PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.....

Well I have just been a scrapbooking fool lately....have two more projects almost done!....finishing up the Keys for Art Storage Unit (designed by Kathy from paperphenomenon) - just need to find some door pulls I like and it will be done.....then I have the tea caddy (designed by Kathryn from thescrapbeach) all put together....it still needs to be dressed up a bit with some embellies which I have ordered from scrapadabadoo and the package is on its way!....pix to come.....

BELLOWS!....

OMG....Laura from followingthepapertrail showed us how to make the bellows for her camera kit last night on her ustream channel....now I did purchase this kit, again, not for housing a mini album, but for an interesting show piece and perhaps to prove to myself I could actually make it....however, after watching her put this together so quickly, I am not so sure it will turn out half as nice....she is quick and ingenious I must say!.....never fear however, for I promised my friend Solucky that I would attempt this and in front of her no less!....am I nuts....perhaps....but should be fun....

OLDE CURIOUSITY SHOPPE....

WHEW!.....finally finished my curio cabinet!....YAY!....now I can strike it off my ever growing list of craft projects.....this design was created by Laura from followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com...I altered it slightly to use up some of my own stash of goodies....and originally Laura made a mini album to fit in the bottom drawer of the cabinet, but since I just wanted it as a show piece I changed it up a bit and put in two smaller drawers.....these drawers would be just the thing for me to keep other miniatures or embellies for use on other projects......a couple of weeks ago my mother and I took a little road trip (abt. 2.5 hrs. each way) to seek out a shop that sold miniatures....I also found an online store and my pkg. finally arrived yesterday allowing me to add the finishing touches.....LUV it!.....

UNFINISHED PROJECTS ARE PILING UP!.....

Just started looking at my extremely disorganized craft room (it was all nice and neat a month or so ago) and realized just how many "on-going" projects I have as yet unfinished!....got scared and ran out of the room!.....but seriously, I am sure I would get these completed without any problems if only my crafting mentors (Laura, Kathryn, Kathy, Jim - to name a few) would quit being so creative that everything they design I want to make!.....I get so excited and eager to start their new inspirations, that their previous "new" ones which once had excited me, now get put on the back burner....hmmm....perhaps I should set up another craft room just to house all my "in progress" creations....that would unclutter my original craft room making searching for items (that I am sure I have) easier, as well as keeping it nice and tidy when unexpected visitors drop in....the door to my "in progress" room will remain closed under lock and key for my eyes only!......

FOLLOWERS!....

OMG - my first follower!....YAY....thank you solucky....guess now I am an official "blogger"!....oh no...wait a second....now that means I am going to have to think of some fun and neat stuff to blog....ooops!....

SKYPE....

I have heard of skype before (and even my elderly aunt knows how to use it) but I have never tried it nor attempted to install it.....that is until a couple of days ago.....my cuz in Ontario and I chat or email several times a year, but emailing to me is like leaving a message on the answering machine....just way to impersonal!....so about a week ago my cuz told me she had installed skype and it would be a great way for us to chat.....and it is!....plus it was so simple!......we had our very first "session" a couple of days ago and it was great....so much nicer to see her smiling face and hear her voice.....

FRIDAY THE 13TH - YIKES!

Actually despite the date, today is a glorious one....sun is shining (and is usually up now when I am), birds are chirping, robins have returned (YAY), buds are starting to sprout....how could this possibly be a "bad" day......

SHABBY CHIC TAG SWAP - continued

Well I did make and send off all 16 tags, but however I did not finish the tag for the grunge that I was to keep for myself...will do so at a later date.....so cannot display it here...suffice to say it was fabulous!...lol....however, here is the one I did make for myself based on a shabby chic theme.....

FINISHED SHABBY CHIC DRAWERS/TAGS

Finally finished the shabby drawers!...think they turned out pretty great too....the pattern was courtesy of Laura at followingthepapertrail.blogspot.com which was basically a horizontal drawer unit with a middle section separating the two drawers....this was to be used to store a mini album with the drawers being used to store tags.....a made a few slight changes to the original by making the drawers vertical rather than horizontal with deeper drawer sides to enable me to use it for other scrapping materials rather than storing tags....also I eliminated the middle section for housing a mini album.....think a few more of these will be gracing my scrapbook room!...luv it!

    

EASTER HANGOVER....

Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend....I spent most of Saturday getting the house in order for Sunday's dinner guests and am not really sure why I bother to polish the floors and windex all of my glass tables, etc., for once the twins arrive everywhere you look there is evidence of tiny little fingers and noses!....baby art!.....but what fun they had.....in the past they have spent most of the time "touching" all of grandmas treasures...YIKES....and you can hear the constant "no" and "don't touch" being expressed by everyone present....this time (now that they are 2) they were more interested in just having fun, playing with their toys and running around chasing the dogs (who couldn't figure out what was going on and often opted to be on someone's lap to escape)....the door to the deck was a revolving one and thank goodness it was a nice warm and sunny day.....everyone enjoyed dinner (at least they said they did....lol) and now peace and quiet has returned....once more the house is back in order, the floors are shiny...the tables are spotless...but something is missing....hehe....the laughter of the babes was all worth it!...grandma can't wait til their next visit!....

TAG SWAP and FEDEX.....

Well Easter is almost upon us...spring has sprung finally too....although last night we did get a bit of a dump of snow...but at this time of year it is almost gone as fast as it falls....thank goodness....

I do not usually take part in swaps....partly because I just don't see where I would find the time...I already have so many scrappin projects on the go that just never seem to get finished....however, that being said, I did join a recent one hosted by Laura from followingthepapertrail....the tag swap goes with the shabby drawers project she has created and the tag swap would help in filling the drawers....so I jumped in and agreed to do two sets of tags; one being shabby chic and the other grunge.....we had to make 9 tags of each theme, keeping one for ourselves and sending off the other 8 to Laura for distribution; and in return we would get 8 different ones back from others who participated....sounded like fun and I have to admit I did enjoy making the tags and think they turned out pretty good....(pix to follow)....since I had to send them to the U.S. by a certain date, I quickly dropped them off at fedex a couple of days ago to ensure they would arrive in time....fortunately today I decided to track the pkg. to see how it was doing....good thing for it was still sitting at my depot because of a "shipment exception"....when I called it was because I hadn't indicated Cdn. dollars beside the $1.00 value of the shipment!....frankly there is very little difference between $1.00 Cdn. and $1.00 U.S.....certainly not enough to hold up a shipment!....my fingers are crossed that my pkg. will arrive in time!