It's hard to believe...

that a week ago Val and I were sitting in the bar of the Marriott Chicago, having cocktails with Paper Popsicles D.T. member Tricia Gordan. http://paperpopsicles.com/designTeam.html

Boy has this week flown by!!!! Work has been really busy, I have a new procedure that has been very time consuming. Hopefully the IT guys will get the bugs worked out soon!!!

Happy early Birthday to my mum!! Her birthday is tomorrow. We will be heading to the Allen County 4-H fair tomorrow night with my parents, sister and her children. It has become a yearly event to check out all the animals then have elephant ears!!!

Saturday we are having a girls day out!!! My sister and I along with our girls (Allison & Louise) are taking mum to Indy to shop for the day!!! We are already checking out what sales will be going on.
http://www.simon.com/mall/event_details.aspx?ID=166&EID=62917&TAFLID=LnLzE54cdz1DZsiRM%2fgQvg%3d%3d

http://www.anntaylor.com/catalog/department_sale.jsp?Nr=AND(CAT_SALE_FLAG:Y)&N=1200063&categoryId=152&cid=E000601

We have already decided we will have lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. I just hope they let me try to scrapbook shop too!!!

Sunday Christ has a band concert in Ohio. The kids and I are giving this one a miss as Ian needs to gear up for marching band camp. 3 weeks of camp from 8-4pm Monday - Friday.
GO HOMESTEAD!!!!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!! As a final note here are some pictures of a couple of projects I completed. A friend at church ordered these paint cans.

SALE SALE SALE!!!!

Check out Paper Popsicles for an AWESOME sale!!

http://paperpopsicles.com/store/

CHA 2008

What a great time we had Friday getting to go to CHA in Chicago. Val and I headed out Thursday afternoon heading to Pages in Time to get so "retail therapy" in!!! Then we headed to South Bend and picked up Tricia (DT member Paper Popsicles). It was great to finally meet her face to face!!!

Stopped at a fun restaurant on the way to Chicago, Quaker State and Lube I believe it was called. Obviously the theme was cars!!!!!

Friday we were up bright and early ready to start the day!! After an expense($18.00) breakfast at the hotel we headed to convention center!!!

There was so much to see!!! Exciting new products, manufacturers that we already love and friends!!! There is just too much to mention!!!
We all got to meet Melissa and Ardith, what great ladies!!!! And I can't forget Shannon it was great to meet her also!! I had to keep saying "I love my new cyber friends".

Val and I also got to meet up with some old friends. Tina, Jillian, Tracy also Carrie, Sue, and Andrea!!! You all look great!!!

Paper Popsicle Gang!!!!

Carrie, Andrea, Sue, Val and Samantha

Samantha and Tricia with new found friend!!!

Got some MOJO going!!!!

I had some MOJO going over the holiday weekend. These are the layouts I got completed. They are for my SIL, I thought it would be a nice idea to put an album together for her for Christmas.

Thanks for looking!!

9 MORE DAYS!!!

Only 9 more days before Val and I leave for CHA Chicago!!! We are so excited to be getting away even if its for a short time. We are also excited to be seeing some of our old scrapbooking buddies!!! Andrea will be there http://www.talkingincircles.typepad.com/.

On our way we are stopping at Memory Zone http://www.thememoryzone.com/ to do a little (hahaha) shopping. I think we are allowing 2 hours to shop!!!

We are also meeting one of our fellow cyper friends from Paper Popsicle http://paperpopsicles.com/index.html. Tricia is on the Design Team and will joining us for our advernture to CHA. A big thanks to Melissa at Paper Popsicle for giving us all this opportunity, you are AWESOME!!!

Speaking of Paper Popsicle, check out their website http://paperpopsicles.com/index.html
there are tons of challenges, and contests. Today is our fresh start all day crop!!! We are also looking for the August Guest Designer, it could be you!!!