Friday night and Saturday, I got to hang out with some of my Maya Road friends… Caroline, Jess, Heather and Aubrey. I think we covered all of the DFW metroplex… in a very short amount of time. Friday night we cropped in Lewisville at the Scrapbook Warehouse. Each person brought a make-n-take for all of us to create. There were lots of laughs, stories and just plain fun!

Then Saturday we all went to IKEA. That is a field trip in itself. I love that place and it is just too convenient for me… only a few miles from my house. After our IKEA adventure we headed to Colleyville to do some make-n-takes at the Scrapbook Pad. What a wonderful store. I loved everything about it… the colors, the layout, the employees everything. I plan to go back on a Friday when Heather is working a crop to hang out and scrap.

After that we went to eat at Celebrity Cafe. After a great lunch, Jess and I had the most incredible coconut ice box pie! OMGosh it was so good. We were going to share a piece but then, me being me, decided maybe we wanted our own piece. Thankfully, Jess felt the same way. Baby Noah and Daddy David (that makes me laugh) met us there and talk about a cutie. That little Noah just makes me happy. He is so darn cute. I guess I should say David you are cute too… don’t want any hurt feelings or I might end up with a really bad chore at CHA. But you know, Noah just tops the cuteness. I’m begging Caroline and David to go someplace… anyplace, so I can babysit and spoil that little guy rotten.

After our lunch we headed to Richardson to pick up items from the Magic Scraps garage sale. I found some glitter. You all know how I love glitter. After all that it was time to go home and back to the real world. It was so fun and I cannot wait to do it again.

I get to help Caroline Saturday at the Scrapbook Pad with one of her classes. She has the cutest mini album created using one of the little tins that the ribbon slides come in. It is too cute! So I have a fun Saturday to look forward to. I’m working on a little ribbon flower project today and hopefully will have it completed tonight. I will post it tomorrow.

Caroline gave me some great Maya Road ribbon that is about 3/4 to an inch wide. It makes the best flowers! Their ribbon is the perfect weight for flowers.

I must admit right now everything in my little scrapping world is pretty darn great.

First I discovered a really neat thing while I was working on one of the Maya Road binders last night. I was using crackling medium and decided that I did not want to use two different paint colors on the spine as I did on the front and back cover. I wanted the spine to be a solid color but I already had dry crackling medium covering it… so I just painted over it again using the same paint color. OMGosh do l love this look. It looks as though you have years of paint on your project. I know this isn’t anything mind blowing but it really does look so cool and I’m going to do this a lot with my chipboard. That is if I can keep the glitter out of my hands.

Onto the next “good thing”… I finally got to see the Martha Stewart segment with her holding up my layout plugging her contest. So here is my little 5 seconds of fame.

And now the really BIG NEWS…. Danelle Johnson with Art Warehouse asked me to be a part of her design team! I just cannot believe it. I’m so thrilled. I never would have thought in less than one year of deciding to be on a few design teams I would be on 3 fabulous design teams. Yes, my scrapping world is pretty darn good.

This being said I really need to get back to working on my mini album. It must be finished by Friday and I am going to miss some good creating time for two days.

I finished my first batch of cards last night. They are ready and waiting for the mailman. I can not stand to repeat myself over and over so I am going to come up with another design for my second batch of cards. I think these came out pretty cute.

Last night, while trying to put up the tree (which is still NOT put up… I do NOT like LIGHTS! Well, I love lights just not putting them on and getting all the strands to work at once! This is a vent that could go on for hours!!!) Anyway, we had some of the best hot chocolate ever!!! Really this stuff is incredible and I’m so glad I forked over the money to buy it while Christmas shopping with the girls Friday night. I think anything Williams-Sonoma makes is just fabulous! This hot chocolate is worth every penny.

So my list for today prioritized I might add…

• finish my second batch of cards
• get lights on the tree
• wrap gifts
• wash clothes
• clean the house

Have a great day.