Cabin Creations

Hello Friends!  How have you been this past week?  It sure seemed like it was taking forever for the week to pass.  Probably because the previous week I had only worked three days.  Yes, I spent some time scrappin in the cabin.  If you have seen my previous post, I won a stay at Cedaroma Lodge in St. Germain, WI.  I was so thrilled to see a new area of Wisconsin and be able to spend time creating with my friend Dawn.  What a wonderful cabin we had and all the amenities from comfortable beds to plush towels and not only did the kitchen come complete with dishes and pans it also had all sorts of glasses from regular to wine.  If you need to getaway I'd recommend Cedaroma Lodge, this month and next are a great choice for those wanting to hobby/scrap/create... the snow will be melting and there are some great deals like 3rd night is free.  Check it out!

I mentioned that I would post my creations that I made during my stay at Cedaroma, so here they are.

The first thing I created.  I found this Sizzix EF at Hobby Lobby

I finally did a layout with our family - photo taken last March '12

Window card came together pretty quickly

I think I bought this paper 3-4 yrs ago at
Crafts 2000 in Monroe, MI

My grandma Alice with Mitchell 22 yrs ago or so

Once I got the letters cut out this came together quickly
My nephews with my oldest Mitch

This is the same visit with my nephews -
another March ('92) that was nice - meaning no snow

I am hoping to spend some time creating today.  Mitch has lucked out and scored a ticket from a theater friend to see Spamalot in Minneapolis.  He is also stopping with the friends at a diner/hamburger joint that makes hamburgers with a spin on the performance that is going on.  It'll be interesting to see what the hamburger will be named as well as ingredients. Yeah, I'm just at little envious, but so happy for him!  

Thanks for taking time out of your day to come visit and see what I've been up to!  Hope your weekend is fabulous.

Cedaroma Lodge

Well hello there friends!  I know it's been awhile since I've posted.  I did start a post a week or so ago, I wanted to let you know about my winning a week's stay at cabin here in Wisconsin.  I liked Discover Wisconsin on Facebook awhile ago. I entered to win their giveaways every so often but have never thought much about it.  Isn't that how it usually goes?  Well sometime around Christmas or shortly thereafter a friend commented on Facebook something to the effect of how did it feel to win?  I was puzzled and typed huh?  She typed you didn't know you won a week's stay at Cedaroma Lodge in St Germain, WI?  I typed no...of course I was in the process of checking it out for myself.  Sure enough!  It was there on the Discover Wisconsin page and the Cedaroma Facebook page and then I got the email confirming it. I was on the quest of who to take with me.  I thought of my sons first, we all need a break.  Then a dear friend mentioned that it would probably be more fun to do a girl's getaway. So I contacted friends and family who I thought needed a break.  I thought it would be fun to craft/scrapbook/make cards together.  So many couldn't get away for a whole week.  Which I was beginning to doubt myself as I'm a temp worker with no benefits.  I emailed Lynn the owner of Cedaroma Lodge and asked if I took part of the week and would it be okay to gift the rest of the week? She gave me the okay.  Well finding someone to take the rest of the week was just as difficult.  I did find one friend that was able to go with.  She works with Mitchell at Goodwill and we've been scrap booking together for over a year now.  She is one of the nicest people I've met since moving to this area.  She is always positive and kind just what I've needed after all the ups and lots of downs I've been through.

We decided to go over this past weekend.  My birthday was on Monday the 4th, and I thought it would be fun to just be able to relax, scrap and of course eat!  We had wine and other liquor with us, but only drank the wine. Our first night there it was minus 10 degrees F. We did turn on the gas fireplace to warm up our toesies.  Sooo cold that Dawn's van did not start the next day. Thankfully, she is a member of Triple A.  We got some good scrappin' in   Sunday and Monday morning. We packed up and left on Monday,  a day early because of an impending snowstorm.  Neither one of us wanted to drive in that.

I must say that you really should give Cedaroma Lodge a visit! Whether you're a winter sports fan, a fisherman or like Dawn and I enjoy the indoors while crafty our little hearts out. Believe me, if it were warmer weather Dawn and I would've done more outdoor things. We both enjoy fishing, hiking and nature photography. 

Lynn the owner, is such a nice person always responding to my emails and coming up to the cabin to meet us.  Another great tidbit, she is allowing me to come back next month to finish off my stay since I was not able to take a week all at one time! How cool is that?  Here are some photos of the cabin and how we set up our scrapbooking stash.  Now believe me Dawn has all her scrapbooking stash in her van, so my stuff is about 1/4 of this stash here. Grins.

Scrap goodies

How we finally set up since the light was best here

Dawn scrappin' away

Morning view from our cabin's porch

Cabin number 5, our cabin

Our cabin from the parking spot

I had to include a photo of the fireplace going

I also want to tell you that March and April are perfect times to go to Cedaroma lodge to craft your little heart out, whatever your hobby may be. Right now they're having a promotion, the 3rd night is free. The promotion runs until May 2, 2013. The beds are super comfy and the towels very plush.  If you're like me and like a good hot shower with the water full blast, you'll get  one here!  So often you stay somewhere and the water is so light and just drips out of the shower head. 
That's it for now, I'll put up another post showing you the things I did accomplish while scrappin' in the cabin. Have a great weekend!

Sweet or Savory?

I can't believe Valentine's Day is just over a week away!  Where does the time go?  I mentioned before that I've made some scrappin' friends. We really enjoy getting together when we can. I also love that Mitch goes to crops too.  One Friday he and Dawn went just the two of them.   

 I'm thrilled to be holding my first ever Altered Frap set class on Saturday Feb. 11 at 1pm at Picture This.  I have made two samples and will let them choose which one they want to make.  My creative and clever son Mitch came up with Sweet or Savory as our way to promote the class.  The choices are to make a Valentine's Gift Set or a Picnic Storage set.  I think the picnic storage one is winning out from the ones I've talked to.  

 I filled the Valentine frap bottles with foot soak salts, chocolate and hot cocoa mix.  It's up to your imagination what you can put in the bottles and of course make these gift sets for. Dawn and Mitch are always coming up with new ideas. 

I've been pretty creative lately. On Friday Mitch and Dawn had the day off (they work together) so Mitch went over to her house to see about viruses on her computer and then later we met at Picture This to do some card-making and scrappin'.  I made three whole cards in the time that we were there...but it's just nice to  be able to talk, laugh and relax a bit. Being creative always improves my mood. I will show you the cards I made and Mitch's scrapbook pages.

Love this Unity stamp and the embossing folder

Dawn let me use some of her punches and I punched a lot of paper.   All of a sudden this card came together. Another great Unity Stamp.

I thought it would be great to make a card to go with the Valentine's Gift Set.

Mitch is doing fashion layouts. I think he wants to show his great fashion sense.

 

Well that's it for now. I don't want to overwhelm you with all I've been creating lately.  My neglected blog needs more posts then, don't you think?  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Happy New Year!

So it's almost two weeks into the new year and I'm finally wishing everyone a Happy and Healthy 2012!!  After the past couple of years I'm ready for an awesome year.  As you might have noticed by the time of day this is posted I've been having bouts of insomnia.  This is one time when being unemployed is good - taking a nap later if I can squeeze it in.  A few weeks ago my netbook decided she'd served her purpose for long enough - just over two years.  Hoping that tax refund time is good to me. Very thankful for Mitch sharing his laptop with me.

I guess I should show you a couple of things I did for Christmas.  I won't post anymore altered journals for the moment, unless you ask.  I did a couple with a coaster sticky notes holder and coaster notebook. I called them a kitchen set as the journal was done so the recipient could add recipes.  Also Curt inspired me to do a mini book for my parents as they lost one of their labs (black lab) last year. Sadie was such a good dog.  Scared of thunder and lightning though, she once crawled in bed with me when it was storming.  I was going to do my first paper bag album, but when I found this mini flip book that I made about three years ago, I thought that might be a better choice.  I found the MAMBI doggie stickers at M's.  

Last year our calendar was a weekly tear off calendar with dog quotes.  I used a few of the quotes on some of the pages. I created some journal spots so my parents could add any of their thoughts or memories.  My mom called and thanked me for the pictures.  


Here is a card I made.  Actually made a couple of these in different colors but only got a photo of this one which was my first one.  Dawn allowed me to open her Spellbinders Poinsettia Shapeabilities at the last crop we went to in Dec. I sat and cut out 6-8 of these in red, grey lavender color and this pink.  I really love the Memory Box paper that I used.  I wish I would've bought more than one sheet of this.  I used a sakura glitter pen to add a little glitz to the petals.  

Well that's it for now. I suppose I should try and get some sleep.  I hope to be a bit better at blogging this year. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Scrappin' & New Friends

Welcome Welcome!  How was your weekend?  Did you get a chance to create?  I finally did!  One of Mitch's coworkers is around my age and has been telling me about a scrapbook store she goes to.  She couldn't go to see Mitch in Footloose the same night as we did because she was scrappin' at the store.  I told Mitch to remind her to let me know the next time they were going to crop.  So she mentioned this past Friday, but there was a cost, so I said I'd have to see.  Then she let Mitch know that Sat was a free time to crop.  So I decided it's time I get out and meet some more people.  I'm always a bit reserved or shy at first meetings, even though I've talked to Dawn before, I still can have a difficult time.  Any friends reading this would laugh at that statement, but here is the perfect explanation.

It turned out pretty well.  Mitch decided to come along more to chat and be our entertainment.  I think if he goes next time he'll bring his laptop!  Dawn lives in Altoona too and picks up/brings home Mitch when their schedules mesh.  I met Dawn's sister only to find out Noah spent a lot of time at her place hanging out with her daughter Leah!  Now, you think it's a small world, right?  Well after Dawn mentioning that her maiden name was Sessions I asked if she was related to my uncles by marriage.  She talked to her dad and apparently they are like 3rd or 4th cousins to them.  So the world just got smaller.  Well I suppose you'd like to see what I did?  I finished up the inside of a comp book - a gift for Dawn, made three cards and repaired a title of a scrapbook page that the letters were falling off of.  So here are the cards.

For this one I used kraft paper as the base then added the orange cardstock scrap, Crate paper Carnival pp, scrap of turquoise scrap paper and Fiskar's stamp.

For this card I again used kraft paper, BoBunny pp, a LYB chipboard snowflake and a pigment ink with an Imaginesce clear stamp.

Here is my last card. I used Nestabilities Mega Curved Rectangle to create the purse/bag body.  The ribbon I found at Michael's for $1.  The pearl beads I won in a giveaway.  The stamp is Unity.

 We had a lot of fun chatting and getting to know each other.  I can't wait until I can go again with these gals!  Although packing for it is the hardest thing for me. I know I should be able to get it together and create kits for the photos I want to scrap.

Since I was on a roll with my mojo yesterday I created a scrapbook layout too.  It took me the better part of the afternoon, evening and even a little bit more time this am.  After much thought and playing around with cardstock and design ideas this is what I came up with. I did add the chipboard elements and puffy letters this morning. The backgrounds is Scrapworks which I got at a LSS's rummage sale back in the Spring.  The scalloped circle is Making Memories. The plain brown cardstock is Bazzill I think. A paper doily, Kaisercraft rhinestones, FX ribbon, American Crafts Chipboard accents and Making Memories puffy alpha round out the rest of the layout. This is me 50 yrs ago this month and my parents who look like kids themselves. 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful week.