New blog!

So, we have moved our blog to www.luluandbean.wordpress.com.  We hope that you will continue to follow Lulu and Bean there!

EK Success Punches

I just have to rave about my new EK success punches.  I purchased four of them and even with all the positive reviews had little hope that they would be any easier to punch with than my Fiskars.  I'm happy to report that I was very, very wrong.  The EK Success punches go through paper like nothing, no red and cramped hand after an hour of punching and their storage mechanism makes them so easy to keep with my crafts.  I adore these punches!  Between these punches and my new stamps sets I should be set to make a multitude of different shaped and colored tags!  My next attempt is going to be aging my paper to give it a vintage feel.  Stay tuned for photos!  :)

Sales

Don't you hate when you go somewhere and everything is on sale?  ;)  It just forces you to buy everything, at least this is what I tell myself, because you could potentially miss out on a good deal.  I'm currently in the process of organizing all my "good deals" and trying to sort out why I purchased some of these papers.  Expect to see some new boxes, tags and cranes pretty soon, at least once I get it all together and such.

New materials!

I'm so excited to announce that my new materials came early, don't you just love when things come early?  Prepare to be overwhelmed with stamps and lovely design based origami boxes.  Also new paper from Korea and new tag designs should be in by the end of the week so check back then for new listings.

New box design!

New box design, love it!  Working on many more!

The only downside of online ordering

I love online ordering, as you can tell by my shop.  It's convenient, easy, and provides you with countless options without the mileage.  The only thing I don't like about it is the wait.  Isn't it funny how we all like instant gratification?  If there was a way to pull items off the screen once you order them it would make online shopping perfect.  However, since we are not quite there yet, I try to ship my items out the next business day after receiving an order.  I also make sure to add tracking to all my US orders (I would do this for you international folks if it didn't cost a small fortune to do so, blame the mail system for that one) because I know that I love to track my orders as they come to me.  My policy is to treat my customers the way I like to be treated as a customer!  The usual wait time for postal mail here in the US seems to be 3-5 business days depending on where you are located.

For those of you who simply cannot wait, I can do express shipment.  Just convo me for a price quote before ordering an item.

Stamps!

I got a little too shopping happy during a sale and ended up purchasing a ridiculous amount of stamps.  They should all be arriving by the end of the week, so expect to see plenty of cute stamped tags and boxes in my store in the next few weeks!