Whew -- What An **EVENT** :-)

I know that I haven't posted in a very long time. I get so busy sometimes that I just don't remember to post on the blog.

GCS New Orleans was an awesome event! It is the best event we've ever had in New Orleans -- we ended up with 144 scrappers!!! The place was rockin' and everyone was scrappin' and having fun. Can you believe that the attendees completed 1752 pages at this event!!! **WOW** This set a new record for the number of pages completed at a GCS event.

Our GCS Vendors were awesome! Special thanks for all the great scrapping supplies that all of you brought to us and also for the cool classes! Our vendors for New Orleans were Scrappersaurus (http://www.scrappersaurus.com/); Creative Memories Consultant, Kelly Guillory (kelann7@cox.net); and Close to My Heart Demonstrator, Vivian Brown (http://www.vivianbrown.myctmh.com/).

We also had classes offered by several ladies from the Sisterhood of the Paper Place Scrappers (http://www.paperplacescrapbooking.com/) Special thanks to Kim, Kelly and Wendi for the really cool ELMO classes.

Oh and we had a special surprise! Our very own Dawn Wilcox flew in from California to spend the weekend with us!!! Yeah!!! Dawn always brings fun to the scrapping parties at GCS. Everyone was so happy to get to see her again -- she's been gone for almost 2 years now (since Katrina). Dawn -- fly back in again as soon as you can girl!!

And Ms. Rita from the Scrappin Cats also flew in from the Carolinas to scrap with us! I believe this was Rita's 3rd GCS to attend! So glad you could come Rita -- it was very nice seeing you again :-)

We drew a very special name from our attendees to be our Queen for the GCS New Orleans Event -- congratulations goes out to Tammy, our Queen :-) She wrote this poem for us when she returned back home:

GCS New Orleans is so much fun
Because of the great staff and how it is run
We love all the groups and are glad they all came
The Cats, Divas, Mommas & Dellas, they all have great names
There's one group that's really rowdy, so you wallflowers beware
We all know about the corner and It's 5 O'clock Somewhere!
We learn in the classes and gossip with friends
And try to find strangers for secret pal gifts to send
Some travel far and some travel near
But when you get to GCS New Orleans there's no relaxin' here!
Scrappin' and dancin' are our #1
Because at GCS New Orleans,
Girls Just Want to Have Fun!!!!!!

We also played a new game during the Saturday night cropping party -- The Scrapper's Version of The Price is Right! Oh, so many great prizes were given away to the lucky winners! Congratulations!! I hope that I'll be able to get some pics to post.

Playing Secret Pals is always so much fun. I think it's the sneaking around and having people deliver your presents that is the best part to me LOL I got to deliver alot of presents at this event. It's great to deliver presents because you get to see people smile when you give them something.

Everyone loved the Scrappin' Packin' Mammas performance on Friday night! A couple of people missed it so they performed again on Saturday night -- awesome girls! I love the song -- you'll have to send me the words!

Got to run for now. It's getting way to late (12:08 AM) and I have to get up at 6:00 AM to go to work in the morning.

Hugs!