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Well I haven't taken a lot of pictures of my projects from the weekend yet but I think I am mostly unpacked!  Finally!
We had so much fun on this crop and are already talking about the next one.  Trish did an amazing job with everything!  The place was gorgeous, the lighting was perfect and the people there were a blast.  I finally got to meet Laina, who is super sweet and so fun to be around. ...

I cannot believe it is finally here! We have been counting down to this crop for months and in just a few hours we will be on our way!
I'm so excited to spend the weekend scrapping with my sister, Trish, Lana and so many others who have traveled from all over for this weekend.
I've packed lots of pictures (the first thing I do since forgetting my pictures when traveling to Columbus one year and Joel...

Last week I got the chance to go to Audrey's Attic which is an adorable country store in Orville Ohio.  I had a feeling it would be all decked out for Christmas and wasn't disappointed when I arrived.  Although my time was limited because of previous plans I managed to make my way through and pick up a couple things.  I'm planning to get back there within the next week or so again to really look...

Those red cups that is!  One of my favorite signs of the Holidays approaching.  I know it may sound silly to some, but I look forward to that "change of season".  Then before you know it, they are gone again. 
So today since Zach dragged me out to the store so that he could pick up Guitar Hero at Blockbuster we decided to stop at Target and Starbucks too, where I enjoyed my first Peppermint...

It's funny I remember saying that for many years when you saw Christmas merchandise out in the stores right after Halloween.  But then I worked at Treasured Friends and realized they only have a limited amount of time to sell, therefore we began decorating and setting up for Christmas by November 1st.
Since the store has been closed a couple years now I had forgotten that routine until shopping...

Just yesterday I was inspired by a 6 X 9 mini book I had on a shelf in my scraproom and some recent Christmas purchases that I decided to assemble this book. I'm so excited to have my mini book ready for Christmas already.  It's going to be a combination of the many classes I've taken over the years or that I've seen being completed during the month of December.
Last year in December I took the...

from my Work in Progress kit.  I had a lot of fun working with the kit this month and still have some more projects I'm finishing up.
Here's more of the mini book "The Story" that I made


and here are some of my pages


For the journaling for "I know this much is true" I wrote little details about each person in the photo.  Like my grandma Young who could never say the word...