Diggin the paint...

just a quickie post to share my latest creation...

challenged myself to make my own background patterned paper...

here is what we get...

What a beeeeautiful subject I have to work with!

What an adventure...

Camping went rather well this weekend...

Did not get to take as many pics as I wanted...

Wind and rain I could have done without...

Laundry is piled up now...

Lots of cleaning to do...

Last week of school for the kiddies...

Chaos is just about to start...

Sharing some joyful pics of the weekend...

I am OUTTIE!!!!

Leaving in a few for the camping weekend...supposed to rain all day tomorrow so that does not sound like my cup of tea...will check back in on Monday!! Have a great weekend all!!!

One Little Word BLoG challenge....GO

Completed my layout for the One Little word Blog challenge....love the whole concept of this...really got me motivated to do a layout about my lil baby gal and how it is becoming harder for me to let her go!! Very refreshing to get this down on paper and help me start dealing with my issues of letting my last baby grow up!!

This layout is going to be hung prominently in the kids' room to remind me to just let Kamy be Kamy and let her grow up all on her own! Thanks girls at One Little word for inspiring me to get this done!!

sharin a lil inspiration...

Have not posted some of my latest creations and thought I would share with you all!! Hope you all had a great weekend! Camping next weekend for three days.....WAHOOOOOOOOO!!!

Workin on a lil sumthin...

That I find sooo relxing, soo energizing, soo inspiring, soo everything...

Don't you just love it when....

You can find that one thing....

That makes you grin....

That truly is your passion....

That you know makes you happy....

Whether it be painting....

Or Scrapping...

Or gardening...

Or just reading...

I love to find new things tht I love....

Makes me happy....

Previews of what I am working on....

any guesses???

Not a secret.....

Just wanna NOT show the whole thing yet till it is done....

So Organizing is on my agenda...

I have all these layouts just stacked everywhere...

Three or four stacks...

Some here....some there...

Some everywhere...

So I got sick of it....

I cut up some priority boxes...

Organized my stacks...

Reglued some of the chipboard letters....GRRRRR...

They were supposed to be self adhesive...

Now they are sitting pretty....

But in priority boxes...

Now what to do with the boxes???

I think I feel some inspirational painting coming on...

Maybe play with my free side...

Just paint whatever comes to mid...

Wherever the brush leads me...

TO BE CONTINUED!

Yippeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Got a very lovely email today from the peeps at Bluemedia Publications...you know them well....the ones that make the idea book Layout Blueprints. Well they have a new book coming out and I got my second email from them....THEY WANT A LAYOUT!!!! Sooo pumped! This is my second one for this book! And it was done with The Scrapbook Site's May kit!!! I am still in shock! Just finished a mini book with TSS's June kit...A La Mode....what a yummy kit this is...will post some pics after I am done uploading!! Just want to share a few snapshots as of recently of the kiddies...this warm weather has been fantastic!!

been a few days....

Since my last post so I better get right to it!

Feeling super creative today...

Very sick of the rainy weather...

Ready for sunshine and hot...

Ready to get this laundry all done...

Ready for nap time and quiet...

READY FOR SUMMER!

One of my creations here from the June kit at The Scrapbook Site...yummmmmmy colors! Soo much more to come from this kit!

the title says it all....ENJOY THE LITTLE THINGS!!

This is my celeb look alike????

Hey whatever works...LOL! Don't quite think I have the flawlessness of this one...but if you go to MyHeritage.com, they will do this face recognition for free...how kool is this???

I have been tagged.....

by the lovely Jess....post 7 random things about me...this might bore you to sleep but here goes....

1. I am an avid collector of anything vintage...old suitcases, trunks, large furniture, desks, loooooove the thrill of a good find!

2. A dirty kitchen IS NOT my friend...if there is one thing in my house I clean three times a day, it is my kitchen sink....if I am very tired, I might let it go, but the next morning I am all over it.

3. I love to mow the lawn (I know...don't laugh) but it does give me some much needed exercise, I get to feel like I accomplished something and the statisfaction of a nicely mowed lawn is instant gratification.

4. I have learned to HATE grocery shopping...specially now that our family is upped its' numbers to five.

5. I am a self proclaimed pack rat. I will admit that I have a few totes full of just school papers from my sons first two years in school.

6. I have extremely long, strong nails. Never have to file them, do my cuticles or anything...they just grow grow grow.

7. I hate idle time and I work soo much better under pressure...If there were no deadlines, I would get nothing done.

So are you still here with me??? LOL! Had some serious fun this weekend garage saling with the girls,...got me some good finds and changed and altered them up to store my scrappy goodies....found this old glass canister thingy that was supposed to hold flour, sugar, things like that and just gave it a coat of paint, sanded it and now it houses all my pretty things. Gotta LOVE a great $1 find!! And some yummy yummy vintage fabric...whole box for just $1!!! And boy did I ever load up on the suitcases...my fave thing to get is the very old vintage hard back suitcases and stack them up about five or six high...I have 5 right by my scrappy area that houses all my felt, stuffings, quilt batting, and fabrics....works perfectly!! Have done a lot of creating lately too scrappy wise but all is for the upcoming newsletter for The Scrapbook Site...they will be out in May!!

Almost 90 degrees....

and I am officially giving in to my wimpiness and turning the air on....in APRIL! Nothing more aggravating or irritating than being too hot in your own house. Guess I will forever be spoiled by cool air!
Can NOT believe that tomorrow is the first of May....wow....where did April go?? Lots of time outside and lots of new good pics to post as soon as I get done editing them! Will bbl to post some kite flying and water hose action!!

LiL book of TrickS

Have wanted to do one of these little insipration books for quite some time and I finally got up the nerve to cut up (yes I said cut up) my scrappy mags and use the examples and tips and put them in a lil book of tricks! Anything that I found appealing to the eye, techniques I want to try, sketches, whatever I find inspirational are in this book. So now when I am wandering aimlessy trying to find my mojo with no success, all I have to do is open this book and there it is!!

Come on over and play!

Come on over and join us for some fun and challenges and games and chat!!

SCRAP N CIRCLE

Will post some of my works in progress later!

New things make me happy.....

Event filled weekend...

Not all good either....Kamy has allergies...we have known that now for a while...she gets watery eyes, runny nose and sneezes bunches...nothing that ever needed medical attention or any sorts of meds. Well I think that is all about to change! Took her and the other kiddies out the the campground to visit friends that were camping. She played by the camper and all was well! she had a lil bit of watery eyes but not too bad. Kamy started to get restless so I decided to take her on a walk up to the restrooms. It was very very windy along the lake front and she was face first in the wind. By the time I got to the restrooms, her face was all botchy and her eyes were just pouring tears...of course I kinda freaked and rushed her back to where we were visiting. Just kept getting worse so I threw her in the truck and took her home to get her a dose of benadryl. Well on the nine mile trip home, her eyes swelled almost all the way shut and her lips were about four times the size that they are supposed to bed. Nothing else beyond the face...just the face! I dosed her up with benadryl and about one hour later she was starting to look better...no breathing problems tho thank goodness...got a pic of her about an hour after meds and mind you she did not cry the entire time this was happening so all that is tearing of her eyes! Needless to say she has an appt. with the doc to be referred to a specialist as soon as we can!

On a VERY POSITIVE NOTE...I am an aunt to a very special baby girl named Claire Elizabeth! Got to go and visitn the darling lil one last night and I could have stayed there and held her allllll night long! Got to feed her a lil and even got to change a diaper! She is perfect in every single way! CONGRATS RUSS AND KANDYCE!!!! I can't wait to spoil that baby to death and love her and hold her and teach her and dress her up and all that comes with being an auntie!! And her cousin Brayden is pretty darn proud of Claire as well. he had to take pictures to school today to show off his excitement!

Just a quickie post...

Been busy here...creating.....being inspired....warmer weather on the way....just wanted to post to let you all know I am still here...will post more this weekend!

More felt....oh my!!

I am having soo many ideas running thru my head with this felt...I never make a sketch, I just go with it and sew as I go...and I think I have really found another outlet! I hope that you all enjoy looking at my goodies as much as I enjoy creating them! Added a very very cutesy girly purse to my listing that you just gotta check out! My Etsy store is RIGHT HERE!!
Thankfully enuff my scrappy mojo has not stopped either...what a lucky feeling to be able to put a balance to both fetishes and still play outside all day with the children and end up sunburnt in April. I loooove it!! In a very happy place right now!
Hopefully some weekend soon I will not be around to post to my blog cuz we will be CAMPING!!! Last year at this time we had already been out and this year.....well not even close to thinking about it! This weekend is suppposed to be near 70 but rain chances...nothing worse that camping in the rain with three kids stuck in a trailer.......AAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!! Think we will skip this weekend! More time to scrap and sew!!

Of course I just cant go without posting some of my new fave pics of the week!! The pic with the dinos?? Whatever they are...my son wanted a "kool" pic of the McDonald's animals fighting....LOL!

Yummmm......

Love this Sassafrass...could create with it FOREVER! (ok maybe not forever but I do loooove it) Here is my latest....I hadn drew the frame around the pic and then painted it with red acrylic paint, used my white Sharpie marker and black pens and love the results! You can find this paper in a super fab kit over at The Scrapbook Site!

Adding more to my Etsy Store!

Would looove it if you go and visit and tell your friends! Just listed a red Rock Star monster and working on a turtle and now at a request thinkin of a really silly monkey!!

Here is the link....

ThiS FeTisH with FeLT!