Scrapbooking Layouts

Hello everyone,

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. Although I was super duper busy with friends at the vacation home, I still made time to craft. I was super excited to stay in my happy place awake crafting until the crack of dawn. One night I stayed up until 3am and at 3:30am I made breakfast for my husband and I and another night I stayed up until 5am and at 7am I was up ready to go. I am like the OWLS. I can sleep 2 hours in the afternoon and then be up until the following day. I craft best at night.

OK, so I will stop rambling and show you all the layouts I have put together. Only 2 have pictures of my nieces baby. Well not a baby anymore, she is now 3.

This top layouts is missing another ghost on the top left hand corner of the layout. But I did not have my laptop to be able to cut it. 

I hope you all like the layouts. Thank you for stopping by and visiting my blog. I am hoping I blog more in 2019. those are my plans, but you all know plans seem to change from one minute to another.

Hope everyone has a Happy new Year. May 2019 be amazing and bring you all good health, lots of laughter and especially lots and lots of LOVE.

New Hutch

Hello everyone.

 I wanted to share my new hutch. If you know me, you know that I love love love milk glass. I started collecting years ago and have loved it since. I would put them in my scrap room with my buttons, beads, ribbons and anything else that looked pretty in them.
When we purchased the new home I continued collecting, I could not pass up on the great deals at the thrift stores in the area. So when my husband realized that I was running out of space, he said you are going to need a hutch.
That was all he had to say for me to start looking for one. I first looked in the furniture store we purchased our dining room, but nothing. At least nothing that caught my eye. So I went onto the next best thing (actually the best thing) offer up, craigslist and facebook market place. I wanted one that I could paint the color of the legs and chairs of my dining room set.
 I saw this hutch and thought it had potential and best part was that it was only $50.00 dollars. I contacted the seller, but no answer for 2 days. Finally they got back to me and the following day I went to see it. I knew right then and there that I would be buying it. So I asked a friend to come with me since my husband was in the other home working. He would not be up until the weekend and I could not wait because the deal was so good that someone would snatch it from me. So that night I went and when I got there the owner was not home. They were out to dinner. But I did not give up. I waited until they got home. I will tell you the house was pretty scary looking. They were renovating it and it looked really bad. But I over looked all the dirt and smell. I immediately said yes and another friend came in her van to pick it up and drop it off at my house.
That night I sprayed it with lysol all over.


Scary looking, but I knew it would look great after painting it.

What do you think? Would you have purchased it?

So on Friday afternoon when my husband got to the house, he was surprised with this hutch. He did like it and immediately said, lets clean it up. I sprayed it with awesome from the Dollar tree all over and hosed it down. Most of the yellow varnish did come off. I did not think Awesome was that powerful. I was like, great. Less sanding to give it. We let it dry really well and on Saturday morning we went to the Home Depot and purchased the paint. I purchased a pale cream color almost the same as the color of the dining legs and chairs. We got to the house and began to lightly sand it down. The more we sanded it down the less I wanted to paint it but I did not want to say anything after buying the paint and I really wanted the smell it had of old furniture to go away. I knew the paint would take it away. So I kept quiet. But then my husband says I think we should leave it the color it has. I was like but what about the paint? He said you will find something else to paint with it. You never let paint go to waste. You are always inventing something. I was like YES. He said why don't we put some Old English oil on it. I had some in a dark color and the regular one. When I put the oil on it, it looked so pretty I could not agree more with my husband.

Here it is in the house after 1 coat of Old English.

I pulled out my dished that were gifted to me by my dear friend Carol. Thank you Carol for the beautiful dishes. Although I love the dishes and being able to display them, I knew I would also want to display my milk glass. Especially all the new pieces I had purchased.

So here it is with the milk glass.

And now here it is decorated for Christmas.

I really love the way it looks with the milk glass and now with the Christmas decorations.

 The gentleman that sold it to me said it was his moms. She had it before he was even born and he was about 75 years old. I think I got a great deal and am so happy with the outcome.


Sorry for the long post, but I had to tell the story of my new/old Hutch.

Christmas in Vero Beach

Hello everyone. Well todays post is about my home in Vero Beach, Florida decorated for Christmas.
We started with the Christmas village. It took us 3 days to put it all together and are excite to have it up and done.

I took plenty of pictures to post so here they are. I will warn you, there are a lot of pictures. Wanted to post the process of putting together our village.

 This top picture shows when I was bringing out the houses. 

Here I am taking each one out and if you notice on the tables you will see many of them out. 

Here my husband has already built the platforms for the houses. And many of the homes are in place.

In this picture I am on the table putting the lights in each house. By this time  my back was in so much pain but I wanted to finish so badly I just kept on going. 

More houses being connected. 

Here I am again making sure each house is lit up. 

These top 2 pics show the village lit up at night time. Still had no trees nor accessories. 

Look at ll the wiring underneath the table. Lots of work for my husband. 

The wiring from another angle. 

These are most of the accessories that i had to find places for.  

The mess in my living room. By then I had already put some of the bins and boxes away. 

Here I am again, fluffing up the trees and placing them around the houses. 

 Close ups of the cotton in place. 

Here I am putting the accessories on place. 

Almost 100% done. AS you can see the skirt is in place. Covering all the wires. 

I know lots of pictures, but I wanted to show you all the process of how my husband and I have put the village together.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I will soon be back with a few other things and the rest of the Christmas decorations.

The GIRLS Playing

OMG, I am so excited to show you what the girls are playing with. So as a child I had a OUIJA Board and we would play with it all the time. If someone moved it or not, I couldn't say, but it moved. LOL. So I have been on a hunt for one, with no success. I was speaking to a friend, Barbara and she immediately said, I'll call you right back. Within 15 minutes she had gotten back to me and told me that tomorrow she would have one for me. She has a friend that collects them and gifted her 2. So she brought them both over and this is what I came up with.

Here are the girls playing. Margaret and I are the ones with the OUIJA Board and Debbie is on the phone as usual. 

Did you notice the Skull Candelabra? I thought it looked so cool. 

Did you all notice Roscoe (our Golden Retriever) asleep as we were playing. He can sleep thru anything. Well except rain, thunder and lighting. 

This is a better shot of Debbie on the phone. 

This is Margaret dressed up as Raggedy Ann. 

And here I am with my BOO bracelet. 

If you read my previous blog post, you would see that the girls were sitting in the living room have some snacks and drinks. After a few drinks, they have decided to play with the OUIJA Board.
I really like the way the set-up came out. Bad thing is that this will be coming down sometime next week.

Want to give a shout out to Barbara to thank her for the boards. So thank you Barbara.

Hope you are all having a great weekend and enjoying the Florida weather. Nice and breezy and a little cooler. Thank you for stopping by my blog and hope you enjoyed the new post.

Yay for HALLOWEEN

Well with Halloween approaching I have finally finished decorating. I started this weekend on friday night. I was up until 2am and was able to decorate 95%. I finished 100% this morning.

I had not been at the Vero home to be able to decorate sooner. I attended two scrapbooking events back to back. The first one was in Orlando, Florida. We stayed at the Contemporary Resort. Beautiful hotel. The monorail runs thru the middle of the hotel to Magic Kingdon and Epcot Center. I attended the crop on Thursday and Friday. Saturday morning my husband drove up and we went to Animal Kingdom and Magic Kingdom. We went home on Saturday since I would be attending another crop starting Monday. I did accomplish to finish one full layout and put together a few SVG files. I had the files cut prior to going to the event. On Monday, I drive to the other event in Cocoa Beach. The owner of the store Barbara Ohanlon from Vero Scrapbook Crops & Retreats and I drove up to the hotel several times taking prizes, decorations and props. On Tuesday we went to a few thrift stores in Cocoa Beach and then we went back to the hotel and started to decorate. The crop started on Thursday but it was her 10 year anniversary and she went all out with everything. She gave away so many amazing gifts. So much fun with 125 amazing and crafty women. Had sock and Hat competition and PJ's competitions. Lots of laughters and fun all week and weekend. Laughed so much my face was hurting. LOL.

Ok, but now back to my post. Halloween.

Here are some pictures of the home.

I decided this year to decorate the living room, instead of the dining room. So I started by dressing up my skeletons. This picture shows one dressed up as Raggedy Ann. I even put the red and white striped socks on her. 

The other 2 skeletons are dressed up as Hawaiians. All 3 of the costumes I purchased at our local  Humane Society Thrift Store. 

This Frankenstein scared me the other day. I had taken him out a week ago, when I was cleaning out my closet. I had just walked in from a few errands and had to use the rest room. As I was running to the rest room, I stopped and froze when I saw it and yelled at it, what are you doing in the house. LOL. True Story. I cracked up afterwards. 

I did not decorate my dining table like I have done in the past. Only 2 trees with pumpkin decorations and a few roaches, spiders and rats. 

Not sure if you can see the gargoyles on the shelf over the skeleton. 

 Here is a close up of the roaches and rats on the table. 

This is the front door entrance console table decorated. Did not do much. Just a few things here and there. 

This is the living room area. Love those spiders on the wall. I purchased them a few years ago ((Martha Stewart), and have not been able to find them again. 

The middle table in the living room has a tray (actually a picture frame painted orange), with a few small bowls filled with treats. Some of the treats are small rats, eye balls, small skulls, spiders and skeleton hands. Each skeleton has its own glass with a straw. A girls night out. LOL. 

In the kitchen I put most of the witches, some trees and skulls. 

This is the other side of the kitchen. 

This is where we have the coffee pot, so I put out my Halloween coffee mugs and put some rats on the counters and walls. Creepy. 

This is the other side of the kitchen counters. Just a few glittered pumpkins inside a bowl, a creepy but yet cute witch and just a few more rats. 

I know it was a long post, but I hope you all enjoyed reading and seeing the pictures of my home decorated. 

Thank you for stopping by and I do appreciate comments. So if you like the post please leave me a comment of your favorite decorated area.