Scrap Your Trip, Orlando, FL (2025)

12/08/2025

"Wouldn't it be nice to sample just "one cup of tea" so that you could find the ones you like the best? Without paying almost $200 to buy a box of each of these varieties?" That was the new idea I was working on before last year’s 💣. It started way back when Teavana closed and I tried to replace their Maharaja Chai. I had no idea that different teas could taste that different...and that I wouldn't even like most of them. Tea samplers by brand? No thanks...I don't really like fruity tea...and don't get a lemon anywhere my iced tea!

And so...the idea for "One Cup of Tea" was born.

Got a tea drinker in your life? They'll appreciate a gift of 24 different kinds of their favorite...a tea tasting journey around the world...and maybe a new favorite will steep its way into their heart. ❤️

https://www.ebay.com/str/onecupoftea

12/03/2025

I am not getting July’s orders out the door as fast as I would like and I feel I owe everyone a bit of an explanation.

A few weeks ago I shared the water damage and subsequent mold going on in my kitchen. What I didn’t share was that it wasn’t the first time I found mold.

I discovered major water damage and mold surrounding my shower, which is in three walls in the bathroom, and at least one wall in my bedroom and the garage (other side of the bathroom walls) in August and have been waiting for the landlord to fix. I also just discovered mold in my HVAC system over Thanksgiving.

I’ve been complaining for the past few months that no matter what I do or how long I sleep, I just can’t seem to get “un-tired” and now I know it’s from the mold exposure.

Thankfully, they sent out a certified mold remediation company today and my entire kitchen, my bathroom, half my bedroom and half my garage needs to be torn down and replaced.

Hopefully they’ll be able to make the landlord fix everything properly without any legal action.

We like to say we are a “small but mighty team”. Besides me, I have one full-time and one part-time employee in the cutting room, two remote employees and my amazing customer volunteers that help whenever they can.

So besides always being tired, I’ve had a lot going on in my life (and a lot coming up with having half my house torn apart).

While it has slowed me down quite a bit, it hasn’t stopped me and we’re still working hard to get orders out the door as quickly as we can.

As always, thank you for your patience and your understanding and for keeping us in business!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! May your turkey be moist, your gravy free from lumps and all your light strings work when you plug them in!

11/15/2025

Mail carrier just picked up the last of the June orders! It took me a lot longer to get through June than I had hoped, based on the disaster that’s going on at my house and I’m afraid it’s going to get worse before it gets better.

In order to save SYT and get it turned around, I’ve worked ~100 hrs/week, six to seven days per week for the past 14 months and I can’t keep it up anymore. I’m tired…to the bone tired. And the disaster that is the house I live in is MUCH worse than what I shared last week.

Turns out the house I moved into a year ago to save money and be closer to the office has a foreign corporate owner, which I knew. What I did not know was that corporate owner is a NASDAQ company that just announced Q3 earnings of $93 million. The property management company is their subsidiary with over 400 active complaints with the Better Business Bureau.

I spent two months without a kitchen sink (which I finally just fixed myself a few days ago) and a dishwasher (which I still can’t get to work, despite replacing several parts). My roof has leaked for the entire time I’ve lived here and I told them two months ago about the water damage and mold in my master bathroom/bedroom and they haven’t done anything about it (which is why I pulled out all the moldy drywall in the kitchen myself). Based on what I’ve read about this company over the past few days, I’m going to have to fix everything myself and deduct it from my rent.

Yecy was hard at work in the cutting room on items needed for July orders while I was home tearing apart my kitchen and our inventory is in great shape to continue to process orders quickly. I’ll still be working a lot of hours to get your orders out to you…just not as many as I have been.

And as always, if you have a scrapbooking emergency, let us know and I’ll do my best to get your order to you as quickly as I can 😀

Thanks for being understanding and patient, but most of all, thanks for keeping us in business! 🥰

11/06/2025

How much time do you spend thinking about your refrigerator water line? You might want to think about it a little bit more. 😕

Two Sundays ago, I awoke to water all over the tile floor in my foyer. It didn’t take me long to figure out that the water line to the refrigerator had sprung a leak and was spraying water everywhere.

I shut off the water valve under the sink, cleaned up the mess, and ordered a new braided stainless steel water supply line.

The old 1/4” clear poly tubing was run underneath the cabinets and through a lazy Susan cabinet in the corner. I knew I was never going to be able to thread it through there, so I started running it through the cabinets.

And guess what I saw when I removed the drawers from the cabinet next to the sink? The back was puffy and swollen and clearly darker than normal.

Apparently the water line has been leaking for quite some time, but wasn’t noticeable until it got bad enough to flood the foyer.

So instead of finishing up June’s orders and getting started on July this weekend, I’ve spent the past five days cutting out cabinet bottoms and drywall to remove all the mold. Five lower cabinet bases and close to 100 ft.² of drywall needs to be replaced.
And I didn’t smell a thing until I pulled off the first baseboard.

Oh, and as soon as I got the new water line installed, the main valve under the sink started leaking (still dripping even though it’s shut off), so I still have no water or ice.

I have this incredibly unresponsive national property management company and I’ll be surprised if I get my kitchen back before the end of the year.

Good thing I’m always working and we have a full kitchen at the office!

10/22/2025

Add another month completed to the list. 🥳 Shipping notifications went out for the last of May’s orders last night and our mail carrier picked them up about an hour ago. Bring on June!

My plan of cutting everything we need before we start processing orders is starting to pay off. After we finished shipping last night, Sarily and I started counting items to see what we need to cut for June’s orders. I’m still counting kits, but there were only 48 die cuts we didn’t have enough inventory for to start June’s orders. And considering that we have almost 1,500 die cut SKU’s, I’d say that’s pretty good! 😊

When we started my “new plan”, whenever we cut a SKU, we cut everything we need for all the outstanding orders. So we’re getting to the point where processing orders only involves grabbing the items from their location and packing and shipping them (and not having to cut items on demand). You know…like how it’s supposed to be 😂

And on that note, something random but related…

The Luna moth is one of the largest moths in Florida. I’ve never seen one in my life. And this is the second one in a week (pretty sure they’re attracted to my black lights for my Halloween decorations).

Apparently, the luna moth symbolizes transformation and new beginnings. I think it’s a good sign 😁

10/01/2025

Shipping notification for the last April order just went out! 🥳

Remember when this whole mess started a year ago and we had virtually no inventory to work with? I just did a quick calculation and in addition to cutting everything that we’ve shipped out so far, we’ve also cut close to 20,000 items that are now in inventory.

My plan to wait to start processing April’s orders until we’d cut everything worked out about 75% of the time. We only counted anything we’d sold three or more of…and of course, if we sold two, chances are we only had one. I’m still “Mrs. Murphy”. 😂

So, everything we cut from this point forward, we’re cutting the number we need to fulfill all our outstanding orders. This will help speed things up as we move along.

Also in the spirit of speeding things up, I’ve started to print more of our paper in-house. Our printer doubled my leadtime and I don’t want to not be able to send an order out for 1-2 weeks because I’m missing a couple of sheets of paper.

My amazing “die cut fairies” Yaros Hedges, Joyce Ciesla and Hardval Sullivan have been hard at work late into many, many nights bagging up the remaining die cut pieces for “Mystery Box Take 2.” I actually think we have more die cuts and samples than last time! Twenty-three file cabinets that were supposed to just be full of “parts“, but turned out to be over half full of “all the parts needed.” At least all that $$ that was just sitting in file cabinets can help pay rent and make payroll now. 😬

I wish I could say I was still surprised at all of this, but in the past year, I’ve only had to buy Black, White and Brown cardstock. I still have 850 sheets of Red cardstock sitting on a shelf, along with 1,125 sheets of Chiffon and Buttercream. Who on earth needs that much pale yellow cardstock?!?

Actually, below is a list of all our Bazzill overstock - $10 per 25 pack - if you want any, let me know and we’ll add it to your order.

Acqua - 13 (9 left)
Arroyo - 10 (4 left)
Berry Sensation - 6
Bouquet - 5
Buttercream - 14 (12 left)
Candy Buttons - 10 (6 left)
Chiffon - 31 (23 left)
Grenadine - 8 (7 left)
Guacamole - 9 (none left)
Heather - 8
Lily Pond - 5 (4 left)
Ocean Breeze - 8 (3 left)
Petalsoft - 6 (5 left)
Pool (AC Crafts) - 10 (6 left)
Purple Pizzazz - 10
Safari - 3 (none left)
Whirlpool - 9 (4 left)

Okay…back to work on May’s orders!

And as always, thank you for your support! (I just had a flashback to a Bartles & James commercial) 😂

09/09/2025

Okay…NOW all the March shipping notifications have gone out! I even double-checked to make sure we didn’t miss anybody.

Hopefully this “back-to-school-ick” has run its course. Both Yecy and Alex have two daughters and they were only here at the same time three days over the last two weeks.

On to April!

08/30/2025

I know I said earlier in the week that we’d get all the remaining March orders out by the weekend, but the bin below is what we have left. Both Yecy and Alex were out some this week with the “my-kids-went-back-to-school-but-I’m-the-one-who’s-sick” ick, so we didn’t get as much done as I’d hoped. It’s mostly orders with custom die cuts that we have left.

Sarily just left, our system just finished sending out shipping notifications, and the mail carrier is just going to love me tomorrow. 😁

I went through all the remaining March orders earlier in the week to make sure we weren’t missing any, so if you didn’t get a shipping notification yet, don’t worry…it’s on its way. :-)

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday “official-end-of-summer” weekend. I know how I’ll be laboring! 😂

08/26/2025

The gals are rocking it in the cutting room to finish up March’s orders (and I do mean rocking it…Yecy cut over 200 SKU’s yesterday)!

I can’t do anything else with the remaining March orders until Yecy and Alex are done, so I’m on to April.

And in an effort to be more efficient and hopefully get orders out faster, I’m going to try something different for April’s orders and see if I can’t get better at the “touch it once” philosophy instead of bins and bins of partially completed orders sitting around. Hopefully it makes a difference 🤞🏻

We are also changing the way we pack up our orders so that it’s much quicker (and helps with postage costs).

All that to say that we’re plowing away and making progress :-)

Everyone with a March order should receive their shipping notification by Friday (Saturday at the latest).

Get ready April’s!

08/19/2025

We’ve been ordering so much paper that our supplier has been having a hard time keeping up with us! Two weeks in a row, I only got half of the paper I was expecting (those pesky “other clients” lol).

That has led to bins of partially filled orders sitting all over the place, waiting for the missing paper to come in. Not exactly the efficient “touch it once” philosophy I’ve been going for, but what’s a gal to do?

We were missing so much paper last week that I told two of our amazing customer volunteers not to even come in to help. The unintended consequences of that were that I spent a glorious Friday night, Saturday and Sunday not working and actually unpacking the house I moved into last November and finally finished fixing my washing machine which hasn’t worked in three weeks. FYI…if you put something in there that was outside and really dirty…you can clog and ruin the drain pump. 😠

We just had 1,874 sheets of paper delivered and I ordered another 682 to be delivered on Thursday 🤞🏻.

I’m hoping we can finish up the rest of the March orders by the end of next week (maybe faster, but I’m giving us a little leeway).

As always, please know that we’re diligently working hard to get caught up (as evidenced by my house over the past seven months) and every single one of us truly appreciates your support and your patience.

08/06/2025

For the most part, February orders are finished! Still a few die cuts to make and a few papers being delivered tomorrow and by Friday at the latest, everyone with a February order should have received their shipping confirmation. 🥳

So now it’s back to “not in chronological order” and hopefully the picture below explains why.

See all of those pink pieces of paper? Those are all items that we took the last one of for a February order. There’s 300+ items that we need to replenish.

So, I’m going to be pulling orders that are paper only while I give the cutting room gals some time to catch up. 😀

I’ve spent hours analyzing and sorting our outstanding orders so that we can consistently process and ship, whereas if it was in strict chronological order, there’d be a lag while we replenish our inventory.

So while we’re not going in day-by-day chronological order, rest assured that the priority is always to get the oldest orders out as quickly as possible.

Now…back to shipping before the mail carrier gets here!

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