Yesterday was crazy busy and lots of fun... how could it not be when it was a day dedicated to scrapbooking? I got up early and picked up my Bountiful Basket but no volunteering this week... my wrist has been bugging me and I should probably give it some time to heal, huh? I sprained it or something doing pushups. Teach me to try and exercise! lol. After I got everything put away, I headed up near the airport for a day at Doodlebug! (A scrapbook product manufacturer.)
This was apparently a last-minute thing they put together like 2 weeks ago and they were kind of surprised how many people signed up given the short time. I found out about it on 2 Peas and signed up - it sounded too fun to miss and I'm so glad I went! Doodlebug is known for their bright colors and cheerful, cute patterns - not necessarily my style... but I do really like their stuff and use it here and there.
Anyway, I went to the morning session - checked in at the front desk and got my goodie bag, nametag and was sorted into the "pink" group.
My group was set to do the mini album class first - it was 4 8x8 pages to go in the leather Storybook album in our goodie bag. Taught by the fabulous Wendy Smedley and Cynthia Sandoval.
Work in progress...
And me with my lovely and fun seatmate Rachel - we met when I sat down with her and had a great time all morning.
She has so much energy! And she almost got me in trouble in Stacy Julien's class with her Dana Carvey & broccoli reference. Speaking of...
I'd never taken a class with Stacy before and it was wonderful. I really loved hearing her philosophy on scrapbooking. We also got to dance to Andy Grammer. lol. We had a card kit for this class, but didn't have time for it so I brought it home. She also introduced us to Happy Mail which will be starting soon - I'm registered at Big Picture Scrapbooking, so I hope I get one sometime in the next year!
After Stacy's class, they had a lovely little box lunch in their lunch room. They said we were getting a box lunch, but I was picturing a typical lame box lunch - "eh" sandwich, chips, maybe a brownie or something. I should have known better... this is what we got.
The little pick in the sandwich says "bon appetit." How cute is that? It was all delicious too. After lunch we got to go down to their showroom to do a little shopping. Like I said, most of their stuff isn't quite my style, but they have some basics that I stock up on - letter stickers, buttons, some of their paper. They even had some of their new lines that aren't in stores yet available for us to purchase! And all the new paper was half off. Sweet!
And this little gem at the checkout counter:
All the little containers have a small embellishment - flowers, buttons... who wouldn't want to put a quarter in there?
So that was my day at Doodlebug - super fun, and I'm so glad I went. After that I came home and took Melody's kids for a few hours so she and Vic could go out, then after they left I fixed a quick sandwich and came upstairs to get working on some NSD challenges. I'll share those in my next posts :)
the lunch box is so cute!!! and I bet the showroom too!! I wish I was there as a seatmate!
Posted by: francesca | May 06, 2012 at 01:29 PM
That would have been so fun... you would have loved it! Everything was cute - all the walls, furniture, accessories - everything was in their 12 main colors and it was just adorable.
Posted by: Gwen Lafleur | May 06, 2012 at 01:41 PM