Fun Times with Scraporium

We have been so busy at the shop lately with so many fun events! If you have been in lately, you have probably seen us packing boxes, unpacking boxes, or glued to the phone trying to get last minute orders in.

January started our year off with one of popular All Day Crops. We had an amazing time as always and our next crop scheduled for April 28th is already almost full. We even had Kim, a photographer, generously offer to come take photos of the crop. Here are a few:

Thanks so much for the great photos Kim!

After the Crop, we packed up and set sail on The Jewel of the Seas, a Royal Caribbean ship. The scrapbooking Cruise was so much fun with tons of classes, celebrity teachers flown in from Utah, so much free product, and more. Here are a few photos from the Cruise (Captain Jack was there to see them off):

Now we are busy getting ready for the Treasure Hunt which starts next week! The totes are all ready for pick up, tags and pages are almost complete, goodies are being assembled, and we have skeletons on the wall. It's our favorite time of year and we hope you all plan to participate. Come pick up your tote at the shop and get your friends to join too, the more who join, the more can chip in for gas :) Don't forget to start the Treasure Hunt early with our Treasure Hunt kick-off this Saturday, February 25th from 11:00am - 4:00pm. You will learn fun new techniques and make great projects from some of our favorite teachers.

All the goodies for this year's tote

Our group assembling the totes.

Beware of Pirates

I think my favorite part of the Treasure Hunt is seeing all the costumes. This year, we had some great ones, here's a few photos of the visitors we've had this weekend:







And the cutest visitor of all:


If you missed Captain Jack this weekend, don't worry, he'll be back this coming weekend on Saturday and Sunday. Come by this weekend to have your photo taken.

Sadly, The Treasure Hunt has Ended...........

The Treasure Hunt was a huge success! Thanks to all those who participated, especially the ones dressed up, it was so much fun seeing all of you this week. If you missed it, make plans now to come next year. For those of you who missed it, here's a brief synopsis of how it went (with pictures!):


First, scrapbookers all over the Tampa Bay area and beyond drove miles and miles to visit each of the 15 stores participating.


Some dressed up but all had a good time with their beads, make and takes, and goody bags.


Once all 15 stores were visited and the passport had 15 stamps, it was turned in to be placed in a drawing for over $1,000 in gift certificates from the 15 participating stores.


There were soooooooooo many visitors to our store that we had to quickly make more tags for all the treasure hunters.


It was a really great week and I am determined to make next year at Scraporium even more fun, in fact, it's been rumored that we'll have Jack Sparrow from Pirates of the Caribbean making an appearance. You won't want to miss it!

Here are some photos of our favorite dressed up participants over the week: