It's a Hangover with a Sketch and a BIG BOX OF CRAP!!!

This is my 200th post!!!

Holy Honey Bunches of Oats....

So in honor of this momentous occasion

I'm giving away a big box of CRAP!!

(because we always need more CRAP!)

See the bottom of this post for more details..

Right now

it's time to get our groove on...

It's Hip Hop Hangover Day at the Unity forum on SplitCoast Stampers!

A day of fun and chatting HERE

and

there are still a bunch of great deals on the Unity Website

HERE

so if you haven't been...go get your shop on...

the sentiments are on sale for a steal!!

I've got a layout to share with you today

Supplies Used: Unity Stamp Co Feb KOM ; Paper is Making Memories Passport Line

The sentiment I designed myself from one of my favorite quotes from My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult....What do you think?

Here's the sketch

If you decide to use the sketch please link me up so I can see what you do with it!

and a card to share as well..

I might be a little hungover from Valentine's day, but really I just love those rich pinks and browns...Supplies Used: Unity Stamp Company Love Birdies and Spunky Princess

Paper is Cosmo Cricket

Speaking of Spunky Princesses...t

here is a challenge going on right now over at SCS to make a card for one very Spunky Princess

Little Princess Taylor...Go Here to read her story

and then go Here to join the challenge and send her a card

Back to my big box of CRAP giveaway!!!

I have stuffed a Priority Mail Flat Rate Box with crap for one lucky random commenter on this post by Saturday Morning at 8am.

It is stuffed with stuff

some opened and hardly used

some brand new and never used

a couple Unity Stamps

some other odds and ends..

IT's A CRAPAPALOOOOZA

So don't forget to leave a comment and I'll post the winner tomorrow

and there will be something else I have to share tomorrow too...

I can't wait!!!

Just Another Manic Monday

This photo was taken at Forest Park on Sunday.

I have a few things to share today...

First it's Unity week over at CPS. I've been playing with their sketches for awhile now (they're good inspiration for scrapbook pages too) and I enjoyed working with this one.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: CTMH
Pattern Paper: Basic Grey

stamp: Unity Stamp Company "So and So Loves"

You've got all week so if you get time stop by and play along!

Next, Inspired Blueprints ( a new sketch blog that launched Oct 1st) had a bonus sketch so I decided to play along with that as well...

I sort of flipped it upside down and used less photos.

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: WorldWinn

Pattern Paper: Doodlebug, Making Memories

Stamps: Unity " Wish" ,"Wish Sticks", "Small Elegance" and "Sept KOM"

I took a couple of close-ups because it's hard to see the bling

If anyone has Christmas craftiness on the brain Hobby Lobby has some really great sales already. Christmas crafts and scrapbooking are 40% off this week. Plus there's a 40% off any one item coupon you can print out here.

One of the things I love about living in this area besides beautiful, crisp fall days is Forest Park. The park encompasses The St Louis Zoo, The St Louis Art Museum, and the St Louis Science Center just to name a few. All of which are FREE FREE FREE. Yesterday the weather was perfect so we headed out and made a day of it.

Don't worry I didn't give birth to another 10 year old.. LOL..that's our neighbor, Landon's buddy.

Did I mention it was

"Boo at the Zoo"

this weekend?

Want to hear about something else that's free?

I signed up today...I'm really excited about this because she offers lots of other classes too. Wanna play???

That's it for tonight. Thanks for stopping by!

Gratitudes:

1. Knocked a few more off my Christmas list

2. Rob made us fajitas for dinner

3. Jessica's class

4. Such a perfect, perfect day yesterday

5. I got a lot done around the house today!

IRL

Bear with me for the cheesey choice in music today...it's a bit of a tribute

I've been gone a couple days because of work and then yesterday....GUESS WHAT??

In REAL LIFE!!!





Do you recognize them there hotties on either side of me???


Yeppers! That's Kelly on the left and Dianna on the right...It was one of those last minute things where everything came together at just the right time kind of moments...Dianna was coming up to spend a girls weekend with Kelly and a few other friends in Chicago to go see NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK...(no I'm not kidding--Hence the musical tribute)...But she flew in to St Louis because Kelly lives in Quincy...ANYWAY...I get this email from Kelly late on Wed night asking if I want to meet them in St Louis somewhere for lunch before they head back up to Quincy....UM YEAH!!! (after some scrambling to figure out if Rob could pick up the boys from school, he did..God love that man)

We met up at St Louis Mills (a mall on their way back out of town that happens to have an Archiver's) and ate lunch and shopped.

Yes, they're gorgeous...both of them...it's a little overwheming being in their presence I gotta tell you....and seriously you could put both of them together and it probably still wouldn't add up to a whole me....(thinking Cornelia Brown from Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos here) and I really really want Dianna's bag...They are just as fun in real life as they are in blogland!! I should add that I wore 3 inch heeled boots that's why we all look the same height...It was a whirlwind and over way too fast..but it was so cool to get to meet them! I'm so glad I was able to..I hope you girls have a great weekend and I can't wait to see the pics when you come back!!!


I'm working on Christmas gifts...homemade all the way this year...(except for the boys of course...can't wait to share their lists with you)...today I made this







I'm really happy with how this turned out.


Supplies Used:


Pattern Paper Making Memories


Stamps: Unity Stamp Company


Frame Walmart

I also just had to show you this litte journal I picked up on the 2$ table at Barnes and Noble

It just makes me laugh everytime I open it up!!

One more thing...I have a reputation around the house as being a bit of cranky screaming banshee when I come home from work at 7pm after 12 hours on my feet and nothing has been done...I don't know what they are talking about... BUT...Wed night I came home and this is the first thing I see



sometimes I might be a little bit spoiled...

That's it..sorry so long and thanks for stopping by!!
Gratitude:
1. see above
2. I am Number ONE on Veronica's waiting list...
3. Loving the cooler weather with sunshine
4. Lunch with Rob today
5.Getting to meet Dianna and Kelly

Monkey Business and a Ricetta...

I made this mini clipboard today for The Scrapbook Factory...but thought I would also share it with you here...I am so in love with all this monkey stuff everywhere. I'm thinking this will be kitted and offered for sale at the store with the instructions if you're interested...If I bought some of these to kits to offer to you would any of you be interested? Just leave me a comment and let me know. The price I'm thinking would be $15 plus shipping (probably about 5$). The clipboard can either hang or is able to stand alone on any flat surface (there's a peg that attaches to the back). Finished it is 6x9 inches. Supplies Used: Daisy D's pattern paper Sock Monkey, Funky Monkey, Clipboard NicoleCrafts, Daisy D's Die Cuts, Color Box Ink.

Here is today's Ricetta I think we're on #6

and here is my layout based on the Ricetta...

This one is bazzill cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Halfway Cafe pattern paper, making memories letter stickers...

and now a little story for your reading pleasure...

On Monday I cooked dinner ( I know... but there's more) I made pork chops in mushroom gravy and they were really good but that's not really the story here. ..the story is that in the process of cooking (in true Amy fashion I used a pan that wasn't deep enough) the mushroom gravy spilled over which started a small fire in the bottom of the oven...ok for real...flames and everything...but you know...I do this once in a while, so I figured no big deal it will burn off...well it ended up making a huge mess (of course) so this morning I put the oven in it's self cleaning mode for about a minute and half before I thought better of my decision to try to take matters into my own hands and stopped the process calling Rob to "fix it"...he said he'd get to it later....ok..so meanwhile I had to make breakfast...popping in Landon't usual (tater tots) several minutes later the kitchen was filled with greyish black smoke, the smoke alarm is going off, and I pulled the tater tots out to find they were this greyish green color...huh?...so I have once again been banned from my kitchen, Mary Poppins ( my oven) has betrayed me...and a later conversation with my husband revealed that he apparently thinks I'm "like a superhero...gone very wrong..."ok thanks...

that's all for today...hope everyone had a nice night...looks like we're having takeout...

Everything's Coming up Roses!!

So several people asked me whether or not I was going to accept the job in Heaven (aka The Scrapbook Factory) and I have to say at this point how could I not...? right? but I'm going to go by there after work tomorrow and talk with Anne and see what's next....I'm so excited I could pee my pants!!

In other news...another super cool thing happened to me today...I am joining the team at OhScrap, on online magazine and blog soon to publish it's first issue...I don't know all the details of what you're going to be seeing in there yet and some stuff is still super secret..but I can promise it's going to be a lot of fun... I am going to be the Sketch Coordinator!! I am so excited that I already completed my first assignment! You can go subscribe here now....that would be now....and then come back and read about the rest of what's going on around here....

I actually started to blog last night, but blogger kept giving me error messages so I gave up...

While I've been missing the past couple days, I've actually gotten quite a bit done...

This is Landon helping me with my suitcase...I'm having a lot of fun with this medium or I should say we are...but I'm not showing you anymore of it until it's done...

I should have known when I almost set the kitchen on fire yesterday boiling water for tea that it probably wasn't the best day to start this project..(I sort of forgot about putting the water on and got in the shower)...I got one side done and all impressed with my cute self, turned it over to do the other side and proceeded to put the focal point of the project..the vintage "Once in Love with Amy" ad from a 1950's Life....UPSIDE DOWN...Mod Podge is not a very forgiving sealer so it's stuck that way...it's cute still...just upside down...so I'm not sure if I'm going to just cover over it or say the heck with it and leave it...probably the latter...

Here is my Deck of Me card for week 10..prompt was describe you Happy Place

The paper is Making Memories and the Dye Cuts are from Luxe Designs Color Me Cozy...I so love this line of paper...then I inked them with my CTMH inks

and here is a layout based on one of Christi's Creative Prompts...36 I think...

I used CTMH Cardstock, Making Memories letter stickers, Bazzill cardsock for the Photo matts, Scenic Route Charlotte pattern paper and Daisy D's Beacon Hill patter paper, the butterfly and journal tag are Fancy Pants....

I also did this one of Landon..

For this one I used Bazzill cardstock, Karen Foster pattern paper, We R memory Keepers patter paper and letter stickers, Making Memories pattern paper and journaling page, Fancy Pants ribbon and ribbon holder thingie.

I had Landon home with me today, he's had a really awful cold and has been pretty miserable...but of course with the amazing power of Tylenol Cold by 11 he was feeling fine and dandy and bouncing off the walls so we...well mostly he...I supervised made some chocolate chip cookies...

they turned out really good- so his new aspiration is to become a chef...let's hope he has a lot better luck in the kitchen than I do....I'm way too easily distracted...

That's all I've got for today...thanks so much for stopping by...

Gratitude:

1. Day off with Landon

2. Baking cookies with kid mentioned above

3. Not losing my patience with same earlier mentioned kid

4. getting some scrappy stuff done...

5. staying in my pj's until (blush) about 11...

oh my gosh, I almost forgot to mention...there's this new show on Fox called New Amsterdam...it's on tonight at 8 central...or it might be 9...anyway it's really good you've got to see it and if you missed the first two episodes you can watch them on Fox.com...I watch almost all my shows on the internet anymore...I can never seem to be in front of the tv at a specific time...ok well this post has probably broken records for longest ever..so I'm outta here..

love and kisses...

MWAH!