Scrapbooking Goodies

My Crafting goodies

I took my first trip out in 2 weeks and wanted to make it a good one so I asked my wonderful boyfriend if he would take me craft shopping. Luckily he felt sorry for me and agreed. 4 craft shops , £40 spent and a massive smile on my face later and I was all shopped out.

 A few weeks before I had been looking through a card making magazine and was surprised to find a craft shop in Yorkshire that wasn't too far from where I live. Usually all the stores are Devon, Suffolk, Sussex etc and it is rare to find any advertised that are in my area. Not only was it near but its website title 'everycraftsapound' definitely intrigued me. The shop is called 'Crafty Cards Craft and Hobby Store' in Heckmondwike. It has a wide range of products including Docrafts products, adhesives, Card Candi, ribbon, die cuts, and inks. What tickled me as I looked around was the Man Crèche in the corner with a big leather sofa for all the bored men to sit on and wait. Through the back is The Paper Room which is a scrapbookers heaven. Rows upon rows of 12x12 papers covering nearly 3 full sides of the room. In the middle is a massive set of tables which makes me wonder if they run crops and classes. It is something that I may look into as although its not the nearest shop to me it looks like a well run establishment and it would be fun to gain some more craft friends. Currently I just craft with my best friend but it would be nice to have a wider circle of friends to bounce ideas off. The shop is very reasonably priced and I couldn't believe how much I came away with for the money I spent. It benefited me as they had a lot of random one off items which were reduced to £1/£1.50. Normally they would of been £5 or £6 but they are no longer the current range. You see this doesn't both me. I don't care if it's not the on trend item at the minute. I like a good bargain. My favourite bit of the store is a table full of 'old' scrapbooking 12x12's reduced only because they were not the latest line or because they were the last few. The offer was 10 for £1. I couldn't believe it. It took a while to trudge through them but I came away very happy with 20 sheets of paper. I also bought a couple from the full priced section. Another good thing about the paper room is that they have 12x12 sheets from sets. Often I find that I only like one or two sheets from a collection but that I am not willing to pay the £15 or £20 for the whole pack. Being sold individually is a lot better for my kind of style of scrapbooking.

Although extremely happy with my purchases I hadn't been shopping, in fact hadn't been out of my house, for 2 weeks and so we then went to 'Caroles Crafts' at The Mill Batley, which we had passed on our way to the first shop. The shop is a lot larger than I thought it would be and had a wide range of products. They had a much bigger range of decoupage sheets, Kanban toppers, Hunkydory collection kits and handmade stickers like Jolees Boutique than I have seen at any other craft shop. I was also told, by the very nice and helpful staff, that there is a lot of stock that they can order in. Spread around the store there are large folders jam packed with example pages of what other stock they can order in. I was glad that this store was different to the previous store as it meant that I could get even more scrapbooking materials to add to my already full bag of goodies. All in all a very pleasurable day.