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Greetings!
Holy cow! October is already here! It seems like next week is going to be Christmas and Hanukkah! So to help prepare, we are including some helpful ideas to plan your holiday cards!
In our last issue, we announced that starting in 2013, we will have a brand new venue for our events! Please read below for all the amazing details.
Also, we are just one short month away from our November crop and have some last minute openings for both the full weekend and part time. Again, please read below for more information. We hope that you will join us!
See you soon!
The Crops Plus Team
PO Box 2041
Arlington, VA 22202
703-260-6105
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October Scrapbooking Tip
Never too early to plan!
I love this time of year. I love preparing for the fall. I also spend a good deal of time planning my multi-tiered Holiday card list. But I am always at a lack of ideas for planning cards that I can make easily.
I found this slideshow that has a few dozen helpful ideas that seem easy enough, yet are classically beautiful. (The description says 'Christmas', but there are several general holiday card ideas as well). Check them out here.
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New Venue for 2013!
Exciting new changes are in store!
 We had an opportunity to explore new hotel options in the DC area for the future of Crops Plus. And the exciting news is that we have picked a new hotel location for 2013! Starting with our February crop, our new hotel will be the Hyatt Dulles. Just three miles from our current hotel (The Holiday Inn), located right at the intersection where the Dulles Toll Road and Route 28 meet. We chose to stay in the Dulles area as that seems to work well for our croppers and helps to keep our prices as low as possible. The Hyatt is an almost new facility, built in 2009, that offers many new and luxurious amenities, allowing us to truly give you the premiere cropping experience! Crops Plus is stepping it up! Some of the many benefits of the new location include:
- Ergonomic "18 hour" chairs
- Extended crop times. Crops now end at 4pm on Sundays.
- More food - additional Sunday snack
- Spacious and clean facility washroom
- Dedicated private classroom
- Brewed Starbucks served at meals and snacks
- Vendors all in one room, just across the hall from the crop room
- Massage therapist on the same floor in private room
- Executive suite hotel rooms with sitting areas and pull out sofas for just $89/night
- Ability to book the rooms online through links that will be easily accessible on our website
- Truly gourmet meals with great variety that can be catered to specific needs
- Continued Valet Service
- Temperature controlled environment with purified air and fresh oxygen circulation
- A lovely bar area
- Gorgeous modern facility
- Lap pool with an updated and large gym
- Electricity wired to each table grouping
- Free internet in ballroom and hotel rooms
- Crop room doesn't close (as long as someone still wants to crop!)
- 5 catered buffet meals and 5 snack breaks as well as unlimited soda, water and tea available all day
We are confident that you will love the new facility as much as we do. We've already had several croppers in to look at the space and it has met with their seals of approval. We're very excited about these new changes and hope that you will be able to join us in 2013!
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2013 Crops Plus Dates
Please note the new April date!
We are very excited to announce our 2013 dates! All events will be held at the new location, the Hyatt Dulles. Cost of each event is $230, excluding hotel room costs. We had previously discussed a possible 4 day crop and maybe a July crop. Those will not be happening now with the new location change. Also important to note is that our Spring crop date has been moved from May 3-5 to April 19-21. *February 15-17, 2013 (3 days) *April 19-21, 2013 (3 days) *September 20-22, 2013 (3 days) *November 1-3, 2013 (3 days) Online registration will begin 4 months before each event - February 2013 will open October 15, 2012. However, crop attendees can register at each crop for any and all future events at a discount. If 2012 events have shown us anything, it's that these 2013 events WILL sell out! Mark your calendars - we can't wait to see all of you in 2013! |
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September Crop A Huge Success
Thank you to all who attended!
The September crop is barely over and our buzz is still going! We had so much fun scrapping and eating and meeting new friends. We can't wait to do it again in November- just 4 weeks away!
Congrats to Melany Hansen, who won our Grand Prize - A Big Shot from Stampin' Up and 4 embossing folders.
We are very much looking forward to seeing you all again soon! |
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November Crop Selling Out!
Just 4 spots left!
We have been so blessed to have such amazing croppers at our events! We have just 4 spots left for our November 2-4 crop! We are also opening up these spots for partial day registration. So if you can't make all three days, we will be able to assist! Just email us or register for more details. These are events that you don't want to miss! If you are interested in joining us, simply register for it here: http://www.ourcropsplus.com/registration.html |
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February Crop Already Filling Up!
Make sure to register as soon as it opens to the public!
As a thank you to those who attend our crops, we allow our croppers to register for future events at a discount. So while registration is not yet open to the public, our Feb 2013 crop is already 1/3 full! We are going to be opening up registration for the Feb 2013 crop on October 15, 2012 first thing in the morning. Be ready! Can't wait AND want a discount? We are offering all FOUR 2013 events at a 10 discount and you can register for all four events immediately to guarantee your spot! We also offer an easy payment plan spread out over the course of the year, so there isn't a need to make large payments up front. These are events that you don't want to miss! If you are interested in joining us, simply register for it here: http://www.ourcropsplus.com/registration.html |
November Grand Prize
Over $140 value!
 Our November Grand Prize is a big one! It will be a free night hotel voucher at the new Hyatt Dulles where we will be holding our 2013 events ($89 value) AND a $50 gift certificate to Scrapbook.com!
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