Whew! Catch up Friday!

Wow, March was such a busy month! Time sure flew! If you follow me on facebook you will see that I participated in the Northwest Paper chase, it was so much fun!! Each store had a photo opp with a different theme. The goal is to go to all of the stores but trying to coordinate that is hard with our busy schedules. E had a broken foot but she made the best of it! I LOVE that the stores in the area do this each year! It was so fun and great quality time! We did not make it to all 21 stores but we made it to many of them.

From Left to right we made it to: Sharin Memories - Lacey, WA; Scrap Happy Longview, WA; Kim's Crafts and Scrapbooking - Scappoose, OR;  Ben Franklin Crafts - Bonney Lake, WA; Scrapbook Nook - Kent, Wa; The Mad Scrapper - Issaquah, WA; Ben Franklin Crafts - Monroe, WA; Lila's Scrapbooking and More - Everett, WA

Mimi's Crop Circle - Burien, WA; Toadilly Scrappin' - Gig Harbor, WA; Scrap That! - Fircrest, WA; Cindy's Simple Stuff - Centralia, WA; and You can see, we actually closed the Ben Franklin store in Bonney Lake! Last but not least, my "home" store: The Scrappy Stamper - Centralia, WA. Last photo is a fun shot of Nana at Toadilly Scrappin.

The following weekend after the Paper Chase we headed back to Oregon for another fun girl day at the Creating Keepsakes Convention. We had so much fun in all of the booths and I saw so many friends! We took a Melissa Frances class!! Here is a photo of E and Nana sewing their fabric flowers in class. I love the glitter we were able to use, I ended up picking up almost all of the colors they had in the booth!

I was so excited that I finally got to meet Kim Garner, who teaches & designs for Melissa Frances and designs for Fiskars!! I am also a fan of hers, her blog is: It's all good. I was also a big winner in class of the large chipboard bingo mini album! So so fun!!

I have had a HUGE secret, I shared it last weekend! I was published in the April 2013 Cricut Idea Book: Mini Albums!! I still can't believe it, it's so very exciting!!
Here is the cover: (I love the cover!!)

If you are looking to purchase this book here is the link: Buy it! You'll like it  :)

Busy, busy!! Oh and did you see Teresa's latest release: Summer Stories! I am so excited, I will be making a class kit with this for sure!

Classes: Don't forget, if your looking to take a class with me, I have two coming up for the REMEMBER THIS CLASS

Saturday April 6th, 2013 10:00am - That's tomorrow! Still seats available!

Cost: $33.00 plus tax.

Location: The Scrappy Stamper http://www.scrappystamper.com/
1724 South Gold Street  Centralia, WA  98531
Call to reserve your spot now: (360) 623-1075

Saturday April 27th, 2013 10:00am

Cost: $35.00 plus tax.

Location: Scrap Happy
http://www.scraphappylongview.blogspot.com/
1323 Hemlock St. Longview, Washington 98632 
Call to reserve your spot now: (360) 423-9625

What a weekend...

There has been so much going on, Not sure where to even start here.

Lets see, did you know that I was published for the very first time? I was!! So excited!!

Here is the magazine, it's a special edition called Creative Spaces, I have a spot in the decorate your space, it's a wall calendar using the Giving Thanks line by Teresa Collins. (ps, her space is in the magazine too! Go get a copy here)

My project is also featured in the sneak peak here: "Creative spaces magazine by Creating Keepsakes" sneak peak

Memorial weekend, well lets just say it will probably be my most memorable! I was slicing an onion and then the top of my pinky finger. Yeah, ouch! I won't show you the fun pictures we took, like the one of watching the blood pulsate as my heart was beating...that after many many hours of appyling presure we were still managing to keep the bleeding down, that how on Monday my husband was ready to take me to the ER so we could sit there for hours to have the doctors tell us that they can't do anything because there is nothing to stitch to. I must say, a few days later, the bleeding has stopped. And thanks to Denise (a big thank you girlfriend) has helped us with keeping it clean and bandaged properly. Now to just figure out how to keep from banging it on things, lol!! and the pain...is getting better... (thank you Nana!)

Speaking of Nana's, My grandmother that I have mentioned here and here, passed away over the holiday weekend too. I just was told today. We all knew it was coming, but still, it's a shock, she was in her 90's. She lived a long full life and she was ready, I'm happy for her, no more pain. Still it's a shock.

~Cheri