Home From Mississippi

Hello, I am finally home from all my summer travel and just plan to hang out here in the Orlando area until school starts.  I had a great time in MS visiting family and attending a local scrapbook weekend called Crop Connection. The ladies who put on this event are terrific and really spoil attendees. I also enjoyed spending time with my friends who I used to go on road trips with when I lived in Lousiana and Mississippi. They came over to join me for the event.

Cindy Davenport, Delaine Stoner and Angie Kyle

This event is held every January, but this year they decided to host a summer event. It was smaller than their usual crops like 50 attendees vs. 100 attendees.  We shopped at the vendors and our food was included.

Here are all the goodies they gave us.

Here's what I bought

forgot to add theses purchases to the first picture. And now for my FAVORITE PURCHASE OF THE DAY!!!!!..........

I LOVE THIS APRON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This apron is by an up and coming apron and bag company, Vintage Glam, out of Mobile, Alabama that is in the process of  getting an Etsy page going and showing up at more scrapping events like, Scrapfest in Mandeville, Louisiana. If you run into Tiffany, tell her I sent you. She takes special orders, and I plan to order a full size apron as well.  She will be sending me a link to look at her samples, photos, etc. until her Etsy site is up and running. Don't you just LOVE this apron? I noticed ladies wearing aprons for crafting and shopping not just cooking.  Did I tell you how much I LOVE this apron? She had more that I drooled over which made it so hard to decide which one to buy. Oh, and one more thing, she uses designer fabrics and she scotchguards them for protection, and they are washable.

I Love My Tree of Life

I just love my Tree Of  Life that I got last summer at my local scrapbook store, Scrappy Boutique, in Orlando. I have been decorating it with different themes each season/holiday. I keep it in my scraproom. The pictures I chose for the themes are over the years for each holiday; not just the current year.  Now that each set is made, all I do is add one or two pictures to them from now on.  My family and I really enjoy the little memory display highlighting for example, all the first days of school over the years. I also really like the opportunity to use up tons of little embellishments from my stash that didn't quite get used during my page and album making.

Here are my themes: Valentines Day, Spring/Easter, Birthday, Fourth of July, Back to School, Halloween, Fall/Thanksgiving, & Christmas. 

As you can see, I don't have one for EVERY month of the year. I didn't want to get overwhelmed with the ongoing project, and I wanted to enjoy each one a bit longer.  Now that my set is complete I may go back and add additional themes like summer vacation or new years if the mood strikes.

Valentines Day -Jenni Bowlin mini bingo cards, Little Yellow Bicycle

Spring/Easter comes next, but I must not have taken a picture of it.

Birthday-Jenni Bowlin mini bingo cards, Bo Bunny 

4th of July-Jenni Bowlin mini bingo cards

Back to School- Jenni Bowlin mini bingo cards, KI Memories 

Halloween- Pink Paislee

Fall/Thanksgiving-Pink Paislee

Christmas- Holly Jolly collection by Cosmo Cricket

Sales, Info and Scraproom

I am on lots of emails lists of sites I frequent and have some info to share:

20% off Michelle Underwood digital products (love the Stella collection) over on Two Peas until July 12
30% off Christmas and Winter products at Scrap Matters (love Sahlin Studios & WM Squared) until July 16
$2 off an Ella Ebook with code STUDIOCALICO until July 15
Price decrease of Creative Memories page prints starting August 1
Daisy Wheeled Cart now in stock at Creative Memories


I just love my scraproom/office and want to include pics of it on my blog.

Updated My Library of Memories Albums

These are my original Library of Memories albums that I copied exactly from Stacy Julian. Now that I have been doing this method for two years now, I have found the need to add another category to my library, Holidays and Traditions. This category was originally located in the Things We Do album. I found that this album became full at a faster rate than the others; so this is my remedy. Also, the American Crafts albums are more of a binder with the raw chipboard covers that I never got around to customizing. I originally went with these because that's what SJ uses, but also because they were available in my colors. Although much more expensive, the We R Memory Keepers leather albums which I've been drooling over all this time finally came out with albums in my colors. I like the nice leather, bookplate and metal protective corners. So I took the plunge and am very happy with these new albums. You can also find the albums here.

Now what to do with my old albums???? I'll probably see if any of my friends want them and the gazillion American Craft page protectors I have. My friends and I often sell our leftover scrapbook supplies to each other for garage sale prices.