What is Memento Mall?

I recently received the question "What is Memento Mall?" Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows, so I thought I would take a minute to explain.

Each year at SU Convention they have a big room set up as a shop where you can purchase items unique to SU that you can’t buy any other time or place. In a way, it is a big incentive to attend convention. Most of the merchandise feature SU logo, in-colors, or artwork. In the past there were no limits, so the people who got there first would sometimes buy several of the most popular items for their down line and everyone else was just out of luck. The lines are always terribly long, but this is where you get to know new people and do some fantastic swapping.

Fortunately, the past few years they have placed limits on how much you could purchase until the last day of convention. Then, in order to keep from getting stuck with merchandise, they lift the limits and it is a free-for-all. This year some of the items in MM included: clothing (shirt and a beautiful emboridered zip-up hoodie), Workshop WOW DVD, convention charms, nail files/kits, make-up compact, shopping bags, metal tins, rubic cubes with the SU in-colors, and I am sure some things I am forgetting to mention. On the second day they also offered a cute little SU Build-a-Bear that had on an adorable SU apron and one of it’s paws had Stampin' Up! embroidered on it. It also included a stamp that said “Life without Stamps is Unbearable" or something close to that.

Sure hope that helps.