Planning a Cruise!!!

Woohoo. I can't believe we've actually decided to take a cruise to celebrate our 10th anniversary in October. I've been on two cruises before: The first was a short 3-day cruise to Nassau that my sister planned for my mom, my three sisters and myself. The second was a 7-day cruise to Alaska with Chris' company. I didn't get to plan either of these trips, so this is the first time I've been the one doing the research and making the decisions.

I looked into TONS of options and finally found one that suited our needs, and was also one we could afford (most were out of our price range). Our travel agent got us an amazing deal on a cruise with Holland America on their new ship, the Eurodam. We'll be staying in an outside stateroom with our own private verandah. We will fly into Fort Lauderdale and stay there for two nights before getting on the ship and going to Grand Turk in Turks & Caicos; San Juan, Puerto Rico; St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands and also to Half Moon Cay, which is a lovely private island owned by Holland America.

I'm so excited about the trip, and I've already started picking up some amazing papers to scrapbook different parts of the trip!

Scrapfest

Scrapfest was held this weekend in KW and I ended up going on the Friday night. I hadn't planned on going as I wasn't sure what our plans were going to be, but then I decided I might try to go by on the Saturday afternoon if I was able to.

On Friday afternoon I received an e-mail from someone looking to sell an extra ticket to the Friday night marketplace, so I decided to go and check things out.

My first stop was to the booth for Two Scrapbook Friends. I picked up some very yummy papers from the new "Delight" line from Fancy Pants.








Believe me... this picture doesn't do the papers justice. They are even more adorable in person.

I then wandered around a bit and snagged some 12"x12" chipboard sets (thanks Karan!) that were a great price, and bought a few kits and some new adhesive that was recommended to me by Karen of Go Scrapping!

It was great to see some familiar faces, and check out the various booths and pick up some nice stuff to play with.

Now I just need to get my office/craft room organized again so I can get caught up on some of my scrapping.

First Post

I've been thinking of setting up a BLOG for a while - partly so I can post some things related to scrapping, photography, family, etc., for my family and friends to check out if they want to, but also as a way to continue to move myself a bit out of the rut I've been in lately.

I'm pushing myself to try new things, get out more, meet new people and also do more with my family and friends. Part of that is to try to take more pictures, create more memories and scrapbook more pages for myself but also for others.

Hopefully I will be able to keep this site up and running and will share it with people I know.