I am seeing spots!

Good morning. I know I have been a spastic blogger at best! I apologize. Today I wanted to share the wall decorations that I did for my space in the basement. I used my cricut, some circle punches and blue and brown vinyl. I love it!!! What do you think? Also how awesome is that 12X12 tile sign that smlbugg made me on the CMB? I love it! I want to hang it up but gotta figure that one out, for now it is on an easel on my desk. I love it! Thanks again hon!



Yes the polka dots only go so high up the wall, it was as high as I could reach LOL!

Scrappy supplies to the rescue!

So C is MAJORLY into Dora the Explorer right now. She is all about it! Well she wanted a backpack and a map just like Dora (those things are expensive by the way). So since I know that her phases are shorter than her attention span sometimes I made her one with things we already had. Her Papaw bought her this little back pack last year and it is the perfect size. So with some scor tape I adhered huge googly eyes, and a red pipe cleaner for a map-VOILA instant backpack that has not come off all morning long! Then she requested a map, so a scrap of white card stock, more googly eyes and a piece of the pipe cleaner, some scrap ribbon and there you go. One very happy girl. Yay for a big stash. What have you made with your scrappy supplies to help out around the house?

The basement is complete! Pic heavy!

The basement is done! YAY! I am sure I wil do some rearranging as we start living in here but the basic set up is done. I need to LABEL everything and sort/organize my stamps but besides that I am done! YAY! It is not magazine worthy but it works for us and we each have our own designated area and lots of space for C to run in the middle YAY! Plus having a bathroom with a SINK down here ROCKS!! Having a potty for C is great too LOL! Here are some pictures, hope you like it there is a lot of sweat, a few tears and even some blood in this room!

The view when you come down the stairs and turn right. This is C's play/school/craft area.

Her little desk and chair (J made them both) with her Teflon Owl placement and lazy Susan art thing.Her rolling toys, kitchen, dress up station, and foot locker of other toys

School corner, re purposed all my old storage to house her school/craft/art stuff. I LOVE her mat! My great friend got it for us at the last MOMS consignment sale since we were not here. YAY!

Full view of my space from C's space

View from the back door and to the right

My punch storage (need two more rails to put baskets on)

My black-brown Expedit (16) with attached desk. The fabric white ones are not all full and they are the Drona (4.99 each) in case you want to get some! They ROCK and hold SO much!

The back side. The paper cabinet J made me only has about four shelves of card stock in it as I decided to go vertical with all my pattern paper. The little one on top of that has some half or less stacks that I will go through eventually.

My homemade clip it up. I cleared out two four drawer jetmax with this thing! YAY! AND only the bottom is full, the middle is about 1/3 and the top is empty!

My four matching shelves IN STUDS! My wraparound counter tops supported by 2X4 on my jetmax (which are mostly empty right now!)

Hubby's spot. This will change as he builds his custom desk and we rearrange as needed.

View from my desk to the left, loving the mini fridge too!

Amazing sign that my Soldier made for me years ago. Sorry blurry, couldn't get it to focus!

Our undecorated bathroom. I just love the sink being here, so much easier for clean up!

So there you have it. What do you think? I have to say I am pretty darn proud of J and I. He laid the floor, did the quarter round; hung everything and hauled the boxes downstairs. I did the rest and he seems to like it! C loves it and I can't wait to create in my new space. Next up and final is the garage/attic. Then time to alter some pieces to put on the walls! YAY!

Did you miss me?

Did you miss me? Well I am still buried in boxes BUT we made great progress this weekend with the inlaws here. The first floor is done; the basement floor has been laid/installed/quarteround; C's room is painted and almost done; everything in the garage; all new linens and a few new decorations were bought (for Christmas for us!); and the pantry is stocked. Next is getting the basement (craft area, play area and office) set up. Then I will work on the master bedroom (needs painting) and the guest bath/room. I am so happy! So here are a few pictures....hope to be crafting again SOON! I NEED IT! LOL!

Laying basement floor, piece by piece in a RANDOM pattern (I am SO NOT a random person!)

Preparing to paint C's room with her help!

First strokes

Such a big girl!

Helping Mommy.

C finding fun things to do!

Helping Mawmaw spray paint things for her room (her diamond hooks)

Big girls and little girls both love power tools!

I did not get any pictures of us painting the living room wall, we only painted on, well I should be honest and say that my wonderful MIL painted it. I will get a picture up of the living room when it is all done!

Ladybug Cutie and a recommendation

Anyone that knows me knows that I am not all that into Halloween. Now my Dad on the other hand LIVES for it! We were always the house full of scary/gory decorations and Dad loves thinking of different ways to scare the older kiddos. He sets up graveyards and everything. Anyway, this was C's costume last year. I just loved it. We had it bought as soon as Halloween came out in the stores and she insisted on carrying her Minnie Mouse purse with it, at least they color coordinated! This layout sketch is from Let's Scrap. I did not follow it exactly since I only had four pictures but I think you can tell where the inspiration came from. As you know I don't have many of my supplies with me so I had to resort to clip art from the Internet for the lady bug. Added some white dots, faux stitching and there you go.

Now I am a self expressed lover of Signo White Gel pens, but my LSS raised the price again right before we left to almost four bucks a pop. Well while in Target I happened to see these white pens hanging on an end cap and the price was right to try TWO for 2.99! (this is a picture of the single one, the one I purchased was a double pack) I have to say I LIKE THEM! I used them on this layout and they write just as smoothly as the Signos and I did not have any of the skipping like I have had with other brands. So there is my enabler alert for the week!

As you know we built a home, well as you are reading this we are IN IT! We closed yesterday (if all went well) and spent the FIRST night in our new house. Today is delivery of appliances, getting flooring picked up, and FIOS installed. I hope to be back to blogging in a week! Wish us luck!

Sticker Queen

Aren't these papers so bright and fun??? Thank you JulieClawser for sending them to me! She blessed me a few months back with Echo Park Country Drive for the happy mailbox on the CMB. I love these papers and they were just perfect for the silly pics of C with stickers all over her! I know I used a sketch from somewhere but not sure where, so if you recognize it please let me know so I can give credit. How do you like the little "x" faux stitching? Too much? Not enough? I love word stickers right now and was so happy to see that this collection came with so many! YAY! Added a little faux stitching to a few; pop dotted the bee; a bling swirl and there you go! What do you think?

Crafts and Chicken fun

This is the single layout I did with a few more pictures from that fun day. I sure hope C does not grow out of this tradition too soon as I love it. I like seeing her smile and play and figure things out. The weather is usually great, the scenery is amazing and they have demonstrations for woodworking etc that I find rather interesting. I hope we at least have six or seven more years of this before I am dragging her there :)!

Kinderfarm Harvest Days

We love fall! Seriously it is the best time of year for us, we do so many more activities in the fall. I love the colors the Earth is during this time and the weather is just perfect for my tastes. I try to pack something into every weekend (sometimes three things!). Last year we started a new tradition for our little family and that was attending the free Kinderfarm Harvest Days activities. It is one day of pure free (mostly) fun out in a beautiful park. C loves the park on normal days so add in face painting, petting zoos, pumpkins, rides, crafts, and games and she is in heaven overload. Here is my first layout about this new family tradition. It is almost my second assignment for Allison Davis' Sketch Support class this week. I tried, really I did, to go off the exact sketch but it is not exactly like the one she gave us to work with. Oops, I am think I am stuck using them as suggestion instead of direction which makes sense if you know me since I am not so great at taking orders :).

Port Discovery continued

Good morning! Yesterday I shared my two page layout using stamping for CKCB Challenge three. Here is the other two page set from that day. I used the same sketch but they do look rather different. I also carried the colors over but switched up the sizes of photos and embellishments. What do you think?

CKCB Challenge THREE: Stamp an embellishment

Hey there! Today I am here to share a layout based on Allison Davis two page sketch HERE. I stamped quite a bit on these layouts. I stamped the journal box, and the date circle on the left page. The right page each of the squares have stamped sayings, brackets, circles with hearts, and scallop circles that I used to mount my tiny embellishment clusters on. The sketch originally called for 9 pictures but I was able to get 11 on here and I don't think it looks too busy! So what have you stamped lately!?