$5 Thursdays

The other day my mother mentioned that she needs a stash of cards and needs to use up her supply of scrapbooking paper. So I am going to have a $5 Thursday every month. You bring the paper(from your stash) you would like to use, adhesive of your choice, paper cutter, and tools(if you like). I will supply blank cards, scrap paper, and the card patterns. You are welcome to use my scrapbooking tools, stamps and stamppads.

My first $5 Thursday will be next week on April 9th. The party will run from 6pm to 9pm, so come when you can.

Look for coming details on my April workshop.

Craft Room

The other day I was cleaning my craft/office room and I happened to read Jullie's blog about how she was painting and organizing her office and her daughters room. I had been thinking about painting my room for awhile now and I took inspiration in her work.

My scrapbooking table was full of scrapbooking supplies, so much that I barely have room to scrapbook. So I gave my husband a big task of making an organizer for all my scrapbooking stuff (to get it off the table where I can access everything without making a mess). And my husband came through to my suprise and I didn't even have to wait one week. I guess it helps that he has nothing better to do.

The white walls have been bugging me since we moved in. So I decided to paint the room. Ty insisted the office had to be green. He read somewhere that the color green influences your thoughts towards money. So I painted it green(a better green than my living room).

Here is the finished project.


Hopefully it will stay this clean and organized.

For Sale!

I have a few extra workshop kits and Butterfly Albums from past workshops . If you are interested in any of them send me an email at simplescraps at yahoo dot com or post a comment.

New Baby Girl Kit -- $15.00 plus shipping
4 12x12 pages(includes 2 baby girl pages, 2 bath time pages)

Butterfly Album -- $30.00 plus shipping

7 availaible

9x9 CTMH Butterfly Album

Album plus 10 premade pages with 5 page protectors

1 more

Slowly but surely I am working on my acrylic album. I burned a little midnight oil last night and finished one more page. And here it is:

Late February Workshop

Here are my cards for my February Workshop. I kind of got behind when my husband was gone and now I am just catching up. Hope you enjoy. All use the That's Amore paper pack, I added some tulip CS to one card. Sorry these are so small, I tried uploading them to photobucket a zillion times because they kept showing up huge. Now that they are small I am going to stick with the ones I have.

Projects Finished

I have finally finished my January project. I had a lot of trouble putting the zipper in because my zipper foot broke. So thanks to my mom for putting it in for me. Here is the finished project.

I have also finished my Febuary project. Just in time too. Kaia's B-day is tomarrow. Few, she will have a birthday present from us.

For my March project I am going to sew a dress for myself. This is part of my more presentable self personal target. Help me choose what pattern I should follow. Which of the following dresses do you like the best?

A- The Black and white one.

B- The black and white.

C- The Burgandy One

Craft it Forward

Craft It Forward Exchange is based on the concept of the movie "Pay it forward".

I will send a hand made gift to the first three people who leave a comment to this post on my blog requesting to join the CIF exchange.

All the gifts will be made and posted out 'sometime within the next year'. How exciting to not know when your surprise package will arrive!

What you need to do in return, is craft it forward by making the same promise on your blog. This exchange is only open to those with active websites or blogs.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS PROMISE TO POST THIS SAME 'CRAFT IT FORWARD' MESSAGE ONTO YOUR BLOG, WHICH MUST BE ACTIVE IN ORDER TO PLAY. YOU WILL CRAFT IT FORWARD TO THREE PEOPLE WHO COMMENT ON YOUR BLOG.

I'd love for you to join me! Will you? Other comments are welcome, but only the first three will be my Craft It Forward recipients.

Come and join me who doesn't love a gift or giving gifts???