Sweet Cheeks

Want to win this cute "Sweet Cheeks" kit from Scrap for a Cure? Go check out Ali Edwards blog, it's part of her fabulous Wednesday giveaways today. Have I told you this kit is my favorite SFC kit so far? You want one, for sure!

Stichy stitch stitch

I spent most of the weekend working on baby shower invitations for Jessie's shower. I spent a lot of time stitching these little felt cupcakes. Who's bright idea was it to stitch 27 cupcakes? Oh well, they're awfully cute...



Haven't been keeping up with my grateful album, because my to do list is so long, so here's some more grateful notes for me so I can catch up later.

Jan 9-cancellation and lazy morning in my pj's
Jan 10-online communities and friends
Jan 11-spending the day crafting and baking
Jan 12-delicious meals and time with Shawn
Jan 13- spurts of creativity

Birthday Wishes

Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday dear Shawn
Happy birthday to you!

Here's wishing you a fabulous 31st year!
I love you!

Scrapping Away

We're having a crop this weekend at Scrap for a Cure. There's lots of fun challenges, games and prizes. You should come check it out. I'm hosting a "Make it New" challenge. The challenge is to find something you've been saving or have had stashed away for awhile, with the intention of making it beautiful and actually pull it out to make it new using your supplies. I found this old metal tile stashed amongst boxes, tins and random pieces of metal and plastic that I have stashed away as things to alter. I paired it up with some bits from the SFC January kit alcohol ink, ribbon, and buttons to create this little Love wall hanging.



The January kit, "Sweet Cheeks" has been revealed and it's a good one. It's my favorite SFC kit so far and I love working with it. Here's the pages I've created so far:





This kit is full of fun colors, patterns and embellishments. I'm pretty sure I'll be using my kit until there's nothing left to play with.

If you're looking for something to do tonight, I'm hosting Bingo at SFC at 7pm. Come and play!

Crafties and Gratefuls

Life is busy around here, but I thought I'd share a few of my latest projects. Here's a calendar that was inspired by Celeste and the KI Memories Blog. You can dowload the calendar template here. I used yummy Amy Butler papers and love looking at it sitting nice and pretty on my desk.



Here are my projects for the Scrapgal newsletter. A little home sweet home banner


and some wishes for 2009


Created this one about my birthday awhile ago with the Studio Calico November kit. Love those Studio Calico Noah stamps, which I borrowed from Ally and hope to own someday....


I'm also trying to keep up with my gratitude album. Here are some notes for myself about that last few days, so I don't forget. Today I'm grateful for:

Jan 5-the new washer and the fact that we could go buy a new washer
Jan 6-quiet time at home after work
Jan 7-friends who listen when I need them
Jan 8-the little things that make my job so wonderful, sudden expressions of affection, contagious smiles and laughs, fully engaged eye contact....

Around Here

Here's what's been happening around here the past few days:

-the taking down and putting away of Christmas
-the acquisition of a new king size Tempur-Pedic mattress for free
-the moving around of beds and furniture necessary to accommodate new mattress
-crying my eyes out through Seven Pounds at the movies today
-the death of our washing machine, mid cycle
-lots of crafting, including baby shower invites, calendars and playing with new goodies
-Scrap for a Cure January kit sneaks:



it's an adorable little kit full of fun, cheery papers and cute little embellishments. We will be having a new kit and new site launch party and crop next weekend, Jan 9th-11th. Come join us for lots of games, challenges and prizes.

I'm off to investigate new washing machines....

Create 09

I am co-hosting a creative project for 2009 at Scrapgal called Create '09. The idea behind this project is to document your year, one week at a time, in a creative way. I will be using my 7 Gyspies ATC spinner, but this project could easily be done with any ATC's, a deck of cards, a mini book, an art journal, or full sized pages. We will be giving a weekly prompt designed for you to use as inspiration for documenting your week. Prompts will be posted every Friday in the challenges forum at scrapgal. I'm really looking forward to this project and can't wait to see my ATC spinner filled with weekly cards. Here's what it looks like so far:


So far I have created a "Happy 2009" intro card and my first prompt card.


The prompt for this week is "What do you wish for in 2009?" I decided to use my Ali Edwards one little word as the basis of my card. Balance is my word for this year and here is my first Create '09 card:


The back of my card houses some journaling about my word choice. I have chosen balance becuase I would like this year to be the year that I learn to balance all that I do. I seek balance between work and play (generally my life is pretty work heavy), constant motion and stillness, stress and relaxation (here's my biggest challenge), doing things for everyone else and time for me, friend time, family time, marriage time, etc. I think this was a perfect way to start this new project.


Prompts for Create '09 will include journaling prompts, challenge prompts, technique based prompts and a few guest artists. Please come join us on this creative journey for 2009.