March Workshop

Its almost time for the March workshop! Here are the pictures of the project (using the Rough N Tumble paper pack). These are base of the pages which is what we'll actually be putting together the night of the workshop. Everyone will also get the matching My Stickease cardstock stickers so they can embellish the pages and add pictures once they get home. Keep an eye out because I'm in the process of embellishing these pages and adding pictures and once I'm done, I will re-post them so that you can see what they look like fully completed. I have to give a big thanks to Amy Hervey, fellow CTMH consultant, for sharing this concept.

I hope I'll have more time to create and post some of my creations soon. I only have 2 more weeks that I'm working at PDO, then I'll get 2 days a week where I have 5 hours all by myself that I can play with all of the product I've been amassing and actually get to try out some of those awesome projects I've seen posted by all of those talented ladies in the blogosphere. Unfortunately that wonderful creating time will only last for a few weeks because 6 weeks from tomorrow we will be welcoming a baby girl into our family and it is my experience that new baby=no sleep=tired mommy so I apologize now that I will most likely be out of the loop for a little while. However I'll try to do a lot of posting between now and then and I'll get back on here as soon post-baby as I can. In the meantime have an awesome and creative day!

update on life

Y'know sometimes I just feel like I must be a lousy blogger. I look at the blogs that other people write and they're posting everyday or every other day. My posting is so infrequent and irregular, oh well, I guess that just goes to show that my life can be hectic just like every one else's, huh? I wish I could say that things would be slowing down soon, but no such luck. I have my February workshop on Friday so I'll be spending this week cleaning house and getting everything prepped for that. I only have 3 more weeks that I'm working for the PDO program before I start "maternity leave" I put that in quotation marks because there's really no telling exactly how long that leave will turn out to be. 4 weeks after that we'll be welcoming baby # 2 into our house. I'm hoping that I'll be able to do some crafting during the first couple of weeks of my maternity leave. Munchkin will still be attending PDO classes 2 days a week so that will leave me with at least 10 hours those weeks that I have nothing going on, woohoo! Whatever shall I do with myself? Craft! that's what. I've been finding tons of really cute projects online recently but I just never seem to have the time to do any of them. Not without staying up until all hours of the night anyway. And at 7+ months pregnant, who has the energy to do that? Not me. I have gotten a few things actually completed over the past couple of weeks. I've listed 4 hooded bath towels and 2 cupcake gift card holders on my etsy site, head on over and check em out. Too cute even if I do say so my self! Well, its way past my bedtime so I'm turning in, its the only way I'll be able to function as even half way human in the morning! Have a great week!

Tragedy Hits Home

This past weekend my family was hit by a massive tragedy: my camera broke!!! How awful of a thing to happen to a scrapbooker! There's something wrong with the lens and the way it comes out when the camera is turned on and the only way to fix it is by brute strength, which I just don't have enough of. However, my husband has assured me that when we go out to dinner on Thursday night (our V-day celebration, his parents are watching the munchkin!) we can go to Best Buy and purchase a new one. I've been checking things out online and I think the one I'm going to get is the FujiFilm J100. I'm very excited. In the mean time, to occupy myself, I've been spending a lot of time creating. The past couple of days, I've spent much time with my embroidery machine. My newest creative thing is making hooded bath towels. We were given one when our son was born and now that the new baby is only a few weeks away, I wanted to have one for her too, and I'd also like to have another one for my son, seeing as he loves his so. So I came up with a pattern and started embroidering on towels. I figured while I was at it, I'd make a few extras to list on my etsy site. I've also really gotten into making these beautiful cupcake gift card holders. I saw them originally created by a CTMH consultant named Tresa Black. She generously shared her instructions with the world and now I'm making them by the dozen, well not really, but I have made 3 so far and I have plans to make more. Once I get this set of towels done, I plan on pushing my sewing machine out of the way and starting in on making some more cards, maybe a few inspired by some sketches I've seen recently on Mojo Monday and Pagemaps. Looks like once I get my camera I'll have a lot of things to take pictures of so I can post them both here and on my etsy store. Hope you have a magnificent day!

February Workshop

Its time for the February workshop! This month we will be making a message center from a cookie sheet, a notepad with matching pen, and a set of 3x3 notecards with matching box. We will be using the Unforgettable Paper Pack from Close to my Heart with a variety of inks and stamp sets. I hope you can join us for fun, laugher and creativity!

Date: February 27, 2009

Time: 6:30pm

Place: Shelly's House

Cost: $25 per person

RSVP: shellydavis28@hotmail.com no later than Monday Feb. 16, 2009

Cost includes: workshop supplies, snacks, drinks, and doorprizes!

You will need to bring: adhesive, 12" trimmer and scissors

All workshop attendees will receive 10% off of any orde placed at the workshop (does not apply to workshop fees)!

Reserve your spot now because space is limited!

Please feel free to email me with any questions you may have.

February Workshop

The January workshop was a great success! A Big thank you to all who attended! I hope you all had tons of fun, I sure did. Now on to the future! Its time to start looking at what I have planned for my February workshop. Check out the picture at the right side of this post and you'll see a message center with space for a notepad, magnets and pushpins. There's also a purse size notepad with a matching pen and a set of 3x3 notecards with matching box, perfect for gift enclosures or love notes. The price for the workshop will be $25. The date and location are still TBD but I will post more info as soon as I figure it out ;) Its really cold here right now and the weather is expected to be pretty much lousy. My plans for tomorrow include a Dr. Appt. (28 weeks and counting) and the rest of the day spent inside hopefully with lots of time to create some fun stuff, of course that' all dependent on how much Connor lets me do. But I will definitely post whatever it is that I'm able to get done. Have a great evening and STAY WARM!!!!

So Excited!

I'm so excited! I just recently got brand new scrapbooking storage furniture! I'm still trying to get all of my stuff moved into it, but that hasn't stopped me from creating! I've been playing around alot with my Cricut and my sewing machine, having so much fun! I've also got my first workshop tomorrow night. 9 lucky ladies get to spend the evening creating with me, I think we're going to have a blast. If you didn't get to sign up for this months workshop make sure you keep an eye out, I'm going to be posting details about the workshop for February soon, I've had a lot of fun making the sample items for the February workshop and I think its going to be a great one! Well, I guess I'd better get back to work or else I'm never going to have everything together in time for tomorrow night! Have a great day!

January Workshop Leftovers

Here are the additional projects I made with the supplies I had leftover from my Emporium paper packet and Emporium My Stickease that are used in the January workshop.