Case Study: SB Scrapbooks

Part of this blog will be dedicated to recording the stories of those who have 'been there, done that' before me. This entry is about the great Santa Barbara Scrapbooks store. I'm actually doing a little work there helping with inventory. And absolutely love it! It's so dreamy. Here is the story told to me by the owner, Barbara.

A few years ago, Babara was working at UCSB and loving her job and life. Her husband also works at UCSB. She had no desire to start her own business and had never scrapbooked a page in her life. One morning she woke up her son and told him to get ready for school. As she walked to the kitchen she felt a sensation that was like an egg had been cracked on her head {at this point in the story I thought she was going to tell me that her son had thrown an egg at her}. After that she said she felt as though syrup was running down her head and over her face but when she reached her hand up, there was nothing. Then she hears, in a deep, slow voice "You...will...open....a....scrapbook....store". Cold chills. She freaks out and runs into the bedroom where her husband is getting ready for work and tells him the story. Her husband looks at her and says, "Well, if you heard it that clearly I guess you gotta do it." This was exactly what she did not expect to hear. The next thing she knows, his mouth is moving but all she hears is The Voice saying "It...was...your...vision" {I really like this part. This was her vision and no one's input matters}. After work that same day she's driving home from work and passes her bank. The Voice tells her to go inside and ask about a loan. And she does.

Cut to the end, she leaves the bank with a quarter of a million dollar loan (thanks to a chunk of money she'd put on her home loan several years earlier). I don't know how long after it took her to open the doors of the store but I don't suspect it was long. I'll ask.

Moral: She heard it. She did it. She's successful at it. And she loves it.