favorites, Diecuts with a View.  We ended our day with a visit to Basic Grey, where we ordered all of the packs, almost all of the papers, and a good deal of the embellishments, bling and stamps.

We uploaded over 100 pictures on Facebook showing products and samples. Be sure to check them out at www.facebook.com.

Here are the sales for Wednesday, July 29, 2009:

25% off all merchandise from the Manufacturers mentioned above!

Remember, if you live out of town, you can still take advantage of our sales.  Simply call the store (319) 354-0432 (or email it to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) with your order and credit card and we will be glad to ship it out to you, charging only the actual shipping cost.