Deer Season is a GREAT time to scrap!

I've actually been doing some scrapping lately and it has felt pretty darn good. I've actually been doing a LOT of scrapping and playing with new toys from my birthday and even an early Christmas present. It's deer season in Missouri, so I've had the house to myself for the most part on the weekends and it has been oh sooo quiet....I'm loving it....deer season needs to last a couple more months LOL.

A two page Christmas layout for Jake's album. I don't tend to put a huge amount of photo's in their books anymore. I try to find the best of the best and leave it at that. I do love the Christmas buttons as the bottom of this layout though. Perfect embellishments without over powering the whole thing.

Jake's deer from last year.....I did a lot of doodling on this page. The orange circles are also embossed you just can't see it very well.

I used my Christmas present on this layout (THANK YOU LARRY). I found an amazing deal on a Gypsy and everybody gets 5 free downloadable cartridges with it. I"m loving it!! I"ve made a lot of files and I'm getting ready to play with making my own embossing folders using my old cricut mats. I welded the lettering on this layout and cut it all out in one fair swoop!! It was AWESOME.

My birthday money went towards the Itop and Irock......I used the Irock and pearl gems on this layout to spell out high school. This will be the opening page for Jake's high school album. I'm hoping to fit Freshmen, Sophomore and Junior year in one book. I will put one layout in this book for each sport each year and make a seperate album with all the newspaper articles etc.

I did this one quite a while ago and don't remember posting it. It is the picture of all the first cousins taken at Joni's graduation party in May 2009. Tried to makie it more masculine for Jake's album.

8th grade basketball layout and pocket page....I used the Itop and my cuttlebug embossing folders to make the brads to hold the pocket on a little better.

Check out the Imaginisce blog.

Check out the two videos on the Imaginisce blog. There is a link on the left side of my page. I just got the irock and itop with birthday money and I can't wait to try out some of the ideas they shared in the videos.

Been scrappin'

Riska Roo at a friend's lakehouse!

She's a mess!!!! I love this kid!!!!

truer words were never spoken about these two....LOL!

Feels good to sit down after supper of an evening and scrap. I got a lot organized and cleaned up Sunday afternoon and evening and it helped bring my mojo back to scrap the last couple of nights. Here are 3 layouts I kicked out for my nieces albums last night.......I actually did 5 pages last night but camera battery died so these are the 3 that were photographed and posted. If I can figure out the movie option on my camera....I'm going to do a virtual tour of my scraproom one evening since, yes, I changed it around some more, and did some cleaning and purging! Thanks for stopping by.

Friday Night Lights and Scrappin'...not enough time in the week for both!

Well, I've actually been doing some scrapping lately in between football games. I had a chance today to take some pics of a few I have done in the last 2 months and I'm trying to get all my layout kits organized so I know exactly where I am at. Most of these are pretty simple but I did get my sewing machine settings figured out last night to sew on cardstock (see Escape Artist layout) and I can forsee using it quite a bit more in the future....I loved the effect.

my new philosophy in life

In case you didn't know........Women are Angels.....and when someone breaks our wings, we continue to fly.....on a broomstick! We are flexible you know!

Wow, it's been a while

I didn't realize it had been so long since I posted. I have several layouts to post but can't find the memory card for my camera at present. I think it is in the bottom of my purse somewhere but haven't managed to locate it so far.

I spent most of the weekend (after getting 45 quarts of corn put in the freezer) working on cataloging my stamp collection. Larry got me a rolodex on Saturday night to make my card file, I have everything but the alphabets unmounted, cleaned and repositionable glue on and dry. I brought 2 boxes of stamps with me today so I can work on them on my lunch hour. I'll be really happy to have that project completed. It is harder to catergorize stamps than I thought it would be so some are getting more than one card in the card file!

This week I will be focusing on the show I'm taping on the 10th for the local cable provider's station. I'm doing 4 layouts, all different styles so I HAVE to get them chosen and laid out this week so I can practice over the weekend. I also open to suggestions on an opening line for the show....I'm drawing a blank......feel free to offer quotes, jokes, or snippets of wisdom that I can use!!!

Scraproom tour.

I thought you might like a tour of my scraproom. It went a major overhaul over New Year's thanks to the Christmas gift from my Mom and Dad of new flooring and shelving. It still isn't perfect.......does a scraproom ever get there.....but I'm working on it slowly but surely.


My chipboard letters are all in the small sterilite drawers. I used a heavy chipboard to make dividers which makes it much much easier to tell if I have a certain type of each letter when making titles.

The start of my stamping reorganization. My inks and embossing stuff are all easily accessible now directly behind my desk. The photo storage boxes are the start to unmounting all my stamps and storing in cd cases. It's a start anyway.....that project is going to take a while to complete.

My small embellishment organizers are LOADED. I love having all my buttons, flowers, embroidary floss, brads, and eyelets of one color in one container. I also throw in some short pieces of ribbon. It certainly makes it very easy to find an embellishment that will match my pictures and paper after I have the basis of a layout complete.

My paper rack....yes, it's HUGE. It is actually an old carpet sample display that I found at a rummage sale. I've taken it down once because it was so big but put it back up....it is so much easier to find the paper in it. Larry is planning on making me a second base for it though so I can take the top down and make it two sets of two racks. I'm also going to make a dust cover for it.

The lidded drawers under my desk hold all my scraps sorted by color. I find if I keep them close to me, I use them more. I'm working on a "plan" for a desk base that will include these in it....just gotta break the news to Larry that he will be building the desk LOL. The small black tv stand holds my big red sizzix, all the dies for it, my stack of chipboard, and one set of current project drawers. This set of drawers holds finish pages that I haven't put in albums yet and any paper I bought specifically for one of the albums. I'm always afraid it's going to get lost in the big stack and I'll forget I have it so I store it where I will see it every time I add a page to the drawer.

One of my 6 chipboard drawers....yet, I have an addiction :sigh: I'm addicted to chipboard on clearance or on sale or at Big Lots or wherever!! The drawer dividers are made from very heavy chipboard that the local pharmacy gives to me free of charge. I'm still work through the first foot tall stack they gave me for a VBS project. It comes in the boxes of their prescription labels and one of the ladies that works their is a scrapper so she keeps a big stack handy all the time. Gotta love fellow scrappers that SHARE!

The sterilite drawers on the left I picked up at a rummage sale and hold all my fabric/craft paints, brushes, and trays. Love it.

The 2 1/2 gallon bags are page kits for my nieces album.....I'm using paper clips and binder clips right now but seen a great idea to use ID badge clips somewhere the other day. Next trip to walmart will include buying several packages. The other set of sterilite drawers hold my basic shape punches. All these drawers set directly behind my scrapdesk within arms reach.

Another set of layout kits...these are for my nephew's album. As soon as all the pictures I just ordered to catch up Jake's album arrive, there will be another 30 or so kit hung up here.....I'm finding that if I do the kits as soon as I get the pictures, it makes it easier to sit down of an evening and grab a layout or two and get them done....I plan on being caught up by Christmas come h@## or high water...........don't hold me to that though.

I have started sorting my stamps. I'm going to unmount all of them and put them in cd cases. I have a start on it but have used up all the cd cases I have so I'm getting some more from some friends to finish up the project. I'm then going to stamp everything on to a rolodex card and label the cd cases so I can find stamps at the flip of a card. This is my mess for now.......sorted by the category they will be filed under.

This is the closest I can get to a panoramic view of my scraproom. The entire room is 9' x 12' and looks directly into the living room of my home. There is also a shelf with my computer and printer in this room as well. All in all, everything is within arms reach.....a spin of my chair and VOILA.......if I can remember where it is, I can grab it.

Well there you have it....a basic overview of my scrap mess aka scraproom. It is still undergoing some changes but the basics are down pat....just some micro organizing here and there and final details to finish up. Kudos to my wonderful hubby, Larry, for helping me put the new flooring in and all the shelving up AND supporting me in my passion..........I did here him tell somebody the other day it seemed like a lot of money for a hobby until he realized exactly how priceless the scrapbooks and all the pictures are............a brutal lesson we learned after we lost Jeana. I don't think anybody understands how happy I was to "overhear" that comment come from him.