I worked on two birthday cards today! They’re for my friends’ birthday dinner tonight. They’re turning out really nicely. I love this EK Success Cupcake punch. I’ll have to write a tutorial soon. :)

Above is a photo of the girl birthday card. :)

Daynah & ManLe at Pineapple Cove – Photo Taken by Albertech on iPhone

Everytime I go traveling, I try to stop by local scrapbook stores to pick up a few special things I can’t find at home. Of course, this trip to Hawaii is no exception!

I was unsure about where to start, so I asked on Twitter where the best scrapbook store in Oahu was. @TweetPea sent me a link to Joscie’s “Scrapbooking in Hawaii list” and I couldn’t be more happy! Going down the list, I fell in love with the store named “Pineapple Cove.”

At the Rethink Hawaii Tweetup, I was asking people about local scrapbook stores, and I someone sent a tweet out about my question, and again, I was pointed to Pineapple Cove! Wow, now I really HAVE to visit this place!

Well, I’m finally at the store, and I have to say, it’s a pretty big place full of scrapbook and crafting goodies! There are tons of paper, stickers, wooden cutouts, albums, diecuts, and much, much more! I picked up a few Hello Kitty Sizzix Diecuts, wooden flowers, and a few other things. I was quite happy! :)

Although the shopping part was fun, the best part was probably meeting ManLe, the store owner of Pineapple Cove. She’s the sweetest and nicest person ever. She was teaching me all kinds of scrapbook techniques and giving me ideas for projects… that believe it or not, I can’t wait to go home to start working on.

I spent hours in the store, just learning about techniques, chatting about scrapbooking, Twitter, and other social media topics. I know staying in a store for a few hours is not something people do on their vacation, but this was a slice of heaven for me. If you love crafting and you’re in Oahu, be sure to check out Pineapple Cove! I’ll definitely be back on my next trip!

Is anyone else into Disney Pin Trading? I got into it about 3 weeks ago. My friends and I were at Disneyland and every ride had lines that went on for miles! Luckily, I brought the pin trading starter set that Lena gave me a year ago. We only went on two rides, but pin trading kept me occupied for the rest of the day!

How does it work? Basically, you check out the Disney cast member’s pins (the Disney workers) and see if there’s anything you want to trade with them. If you see a pin you like, just trade one of yours for one of theirs. It’s that simple! Other rules are.. you can’t trade with them a pin they already have, and you can’t trade more than two pin at a time with any cast member.

So I started with 4 starter pins. Then I had to buy another starter set that had 7. And well.. I started buying pins that I like to keep instead of trade. And now my lanyard is getting really heavy. :)

It’s getting quite addicting. I’m at the point where I like all of my pins.. so I need to buy another starter set to start trading again! My best find yesterday was a new pin from the Tinkerbell movie, worth $14. I traded it with my $4 pin. :)

My best advice is trading pins with the Disney janitors… why? Because they don’t get that much traffic from visitors since they’re not selling anything. And yes, I got that Tinkerbell pin from a janitor. :)

To the left are some pins I had on Saturday, and in the top photo are the pins I have now. Sometimes it’s so hard to pick which ones to trade!

I finished photographing all the cards I made two weeks ago. I love this Rubber Stamping class! Can’t wait til the next one. View the cards!