Hi there, One last little post about the upcoming Creativ Festival. There's so much to see and do there that I'll never be able to cover it all, but I wanted to spend a little time talking about the Scrapbooking and Paper Arts workshops. I'd be the first to admit that I'm a novice when it comes to all but the most basic papercraft (need a pirate hat? I'm your lady!), but it looks like a day or two of classes could easily get me up to speed on things like card-making, rubber-stamping, quilling and scrapbooking. Master scrapbookers like Sarah Hodgkinson and Lara Brooks will be offering classes in scrapbooking and making mini albums, respectively. I also noticed a variety of Christmas-themed seminars, including how to make your own Christmas cards, recycling old Christmas cards into special keepsakes, and Christmas-themed quilling projects. The Paper Playground session being offered by two of the people behind Canadian scrapbooking publication Scrapbook and Cards Today looks like a great way for a novice like me to get my hands on a variety of papercrafts in a relatively short time – five projects, each led by a different designer, in three hours! I'd love to tell you more but it's still Christmas mania here, so I've got to get going. Please, head on over to the Creativ Festival website and have a gander for yourself. (PS Don't forget to enter this week's giveaway. It's your last chance to enter for a set of Creativ Festival tickets OR you can enter to win a book. For your chance to win, leave a comment on the contest post telling me which prize you'd like.  Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, October 11; a winner will be posted on Tuesday, October 13. Good luck!)