shopping, maybe be back on freeze April 1...ha!

I have been enjoying my forays into scrapbook shopping.  Addicting, really

HSN...All Occassion Dazzles...blingy, shimmery, glittery stickers.  Will share most of them with the granddaughters.

 Newton's nook stamps and dies (sorry pic is kinda dark)  Darn that Newton!  ha!!  I just LOVE these stamps.

 Another HSN, We Are Memory Keeper's frame punch...so I decided to play with this one this afternoon....

It is kinda cool to make frames for pics...though I like matting also.  But sometimes I only have 1 piece of a pp...and since I scrapbook like a 2 pager, I gotta figure out a way to make that pp stretch.  Cuz I was unsure, I practiced with a brown cardstock.    

So I was able to make a 1" frame from a 12x12 piece of paper...1" is the max...I would kinda like to make bigger frames, but can work with this.

and here is the innard.  

kinda like the corners.  

So here is the completed layout...inserting a pp into the frame.

3 of the pics are matted...while bottom right is another frame I made.  I liked it cuz it covered me...only part of my face is showing and I am wearing a hot pink shirt.  So between frame and turkey,I am covered and focus is on Kyleigh.

And though not yet glued down, this is the facing page.  Just flipped the pp for the green woodgrain and used that 'innard' from the frame punch under the pics.   

Finding my Christmas embellies was a hoot.  They are all packed away in a bin...and it took awhile to figure out which bin.  But found them!  I haven't glued it down, cuz I am kinda hoping to find a Christmas embellie with a touch of orange to coordinate with the other page.  We will see.

So, yay! got a couple of pages done AND best of all played with a new toy!   

March Subs and Club

and my spending freeze is off!   But I need to get back on...next month, next month...ha!

Club, last month for a while...Stampin Up, admit, I went a little crazy, but the Sale A Bration is still going on...so pfffft.  love that corally color...

Jouney Bloom Box...this month it is about 'puns'.   Thinking it will be good cards for the guys, esp. DH

Gossamer Blue, the goodies 

and the cards...  Some on 2 Peas Refugees (there is a thread about G.B) don't like the pink...but I LOVE these colors.  And just love that even the goodies are original to  GB.   LOVE LOVE LOVE

Scrapbook Circle is extra fun this month.  

even love the 'b' side.  To me a very useable kit.

okay, also been shopping but don't have all the pics.   My scraproom is still a mess...but hoping to spend some time creating this weekend.   I get to babysit this evening....in Livermore, so hoping to do a bit of shopping...can we say Home Goods and Kohls this afternoon.   

We reconnected with old friends.  We had lost touch with, but not really.  (does that make sense?).   It has been years since we last sat down with them, but last night we had dinner together and it was like we had seen each other yesterday.  Facebook helps!  We have been keeping up through FB.  BUT so good to see them and talk with them again.  

I did get to do a bit of crafting for last weekend's birthday party for my grandson, Jase.

Dd and Ddil finished it off with the streamers and balloons.  

okay, toodles!! have a great weekend...I plan to!  ha!!!

couldn't take it much longer...

I missed my scraproom sooooo much.  Then a couple of weekends ago, a friend and longtime resident of this town (he has been here over 50 years, grew up here), told us that our 'lake' could be out there till May or June.   May or June!   The river has been sitting at @49'.  Not rising...but not going down significantly either.

So, this week, I started bringing some of my scrap stuff, the stuff packed like I was going to a crop, back home.

So, here it is..semi set up.  We still may face a flood.  If the snow packs (which are at 170% of normal, does a fast melt).  So, it is still at a 'ready' to be packed up quickly.   The rest of the room is still 'up'.  It is sooooo difficult, I just want to unpack and get my room normal!

Yup, it is a mess.  But hopefully a workable mess. But to me, a beautiful mess.

I did work on a project on Sunday, some decor for dgs #1's birthday party.

I am liking the table that come out of the wall...and that may stay.  Or something similar. Wouldn't it be great to have a true island, that I can park the carts under.

(thinking cap)

Expo!

Yes, some people, even when their scraproom is packed up awaiting a potential flood, will still go to Expo.   This week the river is hanging at 49' (52 is flood) and though it has been dry and going the right direction...we will wait to see how the snow melts affect the river before we go back to 'normal'.

So, what does  said person do with all her purchases?  There is no where to put them in her room?  Why, she leaves them in the bag so she can take them to Crop Camp!  duh!

Though I usually go to crop..that did not work out this year. (still hoping for Santa Clara).   But, my dgd, Adriana went with me for a shopping morning.  LOVED it!  I can't wait till she is old enough to crop.  When we walked into the Expo, she told me, I love shopping like this!   Yup, me too!

  The cool thing about going with a 7 year old, is she did want to stop and do the make and takes.  I usually skip them, I'm too busy cropping and shopping.  But guess what, the vendors sure do know good tips about working with the tools.    I had given her some money to spend, as a thank you for helping us out with the sandbagging.  She is very frugal when it is her money.  ha!!  (Dave Ramsey principles in action).

Copic blending tips

This man was wonderful, she spent $4 for the make n take...I spent over $40 for the tools and glue, but I can now put crystals and tiny sequins on my crafts!!  Sparkle!!!

My haul, first time with the paper PhotoPlay...and I LOVE it!  Hope they are in Santa Clara.  Of Course, more Echo Park and Queen and Company..(dgd and I will share the flairs and blingy letters).  Not pictured, I bought a few items at Queen for my other dgd, who at age 3, was a little too young for a day at Expo.  And dgd's purchases.  

After 4 hours of shopping, we did take a french fry break halfway, my Missy was pooped.  We are at the Corner Bakery waiting for our pasta.   oooooh, that Pesto Cavatoppi !! she had a marinara linguine.  

I got to see most of my scrap buddies, except one, she was in classes.   Overall a fun exhausting day!