Changes are a coming!!

So many changes happening in my life right now! The basement is changing, we'll be welcoming a new person into our home (yah for our international student!), and coming soon...my blog will be getting a facelift! Stay tuned to see how it all turns out! I wish I had some fabulous projects to post but unfortunately I can't access any of my supplies right now so I don't! I miss playing! I'll let everyone know as soon as possible when our next event will be...I'm thinking early September.

Don't forget about the amazing sale!!!

Our Designer Series Paper is on SALE!!! That's right, I said sale! Right now, buy 3 packs of DSP and get 1 FREE!! It's an awesome deal and a great opportunity to get ready for scrapbooking your summer pictures or making beautiful Christmas cards.

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We had a great day today...ordered the flooring for the basement - so excited!! We finally got a hold of a taper (to mud the drywall), we've ordered a dresser for the bedroom and a loveseat for the TV room! We even picked up the toilet and a gorgeous vanity for the bathroom! I love when things come together!

Then this evening we spent a few hours at the new playground at Assiniboine Park with our good friends, Susan, Colin and Reed. The kids ran and played and had a great time!!

It really was the perfect night to spend outside, playing with friends. It was hot, but not too hot. No bugs, just bliss!

September is coming…a new start!!

I'm not quite ready for summer to be over but at the same time I'm really looking forward to all the fabulous new experiences coming my way! I mentioned the other day that we're developing our basement - our main purpose in doing this is to provide a living space for an international student we are hoping to be hosting this year! I'm really excited to meet this person and have them be a part of our family! I think it's going to be an amazing experience! The added bonus of developing the basement for the student is that my craft room is finally going to be finished as well! I'm so very excited!

This first picture is the bedroom, soon to be home to our visiting international student - so excited to meet this person!

These next two pictures are right at the bottom of the stairs and will become the TV room, it'll be a small space but enough for watching movies, studying or playing boardgames.

These last two pictures are my craft room - I know, I know - it's not much to look at but it will get better! Promise!

Waiting on a room

We've been working on our basement for the last two weeks - it was just an unfinished basement but now we're developing the entire space. We're going to end up with a small living room, a bedroom, full bath, a storage room and my lovely new Stampin' space! So far we have pretty much everything framed, the plumbing and electrical is all done, the tub is installed but we've been held up waiting for the drywall. It was supposed to be delivered on Friday evening or Saturday morning. We waited all day Saturday for it to arrive only to discover on Sunday morning that the order hadn't even been placed yet and it would arrive on Monday, and then on Monday I got a text saying it would be coming at 4:30 on Tuesday. What do you do?

In the meantime, I wanted to post pictures of the projects from our recent Stamp-a-Stack event...I'm dying to get my hands on some stamps and paper but since my entire stash is packed up right now this will have to do!

It's hard to tell on a lot of them but they're so full of shimmer and sparkle. I was really happy with how they turned out! I'm thinking about planning one more Christmas event before school gets back in session! Stay tuned! Also, tomorrow I'll post some pictures of our basement pre-drywall on walls so you can watch the changes happen downstairs! I'm excited!

Can you believe it's August already?

Seriously, it's freaking me out a little! This summer has been so very busy! But at least the weather is amazing, right? I've got a few pictures from Convention I want to share with you...

We took a tour of the Riverton Campus (I think that's what it's called)..

.this is Stampin' Up's main headquarters. We were able to see their idea room - what a cool place to hang out in to get inspiration, we visited the packing floor - oh, the rows upon rows of boxes filled with Stampin' Up goodies! It was a beautiful building and sort of made me want to quit my job and move to Utah to work there! Below is a pic of Kris, Ava and I standing in front of the Stampin' Up sign at the entrance to the Riverton Campus.

Here's a group of us having lunch at the restaurant in our hotel, this pic is Kris, Rachel, Jenn? (I think) and Maria. I really loved meeting everyone and actually can't believe I might have to wait until next July to see many of them again!

This pic is of me with one of my new favourite people - Jacque and I believe the lady in pink is one of her downlines - I want to say Michelle but I could just be making that up!

This is Dawn with Ava, two more of my favourite people! Dawn and Jacque had an adjoining room with us and it was so fun getting to know them. After less than a week I felt like we had been friends forever - and I don't get that feeling very often! I wish we all lived closer but Jacque is in Hawaii and Dawn lives in Jersey. Rachel and Maria also spent a lot of time hanging out with us and I really loved getting to know them as well but they also live too far away - Pensylvania (I'm so not spelling that right!).

These last two pictures are just the smallest sampling of the many (I'm talking thousands) of pictures we took of samples and ideas while at Convention. I'll continue to post more as we go along!

I wanted to quickly let you all know that Stampin' Up is having a fabulous promotion for the month of August...when you buy 3 sets of Designer Series Paper you get one free (~$13.50 value). So, if you're looking to stock up on some fabulous DSP for scrapbooking or cardmaking now's the time! Send me an email or fb message if you'd like me to place an order for you!

Also, I placed my Holiday mini pre-order today - woot, woot! So many amazing things coming our way! I cannot wait to get planning some more Stamp a Stack projects and I think, starting this fall, I'm going to begin to introduce classes to our events as well! Thanks ladies!