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"I never can say goodbye...no, no, no, no, I..."

Well, it's here... the final packing day for my sister before she drives to her new home in Denver tomorrow.  Bryn & I are going over to help finish boxing things up with her & my mom.  While I'm still pouting about her moving, I am grateful for all the extra time I've been able to spend with her in the past month.  Most months we don't get to see each other as often, so this has been awesome and we've had many laughs!  

As I mentioned on Monday, there were a LOT of photos from my birthday weekend (too many to post), but here's a few already showing up on a new page.  My sister & I have birthdays within 4 days of each other, so we usually celebrate together.  These photos were from Friday night's celebration...

 

It's a combination of products of course... Nikki Sivils for the birthday gifts & cupcake, KI Memories' blue chevron paper and SRM Stickers (for the MAY sentiment, the Make A Wish border & the numbers) + various other things found on my craft table.  Haven't used my Glossy Accents in awhile, so I put some of that on my candle "flame..."

I always enjoy Bryn's critiques of my pages.  Last night when she saw my finished page she said, "I didn't like how that page looked when you were working on it, but it turned out really cute!" 

Uhhhh.... thanks?? 

I'm already back home from my early Spin class this morning and we'll be heading over to Marci's to pack after lunch today.  

And give lots of hugs + kisses goodbye.

Time to start thinking about trips to Denver...

"If you really want more... scream it out louder..."

I guess I needed more.  Washi tape, that is.  Because the orange/yellow set was calling my name when I found it in another Target.  They didn't have those colors at my Target when I purchased the red set.  I probably really didn't NEED more of this tape, but it's like my never-ending supply of bakers twine.  Can you ever really have too much of a good thing?  

Don't answer that.   

Granted I probably won't actually use ALL of my supply, but I am using some of it anyway...

I also used the free journaling cards from KI Memories that they posted on National Scrapbooking Day.  I cut off the days of the week though before I added my new tape across the top.  The card in the middle was another free download.  My patterned paper & letter stickers are from the KI Memories Hot Date collection.  Totally unintentional that I combined all that KI Memories... just a coincidence.  I mean, usually my pages are a mish mash of manufacturers so why start doing things the "right" way now.  No thank you.  LOL

If I even told you how many times I changed this page after photographing & editing it in Photoshop...  it would be disturbing.  Sometimes it's hard for me to really "see" the page until I photograph it though. 

That is me... I am strange.  What can I say?

Off to hit the treadmill and start on Fifty Shades Darker.  Something tells me I'm not going to get a lot accomplished today...

Monday... FUN day...

We had a blast over the weekend... lots of fun with family & friends on Friday & Saturday night!  Well... minus the part when Mizzou lost, that is.  The weather has also been fabulous around here, even though we also had a huge spring-like thunderstorm over the weekend.  This "winter" has been unseasonably warm and I love it.  Snow is nice around the holidays, but I don't need it during this time of year!  I'm ready for fun in the sun right now! 

So... with warm weather outside, it was the inspiration I needed to get around to doing something with these zoo photos we took at the end of last summer.  It's a mix of mostly new product I've recently received..."Caribbean" twine from The Twiney (more on them soon!), KI Memories "Hot Date"paper & letter stickers, Nikki Sivils "Audrey" border strips, SRM Stickers flower border sticker, Dear Lizzy chipboard pieces, a couple other random scraps of paper AND 2 old, old, old (did I say old?) animal stickers (Me & My Big Ideas... I think??  Lost the packaging)...        

Hope your St. Patrick's Day weekend was a blast.  No one got pinched around here... we were all wearing our GREEN!

It's Monday... my fun day, Zumba day!  Woot wooot! 

Hope you have a FABULOUS week, everyone!