Oklahoma Scrapbook Convention

I went, I saw, I scrapped.......*hee hee hee*

Me and BFF went Friday and checked it out. We checked out the "garage sale" and bought a few things. I signed up for a stamp club that meets once a month. I also bought some SugarLoaf stamps, two sets for $10, hope that was a good price. Friday night we got our stuff all packed up to load in the car the next morning. Boy we didn't realize we were taking so much stuff! Luckily my neighbor let me borrow her shopping cart so it was pretty easy to transport everything.

• 2 scrapbook totes, completely packed
  
• cricut
• desktop computer
• cuttlebug and folders
• stamps
• paper tote
• Plaid essentials spinner, fully stocked
  

Saturday morning we got there about 10:15 am. We got all our stuff unpacked and decided to look around at the vendors. We signed up for giveaways, I ended up winning a tea pitcher and 4 cups with lids from the Tupperware booth *I love winning door prizes*. We were hoping to win one of the scrap door prized, but no such luck. Not sure what was in the little bags but I know there were two large totes and a cricut given away. Some lady had bought extra tickets and she won about 5 door prizes....and she wasn't even there! *LOL*

I grabbed a picture of my grandma I wanted to scrap and went off to the scrapbook store to find paper. Well that took about 30 minutes! *LOL* But I finally found the perfect paper. I worked on that page for about half the day. I answered a lot of questions about the Cricut and Design Studio. There were several ladies that had Cricuts there. I couldn't figure out how I wanted to place things on the page. I probably would have worked a lot faster at home but I kept being distracted by all the people *is a total people watcher*. I finally finished the page around 5 pm or so! I still have to do the journaling box and I think I will do it on vellum.



We had wanted to sign up and take a class but couldn't think of one we wanted to take. We finally picked one and then was told the lady that was going to do it left. The ladies were very apologetic. So back to our scrap tables we went.

I then started working on a LO of my daughter at her Spring Concert. I had bought the musical note vellum the previous day at the garage sale. I used music notes I had designed with DS a few months ago. I still need to do the journaling and think I might add some black stickles to the music notes. The flowers were some of the prima's I got from QVC. I really didn't know if I would like the black and white flowers but they were great with this LO!



About 7 or 8 pm they said they had a big announcement. The asked for everyone's attention and said they had asked Xyron if they would be willing to donate something for the registrants. They had expected Xyron would send enough Xyron 150's for everyone to have one but were surprised because Xyron didn't send them. Instead Xyron had made a donation for everyone to receive a Xyron 250!! Well I wasn't surprised because I already knew. I was at the LSS the day they came in. It was cold and windy that day and the front door of the LSS kept coming open and letting all the cold air in. I stood at the front door and kept it closed while Tracy (LSS owner) and the truck driver unloaded all the boxes. Tracy made me swear I wouldn't tell.......and I didn't! *is quite proud of self for being able to keep a secret that long*

We did a free make n take with Rusty Pickle paper. They showed us how to do a quick LO. I ended up doing a two page LO since they gave us 2 with flowers and 2 base papers. I still have to do a title and journal boxes for them. We cut the flowers out of the flower paper and then just used them to border the wood looking paper. We inked the edges and I smeared ink on the base paper. The pictures I used were take at Lake Eufaula in 2006. The water level was down so bad that year! The girls had smeared mud all over themselves and had a great time. Even though the temperature was over 100 at 7pm. They pictures just seemed perfect for this paper!

We had a great time and would do it again. But next time I think I would be better organized...at least I hope. Guess I will find out in May when I plan on attending the retreat! *LOL* I am so tired today and could have used a nap. We were so wound up when we got home and unpacked last night that we couldn't go to sleep until after 2am!