It’s pretty quiet here right now. Both Shelby and Dylan went with my mom to the library and my mom is going to feed them lunch. I love the sound of silence, seriously, love it. I’ve cleaned the bedrooms already and the living room. Things move a lot faster when I don’t have to break up a fight every five minutes!

I still have to tackle the mess that has devoured my scrap room. If it was clean I think I’d be more able to just walk in and work on something. I tried to bribe Michelle to come pick it up for me and told her she could keep any good scrapbook goodies that she found buried in my mess. She didn’t bite. Oh well… I really need to clean out and reorganize some of the shelves. There is so much stuff on those shelves that it makes the rest of the room look a mess even when it isn’t all that bad. If I can get motivated enough to clean up some today maybe by the end of the week I’ll have some goodies to pass on to another scrapper! Let’s face it, we all have something we bought and just don’t use. Or a pack of something that we’ve used some of and then don’t have any use for the rest.

Denny set up a nice pull out shelf for me to put my Creative Cutter Pro on and that frees up A LOT of counter space for me. If I get a chance and things are presentable enough I’ll take a picture
of my cutter on it’s nice new shelf and post it. Keep in mind that
I’ve been asking him to do this for about 4 years now. Anyway, I love it and would really like to find a good way of getting my sewing machine off the counter too, yet keeping it readily accessible.

I don’t post TOOTS on here much anymore. I don’t know way. I figure if people want to know they will look at my resume right. But I wanted to post this because I’m pretty excited about it and being its a new publication that makes it a even better… The other day I mentioned Michigan Scrapbooker, which will debut in May and how I would be writing articles for the publication. I had submitted a layout for the cover of the premier issue. It was something custom based just on their “call” and a size you’d probably never use for anything else unless you later incorporated it into another layout. So I got an email from the editor yesterday asking me to sign a photo release so that what I submitted could be used in the magazine. (The layout has a photo of Shelby on it, and being she is a minor I have to give parental consent for it to be used in prints.) The email said the layout was being used but not where it was going to be used in the mag. So if it’s cover material I don’t know… but either way, to see it in print is always AWESOME. After it’s been released I’ll post it here.

Tomorrow night there is an open chat going on at MyCreativeClassroom.com and I’ll be on between 10-11pm EST chatting. I’ll be running some class promos and doing some giveaways that will be available to those participating both on my blog and the chat area at MCC while I’m there. I hope to see you there and will offer up more details tomorrow.

Oh, and before I forget, (I’m a little late in posting this), Sarah has a card challenge posted on her blog for this week. If you have time take a look. It’s a back to basics challenge and if you consider yourself “embellishment crazy” and always need that extra postage when you mail a card, lol, then this one is for you!!

Enjoy your Wednesday! (Until late yesterday afternoon I thought yesterday was Wednesday, lol, and I must admit I was a little dissapointed to find out it was only Tuesday!)

~j