happy marcia

I keep thinking... "I gotta get back to my blog." "I should take pictures of some of my latest scrap projects and post them." Etc., etc. But it just doesn't seem to happen.

But tonight I'm bursting with happy news. Ok, it's great happiness for me. I'm all registered for CKU-Albums Chicago. WOOHOO!!!! Now.... I can see y'all asking "what's that?" and "what's the big deal?" Well... let me tell ya.

CKU = Creating Keepsakes University. In basic terms, it's scrapbook school. Three solid days and nights of classes and working on projects. You ask, "And this is fun?" Oh, yeah, baby. This is WAY fun!! Learning new techniques, working with new product, being with 700 people who are as crazy about scrapbooking as I am, meeting some of the celebs of the scrapbook world. Yes - we have celebs that we "know" by first name or by initials. That's how you can tell a serious scrapper from a beginner - talk about BH or Lisa or CZ - if they know who you're talking about, they're definitely seriously into scrapping! {oops - got a little sidetracked there....}

Why the big deal?? Registration opened at 7pm CST tonight. 18 minutes later, registration closed. Finis. The end. No more. Within 18 minutes, approximately 700 crazy scrappers registered for CKU Chicago. Yowza - that's the quickest sellout yet for CKU. We get to choose classes - I managed to get into every class I want at the time I wanted it. That's pretty amazing. However, I was done registering by 7:02 - I was speedy gonzalez! The more popular classes started closing after about 4 minutes because they were already full. It's completely overwhelming when I think about more than 700 people, all sitting at their computers, hitting the F5 key over and over and over until the registration button shows up, then typing like mad to get paid and get their classes asap. I know I was very very anxious, nervous. And now I'm in. Yahoo!!!

This will be my second CKU - I went to Provo this past August and had an absolute blast! I originally thought that I'd just goto one, and that would be enough. But it's coming to Chicago! - how can I not go when it's so close?!

One of the most fun parts of CKU is the social life. And I was VERY into the social life at Provo. I was part of a dorm, a group of 10 women who participated in the dorm contests: cheer/song, costume, name badge and table centerpiece. Dorms are totally voluntary and arranged on your own - not thru CKU. We were the Scrappin' Biker Babes - and quite awesome SBBs we were! Only three dorms are chosen ahead of time to perform at CKU, and we were one of the three! and even better, we easily won the cheer/song contest! We rocked the room that night. It was great because people recognized us for the remainder of CKU - "hey, you're one of the biker babes, aren't you". Yeah, baby. I'm a scrappin' biker babe. The only sad part for me is that I wasn't really in a costume - I was pretty much in my normal biking gear! LOL

So anyway, 5 of our 10 SBBs are going to Chicago, and we'll be doing a dorm again. It'll be fun to see what theme we come up with, and how we work the theme into all of our contest entries. And I just can't wait to see my dormies again!