More pictures

We had an underswap Saturday night. What is that you ask? Basically, to participate you have to bring something you made that is under $10 and under 2 hours to make. Wrap the gift up. Then you get a number and when it is your turn, you either take another person's gift or open one of the wrapped gifts. I had the last number which was good. The above gift I took from someone else. It will either be a journal/scrapbook of family or one about me or I could even use it to keep track of stamping things.

Some pictures from Stamp Retreat

WOW!

Another entry today......what a surprise for me! Not much new here. Went to work today after having a fantastic 4 day weekend, only to be sent home at 9am!! 2 hours of work!!! What is that!!! I had no kids and the baby side had one so they didn't need 3 teachers....and they said it was my turn to go home. Oh well!

I hope to have pictures soon of some things from stamp camp...haven't loaded them to my computer yet.

Think I will go work on organizing craft shelves today.

As for the reading thing, I have been reading but have not updated my list on here. I am going to do this again but a different way. Instead of pre-choosing my 52 books, I will leave the page blank and write them down as I go along. Only stipulation is I cannot buy any books....I have to read what I have ehre and what I get from the library. I want to broaden my horizons. I do plan to read more Jodi Picoult and try Francine Rivers. I did read 1 or 2 books not on my list this time around, too.

Well, toodaloo people. See you next time I get on here.

Stamping Retreat

Hello everyone! I got the question "When are you going to update your blog? So, here goes....thanks,N, for asking me.

This weekend I headed to Lincolnton, GA to the The Stamping Studio(www.thestampingstudio.com) for a wonderful retreat. I met some new stamping friends, learned alot and just had a nice, relaxing time. There were about 6 round robin projects that we did plus I took the 5 classes. I made alot of cool things...unfortunately, I have no pictures to share. I had my camera but forgot to take pictures. I learned to make an easy slider card which I will use more often. One class was on card skethches. She gave us about 3 pages of all these different sketches and then we made 4 cards using some of the sketches. That class was one of my favorites. I also enjoyed the calendar class....we made 2 different ones then took the stuff home to make a 3rd one. I see Christmas presents!

Also, because her studio is also her store, we could shop, shop, shop! LOL. I didn't do too bad but I got some neat stamps and embellishment. Want to get more done on the room today so I can start stamping to my heart's content and play with my new stuff!

The food was great. Melissa's husband cooked for us and everything was soooo good. We had fajitas on Saturday night that were so good. I hope we have them again next year.

I met some wonderful new friends and many are on facebook so hopefully we can all keep in touch. It is so nice to go somewhere and have fun, learn alot and make some new friends.

Maybe once Melissa posts pictures, I can put some here.

On another note, Friday I am having surgery on my left hand. I will be out 4 weeks and maybe can blog more often.

Behind in......

updating my booklist. Will get to that this weekend, I hope.

Trip to Panama City, Florida

We just got back from a trip to Panama City. We went for Thomas's birthday. We found a nice hotel....Holiday Inn Resort. It had everything....a pool, splash park for kids, a hot tub and every room overlooked the beach. We had a small patio we could sit on to enjoy the view. They were geared toward kids and had movies for them and activities. We had so much fun. Unfortunately, Thomas did not enjoy going in the water but we plan to go back and keep trying.

Besides thr water stuff, we went to the outlets in Destin and to Pier Park to look in the shops. We ate at Pineapple Willy's and they brought a free cake for Thomas's birthday.

Holiday Inn Resort was a very nice hotel and we will continue to use them. We joined their priority club which was free. We gain points everytime we stay at a Holiday Inn or fly airlines. We also get to have late check-outs....2pm instead of 11am....NICE!!!

We are thinking of going back to PC in either Sept. or Oct.

wow...finished another book

I finished My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult and it was a great book. A long one though...500 pages....but well worth the read. Today I watched the movie and was highly disappointed. The movie was not really close to the book especially the ending. I like the book much better.....if you haven't read it yet but saw the movie, be ready for a surprise and a shock! That is all I will say so I don't ruin either for anyone.

Last Saturday, I went to Atlanta for the Heirloom rubberstamp show with my friend, Norma. I had fun and enjoyed the make and takes and made some real cute things. Most of them were free....a couple were a $1 that went to a charity. I bought a feww things and saw some things I may purchase next year...lol....unless I do online before then. I also became an enabler for my friend. I told her to go check out a demonstration at one booth and she was hooked....sorry Norma! LOL. It was a fun day and encouraged me to get my room done so I can organize my craft area in there.

Friday, we had snow! 3-4 inches. I know, those of you from the north are saying "is that all?". But don't forget, I live in the south...this much snow shuts us down....it might as well have been 3-4 feet!!! LOL. They are saying more is coming on Monday. Hope not because this other melted already.

I am off Monday and I am bound and determined to have the couch in the bedroom cleaned off so it can be moved out of there next week. Then more space for me to organize the craft things.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Heading to church and sunday school then out to lunch with my valentine. We are going to Panera Bread because we have a gift card to use. I did not want to go out to dinner because I figured it would be crowded and too expensive. We have an anniversary coming in 2 weeks so we are probably going out then.

Well, good night all and Happy Valentine's Day!