Spring has been a frightfully busy time for Two Peas. We are shaking things up, cleaning out the cobwebs and creating a huge batch of new ideas for the year. In the Creating Garden, we have been so busy coming up with new thoughts on sharing our creativeness with everyone via our newsletters and other methods. I thoroughly enjoyed having some of the girls participate and write sections of our newsletter this month. These girls have such a wealth of talent. The things these girls are going to do in the coming months, its going to be exciting, I am full of anticipation. National Scrapbooking day is closely approaching, and we are going to celebrate it in the best way we know how.... an online party with a day of scrapbooking!! We are working on online classes, and an insanely long list of creative observations and thoughts just waiting to be utilized by these uber talented people.
We are down a few people in our total numbers right now. I have been sent a lot of email about what is going to be done about these empty chairs. I will be looking around in May for some diverse talent to put in these spots. I have an extensive list of people who are interested in occupying these positions. If you are not on this list as of yet, but wish to be considered, email me at ggsub@twopeasinabucket.com with a small bio, your Two Peas user info, a scrapbooking resume, and some samples of your creative work.

Set a date with the most happening party in town. Join Two Peas in a Bucket in celebrating National Scrapbook Day on Saturday, May 6th. Whether you’re a beginning scrapper or advanced, TwoPeas on NSD is the place for you!

Join the Garden Girls for an online crop beginning 9am to 9pm CST. The GGs will be hosting discussions on all things scrapbooking. There will be games galore and the opportunity to win fabulous prizes (from your favorite manufacturers) all day long. A special NSD gallery will be setup especially for our online croppers and everyone is invited to share. This is a time for you to create layouts, mini-albums, cards, tags, and more right along with us. Everyone is invited to participate. Simply log in and you're part of the crop; it's that easy.

The Garden Girls will be sharing their talents in a variety of ways: layouts in an exciting special NSD Garden release, mini-online classes---some make-n-takes, scrapper stories, their own tips and tricks, and much more!

Kristina and 3 others have picked some of their favorite products and put them all together in special 2Peas Kits, which will be up for sale on NSD. Kits are only available while supplies last, so don’t miss out! Rhonna Farrer and Amy Grendell are putting together some special digital products for that day as well.

Check back for updates, supply lists,(for the mini make-n-takes, etc), and organize yourselves-- get your photos together, plan a quiet place for yourself to go, so you can join us for all kind of fun on Saturday......Fun, laughs, and good times…TwoPeas on NSD is the place to be! See you there!

Enjoy these sneak peek images---and watch for more to come as we get closer to May 6th!

The whole concept of Old products, product life cycles, and all that has been on my mind for a long time. I remember sitting on the floor in my office the day after our Garden Girl Crop and Sale, talking about it all with Ali E. We had taken a nap on my living room couches and then sat around my scrap room talking. about scrapbooking products. (shocking, I know.) and how cool some of the things in my stash were. some of the products were older though, but man, I loved them.

I love products, this is nothing new. But it isn't just new products that I love. Some of the products in my stash, that are my very favorites ever, are no longer being made! For instance, this week, the Garden Girls and I are on the hunt for some of the Ki Memories Pieces of Me collection. (watch my NSD favorite products kit for the papers that I could get my hands on!!) My favorite papers are not being reprinted, and I am going to run out of my own stash really soon. I think I may already begin to panic. I love old Ki Papers. I have a huge stack of their papers. I think it takes up a total of 1.5 feet in my armoire. with like 20 sheets of Subway alone, which was in their very first collection release. I still use it all the time. But its years old at this point! I still also use old Making Memories Brads. There are so many of these kinds of products in my stash that I will never get rid of, and will also look to repurchase if I find them.

For the most part, the product life cycle in our industry is a lot like a fashion industry. It changes with the trends, with the seasons and with each new trade show. I love new products, but sometimes I wish it wasn't so fast. I wish the turn over wasn't as often as it is.
My thought behind this months theme came from these feelings. and I wanted to show that there was still a place for some of these "old" products in our scrap supply stash.
The Garden Girls just really out did themselves with this theme. It was so super wonderful. If you have not yet gone to check out any of this month's themed projects, you really need to go look at them. Maria Grace pulled out her paperkins and used them. on not only one layout, but two!! You must see these layouts!!

Also, you should go back and read the blurb by Tracy Miller from the April Store Newsletter. She wrote up a great little spot on this theme. Miley and a few other Garden Girls did a fun little project using fibers in that newsletter also.

Below, are some new additions to the themed layout area: