The Scarlet Lime

Winners posted and a newsletter!

We are BACK from CHA and have so much to share with you over the next few months! I have been going to CHA for almost 6 years now and I still get excited every time I walk into the show and see the hundreds of booth set up to showcase their brand New product! It's something I actually never get tired of.. even if it takes  4 FULL  days to get through the entire show! LOL...  This year we went to CHA and traveled with my SIL and my brother, Brooke and Brady Campbell from www.peachycheap.com  They decided to go this year and get some exciting products for their awesome "deal of the day" website.. and so we thought it would be fun to go together! Before we left, Brooke my SIL,  kept e-mailing me asking me what we should do while we were there.. (site-seeing, shopping etc).. I smiled when I saw the e-mail because I KNEW that as much as we would plan to do something, I KNOW how tired you are at the end of each day, from walking the show, writing orders, etc.. that you all you really want to do is go back to your hotel room and go to bed! LOL.. and guess what? We didn't do anything! LOL.. the first night of the show.. as we got in the car.. she said.. "Now I know what you mean! I just want to go to bed!!" .. we grabbed a bite to eat and then we all headed straight to bed!  LOL.. even the last day of the show, we had about 5 hours before our flight left that night.. so we thought it would be fun to drive to the ocean and "Play".. well by the time the last day of the show came, we were so tired, so we drove to Huntington Beach, parked at the ocean and took a nap in the car until it was time for us to fly home! LOL.. too funny..  We flew into SLC at 11:00 PM and then had a 4 hour drive home, and got home around 3:00 AM in the morning on Thursday.. man what a trip! But so worth it! We are excited to bring you the latest and greatest in our kits, so watch for that each month!  By the way.. I told Ben that NEXT time we go, it's his job to bring his Video Camera.. so we can post some "live" broadcasts from CHA! Oh and guess what? Ben got to see Paris Hilton at CHA, when she debuted her new craft line! (he even got a picture!!)..too funny! LOL..

So.. should we give away some goodies!!! We have some winners  from our giveaway while we were gone.. our CHA giveaway.. and as promised we were able to snag some wonderful samples of the brand new products being debuted at CHA! We have two lucky winner who will receive these prize packs.. and all you have to do to claim them is send me an e-mail with your full name and address, and we will get them off to you! Send it to christytomlinson@gmail.com

Our winners are....

Posted by: Rosemary | January 21, 2009 at 03:21 PM

Posted by: Nancy | January 21, 2009 at 06:01 PM

We also have a brand new newsletter sent out today with peeks of what's in store for February and MORE! Plus another giveaway with some fun new products!

Check out the newsletter below!

January Newsletter

Have a wonderful weekend!
hugs!
Christy

CHA giveaway!!

Okay, so I feel so bad! I went out of town on the 8th, with my sisters, for a sisters vacation, and I thought for SURE i posted I would be gone on this blog.. and then I got several e-mails of worried subscribers that I hadn't posted on here in a while, and the newsletter didn't ever go out.. and I felt so bad! LOL.. I thought I had posted on here.. but I guess I only posted on my personal blog, so I am SO sorry about that!!! But thanks so much for worrying about me :) You gals (and guys) ROCK!

So.. as I said, I went out of town for about a week, with my sisters for a "sisters getaway" and just returned home on the 19th!  It was a TON of fun, and so good to just hang with the girls. I did miss my hubby, but I am really close to all of my sisters, so it was fun to get some quality time with them :).
So I am home.. but not for long! We leave in 2 DAYS (Ben and I), to head off to Anaheim, CA for the Semi-Annual Craft and Hobby Trade show (CHA)!  I am really excited because this is where craft and scrapbooking manufacturers debut their brand new products for the spring of 2009! We get to see all the yummy goodies and order all of the new products for our upcoming kits! Speaking of kits.. I know many of you wondered why we hadn't done our mid-month newsletter yet (which of course I thought I had posted about on this blog before I left.. but.. no.. just me thinking crazy! LOL)..

anyhow.. so we are SO excited because in our February kits, we have some BRAND new products that are being released at The show NEXT WEEK!! This means you will be some of the FIRST to get your hands on these new products! But because the products are so new, and haven't even been released yet to other retailers, some of the manufacturers asked me not to share them with anyone, until they debuted them at CHA. Soooo.. it didn't really make sense to do a mid-month newsletter because we didn't have any peeks we could share (yet) ! BUT the good news is, that when we get back, we will do a newsletter, on the 30th.. 2 days before the 1st, so you can get a peek at what we have in store!
So watch for that!

Also fun for CHA.. we have decided to do a giveaway..in honor of CHA.. so we will pick 2 winners from today's blog post, that will win some of the brand new products we have been sent (sneak peek samples) from CHA!!  So just post onto today's blog post to get entered to win!

thanks again for worrying about me! YOU all ROCK! have a wonderful week!

Christy