Mikey....He Likes It! He Likes It! - The Most Funnest Day Evah!

I'm blessed to have very good friends with whom I get to crop with regularly. Lately, my OC friends have been making the trek up to my 'hood in LA to visit my home lss Scrap 'N Yap. :) Its sooo nice to just have a 10 minute or so drive home after a 10-12 hour crop.....for once! For years, I've been driving out to another lss (which has been a long time favorite) in Orange County, so I really appreciate Eva, Jackie (who came out the previous week of the scary brush fires), Karen and Yolanda for coming out my way.

Yesterday, my friends Kari (who's moving away from living just right down the street from me soon...sniff, sniff!), Karen and Yolanda had an absolute BLAST at Scrap 'N Yap! I felt like saying "he likes it, he likes it!" (remember those Mikey Cheerio commercials?) because Karen and Yolanda both liked the store.

It truly was one of the most FUNNEST day (yeah, my grammar gets wonky when I'm im'ing with Kari after midnight) evah with these three ladies!! After getting situated with our loads of scrap stuff, we walked down a block into Downtown Monrovia to a restaurant called Jake's Roadhouse and treated ourselves to pulled pork/chicken sandwiches and baby back ribs. Here's a picture of Yolanda's boobs with her baby back ribs (lol...you had to have been there for all the boob's-getting-sauce-dripped-on jokes).



Here's the pulled pork sandwich that I've been obsessing about all week since I accidently discovered Jake's the previous Friday when I was walking up and down the night time farmer's market in search of a place to buy a drink (I was sick then and hacking up a lung!). Ohhhhmyyyygawd, this was soooo good!! (Can you believe its $7.50 for this sandwich alone?)



And if you look past Kari being silly, lol, (I had just been showing everyone Halloween pics of my neice and nephew making funny faces with their hands just like the way Kari is doing), the ambiance of Jake's was just awesome!! Its the kind of place you chuck your empty peanut shells onto the floor.



In between all the internal transactions between us and settling out who owes what to whom, we actually did sit down and scrap. I got this layout of my nephew done finally. I started this way back in the beginning of Oct as it was a layout class designed by Candice Carpenter but, as usual, I added a few things to make it more my own. It's been a while since I've done something scrappy that wasn't for a DT assignment, so this was very very FUN!!

Jacob really cracks me up. Both of my cousin Randy's older kids crack me up actually. They are both very sweet children who have their own sense of humor. I still haven't told Randy that I attended his Halloween party just so I could take pics of his kids to scrap, lol. He and his sisters are all total hams. They stop, pose, wait for a flash to go off, and continue playing. Too funny!



I loved all the dimension that I was able to incorporate into this layout. And yes, I drove to a few Party City's just to find the right colored purple crepe paper for my little Halloween cat circle thingy.





Then we came back and cropped some more until it was time for a caffeine refuel. But we got side tracked and went to Michael's so we could use our coupons. Karen and Yolanda both got the limited edition Martha Stewart snowflake punch. They only had two in their store, so I'll have to hunt it down at another Michael's location and try to get it when I can redeem the extra 15% coupon.

As I was just turning out of the parking lot of Michael's, Karen spies a Church's Chicken so I had to make a sudden sharp U Turn to get into that parking lot. This is another moment where you had to be there to witness Miss Yolanda ordering up a storm of food with all her requests for various extra sauces!! Yeah...the guy who met us at the window pretty much was spot on when he witnesses a gaggleful of women giggling like there was no tomorrow! "Ladies night out?" he said...and we weren't even drunk!

We got back to the crop and apparently this is when everyone's juices were flowing. Our table became the misting center as all the Glimmer Mists came out. Check out Karen with her repurposed Priority box layout in the making.



Kari was definitely Miss Thing! with her string of AMAZINGLY Detailed WOWZER layouts and cards!! Check out Kari's blog to see her layout that I'm literally going OMG-ing about big time!



And then....this was the best way to have ended the evening! We all went to a new place I discovered due to my friend Erna at Scrap 'N Yap. Cherry On Top is a yogurt place like PinkBerry but you get to choose amongst 10 different flavors of yogurt. You serve yourself so that means you can mix as many flavors in whatever quantities of yogurt you want. Then you move over to the toppings bar and do it yourself. They have candies, cereal, cookies, fresh fruit, etc. Its simply DIVINE!!

How CUTE is the ambiance of this store??? That's Brenda, a Scrap 'N Yap regular, who was there too, so we grabbed her and included her at our table.



And this is the yumminess we enjoyed at 10:30pm in the evening!



Yeah, it was a good day!! Can't wait to do this again!



"Jacob, Make a Funny Face for Me!" Layout
Paper: Cosmo Cricket "Haunted" line; Teresa Collins Halloween Label Shaped Paper; Bazzil Wisteria, Cheddar, Jubilee CS
Embellishments: Cosmo Cricket "Haunted" stickers and Blackboard; MM "Spellbound" Glittered Foam Stickers, Tiny Alpha Stickers and Journaling Labels; Maya Road striped and checkered black/cream ribbons; Crepe Paper in Purple and Black; Copper Stickles; Onyx Glitter by Martha Stewart
Stamps: MM "Spellbound" Stamps
Ink: Versafine Black
Accesories: Fiskars Pinking Scissors