TOMORROW IS THE DAY...

Supplies Used:

Paper October Afternoon

Stamps: Unity Stamp Company

Tomorrow is the day

of the BIG REVEAL HERE

You will meet our

ENCHANTING

DESIGN TEAM

you undoubtedly already know them

that they agreed to work with me is still a mystery

and

our

FIRST KIT

"THE BEEEZ KNEEEEZ"

Will be for sale

RIGHT HERE

on

this little old blog

I can not wait for my

blog renovation!!!

My friend Jenn doesn't know this

but she had a little bit to do with me deciding to follow my dreams.

We had been working together for a while on the

EAD TEAM

and one day

she opened her own store!

"Wow! that took guts"

I thought

I was inspired

and that was all she wrote

Go check out Jenn's store

TORENDI

She's got some really fun cool stuff happening over there with

Bam Pop and Mod Podge right now!

OPENING FOR ORDERS WEDNESDAY!!!

I am trying to shake my tail feathers like crazy to have everything ready to go here by Wednesday!!

I just can't wait anymore for the store to be ready, or the blog to be redesigned

I'm too excited..that's still coming, but it will probably be a week or two

stay tuned for the

GRAND OPENING of CAFFINATED CROPPER

(yes it will be spelled wrong until the day I die)

In the meantime...

Come Back on Wednesday to Meet

the four very amazing, sweetest women in the world who have agreed to

be on my

DESIGN TEAM!!

AND

Order the coolest

papercrafting/cardmaking/hybrid kit you've ever seen

( I KNOW this because I got A LOT of help putting it together)

It's in it's own category...

we need a new word

...you want a peek don't you...

ooookay...I'll give you one

but this is only a fraction of what will be in this kit..

IT IS PACKED and STACKED

seriously

This picture doesn't include several more ribbons, papers,

a WHOLE STAMP SET

and MORE!!!

So don't forget...

Come back Wednesday

please...

I'll beg if you want me too

In other news...

This is so cool...

My Friend from EAD DESIGNS

Lindsay Spencer

who also designs for UNITY

Got together with some friends

Tanis and Heather

to create their own Digital Stamp Store

THREE ON A TREE

Go check them out!!

They are so awesome!!

Notice the missing music?

I think playlist has a virus..I had to remove it

because it was acting stupid

Thanks so much for stopping by to see me today!!

I'm giving away SOME VINYL!!!!

I've been slowly but surely trying to give my kitchen a "Cafe" look..

Of course this is base housing so there's only so much you can do

But

I made this little sign from a wooden frame from the $1 section at Michael's and I think it turned out pretty cute

Supplies Used:

EAD DESIGNS Vinyl RubOns

Alphabet Vinyl Rub Ons

Paper October Afternoon, Basic Grey Nook and Pantry

Stamps Unity Stamp Company

Here's the cool thing about these letters

You can order them in ANY COLOR YOU WANT!!!

If you haven't tried vinyl rub ons, you gotta!!

I used to hate working with rub ons because so much of the time, for me

they would only partially rub off on the paper, ruining your whole project

or worse, after you got them all on and looking perfect

you'd look at the project again two weeks later and the rub ons would all be peeling off

This does not happen with

EAD DESIGNS VINYL

They have so many designs for you to choose from, and you can even go to the

DESIGN CENTER

and make your own!!

EMILY

can do anything with Vinyl...your only limit is your imagination!!

They're even getting ready to start making

REUSABLE, MULTICOLORED VINYL for your walls!!!

I want you to give some VINYL a try

SO I AM GIVING AWAY A RUB ON SET OF YOUR CHOICE!!!

THAT's RIGHT!!!

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO WIN IS:

1. Go to the EAD STORE and tell me what your favorite set is

2. Go visit Emily's Blog and leave her some LOVE

3. Leave me a comment here on this post by Saturday March 14th at 8am Est.

4. You'll get extra entries for Following Emily, Following Me, Following the rest of the DT (you'll see a list to your left) Posting about this contest on your blog!! (Please leave a separate comment for each)

I will pick a random winner

EASY PEASY, RIGHT?

Now..

get to it...

You've got work to do!!

This Lucky Life...

Supplies Used

EAD DESIGNS Vinyl RUB ONs

St Patrick's Day

Sweet Sentiments

I bet if you check a little later, they'll be on sale!!!

Paper Basic Grey Origins, Crate Paper

Stamp Unity Stamp Company

Em's got Lots of new Rubons at the

EAD STORE

Including a few EASTER SETS!!!

Another 8 1/2 x 11 Layout
Told ya you'd be seeing more of them

I really love working with this size, it all goes together a lot faster for me

These pictures were taken last spring while we were strolling the National Mall

It's so beautiful there that time of year, all the flowers and the green with the architecture

it's just amazing...

Rob left to go TDY to Alabama yesterday morning for a few weeks, and my mom is staying here visiting for a while, so were enjoying some time.

I'm still waiting in line (#6) with Veronica for a blog and webstore re design, and hopefully I'll have the rest of the ingredients for the kits very soon!

I'm very impatient to open!

Read some books...

Supplies Used (left to right):

Unity Stamp Company Stylin Stars

Basic Grey Urban Prairie

Basic Grey Origins Clip

Verve Stamps Reach for the Stars

CS on both is PTI

Unity Stamp Company Bevy of Butterflies

Bazzil Tulle

All highlighted products available at

LIMELIGHT PAPERCRAFTS

I love making bookmarks, because not only are they a fast and super easy project,

they make a great gift tucked into a new book.

The first time I met Christi we met for lunch at Eckert's

one of my favorite places that I miss terribly!

Anyway,

having previously been blogland friends and GoodReads friends

Christi went through my "to read" list and

gave me 4 0r 5 books of hers on that list with the

sweetest little bookmark tucked in.

I thought that was one of the most thoughtful things ever!!

Still working, dreaming, playing and hoping to be up and running soon!!

Have a great Sunday!

TODAY.....

...TODAY....

There is so much promise in that one little word

Today...I found out that I will not be able to stay in my current job that I really love

Today...I decided to be grateful for all the love and support in my life

Today...I am deciding to not feel sorry for myself

Today...I got an email from my bestest friend and soul sister that said

"I think God is setting you up for success by losing your job"

So I'm sharing

Here's my little secret

I'm opening a WEB STORE front selling

Hybrid Kits and Papercrafting Supplies

The kits are going to be amazing

this much I can promise

because I had A LOT of help

putting the first one together

and I am so very excited to share them with you!

I promise

there will be lots of fun to be had,

friends to be made

and

inspiration to be found

Very Soon

I will introduce you to

my incredibly fabulous and talented

Design Team

God Bless these women

for agreeing to join this dream of mine

and helping me to make it come true

I hope to have the first kit ready

and the store open

by the middle of March

I'll keep you posted!

Owl love you forever...

I'm in lurve with this

SILLY OWLS Rub On Set from

EAD Designs!

These little guys are just the cutest!

I ordered them in brown, but you can order them in any color you want.

I haven't ever done an 8 1/2 x 11 layout, but I've been making a few lately mostly because

I have this album I bought on clearance forever ago, and I really am making an effort to actually put my layouts into albums instead of boxes.

Am I the only one who does that?
Anyway I really like working with this size,

It's so much less pressure to not have to fill up that huge 12x12 square.

Supplies used on this layout:

Silly Owls Rub on Set

Paper is Basic Grey Lime Rickey and Sassafrass Lass

Here's what we've been up to...


My whole family was in town for Rob's Chief Induction Ceremony on Saturday Night.
It was so awesome to have them here to share it with us, and my mom has decided to stick around for awhile, since he'll be leaving to go to a class in Alabama for a couple weeks.

Why is it hard to get your mojo going

when there are people around?