Susanna and I are live from Scrapbook Expo in Pleasanton. What appears to be your average Saturday afternoon ‘Crop’ is anything but average. Hard at work on designing layouts for our albums, picking out the right paper stock and obsessing over which tool to use, it’s easy to zero in on our projects and remain heads down at our table. However, being the avid scrapbookers that we are, we were already conditioned to keep our eyes and ears open for raffles and door prizes. Other than that, it’s rare you’ll find us turning our heads, except to take a peak at the projects our neighbor’s are working on.

Then all of a sudden, there were a few security guards (aka ‘rent-a-cops’) shuffling around and speaking into their walky talkies. The only reason they caught my attention was because there typically is no male presence in the room except for our emcee, Dave — and now there are three to five rent-a-cops glancing furtively at the table behind us, scoping out the old lady with the straw hat. Apparently she stole a few items from the Expo. What could it have been? Scissors, paper, stickers, who knows? Well, before we knew it, she was being escorted out of the Expo by ‘Security.’ This is a first. Well, never a dull moment. I guess we can just chalk this up to another ‘scrapbookable’ moment.