Scrap Your Trip

More than 350 pounds of mystery boxes picked up today! I wanted to leave some room for my mailman in his truck, so the remainder will be picked up tomorrow. I know they took awhile…pretty sure you’ll think they were worth the wait!

P.S. All the issues with my slumlord and the preparation I had to do for last week’s initial court hearing that caused the delay?
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This is not for all of you who have been so incredibly supportive. 🥰

This is for the “Where the #%@$ is my order and what the #%@$ is taking so long?!?” people.

There are two of us in the Orlando office, plus my amazing volunteers. The picture below is all the days I have had to take off of work to deal with the repairs at my house.

I FINALLY have someone good doing the tile in my bathroom, but the plumbers had to come out three times. Gotta love that slumlord trying to save a few bucks!

I had one court hearing this week and there’s another one next week. Plus, Orange County Code Enforcement was here today to cite them for code violations…and then plumber has to come back for a FOURTH time to fix what they did wrong the second and third times, among other things.

Everyone else is busy working on prepping stuff for our next batch of orders (3/25 - 5/31). I’m trying to get in the office whenever I can, but I have to be honest and say that by the time the contractors leave for the day, I’m tired. 🥱

I’m doing my best to balance needing to stay home in order to have a shower and kitchen sink again with needing to be in the office to process and ship orders.

I am also going to do my absolute best to get the rest of the mystery boxes out this weekend.

If you have an outstanding order that you need for a crop or retreat, etc., please send Tiff an email at [email protected] and we’ll do our best to get it to you in time.

Now that a Judge and Code Enforcement are finally involved, I am really hopeful that this nightmare will be
coming to an end.

I truly appreciate everyone’s understanding while I deal with all of this at home.

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

Look what I got delivered! Kitchen cabinets…at least some of them.

Since I haven’t mentioned it in awhile, I bet you all thought my house was all fixed. HA! 🤬

The person they had working on my bathroom did such a horrible job, they had to demo it all again and now we’re starting over. Day 136 of no shower and no kitchen sink. But at least we’re finally making progress. 🤞

We have a court hearing next week, and they’re really pushing to get things done, so I’ve had to stay home every day this week and possibly next week too.

On to SYT progress…

All regular orders have been shipped through March 24th. That’s the day I started doing an inventory analysis of everything we needed to produce for all our outstanding orders (and the reason we were able to get three months of orders shipped out in three weeks).

Yecy has been cutting for March 25-current orders for about a week and is about 1/3 of the way done.

I’m going to run over to the office while the contractors are on a break and print out all the outstanding orders so that I can sit here and figure out the kits and matching papers while they’re working.

I have all the mystery boxes sorted out and shipped a batch out last weekend and will be able to get more shipped out this weekend. I promised at least 103 items…they ended up with 159 items with a retail value of $551.14! 😀 And that’s finally the end of all the remaining inventory my lovely former employees left me with, so now there’s plenty of room for fresh and new.

Speaking of new, what do you want us to think about making first? Since I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel (which finally isn’t a train waiting to run me over) at both home and work, there’s finally going to be some space, both physically and mentally, to get back to providing the unique scrapbook supplies you can’t get anywhere else.

Give us your thoughts so that we can start a list to get the creative juices flowing.

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

P.S. Happy National Donut Day! 🍩

Yeah…I know it’s after 1am. But guess what we just did? Printed the shipping label for the last February order! 🥳

And I say “we” because I couldn’t do it without my Friday night pizza buddy, Sarily 😇 😊🙏 She has selflessly and graciously volunteered her time two nights per week for well over a year to help us get to this point and I would not have been able to do it without her! Plus she has way more patience than me for double checking all the orders and catching my mistakes 😂

I’ll be working on mystery boxes all weekend ( I’m about halfway through all these bins of die cuts) and we’ll start shipping out March orders on Monday.

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

If you missed out on the mystery boxes, you’ve got a second chance! By the time I gathered everything from all the places in the office I had it stashed in and brought it home to start sorting it all out, I realized there was a lot more than I thought. And since I STILL have no kitchen cabinets or kitchen sink, at least I have plenty of room to work on them :-) I think I can make another 20-25 boxes, so I'll leave them "in stock" all day today.

https://www.scrapyourtrip.com/nsd2026-1.html

We've already shipped out almost 60% of the January orders and the remainder have already been pulled. Sarily and I are going to double-check them tonight and I should have them all shipped out by the time Monday rolls around. Then we're on to February❣️ It goes SO much faster when everything is made ahead of time :-)

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

It’s National Scrapbook Day 2026 Mystery Box time!

If you missed out on last year’s, here’s your chance :-)

Each Mystery Box will contain at least 50 different sheets of paper, at least one die cut kit, one paper pack, at least one die cut overlay, and at least 50 die cuts/“sample” die cuts (stapled together) - a retail value of $400 weighing almost four pounds for only $50! Nothing in the box is duplicated (hopefully)🤞🏻😄

There’s a Mystery Box A and a Mystery Box B, which will guarantee no duplicates if you want more than one.

Please don’t put anything else on your order other than the mystery box. I took everything to my house so I could work on them while the contractors are there STILL working on my shower, so it’s kind of a separate thing.

And...when they're gone, they're gone!

https://www.scrapyourtrip.com/nsd2026.html

A HUGE shout out to my amazing “die cut angels” who spent hours upon hours, going through thousands of old file folders of die cut pieces and putting them together. Immense gratitude and appreciation to Yaros Hedges, Joyce Ciesla, Hardval Sullivan and A. Kimble for all the time and effort you put into this!!

Now, for regular SYT orders…

While Yecy was cutting all the kits(including the ones with matching paper), I sent out all the orders from January and February that had paper and die cuts only. She finished up the kits a couple of days ago, so we started back at January 1st with the orders that contained kits and now we’re going in chronological order until we get through the remainder of the January/February orders. I’ll be working all weekend on getting as many orders sent out as I can :-)

Hope you get to spend at least part of NSD 2026 surrounded by your favorite goodies and get lots of layouts done!

As always, thank you for your patience, your support, and for helping us to stay in business!

À la cart it is!

Sorry for those of you who preferred the kits, but this is going to be a LOT easier and faster once we get them all broken apart on the website (which will take awhile, so if you want kits, get ‘em while the gettin’s good!)

Here’s why: Of all of kits we sold in January and February, we already had over 56% of them in stock and ready to go (quite the difference from the end of 2024 when we had barely more than zero, huh?!?😂).

But…there are 294 Jan/Feb kits that need to be redone so that the extra sheets of paper match…and I just spent the past three hours while they’re working in my house going through the March orders and that added another 96. That’s 390 kits that need to be be reprinted and cut…and that takes time. Time to figure out (hope I caught them all) and time to remake them.

Fingers crossed, all the kits will be finished by next Tuesday or Wednesday and then we can start pulling orders with kits. We’ve already started pulling orders that are paper or die cuts only, and I’ll start shipping them out as soon as the workers are done with my shower this week.

Yep! I’m on day 80 of no working shower. Or kitchen.

But I did file a counterclaim against my slumlord last week for $50K for everything they’ve put me through. 😁 ⚖️🤞🏻

As always, thank you for your support, your patience, and for keeping us in business!

Kits or à la carte?

I’m sitting here going through orders while they rebuild my shower and it has me thinking. One of the things that takes a lot of time for us is our kits and making sure that if you order a kit and an additional matching paper that it actually matches :-)

As I’ve explained before, our paper has “dye lots” based on when it’s printed. Sometimes it’s close and when it’s not, it’s really not.

I could launch into a whole thing here about what our process is, but it’s probably more information than you want to know :-)

So I thought I’d get the opinion that matters most…yours!

1. Keep the kits as they are
2. Give me the option for the paper and die cut separately

Leave a comment or vote by “liking” the comment with your choice.

As always, thanks for your patience, your support and for keeping us in business!