Hey there my crafty girl squad!! How are you this week?? I have another post going up tomorrow, but I really wanted to pop in and share some things today before too much time passed by. I wanted to tell you about the Nor Cal Planner Meetup I went to this past weekend! And I found an amazing new paper collection to share with you also (and it's all on sale too). So, I had a wonderful three day girly weekend with friends last weekend. I left on Friday morning and came home Sunday afternoon. It was entirely too much fun and really good for my soul and my spirit.
My amazing, sweet, kind, talented and all around awesome bloggy friend Audrey was in California visiting so I got to spend the entire day with her on Friday. We had lunch, and shopped and laughed; and talked about important stuff that you can't talk about when you're emailing and texting. SOOOOOO good to see her in person and HUG. OMG we talked for eight hours straight and my cheeks hurt from smiling. She is very special. We met about seven years ago through blogging! Somehow we ended up finding each others' blogs and leaving comments, and then emails, and it has led to a wonderful friendship. We have seen each other grow through new opportunities and watched our projects and styles change. That is the number one best thing about blogging – the people I've met.
Saturday was the giant Nor Cal Planner Meetup that was held at The Island's Creative Escape in Los Gatos. This is an AMAZING place and you have to go here!!! Laurie, the owner, is the nicest person and so generous and gracious too. I kinda love her. So there were FIFTY planner girls!!! I had no idea what to expect since I'd never been to a planner event before. Basically, everyone brings all their planner gear, stickers, stamps, washi, embellishments, etc…and you sit around and work on your planner(s) together. WHAT FUN. Okay, so planner girls are awesome! So happy, and funny, and welcoming! I went by myself but after about ten minutes I had a whole table full of new friends. Everyone likes to share what they're doing and talk about new ways to organize and plan. It was an 8 hour event that went by in about five minutes. Laurie had pizza and salad dinner for us. Layle from Simple Stories was the facilitator/teacher of the event and she showed us all kinds of fun new things to make. Really just a wonderful day. I will go again in a hot minute!
It has been VERY VERY hot here in Northern California and it will not let up. I was going to do some errands and things in the bay area on Sunday but decided instead to just take my time and drive home the long way via the ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge. Trying to soak up a few precious moments of ocean cooooool air before hitting the heatwave at home. So I was at the beach in the morning (64 degrees) and at home in the afternoon (109 degrees!!!) I had a nice day and a nice drive home.
So one of the things you do at a Planner Meetup is buy all kinds of stuff!! LOL. Laurie's store is pretty freakin' awesome and I spent a LOT of money! EEK. It's been a while since I shopped for paper crafting things like that. Turns out I am the only person there that only had ONE planner! Almost everyone has several! I ended up buying some Prima planner things that are beautiful (and some traveler notebooks), some great stickers, and one fabulous paper collection. Now, normally I would hoard this new paper collection, but I decided to make a card with it today to show you instead!! Ha!! It's from Pebbles and it's called Girl Squad!!!! It's been a LONG time since I went gaga over an entire collection. It has everything you might want: cute girls, adorable sayings, coffee, gingham, gold foil, flowers!!!! I bought two paper pads and one of everything else! I hope you love it too!
So this is another 'no stamping' card! Sometimes it's fun to make a quick and easy card with just paper and die cuts and embellishments! All of the papers are from the new collection. It all came together so easy. I used the stitched banner dies to make a banner down the front of the card. The sentiment is cut from the 12×12 sheet that has a ton of beautiful cards on it. The felt flower was in my stash and I have no idea where it came from!
I thought this was a beautiful sentiment for a card today, because I am truly feeling filled with gratitude for the fun and uplifting weekend I had! I adore these colors together. So FRESH and pretty at the same time. It's hard to see, but the patterned floral had touches of gold in it! Squeeeee!
Here is a photo from the Planner Meetup! I didn't take too many pictures, because I was having too much fun!!! Everybody was so friendly and kind. See how huge the store is? Yeah, you gotta get here sometime!!
One of the fun things we did was make a Planner Stack! This is allllllll of our planners all lined up together! I love all the color and the flowers, and dots, and pom poms. Really fabulous! We all took turns taking pictures of it! You can see there are so many different kinds. I use an Erin Condren Planner – spiral bound ones on the left. There is truly something for everyone.
A close up of that beautiful Planner Stack!
You guys know that coffee makes me happy, right? Well, Philz Coffee makes me VERY happy! They make this drink called a Mint Mojito Iced Coffee. We don't have Philz Coffee in Sacramento (but we're getting one finally!) so every time I'm near one I have to stop. This drink is creamy, minty, sweet, coooool, perfection! I'm dreaming of it again right now….
Happy, crafty, blogger girls! XOXO
I took a picture of this flower while Audrey and I were walking around the mall. It's a Dinner Plate Dahlia! OMG it is actually as big as a dinner plate! I wish I had put my hand in the photo or something for scale. I've never seen these before. WOWZA!!!!
I had a great business breakfast meeting on Monday morning to discuss joining forces with another local creative to do some photography work. Please say prayers for me about this opportunity! I have a really good feeling about it and I want it to work out! Send some good vibes!! Tomorrow I will have a blog post for Papertrey Ink – for Throwback Thursday! Hope to see you then. Have a wonderful day! XOXO
