A little behind the rest of the world...

but I just for the first time today used UTEE! (Notice the "K") Now, I have used regular embossing powders for years, and thought I was getting essentially the same effect, but now I know otherwise!!!

Help us all, everything I touch will now be coated! LOL!

Saturday Night Date (Scrapbook Related!)

Yep, that's my dh playing with my pink Heidi Swapp iron Sat night! It was so funny, he called it a Heidi Snapp iron because the W looked like an N! I was working on embelly kit layouts and Tim asked if he could use my little iron to mount some negatives on slide mounts that he had taken with an old camera. It was just the right size for his project and he joined me in my scrapbook room while I worked on my layouts! It was really fun! And then he even fixed me dinner (now, mind you, it was a mini frozen pizza but I can't recall him EVER fixing me dinner because he doesn't cook so I was completely thrilled and all I had to do was come downstairs, sit down and eat!) Elizabeth

Impromptu Contest at SLD

Check out the General Scrapping message board for details!! I challenge you to enter!

Abby

I'm Swimming in Buttons!!!!!

Check out my major find! All these wonderful, vintage, fancy buttons on their original cards! Made a quick stop at a thrift store yesterday expecting to find nothing and look what was waiting for me!!! I couldn't grab them up fast enough and they are so unique! Striped, glittery, beautiful colors and shapes, lots of character! I usually pull them off their cards but I tossed them all into an old enamel refrigerator drawer, put them on my new vintage rolling cart, and am just going to enjoy looking at them for awhile......

Thought I'd also throw up a picture of another old refrigerator drawer I bought yesterday, it's perfect for my old feedsack fabrics! I love these old drawers! Elizabeth

Oh, my.......

I am in heaven. I got exactly what I asked for for my birthday (which was yesterday, btw!) Crocs Athens!!! Aren't they lovely??? Seriously, these are the absolute best thing I have ever put on my feet! My 17-yr old made fun of me, until she tried them on! Now she also owns a pair!! If you haven't tried these bad boys on, run - don't walk - to Dilliards or Dicks or anywhere else that carries them and slip your feet into sheer luxury! Thanks, Jen, for introducing me to them!!

We had to recruit.....

What you see here is Jennifer's hubby, Mike, and Rita's hubby, Chuck (and if you look REALLY close, you can see Rita's son, Noah, peeking over the back of the couch) assembling boxes for kits to ship in! We owe them a HUGE thank you!! We also recruited Holly's daughter, Chelsea, to help assemble kits!

Our goal was to get everything ready to go out the door on Thursday morning - a big goal considering we only had a few hours on Wednesday evening to get it all together. The girls worked feverishly to assemble kits while the guys put together boxes. Then, we put kits into boxes. Chuck printed labels, Holly, Chelsea, Jennifer and Mike applied labels and sealed boxes! It was beautiful........almost fluid-like!

Our mission was a success!

Not all items are pictured

Pattern Papers (1 sheet each):
Junkitz
Stripes
Delight-ful Circles
Salsa Circles
SEI
Babble
Scenic Route
Charlotte Strip 3
North Shore Strip 2
North Shore Strip 3
Sassafras Lass
Polly Anna
Bobby Jean

Ribbon
(1/2 yard each)
Sapphire 3/8”
Lime 3/8”
Flame 1/8”
White 1/8”
Orange 1/8”

Bazzill Cardstock (not pictured)
2 sheets each:
Carrot Cake
Parakeet
1 sheet each:
Espresso/OP
Blackbird
Black Pinked
Brown Scalloped

Maisy Mo Rub-ons:
Frames
Arrows
Hearts
Stars

Other:
White Chalk Marker

Great Finds!

I've been making my way through all the Big Lots lately, they have some great K&Co stuff right now. However, last night I found these cool vinyl letters at the one on Shelbyville Rd. in St. Matthews. 99 cents buys you approx. 184 letters/numbers of the black and red per pkg! Thought I'd try the sparkley numbers and see if they would look cool on a layout! These vinyl letters remind me of the Lil' Davis Architect letters that were totally overpriced retail but thanks to Tuesday Morning I'm stocked for life and at the much more affordable price of $1.99 each!

Elizabeth

I'm Pleased To Report...

No Plano incidents tonight! Mainly because I tried to stay far far away from them while I worked on a Christmas layout! I definitely did not want a repeat of last night's fun (huge sigh).

I am so excited! I've busted out 5 Christmas layouts in the past week! That is more (Christmas layouts) than I've done in years. For some reason, I have a really hard time scrappin' my Christmas pictures but I got a big pile of them out from 2004 and am wading through them. I am pretty pleased with the end results too! Elizabeth