Scrap at the Farm

If you live in the Whitehorse area and aren't doing anything on Sunday, I'm hosting a casual scrap day/potluck lunch at my place. Join our Facebook Group to find out the details or email me if you don't "do" Facebook!.

Also, if you are a resident or regular visitor of the Yukon, I have started a new blog & accompanying Facebook Group. The Yukon Photography :: Image Quest will feature weekly challenges that encourage you to flex your photographic muscle. The prizes include fame and notoriety! We will vote once a month from a list of finalists and the winner of that voting process will have their winning photo as the group page on Facebook. Second and third place winners will receive an honorable mention and a hi-five!

FMI, visit the Facebook Groups and the new Yukon Photography :: Image Quest blog.

Oh what a day!

What an amazing experience I had this weekend. If you haven't visited my Classes Blog, I've been planning a NSB Day crop at one of our local hotels and it went down this past Saturday. PHEW! I'm tuckered out! It ran from 9am to 5pm and we had challenges & contests, prizes & giveaways. I taught 6 classes that were so much fun and we had a couple of mini-stores set up for a little shopping too! Boy it was busy.

I remember watching a video post on Donna Downey's blog after her Inspired event last week and laughed to myself when she confessed that she didn't take a single photo. I thought, that's really easy to avoid...but you know, I didn't get any either! So technically, other than my tired feet and my totally disheveled studio, there's no evidence of the event!

I've already booked the same location for next year's event and I'm hoping to get more people to attend. We'll have a vendor's fair (gotta love the shopping!) and maybe it'll be over 2 days...man, I feel tired just thinking about teaching for 2 solid days!

A big warm thank you to everyone who was with us for the day (a very special thank you to my husband, Ray for keeping an eye on things when I was out of the main room teaching) and thank you to the hotel staff for helping me put on such a fun day. Can't wait for next year!!!

If you live in the Whitehorse area (or neighboring communities) the 20% discount on store merchandise is good for the entire month but restricted to in-person purchases (online sales do not qualify). Each time you make a purchase, your name is entered into the draw for 6 months of FREE couture collections! If you want to get your name in the draw, the studio is open Mon, Weds & Fri 10-5 and any other time by appointment. If you purchased goods at the Crop and already turned in your coupon, you can make additional submissions with each purchase so you can enter more than once!

Open Crop night is scheduled to run as usual this coming Wednesday so c'mon out and bring a page or two to work on. Hopefully I'm able to put the studio back together by then!

Happy National Scrapbooking Month everyone!

errands abound

Well, although Open Crop Night wasn't all I hoped it would be this week ( I was kinda by myself) but it's okay because I got tons done...my DT gals can expect their newest kits before the end of the week if Canada Post decides to play nice, I got a wee bit of scrappin' done and holy cow, my studio is TIDY! LOL

I can hardly believe that there's only a week and a half till the NSB Day crop! YIKES! I don't feel half as organized as I think I probably am...so much stuff has gotten done over the past few weeks and it seems like there's an insurmountable list of things yet to be done. Knowing that I get to go and do the big grocery shop today isn't exactly my idea of a good time and could be impacting my mojo just slightly. sigh

there is a little bit of Postal Lovin' waiting for me at the Post Office, I'm going to just insist that today be full of happy goodness. That's my plan of attack for the day. Fun mail & groceries. (that sounds so domestic! LOL) Maybe if I'm really lucky I'll get a chance to do a bit of scrappin' just for fun rather than for work/deadlines. Maybe.

Fun with mail

Well, that was fun! In a wild and crazy whirlwind of flying scrap supplies, I unwrapped, tagged & stocked the shelves with loads of wonderful goodies just waiting for all my new Whitehorse scrappin' friends! There are adhesives, inks, papers and other amazing products and those of you who are planning to attend open crop night tomorrow can get in a little early shopping before the crop on May 3rd.

Some of the products that arrived today are:



Not to mention two different Basic Grey paper packs, Pageframes albums in 6x6 and super cute tag albums, Basic Grey rub-ons, Hambley rub-ons & overlays (and more are on the way!), My Mind's Eye memory blocks kits, and so much more! There's no admission to tomorrow's crop night (there never is) so pack up your latest project and a little cash and prepare yourself to get creative, sip a little tea and shop your heart out! See you there!

FMI call 668-2296 or email lotuspaperie@shaw.ca
7-10 @ Lotus Paperie Studio K216 N Klondike Hwy.

going postal

but not in the traditional sense!! I have a few parcels to collect from the postal outlet today so that is priority one- gotta get May's Couture Collections assembled and shipped to my girls AND there's a few boxes from one of our sponsors for the National Scrapbooking Day crop that I've spent the last eight months planning at one of our local hotels, the High Country Inn. I love picking up mail, it always makes me happy. It's kinda like mini extensions of Birthday Week. And since we live so far out in the boonies, the postal folks don't like to actually deliver parcels larger than a loaf of bread so instead, they drive all the way out here to stick a piece of paper telling me that they're holding my parcel hostage into my mailbox. I think it's a little sinister, really. So that means that I have to go in to Shoppers Drug Mart and deal with some customer service-challenged Postal Gals (groan)and hope that she can find my packages! Doesn't that sound like fun to you! LOL

I'll be dropping in on another friend downtown who has been inflicted with the responsibility of my delivery point for couriers (because if Canada Post won't deliver to my door, why the hell would Fed Ex?!) and as a gesture of thanks (and in an effort to ensure that he remains willing to accept my deliveries) I baked a lovely, tender, gooey batch of uber yummy cinnamon buns. I think they'll be well received!

The rest of the day will be last minute scrapping of samples for the crop and sorting out the heap of freebies! If you live in the Whitehorse area, make sure you visit the Classes page for all the info on the crop & classes. Hope to see you there!

I heart fun mail!

Open Crop Night @ Lotus Paperie Studio

Well, I don't exactly expect to be overrun with inspired scrappers, I am going to be open tonight and totally set up for cropping. God knows I have a long, long list of scrap projects to finish...er, that is, projects to start! So I'll brew a lovely pot of green tea and spread out on the cropping table in the middle of the studio and attempt to make some headway.

Whitehorse scrappers- there's no admission/attendance fee for this event so just grab some scrap supplies and head over. Doors will open at 7:00 and I'll plan to pack up by 10:00 and if you feel an uncontrollable urge to shop don't forget to bring either cash or check! Hope to see you!

If you can't get out this way or life just gets in the way tonight, this is a weekly event - every Wednesday night- but there will also be another crop event held on the last Monday of every month from 4-6:30 at Zola's beginning this month on the 28th. Be sure to stop by, grab a cuppa that famous coffee and maybe even scrap a little!

If you need further information regarding these or other Lotus Paperie events, please call 867-668-2296 or email lotuspaperie@shaw.ca