I am truly blessed with a group of friends that have become very close over the last two decades through many avenues, including jobs, friends of friends, playing Bunko together, and crafting.  A small core group of crafting friends have recently started getting together on a Saturday every other month.  The day begins at the crack of dawn…at least it feels like it….and is held out in a country metal barn-like building on a family member’s property, a huge space with 6-8 of us sitting at large tables set up in the center of the room surrounded by standing floor heaters (it can get very cold even in California in February), hanging electrical strips for us to plug in our Ott Lights, hot air dryers, and whatever else we want.  On one side there is a large camp trailer with a fully operating kitchen and bathroom and across the front of the building are tables with a beverage and food area set up to feed us throughout the day.  This is quite the gourmet set up too! We have fresh roasted Starbucks coffee and creamer, Tea, and other noshes like breakfast breads like bagels, Krispy Kreme donuts, fresh berries, home-made sausage rolls, and a delicious breakfast pizza! That is just breakfast!!!

We have each brought a card or project with instructions to share with kits for the other group members.  The theme of this day was Birthdays! Pictures of our finished projects are shown here.  I have listed the name of the designer on each project!  Materials for each project were purchased by the designer.  I apologize that I do not have a complete list of all products in order to give full credit but will say that Queen and Company “Fruit Mix” products were primarily used in Lisa McKim’s Lemon Slice card.  Basic Grey papers were used primarily in Angela Colazzo’s Exploding Box project. Pam Huseman used Close To My Heart products primarily in the single Pink Cupcake card project.  I used Spellbinder’s dies in the three cupcakes card project, and miscellaneous other products and accessories were used in Melody Norton’s and Julie Thomas’ projects.

In case you were wondering, for lunch on this day we had croissant sandwiches, caesar salad, chili cheese dip with Fritos, and chocolate chip cookies! I hope I haven’t left anything out!!! My apologies if I did!

We love these craft days and laugh a lot, listen to great music and make special memories!  There is always something that goes awry or provides a big laugh either in getting ready for or during the day!

I hope you enjoy seeing our projects!  Take care, Hedda!