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!

Challenge 68

Where does the time go?! I think I was trapped in a timewarp that was tinted a very unsavory shade of green this week...there was a bug...a flu bug...eeew! It all started with Noah, then I got it and so did Seth. Ray got a headache and stiff joints (I'm a little bitter that he got off so easy) and we were all glad to see it pass.

Okay, enough of that! It's Friday again and we have a challenge but sadly my page is absent due to the sickness :( Our challenge image is actually a Starbucks greeting card. I thought it was a great composition and I just knew it would trigger some more amazing creativity in our gals...

And of course, as always there is our Flickr Group where you can upload a copy of your page created from our weekly challenges. You will have a chance to win one of the current Couture Collections but you are not required to create your pages from the Collections...although, if you have one, we'd love to see what you create with yours!

Jessi

Ronda
Christine

Tania

I love this mini album...what a great way to use up this kit, goodness knows there's enough stuff to do it!

Sallie

My baby's FOUR!

As a victim of Martha Stewart's Cupcake Week last week, I was compelled to make a batch for Seth's 4th birthday party instead of a conventional birthday cake but really, how good could they have possibly been without a little almost-four-year-old helper doing all that important mixing?! Seth had such fun making cupcakes with me and I must admit, I had a whole lotta fun myself.


And today was the big ol' party and Seth was given a Gameboy from Noah (a hand-me-down) and a 'Cars' game to play. It was all I could do to peel him away to toss him in the tub before bed! He also got a Leap Pad and two stories and another electronic portable game console (handy for the car) from Auntie Leslie & Uncle Len and Hannah & Madison.

These are my...er, I mean Seth's cupcakes. They were suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper yummy!

Ray must have been enjoying himself because he was full of first class hamminess for the camera! But, I think that the photo below is my absolute favorite from the entire day. What a gorgeous man! To quote Seth as he was opening his remote control airplane from Grandma & Grandpa, "Lucky me!"



What a fantatic day. I can't believe Seth is four! Where has the time gone? Wow, what a ride. Glad the terrible threes are OVER! LOL

Challenge 67

Wow, Just when I thought all was lost this month with the long reaching ripple-effect of slow-to-arrive Couture Collections to our Design Team, the gals got their stuff and rocked out the five-star pages below! Way to go everyone! This week's sketch is clearly one that can be interpreted many different ways as you can see. It puts the focus on one main photo with lots of room for journaling.

If you want to try your hand at this week's challenge, please remember to upload a copy to our Flickr Group so that you can have an opportunity to win a Couture Collection. All you do is load the image to your gallery on Flickr and once that's done, go to the 'Organizr' and upload it to our group (it's all drag &drop!) just be sure to mention which week your page is for in your title so you are included in the voting process for the month. You are not required to create your pages using the Couture Collections but we love it when you do!

And if you haven't already, don't forget about the Open Call for Design Team applications! Go HERE to find out more about being a Lotus Paperie Designer

Ronda

Vanessa

up close

Jessi

Sallie

Danielle
Tania

Christine

Oh, and on a side-note, the Bison feast was unbelievable. We sat at a table with Noah's teacher and her family and shared no end of belly laughs. After an amazing dinner with our choice of burgers, sausage or steak and tables upon tables of potluck dishes the group was shown a slide show of the Bison hunt. It was pretty standard slide-show stuff, you know kids goofing off and unflattering photos of teachers bundled up in every possible layer of warm clothing but the piece de resitance was the video that followed where you could see the 'field dressing' (that's the graphic part where they skin, gut & quarter the meat) and some of the kids' accounts of the experience. The Bison were brought back by snow machine (AKA skidoo) to the location where it was being prepared and one of the kids was describing his job which was to make sure that the intestines didn't fall out the arse of the Bison from his group's kill while being hauled back . He mentions with nonchalance that he had to shove his arm up the beast's rectum to keep its guts inside. When asked how he felt about that, he replied with perfect comic timing, " it was quite warm...but I just kept telling myself, ' this is the worst puppet show ever!' " Well, that had to be the damned funniest account of the glamorous side of Bison hunting I'd ever heard. What a way to end the night! Hahahahaha