The business of creating vellum strips of poems and quotes for scrapbookers grew quickly. and make it easy for people to do what they want with their pictures,” and mementos of their life. “We want to be the source and inspiration for what people take photographs of.
“We want to be the number-one educators and resource for people,” Millet said. “When people come to our events we want them to feel part of our family,” Millet said.
Private Reserve weekends are now 25 percent of the companies revenue.
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They have taught as many as 30,000 scrapbookers each year how to incorporate instant journaling and kit products into their personal hobby. As part of a diversification effort, in 2009 the company launched three-day “Private Reserve Educational Weekends” that was exclusive to the company’s products. The company has maintained a presence in scrapbooking trade shows since before Millet and his wife merged with Quick Quotes. Quick Quotes’ niche now includes education and training in scrapbook “instant journaling” - pre-packaged scrapbooking kits that focus on framing customer’s digital photos in a variety of different themes, materials, colors, and ideas, and producing standalone materials for the wholesale market. “A lot of what we sell is art pieces for the wall.” “Digital photography can be made into art” Jennings, now company operations manager and vice president, said. “Without people printing pictures, we wouldn’t be in business,” Millet said of the instant journaling kits they now sell. It was the birth of “instant journaling.” That initial effort later expanded and grew around the then-emerging digital photography market. The hobbyists would then use Gaut’s words to accent and create themes for their scrapbooking projects. Gaut, a sort of local wordsmith, began helping her daughter’s friends with their scrapbooking hobby by writing and printing out her own quotes and poems, Millet said. Patsy Gaut and her daughter, Breezy Jennings, recognized that opportunity and began carving out a niche in 2001 from Gaut’s Glenoma garage when they started a company called Quick Quotes. It’s old-school photo albums on estrogen therapy - instead of pages of photos stuck indifferently between cardboard and acetate, the scrapbooking craft adds contextual flair using ribbons, colored and textured paper, tags, quotes and poems, and other craft-methods that add spice to otherwise dry family photos.Īdd a dash of modern computer technology and a pinch of good timing to all of this, and an astute entrepreneur might see an opportunity.
Scrapbooking has become so popular, there are even entire ocean cruises specifically focused on scrapbooking devotees. Collectively, they spent nearly $4 billion on scrapbooking in 2009, according to the Craft and Hobby Association. are women - 98 percent, according to, an industry media website. Most scrapbooking enthusiasts in the U.S. Translation: the company’s rise in the scrapbooking industry didn’t happen without careful planning, foresight and a lot of hard work. “We’ve been able to survive (by) changing and adapting and finding new profit centers within our current market, and attracting new customers that way,” Andy Millet, treasurer and business director, and son-in-law of company President Patsy Gaut, said. Yet despite its growth and success, the company remains a surprisingly small, family-owned and operated business, one that’s literally been home-grown in Lewis County. The thriving company today has a well-established foothold in the multi-million dollar global scrapbooking market, shipping its products to wholesale and mail-order retail customers all over the world. By Lee Hughes / only took nine years for Centralia’s Quick Quotes Scrapbook Company to grow out of its original garage space into its current 13,000-square-foot facility on Northpark Drive in the Port of Centralia Industrial Park.
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