Anthologies: Live from CHA!

What a great first day! ( Click on the video!) I can't
even tell

you how
much cute, cute stuff we’ve found for you!

Jenni Bowlin*Melissa Francis*We saw Tim!*

Doddlebug*American Crafts*We ate at Pita Hut*

Copic*Provo Craft*My Minds Eye*We Saw Tim!*

Bella Boulevard*MakingMemories*Crafters Workshop*

Zva*Smirk*We Saw Tim!*Clear Scrap*Sassfras Lass*

Glitz*Stamping Station*Did I mention, we saw Tim?
Great looking stuff and I am sooooooooo excited

about just EVERYTHING we bought today!

Not only that, reports from home indicate that

they started the ‘out with the old’ process

at the store location….. Yea!

Tracy is saying ‘hello’ between groans from her

tired feet and thank goodness for the pedi-cab

that brought us home from dinner!

Watch for the Anthologies dragon fly in our posts pictures and video - the first 5 people to tell us the correct number of 'special appearances' by our blue friend will win a special gift straight to you from CHA. Wait until we return and submit your guess by commenting to a blog post and we'll award the winners their prizes on Friday, August 7th. Good luck!

Tip: Wait until Friday to start counting..... there's more to come.

Nita and Tracy

'So tell me, whatever possessed you?'

(The below was posted months before opening, however I leave it here because it tells the story- come see us, I think you'll agree!)
A very dear and respected friend has told me that I've not really told my story: the reason for launching off into this new endeavor. So, here goes. I will attempt it here. A few years ago, there was a wonderful place. A place where you could take your family, your memories and those things most precious to you and take them out of the shoe box and bring them into the light of day in a beautiful artistic way. Nothing could have been more comforting and fun than a visit to Recollections and we all remember it fondly. It was like going into 'Cheers'. Everybody knew your name, your children's names, what coffee you drank and, most of all, what was important to you. We all shared that. Well, we all lost something very near and dear to our hearts and that void has never been filled. Not completely. The people have stayed in touch, heaven knows that Tracy has done a great job at keeping the spirit alive and the ideas flowing, but still.... somewhat of a void existed. Now, let me be clear - that is gone. You cannot recreate it. It will never be exactly the same again - ever.

My wonderful husband has been after me for the last 18 months 'why don't you open a shop' and I have always told him that I would not attempt it unless I could do it 'right'. The bar was high and I would not attempt it at any other level. Well, life changes and I was recently presented with the opportunity to do this 'right'.

So, here we are - we now are the proud lease-holders on 3,820 square feet of retail space, contractors standing by to re-build the interior, product ordered, retail shelving acquired and a vision. A vision to be a safe and comfortable place for you to come and share and create your own anthology; to tell your own story, not for your generation or even the next, but to leave some things behind for your children's children that will tell them their story - from where they have come.

So, keep checking in here. We'll be very busy over the next 10 weeks. Yep, that's right - only 10 weeks and I can't wait.

That'll be us.... we'll keep the lights on for you.

Nita Turpin

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11 comments:

Anonymous said...: 12 beautiful blue dragon flies! Did you see Tim?

Have fun ladies, can't wait to see what's "in store for us".

Chris Taylor; July 30, 2009 at 1:06 AM
Fifty Something said...: Oh my, Chris.... guess who we saw...TIM!
And keep counting...they'll be more!
Nita; July 30, 2009 at 5:08 AM
Anna said...: I counted 11 unless you count the one seeing it twice at the end would make it 12..lol; July 30, 2009 at 7:38 AM
Anonymous said...: I was so excited about counting the dragon flies I didn't READ Carefully!; July 30, 2009 at 1:31 PM
JMeaux said...: I counted 17 of the cute dragonflys on both of the videos.....

Hope I'm right & excited to see all the new products!

Judy Meaux; July 31, 2009 at 12:20 PM
JMeaux said...: oops better make that 18 dragonflys incl. the single picture post & both videos

Judy Meaux; July 31, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Erica said...: There are 19 dragonflies - when you count the 2 times Bella Blvd Beauties are shown and the 4 times Wendy Vecchi attempted to introduce herself.; August 1, 2009 at 1:14 PM
Erica said...: Ahhh - I looked at my paper wrong - I meant to say 20 dragonflies. Please disregard my multiple posts with "19"!!!; August 1, 2009 at 1:20 PM
Suella said...: 20 on both videos, can't wait for Oct.; August 2, 2009 at 1:48 AM
Jennifer Yates said...: OMG! That is the cutest video ever!! How awesome that you met all Tim and Jenni!! Very cool!! :)); August 3, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Rhonda's Ramblings said...: i counted 33 dragonflies. btw, does tim know ya'll are stalking him?; August 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM

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