Alexis 2nd Grade pic

Can't believe it is already Sunday evening! WOW --the weekend sure does go by fast!! I did get to finish a 1 page l/o to go into the front of her 2nd grade album. I used Basic Grey Stella Ruby paper, 7 Gypsies, Heidi Swapp, Prima & Jenni Bowlin buttons. Of course, I hand cut out all the flowers then pop dotted them and added bling to the highlights on the flowers and added more buttons and flowers!

Did you see the new l/o's the T.M. Design Team did this week! Check out their l/o's and blogs!! Thanks Tanya for my sussie, just love all of it! another shout to Melanie for bringing me some butterfly sussies too today at the store!!

I am now going to unpack all the wonderful stuff I bought at Treasured Memories on Wed night -I did do some great shopping and OMG!!! can you see me smiling :D

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talk to ya' soon

More garden pics

The first pic is my Blue Daze, then my Cypress vine, them my Cup & Saucer vine, then my beautiful Fire Spike bush that the hummingbirds are going nuts over! I will have to get in my husband's camo pants so the mosquitos don't fly away with me while I am trying to take pics!! Yes, I am just as obsessed about my garden as my scrapping! It is a get away for me and I don't care how dirty I get --I guess I will have to take a pic of that one day --that will be reallllly cute!! I love to share my plants with friends so if you are into plants like me and want to do some trading???? I am in-- i guess we can even go so far as scrapbook trading for plants --there's a thought!!

more garden pics

These are pics of some of the differ gingers, cassia tree I have and isn't the rain drops falling off the elephant ears plant so cool!!

My wonderful garden

I just had to fight the "SWARM" of mosquitos this am to get this pics. This is my night blooming cirus. The plant only blooms at night and once sunlight hits it-the blooms die. I had 10 blooms at one time and I kept waiting everyone night to see the wonder sight and of course they all bloom during the horrific rainstorm and the only left was this one this am!! But I just love this plant!!

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Have a fabulous week!!:)

Dance Practice 2008

This l/o I used Basic Grey paper, Basic Grey rub ons, lots of Prima flowers, bling and I actually journaled before putting it in Alexis's album-yeah!

Alxis @ a b-day party

This is a l/o with lots of pics of Alexis at a cowgirl b-day party. One of the pics show a "flower" flip book which I taught in on of my HDYDT classes. There is some Technique Tuesday chipboard flowers and stamping with VersaMagic ink. I thought tying bows as leaves was a different idea!

Mother's Day 2008

Hey Scrappers! Here it is already Sunday afternoon!! Why do the weekends go by sooooo fast????

I really didn't mind the rain this weekend-do you ask why?---well, I am usually working in my beautiful garden (if I say so myself)--moving plants, BUYING plants that I don't have room for and or preventing my husband from pruning any branch longer than 12in!! Thank goodness hunting season has started!! yipee for my plants--I think they are secretly excited too.

So with the torrential rains, I was able to not feel guilty not working in the yard but instead working in my scrap room putting together another 3 l/o's!! OMG!!! I can't believe I completely finished another three-I am totally excited!!

This layout has lots of clustering of some old stuff--do you recognize 7 gypsies, maya roads, Heidi Swapp, Prima, Bazzil, to name a few brands! These are pics of my mom, sister (mother of Alexis), and Alexis in my backyard under my pergala taken by me.

One more creative idea

Okay, so I was a busy beaver again this weekend!! Keep on organizing--I keep telling myself! I just Love having a place for everything and KNOW where it is!!

Well, here is my latest! I typed up an Excel spreadsheet and listed (of course in the order that I have them in the tin) all of my Stickles, Tim Holtz Distress Stickles, Crackle paint and embossing powders!! Now I now exactly what I have and what is missing!! I have them stored in those cute tin lunch boxes and I do have one of Tim's tins!! I guess now I have to decorate them!! That is another day!!:)

I hope you have enjoyed the tour of my latest pics of my organization of my scrap room and the l/o's I was able to finish totally with pics! Let me know your thoughts and any other ideas!!

Hope you have a Fabulous week!! off to bed since I have to teach a class at Red's @ 5:45 am! OMG--back to work

see ya

New Scrapbook Room

Here is my work station and have my most used products close at hand!! Do you see the jars of flowers I separated by color!! that was fun--I didn't know I had SOOOOOOOOOO MANY!! Can you see the jar of buttons! Yes, I have my Tim Holtz stuff close by on the shelf. I decorated a "tin lunch box" to put my alcohol inks in and it is so portable. Love my OTT light. I have a pic of how I store my Glimmer mist sprays and Cricut cartridges along with my Junkitz bags of gold and silver emblishments!! My computer and printer/scanner right close by. I moved my antique table to create my working space--Now if i can get used to it there and not BANG my knee on the corner!! I also included a small pic of my outdoor garden but you can see my 2 Cassia tress blooming bright yellow flowers right now--just love them. My screen saver has a pic of one my roses! not bad pics for a beginner photographer!!

new Scrapbook Room

As you continue to walk in my creative space, this is how I store "some" of my paper and "some" of my alphabet's. Yes, I also, seperated my paper by vendor and alternated the colored tabs so that I may see them better! I have my grandmother's rocker to sit in when I want to chill out and read my new magazines!

New Scrapbook Room

So here is the total pic of that first "storage station" I have in my scraproom. I just love my antique lamp topped off with an antique hat to boot. Do you see the peg board I just bought to hang somewhere to store my punches and other "odd" stuff!!

Updated Scraproom pics

Okay, so here is my OCD beginning of organizing and trying to be creative and thrifty!! How many bottle of Prima did you buy and how many little bottles of Robin's Nest pebbles do you buy--Yes, I bought them all and since I am OCD-- I sat down and seperated every differ color of bottle of pebbles!! can you believe it?? Yes, but look how beautiful they look in the empty Prima flower bottles. Yes, I seperated those by color too!! Okay, so I couldn't throw away the back of the packaging from my Prima bling since my scrapbook room is black and white with color of pink thrown in there too!! Can you see that I cut them down to be the "wallpaper" to the inside of the cubby's!! Now I just have to finish using the rest of my bling to finish "wallpapering" the rest of the cubby's!!

Valentine HDYDT

Yes, I have been busy again this weekend and put to use another HDYDT l/o that I didn't have pics or should I say couldn't decide what pics to use. Yes, once again, I clustered and added to the original l/o! I couldn't help myself! I kept remembering Wendy in the back of my mind saying--"just commit and glue it down" OMG!! I did it but also in the back of my mind Tanya and Aphra kept saying cluster a little more--what else is in your stash!! HA HA HA!! Do you recognize some of the old stuff I used with this Technique Tuesday l/o too???!!!!!! I even layered some Petaloo flowers with some Queen & Co flowers--can you see them?? Do you see some old Heidi Grace suff too

Another HDYDT

Hey Scrappers, who remembers this one!! whewwwwww!! How much fun was this one!! ha ha ha!! Yes, yes, yes, it was lots of work and figuring out which piece went back where!! Of course, I came back and added some more stuff!! imagine that!! I just love the colors

Layouts completed during Labor Day Holiday

This is an older HDYDT l/o that I finally found pics to match to complete the l/o!! YEAH!! This is annual trip Alexis takes with her Grammy and Gramps!! As you see Grammy is nowhere to be found because she is taking all the pics for ME!! I wish I would have been there--I had to do lots of cropping but overall you have to give it to my mom for doing her best!! Who remembers how we did the coconuts!! just love the technique. Did you notice it is using Technique Tuesday chipboard!!