Sneak Peak Witches Cupboard Swap!

I joined Gypsy Mermaid Life Witches Cupboard Swap and have been having a great time getting to know my swap partner Stevie. We have to send our goodies in by Sept 12th! I am almost done just need to wrap stuff make pretty and so I decided to just put a few sneak peaks...Stevie has packaged boxes already and I am so excited like Christmas so I went the other route just little peaks and not everything...I definitely will have more as this ends and need to ship my box. Can you believe it is almost September? I can't wait till we both receive our packages, we have so much in common. I can definitely see us being friends for a long time. Hear are a few peaks...can you guess what they are?

Pink

Miss Jessi did it again! I bought this "special order" just for me PINK tile art in her Etsy Shop. She is truly a talented sweet Barbie Doll! Go to her blog site and look at other special orders she made and others in her Etsy shop. There is a picture on her blog of my "pink" tile but trust me girls it is so over the top fabulous and big really how on earth did she get all those tiny things on that? LOL! Love it hmmm think I need some Christmas tiles also....

Some Bookmaking Shopping Eating Fun!

I had to jump ahead a little on the blogging because I have way too much to write and wanted to post about some scrapping stuff first. So Saturday Me and my Best Friend Sara went to

Connecticut to Scrapbook Clubhouse to take 2 classes with the very talented Carol Wingert.

We made 2 books that looked so complicated and were a snap to complete. ( not totally finished yet) During the 1st class there was a "Muster" (1: a representative specimen : sample2 a: an act of assembling; specifically : formal military inspection b: critical examination c: an assembled group) outside. It was a parade with bands and dressed in 14th Century attire. Next door there was the cutest Victorian House (Beautiful Impressions) that housed rubber stamps and 1 little side that you could order ice-cream from the outside.

They also had a little festival set up across the street where they had food and had a bunch of old items and antiques where I bought a French Tea Jar for $1. I bought a few of Paper Doll Part Stamps. In NYC they are $23 at Kate's Paperie and her they were $16.00. We had lunch at this "healthy Mexican place and what was I thinking to order quesadilla and nachos and tacos....yes folks I did! I was thinking Taco Bell they were thinking Mexican Feast! No wonder they were staring at me funny...hahaha A little bit of advice though when you see "healthy" next to a food like Mexican do not stop on in! It was fine but had tofu and cardboard taste to it. Oh and no I did not eat it all! LOL! Oh and the Burrito was Sara's, we just kept laughing just staring at the food.

When we were done we went to Ikea bought some shadow boxes to make future swap items. Then a few more stores and I got home at 9:30 PM exhausted inspired full and happy.

Teenage Vampire addiction...

I have a few friends and blog friends that are hooked on the "Twilight Saga": Twilight - New Moon - Eclipse - Breaking Dawn, and so am I. I am finally on the last book Breaking Dawn (754 pages). It is a teenager series but with a huge following not quite as big as Harry Potter but big. So at times it was slow and you could guess what was going to happen but all in all it has been great getting to know Edward the rich handsome old fashioned vampire and Jacob the sweet young werewolf.

Some crafty - scrapbooking things to come this week...I promise! Some cute Pink Cupcake finds.

Pink Juicy Knight In The City...

Here he finally is my "Knight in Pink Shining Armor"! He does exist and everyone thinks I am just a hopeless romantic... Where does he reside? On Madison and 72nd Street in NYC, one of my favorite pink stores. This Friday I was home sick so I did not get a chance to do my Friday in the City so took a little stroll this evening for some Pink Lovin. I bought a journal for myself..what will I write in it? nothing right now I guess. I can wait for my Knight to come alive... Marie is all over the city it seems ...her bust is in this store she is so pretty with her pink cheeks. Then I thought I saw me some cupcakes but no just cute baby bibs in cute cupcake holders (they even package cute). Next was a girl sleeping in her bathrobe in a birdcage sitting on some pink sheep she has been counting...I think she got stuck in the cage because she was thinking of all the sweetness in here...
this last one is so cute I need it cause GP are my initials! Ahh going to go dream of my "Pink Juicy Knight" Pink Dreams girls...

Heidi Swapp Paper at Costco..test run

I was reading Heidi Swapps mom's blog and was so excited to see that Heidi has card stock (96 sheets double sided) and is going through a "test" run at certain Costco stores. So today I went to 4 yes 4 different Costco's and no luck! Boo Hoo for me! So fingers are crossed that it does really well so that I will get at at least 1 near me or by some friends. So let me know if you actually found this at your local Costco. Heidi's mom said that she got hers from her brother who picked them up in St. George Utah, so if you live there please tell your friends and buy them out! 96 sheets of double-sided card stock for $14.99 what a deal. This is Heidi's 2nd kit at Costco, the 1st was chock filled with tons of stuff. I borrowed with permission this picture from Heidi's Mom..

Marie Antoinette in the City......

I didn't think I would have enough to say before I started this blog....now my problem is how do I shut up? LOL! Oh well, I just love NYC there is something always to see. I went into Anthropologie the other day for some inspiration and oh my goodness I looked over to the side and there was this beautiful Marie Antoinette dress made of paper in her own room! I know there are so many Marie Antoinette lovers out there in blog land and so I was so excited I had to share. I hope you girls love her room as much as I did. I did not want to leave. I can go in there everyday and see something new fun and different there. This was one of my favorite movies I loved the costumes the colors the furniture and all the accessories.. it stared Kirsten Dunst.

Flowers on the dress all made of paper!