Dreary Monday!

It's a dreary Monday, but am hoping for rain, the drought is awful!  I am praying that there's more rain coming than they're anticipating today and that there's more down the line.

Hubby and his brother went to a ranch sale on Saturday and bought me a couple surprises.  One is an old chest but I don't have a photo of it yet, not sure where hubby put it.  It needs bit of work, but it's really cool and is going to be beautiful hopefully when we're done with it.

The other item they bought me was an old tool chest that's heavier than a son of a gun.  It also needs some work but mostly cosmetic.  Hubby is cleaning it up and then it will get painted.  I'm probably going to leave it red and black but it looks like it was originally green.  It was probably from one of the Air Force Bases in the area we figure.  I took a couple of pictures this morning but they don't show how cool it is.  I didn't think to take any pictures before we took all the drawers out and put the cabinet on the table to clean it up.  Looks like it was in a barn or shed for years and if full of cobwebs and one hornets nest.  lol

This is the cabinet on top of the workbench.  Went out yesterday and got some wheels for it and I can hear hubby outside working on it!!  lol

Here are some of the drawers ready to be cleaned up and painted.  There are 24 drawers total in 2 different sizes.  Can't wait for it to be done and put it in my scrap room and fill the sucker up!!

Have a great Monday and will continue to take pictures of the progress and keep your fingers crossed for a good rain.  

October Already!!

Where does the time go, I can't believe it's already October.  I have been busy working away trying to finish up projects that I've been working on and time just seems to be going so fast!  It'll be Christmas before I know it and I hope I'm going to be ready for it!!!!!!!

I am trying to get my Close to My Heart business going, but I'm getting a slow start.  So if you're interested in ordering or just want to check out the online catalog it can be found here.  

If you are interested in doing an online party, just shoot me a message and we'll set it up!!

Here is a sample of the October Stamp of the Month - It's a darling stamp set and you can go to my     Close To My Heart website to see the whole stamp set that's only $5.00 when you place a qualifying order of $50.00 or more!!

The month of October you can also get a Surprise Chevron Ribbon with a qualifying purchase of $50.00!!

So be sure to check out my CTMH online catalog, there are so many amazing stamp sets and the paper collections are just gorgeous!

Talk to you soon and I am hoping to have photos ready of what I've been working on!!

What's Happening These Days!

Time just seems to get away from me lately, so much going on this time of the year.  Kids are going back to school, but I don't have any kids left at home.  I am getting ready for the holidays, my favorite time of the year is just around the corner, FALL!!  Halloween is big at my house, hubby loves to decorate the whole front yard and add new things every year.   I'm getting ready for Christmas already, making gifts and cards.  I'm still working on my Open House, launch of my Close To My Heart business and it's so exciting to think about and will be in about 3 weeks!!

As always, still trying to put my craft room together and always seem to mess it up BIG.  I've come to the conclusion that if I'm not making a huge mess I'm not doing anything.

Got all my goodies together and ready to create!

Even my desk is fairly cleaned off for now and is ready for me to get busy!

If you haven't checked out the new catalog from Close To My Heart just go to my website and thumb through it.  There are tons of new stamps, papers and embellishments!!  This month is National Stamping Month and if you spend $30.00 you get the #30 Years of Happy stamp set for free!!!

So stay tuned for sneak peaks and more details on my Open House and if you're interested in a catalog just let me know.

Tuesday is Here - Time is Flying By

It's Tuesday, the end of August is almost here and I just can't believe how time is just flying by.  I've been on an everything break, trying to get life sorted out and priorities in order.  I am also on a Design Team break for a while too, but I think it may be for a long while, we will see what happens there.  Pinque Peacock is awesome and miss the girls, but feel the need to focus on my own projects for now.

Did go visit the grandsons and had a great time, but again, got sick when we got home.  Have been working on my craft studio and have it pretty much done, but have tons of stuff I want to sell and still wondering the best way to do it (group on FB, Ebay, ect.) and will figure it out in time.  Would rather not have to deal with shipping and will probably just bite the bullet and do it.

My desk and tables are clean enough to create now and just need to pick a project to do.

I am getting stuff ready for my long past due Close To My Heart Open House.  I've already gotten new catalogs, new stamps and lots of goodies!!  Making some samples and getting a make-n-take together and am getting closer to setting a date so stayed tuned for more information!!!  I am over the moon excited!!!  I do have a button on the right, just click away!!!

So that's it for today and am getting back into a regular routine of posting again, so stayed tuned in!!

USA Baby!

It's my turn on the Pinque Peacock blog and so for my post today I've done a layout using a photo of my grandson Graisen.  I've got tons of photos of both boys, just need to make time to do albums for each of them.  I looked around on my table to see what I had out and I had been working on patriotic stuff and so that's what I went with.  I didn't have the time to clean up and didn't want to get more stuff out, so patriot layout it is.  I looked through photos and saw the outfit Graisen was wearing and thought it would be perfect with what I had spread out on the table and in the box of goodies that was out.

I used the small Layered Garden Beauties from Pinque Peacock and the Metal Stars are also from the Pinque Peacock shop.

Here is my USA Baby layout.

This is a close-up of the Layered Garden Beauties, they're really pretty!!

Here is a close-up of the Metal Stars, love them!!

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you enjoyed my layout!

Pinque Peacock June Challenge!

This is going to be my very first Challenge ever and so I'm nervous and excited at the same time!  lol  So the Challenge is on the Pinque Peacock Challenge Blog and for June it's Anything Goes.  I've been following the challenges for quite a while, but am always too chicken to make something.  The projects that everyone posts are amazing, but wanted to participate this month because it's Anything Goes and that's right up my alley!

So I had bought these mini-canvas' and easels from the Pinque Peacock Facebook Shop and have been wanting to mess around with them and thought this would be the perfect opportunity.  The mini-canvas is 2x3 and it was so fun making this project.  At first I was going to paint something, but then decided to make it more of a mixed-media canvas.

Here is my Mini-Canvas and if you haven't already checked out the Pinque Peacock Challenge Blog you should come and play along!

June Crafty Kit Club - Canvas

I am loving the June Canvas Crafty Kit Club items, had fun playing with the items sent to me.

This is what I got - Lots of cool goodies!

I'm the type of crafter that has to set everything out on the table and look at it for sometimes days for inspiration to hit me.  Well it just wasn't happening, so I just sat down and started playing with the paint and paper and then just started gluing stuff down.  Was pretty happy how it turned out and had a great time doing it!

I decided that the flower was pretty the way it was, so I didn't paint it.  I did however spray it with gold glitter spray but it doesn't really show up in the photo.

Here is the canvas that I came up with.

Thank you for stopping by and check out the Crafty Kit Club!