Disney bound.

This girl is leaving for Florida tonight wooooot woooot!
Caleb gets to miss the last day of school because we are going to Disney, which he has NO IDEA. It's going to be AMAZZZing, and I am so excited myself, alllll of my cameras are packed, charged and ready to go! It's his first trip there, and I haven't been to the one in Orlando since I was four, so I cannot even begin to say how excited I am :]
I will have my computer down there, and of course I'll be on my iphone! So if you need to get ahold of me, shoot me an e-mail & be prepared for a HUGE blog post full of pics when I get back! Happpppy summer!

Sneak PEEK.

Heyyyyy ladies, some of you may know I sell Stampin Up [mainly for the discount, helllloooo cute & great quality products!] The new catalog for 2012-2013 goes LIVE June 1st, and tonight I had a sneak peek party [since I'll be in Disney when it's released!] and showing off the beautiful new catalog & letting a few loves pre-order and play with some of the NEW goodies!



IG lovies, no worries, you can get in on the fun too! If you don't have a demonstrator, or would like to see the new catalog, e-mail me your addy at sbookinshay29@aol.com and I'll get one out to you! See whats new, and place and order by the 7th and get discounts:  

Spend $25, get 10% off

Spend $50, get 20% off

Spend $100, 20% off && free shipping!

As a bonus since IG friends can sign up on my calendar to host a party with me in attendance [but ask about having a catalog party!] if you place an order you'll be entered into a raffle to win a FREE stamp set, which I will pull a name from all the online orders I get between now & the 7th! Just a little extra love for my fave internet scrappy friends :]

last Simply crop EVER.

So heartbreaking.
Just got back from the very crowded last Friday night crop at Simply Scrapbooks.
Still keeping my fingers crossed that someone buys the store :[ Definitely glad my schedule worked out so I could go this very last time, and all my faves were there. I really want to know where I'm supposed to hang out now that I can't just go sit and hang out at the store, help customers that think I still work there, buy more junk-- my everyday there lol.

Here's a few pictures from the store:




Worked on some Elle's Studio Challenges for there kickoff this weekend, played with some Studio Calico kits && worked on Project Life. I'll finish some of them up and get pics up later in the weekend.....
Great night, but so bittersweet.

Look! Look!

Did you see??? My layout was featured over on Jillibeans blog, go check it out and leave me some love here.   Thanks for looking :] More to come later, I'm stuck working alllll day, so my Washi Wednesday post will be up tomorrow, keep the lookout for a giveaway!

right now.

Time: 9:48
Location: bedroom
Eating: nothing, too full!! I've got a few snacks ready thou for later
Drinking: mountain dew. always.
Watching: Lord of the Rings LOL I thought I'd watch them for the second time ever.
Listening: the movie, but newest purchase, Karmin's album, SO proud of her, I've been waiting for it to happen ever since her first youtube video!
Loving: munchkin. He's such a cute little nerd.
Enjoying: a wonderful craft Mother's Day
Wanting: to keep ticking things off my to do list
Needing: a car. Seriously I need to get on this, but things just keep coming up.
Preparing: happy mail for a few people, love getting rid of the goodies I won't use-- someone's "trash" is always someone else's treasure :] &&
Thinking: I may not make it through sneaks, I'm getting sleepy!!!
Making: projects for this weeks blog posts! Now that I'd done with the awesome NSD challenges, I'm on to other fun things

Thanks Lisa, for this great look into right now, I think it'll HAVE to go into PL, as something different for a week :]  Now, back to crafting, and waiting for sneak chat!

happppy NSD.

So I turned it into a week, I can do that if I want, lol
I hope you all had a wonderful interNational Scrapbook Day :] Mine was amazinnnng but incredibly busy! My high school best friend, Stephanie, is having a baby & her shower was that day. & it was also Free Comic Book Day, so Caleb HAD to get his free comic, and we thought it was fitting to see Avengers for opening weekend, I just couldn't say no & it was incredible! I have a feeling we'll be seeing it again in the theatre! Thankfully I took Sunday off as well, so I could really enjoy getting some projects and challenges done for NSD, and I was so inspired I've kind of just kept going....

On the top of my list was joining in on some of the chats over at Studio Calico, by FAR my favorite scrappy place to go, I LOVE the message boards and the ladies of the community! My dream job is to be involved with their company, because everyone is so talented, and I just love everything they come up with! SC put up some great challenges, and I'm finishing those up to be entered for some great prizes, here's a link to my Studio Calico gallery here  I was lucky enough to get this great big box of goodies before the holiday:
 As wellll as some twopeasinabucket things, happy mail is one of my subjects we don't talk about HAHA it happens often here, there's just too much goodness out there to say no!

Here's a few detail shots of the pages I've gotten to finish:

What projects did you all finish?? Hope it was lots of fun, happy scrapping!!

sent.

wish me luck.

I've been incredibly busy this week, but I am VERY excited to be off all weekend, which means I'll really get to participate in National Scrapbook Day, which is awesome, because I will have PLENTY of new SC goodies by the weekend, and an order from Two Peas! I promise to post some new projects this weekend! What are everyone's NSD plans??

oh happy day.

Last night was Reveal Night over at Studio Calico, and I was incredibly nervous, thinking I would't get my goodies because I KNEW I would be at work. Especially when the girls started posting pics of exclusive KP designed stamps, I just had to get ahold of them! Thanks to running out on my Bws lovies for a few, I got everything I wanted, and even managed to snag the set over on twopeas-- yayyyy goodies!

PLUS I got my bananafishstudio stamps in the mail today-- definitely wish I would've bought the images I was on the fence about, they're amazing, and I'll be using them to get crafty today! I've got some really cute projects in the works, and some deadlines I need to meet. And an opportunity that I realllllly am keeping my fingers crossed for, wish me luck sbookers!



Week in the Life is almost over, and I have to say it's been fun, I've been trying to squeeze in more everyday pics, but I still haven't QUITE figured out what I should DO with the pics when it's over. I don't want an album, I don't want to JUST use PL protectors, I'd like something unique. Any suggestions??

too soon to say goodbye.

Sad news is never fun. Yesterday an e-mail went out and my LSS is closing it's doors on June 30th. I worked there for two years, and still love to hang out with the Tuesday gang ad stop in and crop when I can, it's right by my house and incredibly convenient since I don't have a car. I LOVE being so close, and now I have no idea where I'll go. I have great online scrappy friends, but I'm super sad to loose the place I go to sit for hours and talk about my favorite thing on the planet, scrapbooking. Being "younger" in the scrapbooking world is at times akward, because a lot of my friends haven't had kids yet, or a reason to really get into the hobby.

I haven't had a chance to go over to the store yet, and I'm dreading it, I've seen lots of posts of everyone being sad. I know it's not closing til the end of June, but it'll definitely be a major impact in my life. Some of the workers there are my favorite crafty people, I can't imagine not popping in to say hi and see what they're working on. And who will hold a garage sale so we can all buy and sell our unused goodies??

It's so sad that LSSs don't seem to stick around, because that's ALWAYS been what I wanted to do "when I grow up." I LOVE scrapbooking, everything about it, but the people are what I will miss most. The nearest store is now over an hour away, which I realise is the case for most scrapbookers, but I grew up with one around the corner, which is how I got involved so early. The past year, I've been on a mission, to GET INVOLVED. I scrapbook daily, because I would really like to work for a scrapbook company, or at a store. It's what I love, what makes me happy. I've thought about moving munchkin and I, for different reasons, but a scrapbook store HAD to be near. Now it seems I'll have to move if I want to be able to run in and pick up a piece of cardstock....

Thanks Simply, for being open the past 15 years, and being a HUGE part of my life.

A store closing is always sad, but this one hits close to the heart, and I'll really miss it.

Is anyone else ready for A Week in the Life??  The past year I've really tried to jump on every project I can, and really expand my scrapbooking. I took on Project Life late, and since I finnnnallly went and bought myself a new printer, I feel like I will be able to catch up and go along with the rest of the year now. I LOVE it, although I feel like it's a bit of a struggle to find COLOR in the products available, as most of the journaling cards I've seen are white-- but I've played around and am really liking how I can stretch my scraps && bring some color into it!


Along with Project Life, a lot of excitement has been going around about A Week in the Life , check out details on Ali's blog here >>> http://aliedwards.com/2010/01/week-in-the-life.html Even though this year's a tad bit unusual for me, it should be fun to try and catch the craziness day by day, hour by hour. I still want to do photo a day & take pictures for my Project Life, so it'll be fun to focus on words and TONS of pictures, thankfully I have a few fun events thrown in this week, not just working!


I haven't entirely decided if it will become a mini album like December Daily or what really I will be doing with it, since it's my first year, but I think I'll wait and let the pictures and memories decide for me! Off to print up some more journaling cards and get a few basic products together for this! Are any of you doing it??