A Touch of Scrap

…is one of the best tools I’ve come across lately!

Michael’s was holding a 50% off sale on everything connected with the Cuttlebug, so I stopped in last Saturday. Needless to say, most of their stock (Cuttlebug) was already depleted since it was the last day of the sale.

I did, however, find some small embossing folders of a puppy dog I fell in love with, and then began browsing the entire scrapbooking section of the store (which is quite large!).

One thing I’d seen several months ago was a Stamp-a-ma-jig. They had one on the shelf, so I bought it as well.

Very easy to use! I am thrilled with it!

I haven’t used it much, other than to try it out, because I’m involved in a knitting marathon. More about that later.

I also purchased a couple of stamps and a doodle border punch.

(The Fiskars doodle border punch is nice, but I do not like the way it embosses some of the design. I’d be much happier with it if it didn’t emboss, but it is what it is.)

If you enjoy stamping, and you’re tired of the frustration of trying to get your stamped images “just so”, the Stamp-a-ma-jig is definitely an end to that headache.

I’ve been awfully remiss since returning home - thanks to an abscessed tooth. A strong round of antibiotics have tamed the beast, so I finally got around to getting some pics of our trip ready to post:

This is scrubby sitting on the porch of the timeshare we stayed in. Our first day there, and life felt pretty good!

This is the other end of the porch. A rooster and hen would come visit us each day for some crumbled up corn chips. While sitting on the porch, we met a lot of people, saw things we wished we hadn’t, and did a lot of relaxing.

The Banyon Tree Resort is registered with the Historical Society. It was a half block away from the Truman Annex, a half block away from Duval, and Mallory Square was just around the corner. Talk about a convenient location!

Pictures of Key West are not complete with a picture of the Southernmost Point. One of the local channels we picked up on TV was channel five, and it was filled with bits of this and that to do in the Keys. One of the items concerned the truth about the Southernmost Point:

     a. It is actually 98 miles to Cuba, not 90 as mentioned on the marker

     b. It is not the Southernmost point of the continental U.S. since Key West is an island. That would make Hawaii the actual Southernmost point.

The above are pictures I got from the digital camera we purchased in Key West - a huge waste of money, let me tell ya! We do have another camera loaded with pics, but we’ve yet to drop it off to be developed.