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I went to a 12 hour crop on Saturday at Little Scrapbox with my friend Amy. It ran from 12-12, but I hit the road about 10:30 I think. I was beat and the creative juices had stopped flowing, so I thought I better stop while I was ahead. I finished 5 layouts, which is pretty good and about average for me. I had a good time and I’m glad I got to spend my afternoon with Amy, she makes me laugh, and if I had to stare across a table at someone, I’m glad it was her and no one under the age of 7 if you know what I mean. Best part of the day was that no one asked me to cut up their food, Amy does that all by herself.

Little Scrapbox has turned into my favorite scrapbook store in the area. The owners are nice, the accomodations are great, slection is pretty good as are the prices, and the paint scheme, well they are some of my favorite colors. *wink* I enjoyed a slushie while cropping, something I don’t think I’ve done in A VERY LONG time, so I if you stop by there, I highly recommend the Strawberry Kiwi. Anyway, so during the crop they raffled off five prizes, the biggest one being a Cricut. Do I need one? Probably not. Did I want one? Heck yeah! It was the last prize that they raffled off, and much to my delight, I won. When I came home I emailed Jeannie and Michelle, called my mom, and explained to the hubby with the heck it was. I don’t get real excited about anything really, not visibly, which bugs the heck out of most people, but I was pretty pleased that I won it. Ethan and I were playing with it yesterday morning and I hope to play with it a little today. Might have to get myself some more font cartridges. Ahh, new toys.

I have to say that being I haven’t cropped outside my house for so long, I’m pleasantly suprised how productive I’ve been. Using the Craft Lockers is by far the best way to travel with supplies. I don’t really “want” for anything. I didn’t bring along any printed paper, and I only spent $1.86, which got me my printed paper and ribbon. So after I showed hubby my Cricut, I held out my receipt proudly, and I think he almost passed out from the shock of it all. $1.86 spent in a whole day is a lot to take in.  I didn’t take ribbon with me, primas, or punches and I survived. I could have used the primas once, but I found soemthing else. I do have some flowers (Heidi Swapp, Bazzill, and BoBunny) that fit in a drawer in my Craft Locker, so I did have, and used those. I need to find a better way to store primas, I’ve broken those glass bottles a few times, and the buckets are just a pain to take out. I’m open to suggestions that travel well. Maybe a Craft Locker for flowers is in my future, lol.

I hope everyone had a good weekend. Ethan and Dylan are on break from school, so we are all hanging out today. No big plans really, just feels good to not really have anyplace to go. I did the grocery shopping yesterday, (I really don’t like doing that), so thats done. Ethan is on chore duty so he will be helping to wash the floors yesterday… he is making up for a “bad decison” he made last week, thus he will be the floor washing assistant today.

Have a great day!!

~j