Online Baby Share/Shower

Hello welcome to my contribution to the Online Baby Share for Keira Lucas!


As a Auntie of six, ages 15 - 1 month,(this is not mentioning various friend's kids) I have picked up a few ideas for baby gifts. In fact this summer I set up my Amazon account with this list so I could click and ship to friends, at last count (including Keira act surprised Angie) I have sent some variation of the below 10 times this summer.

First comes the inherited baby gift, passed down from my mom, the hooded towel and washcloth set. Of course since I work in the reading department, who hold's a week long celebration in honor of Dr. Seuss...I could not resist these.....

Then as a firm believer that one should read to children from birth, and in continuing with the theme......

Now a book that I loved and still love

And finally a tip for Angie, here is the bottle that a friend who's son had collic picked up years ago, then I have given to my friends and family ever since..they all love them....Dr. Brown's....
There you have it! Best Wishes to the Lucas family!

Leea

Heart to Heart Blog Candy

I have to share ....So I read on Carolyn King's Blog that she was doing her heart to heart drive.(see above link for Details) Well, Saturday was World Cardmaking Day, and Emily was out here helping clean etc. She loves to scrapbook and make cards, so what better opporuntity to teach a child ...We made some to send to the place Cammie had listed. The only glitch is I am waiting for a replacement card for my Olympus camera so all I had was my Blackberry(even outside the shots were terrible)So I couldn't upload the thank you cards we made, but thought would still enter...She is coming back out this weekend (3 day weekend for both of us so plans include card making for local Alzheimer’s home, clothes overhaul, cleaning and hopefully getting my car back in garage)



So this week I have been doing LOAD (Layout a day) and loving it, but in the process of making LO's and Life in General my emails and Google Reader have been neglected, so just now checked emails....


GUESS WHAT.....check this out



Can you say I am speechless, just by thanking someone....Wow...I am in awe, guess the scrapbook room/den cleaning (have been dumping stuff in there instead of using it) has just moved up the list...Also best work on cleaning up the pictures of cards ....I sent them to the address she recommended already..But local cards being moved up the totem pole for this weekend too..Thank you for listening to me ramble about my excitement...I will be back come Monday for an online baby shower! Catch you later!

Basic Grey and sizzix

Check these new embossing folders, as if I need more!



Sizzix.com - Texture Boutique

More things to share

Ok just some more things to share (pictures of projects etc)

First on one of the many blogs I read I found this cool digi stamp on the
Talk to the Ham Blog so I went ahead and made a thank you card out of it. Heres what it ended up looking like prior to giving it away.



Then when my lil sister and nieces where here in June we went shopping (surprise surprise) I found some bins at the the $ spot at Target. I have been trying to find a way to organize my Stickles and other small glitter containers. These worked out awesome.




Ok this week I hope to really buckle down and get some cleaning done as I only have 20 odd days before work starts again (not including the days I have to go in and set up a whole new room UGH) I work better under a deadline *wink* Catch you later

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Elizabeth Kartchner had on her blog the significance coming up with the date and time..I am so in to co windy dinks like this. (ie My dad turned 27 the year I was born, I was 27 when he died) So jumped right on board for this one, here is my Layout of what I was doing today....



(Click on Picture..blogger being a beast today)

The other day while reading my many blogs The Daily Digi had an article about converting your printed photos to digital...I have so many pictures that I need to have this done, as doing mostly Digital now....I was also thinking my Cousin and I talked about scanning Our Grandparents pictures...this would be awesome. Then My Aunt and Uncles..

Scan My Photos: Photo Scanning Service, as low as 4 cents per picture scan


Have more stuff to share soon, until then catch you later.......

Capris, spring and all that Jazz

Sorry have not posted in awhile. Been working on the big project for this summer. OY....speaking of that there is a challenge blog that I found called creative therapy last week's Catalyst Fifty-Eight was What’s your favorite word...Here is what I did


The paper is from my friend Nicole



she asked me to be on her creative team...and OY (LOL) sometimes the mojo comes and goes..so been working on that. Playing outside with puppers and the kids at school(much to their teacher chagrin) since not all my computers work the last 2 Fridays..Today been working on backlog of laundry (geez need to get rid of some of my clothes) brought the capris out of the basement ...woohoo means summer is coming ....(well at least the end of school) Had a field trip to a our small local library Thursday, my supervising teacher and I (classroom teachers and parents help with groups) take all of the Accelerated Reader kids (about 80 total this year) and have a scavenger hunt with the card catalog...now begins the uphill ride to the end of the year (dibels, book fair, the dreaded inventories, and fun day otherwise known as FU day) Well that wraps it up, my cat just spilled Peach Tea on my keyboard (its already on its last leg) so best let it dry out..Catch you later

Target 3 tier baskets

are my downfall...you see last year this one was a frenzy to find





(found them thanks to my dear friend/coworker Sue and lil sister) so Steph and I were set...mine is now spray painted black and filled in den/SB room....
then reading the blogs today and oh Dear Laverne (thanks a bunch girl) had to post this




now how shabby chic is that and I love it...

Ok now sadly our painter has been called back to his job this Wednesday(grounds crew at country club) so Dining room and hallway are the last to be done until fall ...which is not totally a bad thing..as I am thinking that a tornado would be better at getting my moms room ready ..remember a hoarder...grrrr....sadly if we had not waited for the drywall repairs to be done, and just called the painter maybe he would have started with our bedrooms/bathroom and den, but hindsight is 20/20...but have I mentioned the dining room is my purgatory...back to it, but taking a break for Brothers and Sisters later...OMG its going to be good...(pictures of the top of kitchen cabinets I did this am later) Catch you later....

I see skies of blue.....

clouds of white and pink walls too...I know lame ...So with out further ado...dusty pink walls all better (actually Bunny Nose but camera not getting exact color)



So that got finished yesterday, then the guy who was repairing drywall (dining room and master bath from settling) 3 weeks ago, called and needs to finish before we can do dining room (which is next on list) so 2nd coat today, and 3rd tomorrow..then hopefully move stuff out of dining room (UGH ..china, church pew, dining table and chairs etc) and where are my sisters, still do not think I should have to go through this purgatory alone..LOL ...Septic tank problems still problems a week later...grrr...but progress was made today..

Today marks the 27th day of LOAD..tomorrow is last...so here are all but the last (which may I add is not done yet) It was so nice to finish the pages from Grandma and Grandpas House..do not think I would have without this motivation...just a little too hard....so here they are and I am off to eat and relax before the shuffling happens again...Catch you later

Favorite 8 of 2008

So I am a little behind on this post, but I was born late (literally) But in Blogland people have been posting their 8 favorite layouts of 2008! So Here are mine..in no special order...Lots of these were either done in LOAD (woohoo coming again February) or an AMR online crop..(which the big one starts tomorrow night..woohoo) Catch you later...

More Presents to share

First off, my secret Santa, I rigged it (good thing of running it) so I would have Lois, who is a 3rd Grade teacher, but also, a friend, and was the best 4th Grade teacher a girl could have....She introduced me back then to Judy Blume and Beverly Cleary, and to this day if she is reading one to her class, I stop to listen. Yesterday's gift is one I wanted to share (others where small things like the blue photo holder shown previously) ever since I saw this post I knew instantly I wanted to do this for Lois, as she is retiring (way too young) at the end of this school year. We will not discuss the denial I am in....but will show some of the final project prior to her receiving it (don't know if she liked it as tempted as I was to ask, can't reveal ourselves until the BIG breakfast on Friday AM) Forgive the pictures ...


If you note I used the same paper (Miss Elizabeth's) on the comp notebook as I did on her photo holder, this was such a fun and inexpensive but awesome idea....

Now more gifts, my teacher Linda is a huge Mickey Mouse fan, so for her photo holder I used a kit and made hers..then my friend/coworker Julie, loves purple (has since we were in Lois' 4th grade together) so found some purple paper, then (which not shown since camera is acting up) I used the swiss dots folder on the side panels..for the gift bags, I used plain lunch sacks, used the fiskars ribbon punch, then used some American Crafts Christmas Ribbon(That I got with my Aunt in $1 spot at Jo's) The final one is a Starbucks Frap bottle, in which I just painted the lid, tied some more AC ribbon, filled with various kisses..and there you have it..


I have more variations of the photo holders to show, but tired & don't know if coworkers will get them come Friday (Last day before Break woohoo !) as here is the weather coming my way tomorrow...

.ICE STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM CST /4 PM EST/THURSDAY TO 12 PM CST /1 PM EST/ FRIDAY.

All together now.......YUCK...I hate ice, probably means no electricity, which means I will be on all night sump pump watch..this time about 2 years ago exactly were out for 36 hours...and mom has still yet to buy generator..thank God for the people who farm for us having an "extra" one just in case...so if I do not post again for awhile..that may be why...Thanks for reading my catch up long post...Catch you later

Progress to share

Ok by the look of my SB room/den you would think a bomb went off (if it did it might help) but I have made some progress....

First let me go back to the Christmas ATC I made (as they are on their way to the other participants)

Now on to the photo holders


As you can see used the old sizzix, as it was handy, in the first one, there are 3 gals who love coffee so found this from Luxe Designs



Color it in with colored pencils, then added brown cardstock with the Cuttlebug Textile Texture Embossing Folder ...then the blue one is some Miss Elizabeth's paper with blue cardstock embossed with the same folder...Now what to use to seal them...not sure...

In other updates, yesterday at work, was working in Kindergarten room, and well let just say one of the students came down with the stomach flu right next to me...whether its psycho semantic or an omen, have had terrible heartburn all day...tums are my friend...then discovered tonight that puppy ate all of one end of this


all while in his crate (he sneaks toys in and buries them in his blankets) now a nervous wreck, parts have reappeared if you know what I mean...but not lots, so pray he is going to be ok...he destroys toys that say indestructible in 2.2 seconds...so tired and going to bed...long post as to catch up, any ideas for puppy, sealer for photo holders, way to stop the stomach flu... let me know..... Catch you later

ATC: Imaginisce Snowy Jo - Tinsel to the Top Paper; label: Misletoe & Co Digital Kit by Sande Krieger; Green Basic Grey Periphery with Martha Stewart DOILY LACE Punch...

Snippets

Today I want to share about a new book coming out. Lain Ehmann's blog has always been a favorite of mine..Then in January she had a class at Big Picture Scrapbooking, called LOAD (Layout a Day) and thanks to her I got 31 Layouts done. January as we all know was the month from Hell around here...1st with the basement flooding and then mom's near death hospital stay and recovery, (which meant a leave of absence from work) ...so when I heard she had a book coming out, I knew with this woman's fun personality, the book itself would be awesome.

Here is a sneak peek from the book about a common issue with all of us scrappers...Making Time(click on image to enlarge)



Isn't she a hoot! I think I will make up a disease, as I need no encouragement to be off work lately....thinking of insanity ....not a far stretch! Now if you want to read more previews go Here and to preorder the book go Here !

On Thursday(11/20) at 1 pm Lain will be hosting a Snippets virtual launch party at the Simple Scrapbooks website on Make sure to stop by - She will be hosting a chat on the message boards at 1 Pacific time, there will be contests, prizes, and more!

Well had to share (always do when I find good stuff) Tomorrow night is Make IT Take IT at work (literacy projects) so might not post...Catch you later!

Make it Monday

So after doing all this rearranging and sorting and organizing...decided need to use some of the stuff.....Perfect timing as when I got home from work I had gotten my order from Scrapbook Pictures...Finally printed this digi layout I did at an AMR Crop...did it for my desk at work....


But decided not to stick in a frame and hang it, decided to add some of my ever growing 12 x 12 paper and other stash to it so it was "dress it up"

I won the Mix it up KOTM and in it were these trees...cute but had to had some "bling" to them in the way of stickles and brown glitter paint ...first photo is how they come in the kit, second while hard to see with the "bling"



Got this Pink Paislee paper from a RAK from STACEY at AMR, added a rubon (blinged out with my at you spica pen of course) and here you go....



Used my BigShot today at work! Along with the sizzix Doodle Dots alpha I have had forever..made a bulletin board for AR...(pictures when its complete)...woohoo! Using some of my stash, now if I could just finish organizing/cleaning the den, I will be a happy camper....Well off to dream world ....Catch you later!

Cards for Heros

I told you that one of the projects at work I was doing with the kids was having them make Cards for Heroes Well then I saw this post on Gina K's blog (it was the kick in the bottom I needed to get my mojo going again) and started to make some on the day we had off school for the Act of God day...then came the tooth and yea...so tonight I made the time to finish them.....

I finally used the QVC second Cosmo Cricket set (Christmas one) from August...well at least some of it.....Now being that I couldn't use glitter...I wanted to keep them simple due to a) time is limited for me lately b) they need to be blank inside so they can write inside..so these papers are so wonderful on their own..they meet my needs....I used some of the card bases and then some of the cardstock, they provided but for the sentiment I did it on the ol computer and punched them with scallop punch...

I printed the sentiment on Kraft paper then punched them..


But those who know Cosmo Cricket papers, they have this ..shabby chic style to them (that I love) so enter Tim Holtz's Old Paper Distressing Ink and you get......

Then add some ribbon on the cardstock...pop dots to the sentiment and you get.....


There you have them..using my stash(see Aunt Linda and lil sister I do use stuff) ...kids going to the Cards for Heroes and some of mine too, the others to Gina K...not so much for the prizes but I work best with deadlines..I encourage all of my scrappy/cardmaking friends to make some if you can....

Thanks for all the wonderful emails and comments about yesterday's post ...appreciate every single one...Well got to get some stuff done...3 1/2 day week at work (PT conf's Friday Morning..then afternoon off) might go and see my dad's side of the family...(Don't tell my sisters or cousins but I am their favorite *wink* even when I don't see them as much as I should or know about things that go on) so best get down there...catch you later...

My Pumpkin Pal

So over at AMR I participated in the pumpkin pal exchange ..which is like secret santa..you get a name of someone on the board and you buy for them based on a list they posted...Got my gift in return the other day...take a look at this...she hit right on the money...studio g's, ribbon, digi scapping (I could go on but I will let you see instead)



Now here's a co winky dink..she (JLinGriff ~Jessica) was also in the running for the mini box (sadly neither of us won) but at the time I kept thinking she has the same name as a friend of mine who I used to work with...not putting together that she was on the same board as I....

She wrote me a note on this cool paper...its from a journal...and laughed so hard when I saw this ....

funny isn't it..before I go don't forget ....Again the wonderful Jessica Sprague is doing this...(registration is open now and woohoo I have everthing I need) go do it..she has a cool surprise in there too!Catch you later!

Amanda Probst & A Week in a Life

Last night at the AMR Online Crop, guest designer Amanda Probst
had a challenge to use her Album in a Year sketches and create a layout...well I jumped on this one, as I am trying to complete the Week in the Life project

(Click on any of the pictures to make bigger)

I used this sketch from November


Here's Amanda's version



Here's my take using work pictures


It was sooooo good to get some scrapping done, I downloaded all of Amanda's sketches to use as they are awesome....Been up since 6:30 am (went to bed at 3 am ) working on this...so best get some things done before pain comes back.....Catch you later

I broke down

I love die cuts machines, its a fact. I couldn't decide between the Big Kick/Big Shot and the Cuttlebug, but since I have the original sizzix and billions of its dies I went with the Big Kick....


Of course it helped that HSN had it on clearance...lower than where I could find it ...Joann's & Michael's online always had it on sale (so no 50% coupon) and my closest ones didn't carry them...Should have it Monday....

I was in great debate about Stampin Up's Top Note Die, but I also have been eyeing the Spellbinder's Labels each set below is 24.75 each, and the top note is $21.95 for one size...my Aunt and Uncle didn't teach me to be a bargin shopper for nothing... so will wait until the labels come out (now end of October)





Now what to do with the original sizzix and the Revolution....

Went to PO today to mail my Pumpkin Pal package, and Prima free flower envelope and the 10 mile round trip just about did me in, thought about stopping at work to throw up..been sick to my stomach on and off ever since...got to get back to eating some what normal food....still swelling (the PO lady commented that left side was really really swollen) but wanted to get the stuff out today....

On tap for this weekend finish up some more cards for the soldiers...so they can send to their families ...Gina K and Jennifer McGuire are both doing drives...also on tap sleep and Brushing my teeth (woohoo) didn't know how much I miss it until I couldn't do it! Plus want to work some on my Week in life pages ...thinking right now doing digi pages...then putting them in their own album...Hopefully will be able to do AMR online crop tomorrow night...love them and need to get some scrappy things done....So thats whats new w/ me off to bed...Catch you later gaters!