Spend an evening scrappin’ that girl in your life.  In this class you’ll focus on products and techniques that will give your layouts that girly girl sparkle. In this class Jen will guide you through the assembly and embellishment of three layouts.  Required supplies:  Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Liquid Adhesive, Glue Dots, Tape Runner (Permanent and Repositionable recommended), Eyelet setting tools.  (see store sample, printed papers may vary)

Can you use flowers on a boy layout??  The answer is a definite YES!!  Join Jen and spend an evening taking those stereotypical girl embellishments and give them a masculine spin.  This class will also cover placement, adhering techniques, and ways to alter all those flowers you see everywhere! You will leave class with three completed layouts that will convince you that a flower can be the perfect embellishment for anything. Required supplies:  Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Liquid Adhesive, Glue Dots, Tape Runner (Permanent and Repositionable recommended), Eyelet setting tools.  (see store sample, printed papers may vary)

Quite often boys get slighted in the scrap booking world, but in this class you’ll focus on products and techniques that will definitely “boy-up” your pages. You’ll do pages that focus on boy quotes, boy toys, and boy relationships. Come hang out with the girls while we spend two hours scrappin’ for the boys!  In this class Jen will guide you through the assembly and embellishment of three layouts.  Required supplies:  Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Liquid Adhesive, Glue Dots, Tape Runner (Permanent and Repositionable recommended), Eyelet setting tools.  (see store sample, printed papers may vary)

In this class you will create two canvas projects that will be suitable for display anywhere in your home!  This is a fun way to display those special photo memories.  Come learn the process of Scrapbooking those memories on canvas.  You will be choosing your own papers to match your photo and décor.  Required supplies:  Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Liquid Adhesive, Photo Tape, Glue Dots, Tape Runner (Permanent and Repositionable recommended), Eyelet setting tools.  (see store sample, printed papers may vary)

Excited to greet the Spring and Summer seasons?  Spring into action and get a head start scrappin’ those fun Spring and Summer moments.  In this class Jen will guide you through the assembly and embellishment of three layouts.  Required supplies:  Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Liquid Adhesive, Glue Dots, Tape Runner (Permanent and Repositionable recommended), Eyelet setting tools.  (see store sample, printed papers may vary)

Scrap your everyday life with this fun and easy challenge.  Simply bring 12 photos with you to class on the 12^th of each month.  You will create a layout using different materials and sketches provided in class.  At the end of the year you will have 12 completed layouts to compile into an album.  Several different sketches will be available depending on your layout tastes and preferred format.  Required supplies:  Scissors, Paper Trimmer, Liquid Adhesive, Glue Dots, Tape Runner (Permanent and Repositionable recommended), Eyelet setting tools.

Jump on the flower cart!  In this class you will complete 3 layouts that will focus on the many different ways to embellish your projects with flowers.  This class will cover placement, adhering techniques, and ways to alter all those flowers you see everywhere! Required supplies:  Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Liquid Adhesive, Glue Dots, Tape Runner (Permanent and Repositionable recommended), Eyelet setting tools.  (see store sample, printed papers may vary)

  

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I took this photo of Shelby the other day. It was one of the nicest days we have had and a temperature record breaker. This was one of my favorite shots in a series. She was just being silly and some of the photos from this day are ones I used on that cool canvas I can’t show you because alas, Mr. Camera Card is still MIA. This silly smile though has now been replaced with a cheesed off little girl. She is cutting two new teeth on the bottom that just started to finally break through yesterday. As a result, I spent a lot of time last night wide awake. She just wanted me to snuggle her, and just me.

Went to Target yesterday, got stuff I didn’t need, lol. I bought a ZEN. Jeannie likes hers so I figured I’d give it a try. They aren’t real expensive and I got a 1GB one for just around $75.00. I figure now I can stop using Eric’s IPod when I crop. A fact I’m sure he will appreciate. Transferring music to it can be kind of a pain (it won’t take iTunes stuff) though. I’m listening to it now, and Ethan was listening to it this morning while he was getting ready for school.

I started a new canvas project this morning. It is a series of several 4×4 ones. I plan to attach them to each other and hang them. Hopefully by the time they are done I will have found some way to take a photo of them lol.

I’ll be at a 12 hour on Saturday at Little Scrapbox. I PLAN to get a lot of stuff done. I hope it works out that way. I still have supply lists to get typed up and I want to take them with me when I go. I would have done it already, but I can’t remember where I put the scraps that I wrote the info on. Pretty sad huh, frankly I have a hard time remembering what day it is sometimes. People are telling me it is just because I have too many things going on, and maybe that is true. Just the same, it is still a pain in the butt.

I will be posting dates for classes today, so keep an eye out.

WOO HOO for Friday!

~j

  

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I’m off to Target today, one of my favorite places. Why is it that no matter what I go in there for I always come home with something extra? I mean really, I don’t usually NEED all that stuff, so how does that happen???

I can’t seem to find my camera card today, so I’ll have to pick one up while I’m out. I had it at Little Scrapbox last, so I’m wondering if I left it there. This is a good lesson for you, put your name on your camera disk, lol. Anyway, I had all the photos off, so its not a big deal, and it was about 2, maybe even 3 years old, and lookin a little rough. See how I justify these things? Anyway, so that’s why you are getting a layout today instead of a cute little photo of the canvas project I did yesterday. I know, full of excuses! lol

I did this layout the other day and used the Cricut for part of my title. How many of you have the Cricut? My Mom has one and it doesn’t work very well. Hers was on of the first one “off the line” and it does not cut Bazzill, or any “real” cardstock for that matter. Just the real lightweight stuff you get in a multipack at a big box store. So I was real disappointed and didn’t have high hopes for mine. However, mine works pretty darn well. Its no Pazzles Creative Cutter, but a pretty good portable alternative. Mine cuts Bazzill, and as a result, I’m pretty gosh darn happy about it.

A couple weeks ago, at least I think it was a couple weeks ago, I was at a crop with Michelle and we couldn’t hear the radio over all the chatter. So Michelle has a super nice hubby that brought us up some IPod’s. Yeah, they are an IPod household, so I got to borrow one for the day. Thanks Eric! I actually got Eric’s IPod, and I must say the he and I have a lot in common, including music. Thank goodness for that, otherwise it would have been a long day listening to something goofy. So again, three cheers for Eric. The downside here is that now I want one, lol. I’ve been saying for a long time that I don’t need or want one. I mean what would I use it for? If I’m at home I have mp3’s playing or XM, in the car I have the radio, CD or XM. So really what is the point? But now, oh yes, now I have a reason - CROPS. I’ll have to put one on my wish list now. Funny thing, I was on the Target website (yes everything does come back to Target) and they have preowned IPods. There is something that is really funny about the phrase preowned IPod.

Anyway, I need to get started with my day… projects to finish, a house to clean, and a local Target to shop.

Happy Thursday to you!
~j

  

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Again, I’m a bad blogger. BUT, I got a lot of stuff done and a few major projects out of the way this week, so things should slow down now and I will have more time to keep this updated.

Mr. UPS delivered our new Sleep Number bed on Monday. I got it all set up so that Denny wouldn’t have to do it when he got home. Let me tell you, I had sore muscles in places I didn’t even know I had muscles. UGH. The first night I couldn’t sleep. Last night Denny kept me awake so I went elsewhere for snore free sleeping. Tonight I’m going to try again. I think part of my problem is that it has been so long since he has slept in the bed that I need to get used to him being there again. No more sleeping right in the middle for me. Hopefully this bed helps with all his back problems. He has been having real trouble with it lately.

I just finished a really cute canvas project today. It is a pretty big one, and if I have time tomorrow I’ll take a photo so that I can share it. It will be on display at Little Scrapbox for a class promotion starting when I drop it off on Saturday. Anyway, it came out cute. I’ll have to take a look at it again tomorrow and see if I want to add anything else. You know how that goes. I have to step away sometimes and then go in for a second look!

The layout I posted today I finished last Friday at Little Scrapbox. Ethan had an early school day that day so I took him up there around 2pm to “Crop” and told him we could stay till he was ready. Turns out we didn’t leave until 10:30PM and that was only because neither of us liked what was on television! He had such a great time and was totally into his “work” the entire time. He helped me load up the car and asked if he could come back again on Sunday, lol. His spring break is coming up soon, so I told him we could go back them. He doesn’t get much alone time with me anymore, and I really enjoy him, and apparently he enjoys my company too. He got a call that morning asking if he wanted to go over a friends in the afternoon. Believe it or not, he said no, because he wanted to go with me. That was a nice feeling. In a few years I’m sure that won’t be the case, but I will enjoy it while it lasts.

Ok I’m off. I might start another project here before I wrap up for the evening. I’m not a big television watcher and I make it a point not to sit in bed before it is time to go to bed, so I try to keep busy.

Night-o
~j