Can I say I love the San Francisco Bay Area?

A couple weeks ago DH and I took a trip to the SF Bay area - he needed to go for work, so we added a few days so that we could see San Francisco and spend some time with friends in Berkeley. I thoroughly enjoyed tasting all the amazing seasonal/locally grown foods, drinking excellent wines, discovering Trader Joe's, reveling in the joy of non-sticky weather, and soaking up that artsy vibe that San Francisco has. Like any good scrapbooker, I sought out paper/arts & crafts stores.

Ok, so one of the favorite stores I found was a chain (Paper Source) - but look at it! Even with San Francisco real estate as precious as it is, look at the beautiful spacious well-lit layout of the place!


So, I definitely drooled and spent time looking at all the beautiful embellishments and ribbons and papers. I got tons of inspiration there. If I were to have a brick and mortar store, it would look like this in my fantasy.

But I love having an online business. It's flexible, and I can work from home and not deal with idling in traffic - I just recently opened up my own ebay store Scrap Fancy Boutique to add to the custom scrapbooking and personalized invitations/cards that I create. I'm so excited about getting to share some of my favorite scrapbooking embellishments and tools there, and I'm getting new stuff quite frequently. So, if you're a crafter in need of a Bind-it-all machine (I've been waiting years for someone to come up with this!) or some fun glittery chipboard alphabet letters, check it out! If you squint real hard you can imagine that my store looks like the picture above ;)