early christmas

I hope everyone has been their Christmas shopping done. And for those who are done can I hand you my list! Anyways, early this year my lss closed and I was devastated. I feel so out of the scrapbook loop. I am not a big fan of ordering online because I am a touchy feely person. I like to see what I am buying. Well I finally cracked and just had to buy me some new goodies and they came in last week! I was so excited to have new things to play with this weekend . It was like an early Christmas present just for me! Something that I got was some new paper from Studio Calico. I am not sure when they started making paper but I really like it.

Studio Calico - patterned paper and letters, Love, Elsie - stickers, Making Memories - kraft stickers, 7 gypsies - sticker. kraft cardstock

I was also able to get my hands on some new MME! I was so excited to get some of this be loved line, just something about the muted colors.

Making Memories - puffy letters, American Crafts - pearl brad, Jennie Bowlin - ticket, My Mind's Eye - patterned paper, kraft card stock

Now I am just waiting till I get more time to hide back upstairs and create more. But I guess I have to finish all the Christmas shopping first. Hope everyone has a goodnight!

we turned in our list today

We decided to go by the mall today and give Santa our Christmas wish list.


We stood in line way too long surrounded by very impatient little children but we finally got to see St. Nick himself. I managed to sneak in a photo or two seeing that we weren't allowed to take our own, especially if you weren't buying one of their packages.

On another note is there anybody else besides me that is excited about the Texas-Alabama match up. Hook 'Em Horns!

gobble, gobble

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Hope you have a great day and lots of Turkey!

need inspiration

I have been in a scrapping funk lately. This hobby is one of my outlets that I use to unwind but the lack of inspiration is driving me crazy. So while I was browsing my favorite scrappy blogs I came across KI's Wildcard Wednesday. They had a sketch posted and I was immediately drawn to it. So I ran to my scraproom with my recently printed photos. (Love, Elsie patterned paper, Jennie Bowlin label sticker, American Craft thickers, Making Memories glitter stickers and KI patterned paper and stickers)

It was so therapeutic getting this page done. I actually started a mini album for Preston's birthday! Well I need to finalize Thursday menu so that is all for tonight.

I made it out

Okay for those who have been playing along with the fall cleaning, remember this
the closet of endless toys. Well I finally tackled it today. Now it is all nice and clean with drastically fewer toys. I also cleaned up the fireplace. It is a catch all for things in the living room, especially..... you guessed it, toys. I am happy to show you a clean mantel and hearth. Now I did keep some of the most played with toys, because we all know that is where they will end back up anyways.

Even though I only cleaned up the small spaces I feel like I accomplished so much. I also managed to get the boys to let go of all these these toys when did we accumulate so much. Now to figure out what to do next. Master bedroom maybe, scraproom, unlikely, or the kitchen, again. I swear it is never ending -insert huge sigh here- Have a great night!

Happy Birthday Preston!

The cleaning will have to be paused for we have a little celebrating to do!

don't judge...

For today I came home to my dining room table looking like this

I honestly had half the mind to leave it, but seeing as I claimed I would do some cleaning this week I decided to go ahead and clean it. Now it looks like this.

All the ziploc bags, the bottle of wine, the dvd player and a bunch of other stuff have found their proper home. It seriously took all of like ten minutes. It pains me a little knowing that the kids are eating on my clean table. But what is even more amazing is the fact that the hubs has participated in the cleaning efforts. I have been nagging him for awhile and go through his clothes because our closet was slowly getting smaller. Well I finally come home and it has been done.

See those clothes on the bottom bar that is what he "took" out. Granted they are still in there but at least I can now grab them and put them inthe stuff to donate. How are everybody else's cleaning adventures going?