Card Night!

So it was about the end of 2008, my friend Jamie invited me to stamp club and I've been hooked ever since. A group of girls get together once a month and make a scrapbook page learning new techniques each time, chat, eat food, you know the normal girl's night! It's actually run by a Stampin' Up demonstrator, we basically take turns each month being the 'host'. Now I don't scrapbook, at all, so I make my scrapbook page into a card and also join in the card trade. This month we made mother's day and father's day cards. I make six of each card, we get them all together and end up with a set from each person. I probably have more cards than I'll ever use but it's a good excuse to get out for a night and try to be creative. Most of my cards I find the idea somewhere on the internet, other's ideas are way more creative than mine!
Here's my Mother's Day card:

And Father's Day, I found the tie pattern online:

And here's the card I made with everyone else. The pink butterfuly is a stamp cut out but the green butterflies are diecuts:

If anyone wants to join in just let me know, we love having new people come!

Weekend in San Fran

The first of many over due updates:

Back in the middle of December, Tash and I took a weekend trip to San Francisco. Tash had to apply in person at the French consulate to get her visa so we made a weekend of it. Thursday morning, we flew from Salt Lake to Denver, randomly met a guy at the airport that has done some modeling for Icon and guess who ends up sitting by us on the plane?? How does that happen? So we chatted the whole plane ride, this guy has done some amazing things, made me feel a little underaccomplished if that's a word. Anyway, once we got to Denver our flight got delayed almost an hour and a half which along with our layover was way too long and ended up having a 'Taken' moment at the airport. There was a man waiting for our flight as well that apparently had a pretty great weekend planned and since he was going to miss most of it with the delay was trying to find a fitness spa nearby, don't ask questions. Don't worry he asked me and Tash if we wanted to go since we had plenty of time until our flight left and yes, we could even share a cab! Having seen 'Taken' we immediately looked at each other and thought, creeper! We politely declined the cab ride as well as some high cocoa content chocolate.

We finally got to San Fran and weren't sure if we would make the airport shuttle to our hotel but called and they came and found us. This was the first trip I'd taken not having a car which was pretty interesting. We made good use of the public transportation system and had fun with it, especially since it was pouring rain the entire trip! This is us waiting for BART at the airport:

Friday morning we ran, literally ran, to make the appointment at the consulate. Once that was done we acted like tourists, went to China Town so I could buy a purse (some say it's a problem but I don't think so) and found these to be slightly hilarious:

I only wish we'd first found a sign that said "Quality T-Shirts $2.22"-seems quality decreases the price in China Town. After China Town we went to the Golden Gate Park and did I mention it was pouring the entire time? The one downside to public transportation, you're never quite sure how long you'll have to wait or where the best place to get off is. We got off the bus on the outer corner of the park and didn't realize how big it really was. We finally found the Conservatory of Flowers which was pretty cool.

Most of this stuff was made of random parts, like computer parts including keyboard keys.

Friday night we went and saw 'Wicked' which was so good. It was my second time seeing it, nothing can beat the first time but still so good.

Saturday we spent most of the day on the pier visiting the classic Fisherman's Wharf, ate lunch at Boudin's and had sourdough soup bowls-so good, went to the Aquarium of the Bay, mostly just to get out of the rain since our pants were soaked up to our knees, though it was a lot more interesting than I expected. Stopped at Ghirardelli Square, kind of a let down after seeing the huge building from further back, and had some pretty intense hot chocolate. Road the cable car back to the shopping center and spent the rest of the day shopping (three H&M's in only a couple blocks!!) I'm pretty sure by this time we looked a mess from being in the rain but we had a good time.

Uneventful plane ride home on Sunday, too bad huh?