My February Project 12 layout and a Successful Crop!!!!

Woot! The crop was a success! And it was also a lot of fun! The seats were filled, the music was on, and the tables were talkin'. Nadine did an awesome job with the food, the goodie bags were used, the hourly prizes were a hit, and people were there from beginning to end.

I had more fun than I thought I would have. I even got a layout done! It was a beautiful, relaxing atmosphere with beautiful home decor and water features all over the store which offered some pretty white noise in between the music.

My sister came down from Seattle and she had fun too. It was nice to get to spend some time with her.

Here's a pic of some of the peeps and the setting:

We were at a flooring store that also sells fun home decor. It was a really nice setting. There's a flat screen TV high on the wall back there, and we think next time we may even take time to pop in a chick flick. That might be fun! My LSS is right next door and she stayed open, so it was really easy to get some extra supplies and do some shopping in between the scrap marathon.

For dinner we had chicken salads, yummy lemonade, and for dessert we had these:




These cupcakes were delicious and adorable too! They were baked with the paper folded up almost like flower petals. Such cute presentation.

It was a nice night out for mama's, and fun was had by all. We even had a teenage scrapper and a newborn baby come scrap with us. That baby made me want just one more, lol. She was so darn cute.

The one layout I finished was the much anticipated February layout for my Project 12 challenge, lol. I had more than one photo from Valentines Day and the Superbowl that I wanted to use, and they were all horizontal, so I printed two of each and incorporated them both into the design I established with my January layout:




Rather than tracing my Making Memories calendar, I used my new Fiskars Upper Crest punch for the top. It matches the Jenni Bowlin cards perfectly! Don't forget.... if you did a monthly layout, please share a link to it on this thread, and you could win that Upper Crest punch for your own stash. The deadline is the 20th, and I'll draw a name on the 21st. That's this week!
Before I go I wanted to reminisce after receiving an email from Anthropologie.... This morning I got an email advertising Harem Pants and I was immediately having flashbacks to 1990 when I was a freshman in high school. There was this Senior couple, the popular couple that were completely adorable, the beautiful people of the school. Jared and Stephanie. And one day, Stephanie's mama made them matching baggy Hammer pants that were black and purple, and they both wore them on the same day to school. They had the halllllls buzzing. People thought they were oh so cool. I remember thinking how amazing it was that she was able to get him to wear those pants, especially on the same day as she, but that's what people did when Stephanie snapped her fingers.

This memory is the first thing I thought of when I saw these new Harem Pants from Anthropologie. Yes, they are much more flattering than MC Hammer's version, but are these baggy parachute pants really coming back in style? Seriously? That just cracks me up!

Anyway.... I hope you have a great week! I am very far behind and have a lot of projects to do before the week ends, but I have no doubt that AI will pull me through the next couple of days, lol.

:) Davinie