Anyone There?

lol. well, just wanted to keep anyone who might be out there in the loop! i have been busy tring to figure out where we can continue our small town girls retreat's. we're still checking and i do plan on continuing them. The big thing is where to have them now that Stamps and Scrapbooks will be closing. I have checked several places and the rental fee is not cheap. i have a few other possiblities that i am checking out. i am hoping to have something in March. i already have my supplies and am gonna start working on the sample. i need to get the other girls moving also, which isn't hard! we all enjoy these retreats and seeing all of you! i will tell ya my projects will be using the cosmo cricket Sugar line. I love it!!!! I hope everyone is doing good and getting stocked up on their supplies from Stamps and Scrapbooks. Have a great day! cynde

Oh and check out the new poll on the left side and PLEASE vote!!!

Happy New Year!

It has been a long time! I hope everyone had a awesome Christmas and is starting the New Year out on a good note! The Small Town Girls Retreat was orginally gonna be in February, but since the regular retreat is this month, we will hold off for a month or so. I'm not sure when we will be able to sneak it in with ckc in st louis in april and i will be busy with my daughters wedding that is in June. what to do, what to do. i'm thinking maybe middle march. i will have to see what the other girls would like to do. I just wanted to let ya know we are gonna do one, just not in february! will let ya know soon! cynde

OPPS!

Opps! I posted that on the wrong blog, meant to put it on mine! Don't know how that happened!

FRIDAY Nov.16,07 Rusty Pickle Challenge

Dear Diary, Long time no post! I have been sooooo busy lately I have not had time to get anything posted. First off...I would like to say how much I enjoyed the last retreat. I met some new ladies that took my class & they were really nice. I hope I get to see them again soon. Ok, for all of you that know me , you know that I have a pretty wacky sense of humor. So you will understand this layout I put in the Rusty Pickle Nov. Blog challenge. I had actually purchased this paper to make a Easter L/O & it worked good with these photos I took of KK's "mock Bunny Poo" Easter basket. To sum it up fast she was being very rowdy & I told her if she was not good the Easter Bunny would leave her a basket full of Poo. She didn't listen & so this was her fake basket. I knew that the expression would be priceless so I had my camera ready . (those are choc. chips by the way :) Easter Bunny is not that mean!) She was really mad! But as soon as she saw this one I took her outside where I had put her "REAL" basket under a tree. So then she was really HAPPY! (yes, I do have HAPPY pictures of her & her real basket too!) You should have seen her face when her sister Ashtyn ate a choc. chip out of her basket :) LOL! For this challenge I had to use 3 different Rusty Pickle papers & Rusty Pickle Stamps on the title. I used the Chocolate Bunnies line & used the Princess Bride stamps on the blue title blocks & also the blue letters in Bunny. I stamped them with versa mark .On the letters in the word Bunny I also coated them with making memories glitter glaze so the stamping does not show well in the pic. I also used a big Rusty Pickle Chipboard B. The chocolate Bunny on the Big chipboard B is oven baked clay I cut from a cookie cutter & painted.Hope you enjoy ...I just had to share my funny Easter! You can click on the L/O to enlarge it.Hope everyone has a Scrappy weekend !

Had a Blast!

on saturday!!! sorry girls for the classes going long. we won't mention any names, lol. all of them may of went over a little! i still love all the projects. Angelia has gotten me into wanting to do more paint cans. they are the coolest things! Penne's card class was sooo cool. she had a lot of techniques snuck (is that a word?) in there. lol and Nikki's book. i love how she used all sorts of things to make 'pages'! I hope you can find something to do with mine! I think i will give mine to my sister in law for christmas, or i may keep it for myself!!!

again thank you for coming and i hope you all had as good a time as us 'teachers' did!

Look for the next retreat in late January or early February!

Unless you have children or grandchildren then.......................

We have been discussing having a Small Town Girls kids retreat. what we have thought about so far is this-- having it on a friday night from 6-10. ordering in some pizza charging something like 25 bucks (give or take a few $$) and helping them get started with their christmas list! now we couldn't tell you everything they will make since it might be for you! but we can tell some of them, but we have to get that list finalized, hopefully soon. what we figured is this will give you some time alone to help you get started on your christmas shopping! as soon as we get it all finalized, we'll let ya know the full details!

Goody Bags

Ok ladies...tell us about you. What kind of fun scrapping things do you love? What are your favorite colors? Do you like textured or smooth cardstock? What is your favorite paper line?
We are going to start putting the goody bags together and would love use some of your favorite things.
Leave a comment and your name will go into a drawing for a prize. How about something extra special in your goody bag!

Pics for my class!

Yeah! I finally got pics for my class!

They can be seen here:

http://www.amillionmemories.com/forum/viewlayout.php?id=5310

And here's a sneak peek: