THANK YOU, LINDA CAIN!

Linda is helping RaNae with her project.

A big THANK YOU to Linda Cain for teaching at Memory Bound this weekend. Linda and her husband drove from Morton, IL to spend the weekend teaching 3 awesome, incredible classes for us. Here are a couple of the comments our customers made:

* Linda was a fountain of information on all techniques.
* She knows so much and was so helpful. Come back to Ankeny soon!
* She's great...wonderful sense of humor!

I think Linda had a great time too judging from the amount of customers that gave her a hug when she was packing up her things to head home. Lots of friendships were made at Memory Bound this weekend.

To learn more about Linda and her design work, you can visit her blog at http://cain81art.blogspot.com/

State Fair Projects

Congratulation to Memory Bound customer Mollie Deem! She took home several Iowa State Fair prize ribbons for her paper crafting projects! You can see why when you take a look at a few of her awesome projects!

Mollie - Thanks for sharing!

Teresa Collins

Katie and Diane are continuing their search for great new products to bring back to Memory Bound and are bumping into some of the greatest talent in the scrapbooking world -- now Teresa Collins! We love her new stamp maker that will be showing up at Memory Bound soon!

Look what Dawn made me!

For my birthday Tuesday, Dawn made me a very special gift!! She embellished a 7 Gypsies Artist Printers Tray, creating a family keepsake piece for home. I just have to add photos and it's ready to go. I left it at the store so everyone could see it. THANKS DAWN!

I had a very nice birthday full of special surprises...

• Dawn brought me ice tea in the morning (one of my faves) and made the dreaded daily post office run (one of my un-faves).
  
• My husband left me a card with a car wash gift card (the total inside & out wash).
  
• Korrie, my daughter, made the dough for Palmer's-like molasses cookies -- YUM! (She hasn't had time to bake them yet, but it's the thought that counts.)
  
• Katie gave me a card, calling me her "mature" friend, which is okay because she enclosed a Noodle Zoo gift certificate. I'm mature, but at least not old enough for the senior citizen discount.
• I came home to a bottle of wine hanging on my front door. Can you beat that? It was from my friend Barb. (It's chilling right now.)
• My sister Tracy dropped off a bag with 4 paperbacks. (I love to read!) She left it outside on the car around 11:30 and texted Korrie, who of course was still up, to retrieve it.

Getting older: Not that fun.
Having a birthday this week: Pretty special - Thanks everyone!