It was a hard decision to make.
But after some serious thoughts and considerations, I opted out.

My family went through a very serious turmoil and loss recently that made me think and re-think about so many things in my life.

And one of these is opting out of Close To My Heart home business. I know I'll miss a lot of the goodies that's around this company, but I also want to redirect my time and effort to another path of life.

So I chose to opt out.

Before I close this as farewell page to my CTMH business, I want to send a big THANK YOU to each of you that came to me for orders, classes and friendship. Many of you became my good friends that I wholeheartly cherish.

Please know that while I no longer act as a Close To My Heart independent consultant, this blog will sure to continue in a new adventure, for the sake of creativity and life artistry.

Keep in touch with me. I'd love to share what I'm doing after this fine episode's closure.

Craft on!

Love,

Lya, for "The Craftologista Weblog"

...extra this week! A new video

Today I'm having an extra posting in here to share the video that, my friend Carlie has to show. 
Featuring the storage solution with the CTMH large organizer(z1834), which is 14 1/2" x 10 1/2" x 7 1/2" in its internal dimensions!

There's room for all your stamping supplies on the go!

Enjoy the video:





Happy Wednesday.

Sharing a story

Hello everyone!

As consultant I receive periodically, from our corporate office, emails with news, updates, and also stories from real people - either consultants or customers out there, mostly are remarkable as they share their experiences or ideas. And this one you'll see is just one of what I like to say...it's what SCRAPBOOKING is all about:

Memory Protectors® Helped Scrapbook Survive Fire

“I am a long time customer of Close To My Heart and had many scrapbooks done, including one for each of my daughters. We lost our home to a fire last year. Both of the girls' scrapbooks were on my kitchen table and we thought they were a total loss.

“Two days after the fire, we were rummaging through the ashes to look for some valuable jewelry and a friend came upon the scrapbooks. The table they were on was totally gone, as were most of the rest of our belongings, and both scrapbooks were badly burned but still fairly intact on the outside. We took them both out of the house and started looking at them and were super surprised to see that many of the photos were salvageable!

“However it happened, the Memory Protectors® sealed together and preserved most of the pages. We lost photos from the edges of some of the pages because of burning, and lost some to moisture from the water and chemicals used to try to put out the fire. But we were able to salvage an incredible amount out of those books. Both the albums and Memory Protectors were from Close To My Heart.”

“We just wanted to let you know how well your products did in such an extreme situation and that we have told all of our fellow scrapbookers about our ordeal.”
Kylie Mortensen, Customer, Trego, WI

Well, thank you Kylie for sharing your story and I do wish you can soon restore and create more amazing scrapbooks for all your family!

Have a great weekend!

Lya - craftologista

Sad News from Jennifer's Blog

Hi...

For those of you who visit my blog and Jennifer McGuire's, you'd probably know the Card Drive she is having - ending October 31 - for Kate(the little girl with cancer) and Eric (the 9 years-old boy who has ALD).

SADLY - Eric passed away at Oct.25 night, day before his birthday.

I believe that lots of card makers out there, who lovely made and sent cards to the kids, felt the same as I did. Sadness and heavy heart.

Just wish Eric could get to receive the cards. They would surely make him smile.

To know details about Eric and his Family:

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/eno/mystory

Prayers and thoughts going out to Eric's Family.

Lya - craftologista