Monday, September 15, 2008

Good Ole Dry, Hot, SoCal!

Lately I have been bemoaning the hot, dry predictable Southern California weather, but after spending four days in the midwest with the remnants of Hurrican Ike raining down on me I will try not to complain ever again! That was what you call RAIN! How terrible for the more devastasted parts of the country. I got to drive through some decent flooding, and it did change the plans for my nephew's wedding (moved indoors without too much calamity), but all-in-all it was a good trip. I traveled with my older sister, Li, and even though we had good intentions of seeing more of Chicago, we stayed closer to my other sister's house - Mei. One destination that got alot of my attention - Archivers. I didn't visit this store when I was in town before and I had wanted to. So what better on a rainy day? What a great store. I visited the Downer's Grove location, and was delighted to see the range of products they carry - some things I had not seen here locally. I especially liked the Archivers exclusive QK Revolution dies. I treated myself to one (yes, ONE) even though I could've broke the bank on more (and I did have to get a wedding present for the newlyweds, afterall!) Hee Hee. My sisters - non-scrapbookers - tried to be patient as I wandered through everything. Although I always say we have the BEST scrap stores here in SoCal, I must say, Archivers is bee-u-tiful!


And, so proud of myself - in between the traveling, the wedding and the rain, I still kept up with my Type+Writer class on JessicaSprague.com. Here is the latest layout. In this lesson we learned how to make the cool word art background from our own journaling. So completely, totally cool! I mean, I took a class online, wrote the journaling, took the pictures, downloaded the digital kits, uploaded photos from the same day, and voila. A layout! It is so cool.....I know I said that already. But it IS!

6 comments:

Jennifer Priest said...

That is a stinking awesome page Nan!! It doesn't even LOOK digital--wow! I sooo want to go to an Archiver's. Thanks for the pics. Which QK die did you get?

Anonymous said...

ok. I found an information here that i want to look for.

Anonymous said...

well its nice to know that you have great hits here.

ScrapAddict said...

Cool layout! Love my local Archiver's. We've lost most of our local scrappy stores....sad. :-(! Glad you survived the remnants of Ike. It misse us completely in Austin, Texas.

Sarah said...

Gotta love those Quickutz!!!! I am soooo jealous, I loved that store when I visited in March, and I wish I could just fly over the pond and visit again!!! Miss you xxxxx

Cindy F said...

Love that LO, Nan. Gorgeous!