Here is a new 6 x 6 chipboard album that I just completed.  The paper is the "Kitch" line by The Girls Paperie. I used many different embellishments such as Prima rhinestone flourishes, Prima flowers, handmade flowers, flowers by I Am Roses, buttons, journaling tags, ribbon, lace, decorated stick pins, Tim Holtz tickets, metal pin, and plastic charm, miscellaneous metal embellishments,clock face by The Paper Studio, a mini resin frame by Melissa Frances, 7 Gypsies metal page turn, pearl sticker strand by Recollections, assorted chipboard pieces, and paper doilies. The pages and the photo mattes have been ink distressed. Some of the photo mattes have also been dry embossed. I hope you enjoy viewing this mini album. Thanks for stopping by!

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New posting

Well I just finished up a new chipboard book. I will be taking pictures tomorrow when I can get some better lighting. I will post pictures here, Facebook, and will list it on eBay. I will also be listing some Copic markers that I have duplicates of. So keep an eye out. =)

Missing....

I just wanted to say that I am still around. I have been MIA for a while now. I have been trying to clean out the scrapbook room so that I can have a scrapbook garage sale. I didn't realize how much stuff I have until started rearranging the room a bit. I could have my own store back there. LOL.

I have also been a bit under the weather. I went to the doctor for a regular check-up and they suggested I get a pneumonia shot since I have Lupus. I didn't think anything of it and agreed to get the shot. Well, that turned out to be a bad idea. By that evening I was in so much pain. I couldn't move my arm and was running a 102.6 fever. So the next morning I called my doctor and she wanted me to come back in. That afternoon I went to see my doctor after being sick all morning long. She told me I had cellulitis (a bacterial infection under the skin). She said of the seven years that she had been at that clinic that she had only seen this happen twice and I was the second one. Yay me, lol. So she drew a line around the large red, swollen area on my arm, started me on some antibiotics, told me I should start feeling better after about six hours and if the redness or swelling goes outside of the line to go to the emergency room. Well as my luck would have it, about a day later the redness had spread outside of the line and a new spot was forming underneath the original spot. So, off to the ER I went. They looked at it and said that it had definitely spread and put me on i.v. antibiotics immediately and sent me home with a second antibiotic to take in addition to the one I was already taking. That was two days ago. Today I can move my arm a bit better and it doesn't hurt so much to lay down now, but it is still a bit swollen and sore. Thanks again immune system for being so messed up. Who knew this could happen from a shot that was supposed to help you. It's just my luck. I hope to continue to get better daily cuz for now the cleaning and rearranging of the scrap room is on hold. Thanks everyone for stopping by and I hope to be back in full swing in the next few days.

Mini Album Sold on eBay

I thought I would share some images of this mini chipboard album that I recently created. It sold on eBay, but I wanted to share it so my followers can get an idea of they types of items that I create since I'm such a new blogger. In the future, I will be posting the items on my blog at the same time I post them for sale on eBay. I am also thinking about having items listed here on my blog that don't sell in on eBay. So, keep an eye out for those items.

Here is the second card that I've made. I used Echo Park Paper on this card and colored the stamp with Copic Markers. I accented the image with matching Spica pens. There are two matching Prima flowers with a saying the middle of the flowers on pop dots.

This is the first card that I have made. I saw an easel card online and thought I would give it a shot. I found this stamp at Hobby Lobby a few weeks back when they had their stamps on sale for half off. I have been purchasing Copics because I saw that many stampers use them. I am no where near as good at coloring with them as many stampers, but I hope to slowly improve my coloring abilities. I hope to be able to find some online tutorials that may help. I used Echo Park paper and one of the square paper doilies that I found online. I hope you all enjoy this card as much as I do. I am very proud of my first card.

This is a small vintage drawer that I found at a local antique store. I then found the mini vintage fan and perfume bottle and knew I had to make a little something with all of my new finds.

I put paper on the bottom (back) of the drawer. I put a little distressing ink on the fan and then glued it to the back of the drawer. I added a Tim Holtz hanger, a watch face by Paper Studio, and a metal flower embelishment. I tied a small ribbon bow on the vintage bottle and added it to the drawer as well. I added a paper flower to the inside of the drawer.

On the outside of the drawer I added a paper doily that I added some distressing ink to, a matching paper flower, and some pearl flourishes. I think it turned out so pretty. It's the perfect size for a desk or side table. Maybe even a mantle. Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by and I hope you like my creation.

  

New eBay listings...

I have added a few new items on eBay. Please go check them out.

Chipboard album
Stick Pins #1
Stick Pins #2
Stick Pins #3
Stick Pins #4
Stick Pins #5
Patriotic Altered Wall Art
Altered Love Wall Hanging
Altered Heart Wall Hanging
Thank you all for stopping by.

What a weekend....

It has been quite a busy weekend. My niece (God-daughter) graduated Saturday evening. I am so very proud of her. I know she had a few rocky times during those four years of high school, but she made it. I can't wait to see where life leads her now. I wish my dad could have been there to see her, but I know he was with us in spirit. I also have a cousin that graduated Saturday and I have another cousin graduating this coming Saturday. Congratulations to all of you. Megan, Alexis and Hilary we are so proud of yall.

I have to admit though, I am a little sad. See, my daughter, Nicole, will not have the opportunity to walk with her graduating class. Nicole is my oldest daughter, the daughter that has juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA). She left public school after the first semester of her freshman year because she was missing so much school due to her arthritis flaring so often. We decided that she would try home schooling at that time and if she didn't like it or got better that she would go back to public school. So, we started an online home school and she really didn't care for it so much. She missed so much about public school. She missed being the manager of the cheer team, she missed seeing her friends, and she just didn't like the school we chose, but she wasn't really getting much better so she decided to continue with the home school. She did alright with it, but her biggest struggle was the fact that her "friends" just seemed to all forget about her. That was hard as a mother to see. It's hard being different when your a teenager and she is definitely different. She doesn't have the energy to go do the fun things that teenagers do, she can't be out in the sun very long, and she has to take tons of medications. She has accepted her limitations, but it's getting others to accept them that is hard. I feel like her JRA has robbed her of so much. She has never had a "normal" teenage life. She doesn't go hang out with friends, she's never gone on a spring break trip, she didn't get to attend her junior prom, and more than likely won't go to her senior prom either. These are things that most teenage girls live for and she will never experience them. She doesn't have a best friend or a boy friend because everyone seems to have just forgotten about her. It breaks my heart.  So, she finished her freshman year as an online home school student. When school started back we decided to enroll her in a charter school in our town that allowed her to attend school half days. The school is 100% computerized. She was excited to be back with other students, but she only knew one or two of the students. There was not much socialization in this school because everyone worked at there own pace and you could be any where from a freshman to a senior. She really enjoyed the school though. She made a few friends that she would text, but still no one that really wanted to hang out with her. I could tell she was sad about that and she still thought about the friends that she had before. I know she didn't understand how they could all just forget about her, but she pushed forward. Then we started with the flares again. She started missing more and more school. This went on for a few months and then she had a major flare and she missed so much school and got off track again. She asked to go back to home school. I agreed and she finished the year out doing home school. She really seemed to be content with her decision and in the end she finished school ahead of schedule. This brings us to my original comment that she will not get to experience a graduation. There is no graduation for home schooled kids. They don't get to wear a cap and gown. They don't get to do the walk or throw their caps up in the air in celebration of their accomplishments. I am so proud of her for all she has accomplished. It was a long hard road. But I do feel like there was a lot that she missed by not going to public school. If only she was a healthy kid or even if we could have just gotten the arthritis under control or in remission. Since she was first diagnosed back in 2006 she has never been in remission. Life has never been the same...

Thank you all for letting me share this.

eBay listing

I currently have a book listed on eBay. Click HERE to see the listing. I hope you all enjoy it.

Spring Cleaning

Hello everyone. LOL. I say that like I have so many followers, but I don't....YET! I have been busy cleaning up the scrap space this afternoon and evening. What a mess I had. I didn't even have a clean space to scrap. I'm not completely done with the cleaning, but at least I have room to play now. I did have space to create some very cute stick pins. I hope to have pictures of them up here tomorrow. I will probably be selling some of them on eBay. I also have a mini chipboard album that I have been working on in my spare time and I hope to have it completed tomorrow also. I just need to finish some tags. It is so pretty and I can't wait to share it. It will also be listed for sale on eBay. Well, that's it for now. I will talk to you all on Monday.

Here we go

Well, I know I don't have any followers yet, but  hopefully that will change real soon.

It's been a hectic week here. My oldest daughter, Nicole, decided she wanted to volunteer at the animal shelter, but if that wasn't enough, she also decided to foster kittens. We got our first litterlast Friday. There are five of them and they are only a month old. All was going great until Monday when they all started with the sniffles and watery eyes and it's been crazy ever since. All the kitties got put on antibiotics. They have been great about taking their medicine, and seemed to be getting better. That is until Tuesday evening when one of them started to get worse. So, back to the vet we went. He was put on a stronger antibiotic and we were told he has a bad sinus infection. Well, who knew kitties could get sinus infections. I sure didn't. LOL. He is not doing so good. Nicole and I have been monitoring him to make sure he eats and we're giving him water and medicine from a syringe. Today he woke up with very puffy, red eyes so we called the clinic again. They told us to get some chamomile tea and put a drop in each eye. Who would have thought to put tea in the poor kitties eyes. Not me. This poor kitten probably thinks we are torturing him. He is so cute and sweet. I just wish he would get better. Please pray for Midnight.

Now if that wasn't enough, my younger daughter, Jayna, started getting sick on Tuesday and has continued to get worse each day. Yesterday the fever started and by the middle of the night she was running a 102.4 fever. So off to the clinic we went. She has a virus, and she thinks she's dying. Oh how she whines when she's sick. I think I need a vacation from all the sickies....A vacation where I can scrap the whole time. Now that would be awesome. I haven't even had time to scrap this week with all the sickies and doctor/vet appointments.

Welcome

Well, I have decided to take the plunge into the blogging world. I have never done this before so this will be a learning experience for me. I can't wait to share my life with you all. But more importantly right now, I can't wait until I get some followers. LOL. I will write more later. I better hit the hay for now.

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