What a weekend!!! Ju
st got back and woke up from the post-CKU Houston nap. This had to be one of the most emotional, energetic & fun events I've attended in a long time. A HUGE thank you & hello to all my students there.
It was a little surreal...the end of an era. A chapter in my life closed this weekend and a new one is about to begin. Magic Scraps started sponsoring CKUs in San Antonio, 2002 - their very first event on the road. I joined the company days after that event and taught in Anaheim 2002 (our first CKU classes) and have created every and taught (*almost) every CKU class since - Paula Kramer did the math for me - that's over 30 CKU's in a row!!!!! It was touching - beginning and ending our CKU experience in our home state. So many of you have followed Magic Scraps from the beginning, even shopped at Ashley's first scrapbook store in Dallas, Scrappy's. I saw so many famil
iar faces of former students and made so many new friends. I'm a softie and teared up all weekend. I just want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU
ASHLEY for giving me the opportunity to be involved ith your innovative company from the ground up. THANK YOU
CKU for your tireless work and amazing events, your support and for the friendships I have built not only with your team but with other teachers through your events. And THANK YOU STUDENTS - all of you over the years. Your support has been amazing - you never cease to inspire me. Now that my teaching commitment to Magic Scraps has drawn to a close, I want to let you know that I have every intention of staying in the industry and continuing to teach. It is my passion. Please sign up for my newsletter & I'll keep you posted on my plans.
pictured: our official fabulous TA, Ashley, Nicole, me, our other official fabulous TA, and Kim.* I did miss a few events due to my health, but Kate & Ashley always did a great job of stepping up and teaching my classes when I was unable to attend.Whew...still a little teary-eyed. I had wonderful help this weekend. I have a dear stepbrother that lives in Houston with his fam
ily. I love them all and enjoy spending time with them, but we don't see eachother very often. That's going to change. I've recommitted to making time to take off with Matt for a fun trip to Houston as soon as my life settles down. Kim - what can I say? I love you so much - I forget how much fun you are! We need to do more together! We all had dinner at
The Cheesecake Factory - there we are: me, Greg, Kim, Doug (5th grade), Nicole (7th grade) & Andrew (2nd grade). Kim & Nicole are both scrapbookers and spent the days TA'ing for me - and were a
tremendous help THANK YOU.
OK - we had way too much fun...Nicole and I demonstrated how a
2-fold fastener works by becoming the human fastener. See it? I'm the prongs with the two arms s
ticking up - she's the bracket {which she enthusiastically plopped on my head} - then my arms would fold over her arms and I'd slide my hands through the bracelets...you get the idea. Why the flowers you ask?? Because we were teaching a class called
Tropical Paradise....
She also was my lucky charm and drew for all the prizes I gave out. The first class she was pretty quiet, but by the afternoon, she was rockin' on the microphone! BTW, excuse me, I forgot, now that she's twelve, she'd like to be called Nikki. like, um...yes ma'am. pardon moi. Isn't she darling? Boys - your Aunt Emily loves you dearly too, I'm not intentionally leaving you out - It's just that I worked your sister so hard...I had to brag on her.
What else? Ashley & I also hung out with the amazing
Debby Schuh and Andria & her crew from
Reminisce - had dinner at
The Grand Lux. And the last night we went out for
fajitas & margaritas with Tracy White, one of my favorite people. Tracy - why didn't we take a picture??? What were we thinking?? How many rounds did we have? :)
Anyhow good to see you all...thank you for a weekend that I will always remember! If you've ever taken a class from me, I'd love to hear from you - please pop on this thread & say hello...
I've talked about it before...I love scrapping recipes. My very first scrapbook classes I taught were called "Table Scraps: a series on cookbook scrapbooks". At the time {2001} that was a little out of the box - the only class that ever filled {and, man did it fill} was my "Chocolate Crop".
e, 20 variations for Ramen & phone numbers to all the local pizza places. This format would be a great as a Christmas gift - throw in a few vintage photos of whoever the recipes were handed down from and voila!
just came to me while I was working on it...so simple to make, but so good looking & practical. Yes, the closure is a paper clip. You know me - peppy & cheap.
