Two of my favorites!!!!!!!!

Two of my favorites companies are joined in one book for a very good cause, ok the cause is because I put them there, but it seems like they just go together. It is a book for Breast Cancer, it would also be a great book for a friend. What could go better with Melissa Frances paper than Maya Roads new Angel Wings book, it just seems to be a fluffy pink and white match made in heaven. So here are a few pictures of this wonderful little book.

I guess I should go back to work and get some cards done, I'm sure Kate has another class sample done. I know she was very close to having her travel book done. I know you guys have been waiting for it and it will be worth the wait.

Hey did you see our exclusive 4x4 die from quickutz?????

Did you notice I have mirror cuts in the book???? wanna know how I did that????? It's not hard, come to the class and find out, there are some clear ones too that are hard to see in photos.

All grown up.........

And it makes me sad, and proud at the same time. Drew has his own car, license and is moving on with his life. Yes he is 18 and just getting his license but while still taking drivers ed. he got in a car accident with his grandmother and totalled a car, no one was hurt but it scared him to death, so getting him to drive again was not easy. But he scored a perfect score on his road test yesterday. Yay, Drew!!!!!

here he is with his new car, well used but it's new to him, right? It's a 2007 Grand Prix.

Here he is with his psycho grin, if he pulls out this grin you know he's happy, if he just smile he wants you to leave him alone.

This would be Drew showing Tim the trunk, which is where he will be riding in his car, and if we can never find Tim this is the first place we should look, brotherly love.

Here's Tim trying to figure out how to jack the keys so he can go pick up Austin and Chance and go cruise for chicks.

Here's Drew telling his peeps he's got his car, and yes they all went out to the movies, even Tim.

Right now Drew is on his way to Wisconsin with his girlfriend to her grandparent's cabin, they left at 3am I'm a little nervous about this one, he's never been away before without an adult, I know techniquely he's one but he's never had to face some issues alone, what if someone gets hurt or there is car trouble, stuff like that.

Well I think I have bored you enough, I'll tell you about the class I'm working on now, and hopefully will have photo's up soon. It's a breast cancer book, done with MF papers and the MR wing book. I hope to get it done today, as well as the rest of my cards done this weekend for my two card classes this month. We have the regular card class on the 17th and then we are having a Christmas card class on the 27th. So I suppose I should get off of here and do my friday errons and get to work.

Until next time. Be good or at least have fun.

Where does the time go???????

I can't believe how fast time seems to fly by. Summer is almost gone, the kids will be going back to school soon. The kids grow up too fast, Drew gets his car tonight and starts College next week, Tim will actually be in the High School soon, his high school is 10th - 12th grade. Which reminds me he needs to get his summer homework done for his AP class. The joys of getting a teenage boy up to catch the bus at 6:30 am will be starting soon, yay!!!!

Ok, here's a class I've been working on. I used the graphic 45 paper and you will be learning to use the bind it all, it's really easy and fun, we will be useing tags and envelopes, this tool is so much fun it really sparks your creativity.

Just so you know this is not all of it, the class is Sept. 9th so call the store and save your spot.

Now I have to go back to my room and work on more class samples, can you beleive Kate has 3 at the store and right now I only have one, this one is not at the store yet. I can let Cathy and Deb out sample me they just are too fast for me to keep up with, but Kate come on, now I know I'm really slacking.

Until next time.

I love my life!!!!!!!!!!

Ok as I sit here on my front porch typing on my lap top, looking down my tree lined street, as yes my cleaning lady finishes up inside I realize I am spoiled. Maybe I shouldn't say I am spoiled because I appreciate everything I have. I do love my life and am very thankful for everything I have, and yes this is the first time in my life I have let anyone else clean my house, but my husband says I'm no good at it so he has hired someone. Well it's not so much that I'm no good at it, it's just that I don't do it, so maybe it's just lack of experience, and if you've seen my mother's house you know I didn't learn that way. LOL!!!!


I should probably talk about so business here, well that's fun too. We have a garage sale going on this week and if I can get my butt in gear I might actually put some stuff in it. There are a few tables left, it's a good way to make some extra credit for that new stuff coming into the store.

If you are intersted in Christmas gifts we do have a few of our past kits for sale in the store, tagged and ready to go, you should stop by and take a look, and more will be coming in soon. Or maybe to get a head start if you see a class you like take the class and order a kit too to give away as a gift. Our design staff is coming up with some cute ideas , and some will be limited.


Now for the Build a Page class, the way that will work is we will have one sketch, and three different sample of that sketch. You will pick the sample or samples you want to do, and we will pull the stuff for you to purchase to do the one you choose. I will be there to help in any placement or turning of the sketch or if you want to freelance. But the idea is for you to learn how to look at one sketch and get many different looks from it and make it your own.

Until next time.

Random this.......

Driving today I was thinking, yeah I know me thinking is always scary. I was thinking of a conversation I had with Tim the other day, when he went on his rant about how expensive teenage girls are and how he says he's thinking about being an ugly purse designer because that's where the money it. I saw something in my neighborhood today I don't see too often, a SOLD sign. I think my head is getting too big for me and I need to come back down to earth. Still need to figure out how to get 48hrs worth of work into a 24 hr. day. Drew's graduating high school finally sunk in when I had to pay his college tuition bill this week. I'm trying to decide if I should clean before the cleaning lady comes on Tues. yeah we got a cleaning lady.

Here's some things that aren't random.

Paper Tales has a new Etsy site, you can get some of our class kits there here's the link.
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5405843

Scrap Pink is coming soon so mark your calendar, we are having a three day crop again for Breast Cancer. That also means we will be having our silent auction again.

Still working on new stuff, we always have something up our sleeves so keep stalking the blogs.

Have you signed up for our Garage Sale yet??????? Need to make room and earn money for the new stuff coming into the store????? You should stop by and sign up, and clean up.

I smell new stuff............

Yes new stuff is coming in, let's see Tattered Angels came in, 7 gypsies, Artelisious, yes I spelled it wrong but trust me it's worth coming in for, and some Ranger products came in, so if you've been waiting on ink, it's back in stock.

But here is one of the new things we have been working on and we have more up our sleeves so keep an eye out. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5405843 pretty cool huh!?! Good thinks are yet to come still, no I'm not kitting you.......ooops I slipped again. Let us know what you think of the site.

Hey don't forget to got to www.clickondetroit.com and vote for us in vote 4 the best, time is running out, you can vote once per email address.

Just a quickie today......

Yes I'm tired and drained so I'll make this short and sweet. Let's see we got zipdry and fabric tack in today, I know nothing exciting, but we did get about 8 spools of Silk ribbon on the ribbon wall that sell for $0.90-$1.30 a yard, now who can beat that??? Now keep an eye out on our blogs for something didferent to show up in the next day or so, things around here are growing, we are taking baby steps, but have big ideas so you don't want to miss anything, (and no Kate is NOT having a baby, that's not what I mean). I know we have added more stuff to the clearance table and if you see empty end caps don't worry we are just making room for the new stuff that has shipped, and yes it has started shipping. So keep an eye out for the goings ons, because contrary to popular believe what happens at Paper Tales doesn't always have to stay at Paper Tales. Hey wouldn't that make a cool T-shirt???? or have I said too much. :0

What a mess!!!!!!!!!

Ok I decided once again I needed so organization in my life, hey it sounds good anyway. we'll see if I actually stick to it. LOL!

Well my youngest Tim is away for two weeks at his grandparents, it's sooo quiet around hear I miss him and the dogs are going crazy without him. But I sent him this picture of his room the other day and told him he could never leave again if this is the way he was going to leave his room.

He told me I needed to get ALL of my crap out of his room before he gets back home, and I better not leave a "craft smell" in it. Sad to say that is only about 1/3rd of my stuff, and most of it is out of his room now. I'm not sure what a "craft smell" is, but I'm sure the zipdry smell is in there somewhere. I told him maybe he should think twice about leaving me again, next time I could fill his room with all my smelly candles that he hates. I suppose I should go get the rest of the stuff out of his room, he does come home on Sunday. :)

By the way here is Tim at his grandpaprents.

Yup that's my pride and joy.

Prayers please.......

Some of you might know this but I think most of you don't, today is one of the big days for my Mother, she is sick and they are trying to rule out cancer. She does have swollen ducts in her pancerase and they are scoping those today before they do a bi-opsy. She probably will have to have her thyroid nucked before this is all over with, no big deal I have learned that seems to be in the family history. If you know my Mother or have heard stories about her this one is different she is actually scared, so I'm asking for prayers that she finds the peace she needs.

Thank you.

A day of play.........

Shhhhhh....... don't tell the boss I've been playing, I went out to lunch with the girls on friday, totally didn't plan on that it just happened had a good time and Grayson totally thinks I'm a freak, and according to Morgan we sure eat weird food here LOL!!!! gotta love kids. Saturday Jon and I took Drew and Katy shooting, can I just say Drew doesn't want to tick her off, but then again he knew that already her dad was a snipper in the military.

I did get two layouts done today, yes I seem to be a very slow scrapper lately. One is for the vintage LO class and the other I was just playing with the new Basic Grey Eva line, it doesn't ship until late Sept. but I got my hands on a few sheets to play with. It's a great line, it can be fresh and funky or my favorite can be used to scrap dead poeple, their Ambrosha line is the same way, I'll be playing with that later.

The Eva LO I used Maya Road alphas with Tim Holtz distressing powder on them then dusted them with pearlex powder it gave them a wonderful soft shimmer, it's hard to tell but I have pearls all over the page, and used a prima flower. I love the way the one paper matches the wall paper in the photo, just a side note the painting in the photo is of my 5th great-grandfather in the Netherlands.

This is the one for the vintage class, I used mostly paper, just to show what you can do with all the punches and die machines out there, they aren't just for cutesie stuff.

I know some new stuff has shipped already so you might want to start stalking the store to see what all is coming, there's some good stuff on it's way, but please save some for me, the Graphic 45 didn't make it thru the weekend, but that's ok we ordered more so if you missed out it too is on it's way back in stock.

Well I think I want to go back and play some more.

Until next time.

Back to reallity........

I guess it's time I turn back to earth, I've been on a winning high lately. Today I went and got my monthly shot, picked up my new glasses, and sad to say had to send my son's new glasses to him. My husband decided to send him up north to his grandparent's house while I was in Chicago, so he will be gone for two weeks. Now granted his is having a great time and doesn't need me at all, but I miss him. :( The house is quiet, no friends over now guitar music, and he's not dancing around asking me for things. So I guess I better put this quiet time to use and get some class samples done, so here is what I did today.

It's a star book I think the class is Tues. Aug. 5th. Please call the store if you want to take it or need a kit.

Here are two of the three Vintage Layout's you will do Sat. Aug. 9th. once again reserve your spot soon it tend to fill up quickly.

Well I guess I need to get back to work, more samples to make.

WOOOO!!!!!.......WHOOOO!!!!!!!...... doesn't quite cut it today!!!!!!!!!

You can't see me jumping up and down in excitement, but let's just say, or as Cass would say "You're on a roll girl" Maybe this picture would help.

Yes I WON!!!!!!!!!!

Melissa Frances did a wonderful thing and had a alter a bra contest for all the store attending CHA. It was to raise awareness to Breast Cancer and other Cancers. The bras then would be voted on by everyone at the show, and I won!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now you need to go to Melissa's blog and let her know what a wonderful job she is doing, there is a link to the left. Let me tell you she has some beautiful stuff coming out and yes you will be able to get at Paper Tales, so keep your eyes open for it to come in, and yes I will be doing a book class with her new Christmas line, it is just beautiful. Well now I'm rambling so I'mm going to get more coffee, but I will leave you with a little better look at the bra.

WOOOO.......WHOOOO!!!!!!!!!

I'm still very tired but tonight I'm very happy I won a grand prize from Making Memories....which includes a lavendar rolling tote full of Making Memories product who doesn't love that not only did I win a tote but I also won a Slice and a complete starter kit. Now that is fun, two girls come running up to me screaming rolling a cart full of stuff. I can't wait to get home and start playing.

Sorry no pictures tonight too busy working tonight, just finished the tattered angels order must sleep now.

Good night.

Exhausted about covers how I feel......

It is the end of day one and my feet hurt, my legs hurt. I didn't take as many pictures as I thought I would. I did spend a lot of time talking to old friends and making new. Teresa is doing great and is so sweet when she runs over to me from across the room to give me a hug, G45 wants me to move to Utha to work for them, Carolyn and I have decide we need to go antiquing together sometime. And of course we had a wonderful time spending the afternoon with the girls from Maya Road helping them setting up the booth. Speaking of booths I know you guys came by the blog to see all the new stuff I did take pictures of, so here are some.

Now I need to get back to helping Cass and Kate filling out order forms, maybe more pictures tomorrow we have a very early class at 6:30.

Well I'm not ready

But CHA is this week and as my mail box keeps filling with new stuff to see, my mind is swimming with ideas. Some of the stuff I love, some of the stuff not so much. Keep tabs on my blog this week I will posting pictures from the show floor so let me know what you see that you really like.

This one is for Kelly's Tag

I had to come up with 7 random/wierd things about me, well let me just say I had to narrow it down to 7 things. So here goes, please don't think any less of me, I tried not to put any real gross wierd ones in there. ;)

1. Never close drawers or cabinets behind me.
2. I love to sit and eat anchovies right out of the can/jar could eat those little critters all day.
3. Don't think you should ever cook a piece of fruit, don't eat don't like it. Yes that means I don't eat apple pie. Give me a piece of fruit fresh and I'll eat just about any kind, just don't cook it.
4. Yes I have to admit it I grew up in the mountains of Ky. so I have eaten squirrel. :o
5. Don't wear short, not even if it's 100 degrees outside, no one wants to see my white legs anyway, besides it means I'd have shave them.
6. Never sleep without blankets on me, just doesn't seem right to have them on the bed and not use them.
7. I do sleep with my eyes open, sometime all the way open, but most of the time it's just my left eye, I can't close it all the way without thinking about it so it is always slightly open anyway, it has something to do with the nerve in my brain that acts up that causes my headaches.

Well there you have it, I don't know if or how many people I'm suppose to tag so lets see I'll tag people on the left. Deb, Heather, Brandy, Kate and Caroline

I know it's late, sorry.....

Here are a few pictures of the Graduation party, we had a wonerful time. I found out that I'm pretty good at making cotton candy the size of your head.

Sorry it has taken so long to get these up it has been crazy around here.

Just a quickie............

Ok first of all get your minds out of the gutter ladies. Man have we been busy at the store, the backroom sale is going well, today is the last day so come and get your goodies while you can. There are a lot more things we are working on you are going to want to keep a look out for, we are still doing the Altered Bra contest you have until after the 4th of July weekend to get those in, they are starting to come in and we are excited about it. Starting in July the Crafters Home store (that's us) are giving away a trip to Disney, is that great or what!!!!!!!!! We are also coming out with a one time limited edition die for your revolution this fall, are we a cool store or what, they will go fast. So please look for more info on these in the near future, now I need to get ready for work and the sale. One more thing and this one is a biggy we are having our annual Scrap Pink 3 day crop the first weekend in October so you can sign up for one day two or all three don't forget this is also when we do our silent auction you don't want to miss that all proceeds go to breast cancer research.

Until next time.

Test, test........

Ok let's try this posting thing again, I have tried posting twice since the party and blogger wouldn't let me, but I'll do that some other time right now I dn't have time. I need to let you know what is going on at the store, A LOT!!!!!!!! I really don't think Cass ever sleeps.

This weekend we are having our Backroom sales yolu don't want to miss this, there is a lot of stuff there some new some old, but all priced to go. Think of a garage sale, hey if you have Christmas projects to do this is the time to get some great bases and get started on them (hey I might have to do that myself). Another good think is if you love to alter stuff th submit or for DTs this is the place to find stuff we have stuff like chipboard books for .25 cents how can you go wrong with that.

The other thing and don't forget it's a doozy all printed paper today and tomorrow is 28% off, not even the zone beats that and you don't have to spend the gas to go out there it's win, win. The new Basic Grey is in and out on the floor and the new Yellow Bicycle both are beautiful. And don't forget to wish Mike happy birthday the sale is in honor of his birthday the 28th.

Well i guess I better get into work and price more stuff. I do want to thank all the people that have congratulated me on being on off the winners in the G45 contest, Thank you. I can't wait to see their new line.

I promise to get some pictures of the party up, it was a blast.

Until next time.

Men don't think..........

Ok let me start this post by saying I love my husband more today than I did when we started dating some 20 years ago. (wow 20 years makes me sound old). I just think that sometimes he does things before even giving it a first thought, heaven forbid actually stopping and thinking before he does something. As you know he bought a cow about a month ago, well it is time for Bessie to come to the house a month early, and she was a big cow 860 lb. hanging weight. So Jon went out and bought a freezer, once again without me, and it was delivered today and if we want to get it in the basement, well lets just say I'm NOT going to remove part of a wall. You guessed it he didn't measure anything before he bought a freezer, the thought never even crossed his mind. I must say there is never a dull moment in this house.