What is Shop Hop?

It’s a wonderful way to get to know your soon to be favorite stores.
Each area has a group of shops that participate in a shop hop. Stop by a shop hop participating store and pick up your passport. You will get a chance to explore a shop you may not have visited before. At each location you will have your passport stamped and receive a FREE GIFT!

Think this is a great idea? What to participate? Live in the Bay Area, CA?
Shop hop by the Bay 2012 is a group of 13 quilt shops and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles.
If you Quilt or Sew you will love it!
Not a Quilter or a Sewer? It’s fine, come anyway, check out the classes and think about joining.
Each store carries different fabrics, patterns, notions and gifts, come and share in the love.

At the first store, along with your passport, you will receive a Shop Hop by the Bay containing a map.
It will guide you to all participating shops.
You can see where every store is located:
http://www.shophopbythebay.com/shops.htm
Although a visit to the beautiful San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is optional, in doing so you will be entered into the Museum’s own drawing for a wall-size collectible quilt!

Need more reasons to participate? How about winning some prizes?
Visit all 12 shop and the Museum and you will be entered into a drawing to win one of the wonderful prizes.
Got 7 or more stamps? And you will be eligible to win a second chance gift basket.

Shop Hop by the Bay Prizes:

GRAND PRIZE: A week a Empty Spools Seminar in Pacific Grove, CA.
KIDS GRAND PRIZE: One lucky Shop Hopper will win a sewing machine ($350 value);  must be between 5 and 17 years of age to be eligible.
13 First Prizes: $100 Gift Certificate to one of the participating shops.
Additional Prizes: 12 Fabulous gift baskets full of fabric, books, patterns, notions and more! Plus… 1 year free membership to San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles.
Up to $25,000 in Prizes and Give-Aways this Year!

When?

Shop hop by the Bay will take place between June 20-24.
Turn in your completed passport at the last shop you visit. This MUST be done during the Shop Hop.

Where?

To see completed list of shops and maps:
http://www.shophopbythebay.com/shops.htm
Participating Shops:
Always Quilting
Back Porch Fabrics
Eddie’s Quilting Bee
Family Threads
Golden State Sewing & Quilting
The Granary
Judy’s Sewing Center Capitola
Laurel Leaf
The Nimble Thimble
Quilts and Things
Sew Bee It Quilting
SueDee’s
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
At your first shop you will receive Shop Hop By The Bay passport and a newsletter containing a large scale map with insets showing the location of each shop

Shop Hop hours:

9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, June 20-23 and
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sunday, June 24
(some shops may have extended hours)

When/How do I know if I won a prize?

All winners will be notified using the contact information they provided in their passports.
You don’t have to be present in order to win.

Grab your friends. Make new friends. Join in for a fabulous tour of the Bay’s Best Shops!
This is a great way to spend a few days with your quilting and sewing friends, become inspired by what you see, and shop!
Explore the area, made a day out of it.

A more optimized route:

A new phenomenon out there, Cash Mob…

What is Cash Mob?
http://cashmobs.wordpress.com/about-us

On designated date folks go into small, local businesses and shop there, spend $10-$20 each on the goods and services offered. This helps the business owner and keeps our money in our community. The best way to promote and grow local businesses is to support and patronize them. Then head to the local restaurant, bar or pub to celebrate with your news friends.

First “Cash Mob” took place on November 16, 2011 organized by Andrew Samtoy, an attorney at Dworken & Bernstein. It was later on discovered that the first “Cash Mob” actually took place in Buffalo, NY, on August 5, 2011, and was organized by blogger and an engineer for Oracle Corp, Christopher Smith.

Looking for a Cash mob near you?
http://cashmobs.wordpress.com/near-you

If you know of another Cash Mob, let them know!
cashmobs@gmail.com

Looking for International Cash Mobs, check:
https://cashmobs.wordpress.com/international-cash-mobs

To follow on Twitter @Cashmobs
Bookmark www.cash-mobs.com

Mob Rules

Taken from: https://cashmobs.wordpress.com/rules-2

Here are the rules we’ve developed for running cash mobs.  THESE ARE JUST SUGGESTED RULES!!!

1. The mob date and meeting location must be announced at least a week in advance via Twitter, Facebook and/or email.
2. The amount to spend will not be more than $20, although people can spend more if they wish.
3. The business must have products that cost less than $20 for both men and women.
4. The business must be locally owned and independently operated.
5. The business owner must give back to the community in some way.
6. The business owner must approve the Cash Mob before the mob is announced.
7. The business must be within one block of a locally-owned watering hole.
8. Cash Mobbers must join us for celebratory drinks after the successful mob.
9. The cash mob will occur during the evening on a weekday or on a weekend.
10. Pictures will be posted to the blog after the CashMob.
11. Parking or public transportation must be available.

At the mob, there are three rules:

1. Spend $20;
2. Meet three people you didn’t know before;
3. HAVE FUN!!!

Saturday March 24, 2012 was International Cash Mob Day. Missed it? No worries, another one is coming up shortly.

Coming up:

International Cash Mob Day II: May 25, 2012
Where will you be?
Keep your eyes on twitter feeds, facebook pages, G+, blogs…
Start your own Cash Mob, support your local Arts and Crafts Mom and Pop store!