The best of intentions

Ah, the best of intentions to scrap the weekend away went out the window when the weather turned out BEAUTIFUL. So, I spent lots of time ouside with my best little friend. And then I shopped online . . . a lot. I just want this house finished. I was waiting and paying it all off a little at a time in cash but I just pretty much relented and decided to buy everything now - it'll all be paid off in the next month or two and the headache and annoyance it will save me will be worth the few dollars in interest it'll cost me.

So I bought this bedding for the guest room/playroom. It's very colorful and will work great in the playroom. I swear it has every color Fisher Price and Little Tikes ever used. ;) The bedskirt will be white and the pillow shams are lime green. Can't wait until it gets here so I can get that room done.

I also ordered shelves for the living room. I'm tired of the boxes of books sitting against my wall. Plus, the bottom shelves are 14" which would be perfect for storing scrapbooks.

I did play on Saturday night when it rained a little. I made one page with the April OPAAT kit. LOVE these kits. They tend to be pretty girly, but I find them really packed full of goodies and look forward to them coming every month. They're having a DT call for the summer. I may or may not try out. Ironically, there's was the last team I tried out for as well. I was going to make a few cards as well, but I never got around to it. Maybe next weekend since DH is off on Saturday AND it happens to be NSD. AND, I ordered a few new goodies from Scrap Supply including the For the Record stamps from AL and the Bind it All machine. I figure the binding machine can be used in my classroom as well which means TAX WRITE OFF! :) Love dual purposing. My kiddos just wrote autobiographies in English class and I encouraged them to "be creative" and "add pictures." I never called it a scrapbook though for fear of turning the boys off to the project. Anyway, I'm sure I can find a cheaper source of wire bindings and then I can bind all of their projects for them. :) Plus, I'm thinking of reviving the ebay mini-album business this summer. I might try regular mini-albums rather than paper bag albums.

Free weekend

Alright, I'm home a lot on the weekends. I'm a bit of a homebody truth be told. :) I like being here. BUT, the last 4-6 weekends have been full of house related work. It's slowly all coming to an end now. My scraproom is now a spare room (which I'm hoping to turn into a nursery in the very near future), the hallway is my new scrap space and in my bedroom is a new computer armoire. Lookin' GREAT all the way around. I feel like we're using our space a LOT better. We have decorating to do but nothing else major. I ordered new shelves for the living room tonight since JCP had free shipping.

So, this weekend I was kind of looking forward to the rain so I could hole up in my new scrap area. It's suppose to be nice this weekend now, but I just might go ahead and stay indoors this weekend anyhow. I have new goodies that haven't even been opened yet including an April OPAAT kit and an order from RMH. PLUS, I ordered some more goodies last night. *blush* What can I say, I haven't scrap shopped in awhile. :)

Hopefully I'll have some new stuff to share, or maybe I'll make something that I'll deem worthy of "holding onto" for another 12 months. :D I'm solo parenting again this weekend though so I've got to hope that nthe new temporary playroom in the spare room keeps the squirt occupied so I can do some scrapping. I did also promise some cookie baking. And we have to grocery shop, but other than that, I'm not going to do ANYTHING that I don't feel like doing.

Nonstop

Life has been b.u.s.y. We've now had every room's carpeting replaced. We've dragged 1/2 of our belongings to the garage and I've gone through it ALL deciding whether it REALLY needed to re-enter the house. We've ordered new furniture and built new shelves. We've put up 5 new closet organizers. I've purged, purged, and purged some more. I've spackled and sanded and primed and painted and now I am exhausted. It has been a LONG month of projects. And we're not done. The garage is still a mess. I need to have a garage sale. I still need to organize all of the stuff I've thrown onto the shelves in the playroom/guest room. I need bedding still and the whole house needs a good top to bottom cleaning. Someday soon, when it's allllll done, I'll share pictures. :)

I didn't make it to 50

I proably should have set a more realistic goal. Like 20. I think I hit 20. I had what, 12-15 things done before. Then I made another 5 cards or so (I've been on a card kick lately) and I finished another layout. :D AND, I broke down and ordered stuff. AND, I have a basket full of more stuff from my most favoritist scrappy site. There were only a few things I loved from CHA and Scenic Route was one of them (of course). LOVE SR. The other thing has been out awhile - the curvy cutter circle system and I love me some circles so I bought that too.

I'll have to post my cards later. They don't suck as bad as my cards usually do.

Sharing

It's been awhile since I've shared much of my scrappy work. Before I took my break I accumulated lots of work I wanted to shoot off to publishers before posting. Then I stopped submitting and never posted. So, here's some work - MOST of it is nearly a year old now.

This was a gift I made for my MIL for Mother's Day. She loved it. I never submitted it because it was a TEDIOUS project. I do, however, have all of the supplies for another one that matches MY living room this time. ;)

An untraditional twist on a birthday layout. :)

My boy - now a FOUR year old, but this was him holding up three fingers last year.

My niece; cute little monkey girl.

Downsizing

I have officially downsized. :) So far I actually LIKE it. Now, it COULD be that I was getting a smidge bored with my old room, or it could be that I know that I was taking up too much space. At any rate, my space is almost complete.

This is what you see as you come up the stairs. Just a little corner, but it's my corner and it is more than some people have. I went with a fresh green color. The wall to the left is "Wheat Bread" which starts downstairs and comes up that wall that it shares with the stairs. The green helps the space retain some brightness, plus my mom bought me a super bright daylight lamp too. And, as you can see I decided against the plastic boxes from the previous post. I saw these baskets at Walmart and decided they just looked nicer. Since I cannot shut the door to this space I want lots of hidden storage. I need to buy two more tomorrow, they'll go on the shelf missing in that gap there - I ordered another shelf from the Container Store, since there's room it might as well get used.



My counter top is wider too. That helps. I cut the melamine myself tonight. (My dad likes to buy me power tools; I used a jigsaw but I think I need to let dad know that a table saw would be lots handier ;) )I was going to wait until it warmed up (because we got 3 inches of snow today) but I couldn't stand not having it done. HA! When we first moved into this house three years ago, my scrap space was the first room completely set up. Some things never change. Our house is a complete disaster area right now! We got new carpeting in our bedroom, the hall/landing and the living room. So there's lots of displaced stuff. PLUS, we're currently installing closet organizers in every closet of the house so there's more displaced stuff. UGH! I cannot wait for everything to be put away, but it'll probably be like this for another month because tomorrow we're ordering the carpeting for Xander's room and the spare bedroom.

Anyway, here's the other cabinet which actually holds most of my stuff, and you can see my clock there which is still in the package waiting to be hung. :)



So I'm all set to create. While I was on hiatus I printed some pictures to scrap later . . . I spent all afternoon looking for them to no avail. BAH! Maybe I'll try some cards; cards have always been my weak spot. I made some sketches for cards awhile back though so perhaps I'll dig those out and see if I can remember how to scrapbook at all.