Finally Updating Blog!!!!!

I have finally gotten time to sit down and update my blog. Well.................... On Saturday I went to my very first crop, and I will probably never attend another one. I can stay at my house and scrap and not have any one to talk to. The only one that talked to me was the woman that had invited me to the crop, her name was Maria and she was the one that helped put on the crop. The other woman was a nice lady and she was trying running around getting things for everyone. She had a 6ft. table that was full of Stampin Up! stamps, there was half a table of Alphabet Stamps and the other half had the othere kind of stamps. She had every kind of stamp that you could of wanted to use on your layouts or cards. I thought that I was a Alphabet-olic but Jennifer had me beat big time. I had taken the 8X8 album that I got from QVC, it is the second installment of the TSV from February, and that is what I was working on the first part of the day, and there were a couple of ladies that stopped by the table to look at my album but other than that there was no one that really talked to me or included me in the conversations. That was ok I just sat and listened to them talk and watched what they produced in the way of layouts and such, and some of the layouts that I saw were not what I called good. I saw some that looked like a child had done them. A couple of ladies had said that they had been published and they showed the layouts and I didn't think that they were all that good to be published, but that is my personal opinion and that doesn't count for a whole lot since I am afraid to send in any thing to see if they will publish anything that I have done. I don't want to be rejected and that is why I won't send in anything. But I am thinking about sending something in to the Card Maker magazine and see if they will publish it. Anyway, I was really disappointed with the lunch that was served at the crop, I was told that there was a Salad Bar, the bar was a bowl of Ceasar Salad mix, Ham.Cheese and dried fruit and the salad dressing Itaian and some kind of vingerettre and that was it and then for dessert there was mini brownies and that was it for the Salad Bar and dessert. Needless to say, I didn't have a much of a lunch. Had a little salad and ham and cheese and no dressing and a mini brownie. Then outside for a smoke and I was the only one that smoked too and then I went back in and sat alone utnil I decided to call Mom to come get me. I was tired anyway and I was beginning to hurt alot and it was only getting worse the longer that I was sitting. I got almost the whole 8X8 album done by 12 and from then until I left at 2 I was working on making cards. The cards that I made I ended up throwing them away when I got home. The stamps that were there for us to use were no in very good shape and some of them were almost brand new and they looked like they had been soaked in ink. I guess that I am picky about all my things that I clean them up as soon as I am done with a particular stamp and I make sure that they are cleaned and dry and put back where they belong after I use them. When I stamp I make sure that all the ink is off of them and they are put back. Some of the alphabet stamps that I tried to use where not the best and they were not stamping right and when I finished with them, the card did not look right and when I got home they looked crappy and I was not happy with them so in the trash they went. I have 2 Mother's day cards and 4 Birthday Cards to make in the next week and I have no idea what to do for them. I am working on 1 Mother's card for my dad to give to Mom and then I have to make her one from me and then 4 birthday cards to make and mail out so that is going to keep me busy for awhile so I better get it to.... Thanks for reading my blog and Have a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!