I love sparklie stuff!!!

Here is a pic of some jewelry dangles I have been working on for the little clear acrylic albums I am making. I just love looking at them, they are soooooooooo pretty irl, wish you could see them!!! I have made about a gazillion, cause I love them. :)
I am going to be doing some make-n-takes at a Girl's Scrapbooking Weekend in Edwardsburg Michigan on April 19th & 20th, as well as attending it with my dd - can't wait!!! (Email me if you are interested in info on it cause it will be a BLAST!) So I have been busy working on projects for that, as well as working on things for my etsy store.
I have also ordered some new stamps from a company I have never ordered from before, and am thinking about ordering some new stamps from another company because the stamping bug has bitten me BADLY lately!!! I already have a gazzillion stamps, but I really love creating with them. Oh my, I have been playing with lots of stamps, ink, acrylic, and paper the last 2 days and I have been having a BALL!!! I'll show ya some of my creations soon.
Speaking of which, I need to get my rear in gear and get back in my creating space. Have a fab fab Sunday everybody!!!

Working on new projects!!!

Oh my! I can hardly find space on my scrapping table to put even a tiny object down!!! I have sooooooooooo many projects I am working on right now I can't believe it. I also have 2 different quilts I am working on, and a baby diaper bag for a friend too. WOOOOOOOO, creativity has definitely been hanging around my lil scrappin/sewing room!!! This little Coke themed Rolodex is a gift I made for my mom for part of her bday present. She has Coke things everywhere, so I thought this would be a good theme for her birthday/anniversary rolodex. It was a fun project, if you are thinking about making one, you should! :)

I also have a 2 page layout in ScrapStreet's April ezine this month, check it out if you have time- ScrapStreet my 2 pg layout is under April Showers and is of my mom, my daughter and myself last summer when we went to a fun outdoor Trace Atkins concert. Really wet but really fun! Probably the dorkiest pic of me ever, but hey, ya gotta sacrifice for your art, right??? ;) he he

Happy creating and I'll have more pics to share soon!!!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everybody!!!
Maybe spring will finally arrive now. :) It's still snowy and cold here. I am itching to do some spring projects, so I might just do them anyway. Anybody else in the mood for spring, or better yet, summer? I am thinking boating and being on a lake relaxing. Doesn't that sound FAB? Ah well, hopefully it will be warm and sunny before long.
In the meantime, I wish you all happy creating, and hope you have a blessed day.

Taxes are very painful..........

Well, I never like gathering and sorting all the stuff needed for the accountant to do the taxes, and this year was harder than most. Last Saturday I was sorting my bazzillion piles (I reallllllllllllllly need to start doing this as I accumulate things, it is a giant patootie pain to do it just before taxes, yikes). Anyway, I went to get up and grab another pile of things for the shredder and I felt a sharp poke. YOWCH! What the heck? I looked down and saw a broken needle on the floor and the ball of my foot had a little smidge of blood on it. I couldn't see anything else, but it did hurt like the dickens. I washed it, put some neosporin on it and limped around for 4 days. On Tuesday when it hurt even more to step, I thought dang it, I better get it checked out. After I stepped on the stinkin' needle I wasn't sure if the needle was already broken (I had a few broken needles on my little desk area that my sewing machine sits on, since I didn't want to throw them in my pretty woven basket trash can because they might fall out and I might step on them, how ironic is THAT???? Sheesh.) Anyway, my dr couldn't see me, too busy with flu patients, so I went to the walk-in clinic. They were super nice there, and tried really realllllllly hard not to laugh at me for being such a dork. I did hear quite a few - WOOOO, that's a doozy, isn't it? remarks though, but that was to be expected after anyone saw the xray of the one inch chunk of needle wedged deep in my foot up between my bones. RATS! Not only did I have to have a tetanus shot now, I had to have surgery on Wednesday! Not in my plans, but they couldn't get it out of my foot any other way.

So that reinforces my belief that taxes are indeed painful. :)

I hope to be back to posting something snazzy soon. Have a fab week, and remember, throw your broken stuff out right away, so it doesn't catch up with you later..........

Winner of the Page Plan Challenge is..............

Da da da DAHHHHH!!!! :)

By a blind draw we have a winner. It is......................






Cheryl KVD!!!

Congrats and thanks for participating!!! Send me a pm with your mailing addy and I will get your blog candy out to you.

Everybody else, please pm me your addy too, I have a little surprise for you as well.

A great big ole TY to Alicia for her fab sketch too!

How are you doing with the contest?

Are you having fun with the fab sketch that Alicia Barry did for us? I can't wait to see all the beautiful creations!

Also a great big ole thank you to Beverley for selecting me to recieve an Blogging Excellence Award! :) How fun is that? For me it is REALLY fun! ;)

Don't forget to post your links with your contest entry LO in the thread below, or send me a pic (400 pixel size is perfect). You have until Friday night Feb 29 (leap day, how exciting!!!) to do so. Happy scrappin' everybody!!!

Page Plan Contest!!!

Here it is! Alicia Barry has done a beautiful Page Plan (sketch) for our contest. Want to win a little blog candy?
The contest officially begins right........................now! :)
Rules- Make a creation using the supplied Page Plan
When you are finished, click on this link and send me a pic (no larger than 400 pixels please) of your finished creation by 11:45 pm EST February 28, 2008 or post a link to your LO in the comment section in this thread and I will draw a winner from all entries on February 29,2008 (leap day, how about that?).
So have fun and get creating!
Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Want to check out more of Alicia's work? Here is a link to her blog.

The winner is..............................

for the Becky Fleck CardMap Challenge I hosted on MCC............



Kym Pope!!!

Congrats Kym!

Thanks for playing along everybody!

I will be hosting a new sketch challenge here next week, featuring a sketch done by one of the talented instructor's at MCC - Alicia Barry!

Stay tuned for details, they will be posted this weekend.

Prize Pack

Here is a pic of the prize pack of card embellishment goodies for the Becky Fleck CardMap Challenge I am doing at My Creative Classroom. Want a chance to win it? You have 2 options, sign up for the newsletter here or head on over to MCC and sign up for the newsletter there. You will be emailed the password to get into all the freebie areas and contests, including the Becky Fleck CardMap Challenge. To be eligible for prizes you have to be on the newsletter list, so hurry and sign up! Everything starts TONIGHT! We have BOATLOADS of things going on, and it is all so fun and exciting! It lasts all week, so stop in anytime. Any questions, please email me.
Hope to see you there!

WOW!!!!

I am so stinkin excited!!! I have been working on my classes at MCC, and have some great offerings for the spring semester. PLUS, I have a snazzy free easy altered candle class that will be available during the Grand Opening Kick Off, and the wonderful Becky Fleck CardMap Challenge (she did a very unique CardMap for us for the event) is up in my class area and available for viewing on Jan 27th. I have a fun prize for that contest, you'll have to stop in check it out! I may pop with excitement before the 27th gets here though!!
We have a boatload of prizes for the free challenges (there are WAY more than I have told you about, you will have to pop in and see for yourself) and so many activites planned for this event I just can't WAIT! My goodness, the classes the other instructors are offering are absolutely fantastic too.
I sure hope you have signed up for the free newsletter, it will contain the required passwords to get into all the contests, challenges, and free classes. If you haven't signed up, make sure you sign up before the 27th! There is a LOT of info that will be visible to you on the 27th. So if you go over and check things out before, you won't see all the FAB things we are working on. It's like a big secret, just like a wonderful present...... :)