Shopping . . . again.

Seems I've been a bit spendy on scrappy stuff lately!

- In December it was the Cricut Expression (and several cartridges)
- In January I was fairly well behaved ;)
- Then came the new Cuttlebug embossing folders and a few more Cricut cartridges
- And now I have several shopping carts filled up all over the web!

On my wishlist:
- New Prima Essentials 4
- Robin's Egg Dew Droplets
- Basic Grey Archaic and Cupcake
- DCWV glitter stacks, Blossoms and Butterflies, and Nana's Nursery
- K&Co Rough and Tumble and Berry Sweet
- Cosmo Cricket Cogsmo
- Basic Grey stamps (dinosaurs and swirls)
- More cardstock 'cause I'm running low so I joined Simply Cardstock
- Cricut Design Studio
- MME Just Dreamy
- Ribbon, running low again.

Doesn't seem like a ton does it? Yeah, I wish total wise it didn't EQUAL so much $$$! I did break down and order a few sets of the Dew Droplets and some May Arts ribbon from here this morning. They have free shipping for any order over $10!

I need to get listing on ebay! I think I've decided, reluctantly, to start submitting again. I'm going to start with cards. I adore the cards magazine but am too cheap to buy it (I just flip through it in stores *blush*). I made 4 baby cards last night - all scraps but I think they're really cute. :) I'll post those later. They were inspired by this week's CPS sketch #56 and are also for the BBTB contest, not that I need a ribbon bag, but I just want to stretch myself into entering things again. Alright, off to play Wii and dye eggs! Lovin' my laid back weekend!

So Spring begins in 5 hours . . .

do you suppose Northern Michigan got that memo? I'm going to go with n.o.p.e. Although I would not be heart broken to wake up tomorrow and find all the snow gone. Not even a smidgeon. ;) I hear that just maybe lower Michigan is going to get 4-6 inches Friday. Hmmm...tee-hee. We were in Grand Rapids this weekend to visit the ILs and see the circus and they had NO snow at all. People were out raking their lawns and my mother in law's tulips were coming up! Then we drove back, two hours north to see about 18" in our lawn still. So it makes me slightly giddy that they'll get a bit of their snow back while we're expecting none. If the whole state can't have spring, then no one can. ;)

And speaking of spring. . . only four more school days until Spring Break. YAY! We're not going anywhere, but in grand style I made a gargantuan do-do list that I'll never finish. You know, I like to set myself up for failure. ;p but I also hope to get some scrapping done.

Snow Mini Album

Listing Soon on Etsy (Check back)

Easter Card Set

A set of 4 A2 size cards: Click here to go to Etsy>>>>>>> Easter Cards

Lucky St. Patty's Day Mini Album

Lucky: Click here to go to this item on Etsy>>>>>> LUCKY

Baby Album

New Esty Posting for tonight: Click here to go to Etsy >>>>>Baby Album

Creativity and the blogging habit

I'm trying to get back into the blogging habit. I think it's working. ;) And I'm trying to get back into doing creative things each and every day. Unfortunately, I teach English, and while I usually enjoy it, grading it is not so fun. We're at the end of the trimester and I'm playing catch up grading 90 reading portfolios, survival stories, essay bits and pieces and then my social studies tests too. My goal is to finish tonight so I can be as creative as I want this weekend. It's probably going to mean an all-nighter though. Haven't done that in a long time.

Sweets for my Sweet and other projects

I'm a bit behind on the project share thing. It's nice to say that I have actually DONE projects within the last month. For awhile, not so much. Since I'm behind . . .

Xander's Valentine gift bags for preschool. Bags were from the Target dollar spot and I cut the hearts with my Cricut (Doodlecharms cart) and the dinosaurs are from the Paper Dolls cart.



Quick birthday card made with scraps from the mini albums below



Some cards based on CPS sketches that I'm now blanking out on.







Cards using my Cricut, new Scor-Pal and new Cuttlebug embossing folders

Love Mini Album

Love 3x4 Mini Album

I loved the colors and vibe of the paper bag album so I made a fun shaped mini album with the same papers.