Home again, home again, jiggity-jig!
That was a little song my friend’s dad sang when we were growing up…rather fitting for today, I think. I came home last night to a very excited little girl who spent half of the evening running around screaming, “OH MY GOSH I MISSED YOU MAMA!” She spent the other half of the evening with her face buried in my leg or chest or wherever else she could snuggle. Fine by mean, obviously…I missed her so much! We decided to let her sleep with us because we had all missed each other so much…and we did the same at nap time today! My hubby was home early today, so we all took a GOOOOOOD nap. Ahhhh…this is the life!
I took her to Starbucks today for breakfast…she loves going through the drive-thru with me, but we’d never gone in for breakfast, so it was super exciting and fun! We even found a few bargain tumblers and I grabbed one of the insert tumblers – so I’m going to make mine tonight or tomorrow. Sadly, it is going to be a S.O.S insert – Save Our Starbucks – because it is one of the stores on the chopping block. Sad day. There is a very large petition already, and I’ve offered my services to help make posters, postcards, or whatever they need. I’m also going to make some extra copies of my insert and drop them off so they can give them out to people with the create-your-own tumblers! I know it probably won’t change anything, but it is at least worth a try, right? It hasn’t even been open a year and it is the only one for about 45 miles. What are they thinking???? Give us a chance, people. Geesh! My hubby wrote a great letter to the company…he is such a great writer! I’m taking a copy of it in so they can hang it up with the petition. Ok, I digress (for now)…on to the rest of the day.
I received my prize check from www.minted.com today! I’m official – my design was chosen as a runner-up in the Holiday Card Design Contest and it will be sold there this holiday season! Thanks to all who voted for me! 
I’m working on my next design submission for them now, so I’ll keep you posted.
Today, I bought my hubby a new grill. He has wanted one for a long time and our old one was starting to look a little gross…LOL! He is so excited! We found a great one at Lowe’s and it was on sale. After our great nap, we played some Elefun, dug through my goodies from CHA, and just chilled…which had to done inside because it was disgustingly hot and humid today.
I promised I’d talk a little bit about some more of the great stuff from CHA, so I’ll do a little of that now…I’m still kind of burned out and exhausted from the weekend, so I’ll make it quick. Don’t get me wrong…I had an amazing weekend…it was just a little overwhelming! Here are some of the awesome new things I had a chance to see:
Bo Bunny has some amazing products! I am sooo in love with their papers and they use a lot of my fave fonts for their stickers and word arty stuff. I had the chance to talk with the owner and she was an awesome woman who was excited to hear about how we (meaning digi-scrappers) could use her products in hybrid projects. That was pretty refreshing because I met several people at CHA didn’t really get that I didn’t have to be *just* a digi-scrapper or *just* a paper scrapper. So, my chat with her was very encouraging! Some of my favorite Bo Bunny discoveries are: Splendor Collection, My Darling Collection, Beau Jardin Collection, and their Word Albums!
Another favorite was the My Mind’s Eye booth! The Laundry Line Collection (by Jen Wilson…is it the same one from digi-design??? IDK!) is just absolutely luscious! I simply could *not* stop touching the papers.
I also really loved some of the new Crate Paper Collections: Mia, Prudence, and Lemon Grass were my favorites! The colors were just perfect!
The new stuff coming out from October Afternoon is sooo cool, too! The Fall and Holiday stuff is just adorable!
Ok, I’m exhausted and drooling now that I’ve revisited all of this CHA goodness….I just saw a Mojito commercial that reminded me of my new BFF, Jane Hasty (see my CHA post from July 19 for more info), so on that note, I’ll sign off for tonight. I’ll keep adding more CHA stories and goodness this week…and yes, pics will come soon!
If my SBX closed, I would be depressed for months. I am there at least three times a day, often more!
LOVED the Bo Bunny and October Afternoon stuff, too… Didn’t see Crate Paper, tho.
Loved meeting you, too!
xoox
Lain
Had so much fun at CHA hanging out with you and Stephenie and all the other cool people that were there. Sounds like you are giving the “Save My Starbucks” campaign a good effort, good luck with that.
Think I’ll go nap now, that sounds pretty darn good to me. Love you. Donna
Dude. I am sooooo jealous. like, you don’t even know how jealous! *lol*
PS…if your SBX closes, you can have one of ours. There are so many in this town, and none of them are on the chopping block. I was surprised!