Too much FUN!

Last week when Scrap-Masters got the new Basic Grey line in, I took one look at "Perhaps" and KNEW it would match the 7gypsies sticker "unique"! I couldn't wait to do this little album. Who's kids are NOT unique? LOL This album went so fast and was so easy it practically scrapped itself! And as you know I'm lovin' the pink and green goodness of it too! I'll be teaching this little cutie Monday, April 23.

Editied to add, I won't be teaching it that day. :( I'll anounce the date as soon as I know!

I heart chipboard!

Man, I love chipboard! Such a cool product, who would have thunk? :D This little album is made from Jenni Bowlin Heart shaped chipboard and Around the Block papers. I'll be teaching it later this month.

I've hit the button motherload (aka: don't hate me because of my buttons)

YESSSS!!! Look at my button jackpot. It's okay to be pea-green with envy! LOL Really, I'm lucky! Okay, so I'm going to let you in on a little secret...shhh, don't tell anyone else. I know my secret will be safe here with my 10 loyal blog readers.

Remember last month, I was lucky enough to do that human interest segment on a local tv station (If you are bored or need a really good laugh, there is a direct link in last months archives)? Somehow during the LIVE segment I mentioned that the button from the layout was from my grandmothers button basket. I'm really not sure where this statement came from. I plucked it out of clean air, really. And if you know me, I'm not one to do a lot of air pluckin' statements. Of course, I really should have been blonde and all that and some of my comments are for sure out of left field but they are not really BS just usually....ODD. Anyway, I guess I always wanted the kinda grandmother who HAD a button basket. Mine didn't. She actually wasn't particularly domestic but that's another story. My kids on the other hand ARE lucky enough to HAVE a grandmother WITH a button basket. Actually it's more like a cigar box and a cigar box and an organized little compartmentalized piece of rubbermade. Anyway, because this woman somehow loves me (and my inescapable ohhhhs and ahhhhs and embarrassing giggles over the sight of said cigar boxes) was super kind enough to GIVE me one of the cigar boxes FULL of the lovely button goodness. And I do mean lovely and there are tons of buttons PLUS they were her GRANDMOTHERS. Just wanted to share my happiness with you all! All 10 of you! :D

Build a Page

A couple days ago, this little scamp was busily drawing colorful butterflies. They were so pretty! She's always said she wants to be a baker when she grows up-it kinda goes along with her HUGE sweet tooth! After admirering the lovely drawings I asked if maybe she wanted to be an ARTIST and a BAKER. And she said, "I don't want to be either of those!" So of course I asked what she wanted to do then when she grew up. This was her reply: "I don't want to get a job, I just want to stay here and hang out with you all day!" :D

Been working on some events for my lss, March is National Craft Month, so we have a lot going on. Saturday we are having a build a page event for $5.00 and you get a 6 x 6 enlargement for that! This is the page we are going to be building. I got to use the new 7gypsies called Hudson Valley, it's so LOVELY!

Some quick pics of my album in a night class. These ladies were so FUN! MY GOODNESS, my stomach hurt from laughing so hard. Carol had to show off her BIG tool, and make us all jealous! Man, now I want one of those huge adhesive guns, it's so awesome.

Forgot this..

Something about pink and green just makes me grin real big! :D Really, I do like it, it's such a happy little combo. I really like this new Doodlebug paper, it screams SPRING~ As one of the March classes, this tin is in a CD sized case so it's perfect for 2 x 2 photos and 3 x 3! Love funky sized pics.

Patriots and Valentines...OH MY!

Patriots and Valentines...OH MY! The twins had their Patriot assembly today. SO cool, I'm so proud of them. Can you believe that Callie is actually OLDER than Cole! Look at that height difference!Then I finally taught the twins' class their Valentine craft. So fun! Crazy, but fun. 30 10 year olds with Jenni Bowlin chipboard hearts, paper, Heidi Swapp stamps, omgoodness! Too funny. I'll show you the twins close up but I don't want to show everyone else's except from far away, here are 27 of them on the chalkboard.Finally a layout I'm teaching in a challange class. Old Sei but it's still cute!
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I'm not a nipper! I JUST CAN'T NIP!

I had a fun group of ladies today at Scrap-Masters for the February Junque bracelette class. They had me laughing
constantly! One of them, who shall remain nameless, (she knows who she is! LOL) just couldn't cut the wires. She just couldn't NIP! LOL


In other news, I hope to be able to link March's Calendar here soon. We have FUN stuff planned for March, all kinds of doodling classes and and artist visit and cool sales too!

Scrapbooking as therapy...

Cole and I worked on his class Valentines project tonight and then he made his own Valentines for the class. I LOVE that he wanted to make them instead of buying them! ...cool kid! LOL He then made Callie's too although she said she wanted store bought ones. He said he'll just put them in her room in a bag. That boy can be a sweetheart. On the other hand, Callie must be pre-hormonal or something. The girl is driving us batty! One minute, she's sweet as can be and the NEXT WHAM!!!! Tears and ATTITUDE galore! Geez! So while Cole was doing his V-day cards I whipped this up, and I do mean WHIP, it took me about 30 minutes. AND yes I DO feel better!

The journalling says something about Callie's TWEEN 'Tude!

Almost Valentines Day!

I taught a fun class tonight (the Jenni Bowlin brag book posted a couple weeks ago). I love that book. I got a sneak peek at Jenni's new line coming out in March! OHHH MY! Let's just say my creative juices are flowin'! SUPER cute stuff and all kinds of goodies it sounds like to go with it! Be still my scrappin heart!

Last week, I took pictures of C and C's entire class with making memories X's and O's. On Wednesday this week (if it doesn't snow) we are doing a V-day craft using JB Studio's 6" chipboard hearts and making them into fridge frames. I wish I could show you some of the pictures, some are so cute and some are hysterical. Some little boys just won't smile when you stick an X and O in their hand! ...I have no idea why! :D I'll post all their projects when we are done.

I'm working feverishly on March samples for my lss so I'll have some fun stuff to post here soon. In the meantime he's a picture of C I took in her class room. It's catch-lightalicious if I do say so myself! (catch-lights are those super cool reflections you get in the eyes if you try hard enough or know what you are doing. I don't but sometimes I get lucky!)

I'm back from N.C.

My sister had baby Mason Micheal on Thursday by C-section. He weighed 9 13 oz and was 22 inches. He's a cutie! got back on Monday, so I was gone 7 days! Busy busy on this end getting my house back in order and I have a class tonight with making that cute little SEI purse pal I showed a few weeks ago.

I'm almost off...

Brandy went to the sonographer today to get an estimate on the baby's weight. Well, it seems the wee man ain't so wee! :D The little guy is guestimated to be 10lbs. 3 oz. UMMM yeah. Big baby! :D Man I can't wait to meet him, see Brandy, squeeze Gracie, all that good schtuff! I'll be bloggin' on the road so expect a post or two! ;)

Scrapbooking in the news!

Bright and early this Sunday morning (way tooo early for my allergy induced puffy eyed self!), Cathy from Scrap-Masters and I went to WJZ in Baltimore to film a segment on scrapping! Way fun! Cathy did an awesome job with the intro and I did the layout demo, if you'd like to take a peek at it, here it is http://wjz.com/video/?id=24462@wjz.dayport.com. I got so excited (you know how passionate scrappers are) I got a bit wordy! LOL We also actually did another 1 minute segment on the junque bracelette but it's not shown. At least Cathy and I didn't get the giggles like we were worried about!

On another note: we stocked the Jenni Bowlin goodies at the store and they are flying off the shelves! For example, we only have 2 brag books out of 12 left. So cool to see that!

Yes, more Jenni B love...

I know, here we go again! I know this layout is very similar to the other I posted a few days ago but I made a new one with requested adjustments for CHA. The mini book above is Jenni Bowlin's brag book kit aht we are selling at my lss. Such a cute book! The first page has an extra little flap in black. I LOVE mini books!

I was supposed to work last night at the restaurant and I got called before I left to see if I wanted to stay home. I had originally tentatively took off because I thought I'd be in N.C. with my sister and Grace and new baby nephew. But as you know, that didn't happen. So I happily stayed home and we all went to CHILIs, gosh we love Chilis! LOL The two big kids both became Patriots this week (An intense 5th grade program where they have to memorize a bunch of things like the bill of rights and the preamble to the constitution), we thought a celebration was in order! When we came home the roads were icy which always makes me nervous. We parked in the drive way and the big kids hopped out and I went to the back passenger seat to unbuckle Peyton's carseat. Matt put the Trailblazer in park and got out and....IT started SLIDING BACKWARDS DOWN THE DRIVE WAY! I don't like ICE it scared me to death! He hopped in and braked but my gooodness, not before I had a heartattack!

So I'm thinking it's not such a baaaad week...

My sister hasn't had the baby yet. I'm still here buttttt I'm getting a lot done! I'm really starting to think that Valentines day is my peak mojo time. ((See last years V-day post)). So I whipped up this purse pal for another class and I also made some sample goodies for Callie and Cole's teacher. She's going to decide which would be better for the v-day craft. I'll show you what she decides!

I got a fun email today with notice that my Jenni Bowlin CD tin will be published, so that's cool! :D Yay me! LOL (obviously, I watch too many episodes of The Suite Life Of Zach And Cody, with my kids. London always says, "yay me!" So between my major mojo, my book thingy and the tiny tv spot this Sunday....it's a pretty good week!

one more cha project...

I tried to get lots of pictures on this layout as per the request. 12 is not so bad! :D Not an original title but I like it anyway. Kraft background, although it doesn't look it in the pic, Basic Grey blitzen, Foofala harlaquin, Imagination Project coasters, and I can't remember that paper in the strip form on the side...and I'm too lazy after my infinit loads of laundry today to run down to the scrap room and check. I hope you can deal with it. LOL The little frame is I Kandee but I grinded off the little eyelet. I'm handy in the garage you know...me and the grinder get along really well. I also made friends with the circular saw in the past few years and of course the drill and I are old friends.

Well, I was supposed to go to N.C. today, we thought my sister was going to be induced tomorrow. She went to the doctor today and she's slightly dialated but because she has a tilted uterus the baby is NOT engaged at all. Her doctor was afraid if she was induced she'd have a VERY long labor like last time so he wants to wait, he'll check her again on Friday. I'm bummed, Peyton is bummed and Brandy is a WRECK. Poor girl. Makes me sad. Those last weeks of pregnancy are H A R D! Anyway, with my nervous energy today I was very productive. I got a lot accomplished at home...do you notice I'm trying to give this a positive spin, that's me and my glass half full self.

On another positive note, I'm probably going to do a 3 minute human interest story on a local tv channel on Sunday morning with the owner of Scrap-Masters. It's channel 13 for you locals...it's funny because when I told Cole he said "that's cool Mom, but nobody watches that channel anyway." :-) We are loyal NBC fans here! LOL

CHA bound, not me silly, the project!

The owner of the lss where I teach and dt for is going to CHA and he's taking a couple of my projects with him to showcase their photo lab goodies. At least my stuff is going! LOL I love this little purse pal I finished tonight. It's just my style (well, I've got a million styles but...) and I love the colors and can't wait to put this on my family room table with the other mini books. The blue's will blend right in and the bird on the front, well it goes well with the other 5 real ones we have in there!

More JBS

Somebody stooooop me! (said in my best Jim Carey voice from "The Mask")! So I've made a boat load of stuff from last months Jenni Bowlin kit. I can't NOT use this stuff! It's just so delicious with black and white pictures too! YUM! :D Anyway, on the blue moon freak chance that Jenni seee's my blog...I promise I'm not some weird scrap-stalker chic or anything. Well, maybe an teeeny-weeny, itsy bitsy smidgen. :)

Tonight, was one of those nights I couldn't wait for the kiddo's to go to bed! Shocker, I know! Really, I'm not normally like that at all but can you spell H Y P E R? Golly day. And it's finally cold here, I know it took till like mid January. However, I could get used to the milder temps and all, minus the global warming and everything (see post a few down...I'm afraid I contributed to the whole glacier melt thing with my impossibly large bangs about 1987 or so). Anyway, I think it's throwing the kids off or something. Yeah, that's it, my kids are hyper because of global warming! I knew it wasn't my fault or anything.