Winter Open House
Mark your calendars and plan to join us as we kick off 2012 with a fabulous open house on Saturday, January 21 from 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. (Please note that we have moved the event from December this year)! To show our appreciation for your support over the years, snag an amazing goodie bag just for stopping in (one per household, please). You will also receive a ticket for our drawings for additional prizes, which will be awarded every 20 minutes! Receive additional door prize tickets by participating in our Community Outreach Project (see below). And, check out our two NEW stamping companies for your shopping pleasure!

This year, we're switching things up a bit and offering a morning session of FREE demos. This session runs from 10:30 - 12:30 and includes the following:
Session I - Demos
Create your own Washi Tape
Beautiful backgrounds with stencils and sprays
Transfers with Claudine Hellmuth's Studio Line
Introducing the Letterpress!

Many of you enjoy Make and Take projects, so we wanted to provide lots of those as well! The make-and-take session runs from 2:00 - 4:00 PM and includes the following projects for one low price - $20.00:
Session I - Make-and-Takes
Valentine's Bird House
I.O. Shaker Card
Valentine's Treatbox
Memory Box Card to Die For
Please call the shop to check availability: 703-435-0051

You don't have to reserve your space for the Morning Demos Session, but you must purchase your ticket for the Afternoon Make-and-Take session in advance, and spaces are limited. Everyone can enjoy the refreshments, door prizes, shopping and stamp swamp, but only ticket holders will be admitted into the Make and Take area. Refunds are cheerfully provided up to 48 hours prior to the event.

By popular demand, we will also be hosting two Stamp Swaps during the day - the first at 12:30 PM and the second at 4:00 PM. For each swap that you can attend, bring a new or gently used stamp that you won't be using any more. Please bring it wrapped so that it will be a surprise! We will then play a fun swapping game, and everyone will get a new stamp! Please see Angela if you have questions about this wacky, but fun, event. No need to sign up in advance.

As you can see, we have quite a day planned. We hope you'll save the date and plan to join us so we can thank you in person for making our eighth year such a pleasure!

Community Outreach Project
This year, we will be collecting items for the Katherine K. Hanley Family Shelter in Fairfax. We will focus on collecting Valentine's (with envelopes) that the children can hand out in their classrooms. Additionally, we'd like to provide treat bags for them and are collecting individually wrapped candy, stickers, pencils and small items along those lines. Ongoing items of need are:
new onesies
teething rings
puzzles for all different ages
dolls and action figures
legos
and for the teenagers
-sports equipment (basketballs, footballs, etc)
-make up sets
-journals
-board games