I am writing this with the free wi-fi at the Denver airport, waiting for the plane.
Good news, we found a place to live!
My confessions, with the "work" done, we went to play. I went to Archiver's for the first time. There are some parts of it I like. They had a good selection of brads, stamps and tools. And I like their clearance section; all the different paper in cropper hopper envelopes with the price on them. I wasn't that impressed with their paper selection though. Some different lines than I have seen at my AZ stores, but a lot of it was foil, glitter, flocked, and other stuff that makes it $1.99 a sheet! I will stick to the clearance section. I did by a few sheets of paper: 4 sheets for a swap, 2 sheets that match the Belle Bookmark I made for the last Disney Surprise swap. I had gotten the paper for that element, free at the Bazzill warehouse sale. But it was just 2x12" strips. So I bought the 2 sheets so I could make some mats for my pages. I also bought 2 sheets of cute ducky paper "just because." Total damage was $4.88.
Today, I went to Hobby Lobby. The AZ Hobby Lobby is like an hour from my house, so I only go when I go to Kat's on a Saturday. Now I will have 2 Hobby Lobby's 15 minutes away! I am SO excited. I spent about $12 buying a button thing for a page for Brooke's book, embellishments and ribbon for the color swap, and one Disney thing that was on clearance. I resisted the 5/$1 paper. I kept telling myself, "no sense buying stuff just to pack it up when I get home."
Most of my damage was done at the Character Warehouse which is in Littleton. On Saturday, we met my real imaginary friend there, and then had dinner. I bought a pin bag and some pins ($62 worth) but since it isn't scrapping stuff, it doesn't count!
I was smart, and gave my friend the bag, so I don't have to move that stuff!