What a fun packed weekend. The road trip was a blast but than hanging with G-a, Sonia (aka Sophia), Barb and Kip can not help but be anything but a blast. We headed to Lakeland on Friday after everyone arrived and went to one of our favorite places to shop in that area, Violette's (or, as Kip calls it "Nicolettes"). Kip and got some of the wonderful Black Market Paper Society papers and I did 3 layouts with them at the Ruskin crop (will post those later today) and G-a gave us the great news that she will soon have the complete lines and all of them in her store at Kit N Kaboodle! (www.knkclub.com)! So, if you like what Kip and I do with these beautifully textured papers, and don't happen to live in Lakeland Florida, you know where to find the now. And I have to tell you, the owner of the company has the best sense of humor.
As we drove through some of the smaller towns in Florida on our road trip, we saw this building for sale and thought it one of the most ironic signs of the time...a mortgage company for sale by owner. How sad is this?
And finally, people should not leave Kip and I unattended. While waiting for the other gals to check out of Violette's, Kip and I amused ourselves taking pictures of ourselves. Cute, huh? lol.
The girls treated me to lunch on our road trip to kick off my birthday which is not until tomorrow. I love it when the celebration starts early and continues on and on.
The crop in Ruskin was wonderful as always. Linda Jenkins is the Queen of Crops! Hilltop Memories' crops rock! Deb has found us the perfect place to play in the meeting hall of a sweet little church where her husband is the pastor. And, I actually got 5 layouts done: 3 with the Black Market Paper Society goodies and 2 more for my "Through My Garden Gate" album. The most I ever get done at a weekend crop is 2 let alone 5 at a one day crop.
Barb and I followed G-a and Sonia from my house yesterday to Ruskin as after the crop, they were heading back to Ft. Myers. I left the crop after supper with plenty of sunlight as I don't drive well after dark. I made it home to Tarpon (a mighty ways away) in under and hour and a half which is great time considering I somehow went through the greater Tampa downtown area not once but twice. I knew that I needed to go North and West and found my way home eventually. I think I have seen parts of Tampa/St. Pete/Clearwater/Tampa/that few residents have seen. P.S. The ladies in the toll booths are very helpful! lol
Watch this space for some layouts! and have a great day!
OH, and how do you like my new glasses?
7 comments:
If you didn't make a shameless plug for your glasses, I was going to tell you how much I adore them...However, with that being said...KIP--your hair looks adorable. Makes you look 10 years younger than your friend!
Roz, I still love you Smoochie Girl! (SMACK)
Love the layouts Jules!!! Lovely papers, too. Sounds like you are having a fabulous birthday! Hope so, you deserve it.
Ha ha, what Roz said!!!
You silly girl......looks like you had alot of fun! OH and HAPPY b-day......
another sign of the times I saw was someone driving a Chrysler 300 series luxery car with a pizza delivery sign on the roof. Now that's hard times.
Well, Happy Birthday! Hope you had a great, great day!
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