Productive Weekend - Check! What's next?

Ah yes - next?! The Madness often generally referred to as 'the holidays' is JUST BEGINNING?! But still, I did in fact have an amazingly relaxing and yet highly productive weekend!

I managed to finish (or so I thought!) my clients' album... I'd love to post the photo's - but they are not my LOs and it is a surprise Christmas gift so I will not... they are a little more basic than my normal style - but I had fun and in talking with her this morning, found I have another page to complete. I hope to get it done and turn the completed project over to her on Thursday!

I also designed, cut, and completed this years' Thanksgiving Place cards for our family. Fun! I do these every year - leaving room for everyone to write down what they are thankful for! It's so fun to go back through them and read over them together! I love it!
Here's what I came up with this year:

I also made a couple more Fall cards... because - well - can you really have enough?I did a lot of prep work for my day of Christmas card making on Wednesday! Since I am using my Cuttlebug/template for the background and die-cut - I was able to make the backgrounds for all 60 cards... and then I made a trip to Craft Warehouse and feel I came out a winner... I hadn't been there in literally nearly a year! It used to be that I would walk in and immediately have a list a mile long of new projects that I wanted to do or new things I didn't even know existed that now I must have - but this time?! I simply walked through the store - picking up the basic Christmas Card making supplies that I didn't have on hand, and priced a few other gift idea projects I had already thought of on my own before entering the store! I bought a couple of frames to play with and the supplies and left with only $30 missing from my wallet, and no new list of wants or needs! Whew?! Narrowly escaped!

Oh yeah - and I designed, uploaded, and ordered a custom Digital photobook from Shutterfly. I worked on the LOs on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - and ordered the book last night! This is a book of our trip back East in June! I scrapped just a few of the photo's in our family album but knew I wanted an entire photobook of the trip! I tried to use a couple different sites 'drag and drop' tools but never really liked the style as much as if I layered them and did them myself! So - I used a digital kit (DDE Lucky Star) and my PSE to design about 45 pages! Here are some examples:

I can't wait to see it in person and show it off!

So... this week I have lots going on in my 'regular' life - as well as much to do crafting! I have set Wednesday aside for Christmas cards and would LOVE to get them all done or at least the majority of them?! We shall see!? I have 60 on my list... and should make a few extra I guess too!? Thursday I am hosting my monthly Crop - so if I don't finish on Wed I will finish on Thurs! I also have one more page to do from my client before Thursday and I have one project to start for a Christmas gift - a framed dry erase board. That is what I am making for my side of the family... in my 'regular' life I have meetings today, tomorrow, tomorrow night, (wed if you count my Christmas Card date!) Thursday, and Friday - I would love to start a bit of Christmas shopping as well...?! But - I can only do so much!

Despite what it may look like sometimes people, I am - in fact - NOT Super Woman! LOL!

Scrap Happy!
~Karrilee~