First off, our post on the BrickLink Forum:
Hello all,Due to the upcoming Memorial Day Weekend, starting officially for me at 5PM tomorrow (Friday) night, we've moved our minimum in the store up to $1,000! Of course, we'll gladly accept orders from you during this time, but please be advised that NO NEW ORDERS WILL BE PROCESSED UNTIL EARLIEST MAY 27TH (TUESDAY).
To thank you in advance for your patience, you can still order from our store - the password is: holiday
If you place a NEW order of over $100 during this time (or add on $100+ to an existing order, through Monday night) we will give you an additional 5% off. If you have a coupon you can use that as well.
Thanks again for your continued patronage and friendship! We have a baseball game tomorrow night, and have many things to do in the house over the weekend so thought it best to hold up "rush" orders for now.
Best to you all,
Tracy & Chris
Brick-A-Thon
http://www.brickathon.com
NOW, on to other notes of interest:
We are putting a computer in the living room - it will probably not be up for another week or so. Why do you care? Honestly, some of you might find it interesting as to WHY I feel this is necessary. I handle pretty much all of the new, incoming product - I buy, sort, get items ready - it would be very, very nice to have a computer I can work on in the area that I am working the most - which is the living room, so we're setting one up on a larger screen so that when I'm sorting, say the new Indiana Jones sets, I can look at the "alternate parts" listing right then and there and not have to back-track 10 times to get it done right. I hate to list parts and then find out they're not the right ones (just as much as you'd hate hearing we have the alternate version) so this should assist us a lot. I'm also hoping to up my amount of verified inventories on sets with this new set-up.
I hope all of you have a lovely upcoming weekend!
Best,
Tracy
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Chris-A-Thon here!
Hey all!
The arm/shoulder is doing better! I'd like to say thanks for all the well-wishes I have received. I went in for an MRI on on my shoulder this past Friday - the films I saw looked...interesting! Yeah. I have a follow-up appointment next week Tuesday and will find out then if I'm going to have to have surgery or not. I'm thinking I will since my shoulder comes out of joint wayyyy too easily. Thankfully I've never been pulling an order and had that happen, but there's always a first time for everything, right? ;-)
For now I'm able to keep up with orders fine, so no worries there. I pretty much insist that I use my arm the best I can after a dislocation since I don't want it to stiffen up and become even more useless, so no, Tracy isn't a slave driver. :-D
Anytime we feel that there will be a serious delay in order processing we try to let everyone ordering from us or thinking of ordering from us know ASAP so they can make the final decision on where to place their order. Thankfully that isn't the case now and hopefully won't be for awhile. *fingers crossed*
Just wanted to put in a quick update since I've been kinda silent on the blog front lately.
Read Tracy's blog entry below about BrickWorld if you haven't. It's a great event and I'm truely looking forward to going and meeting a bunch of people next month! :-)
-Chris
The arm/shoulder is doing better! I'd like to say thanks for all the well-wishes I have received. I went in for an MRI on on my shoulder this past Friday - the films I saw looked...interesting! Yeah. I have a follow-up appointment next week Tuesday and will find out then if I'm going to have to have surgery or not. I'm thinking I will since my shoulder comes out of joint wayyyy too easily. Thankfully I've never been pulling an order and had that happen, but there's always a first time for everything, right? ;-)
For now I'm able to keep up with orders fine, so no worries there. I pretty much insist that I use my arm the best I can after a dislocation since I don't want it to stiffen up and become even more useless, so no, Tracy isn't a slave driver. :-D
Anytime we feel that there will be a serious delay in order processing we try to let everyone ordering from us or thinking of ordering from us know ASAP so they can make the final decision on where to place their order. Thankfully that isn't the case now and hopefully won't be for awhile. *fingers crossed*
Just wanted to put in a quick update since I've been kinda silent on the blog front lately.
Read Tracy's blog entry below about BrickWorld if you haven't. It's a great event and I'm truely looking forward to going and meeting a bunch of people next month! :-)
-Chris
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Getting Ready For BrickWorld!
If you don't know what BrickWorld is and you like LEGO, well, you should: http://www.brickworld.us/
We went to Wheeling, Illinois for the first annual BrickWorld Event last year (they've got them planned through 2010 right now). I like to dub these events a "BrickVention": A convention of other Lego fans converging in one spot for 2-4 days, showing off all the great things they created. What better for the Legoholic? Oh, being able to purchase more product via the Lego store(s) in the area while being amongst kindred souls. In the Chicagoland area there are THREE Lego stores and all registered attendees are invited to a discount night at one of them (of which we are informed of at the convention).
Chris and I arrive very late Wednesday night, June 18th, just in time for some of the excellent classes they have scheduled for Thursday, as seen here: http://www.brickworld.us/?m=events&date=2008-06-19 and yes, folks, ONLY registered attendees can partake. Registering for $50 gains you access to all events Thursday-Sunday, and it's well worth it. Take a gander at all the things planned on the site.
BrickWorld, as with any BrickVention, just wouldn't be the same if it weren't for the ability to let the rest of the world inside our not-so-little hobby. On Saturday and Sunday the world can gain attendance for a small fee of $12 (down to $8 for 10 and under) and see what it is that we all love and work towards.
Last year they had a huge attendance (I don't recall the actual numbers, but remember being impressed) and pulled in a lot of people who really enjoy Lego as a hobby, young and old, to come and sample a world through the builders eyes. If you're curious, you can see some really amazing pictures on the BrickWorld site via Flickr.com (here's a link to a pic I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bricktracy/940427899/ one of my faves, also below).
The talent that goes into some of these projects is just mind boggling.
This year, we're told they've got a whole conference room devoted to train layouts, which will be amazing. The above, that's a train layout. Seriously.
If you're headed to BrickWorld and would like to meet the gals of Brick-A-Thon, please let us know, as we'd love to meet you too!
Tracy
We went to Wheeling, Illinois for the first annual BrickWorld Event last year (they've got them planned through 2010 right now). I like to dub these events a "BrickVention": A convention of other Lego fans converging in one spot for 2-4 days, showing off all the great things they created. What better for the Legoholic? Oh, being able to purchase more product via the Lego store(s) in the area while being amongst kindred souls. In the Chicagoland area there are THREE Lego stores and all registered attendees are invited to a discount night at one of them (of which we are informed of at the convention).
Chris and I arrive very late Wednesday night, June 18th, just in time for some of the excellent classes they have scheduled for Thursday, as seen here: http://www.brickworld.us/?m=events&date=2008-06-19 and yes, folks, ONLY registered attendees can partake. Registering for $50 gains you access to all events Thursday-Sunday, and it's well worth it. Take a gander at all the things planned on the site.
BrickWorld, as with any BrickVention, just wouldn't be the same if it weren't for the ability to let the rest of the world inside our not-so-little hobby. On Saturday and Sunday the world can gain attendance for a small fee of $12 (down to $8 for 10 and under) and see what it is that we all love and work towards.
Last year they had a huge attendance (I don't recall the actual numbers, but remember being impressed) and pulled in a lot of people who really enjoy Lego as a hobby, young and old, to come and sample a world through the builders eyes. If you're curious, you can see some really amazing pictures on the BrickWorld site via Flickr.com (here's a link to a pic I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bricktracy/940427899/ one of my faves, also below).
The talent that goes into some of these projects is just mind boggling.
This year, we're told they've got a whole conference room devoted to train layouts, which will be amazing. The above, that's a train layout. Seriously.
If you're headed to BrickWorld and would like to meet the gals of Brick-A-Thon, please let us know, as we'd love to meet you too!
Tracy
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Update - Chris and the Store
Just a quick update:
Friday afternoon found me taking Chris to the ER for a dislocated shoulder. Chris will be fine, but is in a lot of pain and taking things very slowly. They put her shoulder back into place, but she's slow on pulling orders now. I worked on a lot of orders this weekend in order to try to get us caught up, and Chris INSISTED she do her share as she says, from history, if she doesn't use her shoulder then it will just get worse. (Yes, this has happened many times in the past, and it's happened at least once in the past year, but not an ER visit, thankfully).
Our minimum is set a bit high right now (down to $25 from $50) and will lower itself as we improve on our orders.
In other news - I've been a sorting freak and have managed to sort out 20 new Indiana Jones sets and have another 10 to do. These sets see new figures and some newer colors in parts, as well as brand new parts, so come and check out our newest additions. The other 10 should be done sometime this week (Temple of the Crystal Skull - nice set! Here's the inventory link: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=7627-1 )
I'm also posting a Bionicle set by hand (slow process, but necessary for Bionicle) so you'll see some interesting parts from that. As well, I've just posted a TON OF HAIR and have more hair on the way! I noticed that our hair stock was getting thin and needed a boost (kind of like Rogain?).
Thanks again to everyone reading and all your support!
Best,
Tracy
Friday afternoon found me taking Chris to the ER for a dislocated shoulder. Chris will be fine, but is in a lot of pain and taking things very slowly. They put her shoulder back into place, but she's slow on pulling orders now. I worked on a lot of orders this weekend in order to try to get us caught up, and Chris INSISTED she do her share as she says, from history, if she doesn't use her shoulder then it will just get worse. (Yes, this has happened many times in the past, and it's happened at least once in the past year, but not an ER visit, thankfully).
Our minimum is set a bit high right now (down to $25 from $50) and will lower itself as we improve on our orders.
In other news - I've been a sorting freak and have managed to sort out 20 new Indiana Jones sets and have another 10 to do. These sets see new figures and some newer colors in parts, as well as brand new parts, so come and check out our newest additions. The other 10 should be done sometime this week (Temple of the Crystal Skull - nice set! Here's the inventory link: http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=7627-1 )
I'm also posting a Bionicle set by hand (slow process, but necessary for Bionicle) so you'll see some interesting parts from that. As well, I've just posted a TON OF HAIR and have more hair on the way! I noticed that our hair stock was getting thin and needed a boost (kind of like Rogain?).
Thanks again to everyone reading and all your support!
Best,
Tracy
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