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Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah

Saturday, December 31st, 2011

Wow – this is it – it’s almost over and Oprah couldn’t have said it better.  Let’s learn from what we have done in the last year to make this year a better one.

What are your New Year’s resolutions?  This year is going to be my year to get organized.  I’m talking major storage containers and my label maker will be put to good use and I’m going to know where to find everything – well that’s my plan anyway.

As I’m doing this post I’m sitting at my sister’s house watching and smelling her baking that she is prepping for the crop in January.  We are also eating everything in site – M & M’s, muffins, candy, chocolate.  This is the last big Hurrah.  I’m also sipping water while I’m here (another goal for the year).  We are heading over to Mandarin for dinner tonight as well and I’m wearing my “buffet” pants (you know the ones that have alot of stretch) so I can eat well tonight.

Tomorrow is reality check and the official end of my mini break – Younique is back up and running full steam ahead.  We are booked up for 2012 with very little spots available and in the next month we will be opening up 2013 so we can start booking up – hard to believe we are booking that far in advance.

We are 21 days away from the big crop and I’m no where near ready YIKES – so much to do in the next 3 weeks and we have 150 people so far – kits to do, goodie bags, table toppers, arrangements and so much more.  I’ll post some photos as I complete each product.

Jeff and I will be meeting on Tuesday to start the new year and meal planning for our January 6th weekend.  I’ll share a photo of his wonderful Beef and Beer stew and the recipe is on the web site.

 

Can you smell it?

Here’s another photo of one of our dinner’s in December

So good and yummy and love Jeff’s presentation.  We think you deserve it

H

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Happy Day Before New Years Eve

Friday, December 30th, 2011

What have I done this past week?  Well other than Christmas I played a little on my scrapbooking projects, spent some time with family and managed to get to Buffalo to take 2 nights away from everything work related.  Funny isn’t it that I have to leave home to relax.  With home being my work, albeit my Wonderful work place – I can only completely get my mind off work when I am away from home.

As I usally do, I created a couple of layouts for my sisters.  Here are 2 that I did for Betty

 

Hard to believe but it’s over isn’t it?  How was your 2011?  Are you glad it’s over?

It was an “interesting” year for us.  Lots of changes at Younique in the last year including bringing Jeff on board full time to cook for us.  I have to say that makes Mr. Clean and I very happy that we can spend as much time as we do with our son, our only son and watch him grow in his Culinary skills and how he enjoys interacting with our customers.

It has been an “interesting” year for Mr. Clean and I as we have studied, reviewed, planned and tweaked what our 2012 will bring for us.  We are hoping for a very successful year in more ways than one – business wise we want to have the continued growth we have seen in 2011 and personal wise we want to continue to have the time together that we have had in the past year.  Mostly we want good health for all of us.  2012 will be the year to take care of us.

It’s so difficult, as I’m sure you all agree, to take the plunge and actually take some time for ourselves.  If we want to continue to be creative in our work and in our play we must MUST take time for us.  I think one of the reasons we sell out every year is because we offer a place to just be YOU – not mom, not wife, not coworker – but just you.  I hope you have signed up to spend a weekend at Younique in 2012.  Let us take care of you and I will work on taking care of myself.

So tonight I will think about my New Years resolution.  I don’t really believe in making a plan for myself only once a year because as things change – so do our ideas of what we would like to do but I like to start the year of fresh with a game plan and see where it takes me.

Have a good and peaceful night.

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If at first you don’t succeed…

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

I have been entering a variety of contests for scrapbookers and I was just informed that the the one that I really really wanted to be a part of I did not make.  Next year I will be better prepared for the competition.  Try, try again, correct?

As I always say “onward and upward” that is my motto and something we have always tried to incorporate into our business plan.  2012 will bring us into our 5th year of operating the retreat and we have “tweaked” many things over the years and we will continue to do our “tweaking” in 2012 to make Younique your ultimate scrapbooking retreat.

We have recently added a new product to the store and I’m loving playing around with it.  It is the Ribbon maker from W R Memory Makers

The Sew ribbon is a great tool that allows you to add patterned borders with ribbon.  You can also add this pattern into the center of your page if you prefer

There are 3 pieces to the punch.  A top, bottom and the cutter section.  The actual cutter sits in the hole on the side of the punch when not in use and holds all 3 pieces together.  Great for storage.  You also have ribbon threaders (needles) with the punch

 

Opening up the 2 main pieces of the punch you can see little magnets on each piece.  You sandwich your paper in between the 2 parts of the punch and the magnets will hold your paper aligned and together

 

Here you can see how the edges are aligned.  I have used the leaf punch for this demo

Then using the cutting portion you insert the cutter into each section on the stencil and punch through your paper

 

After all the areas are punched you remove the stencil and are now ready to thread your ribbon through the punch.  This is a threader/needle that you use to hold your ribbon as you guide it through the holes.  It is a sticky piece of acrylic.  You remove the backing off the threader and attach it to your ribbon

Once your ribbon is attached to the threader it is so easy to pull it through the punched holes

And there you have it.  This is the leaf pattern.  I love all the patterns available and I’m sure we will see lots more coming out in 2012

Here is a layout I created and used one of the punches to create a section through the center portion of the layout.  I acutally punched out a separate piece of paper and attached it to the base of my layout.

 

We have the punches in stock and can be ordered online or you can visit the store and pick up one for yourself.

H

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