August Kraft Girl Kits Reveal!

The August kit is now on sale at Kraft Girl Kits so you can now go check it out here!! I had fun working on my first "official" design team projects. I won't bore you with a bunch of "talk", I'll just get right into what I created this month! {click on the images to enlarge}

Oh, my sweet little boy. This picture makes my ovaries twinge. Sorry...can't help it. I added some brown & white baker's twine around the bingo card.

I added more white string in this next one along with a couple buttons. I think I'm addicted to string. I used the squares in the paper to line up my photos and staggered them across the page. The title was cut with the Impact font on my Silhouette.

This one's pretty simple. I added some brown floss sewn on the sides. The title is again cut with the Impact font on my Silhouette.

More white string on this next one. See, addicted.

Just realized how much kraft cardstock I used! Guess I was in a "krafty" mood, eh?!

And a couple cards. I used the chipboard bird that came in the kit and covered it with the patterned paper. Then I sanded the edges and added a little white paint. That blue ribbon didn't come in the kit but it was literally sitting in a basket right next to me and it matched perfectly. I used a foam pop dot to adhere the bird to make up for the bulkiness of the flower.

This next one is pretty simple. I used the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder and added some brown string and a button. The stamped image is the new "God's Beauty" from Stampin' Up!

And last but not least (and my fave), this altered flower pot

I used some of the Sassafras paper whimsies as picture frames. I'm going to be adding a tutorial on the KGK site soon on creating this cute pot.

Be sure and check out the KGK gallery to see all the design team projects. There's a giveaway on the blog this weekend that you can check out here. And the Nov & Dec '08 kits are 50% off and March kit is 25% off! You can check out all of the past kits here.

That's it for now. We're having a yard sale today so I'm hoping for good weather and a lot of traffic coming by my house. I need to get rid of some stuff!!

Christmas in July

I have always loved Christmas. The real meaning behind the holiday. The giving. The magic. I love every bit of it. I had been thinking about doing something for a Christmas in July theme. Then I came across this post by the daily digi and knew I had to do that, too!! So yesterday, we had our Christmas in July.

I know this picture is blurry but I love it :)

Yesterday was a lot of fun. I set the tree up the night before. And in the morning I got up early so I could wake the kids up and tell them "Merry Christmas!" Olivia kept looking at me funny and saying "it's not Christmas". So I told her to get up and look. When she got up and went into the living room she was in shock! Then she ran screaming and yelling into Ben's room saying "Wake up!! It's Christmas!!" And when they saw they had a couple presents they were even more excited!!

We spent the morning watching A Christmas story, playing with their new stuff and eating cinnamon rolls for breakfast. Then I had a few crafts for them that I picked up at Hobby Lobby (their Christmas crafts are on sale this week by the way). Oh, and I made some cake balls Christmas style of course. Then we had grilled ham for dinner (instead of our traditional baked ham for the holidays). The lighting in my pics is marginal thanks to the mostly dreary weather we had. But that's ok.

Olivia said to me later "So that's why you were up in the attic! you were getting the Christmas stuff down!" Gonna have to be sneakier next year!

This was a fun way for us to wrap up our summer vacation since my kids go back to school next week. I plan on doing this every year since it was so much fun. Next year I would like to pull down the stockings. After being in the attic for about 15 min I was dripping with so much sweat that I just said forget it! I'm thinking that when the Christmas rolls around I'll pack things up so that our Christmas in July stuff is in a separate box. That way I can find it all easily.

Anyone else do a Christmas in July event??

An added note:
Ben just came up to me as I was typing this and said "you know why I love Christmas in July?? Because it's from YOU!" {{sigh}}

new in the shop

So I mentioned a while back that I'm in a purging mode. I decided to take some of my scrappy goodies and make some kits to list on Etsy. I've discovered that I have way more scrapbook stuff than I could ever possibly use. Plus, I had stuff from when I did a lot of crafting for ebay which I've since cut down on considerably. Between ebay's fees getting out of control and just not having the time to make too much stuff to sell, I just handcraft a few things for Etsy.

Anyway, here's a few things that just listed recently:

(Halloween kit is sold out)

I also have some paper kits, embellishment kits, stamps, supplies, etc. I'll be listing more stuff as the weeks go on. I have some vintage stuff I'm working on :)

So if you're interested, go check it out. My etsy link is to the right----------------------->>>>

turkeys & bunnies & chickens, oh my! (and other flea market finds)

WARNING ~ lots of pictures ahead!

animal pictures taken by Olivia ;)

We headed out to the flea market again, this time it was just me & Olivia. We got there early, although not as early as I'd hoped. And was it packed. And I mean packed!! I had no idea this flea market was this big since the time I drove by it before was in the afternoon when most sellers were gone. It was super hot. In fact, I got burnt. But it's all good. I managed to come home with some goodies and we had fun, too :)

Seriously people, we're talking HOT outside!

And here's some of our finds for the day...

hehe, Holly Hobbie Christmas glasses!!! I think I might have let out a girly squeal or 2 when I saw these :) The guy had the old McDonald's glasses, too. It was like taking a stroll down memory lane...

Seriously, these were too cute to pass up. Then I found someone I was hoping to find...vintage bottles.

The guy had 2 huge bins full of them. May have to go visit him again. I think the brown one was a medicine bottle. Notice the Listerine bottle on the right? Did you know Listerine bottles used to have a cork? I didn't. Too bad this one didn't still have it. But that cute skinny one did.

Some old music books from the 1920's and a children's book. I really liked that children's books for the pictures...perfect for scrapbooking.

And, of course, Olivia managed to find some treasures of her own:

2 books for a buck each and that Littlest Pet Shop toy for 2 bucks!!

Got this for free (just cause the guy was packing up and overheard Olivia say it was cute!)

And finally, I found this for Ben. A light that hooks onto a baseball cap. It's supposed to be for hunting or fishing (go figure) but I knew he'd have fun with it.

And all of that stuff set me back $14. Not too shabby. Oh, and one more thing about the flea market (and I don't know why this surprised me) but there were many people selling chickens, turkeys, puppies, bunnies, whatever (hence that first picture). Now you know you're at a flea market in east AL when the lady selling bunnies says "if I don't sell 'em today they're goin' on the grill" eeek!! Thankfully Olivia didn't hear that one! Or if she did, I don't think she understood. hehe oh how I love the south ;)

Since we were already in AL and only about 20 min from Opelika, we figured we'd head over to World Market. Ok, I talked Olivia into it by getting her McDonalds and telling her it was a 20 minute air conditioned ride. I could seriously do some damage to the pocketbook in that store!! But I was good...did a lot of looking but very little buying (less than 5 bucks to be exact). But here are some of my faves.

For some reason, I always gravitate towards this stuff:

Oh how I wish I could have just one of each! I was good, only bought one jar. (3rd row up from the bottom, all the way on the right with the cork stopper in it)

And these cuties, oh my

Glasses with a chalkboard on the front. How clever!

And I thought these would be so fun for those popcorn gift pouches and gift sets I sometimes make for teachers

I think the big ones were like $7 for 6 of them. How fun would that be to fill for a "movie night" gift set. Hmmm....

And I must have one of these

Christmas gift maybe???? Couldn't you see using these on Christmas Eve? Don't forget the matching shakers.

So that's it. Hope I didn't bore you with all of my findings today :) Make it a great weekend everyone!!

Aug Kraft Girl sneaks

This week I've been playing with my first kit from Kraft Girl Kits. Oh how I've been playing :) I've already created 4 layouts, 2 cards, and one "other" item. And I'm working on one more layout. So I thought I'd share with you some sneaky peekies of my projects!!