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Sassy Susie's got some yummmmy candy for her birthday :)

a Tealight Cake - how cuuute!!

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Tips n Tricks: Working with wood & chipboard letters

Here's an awesome post showing exactly how to cover wood and the same goes for chipboard letters.  I had to figure this out the hard way with my Baby album :)

I must also say that using the finger-xacto knife thingy is sooo much more precise than pre-cutting to the edge of the letter.  If you don't have one yet, this $5 bargain will become your best friend!

I have a cute pic from last night, my table is in place, but shelves will come later this week !

Have a wonnnnderful day!

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My Creating Space/Scrap Room-Part 3.1

Tonight after work, I loaded up my truck and made a trip over to my Dad's to play with his big saw!  I'll have pics tomorrow of the outcome, but here is last night's pic :)  Boyy oh boy...  am I tired!!

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My Creating Space/Scrap Room-Part 3

I was a busy girl this weekend, and so was my little munchkin!  From paint brushes and rollers to hammers and nails - ta daaa!!  ... more to come soon...

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My Creating Space/Scrap Room-Part 2.3

This Magic Box is pretty awesome, I hate to say it, but 

a handy hubby could probably use this idea and make something very useable :)

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My Creating Space/Scrap Room-Part 2.2

Well... I was up until almost midnight last night rearranging (and purging a little) 

to make way for my new scrappin' home!  Yippieee!!!

Here's the view walking down the stairs

Here's the view looking in from the hall.

And then I was off to the store today to buy paint, and was looking for something fresh, yet calming... and was amusingly inspired by Pooh's Favourite Things... that's the name of the colour in one of the Disney paint  idea books I had been using to entertain my little one - she pointed and said "pih'tee Mummy" and I agreed wholeheartedly!

So it was mixed!! 

 Bet'cha' can't guess which colour it was, not fair I know, LOL ;) 

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My Creating Space/Scrap Room-Part 2.1

So to continue where I left off, I realized that the first place that I saw the IKEA Expedit shelves (that I got on a 40% off sale) was on Donna Downey's blog post when she was redoing her old studio.

and.... Ta daaa! This is my first ever video created with my digital camera and my iMac.  It was fun :)  And I certainly realize how cramped I've been when I look at this from this perspective - it's a wonder I get anything done at all!!!



And I had to leave you with another idea that I intend to incorporate, as soon as I can find a set of drawers the right size for my new shelves  - it's a scrap paper holder idea from SJh2oski taken off of YouTube.

And a bit of wisdom...

With time, women gain weight because we accumulate so much information and wisdom in our heads that when there is no more room, it distributes out to the rest of our bodies. So we aren't heavy, we are enormously cultured, educated and happy. Beginning today, when I look at my butt in the mirror I will think, Good grief, look how smart I am!

Must be where the phrase 'Smart A**' came from!

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My Creating Space/Scrap Room-Part 2

FRESH AND NEW!

Thanks Wendy my fellow Canuck for introducing my to Nancy and some of her studio ideas, awesome stuff!  I must say though that by far, Dayami who I accidentally discovered on YouTube was the sweetest person to chat and exchange ideas with and has become my greatest inspiration with her scraproom - but please note, I bought the Expedit bookshelves before I found her .. but she did inspire me to exchange my shelving unit to the white after seeing her room though ;)

I also found this to be very tempting...

There are so many Martha-haters out there,  but you

gotta give it to the woman, she can be seriously ingenious!

Click here for the details.

Today my Dad came to visit, and boy is he awesome!  He brought his drill and muscle today and we took care of some things standing in my way and now I have everything I need to create my very own "for the first time ever" permanent crafting space - woot woot!

So, in celebration of spring cleaning and recreating my new space, I gave my blog a blog lift with a new background that reflects how clean and fresh having my own space will feel... I'm so excited, can you tell? My shelves are white, and my desk top is also white and I chcukle when I think of some stray airbrishing getting on my beloved WHITE desk and I say "WHO CARES" it'll add to the charm because this desk is mine mine mineeeee... yippieee!!!
No more sharing a table, no more being a gypsy scrapper in my own house, YAYYY!!!!

Any suggestions on what shade of blue I should paint the one accent wall?

Stay tuned... for more... probably in a week :)

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Tips and tricks: FREE Fonts and sentiments and quotes

Here's a great post on Free Fonts sites, 

and I don't believe I've introduced you to Bethany 

and her beautiful and inspiring word art yet.

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Welcome Home Grandma

My dear Grandma is moving into a Seniors Residence, you know the type for active Seniors with trips to everywhere from the mall to the theatre and casino... yeah, sounds like a grand ole time - kinda makes me wish I could join her LOL ;) Anyhow, I am hoping she'll settle in and quickly feel like the Foxxy Granny she really is ;)  This was a fun card to make although frustrating to gather all the materials as the entire thing... including the airbrushing and embossing was done sitting in my BED on a breakfast tray - yes, I'm serious!

And yes, this was my first attempt at embossing a sentiment... and in bed to boot - shhhhheeesh, I sure messed that one up - ah welll, too late ;)  It'll give me something even more funny to write to my Foxxy Granny aka The Silver Fox when I write a nice looooong note on the inside :)

Welcome Home Grandma Card
Stamps: Squigglefly: Forgiven , Stampin Up Whimsical Words
Paper: Neenah white cardstock, misc from my stash
Ink: my computer printer, Copic markers:
Accessories: an old brad and dollar store flower with funky rain dots already on it & good old rubber cement glue and glue dots.
Challenges: MojoMonday 133

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Speaking of the fantabulous Chrissy....

Lookie here...

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Tips & Tricks: Colouring darker skin tones

I simply ADORE Chrissy's work, and after watching this video, I think her daughter's a hoot!!



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My Creating Space / Scrap Room - Part 1

I've been looking at moving my Creating Space to another part of the house, away from tempting my adorable little two year old who exasperatingly allllways wants to help Mummy... to somewhere that I can leave what I am working on until I can complete it and most importantly somewhere that I can SEE everything!!!

Since November, I've been secretly lurking on youtube looking at people's scraproom tours for ideas, an then I got an iMac for Christmas, which ended up on my scrappy desk and everything lost perspective, yet again. I needed a change and I needed to *see* my stuff, and packing it all away isn't helping my creative mojo! I hope I can incorporate the computer in my new scrappy space, but I don't mind printing and blogging elsewhere... my creating space loses it's magic when there is a computer, or even a TV to distract me.  I love playing music to suit my mood, with a general goal in mind (or challenge) and then I just see what happens after that ;)

Anywhoo... during our march break I stumbled across a fantastic 40% off deal at IKEA! So, I bought 2 bookcases and some other cool wall-space organizers to hold my Copic markers in easy reach, etc.. I also made a second trip back last night for a wall-mounted CD holder because I keep all my stamps in CD cases and also got a shelf at 60% off from the sold as-is area in the same exact colour as the bookcases I just got.

I wish I'd given you a tour of my scrap space before I cleared it out for our house guests, but I'll have to give you a tour of my bedroom's tucked away storage instead, which in all honesty isn't that far off from how it was in the guest room before the guests arrived, it was more loosely packed, but just as cramped!

Before I captured a corner in our guest room/computer room for scrapping, just had my rolling drawers that I swear I'd always bring to all-night crops and park it at the end of the table next to me on my right - LOL, they thought I was nutz but I had everything I needed and always got *a lot* accomplished, and I could lift it up and down stairs on my own (afterall that is what I was doing at home).

Back 10 + years ago, I had boxes, then rubber maid boxes and then I found plastic drawer storage towers that are 12X15 so hold 12X12 papers nicely with finger room, which soon became TWO and I also got these great 12X12 paper stackers from a scrap store that was going out of business - they were a steal, and they're awesome! And soon I started using an armoire I had to tuck away my QK Revolution and my Silhouette, my mini sewing machine, my box of scraps and all my books, printouts, paper and reference materials. And... then came the scrappin' table... so I could scrap with a buddy. My table is a fold-away table which I also got at 70% off once upon a time ;) Siiigh... that's about 10 years of scrappin in a nutshell, and there is too much inspiration out there for me not to "work it" in a way that inspires me and enables me to create quickly with everything close at hand ;)

 ... below in the armoire... yeah, more wedding crystal

that needs to be packed away and printer ink, etc etc

... and my latest addition, my Baby Blue...
how sad he is not being used (boo hoo)
 - I think I want to add some ears on him,
he reminds me of an obedient little blue puppy
sitting there quietly in anticipation.

Anyway, I have some semi-permanent packing up of never used or opened wedding presents to do before I can capture the lost basement space I plan to call my own Creating Space, and one day when my house grows up (soon I hope), I will take what I have started and expand it.. and unpack the wedding presents LOL.

I got the majority of my Scrap Room inspirations from: Betsy Veldman, Dawn McVey and Mary Fish.

Stay tuned for more... coming slowly but surely :)

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OOOOoooohhhh a freebie - yum yum yum!

Stacey's cuuuuuute card today features a freebie and a copic challenge - awesome!

What GREAT HAIR!

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.•:*¨¨*:•.LUCK DUCKY!! .•:*¨¨*:•.

We have a winner!

Congratulations Leslie! 

You are the official FINAL winner of my Tropical Blog Candy!! As you know, my first winner did not send me her addy so I had to re-launch to find a new lucky ducky and that's YOU!! YIPPPIEEE!!!

Only one catch, with the houseguests just gone, my scrappy stuff was packed away (so sad) so I need to recreate my scrappy space, get my new baby blue plugged in and his gauge set so I can recreate a congratulations card to have YOUR name on it, so give me about a week or so...or so... and I'll have something really PRETTY headed your way ;) I'm still so excited becasue I LOVE what I got in Bonaire for you!  It's been so long, I am dying to create!!

Please email me privately with your snail mail address and just wait till you see what PRETTYness I have for you ;) 


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