I am really excited about being chosen for the Moxxie Design Team. I have been on design teams for digital scrapbooking but this is my first for traditional scrapbooking. We will be known as the Moxxie Muses. I just love it. There are 10 of us and you can find the rest of the team here. I am looking forward to challenging myself each month for a new idea or a great technique and learning from all of the other designers. From what I can see they are a talented bunch.
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I am posting one of my favorite layouts using the St. Patrick's Day line. St. Pat's is a week long celebration in Emmetsburg, IA complete with a parade. If you live here you probably need this paper. That is my youngest son Brian playing the sax!
I am very proud to have made the design team and cannot wait to get started with all of the new lines in the coming year. Congratulations to everyone! I am looking forward to working with all of you.
Occasionally I have been known to do a little sewing. Mostly, I hem my pants that are 100% of the time too long and I sometimes sew on my cards or scrapbook pages. I have even made curtains and I made my purse organizer. Anyway, my sewing stuff has been thrown into different containers or bags and placed in many different places in the craft room. I did have it at my store when it was open so, some of it was still in a box in the garage. Every time I wanted to hem a pair of pants I had to search for the correct color of thread and it became a chore that I put off until I couldn't stand it any longer. See, here is proof.
So, I looked around to see what containers I could find. I am trying really hard to organize my house, but not to spend tons of money on containers, baskets and other things. If I look around the house long enough I find all sorts of things lying around. It is amazing. Anyway, I found these.
So, with a little help from Chloe Marie I started sorting them. I wanted the thread to be right where I could get to if quickly and I wanted it sorted by color. So, I did that first. Then, I found all sorts of safety pins I didn't know I had and I got all of the straight pins, needles, bobbins and different attachments for the machine into different little containers. Then I organized them into the top. Underneath are the things I don't use very often such as embroidery floss and weird little fasteners. I am sure that as time goes by I will find more sewing supplies. They will probably go in the bottom part as well.
So pretty, right?
Anyway, then I stacked the fabric into the yellow container. It was perfect. I was so pleased with the results and I am confident that I will be able to find what I need quickly from now on.
Here are some of the sewing projects I have done in the past. So fun!
Purse Organizer
Dance Recital page with the new Moxxie Dance Line.
See the stitching down the strips of cute dance paper? It really adds to the page.
Kite card set using the new Child's Play line from Moxxie.
These cards have stitching down the middle of the kite and it keeps going to form the "tail".
Here is a closer view of the kite.
There you have it. Now you have seen my sewing space and some of the things I have sewn. SEW exciting right?
Have you guys been motivated to get organized? Or have you always been organized? I would love to see your pics. Leave a comment and a link so I can see your organized spaces.
I have been wanting to re-do this little telephone stand for quite some time. We do not have any built in storage in our upstairs bathroom so I have placed a dresser and this little stand in there to help with our storage. Well this poor thing has been through a lot over the years and was showing definite signs of wear and tear. I knew I wanted to paint it but my husband is one of those people who believes you never, ever, ever, ever paint over solid oak. Well, it is not like it is an antique heirloom or anything...so I tried to sneak it into the garage. On my way out he yelled, "That is oak you know". I don't really know if he said anything after that because I shut the kitchen door. Rude? Maybe. but... he is already over it.
Here it is before I started painting.
Don't you agree that it needs some help? Anyway, I found some paint in the garage. I turned the piece over and started with the underneath. The hardest parts were the legs they are pretty curvy and there are lots of little spots that want to hide from the paint. But, I was careful and went pretty slow. I also made sure to move around a lot to see it from all angles. This helps to ensure a nice coat. Here it is after the first coat.
It looks better already. But you could see a bunch of the wood underneath and the brush marks were really obvious. It actually took about three coats altogether.
Here it is with all of its coats.
I still would like to add some "antiquing" to it but I must be out of the paint so I probably will get some and add it later or I may just see if it grows on me the way it is.
I moved it around in the bathroom a little bit. (It will probably move a couple of more times before I am finished. LOL)
I am having a lot of fun organizing and re-doing in my home. I hope I can inspire others to do the same. If you want more inspiration be sure to check out Pinterest. It is my favorite place on the web.
Well, I have been working on this project for a couple of weeks but I finally have it done. Well, the inside that is. I still want to paint the outside of the armoire to break up the sea of wood in the room. That is a post for another day. But, I am so happy with my new organized space.
I did not take a picture of the before, I don't know why. I planned on it but got caught up in the moment and totally forgot. But, picture this huge monitor on the middle shelf and there was a pull out keyboard thingy under the shelf.
The baskets were full of old paperwork, old computer discs, and a bunch of other stuff that I don't even know why we held on to. There were also about 4 boxes of computer parts such as wireless modems, and such that were old and weren't even being used stacked next to the monitor and dust bunnies everywhere. Oh and pens and pencils, some worked, most did not and some rulers and other things. This was our life.
I saw this picture below on Pinterest from Red Door Home and I knew I could turn my armoire into something just as functional. It may not be quite as pretty as hers but I love it just the same.
So after much purging, mostly into the garbage, washing of the basket liners and a lot dusting and vacuming, this is what my finished bill paying/stationary/gift wrap center looks like.
I spay painted some magazine holders green and covered them with Moxxie Scrapbook paper then printed a label from my computer and mounted it onto the front of the newly covered magazine holder. Now they house our phone books, and below are birthday, boy, and girl gift bags and then I have tissue paper in the container next to the bags
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Next to the phone books is my red, bill paying binder and a 3 drawer container for notebooks, rulers and printer paper just if we need to make notes. A container with a calculator, envelopes, stamps and other mailing products. I separated the markers and highlighters, pens, and pencils into three different "pots" my son made in his pottery class. Above are baskets that house the computer discs we still use, and larger mailing envelopes. There are several empty baskets and the drawers below are empty now too. Wow! Extra storage to boot! I am so happy with this. It makes me smile every time I look in it.
I am still not finished with the whole dining room. See...I will never run out of things to do. Off to Pinterest to find some great ideas.
If you know me at all you know that I am a huge Pinterest fan, but really, who isn't? I have been browsing the "organizing" section a lot lately and have found many pins that have peaked my interest. So, of course I re-pin them to my "organizing" board. Well, I got the bug a few months ago to do something about the huge mess of paperwork, etc in my life.
I decided to start out slowly so the first thing I wanted to get a grasp of was our bill situation. We did keep them all in one place but really they were thrown in a basket in an armoire in the dining room and we had to dig through them to find the one we wanted. It was always a task that got "saved" for another day until we were paying at the last minute...or worse...late...again! Ugh. Enough is enough right? So, I looked and looked until I found this pin from this blog. Echoes of Laughter The title of this post is: The Absolute Easiest Way To Track, Pay & Organize Your Household Bills...No Filing Involved!
She had me at "the absolute easiest" but the "no filing involved" is what really got me hooked. I actually read and followed her post pretty much exactly. Here is my binder.
We have been using this system for a couple of months and really do love it. I broke it down into different sections such as mortgage, insurance, utilities, student loans, etc. Each section has a cover sheet that I printed on card stock so it would hold up for a long time. On the cover sheet is the company name, address, telephone number, website and our passwords for the website if we have one so we don't have to try to remember them. We can track the bills that are paid and when we paid them on the calendar at a glance. After they are paid, I punch the side and file it into the binder in that section. It is so easy and has really helped us to keep all of bills where they belong. Now, I even sort the mail and put the bills into the binder right away. So, having this little red binder has helped us tackle the mail each day and get rid of anything junk related. So, now there is less junk mail. It used to live on the dining room table for days, sometimes longer until I would "get to it".
I am so proud of this and even my husband has commented on how he loves the red binder.
I think my next project will also involve the armoire in the dining room. It now houses a huge computer monitor (not the flat screen kind) that is hooked to nothing and is taking up valuable storage space in my house. So, I am off to Pinterest to look for another great idea.
I have to blog about my oldest son! I am very proud of him and his recent accomplishments. Both of my boys have been into video games for a long time and have done a lot of playing the games, listening to podcasts about gaming, and making games themselves. Ian is attending University of Northern Iowa (UNI) and in the Computer Science program. He was working in the Study Abroad office on campus last year and worked on their website and even developed an app for them. Then, for the summer he received a job working on campus with websites as well. (I am not sure what else he does for this office, but he likes it) He was telling his boss about a game he and his friends were working on and he suggested he check into some of the resources for students that the school offers. Well, he did this and has now started a gaming company with office space, and the works. He is so excited. His website can be found at http://glasscannongames.weebly.com/ and you can follow him on twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/GlassCannonGms. I hope you will check it out!
Welcome to my blog! I am excited to show you pictures of the Flocking Technique class that Peggy and I will be teaching at Micheggy Card Camp. The flocking technique is so much fun! One of these cards is done with stamping and the other is done with the cricut. The last one will be stamping as well.
You can sign up for just this or any of the other techniques for $10 each or you can sign up for the entire camp for $50 for non members of The Craft Spot or $45 for members. The entire day is the best deal!
The dates are Saturday, June 18th or Saturday, June 25th from 8:00 - 5:00 pm. The schedule is as follows:
8-9am - Folding Techniques
9-10am - Flower Techniques
10-11am - Ribbon Techniques
11-noon - Glimmer Misting Techniques
noon-1pm Lunch (on your own)
1-2pm - Digital Card Techniques
2-3pm - Punching Techniques
3-4pm- Flocking Techniques
4-5pm - Textures Techniques
We can't wait to see you. To register you can stop by or send your check to K. Jackson & Co. 2117 Main Street Emmetsburg, IA 50536.
If you have other questions feel free to contact Peggy at 712-298-0105 or myself at 712-480-2320.
