A RONA evening!

Good Morning Stamping and Scrapbooking friends!

This is a very exciting post for me! Last night I attended a Ladies Night at our newest local RONA Home and Garden store. It was a wonderful evening. They had 8 great "How to" stations set up. The ladies divided into groups and we rotated through the stations! I think the Flooring Instalation station was of the favorite...at least with the group I was in! But they were all wonderful! The staff at RONA and all of the area specialist at the stations were extremely freindly and knowlegable. Those are the most important aspects I look for.

At the end of the evening, there were a number of door prizes. The prizes were amazing; from specialty paint to $50-$75 gift certificates! There was, however, one final door prize which was the grand prize draw. There was one catch with the door prizes...you had to have stayed around at the end of the evening in order to win! They drew for the grand prize....announced the lady's name over the announcement system. As it was not mine, I started my way out. But.... she was not there. Just as I was about to leave they drew another name! You might have guessed it by now....it was MINE! My heart was beating like crazy as I couldn't believe my luck. I guess I should thank the lady who didn't stick around. But, a BIG thank you is in order to RONA!!!! My grand prize was a $100.00 gift card.

I arrived home and showed hubbie all of the great stuff(there was also a "goodie bag" everyone received at the beginning of the evening...a pair of work gloves, a RONA key chain, and my very own(YES, MINE Keith!) RONA measuring tape, a pen and notebook. Of course I had to drag out the fact that I indeed had won the grand prize. Keith was very pleased with me though! He really is envisioning a workshop/shed in the near future! Watch out RONA staff...here we come!

Well, there is more to let you know about. As Keith and I have been at RONA many times over the last few weeks, I thought that I would share what we have been working on. As I have mentioned in a post a while back, we had poured the step into the Stamping Studio. But as the weather was very odd to say the least, we were forced to wait to build the brick path leading into the studio. The weather had been much better lately, so Keith(and I ...but more Keith)have been busy working on the walkway. We used the bricks that we had removed from the front of the house from the beginning of our renos to frame the walkway. The rest of the bricks were from RONA! We used 24x24 inch blocks as well as charcoal coloured bricks to fill in the rest. Keith went out to RONA this morning to rent the stone/tile cutting tool. He is outside having fun right now as I am typing. He will be going full tilt ahead today until it is done. I can't wait to see the end result. Here are two pictures of what it looks like so far. One of the walkway and one with Keith working on the walkway(don't tell him his picture is on my website!). I will post another picture when the walkway is complete!

Again, a BIG thank you to RONA!

Happy Stamping!!!

Stacey