Happy Holidays from Scrap Your Trip

I love it when people are fully in the holiday spirit! Everyone seems a bit happier. Store clerks smile at you and tell you “Happy Holidays.” Complete strangers will smile at you at the gas station. It’s a time of togetherness and good cheer and cookies! That’s what we had in the Scrap Your Trip office yesterday. We had our annual pot luck lunch. It’s grown quite a bit from last year – there were 23 people (including my kids) around a really long table this year. We usually have a “Dirty Santa” gift exchange, where you can steal your neighbor’s gift, but we decided to do something a little different this year. We pooled the money we would have spent on gifts and adopted a family from the local domestic violence shelter. It’s been a tough year and we didn’t want any little kids going without presents. So instead, we exchanged “Niceties!” Everyone filled out a sheet of paper with something nice to say about each one of their co-workers. My new assistant, Jaime, typed them all up in a pretty red and green font and printed them on Bazzill white cardstock (for an instant scrapbook page). Before I passed them out, I read the nicest thing for each person out loud for everyone to hear. For me, at least, it was a very heartwarming gift. So what’s the nicest thing I have to say about you? I appreciate the time you take to read my weekly e-mails. I really enjoy writing them each week and sharing my life with you. Thank you for the most precious gift you could give me – the gift of your time. We will be closed starting at 2:00 Eastern today through January 1st. We will return on the 2nd, ready to get your scrapbook supplies to you so that you can continue to “Scrap Your Trip” through life. I hope that you have the most joyous of holidays! As always, thanks for your business! Julie Swatek, President Scrap Your Trip® www.ScrapYourTrip.com ‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®

22 comments December 24th, 2008