Art Abandonment

I've been following Suze Weinberg for quite a few years now. If you're a scrapbooker or mixed media artist you probably know of her.  I really admire quite a bit about her, she does make some awesome jewelry as well as a few other mixed media items.  She often does Art Abandonment usually as part of her tip after a meal. Recently she was in Russia for trip and did an Art Abandonment there too. I saw a comment on her post stating that they joined the Art Abandonment group on Facebook.  So I looked it up and then asked to join the group.  Once I did and read some of the posts, I realized how global of a movement Art abandonment is.  Also, it's great to read some of the posts when someone responds to finding the art.  Often times, it comes at a time when the finder needs a "lift" of their spirit. 

Today, I did my first art abandonment. After I dropped Mitch off at work, I left an item in Eau Claire and another item in Altoona.  It was a little harder to leave the one anonymously in Altoona, as I was on a "busy" street.  Yeah even small Altoona has a busy street. It was kind of exhilarating for me.  It also got me to thinking of what else I could do and abandon.  

Here is what I abandoned today:

Close up of them at home

Left on a bench in Altoona

Left near a picnic table in Eau Claire

I decorated some Crystal Light containers for use as storage.  I even put some plastic forks in one container, so they could use them for picnics if they so choose.  I left an altered notebook in Altoona. Hopefully these items brighten someone's day.  :)

Have a great week!  Thanks for stopping by.

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!

Busy Beauties Boutique New Release Blog Hop

Welcome & THANK YOU for joining the Busy Beauties today! If you are arriving here from Heather's blog, you are hopping right along. To start at the beginning, please visit Carolyn’s blog.

Today is my birthday and I've always been about the card, yes I do enjoy gifts, but I always loved getting birthday cards. I love(d) that the person took time to find just the right card to send/give to me often adding their own note(s). Maybe that is part of the reason I enjoy making cards so much. I truly love the new images that Carolyn and Thomas have created and want to showcase a couple of them. So without further adieu here are my creations:

On this card I used the Tailz and Finz digi stamp image.

A quick clean and simple card. I just love fish, I'm not really into horoscopes, yet this Pisces chibi is adorable! Purple and green are my favorite colors and this card came together rather easily. The card idea is from my current issue of Papercrafts magazine.

Here is my card using the Shamrock'd Beauty. Isn't she just too cute?

We are super excited to introduce a new set of images (available for purchase on Saturday, March 6) and also share some news! Coming Soon...The BUSY BEAUTIES BLOG! We are hoping to have all the kinks worked out and launch the blog next month, but we just couldn’t contain our excitement and want to get our feet wet now with OUR FIRST EVER BUSY BEAUTIES CHALLENGE! Our theme is “GO GREEN!” and the challenge is to use GREEN as the predominate color on your card/project. TheWEDNESDAY, MARCH 17^TH (St. Patrick’s Day)! challenge is open from now through BBB images are of course encouraged & preferred, but not required for this one. Since our official blog is not yet ready, Catherine will be hosting the challenge on her blog, where you can find all the nitty-gritty details and link your creations. (She's the last stop of the hop, so just keep bopping along.) And since this is our premier challenge, there is a tangible prize package for the winner:

The PRIZE includes: Basic Grey Origins 6x6 pad; 4 yards of American Crafts satin ribbon, 1 yard of May Arts striped twill ribbon, 1 jar of Shimmerz.

As always, we also have HOP PRIZES! There will be winners chosen from the comments left on, certain DT blogs, but it's a secret which blogs we'll draw from! The prize for these winners is their choice of 3 Free BBB Images! There will also be a GRAND PRIZE of 5 Free BBB Images (winner's choice) drawn from the hoppers who leave comments on *all* the DT blogs. So be sure to leave some love all along the way! Blog Hop Winners will be announced Friday night on Carolyn's blog.

Your next stop is Rachel's blog!

Enjoy the hop and we can't wait to see your GO GREEN Challenge creations!

Think of me while I'm taking a mid-term today and then I'll be celebrating my birthday with a massage and hopefully going out for frozen custard at Culver's in Taylor, MI. We'll see how that all plays out.