Bonus Room

Happy Sunday! Just wanted to pop on and post some pics of our finished bookshelves! So excited to finally have it done and it looks great! I have plenty of room for toys, coloring books, books, craft supplies, etc. with some room to spare. Room to grow I guess! :)

Now just some touch ups and clean ups and I will really be happy! :) I want to get some curtains, throw pillows and maybe a big rug at some point. Anyway... all of that is for my to do list... not my blog post! :)

BTW... only showing half the room because the other half (Michael's desk) is a disaster area! :) But hey... he has built me some awesome shelves so I will give him another day or two before I start in on him cleaning out/up his area! :)

No card to post... sorry! Still in home mode!

I have been working on getting my stamp log completed and I am very very very happy to report that I am almost done stamping all of my stamps. Whew... what a chore! One I started on over a year ago! Thinking about throwing the rest of them away so I can be finished! Ha!

I have like 8 books of just random things that I have kept over the years from magazines, etc! I am also working on going through all of those and throwing out all of the crafty things and decor things that I kept if I ever had a girl. Also just throwing away (well recycling) the things that don't interest me anymore. Thankfully... that is most of it! I hope to have 3 (not even half full) books... a decor book, a crafty/activity with Carver book, and a Holiday decor book.

Let's see... what else have I been working on? Fixing to start working seriously on my photo albums/boxes. I am going to take all of my pics out of photo albums (except C's albums) and put them in the boxes. I am 2 years behind on printing and I am not planning to catch up. I don't really need photos from 10 years ago in albums. I am getting rid of any blurry photos, etc! I am giving any 3rd copies of photos that I have away to the parent of the child in the photo. I can have doubles but triples are too many! I am hoping to eliminate a lot of the stuff on my shelves in the living room!

Anyway.... guess I am listing things again! Just feel like rambling I guess! Good thing this is my blog! :) Just excited about the progress that we made this past week! Sorry!

Hope you all have a wonderful Memorial Day! Hopefully I will be back in a day or two with a card!

Peace and Love!

Etsy Inspired Challenge #90

Woo Hoo... Etsy Inspired Challenge time!

Let's dive right in!

This weeks Etsy shop is Sunshyne Silverwear! Great stuff in this shop to find some inspiration. I found mine in like a nanosecond! Speaking of what I found... here is my inspiration picture...


This is my card based on the inspiration piece....



Sunshyne Silverwear is offering up a spoon pendant to 2 different winners this week! Awesome!

This weeks sponsor is Claudine Hellmuth and she is offering up this art work found here to another winner this week.

Yes.... you read that right! Three winners this week!

You can upload your blog post to the Etsy Inspired Challenge blog here. Please make sure to give credit to the shop where you found your inspiration!

If you use SCS or PCP instead of a blog, please use the keyword EIC90.

You can read more details about the prizes, etc on the EIC blog!

I am sad to say that this is my last challenge as a Guest Designer!

Ashley... this has been a blast! Thank you for asking me to join in on this awesome challenge blog! You and the DT girls are great and I thank you for the opportunity!

Speaking of the DT girls.... you can click on each name below to go check out what these ladies have done...

Ashley
Clare (May Guest Designer)
De
Emily
Heather
Jackie
Joy
Kerry
Shannon
Tiffany

Peace and Love! :)

Supplies:
Stamps - Faux Ribbon and Through the Trees (PTI), Sentiments and Fresh (American Crafts)
Paper - White (PTI), Crushed Curry (SU)
Ink- True Black (PTI)
Other - SU Corner rounder, Curvy Label punch and dimensionals

Paper Crafts

Happy Friday!

We have not been super productive today! I think we are both running out of steam! Michael worked outside getting the yard cleaned up a bit and I pulled a few weeds. I need to pull some more but it was too hot earlier. Anyway... just wanted to post real quick and then I am going to get back to it!

This is a card that I made last night for the Paper Crafts Go To Sketches #3 challenge! It felt sooooo good to stamp! Anyway... I love this sketch and have a few more ideas floating around in my head so you may see 1 or 2 more in the next few days!

Tomorrow is my last post as one of the May Guest Designers for the Etsy Inspired Challenge. I will be back at midnight with that post!

I woke up this morning to find that I was one of the Paper Crafts Gallery Idol Top 20 winners! Super stoked about the prize and just to be able to say that I was in the top 20! I am anxious to see how far I will get but... no matter what... I am just honored to be one of the top 20! Thank you all for the sweet congrats comments/emails that I have received today! You guys are the best!!

Peace and Love!

Supplies:
Stamps - Just For Boys (Close to my Heart), Sweet Baby by Ali Edwards (Technique Tuesday)
Paper - Baja Breeze (SU), White (PTI)
Ink - Baja Breeze (SU), True Black (PTI), Distress (Ranger)
Other - SU Word Window punch, corner rounder and dimensionals, Twine (PTI)

Halloween in May

I am pooped! :) My SIL had surgery today... she is doing well... surgery went great. I went to her house to watch her 3 kids at 3pm and I left at 9pm. I had Carver with me and then one of my nieces had a friend over. They were all great... with the exception of mine! :) He was good most of the time but what is it about getting in front of other people and then your kid doesn't think that he has to mind!?!?

Anyway... just thought I would post some cards, etc. tonight!

Here is a card and tag that I made for submissions recently. I only made one Halloween card and 2 Halloween tags. One of the tags got picked up so these are the 'rejects'! I did have an older Halloween card accepted and found out today that it looks like it never made it to its destination. Ugh!! Lesson learned... no matter how the kid is acting... stay long enough to get the tracking info. !! Of all the things to lose... couldn't the post office lose a bill or something? ha... Very upsetting... very upsetting!!


We were gone from home most of the day. Michael was gone all day so he is still working on the 2nd coat on our new bookshelf. Here is a pic....

Michael has done a great job!! I love them!!

Hopefully it will be finished up tonight and then we will just let it set for a few days before I load it up with 'stuff'! :)

Hope you all have a fab weekend!

Peace and Love!

Supplies: tag
Stamps - Spooky Silhouettes (Gina K)
Paper - White (PTI), Dusty Durango (SU)
Ink - Crushed Curry (SU), Versamark, Distress (Ranger)
Other - Labels 4 Nesties, SU Dimensionals, Twine (PTI), Black emboss powder (Superior)

Supplies: card
Stamps - Vintage Halloween (Crafty Secrets), Very Vintage Labels 4 (Waltzing Mouse)
Paper - Kraft, Vintage Cream and True Black (PTI)
Ink - True Black (PTI)
Other - SU Corner rounder and dimensionals, copic marker, Star Dust Stickles, Labels 4 Nesties

Wednesday

Carver is eating a late night snack of strawberries and cheese crackers before he takes a bath and goes to bed (late... again). I thought I would post pics of our day today!

Well... except this picture. This picture, of our house,was taken while we were across the street a couple of weeks ago. You can see how big our bushes are in the front and if you look hard... you can see how tall the red thorny bushes are to the left of the porch.

Well... this is what I spent all afternoon doing today! I am wiped out!

I don't understand why you plant shrubs, etc... and you water them and then you hope they live and grow... just so you can cut them down. Anyway.... apparently you are suppose to so... that is what I did! I hated to do it because it was all so big and pretty this year but we were starting to have to walk in a single file line up the sidewalk to get into the house. So... I just went ahead and cut them down real good... :) ... so I won't have to do again next year! That was the plan anyway! We will see how that works out. I think it has been a couple of years since the last time that I cut them back. Oh... and the holly bushes were starting to mess with my card picture taking. Can't be having that! :)

Okay... so.. glad to be done with that. I should have lost 5 pds today just from sweating! Of course... I gained about 2 lbs of big red whelps! I hate mosquitoes!

This is what the bonus room shelves looked like earlier today! Michael put all the trimmings on and since this picture was shot... filled the holes, sanded ... and now they are ready to paint. I guess once Carver goes to bed... that is what we will be doing!

This is what Carver did today while Michael was working in the bonus room and I was in another part of the house.


Carver came down the steps to show me his level and pencil that he had drawn on the wall with like daddy! Wasn't that sweet of him? Such the big helper! :)

These are just some pics of the sky this morning while Carver and I were running errands! I love clouds. God is Amazing!!

This is another picture of the sky when I left a few hours ago to go get us some yum yum Chick-fil-A for din din! I couldn't tell if that was rain coming down in the distance. I think it was but.. I am not certain about that. I just thought it looked cool so I pulled over and took a pic!

I love having a camera in my purse at all times!!

Oh... and this is a pic of my favorite little helper this morning in his car seat. Took this right after the 1st set of cloud pictures. What a cutie!

Oh xs 2... I hate mosquitoes!!

Peace and Love!