Scrap Your Trip Adds 202 Items + Basic Grey Granola & Urban Prairie

I believe there are two types of people in the world…those who like to pack for a trip ahead of time and those who pack the night before (or the day of).  I’m one of the latter.  I did so much traveling last year to all the CK Conventions that I got to the point where I could pack in about 20 minutes.  Lauren, my 8-year old daughter, however, is one of the "ahead of time" packers.  We are leaving Friday for our annual Vermont fall "leaf peeping" vacation and she has been packed for over a week.  She would have started packing a month ago if I had let her!

Every year when we think about this trip, we wonder if we should spend the money and this year is certainly no exception.  With the doom-and-gloom blaring at us from every TV and newspaper, we wondered if we should cancel.  But I used the 10-10-10 rule in making my decision and as usual, it helped make the right choice.  What is the 10-10-10 rule?  It’s based on an article by Suzy Welch I read a few years ago.  Basically, when you have a decision to make, ask yourself what are the consequences in 10 minutes, 10 months and 10 years.  So, what are the 10 minute consequences?  We’d save money but all be disappointed.  What are the 10 month consequences?  Next year, we’d all be talking about how we didn’t go.  What are the 10 year consequences?  Lauren and Logan are at the age when they will remember this.  Ten years from now, this time in history will be able to be summed up in 3 seconds, but my kids would always remember the year we cancelled our trip.  Fall in New England is good for our souls and it’s always a time of tremendous bonding and memory making in our family.  As I sit here at my desk at home writing this, there are pictures on my desk and wall from the last two years worth of trips.  I’m not willing to give up these times with my kids (while they still want to go on vacation with their parents), so we’re going.  We’re going to come back a few days earlier than we had originally planned, but the 10 year consequence of having my children remember their fall vacations in Vermont as some of the best times of their childhoods, I’m not willing to give up.

We have over 200 new items this week, including the new Granola and Urban Prairie collections from Basic Grey.  We also just got the rest of the embellishments from the Ambrosia, Eva and Offbeat collections.  We only ordered a limited quantity, so when they’re gone, they’re gone!  We have some great Halloween stuff this week.  We have the Whimsy collection from K&Co, and as usual, it’s some of my favorite.  They made some awesome paper crafting kits:  a Haunted Tree, favor bags, a Trick or Treat garland kit, a skeleton kit and pumpkin lantern kits.  It’s a great way to do something quick and crafty – they did most of the work.  We got lots of supplies to help you scrapbook all your trick-or-treaters in costume (Spiderman, Batman, Disney Princesses, Buzz and Woody, Hannah Montana, High School Musical, Superman/Supergirl, and more).  We have the Thankful breast cancer collection from Melissa Frances (who is battling it herself), the new Sweet collection from Die Cuts with a View, military, road trip, UK, Germany, autumn (you’re going to love Tiffany’s scarecrow die cut!) and sports, including a customized football helmet and pennant.  Click here to see all the new items:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/whatsnew.html.

As always, thanks for your business!

Julie Swatek, President
Scrap Your Trip®
www.ScrapYourTrip.com
‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®

12 comments October 8th, 2008