October Afternoon Santa Sack Sale

Usually I am not fond of mystery warehouse box sales.  Why?  Because I don't know what is in it and I might not like anything in it.  Well... October Afternoon is having a weekly (for 5 weeks, I think) Santa Sack sale.  After first I didn't want to do it.  It was $50 with shipping.  I thought that was a lot for an unknown box.  I decided... well... I like just about everything October Afternoon makes.  So I thought.. why not... plus I "accidentally" clicked on buy me on Pay Pal.  So here is the load. Week 1:

 doesn't look like a lot.... but there is a lot.

 The loose embellishments and knick-knacks.

 Paper pack.

sticker/cards/pack.

I was happy with it...and may buy another one.  :-P

Touch Pen

Went to Scrap Expo and was excited to find Carpe Diem there.  I was hoping that they would have some cheap Copic... but nope, they had  Touch Pen.  I was chit chatting with (I guess) the owner of Touch Pen Co.  This particular pen is also alcoholic based.  Except it is much darker (as you can see in my pic... ignore the over coloring in the eyes... was careless) ... however they are limited to about 150 (don't remember) pens.  They had different range of shade...but not as much as Copic.  I tried asking about making extremely light colors... and he had no answer for me.  In the end, I think I will stick to my Copic.

Some tidbits...

 My Honey finally put up by layout display wall hanging thingy :-P  I can't wait to hang up some of my layouts!

 Well... this is as organized as it gets.  I just have wayyyyy toooo much stuff.  The tubs are used to seperate my work area and my Honey's work area.  Yes... that is an ammo box that I am using as my stool :-P

 New Martha deep punch.  *heart*

BTW I love Knock Knock.  That have such funny stuff!  Got this self-inking stamp at Anthopologies (or however you spell it.  Went to my first shop in San Diego with Jen).  I am going to use it to make fun Christmas tags!  :-)

Some projects...

 I finally added some pictures to the mini-album from Artful Horizons.  :-)

Dah! Sideways!

These two are from a Quick Quotes Class.  I liked the black and white one.  I can see myself making several versions of that layout.  :-)

CKU-Reunion

Earlier this month, I attended CKU-Reunion in San Diego.  I have been waiting for this for a long time! 

My friend Jennifer. :-)

 Our first class, we made a pillow.  It was awesome!  I really liked my pillow.  It was really easy! We sew some strips of fabric together.  Pulled at one seam to make a rosettes.  Afterward, we wrapped it around the front of the pillow.  I can't wait to make some more of these for Christmas :-)

Here we are in a mixed-media canvas class.  I really enjoyed it.  It was different... used a lot of modge podge!  But I can see myself making more mixed-media canvas using my scraps.  :-)

I did the "Be Silly" album track with Michelle Hill.  Yes, that is my Hello Kitty sewing machine.  I *heart* my sewing machine!

Silly pictures :-)

Met Lisa Bearnson!

The best part..... I won an Instax Mini 7 camera!!! WOOHOO!!!!

Overall, I had a great time.  It was very different.  It was not all scrapbooking.  Which I enjoyed.  I was able to try new things.  Can't wait to do this again next year!