Hello everyone,
I first posted here in April this year, asking about scrapbook shopping advice. I live in the UK but my husband was stopping over in LA for a day recently and wanted to go scrapbook supply shopping for me. Thank you everyone for all the advice - it was greatly appreciated and helped us to plan the trip. It was very successful!
I would especially like to thank Angie for advice on scrapbooking shops in the Torrance area. It was very useful and absolutely perfect - my husband planned his one day in such a way that he managed to go to all of the local shops!
He went to Jo-Ann's, Michaels and two local stores. Jo-Ann's just had a sale on all of their embellishments, albums, a lot of papers and punches. I made him a long shopping list (taken from the shops' websites) with the pictures of the kind of things I would like, and the prices. My husband was acting on strict instructions from me: "If in doubt, DON'T leave it in the shop!" Well, he fulfilled these instructions to a T and came back with A LOT more than I expected! We joked that it was lucky he was allowed two pieces of hold luggage! Luckily, he knows my scrapbooking style quite well and chose good things for me. Best of all, it all was only a fraction of the UK cost, some things, because they were on sale, were a fifth or less of their UK prices!
He brought back a lot of alphabets, papers, albums, foam and magnetic stamps, US magazines, all kinds of embellishments, value packs of brads & eyelets, some Quickutz dies... I feel like a kid at Christmas... but now I have a "hard" task ahead of me: I have to spend a lot time "looking" at these things to "familiarise" myself with my new stash... so that I know what I have and can find "that perfect little embellishment" fast!
And now... it turns out my father is going to the US soon too! He is going lecturing at universities in Houston and Boulder, Colorado, for 2 weeks and offered to go shopping for me too... How can I refuse an offer like that???
Klara