scrapfest day 2...

today was an exciting fun filled day!! the day started out this morning with a group of us gathered in the dining room of the hotel for breakfast. my cute mom thought she would let everyone know i'm not a morning person!! i'm really not that grumpy before 10am! after breakfast, we headed over to the mall of america, which is ginourmous, to start the scrapfest affair. some of us had classes and others just wandered the halls doing free make and takes. most of us got a cute free tote bag from some company that i can't recall. but it's super cute!! we eventually all gathered for lunch at the rain forest cafe. it was very loud, but we still had a great time.

we headed to more classes and cruised the halls (and some had naps!) until 6pm . then we gathered once again and caravaned to a local archiver's store for the crop around town sponsored by paper salon. the crop went from 630pm until 1230am. we crafted our little hearts out!!!

we got tons of free goodies from paper salon (i forgot the pad of paper in the picture!) and a huge goodie bag full of stuff from archivers. many prizes were given away. i won a cool christmas stamp set, some bare essentials chip board and some blank cards and envelopes. lidia was one one of the grand prizes that was an ellison big shot. sherri won a gift pack of chipboard and stamps from paper salon. and my cute mom won a very cute pink flowered tote.

we made this project from paper salon which is an altered journal. very cute. i just love the little owl!!

on the way back to the hotel, a deer had decided to stop smack dab in the middle of the freeway. chelsea was driving, with barb following her and traci following her. luckily, chelsea got us out of another huge pickle and swerved to miss the deer and managed to save us and the deer!! thankfully, barb and traci both missed it as well and we all made it safe and sound back to the hotel.

wow...the days are flying by!!