Attended A Crop By Myself

For the first time in literally years, I attended a crop alone. I didn't know a soul. I planned to go to the Crop Around Town for the Scrapfest with my friend Wendy. A couple weeks before the event she had to cancel. But I decided to go anyway. It was my local Archiver's and close to home so I thought why not and didn't even give it another thought...until a few days ago.

Probably the last time I attended a crop totally alone was in either 1999 or 2000. Since then I have made a number of scrapping friends that I go to crops with. I also have a fully stocked scraproom so I don't have to go out if I don't want to. In the back of my mind, I started remembering all those crop horror stories on 2Peas. I was a little nervous. I packed a fully charged iPod just in case along with some page kits and my tote-ally cool tote packed with tools.

I got there fairly early and no one was at my table. There were only a few people there. I got a little nervous when a group at a back table started complaining about having a singleton that they didn't know at their table. They seemed like a little clichey and one of them had an annoying ring-tone that kept going off every hour like clockwork. Any worries melted away as I met my first tablemate. She was going solo like I was and we chatted a bit. Found out we had both been to the Minneapolis CKU and had worked at the same place( but at different times). Our other 2 tablemates came in about 2 hours late. They got lost on the drive up from the Mall of America. Very nice gals. We all chatted and got along well. It was a very fun mellow evening. My iPod stayed in my scrapbag.

I ended up completing 4 pages tonight and meeting some nice people. Reminds me why I love this hobby. Not only is it a creative outlet, but a great way to connect with others. Most scrapbookers are awesomely nice people!

I am taking tomorrow off, but will be attended Sunday classes at Scrapfest at Mall of America. It will be interesting to see how different a Sunday is from the Friday and Saturday classes I usally take. I am going to check to see if there were people that dropped classes and see if I can't pick up an extra class or two.