Scrap Your Trip Shares Love With 15% Coupon

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We are in Anaheim, California attending the CHA Tradeshow and we’re headed home in a few hours. I wanted today’s e-mail to be all about all the cool new things we’ve seen…sneak peek pictures of new products and industry celebs we met. However, just like the saying goes, “life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans”, this show did not turn out like I had planned! I wasn’t feeling well before we left, but I’m one of those “I don’t have time to be sick” type of people. I slept a little later the morning we left, took some extra vitamins and hopped on the plane. It takes all day to fly from Florida to California and we had a stop in San Antonio and a layover in Phoenix before we landed in California. By the time we landed in San Antonio, I knew something was wrong. The pressure in my ears was excrutiating and they wouldn’t “pop”. Southwest Airlines was nice enough to let me off the plane at our stop to run into the terminal and get some medicine. After the first day of the show, I was feeling REALLY bad, so the wonderful desk clerk at the Holiday Inn Express spent about 20 minutes trying to find an Urgent Care Clinic open on a Sunday night (let me tell you, Disneyland is not a good place to get sick!). We had to drive about 45 minutes and got there about an hour before they closed. Turns out I had been sick with the flu for 4 days…had a lung infection…ear infection…and the excrutiating pain on the plane was when my ear drum burst. By this time, Tiffany was also starting to get sick with the same symptoms I had, so she saw the doctor too. She got Tamiflu, but it was too late and spent the whole next day in bed in the hotel room. So, instead of spending our nights up until 2 am pouring over new catalogs and writing up purchase orders, we’ve been trying to rest. So, Valentine’s Day is about “love” and what does all this have to do with love, you ask? This whole experience has been a reminder to me about why I love the scrapbook industry and the people in it. As you know, I was in Vegas at the Photo Marketing Association Tradeshow last weekend. It was huge and cool and flashy and it was all business. Male business. Very few of the people (men) I talked to talked back to me. I would ask a question and they would answer my husband, Tony. That doesn’t happen in the scrapbook industry and I had forgotten what it felt like. The contrast between the two industries is so stark and I much prefer the warm, fuzzy one. All of our vendors except one extended their show specials until next week since we didn’t have much time to figure out what we wanted to buy while we were here. “It’s you guys…take as much time as you need!” Greg from Creative Imaginations called his sister, who lives in Anaheim, to try to help me find a doctor. Everyone has been kind and genuinely concerned about us. I know it’s such a cliche’, but this industry is like a family. “Where’s Tony?”…”How are your kids?”…”Did you get better shoes for this tradeshow after the 19,000 step Vegas fiasco?” The other thing I love about this industry is that it has given so many women a chance to create a business that might never have been possible in a male-dominated industry. Our industry is filled with strong, creative women who knew they had something special to offer the world. I firmly believe our world is a better place because scrapbooking and memory preservation is in it. That wouldn’t have been possible without all the women who founded these companies, who just like mine, aren’t so little any more. It has given all of us a chance to connect with so many wonderful people and I, for one, am incredibly grateful. Since Valentine’s Day is really about the “one” love in your life, we made a special customizeable diecut. The example is for me and the love of my life, but we can make it for you and your sweetie. Click here to see the example: http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/whatsnew.html. Since Scrap Your Trip and my customers are the other love of my life, I wanted to say thank you for the opportunity you’ve given me to be in such a wonderful industry by offering a 15% coupon off your entire order through February 15th. Just type coupon code “Love2008″ in the coupon code field and click the apply button. As always, thanks for all your business! Julie Swatek, President Scrap Your Trip www.ScrapYourTrip.com www.ScrapYourTrip-Wholesale.com http://blog.scrapyourtrip,com ‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’