escape

The warm, sunny days we've had recently have me day dreaming of the beach and tropical places. One of which is St. Lucia where we spent a week in 2006. I had fun tonight creating a 12x12 page of our visit to the rainforest near Soufriere.


Supplies: Bazzill cardstock; Archiver's cardstock; KI Memories lace paper; Making Memories brads & photo anchors; Heidi Swapp 'escape' stamp; Autumn Leaves journaling stamp; Micron black pen; black ink pad; Pebbles Inc. sticker. Inspired by Mar 20 of dw2008.

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a Migraine, a RAK & a Card

Today has not been the best. I've been fighting a migraine. I did attempt to go to work - managed for 1 hour. I had some CAD files I needed to get out today in order to meet my deadline for this Friday. Once that was taken care of, it was much easier to come home, take Zomig and go to bed. I'm feeling better now, but still a bit out of it from the medicine.

Many, many thanks to Karen for the wonderful RAK she sent me! It arrived today - such perfect timing - and full of LOTS of goodies. I feel spoiled. Thanks, Karen!!

And, finally, here's a card I made today for a friend:

Supplies: Die Cuts with a View card; Archiver's cardstock; scallop edged deco scissors; flower unknown; Autumn Leaves button from A Rhonna Christmas Bag of Buttons; Making Memories stitches & TinyAlpha. Inspired by 8/29 of dw2006 and 3/28 of dw2008.

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Randomness

I've been tagged by Shirley and Gabrielle. :)

Here are the rules:

• Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
• Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
• Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
• Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Here are my 7 random/weird facts:

1. I love visiting National Parks & Historic Sites and getting cancellation stamps in my Passport Book.
2. I love Sudoku puzzles.
3. I can wiggle my ears.
4. I'm allergic to grass. It's something I've assumed since childhood, but had proven during allergy testing in 2006. And, of course, the two types I'm most allergic to grow in my own yard!
   
5. I don't like barbecue and that's practically a sin living in the South.
6. I can't eat fish - causes an asthma attack.
7. In high school I was a member of the math club.
   

I'm tagging Lynn, Tina, Linda, Theresa, Janet, Benita and Lida. Looking forward to reading your responses! :)

Sudoku layout created September 2006. Inspired by 9/25 of dw2006.
Supplies: Basic Grey patterned paper; QuicKutz star font; 2ps Flower Pot font; Making Memories snaps; Li'l Davis rub-ons; scrap cardstock & ribbon.

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Hurricanes

Trent & I went to cheer on the Carolina Hurricanes tonight in their victory over the Buffalo Sabres. Many thanks to Kevin for inviting us!

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Lego Imagination Center

8x8 digital layout about our visit to the Lego Imagination Center at Downtown Disney. Our 2nd visit, but it still amazes me all of the parts, pieces & kits they have.

Inspired by Mar 14th of dw2008 to "stamp a subtle tone-on-tone background." I scanned Basic Grey chipboard stars from my stash to create the "stamping." Also, lifted the layout Lego Love by bluestardesign.


Supplies: Basic Grey chipboard stars; Office Note Rip from Rhonna Farrer's Office Supply Tool Kit at Two Peas; alpha for "Lego" from Craft Jar Kit at Peppermint Creative; EuroRoman font.

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Peek-a-Boo

Quick, 12x12 layout I made tonight of my niece. She's 2 years old and very curious. Over Christmas she discovered the dog door at my Dad's house and peeked in at me. She thought it was funny. :) Not too happy with the scan and I can't quite get it to photograph well either - it's not so dull in real life.


Supplies: Archiver's cardstock; Paper Salon patterned paper; Uniball Signo white pen; Die Cuts with a View adhesive backed cardstock; QuicKutz Tangerine font; Making Memories brads. Inspired by Mar 13th of dw2008.

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Birthday Card

A birthday card I made tonight for a friend's mom. My inspiration came from Sketch This: 43 by Janelle Richmond.


Supplies: Die Cuts with a View card; Making Memories chipboard frame & brads; Archiver's cardstock; orange acrylic paint; Scenic Route patterned paper; black stamp ink; Two Peas Old Type font.

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Joy

2ps blog challenge:
What five things in life give you joy?

1. My faith
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Creating
5. Helping others
   

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a RAK, a couple of books & a squid?

Oops! Look what I missed over the weekend - on Friday, KarenSue named me as the winner of her RAK. I logged onto 2ps this morning & had a message from her with the good news. How cool! Thanks, KarenSue!! :)

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I wasn't terribly good about blogging or commenting this past weekend. Thus how I missed my RAK win. While I was a little consumed with the picture moulding ledge, it didn't take too much time. In between waiting on paint or filler to dry, I worked on 2 other projects.

First, I checked out a couple of books from the library on home organization. I'm on a weird clean, reorganize, do-it-yourself kick right now and figure I better go along for the ride while it lasts so we can knock a few things off the to-do list.

The first book is Real Simple: The Organized Home. Lots of pretty pictures with ideas. I loved flipping through it, but was disappointed in one respect. It has a list of stores in the back where they purchased products, but no direct listing match to the page as they normally do in the magazine. So, the photo boxes I loved on one page - who knows where they might have come from. In fairness, this book was published almost 2 years ago so it's highly possible some or most of the items are no longer available, but it would have been nice to have that info. That aside, the book does have some really nice, inspiring photos and tips.

The other book I checked out is Everything Organize Your Home Book. No photos - just a few black & white sketches - but LOTS and LOTS of information. Very easy read. I've been devouring this book and getting some good ideas.

The second little project I worked on over the weekend was playing on Squidoo.com. I happened to stumble across the site last week and it caught my attention. The general idea is that everyone is an expert on something. You can set up a free page (pardon me, a "lens" is what they call it) or more on whatever subject(s) your expertise lies in. I set up two (hmm... I'm beginning to notice a weird 2 theme in this post): http://www.squidoo.com/2pawsdesigns & http://www.squidoo.com/TriangleAreaNC. Yes, clearly I need to get back to scrapping so that I won't have so much free time on my hands. ;)

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Picture Moulding Ledge

One of the walls in our bedroom is just a mass of, well, wall. There are no pieces of furniture along it except for a tall, skinny bookcase in one corner. The door from the hall is at the opposite end. I originally just hung 3 frames with pictures from our wedding & honeymoon as I wasn't quite sure what else to do with the space.

As you can see in the photo below, it looked pretty bland especially with the old white walls:

Just before we painted the room a couple weeks ago, I was thumbing through the winter 2007/2008 copy of Lowe's Creative Ideas. It was near the bottom of the mail pile and I had almost forgotten about it. So glad I found it though because it has instructions for building a picture moulding ledge. It looked so good in the pictures and fairly simple, so I added this to my "to-do" list for the bedroom.

Now that the painting is complete and we didn't have any set plans for yesterday, it was off to Lowe's for supplies. Thanks to both Trent & his friend, John, for their assistance when I needed an extra set (or two) of hands to install it. Here are the results:

And a close-up detail:
I plan to add a few additional pictures later. But, I'm loving the result. It really pops against the newly painted walls and adds more interest to what was just a wall. And, it cost only $20.

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