seven/eleven/ohseven.

it was free slurpee day today. i thought about going to get one, but i didn't. there is one really close to the lab too. but. for some reason... i felt bad about getting one for free. i started thinking about how many they have to give away and i felt bad. yes. clearly something is wrong with me. i was turning down the idea of getting something that would normally cost less than a dollar. i'll blame the girl days. ha. but i do notice that i'm starting to feel almost overly sympathetic in too many situations these days. i need to toughen up. ha.

now, inspired by the newsletter from ali edwards, i'm going to share a bit about my go-to scrapbooking supplies. a couple posts ago, i shared my poor excuses for storage solutions. so now a bit on products. you know... the ones i find myself buying over and over again.

numero uno is definitely the heidi swapp center of attention chipboard alphabets. they are supposed to be self-adhesive, but i generally find myself using something extra because they tend to fall off eventually. [or they never stick in the first place.] still. i don't care about the adhesive issues. i am in love with these alphas. i could really use them on everything!

second would be mini glue dots. love those babies. small enough to use with almost anything, but super strong.

third = hambly rub-on journaling bits. really fun. i've used three packs, now and i need to find more!

fourth isn't a product, but a tool. i love my fiskars softtouch mirco-tip scissors. the little spring in the middle makes them so much easier than normal scissors because your hands don't have to do any work to open them. plus, they work wonderfully for cutting out little details.

& & fifth will be for my favorite albums. american crafts three ring style. no more post bound albums for me. ever. love the binder style. and love love love the american crafts ones. :]

yeah. so i only have five. but i don't really have a favorite pen. i've been getting so frustrated with my with my white signo lately, that it's not a favorite at all. and my trusty sakura black pen is being funny lately. plus it won't write on hambly. no bueno. i do have an american crafts slick writer that writes on hambly, but it's a medium... so it's a little thick for my taste. if i can find a fine point one somewhere... maybe that will be a favorite.

and my trimmer, i'm really not too jazzed about it lately. it's a fiskars one. i have a big rotary one, but it's too big to use all the time. so i have a little euro trimmer with the little blade that slides. the other night i cut my finger pretty good with it. there is a nice slice all the way through my skin. that's because the stupid blade keeps falling out, so i sliced myself trying to put it back in. :[ i'm thinking about the tonic guillotine. i hear such good things about it. [but james says that if i can cut myself with the little fiskars one... which he thinks should be impossible... then i should avoid a guillotine trimmer. ha.] i'm also considering the new orange and white fiskars rotary one. it's way more compact then the one i have, plus i've been hearing really good things about it. ali listed it as a favorite. :]

so there you have it. i think i'm going to go clean my scrap area. finally. it really needs some serious cleaning.

oh one more thing! james asked me today if i want to go to the city on friday. just for a night. i totally want to go. his summer class ends tomorrow, but he's taking another one that starts on monday. so it would be nice to go somewhere in between. we both have to make sure we don't have to go into our labs on friday, but things will hopefully work out. it would be so nice to go. i've been itching for a trip. :]