As May creeps nearer, I have begun getting up a little earlier each day in preparation of the ornaments arriving.  The first delivery is scheduled to release in the beginning of June.  I can hardly wait.

Before the onslaught, though, I’m trying to have some scrapbooking fun so I joined a page a month club at a local scrapbook supply store.  I have to admit, I am a little awe inspired by the other ladies in my class.  They bring fancy totes stuffed with stuff I never knew existed.  They do math in their head faster than JeanPaul – and that’s pretty fast.  They have marked concentration on their faces as if they are competing in a science project.

I feel like I did in jazzercize or Spanish I – everyone seems to know what they are doing except me.  I keep my head low, try not to show my utter confusion and try not to be too obsequious when I ask to borrow a cool tool from my table mates.

Funny thing, though at the last class.  While the flurry of paper cutting, gluing and stamping whirled around me, I plodded along trying as best I could to center myself amid the experienced crafters.  When all was done, I had a nice page with correctly cut shapes and the experienced scraper with the big cutting tools and lightening fast hands, had a mess of a  page.  Yeah for being a turtle at a table of hares!