Almost over...

The four day weekend that is.....

I hope everyone's Thanksgiving was a great one. Very yummy, not so fattening, a lot of shopping and a lot of savings!
I made a Cuban style Thankgiving dinner. I love turkey but hubby and MIL do not. So I made roasted pork, black beans, white rice, Yucca,  (a root vegetable for those who don't know) and a salad.
Everyone seemed happy and we had a lot of leftovers.

After I cleaned up, I scrapped a little and waited for the time to go to Michaels. 
When I got to Michael's at about 4:45 pm the parking lot was packed and the doors were already open. I went straight for the Cricut display and got what I wanted- Quarter Note. I also picked up some more 1 oz stickles (like I need it) and some ribbon at 60% off and the Recollections Old Fashion Christmas stack I was able to use their additional 20% off all sale items so I not a nice little savings on everything. I was in and out of there by 5:30. Nice, very Nice.
I went home and waited for my next stop at midnight- Walmart.

I left my home around 11 pm and got to Walmart around 11:15 pm. The parking lot was so packed, you think that it was mid-day!

When I got in I saw that there  were people in line already. Yes in line. I was handed a map by an employee and I headed straight to where the cricut pallet of goodies were. As I walked towards the back of the store I saw that every pallet designated for Black Friday was unwrapped and people had their carts loaded. It wasn't even 11:30 !!  I found the pallet of cricut items and got the carts I wanted and headed towards the lines. On the way, I passed the display with the older carts and picked up a couple of the ones I wanted, hoping they would ring up 20.00 like the new ones. I made my way to the front and got in line. Shortly  two women showed up behind me with a ton of cartridges. We struck up a conversation and it we find out we all visit the Cricut Message Board!. I gave them my info and hopefully we can get together to scrap! We all live in the same town! One has a great blog Texas Scrapper Mom check it out! When I checked out the new carts rang 20.00 the old ones 39.00, but I told the cashier that there was nothing indicated in the flyer that they were excluded and she gave me a price adjustment and I got all the carts for 20.00!
I was a happy camper! 

That was the only place I hit on Friday. On Saturday I went to Joann's and used Michael's 50% coupon and bought cricut mats and a DCWV Winter stack. My order qualified for an additional 20% off so I got a nice little discount! I went back and used another Michael's coupon and bought another cricut mat pack- trying to build up inventory, lol.
I'm a night scrapper and I hate running out of things in the middle of the night when everyone else is closed.
I tend to keep the essentials in stock, in my scrapbook studio for that reason, lol.

A long with the brick and mortar shopping, I did some shopping on line. I bought some carts at CricutMachine.com and my sweet friend Michelle placed an order for me on Joann's.com. I tried but the site kept crashing. she had more determination to keep trying. Every year is the same thing with their website, you'd think they would improve it by now. 


I've been scrapping for the most part these past few days. I'm happy with the progress I've made and will soon post pics!.