A weekend I enjoyed

Although there are many weekends I enjoy that include my family, this weekend did not.  This weekend included some of my best girl friends.  It included some time to rejuvenate.  It included some good food.  It included some great memories.  It was a scrapbook weekend!!  And I loved every minute of it!  Most weekends, I end up leaving or getting distracted and not getting as much done as I'd like; however, this past weekend I went to at the end of January with Kristen was absolutely amazing. 

 There are a large group of girls who get together with Kristen, my Creative Memories Consultant, who rents a house on the lake for us to get together and be creative.  Here are just a few of the memories we shared.

This is one of my friends, Laura.  As you can tell by another of my friends pictured on the left - not many of us are wanting our picture to be taken.  We are in the zone, and not looking our best.  Although, my girl Laura, is looking wonderful while working hard.

 So many times, people ask me what I bring to a weekend.  I bring everything, including the kitchen sink.  Because if I don't, I always want what I left at home!!!  So, here's my work space from a distance.  I have a lot of junk on the table - and there's some of Laura's and Kate's!  Since we have so many people, I also bring my lights.  I can't expect the CM consultant to have 2 lights for all 17 to 23 of us!    

And, I even use the shelves from the house we rented!!  I like to make sure everything is organized, and believe it or not I like to make sure that things are about where they are when I'm scrapping at home.  It makes it easier to find things, I don't have to think, "Now where did I put that THIS weekend?"  So, on the shelf are the things I don't need at the moment, which include the completed parts of my album, the album pages and page protectors.  I, sadly, even bring my mini shelves from home and put the little shoe boxes of things on them that are the same things I put on them at home.  Organizing in children's shoe boxes is very easy.  Each shoebox is large enough to put a few things in, but yet small enough to keep them from floating around and becoming a disaster.  For instance, one box has my glitter containers, one box has my velum quotes, and one box has my heat embossing powders.  Moving left to right (if facing the table) is my pages to do, the bag of letters and eyelets, markers, and can of necessities, tub of letter pages, carton of mat stacks, and then in the middle is my work space (with work in it at the time).  I really try to utilize all of my space.

I even use the floor space!!  If I were sitting there, to my left is my three drawer cart, which fits under my scrap table.  Then behind me is my big shot.  In the black cart is various colors of cardstock.  The shelves I had already mentioned includes a craft sewing machine, and an iHome on the top.  You have to have your tunes, and a place to charge your iPod!  It also has three "book" organizers of metals, buttons, and ribbons.  On the bottom are clear "envelope" type folders that are 12x12 that hold random papers, tags and stickers.  Those make organizing by theme or kit so easy!

What do you bring on your weekend crops?  You'll have to let me know.