I know, I know, I have been away from my blog for months while my life has been in complete and utter chaos. It is very hard to find your mojo/motivation when the majority of your toys and supplies are packed in boxes and sealed with several layers of packing tape and you are desperately trying your best to keep your house clean and orderly for potential buyers. I won't bore you with all the gory details, but where there's a will, there's a way so I'll just show you what I have been doing lately!
A few weeks ago me and several girlfriends took a long weekend to attend an organized crop at the Contemporary Resort at Disney! The Contemporary is one of the original hotels on Disney property, (it was opened in 1971), but it's pretty cool in that the monorail runs right through the 4th floor of the hotel. We had been planning this trip for almost a year and what started out as 9 of us quickly grew to 15. We had a blast and have already signed up to do it again next year. There were 182 of us in attendance...that's 182 crazy crafty women in one (very large) room with very little sleep and all kinds of crazy antics. Here is the group shot taken from above by one of the Disney photographers:
You know you can't spend 4 days with a group of crafty women without making gifts for everyone, right? Most of us made gifts for our room mates and several of us participated in a "Secret Santa" type gift exchange. (more on that later) Many of us also made table gifts for all the girls in our group (I made 17 to include our two hosts). In keeping with our Disney theme this is what I came up with for table gifts...
I used the French Fry Die from Stampin' Up! (retired) to make my Mickey Mouse bottoms that held an assortment of crop necessities. Don't you just love the little button brads on his suspenders? The personalized mouse head tag was created using my Silhouette Cameo. (have I mentioned how much I LOVE my Cameo?)
The tags had a label on the back side that explained my reasoning for the contents of their goodie bags...
Croppers Survival Kit
Bandaids: for those nasty papercuts.
Biofreeze: for the crimp in your neck from
slaving over all those beautiful pages!
WetOnes: for when you have inky fingers and
the bathroom is too much of a hike.
Chocolate: because chocolate makes everything better
TicTacs: for when you stayed up all night scrapping
and your toothbrush is all the way back in the room.
Advil: for the inevitable croppers hangover
Disney Crop 2016 Luggage Tag:
My gift for you to commemorate this
awesome girls weekend!
Once again my Silhouette got a workout making luggage tags for each of the girls to add to their crop totes to remember our weekend. (I think I will need to make one now for every crop!) I wish I had taken a picture of all 15 of them together but you get the idea. The photo blow shows both the front and back of each tag.
And here they are all packed up and ready to go!
We came home with more ideas than we have time to execute and a really, really long wish list of new products that we need to add to our arsenals. We met lots of fun, like-minded scrappers and stampers, laughed a lot, drank too much, slept to little and I can't wait to do it again next year!
Thanks for stoppin' by!
