Miscellaneous 411

This past Friday, I stopped by the Great American Scrapbook Show in Chantilly, VA (right down the road!) It was a good show and seemed pretty busy- definitely more traffic than I remember last year, although it could be that they made the aisles narrower so it just looked that way…. I was happy to see some old friends and picked up a few interesting items along the way but overall, I found myself trying to stick to only buying what I would use. I just have so much stuff already! When I am designing a project for publication, I can only use the most recent products because the project often takes 9 months until it’s published. The manufacturer doesn’t want to have to tell people that they can’t have that certain item because it is discontinued- it’s bad for business. My studio needs a good spring/summer cleaning!

Drumroll please…. I am blogging for a new company and will be posting twice a week with projects, product reviews, reports of events and tips and techniques! I would like to invite you to visit the Memory Keeping Collections site. Isn’t that fun? Please say a prayer I don’t run out of projects! You may recognize some of the Sizzix ScoreBoard Blog Hop designers as well- Candice Windham, Jen Goode, Michelle Cummings, and Lisa Rojas! I know you will want to stop by and see what everyone is up to. For pix of me and famous scrapbooking celebrities from the Scrapbook Show, please visit Memory Keeping Collections this coming Tuesday! 🙂

“When it rains, it pours”. That’s how work goes! I have been working like crazy on a bunch of new projects and hoping I can get them all done AND still have something cool for CHA. Nothing like a little pressure to get the mojo going… 🙂

Here’s where we have been relaxing at night! Of course there’s more water now 🙂 For those of you who have been following my hives situation on Facebook, (when I got in the pool, wound up with huge welts all over me two times) I am happy to report it hasn’t happened again. Actually I felt a little itchy and just got out. Someone suggested that it was a cold water allergy, which I had never heard of before. But my latest thinking is that that was what it was. So thanks for your input on that!