what i've been up to

i think i went shopping on black friday once, years ago. it really wasn't all that much fun, so i haven't gone back - which was especially convenient this year since Kate had invited me to a scrapapalooza for saturday! i needed friday to get stuff ready. it seemed like i packed up all my stuff, but apparently i hadn't. i was on my way there and realized i had forgotten photos, so had to turn back.

we had supplies all over - take a look:

it was so much fun to scrap together. add some good food, fresh-baked cookies, caffeine, and we were set. here's a couple of pages i made. okay, i only made two pages, but i did do other things too. like sew a book. and other stuff...i think.

you can't really tell, but i sewed a bunch of circles on here for added texture. here, maybe you can see it here:

here's a page where i went a little nutty with the gold:

here's a close look:

for some reason i didn't photograph either one really well - maybe because there is only daylight here for about 10 minutes these days.

i am sending off a couple of atc swaps and have a third one in the works. here's the "thankful" one:

and here's the "reduce, reuse, recycle" one:

the swap i'm working on is for the theme "Dr. Seuss" and i can't wait to see how they come out!

what have you been up to?