scrappington
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Post by scrappington on May 1, 2017 23:15:24 GMT
Ladies I hope you are all well.
This weekend is NSD. Very excited my retreat is finally here.
I still have to finish packing.
I still need to pray to the scrappy gods that one of my scrappy purchases makes it to the mail box by Wednesday night.
I need this get away. I need a break from reality.
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Post by grammadee on May 2, 2017 0:10:54 GMT
Have fun, scrappington! I will be having my own little private crop this coming weekend, right here in my scraproom. Will have the house to myself for four days. Have a huge stash, a good supply of glue, some kits I put together but didn't use at the crop last weekend, and a stack of additional photos with a list of titles to go with them. Stocked up on my favorite snacks when I was in town today. I am READY! |
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scrappington
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Post by scrappington on May 2, 2017 0:29:13 GMT
Have fun, scrappington! I will be having my own little private crop this coming weekend, right here in my scraproom. Will have the house to myself for four days. Have a huge stash, a good supply of glue, some kits I put together but didn't use at the crop last weekend, and a stack of additional photos with a list of titles to go with them. Stocked up on my favorite snacks when I was in town today. I am READY! That sounds like so much fun. |
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on May 2, 2017 10:32:58 GMT
I will be having my own little private crop this coming weekend, right here in my scraproom. This is what I will be doing. |
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Post by mikklynn on May 2, 2017 12:06:39 GMT
Have fun, scrappington ! I will be having my own little private crop this coming weekend, right here in my scraproom. Will have the house to myself for four days. Have a huge stash, a good supply of glue, some kits I put together but didn't use at the crop last weekend, and a stack of additional photos with a list of titles to go with them. Stocked up on my favorite snacks when I was in town today. I am READY! That is seriously my dream weekend! Enjoy. |
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Post by ScrappyGlue on May 2, 2017 13:23:05 GMT
I will be having my own little private crop this coming weekend, right here in my scraproom. This is what I will be doing. ME, TOO! 
Can't wait!
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Post by dasmith2 on May 2, 2017 13:35:09 GMT
This is what I will be doing. ME, TOO!
Can't wait!
Me three! I will be chatting on Victoria Marie's fb group nsd crop starting Fri and will also be here |
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msliz
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Post by msliz on May 2, 2017 14:41:34 GMT
Rain in the forecast for Friday and Saturday, so I'm hoping to be right here with you.
And then on Sunday we're bringing DD back from college for the summer. I don't know where we're going to put all her stuff !
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Post by needtime2scrap on May 2, 2017 15:47:50 GMT
Not sure how much scrappy fun I'll get to have in the next while. I'm scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning and while I'd like to think I might have time to get crafty while I'm at home recovering I'm not holding my breath. I'm almost done my WITL album and now I just have the journalling and embellishments to do so we'll see how that goes.
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Post by grammadee on May 2, 2017 17:53:56 GMT
I hope your surgery goes well, needtime2scrap and that your recovery is smooth. Certainly not the time to worry about accomplishing anything scrapwise. But when you DO have some energy and time, maybe check it out on scrapping rather than on housework. |
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msliz
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Post by msliz on May 2, 2017 19:13:58 GMT
needtime2scrap , I hope everything goes well and that you have a quick recovery. Don't try to do to much too fast. Maybe you could just sit back with some coloring pages and work on making some embellishments?
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Post by ScrappyGlue on May 2, 2017 20:38:59 GMT
Not sure how much scrappy fun I'll get to have in the next while. I'm scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning and while I'd like to think I might have time to get crafty while I'm at home recovering I'm not holding my breath. I'm almost done my WITL album and now I just have the journalling and embellishments to do so we'll see how that goes.
Best of luck during your surgery and for a speedy recovery! I am having an abdominal hysterectomy to get rid of several fibroids (two softball sized) on 6/29. Scheduled to be out of work until 8/27/17 and am hoping to get lots of scrapping done while I'm out!
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scrappington
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Post by scrappington on May 2, 2017 23:18:48 GMT
Ok. I have stamps and tools (to finish) then I'm done.
The pile in my living room looks worse than it is because I have all the goody bags sitting in there. I really shouldn't have filled them I may just put contents in ziploc bags so I can flatten bags.
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Chinagirl828
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Melbourne, Australia
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Post by Chinagirl828 on May 3, 2017 10:13:11 GMT
Not sure how much scrappy fun I'll get to have in the next while. I'm scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning and while I'd like to think I might have time to get crafty while I'm at home recovering I'm not holding my breath. I'm almost done my WITL album and now I just have the journalling and embellishments to do so we'll see how that goes. I hope the surgery went well and your recovery is speedy. |
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Post by anniefb on May 3, 2017 20:18:26 GMT
Not sure how much scrappy fun I'll get to have in the next while. I'm scheduled for surgery tomorrow morning and while I'd like to think I might have time to get crafty while I'm at home recovering I'm not holding my breath. I'm almost done my WITL album and now I just have the journalling and embellishments to do so we'll see how that goes. Hope your surgery goes well. |
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Post by anniefb on May 3, 2017 20:19:22 GMT
I Hope to get lots of scrapping and cardmaking done this weekend. Might join in with a few challenges for NSD if I feel motivated.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on May 4, 2017 0:30:11 GMT
Currently, I'm delving into getting pictures ready to order. It's actually not as bad as I expected, but considering it's only about 6 week's worth of pictures, it's going to make for some very big spreads. Our week away will probably end up being 8-10 pages which is fine by me. It will get recorded in a timely manner in my PL...unlike other vacations.  It'll probably end up being about 200 pictures when all is said and done. I won't have a big weekend of scrapbooking...I have a party on NSD that I've got to go to. It was initially the following weekend which would have been really nice but it was rescheduled. I'm likely going to send my husband to do the grocery shopping on Saturday with the kids and find a way to get him to keep more time outside of the house because I'm desperate for some solitude. I've had more bad (short tempered and easily overwhelmed) days than good ones the past two weeks and it just occurred to me that the likely reason is because I've had a lack of me time lately...I was fine during our vacation (which surprised me) but I'm sure it has been a contributing factor in why the last couple of weeks have been so bad. It's supposed to be in the 90's through Saturday and then rain on Sunday...I wish we had the money to spend so I could have my husband take the kids to an indoor play place here for a few hours on Sunday, too. Who knows, I might still have him do that anyway (can't put a price on one's sanity). |
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msliz
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Post by msliz on May 4, 2017 17:14:35 GMT
I just bought my first cutting system! I bought a Big Kick for $40 at JoAnns, and then I went to M's, HL, and ACM and came away with 2 alpha dies and five 6x6 paper packs! Can't wait to play tomorrow!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 5, 2017 1:09:04 GMT
I've been in a bit of a scrapbook funk for the past two months. Too much stress.
I've kept on top of ordering photos, though. I have March's pics just waiting for me, completely untouched. And I ordered April's pics on May 1st, so they will be here soon.
Today I went to ACM because it was in the strip mall that I was already at for other stores. I bought two packs of theme stickers, and a pack of Thickers. Used a Michael's 40% off coupon on the Thickers.
Outside in the clearance bins, ACM has $1 packs of stamps that I resisted. I couldn't really see myself using them. Was a little tempted, though.
I was glad for the stuff I did buy, though. A set of birthday stickers for my dd's last birthday. And travel-related stickers for a place I visited not too long ago. Love the Thickers. Only my second pack ever, but I wish I could buy them for every single layout.
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Post by KikiPea on May 5, 2017 2:37:25 GMT
I don't know how much time I will have over the next 3 weeks, with my brother and SIL coming into town for his daughters college graduation, but I have GOT to get my husband's niece's HS graduation album wrapped up! Her prom is this weekend. Hoping to get everything printed (Waiting for 1 ink cartridge replacement), and scrapped up in the next couple of weeks. I hate when projects come down to the wire! I think I was still wrapping things up with my first niece's album the day of her graduation. I do NOT want to do that, again! 😜
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Post by needtime2scrap on May 6, 2017 3:39:15 GMT
Hello all! Just a quick update...I'm 2 days post op and doing good. Moving around fairly well. Pain meds and gravol have been my friends! I did manage a bit of journalling on some of my WITL album bit I had had a ton done from before so just a bit of embellishments and Journaling and I'll be done. Planning on a little bit at a time. Thanks for the well wishes!
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Post by mikklynn on May 6, 2017 12:49:19 GMT
Hello all! Just a quick update...I'm 2 days post op and doing good. Moving around fairly well. Pain meds and gravol have been my friends! I did manage a bit of journalling on some of my WITL album bit I had had a ton done from before so just a bit of embellishments and Journaling and I'll be done. Planning on a little bit at a time. Thanks for the well wishes! I'm so happy to see you are doing well and back here with us  |
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Post by refugeepea on May 6, 2017 22:30:13 GMT
I have a $20.00 credit on Amazon and I need to buy something scrappy. I probably paid a bit more than I should have for a Heidi Swapp date stamp.
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Post by cannmom on May 9, 2017 21:21:14 GMT
Working on some travel photos this month. I started one vacation and got bored with it so I switched to a different one.  I need to order more photos from both trips. I got overwhelmed while placing my order originally and didn't get all the photos I need. |
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Post by grammadee on May 9, 2017 22:19:03 GMT
I caved and ordered some of the latest TE dies. And a couple that were on my wishlist for awhile.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 10, 2017 0:19:03 GMT
My bit of randomness:
My April photos were delivered today. Made me very happy. I took a lot of photos that I consider good. And I'm very happy that I played tourist in my own town last month. I got some nice pics of my kids doing touristy things. I just had to remind myself that no one but me knew that we live in (well, close enough) to that place. We fit right in with anyone else that had a camera.
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scrappington
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Post by scrappington on May 10, 2017 11:26:27 GMT
Well the retreat is over now. Busy couple of days after so this is the first chance I had to come on here.
The drive Thursday night was horrid. We didn't get there until 11:30pm and the rain was just so bad.
I was very frustrated, stressed, angry etc when I got there. Hotel was great bed was so comfy but didn't sleep well first night as I was just so agitated.
We got unpacked and had a great set up. Food was super expensive there, was ok, wasn't bad but for the price it should have been great.
Company was good. Only 9 of us. Was a very quiet crop room. Our group has decided we've traveled enough to that location. So if group wants to include us next time, it needs to move at least an hour closer so its 2 hrs for every one.
I think the drive there Thursday night just really set me off for the weekend. The drive home wasn't so bad.
Everyone loved their goody bags and were very happy to have something.
My two friends are buying my the large magnetic plate for the big shot plus. I can't believe it. Its so nice of them.
Oh my dies from the UK haven't showed up. That was ok. I completed 2.5 mothers day card. the .5 card was I stamped, coloured and die cut pieces for a friend. She liked my design. I did an art journal page. I paper pieced some dies for my art deco cards.
I helped out a couple beginners. I die cut a lot for them.
Overall I'm glad I went but it wasn't as good as the last one.
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Post by grammadee on May 10, 2017 13:11:03 GMT
Too bad your crop didn't come up to your expectations, scrappington. Hope the next one is closer and more enjoyable for you. Great news about the magnetic platform! Mine for the Vagabond makes a huge difference! |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on May 10, 2017 14:26:01 GMT
Today I started working on my two Easter layouts. One for the egg dying, and the other for Easter morning.
I grabbed patterned paper for the background papers. I have Easter stickers that I will use. I tapes down the photos. That's as far as I've gotten.
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Post by mikklynn on May 10, 2017 15:21:57 GMT
Another thread inspired me to do a 50 states scrapbook. I purchased the bargain pack of papers of all 50 states. I plan to place them in an album, then go back and add photos.
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It'll probably end up being about 200 pictures when all is said and done.
I need to order more photos from both trips. I got overwhelmed while placing my order originally and didn't get all the photos I need.