Easter layout

Hope everyone has had a great weekend.

During the week I worked on organizing my craft room and did shop one day at TJ Maxx and Big lots. But most was shopping online, especially ebay. They are going to literally kill me when they get the bill next month. Only thing that may save me is that my birthday is wednesday. LOL. I did work on a paper piecing layout and make some more stick pins. I can't stop. HELP. I don't know how many more my house can hold. LOL. Next stop the bathrooms. Thankfully I have 3.

Here is the layout I just finished for Easter. It is my first for 2012. I pieced each of the chickens and cut the eggs out with my cricut.

I will be back with another layout I am working on.

Easter decorations

I am so happy Spring is finally here. Love this time of the year. All the flowers are blooming and gardens are looking happy.

Here are some of my Easter decorations.

Kitchen. Isn't this duck the cutest?

These next few pictures are in my living room.

The bottom pictures are at my dining room table. I bought the dishes at a garage sale. The dishes are about 30 years old. It is a set for 8 people and none of them are broken, cracked or chipped. Perfect setting and colors for Spring.

This bottom photo is in my family room.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope I have inspired you all to decorate as well.

Soon I will post some pictures of my front and back yard.

some goodies

hello everyone. I have been busy with house stuff. I am having some new cabinets put in the laundry room and some new shelves put in my closet for my shoes. also have been busy in the yard, gardening.

Here are some new items I bought at www.bravozoom.com. Go check out their online store.

Then I also purchased these at a local warehouse. Chan's. There website is www.chansilkflowers.com. Each package brings 144 flowers. I put a dime next to them so that you could see the sizes. They also have the buckles in different sizes and in metal and plastic. They have some really nice flowers. Just go and check out their website.

I will be back sometime today or tomorrow with some pictures of a swap I did with someone on youtube and also pictures of my Easter decorations.

happy crafting.

weekend

Good morning everyone. I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I have had a great weekend. Lets start off with Friday. I went to a crop from 2pm to 2am. I had a great time with Peggy over at http://icrea8cards.blogspot.com/. Then Saturday morning at about 6am I was up after only 3 hours of sleep, to go to garage sales. I found this really nice lamp for my scrap room and a big bag of tiny key charms. I also found these 2 adorable heart shaped plates. There were some really nice things in some of the sales but not stuff that I needed or wanted. After garage sales we had some lunch and off to the nursery to buy some plants. Worked in the yard for about 4 hours. Then just relaxed at home. Sunday morning I left early in the morning to pick my mom up and my oldest daughter. We went to crackle barrel for breakfast. Then we went to the mall and bought a couple of things for the house. Spending time with my oldest daughter was very nice for a change. We have had lots of ups and downs and now we finally can be in a room, car and not get into a discussion for lack of better words. Since she is in school in the mornings and then she works at nights and weekends it is difficult to see her.
That was my weekend. I hope you all had a great one as well.

I leave you now with some of the pictures of what I bought and 2 layouts I did last night.

 I made this flower by just cutting 1/2 inch strips of the same paper left over and folded them. Then I hot glued them in place and added a button to the center.

These layouts are not what I normally do, but as I was cooking the dogs food I was browsing through a magazine and really liked 2 layouts, so I decided to try it. I did change a couple of things but  did scrap lift the idea.

Happy Monday to everyone that stops by.

AWARD

Good morning everyone. I have been chosen for another blog award. Damaris over at: http://www.atstudiod.blogspot.com/ passed it on to me.

Here are the rules. You must now pass it on to 5 others that have less than 200 followers.

Here are my picks.

Sherry at:   http://createology.blogspot.com/
Jill at:   http://chillinwithjill.blogspot.com/
Debbie at:   http://itsallaboutpurple-debbie.blogspot.com/
Peggy at:   http://icrea8cards.blogspot.com/
Yeya: http://www.2creativechics.blogspot.com/, Yeya has an online store. check her store out she has great goodies. Lots of my trims and flowers are from her store.

Hope everyone has a great Thursday. I will be back with a new mini I started yesterday and some pins and a pin cushion I made for a swap.

Another mini

Good morning everyone. I hope everyone has had a great week and is ready for the weekend. I know I am. I am having some renovations done in my laundry room. Thank goodness. I love doing laundry and ironing but did not have the prettiest room around. It was very functional but I wanted it to look nice as well. So my husband has put his skills to work and he has been working on it this week and will continue on the weekend.

OK, back to the reason for my post. The reason for my post is to share another mini I have just finished. I started it on Saturday or maybe Sunday and finished it last night. I did not work on it for long, just an hour here and there. I used the butterfly garden collection from pinkpaislee. Love that collection. I also used the DCWV Mariposa collection for some of the matts and tags. I used a Tim Holtz album that Kathryn gave me. And then some of my embellishments from my stash. To get the crackle effect on the chipboard front and back covers I used rangers crackle paint, but the cracks were super tiny and hated it. So I watched Terrie's video on youtube: (onecraftycookie), and loved how the cracks came out. So I left the original paint I used, applied elmers glue on top let that dry alittle and then added white acrylic pain. The crack scame out great. Super nice and alot cheaper than using the rangers crackle paint.

Here is the album. I hope you all like it. I will be selling this one as well as all the others I have. I have not posted the other bib one I made because I do not want to bore you all with another bib album.

This is the front cover. 

 Here are the charms I hung from the album. Most of them are butterflies. Tied some bows from the rings using tulle.

 The bigger flowers were white, but I used my glimmer mist (3 different covers) to get the color I wanted.

 I used seam binding to hold closed the album.

 When you open the front cover this is what you will find. It is perfect for journaling. I outlined it with some golden yellow color pearls and added a butterfly.

 This first page I only added some butterflies I cut with my spellbinders. The paper was so pretty that I did not want to cover it.

This is the last page. I made a booklet for 8 pictures. It opens from the left, the right and then up and down. I saw the video on youtube, (sherrywolfe) the video with the mini purse shows the booklet.

I hope everyone has a great weekend and don't forget to leave a comment. I love reading them.

4 things

Good morning,

Here are some things I have been up to. On my last post I spoke about Sebastian. I asked for everyone to please create a card for him. I did not create a card for him, instead a created a banner. Each letter has an animal. I thought this would look cute in his hospital room. Maybe when he is ready to go home the nurses can sign it for him. It is long since his name has 9 letter.

Here it is:

#2
I have also just purchased a gumball machine. I first saw this in Paula's blog. http://www.morethanfavors.blogspot.com/. She had bought one on ebay and I loved it. Then Marlene from http://www.uniquelyella.blogspot.com/, bought one while junking as she calls it. She paid only $5.00. When I saw hers I knew I wanted one and I wanted it pink. Well, this last Saturday while going to garage sales, we saw an estate sale. Little did I know that there would be one there for me. My husband called me in the house and showed it to me. They wanted $2.00. I was more than happy to pay them for it. I came home and with a little paint this is what it looks like now. I did not take pictures of it before, but it was red.

I am still debating what to put in it. It does work but I have put a white cardboard cover on the bottom so that whatever I decide to put in it does not go down. What do you think I should put inside? Besides gumballs or any candy. That's what hubby thinks I should put inside. I thought flowers, buttons or acrylic bobbles, since I have so many of them.

#3
I am happy to also say that I have finally won something. I have never won a prize on the internet through a blog or youtube giveaway. I just leave comments, without expecting anything. Well,  Damaris from: http://www.atstudiod.blogspot.com/, had a giveaway on youtube and I was one of the winners.
Here are the goodies I received.

This tag is gorgeous. She sent it to me with a really nice note. She has really pretty cards she makes almost daily. THANK YOU DAMARIS, for sending me such a nice box of goodies.

#4
And lastly, I have finally broken down (go that from Damaris) and bought a smash book. I remember having these in junior high and high school. I also have one of when my husband and I dated, 9 years before we officially were married. So now that I have one I have been taking pictures of things we do and keeping things of places we go. First place was the movies on Sunday to see The Vow. I will share and post pictures of my pages as I get them together. I will be back to Michael's to buy some more things like the tapes and the date gadget.

Sorry for the long post but I wanted to share what I have been up to lately. I also finished on Sunday the other bib mini, but have not taken pictures of it. Will do that soon.

Hope you all are having a great Thursday.