Sunday Haul #6

 I grabbed a paper stack from Michael's. It was on sale and I couldn't resist the pretties...

My Steals order finally arrived. There was an inventory issue and they had to issue me a refund for one product. But I got the rest. Most of the Bundle of Joy Boy collection, some cork butterflies, sequins, washi tape, and jewels.

I received three PL swap packages back. These were down for October, but only just arrived back. Crazy stuff! Anywho, I got back my stars, open, and coffee swaps. Love the coffee swaps!

Desktop Thursday #2

Working on finishing up some retreat gifts for next week. Almost done...

Sunday Haul #5

Lots of goodies this week. I had a small trip to Michaels, a surprise RAK, and lots of Stampin' Up deliveries. First up: Michael's. I went to get sticky strip to finish off the modified notebooks, but you know I can't just buy one thing. Value paper packs were on sale so I grabbed two whites and a kraft. From there I remembered to grab some glue dots (getting low). The purple fabric flowers, dollies, and mason jars were all impulse buys.

On Wednesday I received this great RAK or two PL cards and some fun embellishments. They will be making an appearance in my February PL pages.

I had multiple SU deliveries this week due to workshops and customer orders. I even managed to buy a few things. Okay I bought a ton, but I needed to replenish some of my paper and buy things for upcoming classes and special events.

• Sophisticated Serifs Stamp Set
• Little Snshine Stamp Set
• Vivid Vases Stamp
• Personalized Stamp (for business purposes)
• E Block (needed for bigger stamps)
• Something Borrowed Embellishments (for friend's upcoming wedding)
• Wister Wonder Blendibilities
• Old Olive Blendibilities
• Coastal Cabana Blendibilities
• Rich Razzleberry Blendibilities

• Sponge Daubers
• Paper Snips
• Love Who You Are Stamp
• Hey There Buds Stamp
• Crisp Cantaloupe Twine
• Daffodil Delight Blendibilities
• Back to Black DSP
• Painted Blooms DSP
• Something Borrowed DSP

5 on 5

A look at some of the things I'm working on this month...

1. This was my setup for Sunday's Modified Notebooks class. I'm loving that our new dining room has enough space to actually hold classes. I even have room to add our big folding table if I need to.

2. I started my 2015 PL pages. This is the partial title page. I still want to add a nice family picture and some journaling about our upcoming year. I'll post the complete title page and half of the January pages tomorrow.

3. I bought these great Scrabble tiles this week. I've got a few projects ideas floating around on Pinterest. Hopefully you'll see the finished project soon.

4. After initial hesitation, I've decided to complete the OLW February prompt and create a vision board. I had these 8x10 canvases left over from preschool; perfect size for me. While at Target, I grabbed these three magazines to use for the board. 

5. Lastly, I'm finishing up the 10 retreat notebooks for later this month. I just need to add the washi tape and starbursts. Complete projects will be featured later this week.

Sunday Haul #4

A trip to Michael's for adhesive. I ended up grabbing a nice invitation stamp, coffee stamps, Valentine's hearts, ribbon, and washi, and a great "Home" sign.

My Steals order came with another set of Echo Park Through the Year cards and a boy themed kit and paper pad.

While at Marshall's I found some great tissue paper for retreat gifts and stationary.

My Paper Issues swag bag arrived. Full of heart and pink. These items will definitely make appearances for my February PL pages.

I got my January SU club order:

• Girl's Night Out stamp set (Sarah's wedding items)
• Memento Black Ink (for Blendibilities coloring)
• Gold Sequin Trim (just super pretty)

 Yesterday I hit Michael's again for some class supplies (kraft journals and sticky strip), but of course I grabbed more stuff:

• Lots of clearances alphas
• Pearls
• Clearanced purple washi tape
• Clearanced purple flowers
• Bucket of flowers
• Scrabble tiles
• Clearanced Boy kit
• Clearanced PL Dreamy kit

Sunday Haul #3

A lighter week after the crazy holidays haul... I received my awesome Take Ten kit. I really love the colors from this month.

I also grabbed the first Take Ten kit glam bag. Such cute little embellishments!

Desktop Thursday #1

Working on Arthur's PL album this week. I love to use my post-it notes!

Sunday Haul #2

Another big week of acquisitions. Another Amazon package. The page protectors are to be used for my OLW album. The paper stack was on super sale and I couldn't resist.

I hit up the One Spot at Target this week and scored a ton of Valentine's supplies. We are going to have a Valentine's exchange again this year, and of course I will be making ours. These supplies should get me started.

A quick trip to Michael's this week. I needed a  8.5 x 11 album for my OLW stuff, but wasn't willing to spend $20+ for one on Amazon. Thanks goodness Michael's carries some and for only $10. Plus I had a 50% coupon. $5 ain't too shabby. Of course, I had to grab some dollar stamps and clearances washi tape while I was there.

Lastly, I have my large Stampin' Up order. I took advantage of SAB and ordered enough to get hostess dollars and three SAB items.

• All Abloom DSP (weekly deal)
• Brights Collection Cardstock 12x12
• Best Day Ever DSP (SAB)
• Perfect Plum CS
• Subtles Collection Cardstock

• Flower Medallion Punch
• Calypso Coral Pompom Trim
• Dimensionals
• Simply Wonderful Stamp Set (SAB)
• Snuggles and Smooches Stamp Set

• Melon Mambo Blendibilities (SAB)
• Regals, Brights, Subtles, and Neutrals Candy Dots
• Hello Life Stamp Set
• Butterflies Thinlits
• Bitty Banners Framelits
• Bitty Banners Stamp Set
• Petal Potpurri Stamp Set

New Craft Space Tour

We moved houses right before Thanksgiving, but I haven't been there to enjoy it. I came home January 6th and my first priority was to organize my new craft space. This space is actually a hallway between the kitchen and dining room. It is full of kitchen cabinets and drawers. I didn't need the extra storage for kitchen stuff, so we decided this would be the perfect spot for my craft room. After some initial planning, I spent a ton of time (and a fair amount of money) at The Container Store. Putting my supplies just in the cabinets was not going to work. I bought a variety of silver mesh containers for my various products. You'll see those containers throughout the pictures.

The first two pictures are general overview pictures. The first one is is from the dining room, the second one is from the kitchen side.  This is how my space looks when I'm not working on a project. The remaining pictures detail each cabinet, drawer, and work area.

I reserved the left section of my countertop for Project Life. Specifically I left enough room to have the album I'm working on open. This helps me remember what spread I am working on. I still have some real estate to work on stuff. Plus, I can always close the album. Arthur's album and the baby core kit are currently sitting there. Guess what I'm on...

The middle of the countertop holds many of my PL cards and some random accessories. I bought these Sterilite drawers from Target. They are perfect for all my partial PL kits. I even got fancy and labeled them with some post-it notes. On top are my mini kits and a holder for random cards. I also have my Stampin' Up PL sets stacks next to the drawers. You can also see part of the magnetic board that I want to hang on the wall. Obviously I haven't gotten to that yet.

The right hand side of the countertop has a hodge podge of items. I have my Recollections tool caddy (so worth the money!). Next to that is my collection of random bowls. I intend to use those for small embellishments that I want to use. I also have my standing letter holder for notes and such. Behind that I bought four letter trays to hold my current projects. Before I let current projects clutter up my work area. This way I can have my current projects on hand, but not in the way if I'm not actively working on them. On the far right side, I bought a decorative tray from Target (Christmas clearance) to keep things to send, things for classes, or newly acquired products.

And now on to the cabinets and drawers.

The top left cabinet above my open PL album is full of PL accessories and embellishments. The navy bin holds items to scrapbook for the twins.  The pink and blue bins hold embellishments that still need to be sorted out. The cd bin on the right has my PL specific stamps. The bottom cd bins hold small alphas and PL embellishments. I also have two photo cases of tiny embellishments there to sort eventually. The large dvd bin holds large alphas and stickers.

The first drawer is my random office supply drawer. It's a mess I know... but I hardly get in here. And it's a good thing as this drawer is slightly broken.

The next drawer is my overflow office supply drawer. Not that exciting I know.

The bottom left cabinet holds a lot of stuff. I have large office products (pens, notebooks, folders) on the left side. The right top is full of my PL core kits. Those spill over to the right bottom while also including Christmas. All my Christmas paper, stamps, and embellishments are currently in a plastic container. I need to sort through these soon.

Moving to the middle we have a cabinet full of stamps. The green bin holds loose stamps. I need to sort through them but at least they are contained right now. My SU stamp cases are partially contained in an upright dvd bin. I need to pick up another one of those. On the right, I have all my SU ink pads. I don't have a great way to store these right now, but at least they have a cabinet. The small open bin holds my ribbon. While the mini bin holds my washi tape. Not the absolute best storage solution but they will work for right now. At least the washi and ribbon is more visible than it used to be.

The next drawer holds larger tools including masks, small SU notebooks, paper piercing tools, and my paper cutter. This is right below where i usually work so it has easy access.

The next drawer is all about my extra tools. Plus, I have a few small tins containing buttons and flowers.

Directly below I have a cabinet of finished products. Those boxes really need to be sorted, but at least they are together. The right side holds my Big Shot (accessible but out of the way), envelopes, grid paper, baby wipes, and SU business items.

The most far right cabinet is all about paper. My 12x12 is contained in two desktop letter files. I have SU DSP is one and random paper in the other. Five magazine files hold my 8.5 x 11 cardstock. I need to re-color coordinate those soon, but they are basically sorted. I also have a large dvd bin full of 6x6 paper pads and scraps. The orange bin has scraps yet to be sorted and white paper scraps. You'll notice I also have small tag labels on each of my magazine files. Amazingly I had these tags squirreled away and found them in the move.

This drawer holds most of my business supplies. I have business cards, address labels, and plastic sleeves. Randomly I also have my 2014 bucket list I made last summer. I kept this out to show at events.

The last drawer should hold my catalogs. It does, but the drawer also has bookmarks to give away and PL sets to sell. I hope to get these out of here soon. The catalogs are under there I swear.

Finally the bottom right cabinet holds the rest of my supplies. I have a mini bin for my embossing supplies. I have three cd bins for punches, framelits, and embossing folders. The bottom shelf has some random storage (need to decide what to do with these). The right side holds a ton of kid-related craft supplies. Mainly these are things I have bought for our preschool days.

And that is the tour of my new craft area. The dining room table is about five feet away making it perfect for easy access while hosting classes or crops. I need to continue sorting and destashing a bit, but I think it is a workable state. I've already made 9 cards for a swap, another card for a different swap, and finished 5 PL spreads in my new space. It will keep evolving as I use it, but I'm very happy with how everything is turning out.

Sunday Haul #1 -- The Big Holiday One

This is a long one... From Thanksgiving until now, anything I ordered crafty-wise was sent to my house in California. I was in Indiana. This meant a huge pile of packages to open when I got home!  Let's get started and see what I got... Swim trunks for the boy from Steals.com. They were super cheap and I had points to use.

Super cute little bowl from Target (Threshold dipping bowl). I'm starting to collect cute bowls and dishes to keep small embellishments on my craft counter.

Stampin' Up Order #1: From their big sale.

• 2014-2016 In Color Markers
• What's Up Punch
• Sweetheart Punch
• Silver Glimmer Paper
• Sweet Sadie washi tape
• Beach House washi tape

Stampin' Up Order #2: From the Year End Clearance Sale and Occasions Preorder.

• Bermuda Bay Sequin Trim
• Sweet Dreams washi tape
• Stacked with Love washi tape
• Stacked with Love DSP
• Birthday Bash DSP
• This Day Mini PL Card Collection (SAB item)
• Big Day Stamp Set (SAB)
• Balloon Framelits
• Celebrate Today Stamp Set

 Continued:

• Large Rhinestones
• Pretty Print Embossing Folder
• Santa & Co. washi tape
• Seasonal Snapshot PL Card Collection
• Seasonal Snapshot Accessory Pack

New wall decals for Arthur's room. I went with the actual planets this time instead of abstract space design.

Large PL envelopes were a lightning deal on Amazon. Love these for cards and other ephemera.

Through the Year kit and stickers from Steals. Plus seasonal cards. As I'm going monthly for PL, I wanted more seasonal cards to sprinkle throughout.

I took advantage of Freckled Fawn's Black Friday sale to grab a few things. I snatched up the September OHDEERME kit because it was book themed. I also got the Merry Wood Numbers (30 Days of Lists anyone?), Merry Rhinestone Stars, Gold star pouch, and Classic Enamel Drops. Not quite convinced to subscribe to the monthly kit, but I do like their projects.

As my OLW is Home, I wanted to find a couple of home related stamps. I found this cute one from a seller on ebay. I love that I can color each letter different. The seller also had some good washi tape prices, so I grabbed a few rolls.

From a seller on one of my FB groups, I grabbed some newer PL sets. I got 1/2 of Playtime and 1/2 of Lovely, plus the Playful pad and some random enamels.

After traveling a few unintended places, my last Paper Pumpkin kit arrived. I decided that the subscription is not a good value for me. But I have to admit that I really like this kit.

Another steals order. I grabbed this boy stamp set and project kit. Trying to get away from all the baby stuff for Arthur's album going forward.

Even though I bought a small planner for 2015, I couldn't pass up this gorgeous one from A Beautiful Mess. Can't wait to crack it open. With October's craft fair, I ran out of business cards. Time for another Vistaprint order. I changed up my design to this cute chevron pattern. I also bought some notebooks for randomness and threw in some new return address labels.

I got a couple of PL swaps back while away: Movie theme, Leftovers (any random cards), and nontraditional Christmas colors.

Finally I received my Take Ten Kit for December. I love the bright fun colors to this month. I can't wait to incorporate some of these into my 2015 album.