Scrappy Girl

NEW STUFF!!!!!!!

OK, I hear some people can't see the book, and even though the class was last night, I will try to post a picture rather than a scan.  Just because I think it's a cool "blank" from PineCone Press, and there is even still one kit at the store if anyone is interested.......

AND--- there is so much new stuff in the store I don't know where to start!!!!

Bazzill monograms (Not a big monogram girl, but I dig these)

Wild Asparagus new papers (the pink and beige is fabulous)

Quotes added to the Second Avenue line

Heidi Swapp "Love Your Handwriting" book

Restock on Ranger Inks

Daisy D's chipboard and rubons

Provo Craft Rob and Bob Studio (fun stuff!)

Crossed Paths - ribbon and embellishments

Kodomo - stamps and the coolest silk textured ribbon you have ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kaleidescope papers and accents from MME

Making Memories Christmas and Halloween foam stamps and paint

Making Memories Shabby Chic embellishments

Now we just have to be a little patient as mom gets them into the computer....

HURRY  HURRY  HURRY!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus, there are lots of new classes appearing on the calendar--- I can hardly stand it!!!!!!!!

class on Tuesday

OK, mom sent over these photos (since I forget to take them before I handed it over), so I am not exactly sure how these will appear, but let's give it a whirl!  It's a library pocket blank from Pinecone Press, turned into a birthday book or annual album or even calendar with 7gypsies paper and lots of paint.  LOTS of paint.

thoughts

Quote of the day:

Warning: Dates on calendar are closer than they appear.

I FINALLY finished my sample for class next week.  Mom stole it to take to the store before pictures could be snapped.  As usually, it will take a while to make, but it's a cool library card pocket book from Pinecone Press, with 7 Gypsies paper and lots of paint and stamps.  You can use it as a calendar, a mini album of a year, or a birthday/perpetual calendar....

I'll try to snap some pictures tonight.  And then I'm off to Denver for 24 hours, back, then to the metropolis of Sparta, Tennessee for 24 hours.  Oh, don't you wish you were me. :P

just some pics from Saturday...

Yep, it's dream cruise time here in the Motor City.  Unfortunately, there was a lot of rain, so many of the classics we usually see were not out and about.  So, I took pics of the kiddos instead.

new!

Just a quick post to whine that I am stuck in Milwaukee and there are very cool new things in the store...

1) all the new Basic Grey papers.  Yep, every single one.  Skate shoppe and all.  Every single design.  (the lunchbox albums and rubons and chipboard monograms are not yet shipping.)  Save some for me.

2) The Chatterbox luggage arrived.  I saw it at CHA.  It's very chic.

3) The 3rd Donna Downey book.  Mom says she saved the best for last.  This is a form of torture, I tell you, to hear these things, but not be able to SEE these things.

Random thoughts from today....I am in training, and you have to do introductions, and tell something "unique" about yourself.  Well, I have a good one that I can pull out in select audiences, but I work with these people, and I am supposed to be in HR and all.......... (If you really want the scoop, you'll just have to find it on 2peas and dig it out of the posts.  If you KNOW me, you already know it and won't be that impressed --remember I was a rower and all.....)  So, I pull out the "I am part owner of a scrapbook store."   Severall women oohh and ahhh and express disappointment that I live in Detroit, not Milwaukee.  Then, the leader of the event pulls out the "what is scrapbooking?"  I do the 30 second perserving memories and creative outlet spiel, he looks confused, I pull out the in excess of $5 BILLION dollar industry and growing card.....and he says "I don't get it.  It must be like the pet rock."

pet rock?!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!?!

What?!?!?!  Sure, that's a logical leap.  Hmmmm....let's see, scrapbooking is a concept that has been around for generations--heck, really since photography began, and we can make some correlations to earlier geneology, if you are so bent; it's a craft that existing well before the most recent boom (I have scrapbooks that I start over 20 years ago for pete's sake), and there are amazing artists all over the paper and mixed media arts industry.....and that compares HOW EXACTLY to a flash in the pan gimmick some 30 odd years ago of a rock with eyes painted on it??!?!??!???!

Now, I do think the person who made the said comment is an extremely talented trainer.  Really, I do (I am not be sarcastic.)  But.....WOW.   I don't even have words for this one.

OK, it's bedtime. 

lesson of the day

kids are hard to photograph.  especially the 18-36 month buzz-bomb set.  very fun, but not very willing to pose.  But oh-so cuddly and amusing.  Especially when they are impersonating a turkey.

A few from today...

OK, I know this one is blurry, but I still really like the picture.  I like to think of it as an action shot...

yep, the last one is me, the super hot chef I married, and a cuddle turkey we know.

inspire

Found this through another blog, and it's definitely worth sharing.  It's Steven Jobs recent commencement address, and I really like the message he is sending.

Steven Jobs

lists, tangents, and such...

OK, so I started making a list each month of all the "scrap-related" things I need to do--- projects for classes, birthday cards and such, gifts, pages for myself (novel idea eh?), etc.

June-- I did really good and accomplished probably 60-70% of the list (did I mention I am an "ambitious" list maker-- some part of my brain really thinks that there are 36 hours in a day and I will be able to get everything done.)

July - not good.  Maybe 10%.  I'll blame excitement over being a new auntie and CHA.  I have a deep need to rationalize my failures.

August - doing pretty good so far.  (That may be partly because I didn't finish making the list!)  But I did get more pages than usual done while cropping with Sarah last Friday (thanks girlie!) and I am driven to finish my Germany album from two years ago.

And then this is what happens--- I hear about something cool, decide I have to do it, and get completely sidetracked off my goals.  It's happening again--- I get totally inspired by all these incredible scrappers (especially Donna Downey and Rhonna Farrer) and their way cool ideas about scrapping and blogging, and now I want to make my own scrapping blog book.

I even got an email from Donna Downey---- how freakin' cool is that?!??!?!  (I am such a GEEK, I know it, I accept it, I live with it.  Let me have my geeky happiness.  It's sad when even DH knows who the celebrity scrappers are and can identify them in person.  Did I mention I LOVE DH?!)

So, do I stick to my goals, or do I embrace the tangent?

Post Script--- there are boxes at the store.  New stuff from Scrapworks, 7gypsies, Provo Craft........more distractions! :)

bad blogger

I apologize for being a bad blogger, and notposting for over a week.  I could make excuses, but I won't. 

There is a ton of new stuff in the store, and I saw the shipping notice--basic grey is en-route--- HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  In fact, there really is so much new stuff, we don't know where to put it.  I wish I could say that was just a shameless plug, but in fact, it's not.  So, come in and buy some stuff so I don't have to get REAlly creative -- end of shameless plug.

DH is out tonight, and as I ate my english muffin dinner, I got sucked into the movie Bruce Almighty.  It's GOOD.  (If you have seen the movie, you know to say this is a silly voice.)  Now, those who know me know I am not what you would call a prolific churchgoer, and faith is not something that has ever come easily for me, but being that I actually was at a Christening this weekend, and this movie and that sermon had a similar theme, I will take it as a sign-- let's all take the time to think about someone other than ourselves, and do something nice for someone else.  Even if that means simply holding your tongue and not saying something you could say, but better if it's taking a little of your time to do something just for someone else, just to make them feel better.  Why?  'Cause it's good.......

And for good measure, one from the Christening--- aren't they beautiful?

the boxes have not been opened yet...

but there are Junkitz and Queen and Co boxes --- hooray!