A BIG Thanks!

This thank you is a bit overdue. I won the Grand prize on the KLSNS Blog hop and received my goodies in the mail on Friday last week. Here is a picture of all the wonderful loot!

I just wanted to Thank Kelly and her DT for the blog hop and all the wonderful goodies I received. Kelly has an online store, so stop on over and see what she has. If you like Magnolia stamps I know they're up to 35% off selected Magnolias right now.

I also wanted to show you a card I made with the Flower Dragon stamp I won from KLSNS July Challenge over on Paper Craft Planet. Also the printed paper is Basic Grey's Lime Rickey that Kelly snuck in with the stamp. I should also thank Carolyn for talking me into joining PCP and the KLSNS Girls Group on PCP. So why don't you join too? It's fun to challenge yourself and always fun to win!


I just want to show you one more thing that I've made. Well not really made, but put together for a storage solution. The solution was for storing nestabilities (nesties to all of us papercrafters). I had been storing them in a 4x6 photo album. It was a good choice until I bought the scalloped sqaures that didn't fit. I was blog hopping and came across a blog where the blogger had made her own storage using her bind it all. She made a book with magnetic tape. I thought it was a pretty good idea. Then I came across another blog where the blogger used a small binder from Provocraft I think. I could be totally wrong, I thought I might have bookmarked the blog - but I didn't see it. Anyway she used magnetic sheets and attached them to chipboard to store her nesties. So I thought a day planner binder would work. I looked around the stores (since it's back to school time) and just thought spending $20+ was too much for this unemployed papercrafter. Then it occured to me to see if anyone on Freecycle had one. I posted a wanted and lucked out with this wonderful zippered binder! I actually got two the other one is smaller and I just may find a use for that one as well. I dug out some chipboard and cut it to 6"x8" I used one of the plastic pouches that came with the planner for the binder holes and punched those with my Crop a Dile. I found magnetic sheets at Michael's and of course used my coupon. I cut the magnetic sheets in 1/2 (8 1/2x 11) and trimmed off 1/2 inch and then glued them to the chipboard. I used Scotch 3M Tacky glue. I wanted the exact name and size of the nesties to be included and used the 1/2 piece of magnet sheet, glued it to the name. It didn't exactly stay in place so I taped down the name to the magnetic sheet. Here are photos:


All for under $4!!! Gotta love it. Well time for me to get busy. I started back to school this week and have algebra, eng comp, language of medicine and medical sociology. Two of my classes are online and two are on campus. Tonight is my first class on campus and it's language of medicine. The pork loin roast is in the crockpot making BBQ Pulled Pork, found the recipe here. She left the blog up - this is what she did last year. She does have a book coming out in October I think. Check it out!

Have a great Wednesday!

Halloween and Creative Storage

Okay I think I will add the photos after. I just lost the blog I was typing! I found a cool way to store stickles while browsing on scrapbook.com. I posted it to the Yahoo group I belong to. Then another member posted another way to store stickles. This way is more portable and it's what I ended up copying. At first I thought it would be better to get the stuff off my desk, but the portability factor won out. I couldn't find a large acrylic photo frame (holder). I tried the dollar store and JoAnn Fabrics, since it was nearly 7pm already and the streets roll up pretty early compared to Milwaukee on a Saturday night. I stuck with what I found at JoAnn's. They had their frames on sale for 50% off. I found 7x5 frames and thought those should work for two rows. The first one I put the first row of velcro about 3/4" from the top. So only the DB sugar coating fit on the bottom row. The other frame I put it up at about 3/8" from the top and was able to fit more stickles below. These will work until I find a 11x14" acrylic frame on sale or at a garage sale.

















Here are some pix of Halloween. Noah and his
friends getting their scary faces on to go scare people. No, they're not going trick or treating. Hmmm how come Noah had some candy today huh?


Tim and Ian handing out candy.











A pic of the Halloween banner/garland and a photo of the 1/2 eaten pumpkin.




Yes, the squirrel did not give up! Once this week I went to check mail and peeked out the window on the front door. There he/she was with mitts full of seeds stuffing their little mouth full! I said you little monster and off he/she scampered!

Have a great weekend everyone!