Luis and I discussed the convention, and I asked if he would be alright with me spending $10 while I'm there. Luis didn't think this was quite fair; and told me that I should be able to spend $20. Now I know that if you've ever been to the convention, you're thinking that $20 sounds like nothing; but to me, it was plenty. Having been to the convention before, I knew that I was only going to buy something if I thought it was special; OR if it was a really great price for something that I'd definitely use.
Within the three hours that we were at the convention, I bought 2 packages of foam, glitter, letter stickers for $1 per pack, and 1 package of epoxy snowflake stickers, for $1. If you're counting that's $3 spent so far. The next item that I wanted to purchase were Prima-esque flowers. For you non-scrapbookers, Prima is a company that amongst other things, makes the most beautiful flowers in all types of papers and fabrics; but they can be a little pricey. Although they were being sold for less money than usual, at the convention; I still wasn't sure that I was prepared to invest. Luckily, I found a booth that had flowers very similar to Prima, but for a fraction of the cost; so I bought 10 flowers for $2. I wouldn't have been able to buy even one package of Prima flowers for that price. Oh Scrappy day!
With $5 spent, Jenny and I agreed to share a box of Bazzill paper. For you non-scrapbookers, Bazzill is (in my opinion) the premier cardstock for scrapbooking. They were offering an empty pizza style box for $20. You would then fill the box with approximately 100 sheets of the 12x12 cardstock of your choice. I proposed to Jenny that we split a box, and she agreed. Our friend Lisa B was also going to buy a box, as well as one for Mari, so we purchased the four together because if you bought more than one box, the price for the additional boxes was only $15 each. Score! My portion was $7.50 and I asked Lisa to put my additional $2.50 towards Mari's box; as did Jenny. When our other friends saw how little I'd purchased, they found it amusing; but I was very pleased. I managed to leave the convention having spent only $15.
We went to lunch, and then to the ribbon store. Yes, a store that sells ONLY ribbon. It's just heavenly. Mari had called and asked that we each buy her a couple of yards of ribbon; which she insited on reimbursing us for. She assigned each of us a two colors and asked that we buy her two kinds of ribbon per color. Mine were lime green and turquoise. I liked the ones that I'd chosen for Mari so much, that I bought a couple of yards for myself, and was still under the $20. From there we went to Scrapbooks etc. and I bought two sheets of paper and an apple cider lollipop; but it didn't cost me anything, because my friend Julie wouldn't take my $2.50 since I'd bought her a frappe at McDonald's this morning.
With all of the scrapbook paper that we'd looked at today, the one thing that I didn't see was the ONE piece of paper that I need in order to finish the Holiday card layout that I started the last time that I cropped at Mari's. I'm on the process of making three identical layouts for my kids, but I was only able to complete two as I ran out of one of the papers for the third. When I got home and realized that I hadn't stopped at Crop girls, to buy my one sheet; I looked online to see what time they closed. With only 25 minutes till closing, I drove over to the store; and as luck would have it, there was exactly one sheet left. I spent all of .86 which is almost unheard of for a scrapbooker; and I was on my way.
I'm so glad that I decided to go today. I had a wonderful time spending a day with the ladies and my desire to scrapbook has been rejuvenated. I stuck to my budget; and I REALLY like what I purchased; so my mission was accomplished.
Speaking of mission accomplished...I want to give myself a lil pat on the back, as tonight's blog is my 400th post EVER! Thank you so much for joining me.
Till next time...
Queen of EVERYTHING
