Meet Me on Monday #55

Happy Monday Everyone!! Hope you are having a very Happy Halloween too. It's time for another Meet Me on Monday over at nevergrowingold.blogspot.com. This is just a fun way for all of us bloggers to get to know each other. Hop on over and join in. 


Questions:


1.  My current weather is _______?
It's 37 degrees, sunny. I think Mother Nature forgot to pay her heating bill
2.  What is your favorite sound? 
It's a tie between a child's laugh and the ocean lapping against the shore

3.  What is the worst flavor of ice cream? 
Pistachio!! Why? Why would anyone make an ice cream taste like that!

4.  What magazine do you look for when you are stuck in the waiting room? 
Ever since I got my iPhone, none. I have all the reading material I need, and Words with Friends!
5.  What is your favorite condiment? 
I'm going to have to agree with Java on this on and say Ranch dressing, ketchup would be a close second. Ranch is so versatile and can go on almost anything. Fries, yup. Chicken, yup. I even put just a bit in my spaghetti...mmmm!!


Thanks for stopping by!! 

Urge to Purge Day #2.5

Happy Frosty Saturday,

Well Mother Nature had other plans for my weekend. I was suppose to go to Baltimore and hang out with a dear friend, but it's been snowing pretty much all day. Here's a peek from around lunchtime:

So after adding winter blankets onto the beds, pulling out a few space heaters, throwing on a sweater and some comfy socks I decided to head down to the scrap cave and continue purging. I decided to was time to go through my embellishment drawer and pull out all of the things that I've had FOREVER and know that I will not use. About 5 years ago I ordered this kit from a catalog service and was really unhappy with the products. I figured I would use them eventually and haven't. I decided to pull everything out and put it in a pile to donate to Miss A's Boys and Girls Club. They have an art room and I'm sure they will love the donation.






This pile contains stickers galore, a bunch of premade frames, a bunch of 12 x 1 border paper, die cuts, etc. I'm going to take it over there on Monday, when I pick her up. If you are not familiar with the Boys and Girls club, check out their website here. I can't say enough good things about the club Miss A is part of. They pick her up from school, help with homework, have a weekly "girl talk" with the 8-12 year old girls. Many of the people that work there, went there as children. I hope they like the donation.

After I finished with the embellishment drawer, I decided to tackle the Apple Cider packages that I picked up at The Dollar Tree. I saw My Pink Stamper's youtube video a while back and knew that I wanted to make these at some point. So when I saw them at store, I picked them up without hesitation.

I wanted to make some "treats" for my family for Thanksgiving. These aren't quite finished yet, because my Cricut decided it was time for new blades and has been shredding everything. So I did as much as I could without it. I'm not going to list any measurements, watch Robyn's video. For the base I used a copper colored cardstock, the mat is from a stack I bought last winter at Micheal's called "Throughout the Year". I think it's by Karen Foster Designs. I love the autumn feel the paper gives. I stamped "So Grateful" at the bottom using Just Wordz stamps because even if we don't always get along, I am so grateful to have the family that I have. Once I get some replacement blades, I plan to add a pumpkin or other Thanksgiving-ish image to the front. :-)

I will also be listing a set of 8 on my Etsy shop, if you want to bypass all the "hard" work and have some apple cider sliders for your family/guest.

The package

With cider pulled out

Finished Product

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to stop by June's blog (the original Urge to Purge poster) to check out her progress. I'm linking this up at You Had Me at Craft: Made It Myself Monday





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Urge to Purge Day #1

Good Evening Bloggers,

A good crafty friend (and inspiration) is tacking her craft room in one of her purges. She's invited everyone to join in and get organized, check it out here. I've been meaning to tackle this scrap paper pile for some time now.  I sat down and went through every piece. Anything that was too small (less than 2 inches on any side) was thrown into the recycling bin. I then sorted by color family. All of the pattern paper scraps went back into their respected stacks (easy to find them that way). I'm happy to say that I put everything that I kept into an accordion folder for easy grabbing.




This past weekend, I also ended up buying a new table for the cave. I just didn't have enough space to spread out and felt like I was always under something. I mean when you lose your ATG gun on your craft table, something is wrong right? So I moved some things around and this is what I've come up with:




All the way to left is my old table. I'm using this table now for my rotary cutter, larger finished projects, and where all of my magazines/books are. Underneath is my heat source for when winter comes and two bins of yarn, a bin of craft paint, and random other bins. Between the two tables is my rolling 12x12 bin that I got oh so many years ago at Target. LOVE IT. I have my mat stacks on top of this and all my embellishments inside the different drawers. Then there's my new table, still piled with stuff. And finally my Cricut station. Underneath the new table is all of the loose paper I have sorted into Cropper Hopper bins. I'm in the market for new paper storage as this isn't the best way to store my paper, I've found.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and don't forget to go check out June's blog to see what she's been up to in her crafty space.

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ENABLER ALERT - 2 Cricut Carts for only 29.99

Sorry, I have to post!

For the next 48 hours, if you go to http://www.cricutmachine.com you can get two Cricut Carts for only $29.99. I've never personally ordered from this site, so I can not speak to customer service or shipping, etc. There is a select list of carts, but there are quite a few of the Disney carts on the list.

Congrats cards

Two quick cards tonight.

Card #1 - A really good friend of mine is in nursing school. She recently was awarded the Top Nursing student in all of West Virginia!!! If that's not reason for a special card, I don't know what is.




I used Locker Talk for the card. Cut at 4.25. The layers were cut at 1.75. I kept this card simple since it is going in the mail. The sentiment is stamped using Just Wordz sentiments.

Card #2 - A coworker recently was accepted onto a new contact doing some pretty special work. Unfortunately I can't tell you what that work is, but trust me it's a BIG deal. She will still be with our company just Not in our office. She's moving to DC, and we are all going to miss her bubbliness. I wanted to let her know, even though she didn't work directly with us, we all wish her well.




Over the weekend, I found A Child's Year on clearance at my local Walmart. So I picked it up. Everything is on this card is cut from the cartridge. The card base is cut at 6 inches (since it will not be in an envelope), the mat is cut at 5.75 (I recut the card and trimmed the top off). The oval is cut at 4 inches. The rose is cut at 2.5. I inked all the edges with brown ink. The paper is DCWV Mediterranean Cafe. The sentiment is stamped with the same Just Wordz set. If you haven't checked them out, do so. They stamp wonderfully and the words line up spaced perfectly.

Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges Entered:
Wee Memories

Stay crafty.

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Meet Me on Monday #54

Questions:

1.  My favorite kind of animal is _______?


I am by far the biggest dog lover. Do I personally have one at the moment, no. I have a cat, that we just adopted from the shelter about a month ago.

2.  Do you like your handwriting?


Actually, I do. It's a mixed between print and cursive and a little artistic

3.  What is the last movie you saw?


In theater? That would have been Killer Elite

4.  Do you buy things on eBay?


No, I haven't gotten into Ebay


5.  What did you have for lunch yesterday?


I had a Totino's Party Pizza. Sundays are crazy days at my house with chores, errands, etc. So it's usually something quick.


Head on over to Never Growing Old's blog and hook up with others to share a little about yourself.

Cupcakes

So in an attempt to be even more crafty, I decided I would make Miss A's birthday cake out of cupcakes in the shape of a bowling pin and ball. Here's how it turned out. I think I should stick to paper crafting!! LOL