Bazzill Tour

Those of you that know me - know that I love scrapbooking and card making. Last week was a dream come true for me. I was able to attend the Heidi Swapp Creative Escape. What a blast - watch for a future post on this. One of the events of the week is touring the Bazzill Warehouse. All I can say is wow - impressive operation!
This is a picture of the pallets of paper. They normally weigh around 500 pounds. They come to Bazzill in these pallets and they are huge. They are 4 1/2 feet by 3 1/2 feet. From here they go to a guy (I think his name was Hector) to be cut.

Here is the cutting machine. It was big and busy. If I remember correctly, Mr. Bazzill (aka Doug Jones) said that they handle on an average day 500,000 pieces of paper.

This is where the cut paper is counted out and put into stacks of 25. Then they go to saran wrapping. Mr. Bazzill described these machines as huge money counting machines - just like Vegas.

These stacks are sealed and awaiting their UPC sticker. Can you believe a lady stands there all day slapping stickers on these packages. Amazingly boring if you ask me!!

Last by not least a side view of Mr. Bazzill - aka Doug Jones!!

After our tour, we were treated to lunch and shopping at warehouse prices - Yipppeee!!