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.