Have ya'll seen the new TH markers?????

Okay I am just beginning to use T.Holtz products and I am admittedly not the biggest TH fan (I feel like I just committed blasphemy by saying that) but I really want these new markers. It's not that I do not like his products, It's just that I am a direct ink to paper kinda girl and to have to pull out sponges and felt squares just annoys me. Also I am not a big stamper and don't like coloring much but something about these markers intrigue me. I do love to journal and I have been thinking of taking a watercolor class so maybe that's it, IDK......All I know is that I really really want these. Check 'em out:

Need Valentine goodies?

I will be selling my Valentine's Day cards and scrapbooks at the Open Air Market that is sponsored by The Mad Hatter Antique Mall this Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012 and on Sunday, Feb. 5th at Super Pole Sunday at Pink Fitness in Peoria, AZ. Want to win this girly minibook? Enter my door prize drawing at Pink FItness. It's going to be a good time. Come check out both events. There will be lots of other vendors and you can get some great deals.

Valentine cards

I was going through my stash and I came across my Valentine's day K and Co. stack that I bought last year. One of the papers had several cards so I was inspired to make a couple of cards. I love Valentine's Day! Next to Thanksgiving it's my favorite holiday. It's like my Christmas. I have already begun decorating the house. I put up the banner I made last year. I'll post a pic of that later. Here are the cards:

My birthday gift

My SIL gave me a surprise birthday party last night and my DIL made a special gift for me. I told her on Grandparent's Day that I wanted a tshirt with my granddaughters' handprints. Ya' know every grandparent has to have that shirt.Well, she made the tshirt for my birthday. My DIL is very creative but I never expected what she made for me.


She also made tshirts for each of my granddaughters that say granddaughter #1 and #2 with their silhouette on them. I didn't get pics of them because the girls left before I could snag a pic. My grandaughter calls me Nonnie or Grandma Nonnie. My DIL spelled it differently than I do. I absolutely love how she designed them. I just had to share.

2012

Happy New Year everyone! I have been wanting to post something on my revamped blog since New Years Day but I am horrible with this picture thing. I need to find a better, faster way to get pics on my blog. I talk a lot so writing often is not a issue. I am really lazy when it comes to taking pics, uploading them and then adding them (I think a new computer would resolve the issue). Also I wanted to have a good idea about the direction of my blog this year before I started posting. What I wanted to do, a linky party sort-of thing, won't work on Blogspot so I had to rework some things. But stay tuned cause I have some fun and inspirational things ahead. Just since Christmas I have made a dress form pin cusion, a no-sew jacket thingee, t-shirt scarves, decoupaged my sewing table, painted and DIY'd some pic frames, revamped some other misc. Goodwill items, had a mini thrift clothing haul, dyed some ball trim with red Kool-Aid and bleached some seam binding. The good news is that I will get all these projects up to share with everyone over the next few weeks. I really want this blog to be a place where we share ideas with each other. I am looking forward to meeting all my new blogland friends!

Anyone doing One LIttle Word or something similar? I discovered this blog last year and it changed my resolutions cause the focus of my goals became faith based. I had seen Ali Edwards OLW in the past but this one just stuck with me better. My word for this year is Priorities. The last few years have been difficult and I think as a self-soothing measure I began procrastinating BADLY and doing fun stuff before needed and important stuff. Thank the Lord I put myself on a scrap shopping freeze or things could have gotten ugly LOL. I have been putting too many things off for too long and/or not doing things I needed to do. I really need this to change cause the latter end of this year has me feeling the effects of it. I know this has not been healthy for me either. So....on to "handlin' my bizness" so I can do God's business. My other goal is to spend time BEING with my children and doing loving and not the just the necessary things for them. My job is demanding on my time and emotional energy and my kids have gotten the shift for it. That will change this year! I am looking forward to my changes. What about you? Did you pick a word or set resolutions, please share.

Tuesday Trigger

Ever want to kill (literally) a project? Well, I would love to shred this one but I'm not yet cause it gave me so much trouble and I don't want to trash that velvet ribbon and crown brad LOL. I'll save you the details of what happened but I will tell that I had to make the sentiment about 8 times cause the embossing wasn't coming out right or it was stamped crooked. It all started when I put on the ribbon crooked and lifted it up only to put a small tear in the paper. I had to cover it up and a flower was just not going to do it cause I didn't want it to be too feminine. This is a card I would have been very happy with had it come out right. I love doing the Tuesday Triggers cause I want to be a better card maker. I was totally inspired by the motif on the dress. Isn't it pretty? Thanks for looking and if you wanna, you have two more days to play along at http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2011/10/tuesday-trigger-dress-finesse.html