Holy Blogging Batman!!

Wow...so much to catch up on. First things first...got my laptop "working", not exactly fixed. Just working. I was able to recover about half of my pictures and 95% of my music. So I'm somewhat happy. Only somewhat. Let's see, to start....I read a book in March. I was a little worried about getting it finished, but I pushed myself to do it. If you like "girlie" books...this one is good. It has a happy ending for once!

The 2nd book I read I actually read front to back in 2 days. I borrowed it from a friend because I was dying to read it and could not find it anywhere. (I have since found it & purchased it) This is a must have for scrapbookers. I was completely engaged in this book for 2 days straight. I could not put it down. I have such a different outlook on scrapbooking now. I have always been intrigued by Ali's work, but I had no idea how great it is until I got my hot little hands on this! If you haven't gotten it yet, what are you waiting for?????

I spent last weekend with Tara....a.k.a. Toofclnr.... working on getting some layouts done. We had both been complaining that we are so far behind in our albums so we decided to have a "SCRAPATHON". We busted out the Becky Higgins' sketch books that I have & went to town. Of course we had our usual scrappin music playing and our feast of junk food and caffeine. The only thing we left out this time was the beer and/or wine that we sometimes have. But for a good cause.....Tara is expecting twins!!! She finally posted the news on her blog so I can tell everyone how excited I am for her and Joe! We scrapped for 14 hours straight....wow. I got 10-12x12 layouts done, 1-6x12 layout done plus I decorated and started a daily journal. Definately a productive weekend!

And last, but not least......CKC St. Louis!!! What a blast! Tara and I went last year and absolutely could not wait to go back this year! We spent the entire day shopping. It was wall to wall bargains! The best thing of all was the $1.00 booth!!! They had major big name supplies for only $1.00 & $1.50. I got tons of Heidi Swap chipboard & flowers. We ended up going through it 3 times before the end of the day. We shopped til our little hearts content. We did learn a couple important lessons though. When you see something you REALLY REALLY REALLY want....don't wait and say you will "come back to this booth & get that later". Most likely it's not going to be there! I saw the cutest little purse with matching wallet that I wanted and when we went back to get it they were all gone. Tara wanted a really cool t-shirt that said "Hard Core Scrapper" and guess what??? They were sold out when we went back to get it. Oh well, next year we will know to buy it when we see it!

Happy Scrappin Everyone!