Well, apparently the action is all here at my house for stamp camps. Last night's class is certainly one that I will always remember. It seemed like a 'typical' camp stamping some great Christmas cards. About an hour and a half into the class, I ran upstairs to grab something. While up there, I notice several flashing blue lights through my living room curtains. So, I open the front door and step on to the porch to see quite a scene. In the street in front of my next door neighbor's I see several police officers with one demanding (in that made for TV police voice), "Keep your hands where we can see them!" Whole nine yards here everyone...multiple police officers, surrounding vehicle, guns drawn. It didn't take me but about 1.2 seconds to realize that I wanted to be inside the house, not outside. So I quickly went back downstairs to rejoin my ever so pleasant...and friendly...and fun...and nice stamp camp! In my almost ten years of holding classes, I have never had to explain to my guests that it probably wasn't wise to leave just quite yet. Surely, they wanted to stamp another card or two. Now mind you, I live in a 'normally' very safe neighborhood. No really, I do! We have a very strict homeowner's association, great amenities including a huge pool and clubhouse, lighted tennis courts, sand volleyball and basketball courts, soccer and baseball fields...truly nice features that drew us to this subdivision when we were house hunting.
Oh but hold on to your britches, the story gets even better...or worse, technically. So, the police apparently arrest the suspect (of course, we don't know what he/she is a suspect of quite yet). A tow truck picks up the suspect's vehicle. End of story. Well, not just yet...did I mention this book gets even better. One of my guests, (aka, my very dear friend, Gloria) sticks around until just after 4:00am. (That, for the record, was not a typo...just typical Lisa/Gloria fun until "stupid:30 in the morning.") I drag my extremely tired-self upstairs and crawl into bed. By this point my husband is getting up for work, so I chat with him for a few minutes. All of a sudden, my cell phone rings...at 4:45am! Gloria's calling. She got home, opened the back door of her car to get a bag out, and the door wouldn't shut. Turns out, her car was hit while she was here! She confirms my address with me and calls the police to report this. It appears as though the suspect from this evening must have hit her vehicle that was parked on the street. Can you believe this?
Oh but wait...yes, indeed...there is more! So chances are, if you are not new to my blog you know that I took about a year and a half off from stamping. Just getting back these past couple of months to stamp classes. A couple of days ago, I received a call from a potential new stamper that found me on the web. She wanted to come to a class to try out stamping. Her first class was...of course, last night!
Let's think about this for just a minute...imagine being brand new to stamping. You search for someone who offers classes and you find them on the website. You have only talked on the phone for about ten minutes but you decide to go to this stranger's home where there are several women you don't know. The stranger tells you the police are outside with guns drawn. They finally arrest a suspect who did who knows what! This of course happens a few minutes after this stranger was telling everyone about her cars being recently broken into and the neighborhood tennis courts being vandalized a few weeks later. But, don't worry...after the police arrest the suspect, she tells you it really is a very safe neighborhood! So my question is, do you think she will come back to stamp with us again? :-)
See, I wasn't kidding when I said all the action is at my house! Have you ever been to a stamp camp that was also a real live episode of Cops? But hey, you can't say that I don't offer quite the deal...two shows for one price. Can't beat that!
So here are the cards that we stamped...because it has been a busy week for me with Sweetbriar Designs, I ended up having to use cards that were cased from others this time.
Here is the original: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_YFixyU2fjYA/TLyLKWNNLvI/AAAAAAAAFvA/HMnl-9Vm0EU/s1600/simplysimple23005883.jpg
Used different colors and a different punch on the bottom along with brads instead of rhinestones. The original was stamped by Terry Mongeon.
Here is the original: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_BK8LjL4BqEI/TFkFVOOm4xI/AAAAAAAAJOE/nk8jIDHIjYE/s1600/ilinacrouse_tags+till+christmas1_1.jpg
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