A Long February Weekend

I've been home since Friday. Connor was out of school friday for a teacher's in service day, so we ran some errands. Connor needed new shoes badly, so Friday we paid a visit to Kohl's and found the perfect pair of New Balance shoes for him.

I spent Friday night finishing my acrylic stamp storage. I had been using CD cases for storage, but it wasn't working for me, so I had to figure out something else. I had been working on finishing up my Newport, RI mini album and I was using acrylic for the cover of the album, when I said to myself "Hey, I bet my stamps will cling to this"..."Yep, I was right", so I measured my FIRA drawers (where I like to store my acrylics) and decided I needed 9 X 12 sheets of acrylic.

I went to Menards and bought 18x24 sheets of acrylic for $5.99 a sheet. I bought two and Fred cut them right down the middle both ways, which gave me 8 - 9x12 sheets. I then organized my stamps by set and spent time mounting them on the acrylic. In a perfect world, I would have stamped the images on a piece of white cardstock and mounted the cardstock on the back (which I may do in the future), but for right now, I'm loving it!






I finally finished my Newport, RI album this weekend. That has been on my "To Do" list since 2006 when I took the trip and I actually completed a layout this weekend also and have another one almost done. This page was for a challenge from my scrap friend Mary on the AAC group. The challenge was to journal on strips of paper.




Tomorrow is a federal holiday, President's Day (remember, NO mail) and I'm hoping to make a trip to Memory Bound for some cardstock I need and I have a hair appointment at 3:00, so it's going to be a pretty relaxing day.

Is everyone ready for spring???