That just about sums up my long weekend. 

Remember how I mentioned last week that Harper was sick?  I don't know if I mentioned that she had strep throat.  She went on antibiotics and they seemed to help.  Th en Friday she broke out in a rash.  As soon as I saw it I knew - Scarlett Fever!  How did I know?  Well, she had it once as a tiny kidlet and it stuck in my head cause the name sounds so terrible - try saying, I've got Scarlett Fever.  Sounds as if you are on your death bed doesn't it?  LOL  Well, it is nothing that serious.  It is a form of strep that has a rash with it.  So back to the doctor we went and we had to cancel all our plans for the weekend.  She wasn't feeling too badly after we got more meds in her but we couldn't take the chance of passing it to anyone. 

So we were house bound and I have to admit it didn't feel much like the first long weekend of summer.  BUT I did get a lot done.  I figured I might as well get a lot done around the house so NEXT weekend we could have lots of fun! :)  On my list of things to do was a bit of class prep.

I cannot tell you how much I love seeing supplies all piled up and ready to go into class kits.  I absolutely love teaching and knowing that the GASC is right around the corner has got me itching to go.  Can wait to see old friends and meet some new ones. :)

I did get some scrapping done which I will share with you tomorrow.  It is for a new article so I will wait until it is posted to share.

And since in last entry I confessed to you my messy nature I though I would get another confession out of the way.  LOL  We're friends, right?  You can handle my nitty gritty, right?  So here it is...

I am secretly an old lady.  I have things covered in clear plastic. 

OK, so it is not my couch (sorry Grandma!) but it is my scrap table.

You see I use the dining room to scrap.  I use our big antique table as my work surface.  And even though I have a large cutting mat to work off of it was just too nerve racking that something could spill or something could scratch the table.  So the solution I came up with was clear vinyl.  It did make me cringe a bit over the sheer tackiness of it but it made things easy to clean up, protected my table and wasn't covered in distracting patterns (which most tablecloths have).  I went to the fabric store bought a couple of yards and I was all set.  It was super cheap and I thought I would have to replace it often but I have had it for well over a year and it still looks the same.  Three cheers for tacky clear vinyl!  This girl loves it. :)