Shopping for Scraps NYC

OMG! I think I have serious issues. It used to be walking into a clothing store and not being able to resist buying up a storm, now I'm walking into craft stores feeling the same way. What happened to me?? I literally just had to check my bank account and make sure I still have funds to eat because I have been scrapbook shopping way to much in the last week. If someone knows of AA for scrapbookers please contact me, I might need to go to a meeting :(

What I love about New York City is that is has everything. No matter what your interests are you can explore them here. If you like art, you have museums and galleries, if you like theater you have Broadway, if you like eating, there are 3,000 restaurants, if you like music- there are clubs and concerts all the time. You get my point. For a scrapbooker living in NYC, there are a enough craft stores, good enough feed your addiction. We may not have a Michaels or a Hobby Lobby, but we have Kate's Paperie, Lee's art shop, and my favorite Paper Presentation on 18th street between 5 & 6th. I have been shopping here for years even before my scrapbooking days.

This is the outside of Paper Presentation last night, its dark and I'm using my cell phone to take the photo so its hard to see, the store is huge, not only does it have scrapbooking supplies it has tons of gifts, books, albums, paper for invitations, etc.

Here is a photo of what it looks like on the inside, this is a wall of embellishments, mostly ones by Jolee's.

Here is more of the inside, you can see how big this wall of embellishments is.
I didn't take any photos of the paper area but that is really intense.
They have so many awesome papers, I was salivating in that department. The colors, patterns, textures, ughs, the ideas were running so fast in my head it wanted to burst. I couldn't wait to get home and lay it all out.
Had to make a pit stop at dinner first though. Haven't been with my best friends from Tenafly in a while and we were all meeting up at Blue Water Grill in Union Square, and I was running late. It's so hard to get out of the craft store once your in there. Dinner was absolutely delicious and it was so good to see my friends.

My rehearsal dinner was at Brasserie 8 1/2 on 57th between 5th & 6th avenues. It was a great evening with all the people in my life who are close to us. I made a great slide show and my dad made a really cool video that he surprised us with. There was a lot of good entertainment.

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I love this photo of Jared and I, the dress was really pink, lol.
I layered the invitation and menu, layered beautiful mixed flowers with rhinestone brads in the middle. I added all these word stickers on the side to really express the emotion of the evening. I think this layout came out really well.

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This is a photo of my brother Scott and I, also a great picture. I love the layout here, the title fits so well too. I am really bad at remembering who makes all the embellishments, papers etc, most scrapbloggers are better at that then me. I even managed to journal on this page which I rarely do.

--Scrapaholic