January Crops

Just 2 more days until 2008! That's exciting, what's not so exciting is that I'm one day away from being the mother of a sixteen year old. Kim became a mother of a sixteen year old 2 weeks ago. Do we look old enough for that??? Lie to us, please.....

Our first crop of January is going to be a celebration of our two year anniversary of hosting crops at Hobby Lobby. We started out with our friends from church that we begged, pleaded and coerced to show up and Cindy! We've come a long way and we hope that 2008 will be an even bigger year for us!

January 5

10:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Come in your craziest Hawaiian get up! Kim wants you guys to show up in grass skirts and coconut bras! We'll see how that works out for her!

I'll be making a banana pudding and probably our most popular dish, taco soup.

January 19

10:00 AM to 7:00 PM

In addition to our normal crop we are kicking off our year long circle journal with a make & take for that project. We will be making an 8 1/2 x 11 album for our journal. This is just the first of many times I will be offering this project so if you miss it this month, don't despair, you can make it up whenever you can!


The tentative and subject to change price of this project is $20.00. This includes the album, title page and embellishments.


Please sign up via email in advance for this class so I have enough materials for everyone who is participating on this date.


I took the January layout to start us off so be expecting your copies of my layout on this date.

If you didn't sign up to participate in the circle journal but would like to, email me at kroppykats@aol.com. The deadline to sign up to participate is February 1.

Haven't decided on lunch for this date yet, email me any ideas and recipes you know is a crowd pleaser! But don't forget, I'm allergic to red meat.

Circle Journals

Has anyone participated in a circle journal? I've read a lot about them but have never seen one. I've also seen a lot of drama on scrapbook message boards where someone wasn't living up to their end of the bargain. But I'm interested anyway.

So, who's in? Lets sign up on December 15 if you want to play. We'll each take a month. I'll do a journal for a Make & Take so all of our journals match. Then, we'll do a page about ourselves or our group and share! We Kroppy Katters are such a good group, I'd love to have something really special to remember everyone by.

Here are some links I googled for information about circle journals. I want ours to be scrapbooked pages about ourselves. Maybe a 2 page layout. I think 8 1/2 by 11 is a good size because it's so much easier to photo copy. I think photo copying is the best way to get every one a copy unless someone has a better idea....

http://www.pagesoftheheart.net/artman/publish/article_923.shtml

http://www.creatingkeepsakes.com/mag/article.ihtml?index_field=1002

http://www.scrapjazz.com/topics/Scrapbook_Basics/Album_Ideas/752.php

I'm also looking for new creative ideas for next year. I want to shake things up a bit. So if you have ideas, lets have them!

Ornament Exchange

We've decided to add an ornament exchange at the Christmas party. So just bring a pretty ornament if you want to participate. We'll give all the ornaments a number and we'll draw numbers to see what we win!

Also, try to get there at least by 11 because we have a few ladies that have to leave early. We want to make sure we can at least get all the exchanging done before they have to go.

Thanks!

December Crops and Trying Something New!

Hey Kroppy Kats!

The website is stressing me out. Mainly because I don't know what I'm doing and I'm too busy to learn HTML. I'm trying but I want to take a break. So I'm giving this blogging world a shot. Surely this is easier than badly maintaining a website, right? I am not admitting defeat. I will never admit defeat.

December is here in 2 days! Where did the time go? Who is ready for Christmas? Not me!

Our crop schedule is set for December.

This Saturday we will start at 11:00 at Hobby Lobby. Note that the start time has changed from 10 back to 11 for this crop only. Not that this applies to anyone except that one crazy lady that always beats me. I won once though! This only happened because Reagan and I spotted her in the parking lot and took off at a dead run, wildly careening through the aisles trying to get past her!

Our fee is the usual $10.00 and covers the cost of lunch, tea, 10% off all scrapbook items purchased during the crop and chances at hourly door prizes.

We are also throwing our names in a hat (or plastic cup) and drawing names for the Secret Santa. If you want to participate here are some details:

The party is December 15 at Hobby Lobby.
You get a secret pal to buy a present for. This present can be anything--scrapbook related not necessary.
You can NOT spend more than $10.00 on this gift.
You do not have to be at the December 1st crop to participate. If you want to be in the drawing, email me at kroppykats@aol.com.

On December 15 we are also going to have a Dirty Santa game and you have to bring a wrapped present that is a discarded scrapbook item. Something you are never going to use and were crazy for buying anyway. DO NOT purchase anything new for this.

Notice somewhere on here is a poll to let me know what you want to eat that day. I think it's at the bottom of the page. Please take it, otherwise you get what I feel like making when I crawl out of bed in the morning.

So I guess that's all for today. Comment me so I feel loved, will ya!