Creating Keepsakes Scrapbook convention in Seattle

My girlfriend Charlie and I had such a good time!! I love that she loves to scrapbook as much as I do and we just live right around the corner from each other and all this time we NEVER knew!! It was Charlie's first time to a scrapbook convention and I'm so glad I was able to go and experience it with her! I still get a little overwhelmed looking at all that eye candy, there were a few booths that I had to tell her we'd have to come back because it was overwhelming me and I thought I would self com-bust from excitement-eye candy-idea overload!!  She did so awesome, she even had a list and a few pictures for some special projects she wanted to shop for - so smart! 

I am adding this to my Christmas list this year:

I know, not the best picture but someone was kind enough to take our photo with my phone. ✿

Magnetic Mat and Ruler

(16x20 Inch Magnetic Mat with Scalloped edge and 18 Inch Magnetic Ruler) from We R Memory Keepers.

I refrained from this purchase with the holiday coming and all... Believe me...it was hard to walk away from it... especially since I decided to heat emboss on my 18x24 green mat and warped it all to heck a few weeks ago. 

The only regret I have is that I forgot to go back to the Tattered Angels Booth and do their make and take, I'm so kicking my self! I was that close to playing with Glam, Glaze, Chalkboard paint, and their Screens up front and personal and I blew it, we were at their booth twice lol!!  But the good news is that There will be another chance, I think they'll be back for CK Oregon... I'm hoping... Then E can go too, seems how she was out hunting and didn't know that I had gone and I am in the dog house with her...Oops!


Last year I attended the Oregon one with E and Shavanna, it was E's first one! While we were there I fell head over heels with this booth: The Button Farm - she puts together album kits that are over the top amazing, I purchased two last year and combined them and I was so happy to see them yesterday, such amazing talent and inspiration! 

Have a great one! ✿ ~C

Fun filled weekend!

This weekend we had long time friends over. We have known Jim now for almost 20 years, we're all officially feeling old now! Our kids are growing up so fast! We haven't really seen them for any good length of time in years, to many to count, a really good visit was due.

While the boys sat in the shade out back, Brittney and I sat in the sun and read our magazines...

She's going to go for it and enter a layout for the Creating Keepsakes Teen Talent Search. YAY!! I'm so excited for her! She was so excited to come and see my scrap studio, her and Kylie were in awe, lol. They thought it was like a store.

Kylie is a great big burst of sunshine, she is inquisitive, she has a million questions and absorbs a lot of information. She is amazing & funny.

Elisha played pool with the girls upstairs while the grown ups visited and made lunch, Jim brought me Alfy's Pizza from Seattle as a surprise. It was so good, the sauce...YUM! Made a little home sick.

For dinner we bar-b-qued and made smores around the fire pit, we learned the Gage way to make smores - add a peanut butter cup - that was a little too good!

I taught the girls how to make paper rosettes and fabric flowers. They loved these, no matter how many times they burned their little fingers with the hot glue, they were hooked! Each one was different and they each developed their own style.

Kylie - concentrating really hard.

Brittney's in the making, tight twists.

I was so sad to see the weekend end and having to go to early on Sunday to my open house..Thank you Dave who opened it up for me and gave me a couple of extra hours to spend with our good friends, our extended family. ~Cheri