On Friday, Amanda and I attended the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Chantilly, VA. What could be better than shopping for scrapbook supplies with one of your friends?
There were lots of vendors to include some non-scrapbook ones like the lint roller booth, Tastefully Simple and Mary Kay. I guess scrapbookers need to clean, have a good meal and look good while preserving memories! I am happy to report that I exercised a lot of self control. I spent less than $200 whereas in years past I could spend close to $200 at just one booth! Most of my self control comes from the fact that I have a Wishblade (see this post) and that I have pretty much given up on stamping in my scrapbooks. I also have just too much stuff and not enough time to use it.
So what could ruin such a wonderful day? Other than the mobile pothole crew on 66 during the tail end of the morning rush hour, Friday rush hour traffic on 495 on the way back, there was this dummy:
It took all I had not to put my scrapbook supplies to work on this. With an arsenal that includes permanent black markers, scissors and adhesive, I truly could have gone to town on this car. I could barely open my hatch to get to my lunch! Since we still had some shopping to do and the fact that I didn’t want Amanda to see my bad side, I moved Hotaru to another spot…
When we got back to the apartment, Amanda and I swapped some excess supplies and did some layouts while watching one of the best movies of all time – GOONIES! She was quite surprised to see how much of the movie I could quote (inner nerd emerging…). I have to say that we had a very good time.
Lol. I thought the guy hit your car or something at first glance. It obviously doesn’t take much to set my sister off. Tamika’s into scrapbooking too. I’ll make sure to have her bring the baby’s scrapbook when we go to Florida.
I love to scrapbook and have been doing it for a few years. I even got my husband into it even if it’s only alittle bit lol.