Donna Downey Delights!

What an awesome weekend of creative inspiration we enjoyed with Donna Downey at Memories Galore Friday, Sept. 19th through Sunday, Sept. 21st. Donna's gracious spirit and passion for mixed media art was contagious!

A lucky customer from each store won "Dinner with Donna" and, as evidenced by these snapshots, new friendships began (over a good meal & conversation, that's easy for scrapbookers, isn't it?).

From our Brandermill (Midlothian) store, Tammy George who's never taken a class with Memories Galore shared in a cheesecake birthday celebration with Donna on Saturday evening at A Taste of Italy.

And, from our West End (Richmond) store, SDU Graduate Kathy Catino endured a three-hour dinner marathon at Capital Ale House--at least dinner was free, right Kathy?!? ;-P Gotta love the baby beer steins!

Special thanks to Donna's fun-loving husband, Bill, for all of his support throughout the weekend with our event. We all loved having Donna's exclusive merchandise available to purchase.

Donna, we cannot thank you enough for your generousity, enthusiasm and the creative inspiration that you shared! You are what this craft is all about--people, art and the freedom to create!

For those of you who took one of Donna's dynamic classes, I hope you feel as inspired and creative and renewed as I do! Stay tuned folks as we look at bringing Donna back to Richmond in 2009!

What do you think of our new website?

After many months of graphic design and creative web technology guru stuff--we are delighted to have launched our new websbite. So, what do you think?

One of the comments we've heard from our dear friends and valued customers is that our old website didn't reflect the Memories Galore brand. That our website might have lead you to believe that our stores weren't as great as they are in terms of the class offerings, depth of product selection, shopping square footage, customer service experience and more! We hope that our fresh new look shows the world that we ARE the leading scrapbooking retail stores in the Mid-Atlantic and going for the U.S.!

Memories Galore is YOUR Scrapbooking Store(R)!

Tell us what you think!