How Many Rabbit Trails?

It's funny how the mind can can head down a rabbit trail. My good friend often said this  about herself when she started on one topic and it wove here and there finally came to rest at a completely different topic. The title of my post...How Many Rabbit Trails  was a moment where I paused to ask myself (then had to Google) How many days until 2017? 

In case you are curious too, we have seen  286 days pass and we are now just 80 days away from the New Year according to Easysurf. 

Talking about rabbit trails, as I thought for a moment about the speed at which the year has passed it caused me to wonder just how many weeks I have left in this year. WeeksUntil.com/ is a cool little widget that  tells me there are just 11 weeks until December 31st, that's 79 days and OH my... that means there is just 73 days Christmas.  

All this thinking about countdowns reminds me of one really looming countdown in my country. Our USA Presidential Elections are just 26 days away so hopefully you are not still on the fence, <sigh>.

Scraps of Life ~ Toward Inspiration and Creativity

I had a most fabulous day gathering inspiration and stirring creativity. The day was spent with my sister at South Towne Expo where the Scrapbook USA event was being held. Although we noticed that the event is not nearly the size it has been in the past that did not hinder us from spending all day and lots of dollars as we took in all the wonderful booths.

Many of our old favorite booths were there like Its Cheaper Than Therapy and they did not dissapoint us...the array of Sizzix dies and folders was truely amazing. 

Purple Cows had some astounding deals on their bundles...of course I had to get all the wonderful blades that wavy cut, perforate and fold.

Tessler Stamps & Stencils were there and demoing as they always do. They had a great little Make & Take project that even two very tired expo attendees could manage. I was delighted with my finished necklace and had a hard time picking out products from thier great assortment.

Are you a Cricut fan? My oh my the company Cri-Kits has some cool stuff you have to see! Embossing on metal, sparkly markers that fit any Cricut and more will get your mind going crazy with ideas.

Unity Stamp Company really knocked our socks off. The stamps they carry are beautifully detailed, fine art. The owners have a wonderful boothside manner and were so helpful at easing the transition of my money to thier till LOL. One of my new purchases... a bird stamp & word Life Is Beautiful.

I couldn't manage to pass The Eyelet Outlet without picking up a package of adorable ladybugs and Blue Moon beads lured me to pick up a few new strands of beads.

Are you still struggling to organize tangles of ribbon? Are your spools spilling out of drawers? You may just NEED one of these cool caddys from RicRac Rollers.

One booth that got me all excited though was Just Me! Music. I know, I know its not even a scrapart booth. Psssst! Let me share a secret, I have a Christmas gift and its only September!!