cocktails, crafts, and cupcakes!

A few weeks ago, on my birthday actually, I opted to have some girlfriends over for a cocktails and crafts night, with a side of cupcakes.

I got the idea from Becky, over at Rub Some Dirt On It who has ongoing cocktail and craft afternoons with her friends and their children. Even though I'm missing the whole "children" part of that activity, I knew it could still be fun since I'm crafty and so are my friends.

I kept working on my scrapbook from this last year in Germany, while the others had projects of their own.

Here are some of my favorite pages:

 my little mister who I miss dearly.

 the front page.

I have a ton of scrapbooking supplies. Honestly, enough to fill an entire craft room.

Unfortunately though, I don't have room for a craft room and probably wont until I own my own home but, it's okay...it'll be worth it...

tons of tokens from Germany, and lots of embellishments to go with it.

I'm a serious craft nerd. Like, fo' realz.

We wined and dined on fancy cupcakes, Trader Joe's yummy appetizers, Cupcake label Chardonnay [new favorite], Mike's hard PINK lemonade [so very girly; love], and it wouldn't be a complete Hayley event without margaritas.

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I can definitely see this becoming a tradition, not just for birthdays, for regular girls' nights' in. For my first go around, it was a success but next time I would love to go all out with decoration and take more photos of everyone and their projects with my camera instead of iphone.

Nevertheless, I love cocktails + crafts nights.