Shop Hop Stop #23: Cool Scrapbook Stuff

More embellishments! :)

It turned out Cool Scrapbook Stuff was close by to my friend's house. Tommy and I picked her up and she was our navigator. :) It's nice to have a friend to hang out for couple of hours. It's just been so long since we hung out, and went shopping together.

The themed destination at Cool Scrapbook Stuff was India. There was a small section that they put together to go with their India theme. I took my time to shop with my friend. She had been wanting to work on her scrapbook, but didn't seem to find the time for it.

I picked up a few cute journal tags, blade replacement for my silhouette digital cutter, another bottle of Glimmer Mist, and glue stamp pad. I also got some ribbons and embellishments I got a free Make N' Take as well as the bottle cap to add onto the charm necklace.

New addition to my charm necklace

Follow me to see where I headed to next with my friend. :)

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #22: Paper Tales

Goodies from Paper Tales! :)

Stop #22, Paper Tales, Destination: Japan

After Solana Beach, we went ahead and headed to Paper Tales. My friend was busy and without wasting time, we decided to visit Paper Tales first, then head over to visit my friend afterwards.

When I first walked into the store, it was busy! The store was filled with people. The store was decorate with Japanese theme. The store was so crowded, it was so difficult to get around the store to look at everything. I picked up some ribbons, some Stickles, stamp and cardstock paper. I got the Make N' Take as well as the bottle cap.

There was a class going on in the back as well. There were a group of ladies working on the album, it was pretty cool. The Make N' Take required us to do some stampings. After I made my purchase, I had to walk to the back by the crop area and prestamp the pages. I also took a picture of the 2 layouts so I could remembered how it looked like. That way, when I finally get a chance to work on it, I would know how to put it together!

1st page of the Make N' Take

2nd page of Make N' Take

I tried to stamp the page just like the sample. I took me a long while to stamp it. I wanted to make sure it stamped perfectly and exactly like the one shown. I don't think I stamped it exactly like the one showing at the store, but very similar to it.

New addition to my bottle cap necklace!

The bottle cap was so cute! It had a bird cage charm on it! I love it! I loved the color of the background as well! :)

After our trip to Paper Tales, Tommy and I stopped by to Rolando's for California Burrito at Mission Valley. It was quite funny how we drove by this same Rolando's last weekend while we were in San Diego. I hope I will be visiting the San Diego Scrapbook stores more in the near future.

Next time... Stop #23!

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Shop Hop Stop #21: Paper Paper

Glitter flourishes

Last weekend of Shop Hop, Tommy and I headed to San Diego. Since the last stop, I took a break from Sunday to Friday and resumed my adventure on Saturday. I was planning to visit my friend in San Diego since I hadn't seen her in a while. Tommy and I debated if we should do a weekend trip in San Diego or just do a day trip. When Friday came along, no hotel was booked! My friend from San Diego kept asking me what my plan was during the week, I couldn't answer her.

When Saturday came around, Tommy and I had our bags packed, but still no hotel was booked. We packed in case we decided to spend a night in San Diego. We left home around 9ish, our first stop was Paper Paper in Solana Beach. I was more interested in their themed destination - Bora Bora.

If you followed my blog, you know that I went to Tahiti with Tommy back in 2009 and couldn't stop thinking how beautiful Bora Bora is. (Keep checking back, I will be posting more of my scrapbook pages from Tahiti soon)

When I first stepped into the store, it was organized with a lot of goodies. They had invitations and stationary section in the front. Toward the center and back of the store, that's where all the scrapbooking goodies at! I really loved the glitter flourishes. I bought a bunch of them. I used them on my scrapbook pages. I wished I had gotten more! :D Though, I did not like the smell of the stickers at all. Whenever I open a bag, it had a stinky plastic chemical smell. :/

I got a free Make N' Take and purchased the complimentary page and got a bottle cap to add onto my collection. They had sample Make N' Take sitting next to the register. I took a picture of them so I could remember how it looked like and put it together by myself when I came home.

Overwater Bungalow! :)

Plenty of space to put picture on here!

Bottle cap with Overwater Bungalow

The store had a Photo Op as well. Come back soon to follow my next stop...

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Shop Hop Stop #20: Scrapbooking Made Simple

Lots of goodies from the North Pole!

Look where we headed to... we headed to the North Pole! :) I was so tired after the last store, I wanted to go home so badly. Then again, Tommy had a different plan and headed to Scrapbooking Made Simple.

Just as I was walking in, Mrs. Claus was doing a demo on using Glitter Ritz, Copic Markers and Elizabeth Crafts Stickers. That was pretty cool! Mrs. Claus was so cute and sweet! Her demo sold me and I just had to purchase them to try them out myself at home.

I got the Make N' Takes and bottle caps to add onto my collection. It surely felt like I was at the Santa Workshop. There were free gifts with purchase, free Make N Take and bottle cap with no purchase necessary. It felt like Christmas.

2 more bottle caps to add onto my collection! :D

After our stop #20, based on Mrs. Claus (Stacey's) food recommendation to eat at Everest. She highly recommended their onion rings, zucchini fries and not to mention, their home made ranch dressing on the salad. We went to Everest for a quick dinner. We ordered a chicken salad and zucchini fries. They were really generous on the chicken on the salad. The salad was pretty big and couldn't even finished.

After dinner, we drove home and hung out at Tea Station for a quiet evening to rewind ourselves.

Until next time....

Shop Hop Stop #19: Remember When Scrapbooking

Destination: African Safari

After Once Upon A Page, I was done. I knew I would not be able to go through all 40 shops. Because of that, instead of stressing myself out, I decided to take it easy and thought Tommy and I could hang out for the rest of the day. Little did I know, he decided to be spontaneous and decided to drive to Santa Clarita to visit a few more shops. At that point, I was starting to be more careful on the money I spent. After all, money don't grow on tree. I had to watch what I was spending to budget myself. Well, that threw me off by a bit. He asked me if we were not doing Shop Hop, what would we be doing that weekend. I couldn't answer him. He's the driver, he made the decision of where to go and decided to continue the Shop Hop journey with me.

So, off we went to Santa Clarita/ Valencia. Our first stop was Remember When Scrapbooking. This store is located at the warehouse part of town. I was quite surprised how they utilized the space of the building. They turned the back part of the warehouse part into a crop area. It was pretty big. The front area was the store. It didn't feel like I was at a warehouse building at all. The space was pretty wide open. The crop area was nicely painted on the walls. There were a lot of inspiration around the store to get ideas flowing.

Yay for the goodies! :)

The store had a lot of products. I bought some ribbons and bought some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and Glaze. I am not sure what to do with them yet! I will, eventually. :) There were some cute journal tags and just couldn't resist them. I bought a good amount of them.

I got the bottle cap as well as the Make N' Take. I got both Make N' Take. They were just so cute! :)

Another bottle cap to add onto my collection

There's quite of wonderful goodies in this store. Too bad I can't have them all! Come back in a few days and see where I headed to next!

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #18: Once Upon A Page

A Pink Theme! :)

After visiting the stamping store, we then headed to Stop #18. The next destination on the navi directed us to Once Upon A Page in Burbank. They were located across from a market, which they were cooking up some BBQ that day. It smelled so good! No, we didn't go get any.

When we first walked into the store, it was neat and organized. The themed destination here was Beverly Hills. They had a Photo Op at the back of the store, decorated in black and pink. I really took my time to look around the store. It just happened that everything I picked up there was all pink!

I decided to buy the letter stickers. They really come in handy! They were foam and filled with glitters! It would give my project a nice dimension. I bought more embellishments. I just can't seem to get enough of them!

I got a free Make N' Take and bought the second Make N' Take pages. However, it turned out that they ran out of the Make N' Takes and they had a mailing list for the customers who wanted it, they would send it directly to us. That was pretty cool. The Make N' Takes were really cute. I also got the bottle cap as well. This bottle cap is pretty cool! This bottle cap has dimension! The book in the middle seems to have a metal material. It's almost like a pin.

Bottle cap I received

I was done shopping after this one. I was ready to go home and relax and spend the rest of our Saturday relaxing. Little did I know, Tommy had a different plan.... To be continued...

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Shop Hop Stop #17: Stampin' From The Heart

Goodies I bought!

Day 9, Stop#17 - Steampin' From the Heart - Themed Destination: Holland

After AtoZ Scrapbooking, Tommy and I decided to take a break to have lunch before continuing my shop hop journey. We stopped by to Al-Hamra Halal Cafe for lunch. We ordered Chicken Shawerma, Gyros wrapped in Pita and Tabouli Salad. The food came out pretty quickly. It was quite a bit of food for us.

After our lunch, we headed to Stampin' From the Heart. The store had alot of people cropping. The store mainly sold stamps. They had a big collections of stamps of sorts lined up on the walls. They organized the stamps by theme. I know exactly where to go for my stamping needs! There's so many, you bound to find the write stamp for your design and occasion! :) They had a good section of papers around the store as well. I found some transparencies with designs on them. I decided to get them.

I got a free Make N' Take and also bought the 2nd page of the Make N' Take. I also go the bottle cap as well. There were several bottle cap designs. The lady who took care of me was really nice and patience with me. She pulled out the different designs to show me. I asked her which one were the popular ones, and she showed me the crowd's favorite. Eventually, I picked one and was quite happy with my choice.

There's a tulip charm on the bottom!

Where to next?

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #16: A to Z Scrapbooking

Welcome to New Orleans!

After Sonja's Scrapbook Spot, we headed to A to Z Scrapbooking in Torrance. Tommy entered a bunch of scrapbook stores on his navi and had it route the best possible way it could come up with. We just followed what the navi said.

The themed destination here was New Orleans, LA. It had a Mardi Gras theme in the store. If I remembered correctly, I think they were even playing Jazzy/ Saxophone style music over the stereo. Just like the name of the store, the store had everything. The store was big and organized and sectioned by themes. Any projects I am working on, I am sure I can easily find the things I need here. However, I had a eye sensory overload while I was shopping around, I ended up buying both pages of the Make N' Take and the bottle cap.

That's all I got....

Don't get me wrong that I didn't buy anything because I had a problem with the store. It's not the case. It's just there's so many goodies there that I just don't know where to start. Everything I need seems to have it in my craft room. Having Tommy around doesn't really help at times because he would ask me if I really needed it and made me feel more conscious of what I buy. Nonetheless, this store is like a one stop shop with so many products in the store, you can easily find what you need for your next project.

Close up of the bottle cap

Where to next?

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #15: Sonja's Scrapbook Spot

A special selection of paper made with Banana Leaf, & ribbons that looked like silk

Day 9, Stop# 15 - Sonja's Scrapbook Spot - Themed: Thailand

Awhile ago, when Tommy and I went to Howard Hughes Center to watch a movie, we decided to walk around area to see what kind of shops were there. We came across Sonja's Scrapbook Spot. That time, it was during the Christmas Holidays and they were not opened. I had this store in my mind and hope that I would go in there to shop if we ever head back to Howard Hughes to watch a movie. With the Shop Hop, it was even better! :) I didn't have to wait until my hunnie and I go to watch a movie (it's really out of the way).

When I walked in, I was greeted by the friendly store owner. She offered us Thai Ice Tea and roasted peanuts with sweet and spicy sauce. I was most attracted about at her store was the specialty papers that she was selling. Because her theme was Thailand, she tried to incorporate papers and embellishments that could represent Thailand. It was pretty cool I picked up some papers that were made out of banana leaves and got some papers that were made from Thailand. She told me that she had papers that were made from Elephant dungs as well. It was quite interesting.

I bought some ribbons that had a different texture. She told me she was looking for ribbons that looked like silk. The ribbons were colorful and pretty. When I saw them, I couldn't help but bought a bunch of ribbons in different colors! :)

Bottle cap from Thailand

She showcased her scrapbook of her Thailand trip. It was pretty cool. She told me that she spent about a month and a half in Thailand! Her experience and memories were all gathered into the scrapbook. Her scrapbook totally made me want to travel more to explore different places around the world! I focus my scrapbook on my travel, to see someone else sharing her scrapbook for her travel as well, that's pretty cool. :)

Follow me to my next stop...

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Shop Hop Stop #14: Collective Journey

Ribbons & Embellishments, we even won some prizes!

Day 8, Stop #14 - Collective Journey - Themed Destination: Township of Mayberry, IL

I admit, this one was an unplanned one. I wasn't thinking about heading to Redlands. Although I would love to go to all 40 stores, I knew I wouldn't be able to do all. I really felt bad having Tommy to be my driver to drive me around. He surely made me really happy when I decided that we should head to Collective Journey to check out the store and buy some goodies!

The major reason that I didn't plan on coming here because it was just further out. However, after a shop hop stop at Scrapbook Cafe, I decided to go. When we first entered the store, there were carnival booths set up in the front. My first impression of the store was big, organized and clean. The store was well maintained with a lot of merchandise packed around the store!

Not only did they sell scrapbook products, they also sold gift items. They had an old fashion candy counter filled with candies! That was pretty cool. Just like all other stores, I took my time to walk around to see what I liked and see what would catch my eyes to buy to expand my collections.

I found some cute butterflies embellishments and couldn't resist to give them up. I bought them. Besides, I have alot of flowers at home already. It's nice to have something different to add onto my collection. :) I have so much flowers, I continue to buy them! I picked up some more ribbons as well.

I got a free Make N' Take and decided to get the 2nd page additional page as the two layouts were so cute and adorable! I also got the the bottle cap to add onto my collection. The bottle cap is cute too! It looked like a county fair prize ribbon!

Thinking outside the box, the bottle cap looks like a prize ribbon! :)

Although Redlands is a bit further out from when I am, I was glad I came here. The store is big and neatly organized! We even won some prizes at the coin toss booth! That was pretty cool! After we left, Tommy and I decided to find a place to eat around the area. We went to Eureka! Burger for dinner. We ordered a Beet Salad, Fig Marmalade Burger and had Sweet Potato Fries.

Come back soon for Stop#15 to see where we headed to! :)

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Shop Hop Stop #13: Hearts-N-Crafts

Buttons!

After a trip to Chino Hills, we headed to Covina to stop by to Hearts-N-Crafts for Stop#13. Good thing they closed late so we could route our way to come here. Hearts-N-Crafts is located at Old Town Covina. It felt like I was back in time when we were driving down the street. I was pretty surprised there's so many places I had never seen with a cute town charm. I am so used to seeing commericalized buildings that I often forget the small, old town charm. It's great to see different places and open my eyes and mind to explore.

When I first walked into the store, I found myself a bit lost. The store was pretty big. I took my time walking around the store to see what I liked. I decided to buy some buttons and stock up on the 3D foams. I love using the 3D foams as it adds dimension to my pages. :) I picked up both pages of the Make N' Take and purchased the bottle cap. There were several style of bottle cap design. With choices, I tend to stood there at the register and became indecisive! I just didn't know what I wanted. In the end, I chose one.

Themed destination: Washington D.C.

What I liked about this store was that it had a home feel. The ladies were friendly. The store was big and neatly organized.

After shopping, Tommy and I decided to stop by to Buffalo Wild Wings in West Covina to have dinner. We shared wings and sliders!

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #12: This N That

Aloha!

Day 7, Shop Hop Stop #12, after work, I decided to head to This N' That over in Chino Hills. I was thinking about driving there by myself until Tommy asked me where I was going. He decided to come along as long as I drive myself over to his house! Besides, I hadn't seen him for days since he went to Las Vegas for the trade show. I didn't mind having him be my driver to drive me to places.

This store is located next to Stater Bros. When we drove into the plaza, parked, I was confused because I didn't do my research before coming here. I couldn't find the store! I checked their website to double check the address. Then, I realized that part of the store is a dry cleaner!

I took my time walking around the store. I decided to buy the sander as I recently bought some cardstocks that I could sand to reveal a different color. I wanted to do something else other than tearing the cardstock. They had cardstocks on sale. I always find myself picking up more papers. Eventually, I will make use of it, someday. I also bought a Copic liner pen. I am not sure what to do with it yet. I am hoping that I will be able to learn to use Copics in my future projects.

I got a free Make N' Take and decided to buy the second page. I also bought the bottle cap to add onto my collection.

Bottle Cap says it all for the themed destination: Hawaii!

While I was shopping, the owner was really nice and friendly. She showed me around her store, recommended me some products, and showed me some of the classes that they were offering. I had a short chat with her while I was paying at the register. I learned from her that not only she owned the scrapbook store, the dry cleaners was also hers. They also do FedEx, copying, bill pay, etc! I was quite surprised. I actually learned a few things coming to this store. I learned that owning a business is not easy and becoming a successful business owner is hard work. It looks easy, but there's strategic planning. I also learned that you follow passion, everything will work out in a strange way. I hope, some day, I will be a business owner and open a business that I am passionate about and enjoy doing everyday.

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Shop Hop Stop #11: Scrapbook Cafe

Inspirations: Pins!

Day 6 of Shop Hop, I decided to have a quick lunch at work and head to Scrapbook Cafe. It turned out this store was also close by to my work. The store is located at Old Town Puente Hills. The street is quiet, not very busy.

When I first entered the store, it was neatly organized. There were some really nice scrapbook layouts and cards on display around the store. I was inspired by some of the them as well. The way they used the pins, I was sold and had to buy some pins home to put them onto my layouts! I am always learning something new!

I also purchased a bottle cap to add onto my ongoing collections of Shop Hop. I got a free Make N' Take and decided not to buy the additional add on pages.

Bottle cap from Scrapbook Cafe!

I think this store is ran by husband and wife. When I was there, the husband's mom was also at the store. She's very nice and easy to talk to. We chatted while I was at the cash register. She recommended me that I should consider checking out Collective Journey at Redlands if I had some time. She said they had a Country Fair Carnival theme at the store.

Until next time...

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #10: Scraparazzi

Lots of travel papers to choose from at Scraparazzi!

After my adventure at ScrapbookLand, I went on a driving adventure to Whittier! Oh my, the view was amazing! I had to drive through hills to get through Whittier. It was quite interesting actually. I am more amazed at myself that I didn't get lost! That day, I realized that driving to places I had never been wasn't so bad afterall. I could actually do it without the help of Tommy around.

My Stop #10 was Scraparazzi. The themed destination was Hong Kong. I was particular interested in this one, mainly because I was born and raised in Hong Kong until 8 years old before moving to the US. I wanted to see how they decorated their store. When I first entered the store, the girls were all dressed in an Asian red top, with hair tied into a bun and decorated with a chopstick. The store was decorated with red paper umbrellas. It was cute. They had a Photo Op in the back.

There were a large selection of specialty papers that were travel related. I visited Vancouver, Seattle and Portland this year. I found some Canada related specialty papers, I decided to buy them for my future travel scrapbook. The store also had a great selection of cardstocks as well. There were so many, it was difficult for me to choose!

Many bottle caps design to choose from! They surely made it difficult for me!

I got a free Make N' Take and decided to buy the complimentary layout. The Make N' Take were quite interesting because I had never thought how simple the red envelopes could be used as decoration. Looks like I know what I will be doing with all my red envelopes that I collected for years! I also purchased the bottle cap. Boy, that was a difficult task. When they handed me a tray to pick one, it turned out every single bottle cap I picked up, all their designs were different! I eventually picked one after standing the counter for a long period of time.

Stay tuned for my next Shop Hop adventure!

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #9: ScrapbookLand

Embellishments Galore!

Shop Hop Day# 5 (Tuesday), Shop #9

Store: ScrapbookLand

Theme: Margaritaville

After my Sunday Shop Hop, I didn't get a chance to do any shop hopping as I was too tired from work. The great thing about doing a Shop Hop event is that I encountered new local scrapbook stores around the area that I never knew about. ScrapbookLand is another hidden gem on my list!

This store is closed by to my work! After work, I drove to ScrapbookLand. Be careful though, depending where you are heading on Colima, you may miss the store! The store is located in a 'L" shape plaza and the store is located right at the corner of where the 2 lines meet. I didn't even know I drove past it until later on. I found the store coming back the other way. Hopefully they will put on a beautiful sign some day right in front of the building to get more visibility! Nonetheless, it won't stop me from coming to this store! This is now the official go to place after work to pick up materials!

My store was decent sized. The store was neatly organized. I love a neatly organized store! It makes shopping that much easier for my eyes. Just like other stores, I took my time walking around the store to see what caught my eyes.

They had a good selections of ribbons. They were organized in different racks by colors. There were many pretty ribbons to choose from, but I could only get so many! I got a free 6x6 Make N' Take and a free bottle cap. Because the Make N' Take were so cute, I decided to buy the second complimentary second page.

It's nice to have a margarita about now...

Although I missed the building in the beginning, I was glad I found the place! I am definitely coming back here more often to pick up my essentials if needed. Of course, with stress from work, it is a good place for me to come here to wind down if needed to. :)

Where did I go after ScrapbookLand?

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #8: Scrapbook Buddies

Look at that cute premade Penguin! :)

The store that somewhat started my love of scrapbooking! If it wasn't for Scrapbook Buddies, I probably would still be cutting letters by hand, and probably given up by now! Tommy bought me the Silhouette Digital Cutter here as my Christmas present one year. Ever since then, I just continued making scrapbook layouts and card making.

The theme was Opryland. It had a cute Western Country Singing themed Photo Op! It was just so adorable! Not to mentioned, their bottle caps were so cute too! I couldn't pick and asked which one was the popular! It turned out that both were head-to-head in votes.

The ladies there were really friendly. Since I had the bottle cap hung onto the wristlet, I showed them what bottle caps I had picked up the the last 2 days. :)

Very cute bottle cap and they even had a horseshoe decoration!

Whenever I come to Scrapbook Buddies, I am always amazed by their premade designs. They were limited in quantity as well. If I find something I like today, and don't buy it, it's really no guarantee that it will still be there next time I shop. Then again, I don't always go shopping weekly.

Until next time...

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop # 7: Snap N' Scrap

Lots of Travel theme! Love it!!

If it wasn't for this Shop Hop, I probably would never knew there's Snap N' Scrap! I live not too far from Snap N' Scrap! With a short drive there, I walked into a store filled with stickers! Yup, LOTS OF STICKERS, stickers of all sorts, all theme. I couldn't believe how much stickers inventory they got!

This store is also a camera store. Tommy and I drove by the store without knowing that it was a scrapbook store! The ladies there were really friendly and we chatted while they were trying to hook my bottle cap onto the chain.

Since there were quite a bit of travel themed items, I decided to pick some of them up as they come in handy for my travel scrapbooks. There 6x6 Make N' Take was really cute too! I learned from the lady that they designed the paper themselves! That's pretty cool. I decided to purchase the additional add on page to compliment the first free Make N' Take.

Cute bottle cap

This store was filled with goodies! The fact that it is so close to my house, I can easily drive there to pick up things that needed for my project!

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #6: Scrapbooking Heaven

Ribbons, ribbons, ribbons!

Day 2, Shop Hop Stop #6 (Last stop of the day)

By the time we got to Scrapbooking Heaven, I was tired. I actually had enough shopping and couldn't shop anymore. The store was big, with a lot of scrapbook layouts around the store for inspirations! I loved one of the layouts so much, I took very detailed mental notes in my mind and drew down the layout on a piece of paper when I got home!

There were some products that I wanted to buy, but decided to hold back as I am not sure if I had the time to pick up on new skills to use those products. They had a good selection of ribbons by the wall. I liked some of the ribbons and decided to buy it.

They had some travel tags and thought how useful they could be for my travel scrapbooks, I decided to buy a couple of them so I could make use of them in the future. I picked up a 6x6 Make N' Take and a bottle cap as well.

Wizard of Oz bottle cap, Themed Destination: Emerald City

Well, that's all for now on my day 2 journey around the Huntington Beach area! Continue to follow my journey of shop hopping, day 3!

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Shop Hop Stop #5: Perfect Day Scrapbooking

Banner outside of the shop

After our stop at Once Upon a Memory, Tommy and I decided to grab something to eat before continuing my shopping journey! While we were driving on Beach Blvd to see if there's anything we should eat, we drove by Monkey House Cafe. The name caught our eyes and Tommy decided to check the yelp review to see what others say. It had high reviews and Tommy and I decided to stop there for lunch. It surely was a delicious lunch! :)

After lunch, we drove to Perfect Day Scrapbooking. The store was relatively small compared to the other stores I had been. The depth was long, but the narrow. It was packed with alot of goodies in the store! I was getting overload looking around the store!

The themed destination was Las Vegas. The store was decorated with a lot Vegas theme. They had a blackjack table with a guy dealing hands to customers. They had a roulette game at the register to have a chance to win a gift. That was pretty cool!

I ended up getting some cute papers and embellishments from there. The Asian style theme cardstock papers were so cute and adorable! I just had to get it. Someday, I will visit Japan with Tommy. :)

My bag of goodies

I loved the glittery foam letters. I used quite a bit of it for my scrapbook projects after I bought them home. The butterflies crystal embellishments were really adorable! I decided to get them in clear gems. It would just be easier to put the embellishment on any types of project I do. (It's still in the drawer right now!)

Just like the other stores, I bought a bottle cap to add onto my collection. I got a free 6x6 Make N Take. I decided to not buy any of the add on pages. I was pretty surprised to see they had alot of add on pages for the Make N' Take. They even had a cover for it!

Back side of the cardstock papers

One of the few choices of bottle cap

Although the store was small, it was packed with alot of products! It was unbelievable. The prices were decent. The Vegas theme was really cool. I liked how they put the whole thing together. If I had another friend to Shop Hop with me, I am pretty sure we would had a lot of fun at this store.

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.

Shop Hop Stop #4: Once Upon A Memory

After visiting Scrapbook Garden, Tommy and I then drove to the next stop. Our stop #4 was Once Upon A Memory. The themed destination at this store was Huntington Beach.

Photo-Op opportunity!

When I first walked inside the store, the store seemed big with alot of papers and embellishments around the store. The store was neat and nicely organized. I had no intention of buying papers, so I walked around the store to look for embellishments that I don't normally find at my home store.

I took my time to look around the store. I found some ribbons that I felt I would make use of it. I decided to try a yard of each of the ribbons I picked. I also bought 2 butterflies. The butterflies were made with mesh like materials. I got a free 6x6 Make n' Take and purchased the second page of Make n' Take to go with the first page. Again, I also purchased the bottle cap.

My goodies! :)

Close up picture of the bottle cap

I enjoyed shopping at this store. The staffs were friendly and wouldn't mind spending some time behind the register to chat with their customers. When I first entered the store, there were a group of Shop Hoppers shopping there. I was a bit surprised to overhear from some shoppers that they were on their 9th stop. I was only on my 4th stop! :/

Come back soon to follow my journey of my Shop Hop experience.

*Note: My blog is not sponsored by anyone. It is a shopping experience that I like to share to you and like to share the products I purchased.