The Only Place That Wasn't Crowded In Archivers

This speaks for itself doesn't it? It was so spacious and roomy! Elizabeth

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Archivers Grand Opening in Louisville

Well, here's what it's like to go to an Archiver's Grand Opening: First, I set my alarm for 7:00 am (on a morning that I could have slept in!). I woke up at 6:30, laid in bed till 6:45 and decided I could use that extra fifteen minutes! I was showered, dressed and had packed my last minute stuff for our flight today by 8:30 am when I hit the road. Now, it's POURING down rain, absolutely POURING. I could hardly see at times, it was dark and gray out and there was ponding everywhere! I drive on two interstates not going more than 40 mph at any given time. At one point, I hit the brakes LIGHTLY and they didn't respond...very scary! Then I hit some ponding on down the road and my SUV did a little jig! UGH! I SO should have turned back but I didn't want to! I arrive (safely after a lot of prayers) at Oxmoor Mall and find the line already wrapped around the corner. It wasn't too bad though! A girl stops me and asks if I'm Abby...she's one of our customers at SLD! She said she recognized me but didn't know my name and knew Abby was coming! I briefly felt like a scrapbooking celebrity or something! I stake out my place in line, excited to know that I'll be among the first 100 and get my free gift (a roll of American Crafts Ribbon....a little disappointing after what I just had gone through to GET there, but free nonetheless!). Mindy arrives next and then Abby, Holly, Ehren, Eris and Abby's friend. At 9:30 the gate goes up and the chaos begins! It was pretty orderly though and everyone that bumped into me said they were sorry! Two of the corporate owners were there and the funniest thing was the one man running around the store with needle nose pliers in his hand....he would go up to a customer, whip out the pliers, and tighten the hooks that hold the handle onto the hand baskets. Guess they hadn't gotten around to that prior to their opening....It was neat to see the store fully stocked with no empty spaces! Lots of goodies and a make and take (tags, Abby did them!) in the back. It was fun to run into people we knew and to talk to other excited scrapbookers! A little bit of scrapbooking history in the making! Woo Hoo! Welcome to Archivers Louisville! Elizabeth

Doodle ABC Rubons at Dollar Tree

These are great rubons! Tried them out last night and they are very easy to work with! They come in red and white. Catch is you only get half the alphabet per package so it's a $2 investment to get the entire alpha. But, that's still a good deal!

Look What I Got...Archivers Goodie Pack!

I found this packet of goodies on my table when I got home from work today! Tim said Archivers dropped this "media kit" off to Candyce at Fox 41 today and she knows I scrapbook so she sent it on to me! I have to say I was impressed! Some nice MM products, a glue pen, a Zig writer, a cats eye chalk ink pad, fiskars silver photo corners, several sheets of papers...I just love FREE STUFF! Elizabeth

Glitter Dots Embellishments

Okay, how cute are these? I stumbled on them today at Ben Franklin. Yep, they got me, I went in to use my 40% off coupon and managed to come out with four additional items. Yep, they got me. Anyway, back to the dots. These were hidden at the end of an aisle with the Dress It Up buttons and they are so stinkin' cute! I thought they'd be adorable in the center of a blossom. They had all different colors. I settled on yellow to start with. Thought I'd see if I liked them, well, actually ever used them! Then maybe Santa would put some other colors in my stocking or something...hey, there's a good idea! $1.99 stocking stuffer. Anyway, the fall ones were with the other fall Dress It Up buttons and embellies in a more prominent place in the main aisle. You get yellow, red, orange, and brown! 5 of each! They had one package of adorable red and green checked buttons in the shapes of hearts and squares marked down half price so I picked them up too! And, sit down now, I bought a big yellow foam star for 50 cents that I thought would make a great template for patterned paper! They had a neat heart I almost got but passed on, I wasn't sure it was big enough! Tons of other shapes though. Why do they ALWAYS come out with more cute stuff I get sucked into buying? Oh yeah, I did use my coupon on a Sizzix set of four small circles. That should come in handy. That was what I went in for initially. Elizabeth

Practicing My Elsie Poses

Okay, so the Sunday of Labor Day weekend my mom was down and suggested we take Tim's old Chevy Impala out for a spin and go eat at Sonic's drive in. So, we all pile in, there's PLENTY of room in those old cars, and head over to Sonic. It was a beautiful day and I just happened to bring my camera along. So, we ended up doing this little photo shoot of me pretending to be like Elsie as well as a taking a bunch of pictures of us literally ON the old car.....sometimes the most unexpected photo opportunities turn out to be the best!

California Dreamin' part 2

I finally have my pictures uploaded from my trip. Since my mom & sisters are not scrapbookers, I know it's a shame, I had to pick my stores wisely. I had been to all of these stores in the past except Table Scrapz. My first stop was to Scrapbook Oasis in Irvine. What a fun store this is. It was previously owned by Lil Davis but now is owned by a wonderful women I had the pleasure of meeting, but for the life of me, I can't remember her name, I want to say Karen, but I'm not sure. She prides herself on having the latest and greatest products on the market and as you can see from their blog, she is able to get great class instructors.

On Friday we headed farther south to San Diego, I had to stop at Ever After in Carlsbed, which is in San Diego County. Since I was there last they have moved to a much LARGER location in the same shopping center, but wow, that is all I can say, it is huge! Great crop area and I got to see some of the class samples that are coming up, no pictures of these, but they were great!

On Sunday we ventured over to Brea to Table Scrapz. When I was there last year they were moving their store so I was not able to go. What a treat this store is as well. Very nice employees and hey, they had Quickutz products 30%, that's always a bonus. I picked up a tab die and the new icings rubons I've been looking at for some time! It was a good shopping day!

Some how I completely forgot to head to Costco and try to get my hands on the Heidi Swapp kit, but, then I decided, I probably have all the product in the kit I would want anyway, so I hope I don't ever see it and realize that I just HAD to HAVE it! That would be so sad!

We hit lots of other shopping spots, but these were the only scrapbook related stops we made. We at Rubios on several occasions so I could get my fish taco fix. Wow, those are the absolute best fish tacos on the market! Thanks for sharing my trip with me!

Raegan