Rack For Scrapbook Room

Circut City at Firewheel is going out of business and I was able to get this rack for $20.00

Final Houston Scrapbook Store Review - Archivers

http://www.archiversonline.com/

This is a chain similar to Recollections, however, they have GREAT prices!!! They had an awesome clearance section, with TONS of quality papers on clearance, a $1.99 section where I scored a bunch of chipboard letters - yeah me!!

I'm going to plan a day trip to Houston in the next couple months to tour these stores. The 3 hour drive would be worth it to go to all 6 stores in one day. Check out my previous posts if you missed the reviews of the other stores.

3 More Houston Scrapbook Store Reviews

Today was a BUSY day. I visited 3 more stores in the Houston area. They were all great stores, here's the run down:

1. By Design Scrapbook Boutique - VERY cute decor at this stores. Great variety, friendly, and CREATIVE staff. They have great samples up and aren't shy about sharing. Liked their paper selection had a few lines I haven't seen, or it may be the new stuff I haven't had a chance to see at our DFW stores. They also allowed me to take photos of the projects so I could remember the ideas.

2. Scrapbook Junkie - With a name like that, I had better expectation of the atmosphere. That aside... large selection of papers, transparencies. Of ALL the stores this had the best selection of acrylic, acetate, and chip board albums and embellishments. They had a few things in acrylic I hadn't see before.

3. Novel Approach - AWESOME paper selection and HUGE selection of rubber stamps. Carried alot of the grundge board and ranger product lines. They had a good selection on the alterables, acrylic, and chipboard too.


All in all, Houston would be a great place to go for a long scrapbooking weekend. There have 5 good scrapbooking stores that are in reasonable distance of each other. The classes they have available are great.

Houston Scrapbook Store Review

Okay ladies... yesterday I went to The Lone Star Scrapbook Company, it's in northern Houston off of I-45. LOVE THE STORE, great selection on pretty much everything. Very comparable to Crafty Scrapper, Gotta Scrap, and Scrapbook Barn. They have the BIGGEST selection of Quick Cut dies I've ever seen outside of GASC.

Today I went to The Scrapbook Village in Missouri City, it's southwest of Houston about a 45 minute drive in traffic, so no different from what we're used to in DFW. The store is in a cute old village style shopping center. They have a GREAT paper selection, alot of papers that I haven't seen in our stores. No alot in the alterables, however, they did have one cool idea. They had taken childrens board books and from what I can tell used a scroll saw and cut the books into shapes like hearts, arrow, pencil, etc... to create the base for altered books. I bought one of the arrow ones to do a "Growing UP" album for my son.

Tomorrow I'm venturing out to By Design Scrapbook Boutique in southeast Houston (I drove out there yesterday first, but they closed at 5:30) and The Scrapbook Junkie in Webster not far from By Design Scrapbook. I did look in the window of By Design and it's decorated REALLY cute, mostly pink and black very chic. I'm hoping to find some interesting things there. I'll post my review tomorrow.