{Inter} National Scrapbooking Day

Día {Inter}Nacional de Scrapbooking.

As many of you know specially if you scrapbook, this is our day, is celebrated on the first saturday of may. ALL scrapbooking stores, websites and forums help us celebrate and above all, encourge us to shop. I remember about 3-4 years ago when there was practically no scrapbooking supplies here, going to Office Depot (on NSD) to celebrate by buying some Fiskars products, that by the way I still use.

Como muchos de nosotros sabemos, sobre todo si haces scrapbooking, éste es nuestro Día, y se celebra cada primer sábado de mayo. TODOS los foros, páginas web o tiendas nos ayudan a celebrar y, sobre todo, nos alientan a comprar. Recuerdo que hace como 3-4 años, cuando no había prácticamente ningún producto de scrapbooking en Mérida, fui a Office Depot en (DNS) a comprar algunos productos Fiskars, que, a propósito, aún uso.

This week has been madness to us, roller coaster of feeling due the passing of one of our kitties (Boris) and I decided to stay home and hang on websites, check for online crops and have a low key day, in the evening we have a party at my friend Julia´s house to celebrate her bf birthday (Happy Brithday Jorge!) and we are really excited about going.

Esta semana ha sido una locura para nosotras, una montaña rusa de emociones debido al fallecimiento de uno de nuestros gatitos (Boris), así que decidí quedarme en casa y visitar páginas web, crops en línea y tener un día tranquilo, ya que en la noche tenemos una fiesta en casa de mi amiga Julia para celebrar el cumpleaños de su novio Jorge (¡Feliz Cumpleaños, Jorge!) y tenemos muuchas ganas de ir.

So tomorrow I´ll be here, hanging out probably on Two Peas and checking other online crops, so if you want to online crop with me twit me and we can do some challenge together and maybe I can convince Diana to join too.

Asi que mañana, voy a estar aquí, probablemente en la página de Two Peas y checando otros crops en línea, así que si quieres hacer scrapbooking conmigo, mandame un twit y podemos hacer algun reto juntas, y tal vez convenza a Diana a unirse.

Today was a Labor day here in Mexico, but since we had some errands to do we decided to finish the day going to our favorite cantina here in Merida, and it was yummy, relaxing and fun!

Hoy fue el Día del Trabajo en Mexico, pero como teníamos algunos pendientes fuera de casa decidimos finalizar el día con una visita a nuestra cantina favorita en Mérida, con un resultado rico, relajante y divertido!

P.S. Thanks for everyones well wishes and concern about the Influenza virus, here where I reside we have 0 cases so far so we hope it stays that way.

P.D. Gracias a todos por sus buenos deseos y preocuparse por nosotros debido al virus de la Influenza. Aqui, donde vivo, no tenemos casos de que preocuparnos y esperamos se mantenga así.

P.S.2 Thank you for your condolences, prayers and well wishes when Boris got sick and finally passed away, having your support means the world to us.

P.D. 2 Gracias por sus condolencias, rezos y buenos deseos cuando Boris enfermó y finalmente falleció; contar con su apoyo significó mucho para nosotros.

Echos of NSD

NSD was a lot of fun around this parts, as I mentioned before we hosted a crop at our office (Diana´s and mine) since it has the perfect room, lighting and location and our boss is cool with it so it worked out perfect.

I made some goodie bags for our croppers and they were all gone, they had some diecuts, chipboard, ribbon, eyelets, sequins, and other fun stuff and I made them at 1 am on friday so probably thats why they could have looked better, but I like them, they are in spanish but they say "Happy Scrapbooking Day" and my blog address, Diana says there is no such thing as bad publicity lol.

(Goodie bags)


(Goodie bags, detail)

When we get together to crop honestly we don´t do much, we carry a ton of stuff and spread out in all the tables, touch everything but then finish pretty much with nothing done and I´m happy to say that yesterday everybody finished what they brought to do.

Doris made this cute banner, yes I have one similar, hers looks super chic cause it has glittered chipboard letters, me I´m poor I only had cut out letters lol.


Liz also made a banner but we forgot to take a pic because her stickles were wet and we didn´t want to mess with it, it looks super pretty too.

Diana finished a couple of cards that look super cute, they only need the finishing touches and I, well I didn´t finish anything but got started in a couple of albums.

(My pink and black I´m weird album lol)

This album is made with a little chipboard children´s book that I bought super cheap and still don´t know what is going to be but I like it!

Our favorite thing to use right now:

(Artistic shot to Liz stickles, Stickles we love you don´t ever leave us)

Then Liz brought the yummiest Potato souffle (sp?) and it was gooood! Perfect for a cropping session.

(Is that yummy or what?!)

It´s so much fun to see how we know a lot more than when we started about 3 years ago, how we work better, not afraid of making so many mistakes, and just plain confortable, I had a blast we got home after 5 a little tired but happy we had an awesome NSD.

I wanted to ask to the ones that take pictures of your layouts to post. Just how do you do it? Like where do you prop it so it looks good? The best result I´ve had is a corkboard at the office, I might get one for here just for that, I refuse to scan because I´m really bad at stitching it together so if you have any advice how to make your layout photograph better please let me know.

Have a great sunday and thanks for the nice comments about the blog, I love how it looks too.