My Peeps!

I had the most amazing time!

I'd never been to a Renaissance Faire, and boy have I been missing out. What a great experience. Unfortunately due to time constraints, I was only able to stay a few hours. I'm going back with my children after my cruise. They were very excited about it. I bought some really cool stuff, including THIS HAT!

That afternoon was just what this Mom needed! I cannot wait to go back :)

I woulda missed the boat!

Holy smokes! I have been so busy... (aren't we all?) that I would have missed my boat!

I am going on a scrapbooking cruise this week. I thought I was leaving on Sunday, but the reality is that I leave on Saturday. Oh. my. word.

Yeah.

I leave in a few days. I have nothing packed, nothing planned. I do have my passport & my auntie lined up to watch my children in my absence!

Well, my Open House went really well! It was obvious (to me, anyway) that my guests had an awesome time! I made some really cool checkbook covers for the first five people who RSVP'd & they were a hit! Some of those that didn't RSVP (or RSVP'd later) really wanted one for themselves. I admit, I want one for myself. LOL When I get a spare second, I'm going to go ahead & make myself a couple.

I had designed this cute Create & Take.

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It seemed to be a hit. It was really cool to be teaching a simple project like that everyone could do. It was also fascinating to give a set of instructions to a dozen people & you'll get 10 perfectly legitimate interpretations of said instructions. THAT is very cool. I'm learning that teaching is just as much learning as it is teaching. How friggin' Yoda was that?! It was either Yoda or Jessica Simpson.

I wanted to have this acrylic album done [Photo], as well as this cute circle mini album [Photo], but it was one of the few things that didn't get done. I did get a couple of cute pages into a new album. [Photo] [Photo] [Photo][Photo]

My party was so much fun that I wish I could be a hostess more often. Whoever said that it is always more fun to go to a party than have a party obviously never had a scrappin' party.

I took not one single picture of anything... but, my guests had fun!

I'm going to gloss right over that it's been nearly three weeks since I've blogged. :)

Do you ever...

...feel like you're trying to put 10lbs. of "stuff" in a 5lb. bag? I often feel that way! I'm a "list maker", I do it constantly. I come from a long line (a long list, if you will) of list makers, I've made my oldest daughter into a list maker, too. My youngest daughter is only 4, but I'm already working on her :)

I'm glad that I've been able to cross some things off my list. I've been learning a lot about CTMH, thanks to my tireless upline. Questions, questions, questions... but she never tires of them. Whew!

A great thing that I've been able to cross off my list is some give-away's that I'm planning for my Open House next Tuesday. Here's a sneak peak:

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I remember as a teen watching MTV, and Poison was doing an interview before a concert. It was either Bret Michaels *squeal* or C.C. DeVille were standing in the empty arena & he said every night the band always wondering if anyone would show up. I guess performance anxiety will happen to everyone...


...and it was happening with me! I started to get a little apprehensive about attendance, or lack thereof, at my Open House. I have some wonderful friends that are coming to support me, even if they aren't crafty. Since some of the attendees aren't necessarily crafty, I'm including already-done gifts, some kits that need assembly, as well as some "raw" materials like adorable acrylic stamps & pens, etc.

Thank goodness for supportive friends!!

My First Home Gatherings!

Yay! I have my first Home Gatherings! I'm super-excited! I'm also hosting my Open House on Tuesday the 16 of September from 6:30-8:30pm. If you think you might be in the area, shoot me an email for details!

Here's my calendar of events. Would you like to schedule your own night of scrapping fun?