Dreams

So I'm dreaming about moving. That's right moving. We've been here for 10 years now and although it's been a great house for us it's time. It's gonna take awhile and alot of work but I'm gonna make it happen. Can you say lots of closet cleaning and painting? Some yard work too. It's a good goal for us...Our new family motto is. Get moving to GET MOVING. This weekend was the kick off of weekend projects big and small. We ended up taking 6 or 7 bags o the Salvation Army and some to the Humane Society too. That's another blog post in itself.

I think I'll be using this notebook for my TO DO LISTS...maybe it will make cleaning the root cellar a little more glamorous. I used mostly Sassafras Lass on these two.

One for Kelsey too. 

I got some cards done too. Made easy for me at my Stampin Up Class. 

I have some of these stamp sets already so I am so going to try and replicate them. I think I need to incorporate this ribbon into them somehow...how gorgeous is this ribbon?

Creating Coming Soon

But first. I gotta clean that room!! Finally! I'm getting my space back together! It's been a long process and still not complete but it's getting closer. I think I have wandered into the HOARDER phase of scrapbooking. OK I don't think it. I. am. a. scrap. hoarder. There I said it! This is the floor in front of my table.

I'm going to fix it. I'm now thinking of the flood as a blessing. Gotta think positive right. I don't think I EVER would have sooo thoroughly gone through any of it. I still have a long way to go in my "recovery". This is the floor in front of my table. This is what it looked like after hours of sorting. 

 Starting to see that I actually have a stamp table.

 Mom saying HEY I organized this paper now don't make a mess of it!! Thanks Mom!

I'm also playing with my doll's again! If any of you scrappy ladies like vintage doll's check out my dolly website.

We've also been doing some swiming. Well now we. Kelsey does the swimming, we do the watching. LOL Anyway my breaststroking baby is turning into quite the backstroker. Check her out!

Happy 2012

Hello Crafty Friends! It's been awhile. I hope you all had a great Christmas and Happy New Year. I myself had a great holiday season and have lots of crafty plans for the coming year. Now if someone could just lend me some time? LOL

Christmas Morning

 Christmas at Grandma's

 My nephew. How can you not be hopeful about a new year...looking at that face!!

Catching Up

Abandoned Blog! Abandoned Blog! Holy Crap! Has it really been a month since I posted? I think I haven't been right since we had a hurricane in New York followed by a foot of snow in October? What in heck is going on with the weather!!
For now I'm just going to post some random photo's until I get caught up!

 Pumpkin Picking at Maples Farm with our  friend Julianna aka Little Kelsey. At 4 I am amazed how much Julie resembles Kelsey! Makes me sad that my baby is not a baby anymore.

 Halloween! I was also a little surprised this year that my girl wanted to ugly herself up to be a Zombie Bride!

 The little boy on the left is my friends son. He was really upset about Kelsey's costume and not because he was afraid. He is pointing his finger and yelling at her. "YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO BE PRETTY!! YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO BE A BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS!!" LOL Wishing we had caught that on video.

World Card Making Day PInk Paislee

Happy World Card Making Day! OK I am a day late but I DID make cards yesterday. Live Pink was hosted some awesome challenges yesterday. I'm happy to say I completed three of them. There were seven challenges in total but HEY don't judge. lol I am a slow scrapper PLUS I had some DT stuff to do for Let's Scrap. I can't post that yet though.
I was super happy to spend the day with my MOM, yup that's right my mom and I scrap together as well as friends, old and new. It was a great way to spend the day. The ladies that ran the crop are fabulous and I will be going again for sure! Polish Lasagna~who knew!! HA Gotta love Koren's cooking and sense of humor.
I also (finally) busted open my Pink Paislee Warehouse Box. Swoon. What an awesome, awesome amount of stuff in that box and NOT JUNK!! I've purchased warehouse boxes before and been disappointed or simply underwhelmed. NOT with this box~GORGEOUS stuff I tell you! I think I spent more time playing with my box than I did crafting!

Almost October?

Almost October? Really? August and September have been a bit of a blur for me. ENOUGH rain already!! We had a rep from FEMA at our house yesterday and I am hoping we are eligible for something. Actually at this point I wish it would just STOP RAINING long enough for my basement to fully dry. I have never ever seen anything like this in my area.
I realized today while posting my Let's Scrap page for the week (using a 5th grade photo) that I never posted Kelsey's first day of MIDDLE SCHOOL!! How is it that endless rain and a wet basement have put me so far behind.... OH and I'm not even going to be posting it today. Why? Endless rain and a wet basement are not enough. Laptop died and for the moment most of my photo's are "trapped" in it. Hubby is working on it for me so I should get them soon. In the meantime I did get a new laptop for my birthday!
OK enough of my whining already. Check out this weeks sketch at Let's Scrap! I love big photo's so I just adored this sketch. Add some Amy Tangerine from my Scrapbook Circle Kit and I am good to go. I also had an exciting email in my inbox over at Scrapbook.com

Check it out!

Good Evening,

I am hosting a fun little challenge called "Gallery Walk". Each day, I post a gallery of a creative artist, and the participants leave love all over their work.

I am delighted to tell you that our featured gallery today is You! Thank you so much for posting your beautiful work. I love your beautiful style, and I hope you enjoy all the well-deserved love that is about to be heaped all over your gallery!

Sincerely,
Michelle


Awesome to be getting so much gallery love! 

New Sketch~Let's Scrap

The new Let's Scrap Sketch is up! I have to be honest, this sketch was a challenge for me! I don't usually work with "white space". With that being said, the more I played around the more I liked it. Here is the Sketch and here is what I came up with.

I want to give a shout out to my scrapping friend Marie aka Mazz. She left the kindest comment for me during the time of the hurricane and without even knowing it she offered a random act of kindness on my birthday!!! Thanks so much Mazz!! Your kindness really touched me and I will be sending you my snail mail today.

sounds like you need a RAK Marie - to help with your own 'watered' stash !! PLEASE send me your postal addy via pm on facebook and I would LOVE to send you something !!! hugs to all of you xx Mazz xx

Not only is she kind. She is crafty~ check out her blog here.