Scrap Your Trip, Orlando, FL (2026)

02/19/2026

Oh, what a difference a week or so with no contractors in my house makes! Not only did I get the rest of the August orders shipped, but I also got all of the September orders shipped out too. 🥳All the October orders have been printed and sorted and I’ll be starting on them today.

Sorted? You bet! I sort the orders for the month over 10 different ways to try to work through them as quickly as possible. Custom die cuts? Custom paper? One or two sheets of each paper on the order or six, eight or ten of each? Die cut kit by itself or with a matching paper? They all go into different piles. Then I start knocking out the smallest orders first while Yecy starts cutting custom die cuts and multiple quantities of die cuts that we don’t already have in in inventory.

As you can see, we don’t start with the orders from the 1st and then move on to the 2nd, etc. We used to, but this way is much more efficient.

Speaking of contractors, you’d think my slumlord could get started actually fixing my house instead of just making me run home every other day for yet another inspection for yet another bid. It’s been a month since they tore out my entire kitchen and shower. Floor to ceiling plastic wasn’t really the aesthetic I was going for. 😂

But, by the end of next week I’ll have withheld three months of rent…and I can’t wait to tell a judge all about it so that I can keep my rent money. 🤞🏻

As always, thanks for your patience and support and for keeping us in business!

01/31/2026

It may just be another Saturday winter for all of you “up there“ but we are not cut out for this kind of nonsense in the Sunshine State! I’ve lived in Florida for 37 years (OMG… I’m old 😂) and I don’t even need my toes to count how many times I can remember it dipping down below freezing.

The low for the next three nights in a row is 24° and then Tuesday night is going to warm up all the way to 29°.

I’ve done my best to prepare…I even drained the water out of my radiator and replaced it with actual antifreeze. 😀

I’m probably going to end up shutting the cutting room down while it’s so cold. Remember when it was 98° in there during the summer? Well, I can’t get enough space heaters out there to warm it up from 24°. 🥶

The good news is that Yecy has been cranking and has stocked our inventory so well that I have already pulled half of the August orders and shipped about a quarter of them.

I think I’ll spend tomorrow curled up on the couch in front of my fake fireplace with a warm blanket and some hot chocolate…and thank God my slumlord finally fixed my heat last week!

Stay warm and stay safe…wherever you are 🥰

01/23/2026

It seems like we’ve been working on July orders for months. Wait…we HAVE been working on July orders for months! 🤪

But guess what the mail carrier just picked up? The last of the July orders! Whoo hoo! Every once in a while, I started to feel like I was in a queue at Disney World. Just when I thought I was nearing the end, I turned the corner and there was a whole bunch more. 😂

We had almost as many July orders as April, May and June combined, so it definitely took awhile to get through them all. The holidays and my house disaster didn’t help much either.

Speaking of my house disaster, my slumlord…oops…I mean landlord finally actually started the mold remediation work. I had to send them a legal notice and withhold my rent…and it still took them almost three weeks to get started.

And despite having every legal right to do so, they are threatening to file eviction next week. In a way, I kind of hope they do. I can’t wait to explain to the judge how they completely disregarded their tenant’s health for over four months. Maybe I’ll get some of my rent back :-)

They filled over 30 contractor bags with all the stuff they removed. Oh…and all the lower kitchen cabinets. So now I have no kitchen, no kitchen sink and no shower in my bathroom.

But, at least they’ve finally started fixing it. And since there’s no way they’re going to be completely done by February 1, I get to keep some more of their money. That ought to continue to light a fire under them.

There are a lot of times that being a tenant really sucks. But when I got divorced, my ex-husband got the house we built and I got Scrap Your Trip.

I definitely got the better end of the deal :-)

As always, thanks for your patience and support and for keeping us in business!

01/05/2026

For most people the holidays are a time of joy. For many, they are not. Unfortunately for the past few years, I have been one of the latter.

Fortunately, the “holiday blues” are subsiding. I made it through the recent cold snap that saw the temps dip into the upper 30’s without any heat in my house. I’ve also started the legal process against my landlord as I’m still living in a mold-infested house (can’t afford to move, so I’m stuck here until it’s fixed).

Definitely looking forward to life returning to “normal” and getting back to achieving warp speed for our outstanding orders.

As always, thanks for your patience and support and for keeping us in business.

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!

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