Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. § 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO § 906
OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

     In connection with the filing of the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Michaels Stores, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), for the year ended January 28, 2006, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), each of the undersigned officers of the Company certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350, as adopted pursuant to § 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that, to such officer’s knowledge:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company as of the dates and for the periods expressed in the Report.

Date: March 29, 2006	/s/ Jeffrey N. Boyer
	Jeffrey N. Boyer
	President and Chief Financial Officer
	(Principal Financial Officer and co-Principal Executive
	Officer)
	/s/ Gregory A. Sandfort
	Gregory A. Sandfort
	President and Chief Operating Officer
	(co-Principal Executive Officer)

     The foregoing certification is being furnished solely pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350 and is not being filed as part of the Report or as a separate disclosure document.