AROUND THE STUDIO:  We have very BIG news for this newsletter: We have an agreement to sell the business in the New Year.  The new owner will take over next January.  She hopes to do all the Christmas Shows with us.  So, we will have an opportunity to personally introduce her to many of you.  I am not going to identify the new owner just yet, because she is currently employed, and we do not want to effect of current situation.  I will, however introduce her in the next newsletter, and perhaps we will do our first Old Island Newsletter interview.  I will ask her some of the questions people have been asking me!  Some things I can tell you about the sale.  The company will be moving off the Island to the Lower Mainland in the New Year.  So, we will not have the Studio next year.  That is why we have the big sale going on in the Studio that I mentioned in the last newsletter. We need to clear all the items out that we do not sell at the Shows (See Below).   'Stay tuned' for more details on the changes at Old Island.  

So, what will you do?  I have been hearing that question a lot lately.  Here is one thing that will be occupying some of my time.  My new Cabernet-Fouch grape vines are growing like 'Jack and the Beanstalk'.  My little vineyard has the potential to produce 100 bottles of wine a year.  Talk about a motivator, and look at those vines!!

We have some other great news for Lower Mainland / Fraser Valley stampers: We are going to take part this year in the West Coast Women's Show at TradeX in Abbotsford on October 19^th, 20^th & 21^st.  We will be in the "Home for the Holidays" section (Booth 267).  This looks like a really interesting show; unlike anything we have ever done before.  It will be more commercial with big corporate sponsors like Sears, Terrasan Gas, and Save-on foods to name a few.  There will be on-going shows on a number of different stages throughout the show.  People like the Designer Guys, Steve and Chris, and Celebrity chiefs Ken Kostick and Mary Jo Eustance will be doing their thing on stage.  You can get a $1 off admission from the show website, www.westcoastwomen.net or a $2 off coupon at Save-on Food stores.  We will have our full booth there, so if you just cannot wait until Circle Craft, come on out to the Valley and get the jump on your stamping friends!

Studio sale: As I mentioned in my last letter, we are not going to be on the organized studio tour on the Island this year.  However, the studio is open, and we are closing out all our stamping accessories (except ink, powder and paper).  So we have marked all the other accessories down to our wholesale cost price or less.  We are clearing out all our dry embossing templates, light boxes, paper punches, Tombow pens, colour rivets, riveting tools, glitters, glues, glue tab dispensers, brushes, Peral-X powders, stamp scrubbers, fancy scissors, and more.  It is a regular 'red light special' in the middle of the woods!  Also, for braving our pot-holed gravel road to get here, we have our regular sized one ounce "fine detailed" Gold, Silver, Copper and Clear embossing powders on sale for $2, Plum P

2007 CHRISTMAS SHOW UPDATE: We have now signed contracts for Circle Craft, Art  Market, One-of-a-Kind and as mentioned above the West Coast Women's Show.  See the recently up-dated "Where to Find Us" page for show dates and websites.