if you build it, they might come

(if you guarantee door prizes, they'll show up early!)

we had a family scrapbooking night last friday evening.

i've been working on the basement & got the new "craft room" ready enough for us to enjoy an evening together.

the original plan was to go to a scrapbooking night at church but when i found out we needed to bring our own supplies & it was still going to cost 20.00 each, i thought we could do our own thing.

my sister, ruthie, brought about 4 bins of supplies & i have tons of this & that (plus 15 doorprizes) so we were ready.
corrie, angela, carrie & beth (my greatniece) all came ready to work on projects.





i was so busy watching everyone's kids during the days that i never had a chance to get any photos ready. actually, the truth is i didn't have a clue where to even start! & then i opened up a pack of boys themed paper & saw a pirate ship & knew what i'd work on first. i just need to find all the photos i have of henry in his pirate get up.

everyone's pages turned out great!




& i'm looking forward to us getting together again real soon -

i love these girls! we allow our lives to fill up with so many things that we rarely have time to just enjoy each other's company. friday night was a rare & oh so sweet treat for me.





the bigger than ever garage sale is on for this friday & saturday. got the signs ready
& a huge pile of stuff in the basement ready to price. still need to go through table linens & clothes. hopefully i'm gonna get rid of my big girl clothes (cuz i'm never gonna go back there!), this year i'm selling size 16, maybe next year it'll be size 14 that i can get rid of (always the optimist, that's me :).


hope we get rid of a lot of junk, i mean, really good deals & hope you all have a great weekend -