Just a quick Post

To let everyone know that the new Basic Grey and the Star Wars paper are in the store and ready for you to purchase, I would run not walk it won't last long. The Star Wars line is one Kate ordered back in Jan. at CHA and it wass worth the wait. And as for Basic Grey well we all hored that and with these 2 new lines you won't be disappointed.

I've been playing

And it is not with scrapbooking stuff, most of you by now should know that I love vintage stuff. And my favorite is ribbon and lace, I love the stuff, well I decided to start playing with it instead of just looking at it. Here is some of the flowers I have made with it, these are not done I plan on putting them on lace scraps, but I do have orders for them already, I haven't decided if I was quite ready for that but a store owner told me to get ready. Here are some pictures of them.

Well back to work, have a great day.

Laura

Another great buying tip......

Well if you love vintage like I do you'll love this site http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5405843&ga_search_query=papertales&ga_search_type=seller_usernames I love this site and if you mention my name and blog you'll get a special thank you gift. I have aspecial relationship with the owner of this little shop. LOL!!! Most of the stuff has come from an old craft warehouse that has been around for 60+ years. There is stuff from the 50's thru the 80's ranching from good to mint condition. emember to mention my name and blog and get a thank you gift. It is a wonderful place to play and have fun.

Have a great weekend.

I LOVE to buy stuff............

and when it is at a GREAT price that's even sweeter. Well Maya Road is have another warehouse sale and let me tell you if I were you I would be going to paypal right now and buying a few of them. I bought one of the kits last year and it was wonderful, just full of fun stuff to play with. Now I have copied and pasted the info so let's see if this works, if not you can always go to Caroline's blog to the right and get the links and info there.

It's Summer, it's Summertime - Summertime Summertime! And just in time for Summer, we have put together another Maya Road VIRTUAL WAREHOUSE SALE! Our last sale kits were sold out in 48 hours so you don't want to miss out if you want to get a bargain on some Maya Road items!
For a limited time (or until our warehouse sale kits run out) – get over $126 of Maya Road products for $48.95! That is a 61% savings! Shipping is FREE within the US! If you are outside of the US and want to get in on this deal please read all the Q&As for more information.
We have stream lined the process and gotten more kits put together for this Virtual Warehouse Sale! All the kits have been packed up and are ready to go! Rather than have a local sale where only those that live near the warehouse here in Texas have access, we have made it so anyone can participate in the sale by opening it up virtually worldwide. Please remember you can only purchase these warehouse sale kits from the links located in this newsletter; make sure you read ALL the Q&As to answer any questions you might have.

trust me you will not be disappointed, I don't think Maya Road makes anything I don't like.

Well have a great day!

I'm old......

or at least I'm going to start looking like it. Tim got his very own car today, he can't wait to hit the open road, heck he's out there now, he is a little bummed, some of his best friends are not home for him to show it off to.

Dexter has learned a new trick this week, he has been kind enough to let himself in and out of the doorwall screen. I haven't really watched him do it to see how he does it but yup he opens it, and why not I can't go to the bathroom without him coming in. Now if I could get him to run the sweeper.

Have a good night.

Grandpa.............

Fred Glen Piatt

1925-2009

It has come to my attention.........

It is June time just seems to fly by, before you know it it will be snowing and I'll be wrapping Christmas gifts. That will be at last minute too I'm sure. But since it is June and I have card class this month I suppose I should make some cards, Cass keeps asking me for them and my intentions are good when I say I'm going to do that, but there is always something that happens. Nevertheless I took some time to play today and got the ideas out of my head and actually made some cards. I must tell you that I do find inspiration other places, I love Melissa Phillips blog and Lia from Maya Road did some cute cards a while ago with their coasters so yes I used them as a jumping off point.

So with that being said here are some of the cards in this months card class, class in June 17th at 6pm, please call the store if you wish to sign up.

The rest of them you will just have to come in the store to see, we do have some good coupons going on right now and a contest.

What a weekend............

I'm ready to fall over, we flew out friday for Norfolk, VA. had dinner with the Theadore Roosevelt Assoc. then we were up at 4 am saturday for aride on a boat, yup the USS Roosevelt, we got back to land about 9:30 pm IT WAS AWSOME!!!!!!!!

This is a few of my 800 pictures I took Saturday.

Have a good day

Laura

News Alert!!!!!!!!

I don't know if you guys are aware of this or not, but Lisa Pace is putting on another blog workshop. If you have not taken one of these workshops quickly hop over to her blog and sign up they are great, I took her Valentine one, and it was wonderful, all the little tricks and tips you learn. Here is the link to her blog http://lisapace.com/ and if you like this workshop just wait she has a book coming out in Feb. 2010. I can't wait to get my copy.

Well have a nice night and go sign up for Lisa's workshop.

Laura

I really can't decide........

I want a pretty blog, but don't seem to find any that really fit me, so you may seem something different here each day until I find something that fits.

I don't know about you but I am on facebook and love finding old friends, people I graduated with and have known since I was a kid, it's been a hoot. They all seem to say that I haven't changed since high school If I was walking down the street they would know it was me. I think I'll let you be the judge of that.

Me about a year ago at the ripe old age of 40. I need a little makeup here.

me the day I graduated May 25th 1986 age 18, I'm with my daddy.

this is I think my Jr. year picture.

Me my senior picture I'm 17 in the picture. Maybe I should go back to wearing makeup.

So have I changed????

We've been learning!!!!!!!

Yesterday was a day of learnig for Tim and I, some important some not so much. First Tim's teachings for the day

1. If you ever rob a bank, make sure you know the layout of the city first. Yes a bank was robbed by his school and the person was NOT smart he went down towards the school which is a dead end street just past thee school at the police station. That robber was a thinker.

2. Exactly how many Seniors can you fit in a moon bounce before it gives way?????? answer apparently 30.

3. Finally if you notice some people at lunch trying to start a food fight, don't throw your luch away until the last possible second because then you are left with no ammo to throw back, becuase you know it is going to start. Thank god the ketchup and mustard cover kid wasn't wearing good clothes.

Me, well mine weren't as funny or memorable.

1. I think Tim also learned this one yesterday, don't pull out infront of someone when you have the air on inn the car. I need to remember my car is not as powerful this summer, I don't have as much get up and go as I have in the past.

2. If you are tall don't get undressed under a ceiling fan, ouch......I still have all my fingers they just are sore today and missing some skin.

Well have a nice day.
Laura

HOW?????????

How do we accumulate so much stuff??????? I am seriously throwing crap away this time, I just have too much. Yes I am cleaning my room already today I have taken 2 bags of trash out and 2 big tubs of stuff to donate. I do not know why I bought some of the stuff, what was I thinking?! I do have 1 1/2 more closets to go thru and lets not forget the stuff piled in the center of the floor. Then when I have made room I will tackle the diningroom, yup it's as bad as my scraproom. I guess it's a good thing we put a garage sale on the calander yesterday at the store, I'm taking advantage of it this time. Well I guess it won't finish itself, I guess I better go.

Have a great day.

I want Sunshine!!!!!!

Yet again today is gloomy outside, it would be the perfect day to stay in and create but right now I don't have time for that, I need to catch up on somethings around the house. Jon told me this week that "you know you do have a family". Well I always make sure that they have food in the house, along with the other needs in life, TP, deodorant, shampoo etc. And I do alot of my work at home so I am here if they need me. I think they miss the banana bread, homemade cookies, and turkeys for dinner. You always think you'll have more time when your kids get older, but you don't. But I am one of the lucky ones I love what I do, not everyone can say they have a job they enjoy doing and makes them happy, yes it makes me crazy, but a happy crazy not carring a gun up a clock tower crazy. I love finding new thing for the store, I love trying new techniques and playing around and discovering my own. Well I think I have rambled on enough, here are some of my favorite projects, were I just got to play.

This is a mirror, with my picture on it in decal paper, and gold leafing, what fun.

Can you tell I love texture, I dangle things, love lace and trims and if it's old that's even better.

Have a great weekend.

Laura

What a week!!!!!!!

Well let's just say that I feel like I have got nothing done this week. My youngest is sick, really sick and since he is a lot like me he doesn't want to stop to go to the doctor. So yes I did get him to the doctor and he has the flu, but since then he has gotten better and worse, I hate this yo-yo ride with him, he use to do this when he was little.

I have counted thousands of beads and I mean thousands of beads for our Etsy site. So far between 50-70 thousand have been counted and packaged, all vintage made in West Germany. We have thousands more to count.

I have done one class sample this week and acrylic album from Maya Road, I learn a lot of the techniques from the DT from Maya Road too.

yes I have a few touches to add to it but, I need to match ribbon at the store.

Have a great day!

I'm how old???????

Me my mind tells me I'm 17, but man let me tel you my body these last 2 day,, these last 2 weeks it's been telling me I'm in my 60's but I'm only in my 40's. I just hurt, now I've been climbing trees since I was 2, my neighbor even cut all the lower branch off the trees because I scared him. It was nothing to climbing the shelves in the warehouse I've been in the past 2 days, all the way up to the ceiling, it's hot up there. Yup there were nails up there, shhh don't tell Cass, shee didn't like how high up I was anyways. I figure if I got cut I breathed in enough pennacillin (sp) you know mold and mildew I was covered for infection. We did find some GREAT!!!!!!!!! items for you guys, just give us a couple of days to get it priced and gone thru on the shelves at the store and on-line at etsy.

If you want to learn how to use some of the stuff, you might want to check out Lisa Pace's blog
http://www.lisapace.com/ she shows all kinds of stuff, and loves our stuff. She's such a sweet heart, I had the pleasure of working with her at the Maya Road both at CHA and we both love the same stuff, too bad we are so far apart.

Well I'm going to finish my drink and I think maybe go to bed, my body says it's time for sleep, and maybe some drugs.

Have a wonderful weekend and a wonderful Mother's Day.

I can rest on Sunday right?????

I hope you guys come and join us for NSD, it's going to be lots of fun. I've been making goodie bags, prize bags, $1 ribbon bags oh let's say about 200 of them. We have $1 flower bags, prizes, prizes and more prizes, we've added a whole new table for the clearance section, specials, specials and more specials. Lets not forget about the make and takes, Helen and I will be doing some cool stuff with you guys. There will be so much fun going on you will want to hang out all day. Watch you inbox Cass is sending out coupons today so you can plan ahead with all the details in it.

Well I should get to work, maybe I can make it home for dinner tonite. Tim told me lastnite that "Mom that's 3 nights in a roll you have had dinner" LOL-not that he's worried about me he's just worried about the fact that I'm not home to fix his dinner for him, typical teenage boy.

Maya Mist...

Have I said how much I love this stuff, if you notice I used it on the organizer in the last post. It covers so well and dries pretty fast, it has a solid colr not a sheer color like the other mist out there, I've asked them to do white, but they laughed and said I'd need to paint the stuff for white. Oh well, sometimes I want the impossible.

Here's a little hanging I did using the Maya Mist, it took me about 30 min. It was out of just left overs and scraps. I used their rubons too, the whole sheet is a rubon so I used the "Road" from Maya Road and I used "the journey of a lifetime" from the bottom on the frame, I don't think you can see it in the picture.

Well It's Friday so that's my errand day so I better get started.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Spring....

I'm hoping it is finally here, along with spring comes cleaning and organizing, two things I really don't d well. But to help me along I made this new class, not yet on the calendar. I used Maya Road sheer binder, mist and chipboard. It's a scrap supply organizer for when you go shopping, that way you don't over buy or forget something that you need.

Now for you card makers out there,if you are not signed up for Mays card class with Deb, you might not want to miss it, Wally will be back. I saw him at the store yesterday, the best part of my day!!!! He's doing great. Hope to see you there. :)

Today is going to be great.......

I figure if I head in with that attitude it wil be good right? The sun is shining, I'm making headway on my classes and getting stuff done for NSD lots of good stuff going on then. The dogs are back to their normal selves (lord help me), the boys do nothing but run and play all day, you'd never know that one was 9 years old and had a list of health problems as long as my arm, I think Dexter was the best thing for him.

Timothy is getting to take the car out more and more, ok so twice is more to me, but he respects the fact that I need him to take it slow. Drew got a promotion, sort of at work, he now has to wear big boy clothes.

I do have a new class up at the store it is a Gentlemen's Book. Pictures will come with it, but you don't have to use them you can use your own. There is a lot of actual vintage items in the book so not all will be exact but you will have one of everything.

Now have a good day and enjoy yourself.