..smile and be scrappy..

I knew when I woke up this morning that it was going to be a semi-lousy day. You can just tell sometimes, you know? Well, after much laying around, doing nothing, I decided I had to do at least one crafty productive thing today. Surprisingly I was in the mood to scrap. I say surprisingly, because I haven't been scrappy lately. Not sure why, I just haven't been provoked until I was going through some pictures and found this one of my little girl..



It might be hard to tell, but her eyes are so bright green in the photo. I had to scrap it :) The journaling reads, "Witch Cat: That's what calico cats are sometimes called. Maybe that's why I love her so much."

Another thing that might help lift my spirits.. Bama ball starts tonight, wooooo!!! :) Nothing like football season in the South :)

Peace, love and koala fuzz ya'll! :)

..shameless plug..

I haven't been crafty today. I did, however, buy some crafty stuff :) I got my pattern to make my apron for the Apron Swap I'm a part of. I also finished up a little mini stuffy and got it in the mail to my partner over at SwapBot. I forgot to take his picture, but it was a cute little stuffed pear, complete with a happy face :)

Anyway, about the shameless plug. A couple of weeks ago, my hubby and his friend, Aussie Arron, decided they would make great podcasters :) So they fired up their headsets, and The Right Stick was born. If you know anyone who is interested in remote control airplanes, or if you just want to have a really good laugh, you should go listen. I mean, it's a kid with a Southern accent, and a kid with an Australian accent. What could be funnier? Oh, add a Spanish accent in the mix you say? Well, who knows what could happen :) They're taping tonight with their first special guest, and that episode will air in a couple of days. But the first episode is already up.

Now I'm off to the bookstore. I will no longer be the only person in America that hasn't read the Twilight books.

Peace, love and koala fuzz ya'll!

..pretty-licious..

I got one of my Artsy.licious projects done. Here ya go!



Isn't it pretty? Those great shiny and glittery Artsy.licious papers were so great for this. Eventually I'd like to do one in every color paper that they make. But like I said in my last post, I have the material to make a red one next.

I can just imagine the whole wall of my scrap room covered in these butterfly shadow boxes. Nice :)

Ok, gotta run. Hubby goes to work early in the morning so I gotta get stuff ready.

Peace, love and koala fuzz ya'll!

..sumpin' new & a sneak..

Happy Tuesday everyone. It's been a rainy one here. Usually that means laundry time, but today I shunned the mounds of clothes and dishes that need to be washed so I could cut up some paper :) I made this little mini the other day for a challenge over at the Scrapbook Takeout Blog.







I just grabbed up some patterned paper (KI Memories & My Mind's Eye), ribbon, paint, buttons and a couple of journal box stamps (Scrapbook Takeout exclusives) and went to work. It took me less than an hour to do the whole thing, and that includes paint drying time!! :D

And now for the sneak portion of our show. I'm almost done with one of my projects that I'm doing for Chatterbox. Recently I won a whole big box of goodness from Artsy.licious and I've been working on something today. It will be done tomorrow (after a quick run to Hobby Lobby) and then I will post the whole thing. But until then, you only get a small eyeball full...



Think you know what it is? :D It's one of two I will be making. The other one will be red :) Now I guess I better get off here and go make some dinner. I can live off of ramen and cereal, why can't J? :)

Peace, love and koala fuzz ya'll!

..sharing my woot-ness!..

Since Shakira posted it in the forum yesterday, I guess it's safe for me to go ahead and post it here. I was waiting for her to say something about it first so that there were no boo-boos on my part :D But...

I'm now a stamp designer for Scrapbook Takeout!! Yay! My first set of stamps will come out next month with the release of the September Kit. (psst, if you click on September Kit, you can see the sneak peeks! Mine are the acrylic add ons) I'm so excited! On top of that, Shakira is going to be adding a new Stamping section to the Scrapbook Takeout forum, and I'll be kinda overseeing that with lots of techniques, challenges and ideas. And hopefully in the near future we will be having a Stamp Design Team Call. Isn't that fantastic?! :) Woot Woot!!

I'm totally thrilled to be working with the gals at SBTO. They're such talented, hilarious women and I hope that I can measure up :D

On another wonderful note, I was given a very sweet blog award by not one, but two people!



Angie and Rachel both sent this to me. Thanks so much gals!! They are both rockin' scrapper women and you should check out their blogs. Now I'm passing this award on to everyone who hasn't received it from someone else already. I always feel like I'm missing someone when I just list people, so you're all getting it :D

I'm making hubby go play with his friends today so maybe I can get some scrapping done! :)

Peace, love and koala fuzz ya'll!

..it's august, right?..

So why in the world did I feel like making something Christmas-y? I couldn't help myself when I walked down the greenery aisle at Hobby Lobby today, looking at all of the great Christmas picks and flowers. And I managed to get hubby out of the house for a couple of hours, so I had to be crafty. The idea for this framed project actually came to me about a week ago, when I was laying in bed trying to fall asleep. This is when most of my ideas have been hitting me lately, not sure why, but it works :) The frame was one of those inexpensive wooden ones. I just covered it with some music note paper. Then I created the rose out of some dark red ribbon (quick running stitch), and used some leaves and berries I already had. The reindeer was cut out of black cardstock. I didn't HAVE to go seasonal with this. You could definitely put any picture in the frame. I'd like to make another one with the reindeer facing the other way, so I have a pair.



More stuff in the works, but I have a golf date in the morning and a dinner date tomorrow night. Maybe tomorrow afternoon I can get some work done :D

..superman!!!..

Is anyone else crying right now? Cuz I am!! I'm so excited for Phelpsie, I just can't help but be emotional. Who knows if I'll ever see that kind of history made again in my lifetime.

Kudos to you Phelpsie, you're the best!