<— feeling a little bit jaded this morning – for some reason we seem to believe partying over long weekends is a fun thing to do…our motto “sleep when you’re dead”. Contemplating enducing a cardiac arrest just to get a bit of shut eye. Nah, it wasn’t that bad – and hey, this coming weekend is a long one too – whoohoo… party on!
I went to the scrapbook convention on Saturday, been eagerly anticipating it for months (literally) – they had organised two international people to come out and teach us, Tim Holtz and Jayme Shepherd. If I’m brutally honest and compare it to last year’s….it wasn’t quite as good, but was still a helluva lot of fun. Mind you, the woman that won the A3 photo printer, plus a die-cut machine – probably figured it was the best event ever. They had a lot of give aways, some really awesome stuff, sadly I didn’t get anything, not even the tiniest thing. Probably bad karma or something. ‘Course I’m not bitter about it, *bloodypeoplethatgetnotoneprizebuttwo!*
Tim Holtz is a lot of fun and everyone at my table thoroughly enjoyed his class – we ended up elbow deep in ink, glue and his amazing product called grunge board. Came home with this little beauty for my efforts.
Jayme’s classes proved to be a little stressful for a lot of people (present company excluded – naturally) – she kept having to convert inches to cm’s and there was quite a bit of cutting and putting of pages together. A shame really because the products she provided us with we really very pretty.
Even though I didn’t manage to win anything *stillbittteraboutthat* I came away with a lot of stash to add to the ever growing pile. I was so inspired by all that I’d seen and made that I decided to create these…I think they’re terribly cute. Wouter’s response… they’re cute but what are they for? Men!
For those of you who think like him – they’re a way for me to display my ribbons. This way I actually use them instead of them skulking away in a dark corner for years.
Bagheera had a fun weekend too, we came home Sunday afternoon to a lounge full of feathers, and a very proud looking kitty lurking near her kill. I did ask her very nicely to please keep the next one outside. She has also agreed to stay in her dedicated spot in my room when I’m busy creating…..
Although the ribbon did prove too much for her and she tried to start a ribbon collection of her own.
All in all – a lovely weekend :-)