Whim So Doodle

Classes not to miss!

Hey y'all!  We have some fun classes happen in the next few days, so if you have a free hour or two, why don't you head on over to The Doodle for some quality creative time?!

This Stacey's class tomorrow night, Favorite Moments File Folder Album from 6:30-8:30 pm.  You will start with the Junkitz stitched file folder and add paper, pockets, embellishments, stamps, rub-ons, letters, paint and more to create the perfect little album to showcase all those photos of your favorite life moments!  $30

Join me next Tuesday from 6:30-8:30 pm for my Spooky Bracelet class.  We will start with the jewelry line from 7 Gypsies and add colorful Halloween paper, stamped letters to spell out SPOOKY, fun, dangley beads and charms and you will have a super-cute bracelet ready to wear the entire month of October!  This is the perfect class for all of us Halloween junkies!  $30

Call the store to register NOW!!  (727) 827-4911

Later!

Jen

Where's in the world is Whim So Doodle?

To answer a few questions from yesterday...

Yes we are open!!

No we have not moved....again!!

Yes, we know there are workers outside doing "stuff"! 

The good news is that the workers are bringing us a new air conditioner, a new Mexican restaurant, new stucco and a new awning over our front windows!!  So now instead of using our red and white awnings as a landmark to get y'all here, we have to say, "we are right near all the scaffolding just like in New York City!"

Come on by for a visit.  Walk through the cute construction tunnel (it doesn't take much to thrill me!) and oogle the construction workers with us!  LOL  OH!  And you can visit all the new stuff too!

Four new lines of paper, embellishments, dies, mylar overlays/embellishments and more from one of my very favorite vendors, My Mind's Eye!

All the new QuicKut dies.  Oh my!  Halloween and Christmas!  Very, very cute!  The spider web went in the first few hours it was in the store!

Look at this beautiful layout that Kristen did.  Well, I think it was Kristen.  It just appeared on the table last week.  I wish I could have taken a better photo of it!  It looks so pretty in person, so look for it next time you are in the store!  It helps to have a stunning photo model, too!!

Y'all come on over and visit with us, wont you?

Jen

Sale starts tomorrow!

If you have not heard yet starting on Thursday, September the 20th and going until Saturday, September 22nd we will be having a STORE WIDE SALE!  Everything in the store will be 30% off.  It will be crazy fun and perfect to get stocked up for the holidays or just to keep you busy working on your projects!  Hurry in and snag just what you have had your eye on!

See you tomorrow!

Jen

Fall Festival

How would you like a day where you could stroll through creative booths set up in the bricked Piazza at The Doodle?  Where you could find inspiration for the perfect holiday gift for the in-laws?  Or you could get a great idea for this year's teacher gifts?  Maybe you will find a beautiful project that will be a holiday decoration that will quickly become a family heirloom?  All that and more awaits you at our 2nd Annual Fall Festival! 

In our creative booths we will have our designers with three or more  of each of their favorite projects to share with you that have been created just to make holiday crafting easier!  There will be both projects for holiday home decor and holiday gift giving ideas.  These will be projects that you will be able to recreate on your own with easy-to-follow handouts and kits made up so that you can grab the project and get right to work on it.  What could be easier?!  It's like getting a class-in-a-bag from your favorite designers at Whim So Doodle! 

As well as getting great inspiration from our designers, you can also enjoy music while sampling some yummy treats including some from some of our very favorite downtown eateries!  We will also have some goofy carnival-type games that you can play to win fun prizes! 

Alongside our designer's creative booths you will find some of our favorite vendors who will be doing some fun make-n-takes that will let you sample and play with their wonderful products.  This year we are proud to welcome two industry leaders to our event!  Pat a representative from Technique Tuesday, the leader in cool stamps and stamping products will be on hand to show you how to use their stamps and fun tiles!  Prepare to be amazed with what you will learn and the neat project you will leave with.  We are also so happy to have Eric Adams, the president and uber-cool dude from QuicKutz, manning his very own kissing booth!  How fun will that be?  Eric will show you all the latest from QK, pose for photos and more (?!!).  You know how much we love our QuicKutz Boyz, head over to Eric's booth and find out just why!!

This is a fun event for the whole family!  Make sure to mark Saturday, November 3rd in your calendar as AN EVENT AT THE DOODLE NOT TO BE MISSED!!

More great products keep arriving...

Am I a true enabler or what?  Does anyone hate me yet?!  Well, I sure hope not, but I do have more great stuff to tell you about!

Cosmo Cricket Christmas!

Cool, cool, cool!!

Halloween!  Embellishments!  Jolees!  Totally cute, totally spooky, totally "must have"!  I cannot wait to do a layout with these creepy-cool embellishments!  Lots and lots more Halloween is on the shelves, too!

All the pretty fall colors are starting to arrive too!  Karen Foster really has some pretty paper and embellishments this year.  In fact her whole calendar line is fantastic!  If you are into making calendars as holiday gifts, you must see all the great papers and embellishments that will help you out.

Bisous (pronounced B-Zoo) is here.  This stuff is very unique.  It has the idea of being a "crop and drop" system, but with uber-chic designs and the option to really embellish these pages.  They come in starter kits that have papers and ideas, then you buy the "extras" to really kick it up.  Really cool concept, hot colors and an "urban" look.  You've got to check these out.

I cannot remember getting so excited over a day planner in ages!  This is so perfect for us scrapbookers.  Here is how it works...it starts off with all your regular day-runner-ey stuff like daily logs, contact information, monthly pages, etc.  Then it adds in things like grocery lists, note pad holders in the back page, layout planer, supply lists and it even has these plastic templates to help you plan out your layouts!  It is so cool!  They come in either pink or green and the inside papers are all done in the Karen Foster calendar pages.  Now comes the hard part....pink or green!?

This is a cart stacked with new 7 Gypsies product.  To tell you the honest truth, I kind-of stayed away from that after I snapped the photo 'cause I was scared!  Scared that I would "have" to get something!  So, I did notice stampers (the kind that we all LOVE!!) with interchangeable ink colors!  Albums, papers....OK I gotta stop or I'll run over to that cart with a take-home box!  Plus Stacey has created a really cool sample using all the latest, so you need to check that out when you come in!

That is all for today!  I think that should be enough to get you to dust off the 'ole credit card and run over! 

See you soon!!

What' New!

Have I ever told you just how much I love my job?  Well I do, but my bank account does NOT!!  I'm sure you understand what I mean and if your bank account is anything like mine, you are gonna hate me in a minute or two!  Heck!  I cannot be all alone in my next spending spree!

Here is what is hitting our shelves!

Books, books and more books.  OK, a few magazines too!  But you cannot miss this month's issue of Paper Crafts!  So many Halloween ideas!  Oh my!!

Elsie is here!  And boy do we love this new line!  These buttons are so so cute!!

Just look at the puffy cupcake and the leaves and the house and the flowers and the...just LOOK at how cut  they all are!  Can you stand it?!

7 Gypsies is all up on the wall and I had to fight my way up there just to snap a photo.  These ladies made me hurry up and snap these so they could keep shopping!  The new stickers in Halloween, Christmas and Fall are just wonderful!

I know that I sound like a nut, but I just love when the holiday stuff starts coming in.  I own the most Christmas and Halloween embellishments and paper than all other stuff combined, but I still have to get the newest stuff!  Don't look at the new EK Jolees Boutique stuff if you are as crazy as me.  If you are sane then go ahead and take a peek at the cookies and milk, the Gelt coins, the glittery titles...ooohh!  I can't stand it!  Gotta go get some to take home and add to my stash....bye!

See you soon!!

Jen

(Who is an absolute nut!!)

10 Reasons Why Stacey Panassidi is The Coolest Guest Instructor!

10-She uses measurements in class like 1 3/4" x 1 1/2".  I see a kindred teacher in her and I LOVE that!!

9-I just loved her accent!  It took me right back to summers I spent on the Jersey shore.

8-She has tattoos!  'Nuf said?

7-Stacey is a true scrapbooker...I know this 'cause she racked up a nice "tab" in the store!!

6-She enjoys the art of snacking just like we do!

5-Just talking to her we got the feeling that she would fit right in around The Doodle-she is SO "one of us"!  In fact we made her an honorary Doodle Diva just on the snacking alone!

4-Stacey loves our store and wants to move to Florida just so she can be near us.

3-She is talented and we love all the Junkitz stuff!

2-Stacey honestly tried to sign up for classes at the store.  I think she might be taking a class here in November!  Too cool!!

1-We love our books!  Some of us got to take a class and just love-love-love our little album!

Thanks so much to you Stacey!  You are welcome back here any 'ole time and we will get you that bed set up!