Fun Friday, Work Saturday, Lazy Sunday!

It's been a whirlwind weekend! Friday had such a fun day and night in Walnut Creek and then the class in Brentwood. Sara met us at her home and made us a taco lunch, which was excellent. Spent some time playing with her dog Cody before I left for my class and Richard stayed there. Richard and Sara spent the evening picking up the crib and dresser and they had a heck of a time and had to make a couple of trips to Babies R Us. They did have a good time though and got to spend some quality time just the two of them.

The class Friday night in Brentwood was so much fun. There were around 14 of us and Sherry Mendoza with Prima was such fun and very funny. I did learn a lot of different techniques and I do love working with canvas. I didn't get a chance to finish my album, but took a few pictures of Sherry's for future reference. Hope I get to take another one of her classes in the future.

On Saturday we loaded up a queen bed from Sara's house and brought it home. Bringing home the bed was the easy part other than loading it up and driving it back. I hate it when I can't see out the mirror and then driving on a freeway I'm not familiar with for over 2 hours with wind! We get the bed home and have to move the double bed out of our bedroom, carry it to the front yard, clean out under the bed and then vacuum where the bed was and of course the rest of the room too. Now we have to bring the queen bed in the house and set it up if we want a place to sleep. Well of course the frame that we have is supposed to be a full/queen and the new queen mattress doesn't fit the frame, so it's now on the floor. We should have taken the frame that Sara had, but we thought we had one. Now she has to bring us the frame on Saturday when she comes, not a problem. Sunday I did get some cleaning done and did 4 loads of laundry, mostly bedding and dog blankets, but nothing since then. Dinner was easy, so clean up was a breeze too!

So now ready for Monday and getting ready for our party on Saturday, Richard's 60th birthday and retirement party. I think we're having around 60 people, so have lots and lots to do to get ready. Richard is doing outside and I'm of course doing the inside and making lists. I have to plan my days or I won't get everything done. I have lists by stores and I did finally ask a few people to bring some things, food of course. I don't want to kill myself trying to make everything.

Here are a few of the pictures I took of Sherry's album from Friday and can't wait to finish mine, but I'm sure it won't look anything like hers. I did buy a few things that we used in class, but couldn't afford to get everything and I really wanted to! hehehe

This is the cover of the Album, it's Prima Mixed Media Resist Canvas Album and we used the Inner Pages Refill kit to do the pages.

These are a couple of the other pages from her album. I was rushed when I was taking the pictures and so they're not so great and these are the only pages I got to take pictures of. I'm hoping she'll have some pictures on her blog or somewhere that I can look at too.

I will talk to you soon, going to be a very busy week for me, but will make some time to post. I have a post for Tuesday with the DT, so I will probably see you then!

Susie

Ready For The Weekend!

Am so ready for this weekend and I don't even work! It's been so hot and the heat makes me not want to do anything. We don't have A/C, but we do have a swamp cooler or water cooler and it helps, but only to a certain point. The cooler works good in the rooms their in, but my craft room is not one of those rooms! lol My craft room is also next to the laundry room and OMG, it gets hot when the dryer is going.

Well tomorrow is Friday and I get to go to Walnut Creek to see my step-daughter who is pregnant with our first grandchild that's due the end of September. We are very excited about that, just wish they weren't 2 hours away, but it could be worse.

The reason we're going to Walnut Creek is I'm going to take a mixed media class with Prima's own Sherry Mendoza from Australia! I am so excited!!! The class is actually in Brentwood, but it's only a half and hour or so from Sara and Adam's house. The class isn't over until 10, so we're going to be spending the night and having some quality time with Sara. Adam is working out of town and won't be home until Sunday, so we won't get to see him this visit.

So hopefully Saturday or Sunday I'll be posting some pictures from my class. I've known Sherry for a while and it's so cool that I'll finally get to meet her and also take a Prima class!!! I've been really getting into the mixed media art, it's so much fun and you can get very creative!

So talk to you soon and hope you have a great weekend!!

Susie

It's Springtime!!

I just love spring, it's my favorite season! The weather is warm and everything is starting to come into bloom.

It's also time to get scrapbooking!! We all need to get back into the routine and scrap those pictures from last year or longer ago than that. I'm one of the guilty ones that has tons of scrapbooking to catch up on.

So it's that time of year to get classes started and crops going!

If anyone is interested in attending classes and crops just let me know. I offer day and evening classes and crops are on the last Saturday of the month, except for the May 3rd International Scrapbooking Day. So April's crop will be the first week in May and then there will still be one on the last Saturday in May.

Here are a few pictures from one of the last classes. We usually have a great time and do layouts and cards.