Scammed?

So I am not totally thrilled with the results of the Yard Sale. I made a list of everything I took there along with how much I'd listed stuff for. On Thursday night, the store called me to remind me to pick up the stuff I had left over, so I went right over. I had about 6-7 things, mostly stickers, my Totally Cool tote, my quickcutz and a book. That's it. When I subtracted these things from what I took there, I should've made $104.50, but I store credit of only $78.50. That's a difference of 26 dollars, and I am not sure what to do. I wasn't told to expect any loss, but I know what retail is like. I know that things get taken, but $26 dollars worth, out of 100? That's a pretty big percentage.
Maybe when I go back to the store to spend some of my account money, I'll mention it and see what they say.

Yard Sale

Today was fun! Our LSS, The Cropper's Corner, had their semi-annual yard sale. It started today and finishes up tomorrow, actually. For the first time, I found a bunch of stuff to sell at the yard sale, cleaning out tons of old stickers and accessories that I don't use anymore.

I went by after lunch and bought a few things, but truthfully, there wasn't much there that I was interested in. I got a year of Creating Keepsakes magazine for $5.00 and a few stickers and quilled paper stickers. My total was just over $8.00 for everything.

The good news is that I've already sold over $40 worth of stuff!! I added up everything that I took over, and it was just under $200, so there's still quite a bit there to sell, but we'll see how it goes tomorrow. I get 100% of the money in store credit, which I am sure I will have no trouble using!

Something New to Scrapbook

This is our new little guy. He is an 11 week old Black Lab puppy, who, at this moment, is nameless. We're still waiting for something to strike us. He is very sweet and very good, and I am sure he'll have many pages in the next scrapbook!

What have I gotten myself into?

Last week, I visited my parents' house in Pennsylvania. My dad was showing off his new cuckoo clock, a clock he bought to replace the one they lost in the 1972 flood. I remembered a photo of that clock on the water-damaged wall of our old house, so I went digging. And digging. And digging. Finally I found it! The clock my dad bought recently is almost exactly like the one my uncle had brought back for us when he was stationed in Germany in the late 60's. Very cool.

Anyway, while I was looking through all the pictures, I asked my dad if I could take them home to organize them and get them out of the bad albums. The above pictures are all the photos I could find in their house. There was no storage plan there. Some of the photos have been in albums since the 70's and 80's. More recent photos are still in their packages or in rubber bands. Every so often, a photo from 1945 is mixed in with packs from last year. Pretty much in every drawer I opened, no matter what room of the house, I found pictures.

I have my work cut out for me. I think that I'll organize all the photos chronologically and then digitize them--or maybe just some of them. And with the digital photos, I'll create some digital scrapbooks for my parents and my sisters. The photos themselves will go into storage all together and organized by year. This is the plan. We'll see how it goes.

Look What Santa Brought Me!!!

I am so excited with my present from Santa this year!!! A CRICUT!!! I just can't wait to play with it and make some fun new stuff for my scrapbooks!

Headliners

So these are my new favorite things. I used some last summer for my trip to Niagara Falls and also for a visit with my nieces and nephews. This year, my vacations included the fabulous cities of Cleveland and Pittsburgh, but alas, there were no headliners for those places.

So I emailed the company, CraftersOutpost.com, and asked if they would consider making Headliners for Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The same day I wrote to them, they wrote back and said they'd love to design the headliners I requested and that it should take a week or so.

Not three days later, they emailed again to say the headliners were posted on eBay and I could buy them from their store there. So I did! And they arrived in my mailbox two days later. And I love them!!

Organizing

Yup, that's all I've been doing lately. I don't know how my things get so unorganized, but every few months, I have to set aside a few hours to organize. Actually, it's not that things are unorganized, but I get some new stuff and want to put it away, or I come up with a new way of organizing something and have to do it all over again.

I just emailed my CMC to get another one of these decofile folders. I already have one and like it for the big paper and also because it has a over-the-shoulder strap that makes it easy to tote around. Since I've been swapping on Scrap Share, I've needed to keep track of CM papers and LSS papers, hence the need for another folder.

Currently, I'm having trouble with all those storyboxes from CM. I don't know what to do with them--with some of them, I've organized them by color (according to the rainbow, of course), but then with others, I feel like I can't really do that. I was working with the everyday pack, and there's just no way to put that into the ROYGBIV format. So I just kept those together. But I did move all the storyboxes and other journaling boxes into a mini-sort box, which I like better than those smaller blue organizers I was using.

I have some vacation photos to scrap, plus my nephew's first swimming adventure, and a couple more baseball stadiums to do. So I have plenty to keep me busy on July 28, which is the all day crop my CMC is holding. I can't wait!!