Smash Journal and Michael's Review

Good Monday morning all my bloggy friends!  How are you today????  Things are great here in Beckyville.  After a week home from work, between snow days and a sick Landry, I'm headed back to the office today.  I have mixed feelings about this but you can be sure my brain will be thinking about all things crafty during each spare moment I get!

Have you seen this video?  I saw it last week on Michelle Wooderson's blog and fell in love with it! Abie watched the video with me and she fell in love too!  The only problem is, this doesn't come out until April.  Boo!  What's a girl to do?

I think my favorite part of the video is the beginning when they show the composition book and the sketch book that people were using as idea books.  One looked like an idea book for a wedding.  Wouldn't that be a cool wedding planner?  Well, I went to Michael's and bought two of these:

They were buy one get one free too!  One for me and one for Abie :)  Then I did this to it....

Abie has already started filling hers up.  Talk about making me happy!  She was rifling through all her desk drawers and pulled out the lunchbox notes (some of them last year!) cards, pictures and all sorts of treasures to put in her book.  She set up shop in the living room Saturday night with her glue stick and went to town.  I meant to get pics of hers, I'll try to do that this week.  I plan on using mine for more of an idea book with sketches and inspiration from magazines.  You know, the other thing that has me worried about the "real" SMASH book, I wonder how much it's going to cost.  This sketch book was $6.99 (remember, I got 2 for that price otherwise I would have used a coupon) and I got the decorate the outside how I wanted.

So, what do you guys think of these SMASH journals?  Will you buy one when they come out or will you make your own or will you not have anything to do with it at all?  :)  I think I'll wait to see how much the "real" one costs and if they're cheap enough, I might buy one for a special project. 

Okay, quick Michael's review.  I went Friday AND Saturday.  It was overload for my crafty senses and it took two days for everything to soak in.  (I'm lying, Landry was with me Friday and she was ready to GET OUT OF THERE, so I didn't have time to look at everything I wanted to.  Ha!)  It was great!  I loved it!   I'm so excited to have one so close.  My only complaint.....the dollar bins are (you knew it would be about the dollar bins) are in the check out line.  Just like Joann's.  I feel so....exposed when I'm looking for my $1 bargains.  Creepy. 

I hope you have a great Monday!  Thanks for stopping in today and I'll talk you all later :)