Bella Blvd at Tuesday Morning

Thanks...I resisted for about 2 min😀

I found some really good stuff at one of my TMs today- I didn't need any of it, of course... lol.  

They had a lot of different Bo Bunny ephemera packs, some Bella Blvd alphas, etc, and I saw quite a bit of G45-- Cafe Parisian and the horse racing line.  So, I was there about an hour altogether digging thru the SB section... I started out looking at the paper, and thought about putting a couple of the G45 6x6 pads into my cart, but I didn't, figuring I'd go thru the rest of the aisle and then decide.  By the time I got to the other end of the craft section and decided to go back to get the paper, every one of those 6x6 pads had been snatched out from under me by another shopper!   It was my own fault, for not putting one into my cart right away!! LOL!!  (No hard feelings, though- the ladies who 'stole' it from me said they were up in Phoenix from a smallish town down very near the AZ / Mexican border, and they don't have a TM there.) 

The stores I go to get their trucks once a week, usually on the same day every week.. One gets a truck on Tuesday and items are on the shelves Wednesday morning. The other get their truck on Wednesday and craft items are on the shelves Thursday morning. They put out the big stuff like furniture first and have a crew that comes in before the store opens to stock the rest. It’s different for each store so you might ask at yours. I clearly know way more about this process than I should!

They get trucks weekly.  On occasion they won't, but that's maybe 5 or so weeks per year.  Mine know me enough to mention if they aren't getting a truck the following week if they see me.  Truck days vary by store.  I know people who's stores get their trucks in on Fridays.  2 in my city get them on Mondays and the other 2 get them on Wednesdays.

The ads tell you when they have a special sale (usually on Sundays, but sometimes other days).  Those items come on their regular trucks but have green price tags instead of white, so they can quickly grab those items and not put them out until the ad sale.  Some stores don't really know what they're doing and I've seen posts on Instagram of people finding items from those ad sales up to 2 weeks early because the store put the merchandise out on the sales floor when they shouldn't have.

Not every store has people who buy them out to resell the product.  I haven't noticed that being a huge issue here (although the Tim Holtz stuff a few months ago vanished rather quickly from the shelves, which was not typical), but I would talk to the staff and ask them when they put stuff out.  My stores all seem to agree that they hate the craft area and stock that stuff last.  It's all small and time consuming to sort and put out, so I can understand why that's less thrilling than setting up a chair or table that takes all of 5 seconds to do but is the same size as a cart full of craft stuff that takes a few hours over the course of a shift to completely put on the sales floor.

Found Maggie Holmes Carousel 6x8" paper pads (love this size!) for $2.99 today (same price as 6x6 pads). Been wanting one for my Carousel collection, did not expect to see it at TM!

ooh, I saw (and bought) that stamp set the other day; I grabbed it the second I saw the dala horse!! Now, finding a stamp set with a cuckoo clock for my German ancestry would be good...

A friend of mine got the Thickers guides for $4.99. Called the 800 number and it is the only one my city got. So happy for her, but bummed for me!

Some people who organize classes and/or crops use them for their class kits.

Oh my, I was watching some Jennifer McGuire card videos and stumbled onto last weeks crazy TM haul videos. I hardly get to our TM but the cool dies and stamps they were posting looked awesome. I went and found some BoBunny stamps, some dies and a carousel paper pad. Ours actually had a good bit of dies for sale and several more carousel pads. I was surprised because usually if its in a haul video, then its usually gone by the time I get there.
I did pick up a Maggie Holmes heart/gem die set that I forgot I already purchased. Doh! If anyone wants to trade....I was looking for the fold over tags die set or the bow maker die set from We R.
I was hunting for the Bella B stuff but no luck. I think that brand is so cute!!! I'll keep looking. I think our truck comes on Mondays, I'll have to try and remember to hit it at lunch.

Hope more are in the next shipment! Do you still have & are willing to share the product number for the guides? TIA

I checked TM again to see if they received any more BB, especially Panda and Popsicles stuff, but if they did, it is long gone. There were tons more WRMK tools and BoBunny stamps, different from the last time I was in.