Playing a little catch-up

Oh boy, I have not blogged about everyday life for a while.

I thought that I will show you a few things that I've been up to.

A few finds, a few deals, and a few studio changes.

I'll start with this awesome find...

A whole huge bag full of unmount and cling mounted stamps

(mostly flowers and leaves) for 25¢ at a church sale!

This is only about 1/2 of them. I weeded out the ones I will not use

and I will sell them at a stamp sale in March.

New to me Slice!

After seeing the Slice work at CHA I know I needed one.

I have the Cricut, but NEVER use it.

SO I asked a girlfriend who has one, is she liked it..

and funny, she did not use it (she's a scrapbooker)

and she just bought a Cricut.

Day late dollar short, we could have just traded. We did still end up trading

6 Cricut cartridges for the Slice. I think that was a fair trade.

So now I need to get some more cartridges for the slice.

I hope I will love it!

New bracelet!

Nicole made it for me. I picked out the beads, but she made it.

I LOVE IT!!!

Thanks Nicole

New lunch bag.

I NEED to control what I am eating.

to keep my Fibromyalgia under control.

I am supposed to "snack" all day long to

keep my energy leveled out.

This bag has a thin re-freeze cooler thing,

so I can keep it at my desk all day.

It has room for 4 snack tupperware containers

and room for my sandwich.

We'll see if this will help.

Studio clean up!

Old back wall. See to the right the file cabinets

with huge totes on top of them...

I consolidated the totes and put them and the

file cabinets in the closet. I bought another Expedit shelf

from Ikea and put it on top of the other horizontally.

I also got a few more pink "boxes" for the cubbies.

Putting them horizontally, made it so I have a lot more room

on top for display. I moved my tinsel tree up there, and my old retro

suitcase that I store all of my done cards in.

I also got a new shelf (from Ikea) for all of my stamp sets.

See the tall thin shelf on the left of this picture.

As you know I unmounted all of them and put them in CD cases.

Then I moved my "shoebox" shelves in the corner up against the wall.

Old candy jar for all of my flowers. So colorful and fun!

Sewing machine now right behind me under my window.

Enabler alert!!!

New Cuttlebug folders!

I visited a scrapbooking store that I have not been to since 2006.

Scrapbooks Too, in Bloomington. They had in the new folders,

and THEY BROKE UP THE SETS!!!

Oh my goodness, how smart! Cuttlebug has started

selling the new folders in sets of four, not singly anymore.

It cost a little more, but this way I could buy the ones I want

not the whole set for only the one or two that I want.

5 X 7- Bumble Bees, Art Deco, Pears

5.5 X 4.25- Rays (Tim Holtz) and Mushrooms.

There I go again...

Missing in action! I've been so darn busy.
I finally got my entire garden in over the weekend.
Now, 65 days until I see the fruits of my labor.

There was a great blog hop for Prickley Pear this last week,
thanks to all who played along.

Once a month a group of girls get together to do a craft day.
This month we did a little decoupaging, I did a small
drawer to keep my vintage cards in, and
I cut a shape out of vinyl on my Cricut
and placed it on a vase... they both turned out pretty cool
(I'll try to post some pictures if I remember)

Jon and I had a photography class also on Saturday
it came free with the purchase of our camera. Learned
a few things, now we have to play with the camera
for a month until our next class. So I took a bunch of pictures
and played with all of the settings. Thank goodness
the camera has a "reset to factory" setting button. : )

So tonight while Jon was watching Lost (yuck)
I started another card for Prickley Pear. In June
we have PK Glitz as a sponsor, so you'll be seeing a lot of glitter.
I used the new butterfly stamps and die. I'll show it as soon as it is done.

It is really hot today in MN, 88 degrees out
but the heat index is 93... those are not typical temperatures.
Besides the heat the humidity was H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E!
yuck, you just go from the house to the car and you're all sweaty.
But we love Minnesota.

Well I hope to be back soon with some really cute cards or some project.

Have a great week!