Last Day!! Last Day!!

I just walked in the door and my cat gave me a dirty look. Like she was going to waste away to nothing from my neglect. It IS midnight and neither of us has eaten anything but a few cookies and bugs all day. (I had the cookies - actually ginger scones - Thanks Christine!! - and the cat ate the bugs).

The store was open until 8pm tonight and it was busy all day! When I got to work at 1pm, there was a line from the desk all the way to the back office! Thank you everyone who came and shopped today!!! I met so many cool people and even set up a playdate for me and my daughter. Yah!
There is still plenty of good stuff left and I spent the last four hours restocking and tidying the chaos. So there is fresh chaos for tomorrow's customers.

Everything in the store is 50% off (that's off the retail prices). And all of you who subscribed to our newsletter and were getting the "Secret Coupons" - the secret was an extra 20%... so that means everything was 70% off for you. So I'll do the same thing tomorrow, the very last day of the sale. So fill a basket or two with stuff and bring it to the counter. Say "I got the secret coupon, but I didn't print it out." That's the secret password. Very important. We'll automatically, and super-secretly add the discount to your slip. And don't stand in line telling everyone around you WHAT the secret sale is!!!?
By the way, 70% off is a freaking lot of money. So if you can't decide between two things, buy them both.

And please plan on being patient. People are buying MORE stuff, but we still have to scan the barcodes and add it all up. Math is hard. But Alex and Jillian don't have school tomorrow so they'll be in the shop helping. They are High School Kids and have more stamina and brain cells. And my mother won't force the poor innocent customers to help her bag stuff. If you bring ginger scones or chocolate chip cookies, please be sure to bring a lot because we have to share with all the people waiting in line. And my mom likes her coffee with milk. You know, just in case you were wondering... 
;-D
Cheers,
-Sandy

New Store Hours (and secret stuff...shhh!)

Wingdoodle's new store hours will be: 

Thursday....11am to 8pm
Friday........11am to 5pm
Saturday....11am to 4pm
Sunday......12am to 3pm

Monday to Wednesday open by appointment. 
(Let us know when you will be driving through town, and we will do our best to be here for you.)

We will keep these hours until Christmas, then we will close the store for the rest of the winter while we regroup and figure out what comes next. We may reopen again in the Spring. Or not. Who knows?

The GOOD news for YOU is that we need to clear out as much stock as possible before the holidays. So there will be lots of sales and really great discounts coming up! The specials will get better and better as we get closer to closing, but we also will not be reordering. If there is something you have had your eye on for a while, don't wait too long to get it!

For now, everything in the store (except Zentangle® books and materials) is 10% off. This includes the books and magazines that are already discounted 40%.

If you would like to hear about some super-secret special sales coming soon... be sure to sign up here: http://eepurl.com/cMIW2. I'll send you coupons as I think of specials. If you have some sale fantasies of your own, write them in the comments. You never know. Just because we need to clear out the store in only a few weeks, doesn't mean we can't have a heck of a lot of fun doing it! ;-D
 Cheers,
-Sandy

Spooktacular Munny Contest!

October is halfway over and all of us at Wingdoodle are looking forward to our Halloween Party! Make sure to stop by the store on October 28th from 6-8pm to enjoy some delicious food and see all of our Munny Contest Submissions!

If you haven't already, you should decorate a Mini-Munny figure to display at Wingdoodle for the party. The grand prize is a $100 Gift Certificate to Wingdoodle. Who will your Munny be for Halloween? Maybe a favorite character from a movie or a book? Bring your costumed Munny in for the contest. We have little prizes for anyone who comes in costume to the party too!

If you have any questions about the Munny Contest call Wingdoodle at 456-3515.
You don't need to be present to win!

Some ideas from google image search to get you inspired!

Have an idea but don't know where to start or how to make it? Come on in to the store and I would be happy to help you figure it out. Bring your supplies (fabric, claw, markers, etc.) and I can get you pointed in a good direction. I work on Mondays, Thursdays and Sundays so come on by!

-Krystin W.

Zentangle for Kidz Book Signing Party

Today Wingdoodle hosted a book signing party for Sandy and her new book, Zentangle for Kidz. She gave a mini Zentangle class at 1pm. It was a great success and everyone enjoyed it. We had food which my daughter Kayla made and, as usual, it was good. The make-and- take was a pin you could tangle yourself. Wingdoodle was very crowded for about 2 hours during the party and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. There are more pictures on Facebook; check them out.

If you couldn't make the book signing today at Wingdoodle.Sandy is doing another one at Mill Brook Gallery Wednesday August 10, 1-3pm.

Zentangle for Kidz!

The "Zentangle® for Kidz" book has arrived at Wingdoodle! This new book, written and illustrated by Sandy Bartholomew allows kids to experience Zentangle® as adults would, but with a more simple approach to learning it. In this book you will be guided by the characters Alex and Lilah with easy step by step directions to make beautiful Zentangle® patterns. "Zentangle® for Kidz" is available in Wingdoodle, and in our online store!

Click here to buy Zentangle® for Kidz!

Don't forget to come to Wingdoodle on Saturday the 6th of August from 1-3pm to get your copy signed by the the Author!

Zentangle for Kidz Book Signing

Entries for our Munny Contest

We had 13 entries in our Munny contest, 5 adults and 8 juniors.  It was so much fun and the customizations were as imagative as they were diversed.  I will put pictures up of the party and the winners probably Monday but I just had to put up the pictures of the entries today.  It was all very exciting and fun and the birthday cake was delicious. We will be doing it again for Halloween so put your thinking cap on and start designing now. Also Krysten will be offering a special class on how to customize your Munny in August, so watch the blog for information. 

Wingdoodle's 10th Anniversary Party

You are invited to Wingdoodle's 10th Anniversary celebration.  Check out our contest, just click on the link http://creativitystore.blogspot.com/2011/05/10th-anniversary-diy-munny.html. It is not too late to pick up a Munny and customize it.  You need to have the finished Munny in the store by noon Saturday June 25th.

Even if you don't have an entry in the contest come by and vote on your favorite Munny and have some birthday cake.

Date:  June 25th, 2011

Time:  4pm - 6pm

Where:  Wingdoodle, 19 East Main St.  Warner, NH  03278  

Welcome Spring!

Krystin, Mary and Christian manning the butterfly project sponsored by the Out of the Studio Group.

Fairy Houses

Fairy Houses

It was a little overcast Saturday but it did not discourage people from coming out for Warner's third annual Spring into Warner. The kids decorated butterflies with paint and crayons, made wands, got their face painted and built fairy houses. There was music, art and dance to enjoy. The church had a meatloaf supper in the evening and there was a dance at the town hall.

Thank you to everyone who made this event a success. Thank you Mary for running the Fairy house building project next to Wingdoodle. Thank you Krystin for designing the OOTS fliers and also the butterfly project and running it. If anyone is interested in the Out of the Studio group or learning more about it we have a facebook page or when you come into Wingdoodle we can give you the information. Thank you Kay for the loan of the tent, thank you to everyone who helped set it up, take it down and helped with the butterfly project. I think about 60 or 70 butterflies were painted, I visited the tent one time and there were about 10 butterflies hanging from the top of the tent drying.

Welcome Spring!

Flower Soft Promotion

Saturday May 14th and Sunday May 15trh we will be running a promotion on Flower Soft... buy 1 and get the second (of same or lesser value ) for 1/2 price.  It is a good time to stock up on Flower Soft, we have all the colors in stock.   We are also doing a make and take with Flower Soft and Shimmer paper.  So if you have never used it before now would be a great time to give it a try.

It is also Spring into Warner this Saturday May 14th.  Come build a fairy house at Brookside or next to Wingdoodle.  There will be artists, music and dancing. Food, face painting, baked goods, wand making, butterfly making and lots of other activities for the whole family.

Spring into Warner

Come have your face painted, make a fairy wand, watch artists as they paint and demonstrate their craft, build your own Fairy or Leprechaun House. There will be a plant and book sale, homemade goodies to eat, ballet and musical performances, Plan to bring your family and stay for dinner at the Church, followed by ballroom dancing.

For more info: www.kearsargechamber.org/warner/SpringIntoWarner2011/

Winners of the Raffle!!!!!!!!!!

The Yoga for your Brain book signing party was a great success. Congratulations to Sandy on her second book.

We had a drawing for 2 prizes at the party one was a Zentangle 101 class won by Dan Watts and the other was a Zentangle gift bag won by Carolyn Rordam.  Congratulations to both of you and thank you to everyone who came to the party and made it such a success.

Also a big thank you to Adele, Kayla, Krystin and Jen for working so hard putting the party together.  You all are an A+ team and we are getting really good at throwing parties at Wingdoodle.  Can't wait for the next party.

Back in Stock

Sandy's Zentangle tin is back in stock. You can only get these from Sandy's Etsy site or from Wingdoodle. The kit includes 10 trading cards, 10 tiles, a 01 Micron black and a 01 red, 2 pencils, a pencil sharpener, a blend stub, mini pin, a sample trading card and it all comes in this nice little tin you can carry in your purse. It retails for $22.00 plus shipping and handling. You can also come by the store and purchase it and save the shipping and handling. We are fully stock with everything Zentangle.

Just a reminder that we are having a book signing party for Sandy's new book "Yoga for your Brain" Thursday March 17th from 5pm-7pm. Come by Wingdoodle and enjoy the company of other Zentangle enthusiast and meet the author.  There will be food, tea from Republic of Tea, a cool make and take and of course get your book signed by Sandy. It will be a fun evening.

 

2011 NH Shop Hop

Wingdoodle is happy to be a part of the NH Shop Hop again this year. We had such a good time last year with everyone who came into the store and we are really looking forward to it again this year. Wingdoodle has some really cool make and takes planned and can't wait to show you new products and new techniques for old standbys. One of our make and takes will be using Sheer Heaven and if you don't know what that is you need to come by and check it out. We will also be doing stuff with Perfect Pearls, alcohol inks, reinkers and Twinkling H2Os. This is going to be a fun Shop Hop.

Looking forward to seeing new and familiar faces.

Kay, SherRee, Adele, Jen and Kristen

Book Signing Party Raffle

We are finishing up the plans for Sandy's  Book Signing Party and it is going to be so much fun.  We will be doing  2 raffles.  One will be for a gift Certificate to one of Sandy's Zentangle classes and the other is for a gift bag full of Zentangle stuff.  You have to be there to enter the raffle but not there to win.  We will notify the winner through email.  

Our make and take for that evening will be a lot of fun too.  You'll be able to Zentangle a piece and then make a button out of it.  Put  this all  together with the great  food and it will be one fun party so please plan on attending.

YOGA FOR YOUR BRAIN BOOK SIGNING PARTY!!!!!!!!!!

We have Sandy;s new book, YOGA for your BRAIN, and we will celebrate with a book signing party on St. Patrick's Day Thursday, March 17th 5pm - 7pm.  Everyone is invited to stop by, meet Sandy and have her sign your book.  We will also have a demo table so that you can do a tangle or show us one of your tangles.  My daughter Kayla will be providing the food, and if you came to the Christmas party you know her food is really good.  We will also be sampling our new teas from The REPUBLIC of TEA.  Everyone at Wingdoodle is very excited about the party and we all  hope to see you there.

Please RSVP by March 12th so Kayla knows how much food to prepare.

Wingdoodle Christmas Open House

So this seems to be a pattern with all of us at Wingdoodle. We get so busy after the party starts that we neglect to take pictures. So we only have pictures of before the party starts and when it was almost over. My daughter Kayla and her friend Lindsay did a wonderful job with the food. Everything was so good, if anyone wants the recipe for the Southwestern Dip just ask and I will post it ( it was really, really good).

The make and take was so much fun. I am glad I supplied vinyl gloves to everyone doing the alcohol ink Christmas ornament, it got a little messy but it also created some laughs. I wish I would of gotten pictures of all the beautiful ornaments. We also collectively did about 40 Valentines for Operation Write Home (thank you all).  I will post pictures of the Valentines next week on facebook. Thank you to everyone who attended the open house and made it such a success.

SherRee

Events, Events, Events

I know everyone is very busy getting ready for Christmas but Wingdoodle has several events to let you know about.  First tonight Friday December 10th from 6-8pm we will be making Valentine cards for Operation Write Home.  Stop in the store and grab a snack, shop and then come upstairs and join the cardmaking party, everything is supplied to make the cards. Operation Write Home is an organization that is close to my heart because my son is in the Army and my daughter is in the National Guard.  Here is a link to their website if you would like to check it out http://www.operationwritehome.org/.  The Valentines have to be into the shippers by January 7th in order to be mailed to the troops and they in turn need to mail them back to their loved ones.  

Second event is the Warner Christmas Shopping Tour.  This involves everyone in town and is always a fun event.  Get your passport stamped at all the businesses involved and enter to win a wonderful gift basket.  Wingdoodle's make and take will be a hot chocolate packet card.  So stop by the demo table and check it out.

Third event will be the Hero Art Party.  Our Hero Art Party will be on Thursday December16th from 5-7pm.. The Hero Art sale starts on December 11th and ends December 31st.   We have the new Flower Power stamps from Hero Art and if you buy  a new Hero stamp you can buy a red dotted Hero stamp for 50% off.  December 16th we will be doing make and takes using a new set of Hero stamps. We will also have cookies, hot cider and door prizes.  

As you can see we have all kinds of things happening within the next 2 weeks so stop in and join the fun.  

NH Open Doors

Join Adele Sanborn at her studio for the

NH Open Doors tour

November 6 & 7 10-4

I will be demonstrating a new craft that I use within my work. Calligraphy, paper making, book making, paste paper. In my gallery I will have new calligraphy pieces, additions to my boxes & handmade journal lines, new Spirit Houses and of course my full line of framed and matted pieces that are all for sale. On Saturday I will be having a little mini workshop so if you are interested in how they work stop by and check it out and you can sign up for my spring workshops.

On Sunday, Roger, my husband, will be giving free horse drawn wagon rides with Huey and Doc...I’ll serve up some hot cider and doughnuts for refreshments this will be on Sunday only from 11-2 (rain cancels the rides)!

For more information . . . . . my studio is listed under Cornerstone Design in the Merrimack Valley region of the Fine Art/Craft section of their website

www.nhopendoors.com

Directions: from the south I-89 to exit 7 “Davisville”, right onto Rt 103 then .5 miles to Rt 127 Turn left at the country store. Follow Rt 127 for approximately 2.5 miles to Winnepocket Rd (it will be on your left). Stay on Winnepocket Rd for 1.1 miles until you see red gates on your left. Look for the Open Studio/League of NH Craftsmen signs. You’re almost there, just drive down this road.

Cornerstone Design at the Paint Box

200 Call Road · Webster, NH · 800.224.8323

www.cornerstonedesignnh.com · facebook Cornerstone Design at the Paint Box

Operation Write Home

I received this email today from Operation Write Home and wanted to share it with everybody.  Again thank you to all of you who donated time, talent, money and cards.  The next holiday is Valentines and I will take cards till December 24th.  They also need any Hero letters or cards for our troops.  Kids are always wonderful at this so if you want any hero letter forms for kids stop by Wingdoodle and we will give them to you.

Hi Sher Ree!!


Wingdoodle has done it again! Your packages arrived today. Thank you! I'll be packing these cards in boxes this week to go to our heroes. I'm sending lots of beautiful cards over there from lots of talented card makers like you!

Thank you for the generous donation for shipping!

Dixie