Live Love Scrap

I wanted to share with you all my Scrap Room, this room has been completed for about 2 years now and I love it more and more everyday.

My Cricut and Sizzix station as well as my newest addition to my Scrap Room...the Singer. I wanted a 'station' that was at countertop height because I usually am standing when using the die cut machines. I pulled a peice of slat wall from the trash and painted it...do you know how expensive that stuff is?! I bought a 4' piece of countertop from Lowe's and picked out two different sets of cabinets, painted them white, attached the countertop and viola...Diecut station made to order!

An Uppercase Living adornes the wall above it, "Live. Love. Scrap."

My desktop is two diagonal pieces of countertop that you can you purchase straight from the shelf at Lowe's or Home Depot, the end pieces are from The Container Store and they are mesh baskets that anchor each end of the desktop and serve as great legs. Watch the height when ordering the baskets, you want to be comfortable when scrapping. One leg made out of wood helps with the middle and then the edge along the wall is supported by a 2x4 that is strategically placed out of sight and painted to match the wall. I then bought a kitchen rack system to hold my chipboard, paints, pens, etc. The chair I bought at a school surplus auction for a $1 and then recovered it with decorator fabric that was on clearance that matched my green paint.

However you choose to decorate your room, be sure that it reflects your style and most importantly is efficient to your scrapbooking.

Stitching

About two months ago, I took a Beginner Stitching class from Danelle Curtis at Scrap*Funattic. I had always admired the stitching on her pages for awhile, so this was my chance to learn and hopefully take my layouts to a whole new level.

This past Saturday night, I attended the PJ crop at Scrap*Funattic in honor of Krusty Mullins birthday and my goal was to complete and submit the Sketch Challenge that the Attic girls had posted on Facebook earlier this week. Deadline was yesterday, I got the layout done, but hadn't noticed the stitching detail until after my submission. That stitching detail really came to life when the digi girls (aka Danielle Vequist and Heather Smith) had submitted their layouts. I had to "fix" this page.

BEFORE:




AFTER some freestyle stitching, I feel like my page is complete now. Freestyle stitching is where you punch your own holes with no pattern. I thought Danelle was nuts when she implied that everyone will get to that point when they would start to freestyle...HA, guess I am at that point!

Thanks so much CURTIS!!

SALE SALE SALE

SALE...don't you just love those words?! Well, www.cricutmachine.com is having their "Gold Medal Sale" and all Cricut cartridges are $29.95 plus shipping. So, go shopping fellow scrapbookers and card makers, be sure to let me know what cartridges you picked up.

Cricut Listing

I have to share! To help our group, also known as "Beyonce's Group", I created a Excel spreadsheet that included our groups Cricut cartridges so that we would know right off hand who was bringing what.

Well I wanted to show you exactly what I did, but no go on the blogger template, so for example:

Beyonce / Yo Momma / Sister Sledge

George X
Cuttin Up X X
Mickey Font X X
50 States X

Doing this in an Excel sheet is way easier to color code who would be bringing what cartridge, so that your group doesn't have duplicates and you can bring them all without loading down the Best Western with extras! Too bad this blog doesn't really show want I wanted to :(

Good luck on packing, if you need some organizational tips, check out Scrap*Funattic's blog. Alicia Day gives some great pointers to help you be more efficient when scrappin.

Time

Happy January 22!

Nothing exciting about today, but hey...I bet no one has said that to you today! Well, 2010 (which I like to say twenty-ten) has arrived and I celebrated it at friends house playing Phase 10. Wow, I have surely missed that game, don't think I have played since high school.

January 1st came and went without me showering, January 2nd came and I drove home tired...oh so tired...January 3...no clue...January 5, why might you ask why I remember that date. That is the date that I got my first GREY HAIR (gasp). It was a tramatic day for me, some of you may laugh or even pee yourself, but I was about to burst out in to tears.
January 6...colored my hair, January 7...had a PTO meeting and no one...I repeat no one..even noticed my one missing grey hair nor the updated color...January 9, I scrapbooked with my friend and we litterally froze our hands (my basement is oh os cold)...the rest of the week went by like a flash...just like 2009 (I say two thousand nine)!

The morale of the story is time is passing us by, whether you look at a calendar or not...

Thankful

This year has been a year of change for me. I think I knew this time was going to come, it just seems that I wasn't ready for it all to happen when it did. I just have decided to pull up my big girl panties and deal!

Thankful list:
Birthdays, without one every year I can no longer be thankful
My kids, I love celebrating their birthdays and their ever growing knowledge of the world
My parents, WOW where would I be without them
BFF's, I have a lot of them, but they are each special for a reason or another
Holidays, it allows my family to come together
Fox Lake, that place is so special
Etc, for everything else I might have missed

Happy Thanksgiving!

P.S. Where did 2009 go?

Stalking

I have been stalking Scrap Funattic's blog for a long time now. Then enters Facebook, where I stalk my college sorority sisters, Derby High alumni, old friends, new acquaintences, friends of friends; you get the picture BUT now that I have my own FB page and starting my own venture...I am stalking myself. "What is the matter with me?", I ask myself as I switch from my home page to the SOS (Sisterhood of Scrapbooking) page. Well I figured out what matters; it is when others start checking out my page aka stalking to see what is new, what has others interested. The point is I love it when others are interested in what I may have that is new and what the SOS girls have up their sleeves.

SO keep stalking, it lets others know that you care...however let it be known that you can go too far!