grow old along with me.

On Friday I had lunch with former co-workers.  I always realize how much I miss them when we get together...it's often quite a span of time in between meetings but we catch up without any hesitations...that's friendship.  As an added bonus to my day, I went shopping afterwards.

There aren't many local crafts stores around here...Yes, I'm a fan of Impress, but really, it's a stamp shop.  There is M's & J's but I don't tend to go there for paper...I go to Ben Franklin!  I'm proud to announce that I basically stayed within my 'allowance' I gave myself.

One of the new collections I picked up was Fancy Pants Designs, True Friend.

I gotta tell you that the color palette and the sweet woodland creatures makes it one FABulous collection.

See those sentiment panels?  They are MAMBI Pocket Pages Journaling Cards {Thanks Kimberly!}.  I carefully sliced & arranged them on my card base.

Since I picked up the True Friend Ephemera package, I actually had quite a number of choices for embellishments but I decided to go with the stacked leaves...I'm going to tuck this away in the airplane for Darin to find:)

I was inspired by

retro sketches 

My friend and I have made it a tradition to meet up at the local Farmers Market in September.  Everytime I go, I always wonder why I don't go more often!  We met up yesterday and of course, I thought that same thing.  Only to find out that they have one more Saturday!

Here are a couple pictures I was able to snap, I made the mistake of forgetting my shopping bag so things were shoved in my purse and my hands were full:

mini donuts

sunflowers!

dahlias

Cranberry Romano Shelling Beans

(aren't they cool looking?!)

So much fun, and yes, I hope to go back next Saturday and drag my Momma and boy along!