A Stamp Weekend Recap & Other Stuff

Finally, a stolen moment to post about my stamp weekend a few days ago. First off, I had a WONDERFUL time. Lue, my friend (woman in the picture below, standing at the table making a card), is the owner of the cabin (with her hubby Joe, of course). Besides Lue & I, two other women joined us for the stamping festivities.....Teeny and Paula. Teeny and her husband are friends of Lue and Joe's, and Paula is Teeny's sister-in-law.

Can I just say, both these ladies are a hoot? Hi girls! We had SO much fun together, all of us! Lue and I went up Wednesday evening, got our stuff set up and organized and stamped til 12am or so. We stamped ALL day on Thursday, until Teeny came up at 1030p. Then we stamped some more and I think we stayed up til almost 2am! Now THAT'S what I call a PERFECT day! Nothing but stamping and eating. It was sheer heaven ladies!

Paula came up on Friday, by noon. I have never been so happy to see someone in my LIFE. Why? Well, when I was unpacking after we first got to the cabin Wednesday night, I had a moment of sheer and utter horror when I realized I had forgotten my big tub of cardstock and designer paper AT HOME!!! I WAS SICK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The only good news is that we could call Paula and have her bring it up for me when she came up Friday. Poor Lue, I had to use all of her cardstock and designer paper since I had NONE. I was going through such withdrawls not having MY paper to use. Lue doesn't use it as much designer paper as I do, but I managed to muddle through just fine in the end. Thanks Lue!!!

Anyways, I ended up making about 130 cards, can you believe it? I was so happy I got that much made--it felt so good to have a stash again! Lue got a few more cards made than I did, Teeny got like 22 scrapbook pages done, and I think Paula got about 18 or 19 scrapbook pages done! We were doing some serious creatin' the whole weekend!

I am showing you these pictures so you can see what our setup was and how JAM PACKED we had the cabin with our crap! Seriously, if the place had burned down, about $100,000 of our "stuff" would have gone up in smoke! Between the four of us, we brought everything but the kitchen sink! But I loved it and had a great time. I could have stayed two or three more days if hubby would have allowed it!

So, are you ready to see one of the cute cards I made? It's one of my favorites. I actually needed to use up some scraps of uber fun paper from K & Company, and this is what I came up with. Sort of a patchwork quilt Mother's Day card. I LOVE these papers! If you like fun, bright colors, this pad of bright colored, doublesided paper is for YOU! It's called Berry Sweet, and I can honestly say, I have never seen so many luscious patterns/colors in my whole life. I could eat it all up! Be on the lookout for it at Archivers.....

Well, since this post has gone on for so long, I'll just leave you with a few more tidbits....

• Doug started at part-time job at Caribou Coffee to earn a few extra bucks. They offer health insurance, but not until you've been there 3 months. They are great people and he's enjoying himself so far!
• He's got at least three job interviews in process right now, all out of state. At this point, we'll take whatever we can get, regardless of location (well, if it was someplace yukky I'd put my foot down, but none of the places he's interviewing with is in a yukky place).
• I have a full-time job interview Thursday at a small agency near the Mall of America. I am reluctant to go back to full-time work, but we are in the desperate stages right now, and sometimes you just have to do what you've gotta do.
• Ken had a biopsy last Tuesday, and ended up getting pneumonia from the procedure (they punctured the lung and he got a slow leak that caused the problem). At the same time, they chose to start radiation to try and reduce the inflamation of the duram (?), which I believe is the skin surrounding the brain. It's inflamed and causing him headaches and vision issues. He will also be starting chemo this week, once every three weeks.

Whew, I think that's it. Prayers are still highly desired if you are a prayer person. I'm having a hard time of it with all of this, but something has to turn for the better soon. At least I'm praying that's the case! Thanks to everyone for your constant support, you are amazing women!

Hugs,
Amy