April Showers bring Garage Cleaning???

Hello all!! Yep its me! Ha, Ha, of course it's me! 

Here's what's been going on in my world!

1) Finishing a Baby Boy Album for my cousin in New York!

2) Starting a Wedding Album for my cousin in DesMoines! YAY!! (something other than a baby album!!)

3) Getting stuff together for a Baby Album for my aforementioned cousin in DesMoines! (boy or girl? hmmm.....)

4) Cleaning in and out my garage!

5) Getting ready for a garage sale!!

6) Moving garage sale stuff up from the basement to the garage.

First table in my garage to be filled with stuff for my upcoming sale!

Been alot of stuffed burned (10 bags) and 1 pickup load sent to the dump so far!

Now after all this garage work is over I will be getting my craft room done!!  I haven't had the time or materials to start on it since I moved into my house almost 5 years ago!  All my craft stuff was just "put" in there willy-nilly and its so unorganized. I have most to all of my scrapbooking stuff upstairs in my spare bedroom and some in the dining room.  It's starting to over run my living areas so something needs to change here and I need some breathing room again. 

Yep as you can see it really needs help! I have a floor loom (my moms), 2 shelving units in dark brown, a section of old kitchen cupboards, various small shelves, 2 sets of wooden towers, 3 rolling table carts, a white wicker bakers rack, and a stand that was built for a scroll saw- will be my cricut's home! There is stuff in here that is so not supposed to be too!

So EVERYTHING in my craft room is being moved out so the walls can be painted! I'm a firm believer in thrifting and am a cheap person at heart- I'll spend money on what I can't get cheap!  I bought 2 gallons of Bher Premium paint at St.Vincent DePauls thrift store for $2.50 a gallon 1 is full the other is 3/4ths full. One is eggshell the other is satin both are a pale mint green- so pale that you'd need a swatch of white to see they were green! The 3/4ths gallon is getting a pint of sage green glaze added to it to darken the color (I got the pint at another thrift store-Trinkets n' Togs for a $1.  LOVE MY GREENS!! That is going to be on my fire brick exterior wall (foundation wall) it will be painted on with on of those two-in-one rolller kits to make a mottled sponge painted effect on the wall (Paint roller kit Brand new $3 at Trinkets n' Togs).  The Interior walls will be wall papered with-you guessed it wall paper from a thrift store! $1.50 each for 3 big rolls and $1 each for 2 roll of border paper! It's a cute paper of crafty witches in light and medium lavenders.  I have 2 rolls of the checkerboard lavenders and 1 or the lavender and pink striped accent and 2 rolls of the crafty witches with trees border!

My cute wallpaper!



I have a couple of big old shelving units that are from the 80's I might paint them in one of the green colors probly the darker but I don't know yet, they are a dark wood veneer now might just see how they look with the paint and paper job. I also have a old "built in" kitchen cabinets in there too! They will be painted! in the darker green color it's only about 4ft of cabinet 2 upper doors with shelves above and 1 lower and 3 drawers beside it. After the paint and paper job comes the linoleum for the flooring!  My mom got these for me at either a garage sale, thrift store, or an auction- all I know is they (6 rolls) were cheaply bought and its some of her contribution to the craft room!  The Lino looks like light hardwood flooring and should add some warmth to the room! Then before I start to move things back into the newly done craft room the pool table thats out in my garage has to come downstairs through the craft room into the spare bedroom that will then become the pool table/game room! It'll probably be on it's side for awhile till everything is put back into the craft room and organized at the same time! Then the pool table will be set up and ready for some fun billards playtime! 

Whew, lotta work to be done but the outcome should be awesome!!  My goal is to have a craft room where friends can come and crop with me and have fun too! My basement has a full working kitchen too! Gotta work on that basement bathroom.... Oh yes and it's already been deemed the froggy bathroom! lol!

Last fun tidbits:

A few treasures I have found cleaning in my garage!



So here is my WalMart Associate of the month mug, Wicket the Ewok, and my first pair of scissors Wonder Woman!!

Y'all have a Crafty Day now!! LOL!

March Challenges!

Hey all!
So I didn't make the cut for Graphic 45's design team call but- hey I did try and had fun making my projects! The participents who went on thier projects are amazing- you should really take a look at them!

So on with the show- While I watch the design team call list for a call that suits me I'm gonna participate in some challenges on various blogs! This is my first challenge posting! Yay!

Im posting for:
Really Reasonable Ribbon Challenge- RRR43
Hiding in My Craft Room Challenge- HIMCR36
The Crafty Purple Frog Challenge
Sassy Studio Designs
Everybody Art Challenge

Cardstock: by K&Co.

Flowers: by Prima- Tattered Angels Glimmer misted (Key Lime Pie)

Stamp: The Greeting Farm (Rain Snow Shine)

Sentiment: Autumn Leaves (Stampology)

Cricut Lite cartridge: Lacy Labels

Ribbon: from my stash name unknown

Copic Markers

Cute isn't she? I so love green! Its my color one of these days I'll show that- & my growing obsession with crayons...... Comments welcome! Just maybe not about my idiosyncrasies! LOL!!

Graphic 45 Design Team 2012 Audition

Well here we go-
This is my first posting of my own projects for a Design Team!! Whoo-Hoo!! Sorry, I'm excited and nervous all at the same time!
I'm auditioning for Graphic 45's 2012 Design Team! I love their paper the richness of the color and graphics gets my heart all a flutter! Those of you who I work with know I could not stop talking about The Magic of Oz paper I saw at Scrapfest in the Mall of America- I think I went on and on about getting it- haveing to have it and about finally buying it!! LOL!! Oh well we all have our obsessions mine is pretty paper and other various scrapbooking supplys....

Enough chatter on with the show-

Most of you know I create albums for my familys life events as gifts, they have loved all of them these include two wedding albums and three baby albums (1 girl, 2 boys), one of which I'm working on currently (boy).  And I will be doing another here soon as my cousin informed me she's due in September, Yay Amanda!! 

So here are a few of the pages I created for my Cousin Dusty and his wife Lorena's baby Elias.  I believe some call these ploppers cause you can just plop the pictures on and the page is done.

The is paper by the Paper Studio

I can't recall who the embellishment is by.

I mostly do two page layouts for these albums

The paper and stickers are by Maya Road

My Cousin Dusty was a dinosaur nut growing up!

I believe the paper is Imaginescense?

Lettering from the Pooh Font Cricut cartridge.

Most of my pages have themes as you can see.

Others are just cute generic baby pages.

Ok, now a page of my own featuring my Nephew, Tyler.

Paper by Momenta and Paper Studio

Lettering is Pooh Font cartridge for the cricut

Now onto my altered projects....

Im a firm believer in thrifting I love a bargain- who doesn't!  I love garage sales and auctions too!  LOL!

Most of my items are thrift store finds or clearance items!  Gotta love that clearance isle too!

First up: Magic of Oz wooden purse!

This is a trift buy of many many years ago for $2!! You had to put the entire kit together hardware too! Awesome! I believe it's from the 60's or 70's anyways here she is!

Paper by Graphic 45,

Flowers and crystals by Prima,

Glitter cardstock by Best Creation,

Beacons 3-in-1glue, Zig 2-way glue,

Tim Holtz distress inks, Zap dots, and stickles

Second up: Domestic Goddess Recipe Box!

Clearace find at Hobby Lobby the one sides hinge/rod was broke- fixed it with a tooth pick!

Paper by Graphic 45

Flowers by Prima

Paint by Americana

Tim Holtz distress inks, Zap dots,

and metal baking charms.

Third up: Alice in Wonderland Clock!

This frame I bought 3 years ago at a thrift shop for $1, and it was this color to begin with!

Paper by Graphic 45,

Flowers I can't recall,

Clock- Kaiser craft kit,

Prima, and Zva Creative crystals,

Tim Holtz distress ink, Zap dots,

Glue Arts Glue Guider Pro,

Beacons 3-in-1, and Zig 2-way glue

Fourth: Fairy Music Box!

Remade cigar box bought at an auction in a box of cigar boxes, music box was bought at a thrift store and taken out of its broken exterior.  It plays the theme to Dr. Zhivago, Somewhere My Love.

Paper by Graphic 45,

Flowers and crystals by Prima,

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist,

Tim Holtz Disstress Inks and box legs,

Beacon and Zig glues, and Vintage lace

Fifth: Fasionista lamp!

This thin metal lamp I bought at a thrift store for $1, I went to Hobby Lobby and purchaced the lampshade for it.  I really like how it turned out- I made the tulle flowers myself!

Paper by Graphic 45,

Crystals by Prima,

Beaded fringe by Hobby Lobby,

Tim Holtz Distress inks, zap dots,

Beacons and Zig glues.

Sixith: Dream Album

This album I bought from the Backroads Plum Crazy Scrapbooking store.  It was on clearance cause the "M" had it's right leg broke off.... Well as you can see DREAM(s) can be mended!!

Paper and die cuts by K&Company

Flowers by Prima and K&Company

Crystals by Prima

Beacons glue

So there you have it my Design Team Audition projects I hope you all enjoyed looking at them..... Hope I hear from them soon... Wish me Luck!!

Design Team Call tryout!!!!

Oh ya, I'm getting my craft on today!!  Can you say Design Team call!! LOL!! Gotta have at least 6 projects to show!  Even though I have a few finished creations I havn't picked which ones to use yet..... BUT I'm creating new items for this call & so far #1 looks awesome!!!!  Oh-ya its a funky mustard yellow frame I bought in Clear Lake at the Villiage (a thrift store- for you non-northern Iowa friends). I paid a dollar for it, and now have had it for 2-3 years just sitting there. Loved it but didn't know what I would use it for or with! LOL!! Hmmm.... deciding weather I should let the cat outta the bag or not,....... It has definately been decided what it is to be and which paper collection it is gonna feature!!! Eeeee!!!! It is really looking awesome!!! I'll post picks of this awesome frame in its before today and it's after- hopefully later today!!

Whew... It's been awhile.....So so sorry! LOL!

Sorry All! I know its been like forever!
So much has happened since my last posting: Halloween, Thanksgiving, almost losing my tire off my car, work ramping up for fall season, hitting a deer and totalling my car, trying out for a few design teams, Christmas, buying a new car, New Years, work slowing down, several snow storms, freezing fog, Groundhogs Day, and Super Bowl Sunday (tomorrow!).  
See I told you alot!

Soo here are some pics of my lovely Grand Prix GT....

My car.... yep both air bags deployed...

took out my head light...

and this is what bambi left in my crunched up hood!

Here's my new ride now! Very nice car and it has the

most roomiest trunk! I have space even when I put all

my scrapbooking totes in for crops! Yay!!

Lately I have been working on another baby scrapbook for my cousin out in New York.  This will be my 3rd baby scrapbook (2 (boys) by myself and 1 (girl) I contributed to).  I make an whole entire 12x12 album of what you would tipically see in baby album (pregnancy pages, birth page, firsts, cute baby pages, etc.....).  The album is totally finished when its presented- the recipient just has to add their cute awesome pictures to it. Premade albums are easy and so thoughtful it's an awesome gift for people who love the scrapbook look and either don't have the time, patience, talent, or tools to do their own. I have also done 2 wedding albums this way too. I'll be posting some pics of the albums and a few of some other projects I've done in the past..... see y'all later!