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now ours. I truly dislike cooking and I didn’t know
what a coney dog was, but I would do anything to stay
at home with our daughter. My husband continued
to work a full-time job outside of Sandy’s Place and
assisted on his days off or whenever he was needed.
We had been running Sandy’s Place for four years and
it was really taking a toll on our lives. I loved my
customers, but didn’t like anything else about the shop.
I began to look for something else to do on the side.
That is when I realized that one of my hobbies had finally
become very popular in Thunder Bay. You guessed it…
Scrapbooking!
Once
I realized that scrapbooking had become so popular,
I started selling some supplies in our coney dog shop
in April of 2003. Within three months, we had moved
the dairy cooler in front of our front window, sold
off the pop cooler and turned over half of our store
into a scrapbook supply store. Even though we knew
my work load would double, we decided that it was
time for a change. During Thanksgiving weekend of
2003, our family helped us remodel the coney dog shop
into a scrapbooking supply store.
It
was time to come up with a name. The one thing more
important to me than my photographs is my family and
close friends and anyone who knows me, knows that.
It was only fit to have a name that would represent
family. DAT’S is not only a slang word for “That’s”,
but our initials, Donna, Amy, Trevor and our pug Sparkle.
When
you come into our store, you are also, in a way, coming
into our home and that’s the feeling we like to give
people because you normally always feel comfortable
at home. To me scrapbooking is meant to be fun and
a way to help your photos tell more of the story.
Hence, our slogan “Helping your photos tell more of
the story” and that is all we are trying to do.
There
are many different styles of scrapbooks and everyone
has their own preferences and we try to help you find
your style that makes you feel good and proud of your
own work. Our stock is constantly changing to suit
as many different scrapbookers as we can and even
though we may be small in square footage, we have
become masters at using every available space in our
store.
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