Let The Creative Juices Flow...

This week couldn't have ended sooner... I've spent all week trying to recover from GASC. Most people take a 4-day weekend and you'd think they'd be rested. Nope, not me. All the shopping wore me out. It's Friday and I'm exhausted. I managed to get everything put up, organized, and I can get started on creating something from my stash (I still have no home for the new stack of paper).

I'm working on a mini-book, but only a couple things happen to be from GASC. I NEED to take some more pictures to get some inspiration. I'm thinking about going to the Dallas Arboretum to get some pictures of Sean and his cousin, Dylan. We'll see how that goes.

I've been fighting the urge to go to Gotta Scrap this week. I have a $15 punch card to redeem, however, I'm scared if I show up there I'll spend WAY over that. My birthday is coming up, so hopefully a gift card will be in my future to one of my favorite stores (again Dad if you're reading... wink, wink - and maybe you can call Michael, since he has NO clue where these stores are at)

I do need to remember to take some pictures of my birthday this year. I've decided to actually do and "All About Me" album for the next year starting with my 33rd birthday. Kind of a half journal, half scrapbook. I've been hiding from the camera, because I'm trying to lose weight (like 90% of the women in the US). So I thought this would be a good motivator and photo log of my progress.

Hopefully this weekend I'll get some projects cranked out, photography some of my work and get a decent gallery started of my stuff.

GASC 2009 Day 2 & 3

It's official - I've reached the point where I'm actually going to say it (and post it in writing) I HAVE to stop buying scrapping supplies!!! (enter shocked crowd sound effect)

After spending most of today sleeping (shopping should be an olympic sport), I started to sort and put up my newly acquired stash. You don't realize how much you've REALLY bought until you start putting it away.

Looking at the pizza box of paper I bought at Luxe ($20 for about 250 sheets) and the additional onesie, twosies I bought there is probably about 300+ sheets that I have NO home for on my shelf. This doesn't include any kits I bought that have PAPER either!!

I now have transparencies, rub-ons, chipboard, letters (if you know me this one wasn't a shock), and embellishments coming out my ears. I have (14)... yes (14) boxes of the Maya Road tins of letters. (Dad, if you happen to be reading this - STOP LAUGHING)

I'm happy to say I did stick to my budgeted amount and I actually came home with $1.32 still left - not exactly something to retire on, but if you're a scrapper to be under is almost unheard of.


I made some GREAT new friends too.

Cindy, Judy, Linda H, me, and Ted from Stampers Anonymous

Rita & Debbie

Lee, Glenda, Cindy, Judy, Linda H, Kathy, me

GASC 2009 Day 1

OMG... Day 1 was AWESOME!!! Judy and I got there and were at the front of the line again this year (Yes, we did have to wait for 2 hours before the showroom opened, but WORTH IT). We didn't pay for parking, because there wasn't an attendant. We were close to the building (so unloading our goodies was easy). The best part... making new friends. We made (5) new scrapper friends because we were SO early. Debbie, Rita, Cindy, Kathy and Linda... it is wonderful to have met you, I'm sure we'll be chatting alot. These ladies were as eager as us to get in. It was they're first time to GASC and it was SO much fun calling them to let them know about deals and hear how they liked the convention.

If you happen to notice this the time stamp on my post I'm up EARLY again. I woke up at 3am and haven't been able to sleep. I started thinking about what I was going to do today. So now it's 4am... time to get ready, fill up the car, get some cash, and shop til I drop (part deux)