So, here is my latest Stampin' Up! Adventure and the reason I have not
posted lately...
On Thur. Sept. 15th, my husbands brother lost his battle with Pancreatic/Liver
cancer and we headed back to South Dakota on Friday after school. I decided that
since we were having to go all the way back home that I would throw together a
last minute OPEN HOUSE! So, I arranged a room at this hotel that I have used before...
sent out a mass email and text to all my customers and my downline....came up with my
card ideas and then grabbed all of the colors of cardstock I would need, which was at least
3 packages of every color for all 4 cards. I put this HUGE stack of cardstock in one of my fun
cruise bags from years ago and spent the 12 hour drive back to SD making my card samples and
cutting the cardstock for all my projects. I also spent 3 hours on Saturday morning cutting
the rest of the cardstock and then put each projects cardstock materials in Wal-Mart plastic bags
on top of the rest of the cardstock I hadn't used and my paper cutter and my Clear Acrylic Blocks
case...all back in this bag that looked kindof like a reusable shopping bag.
Saturday night I put it and my Big Shot on the back seat of my daughters car so I would
have all my supplies to set up for the Open House at 2 pm on Sunday after church.
At 8:30 am, my daughter Chelsea called to tell me that someone had broken out our car window
and stolen our GPS (thanks...now how do we get home?) and her Ipod Touch. We were so
mad...seriously? It was parked in a super nice neighborhood too.
So, the police were called and Chelsea and Sarah, our friend at who's house she was staying,
made out the report and she let Chelsea take her car to church. We were staying at my sisters so after church we drove back to Sarah's to get my Open House supplies and hurried off to set up for my Open House. We had all the tables covered and the supplies all laid out when I realized I couldn't find
the bag with all the project samples and cardstock. Then we realized that the bag had been stolen
out of the car!!! They probably thought it was a shopping bag full of Wal-mart items...morons. So, needless to say, I could not have my Open House without ANY cardstock or blocks! Lots of crying.
My ladies were so amazingly understanding and gave me some nice "pity" orders!
The amazing part of that crazy experience is that on Monday I got a call from a lady who had
found the bag in the middle of 41st and Marion Road (super busy intersection about a mile and a half from where the car was parked) and she was able to gather up some of the items for me!!! Luckily I had my name and address/phone number on the bottom of the block caddy! So below is a picture of what was
left and some of the hundreds of pieces of cardstock littering that entire intersection!!!
One of the 8 samples survived...6 packages of cardstock, my block case with blocks inside
was only cracked a little and lots and lots of run over cardstock!!!
See the crack?
Here is one of the cards they were going to make at that Open House...it was
sooooo pretty!
I had to show you the picture that my friend Sarah's little girl Taylor drew that morning....
She was one of my daycare babies and is now 5 and she was watching out the window
as Chelsea was leaving and discovered the broken into car....she ran upstairs and woke
up her mom and said "I think that something is wrong with Chelsea!"
Then, while the police were there she drew this picture for us. :-(
Such a sweetie!
So, that was my Adventureous Stampin' Up! Open House weekend!!!
