I just love fairs!  The Florida Strawberry Festival is going on right now and we took the kids last weekend.  It’s always the weekend of Lauren’s birthday (I can’t believe she’s 9!!!), so we go almost every year.  The time was the most fun we’ve ever had.  The kids are old enough to go on most of the rides and old enough to think they’re fun instead of terrifying. 

 

The rides are fun, the strawberries are good, the people watching is hilarious, but you know what the best part is?  Fair food! I have never seen so much fried food (or turkey legs) in my life!  As we were walking around, Lauren wanted to know why everything was on a stick.  Corn dog on a stick…chicken on a stick…deep fried snickers on a stick…They were deep frying things I didn’t know you could deep fry, like Oreos, cookie dough and Pepsi.  How the heck do you deep fry Pepsi anyway?  I wanted to try it, but by the time we got back to it, I had a terrible stomachache from all the deep fried junk!   However, the award for the most unbelievable fair food goes to "The Chocolate Barn" for…ready for it?…chocolate covered bacon!  (If you don’t believe me, check out the picture below).  Who knows, maybe it’s like chocolate covered pretzels and it’s really good?

 

Afterwards, the kids said it was one of the best days of their lives.   Makes every minute of the stomachache worth it! 

 

We have 261 fantastic new products this week.  We have the new floral collection, Madeline from K& Co and three new collections from Die Cuts With a View; Taj Mahal, Tahiti Beach, and Nana’s Kitchen.  We have a St. Pat’s/Ireland collection from Reminisce called Green Day (along with some great new layouts in the Shop by Layout section – click here to see:  Shop By Layout.)  We also have products from two new vendors this week, stickers and glitter from Martha Stewart Crafts and eight new collections from Amanda Blu, including ballerina, princess, rockets, reptiles, Noah’s Ark and some gorgeous florals. 

 

We have a special promotion with Amanda Blu until Friday, March 6.  Get a free Amanda Blu album with a $100 purchase ($23 value).  Simply add the album you’d like to your cart and apply coupon code FREEALBUM at checkout (one coupon code per order, please

 

The SYT designers were working on the following themes this week:  Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom, Missouri, North Dakota, Baseball, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Mountain Biking, Cruise, Sourthwest, St. Patrick’s Day and more.  We had such a great response to last week’s custom paper with two different sayings/words in two different fonts that we also made a diagonal option this week..   We also have two custom die cuts:  a cruise ship and a theatre sign.  My favorite die cut of the weeks come courtesy of one of my long-time customers, Dolores from Nebraska:  "I’m a Scrapbook Addict, I Need a 12 x 12 step program!"  Click here to see all the new items:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/30409.html.
 
We also have 261 items on sale this week and over 150 items left on 50% clearance.  Click here to see all the bargains:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/clearance.html.

 

And remember, if you can’t find what you’re looking for, we can always make it custom just for you!  Click here to see all our custom options:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/custom.html. 

Julie Swatek, President
Scrap Your Trip®
www.ScrapYourTrip.com
‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®

 

Lauren and Logan with the stuffed animals they "won" at the fair. It only cost us $20 each!  But they were SO proud of themselves for "winning" them.

 

They ended up riding the Tilt-A-Whirl twice, but Logan wasn’t so sure about it the first time!

 

See!  Chocolate covered bacon!  I wouldn’t kid about something like this!

 

In the car after "the best day of their life"