The Mess

Since confession is supposed to be a good thing, here are two photos of the dining room and study that my "stamping stuff" has over taken. My husband refers to this as "THE MESS"! I'm afraid he's right.

Posting again

OK - I've been gone for way too long. What can I say except life got in the way?

The last few weeks have been busy and harried.

The worst of it was that my husband had an appendectomy on June 4th. He was supposed to go to Mexico that morning, decided he didn't feel good, had to go to the doctor and ended up in the OR all between 6:00AM and 10:00 PM. It was perforated (not quite burst) and he ended up in the hospital for four days. He's been home ever since.

Now he's back to work tomorrow, but the kids are home from school now for the summer. Friday was their last day. We start swimming lessons for six weeks after the Fourth. So that and library clubs will break up the time. They don't know it yet but they are going to have a daily schedule that will keep them on their toes. Little bit of cleaning to help the household run smoothly, little bit of academic related work to keep them sharp, and then a little bit of play to round out the day.

The best of the last few weeks was the weekend of June 1st. the Creating Keepsakes Convention - Buffalo was in town and so the LSS where I work was kept hopping. We had a terrific class by Cari Fennell on Thursday night. It was so much fun, and she and her friend Shari were a blast. I managed two hours at the convention in between my store hours - but that was enough. Any more time and i would have been in serious trouble. I made it to Technique Tuesday and got my word collections that I have been dying to have, so, I feel much better.

I managed to find Papertrey Ink, and Scrap in Style TV.com in the middle of all this and now I'm addicted. http://www.papertreyink.com/index.html and http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/.

Sorry - I don't have the renaming the links down yet.

The major big goal for this summer is to finish my studio. I've taken pictures of how my stuff is currently. The plan was to post pictures of the "Now" becuase a) it's really bad, b) to demonstrate how far I will have come, and c) to hold my self accountable to getting the studio finished. Turns out the problem with this is that if I never post the pictures, no one will know how bad it is and I can keep putting it off. This is stupid because I can't wait to have my studio up and finished. So I will go find those photos; they may still be trapped in the camera.

I will also post photos of my work - I did some really fabulous cards for Demo Day today. I was demoing the Zutter Bind-it-All, and Judi-kins Micro Glaze. The Micro-Glaze is a dream product. I love it and my cards. The cards are still at the store, but I've got more, so we will see what I can find to post. the two cards that I've posted use Ranger Alcohol inks. The top card is cut using Sizzix, and the stamp on the bottom card is a Tim Holtz stamp.