Back to School Idea

Gifts for teachers are a great way to start off the new year and to advertise business.  I hope it gets my children brownie points with their new teachers.  You can stamp cute pencil packs, note cards, or create a cute survival bag for the teachers first day back at school.  For your children you can personalize their backpack by making luggage tags that show school spirit or a child's personality.  This will make it easy for a child to identify their backpack out of a sea of bags at school.  Make a note and place in your child's lunch to help them get through the day knowing you care. So many ideas and so little time.  Try one of these ideas today to make your child's day special.

A Mother's Life

I am really trying to get all of my websites updated, stamp, clean, cook, shop, pay bills, etc.  Moving to a new area and rebooting your business is very hard.  It seems I spend more money and time to get new customers and bookings for my calendar than anything else but as a mother I am busy with all the school preparations currently.  I am also busy with the house now as it is time for our one year warranty work to be complete on my home then I have to pay for the repairs myself. Yikes! I have to save up money for this too instead of spending on my beloved crafting. Boo hisss...  I am truly trying to do it all and I have to say bless you to all the moms that can complete it all.  I am not scheduling my time well right now and need better time management.  Please let me keep my sanity while trying to blog, email, and do everything else in the world too.  So silly but I will have more crafts and papercrafts soon..stay tuned for more fun stuff.

Retired Cardstock and New Swap

I just received a package from another demonstrator who luckily had some of the old Blush Blossom cardstock left and I jumped on it.  I love the color for flesh tones with our stamping inks and papers but I am lacking in some skin coloring skills.  I stunk the last time I tried to use the Blush Blossom marker and Blender pens.  Most of my samples ended up in the trash because I thought they were awful.  I am a bit hard on myself but it was truly awful.  So I bought all the girl had so I have a slight reprieve before I have to try again.  Yeah, ME!  Current news as well is that I was looking on our demonstrator website and saw a cute holiday gift tag swap and signed up for it and I am excited to do this.  I love to swap and get new ideas. With these swaps though I could also put them together in groups and give away as gifts.  I will take pictures and post soon so you can all share in my ups and downs in the creative department in my head. I love the fact that if I love it,then it worked out and if I do not like it, I can always start over. More to come.....

Busy With Kids

I am really busy currently getting the children ready for school this weekend and week.  This is their last week of freedom and I get some me time in a week! Yeah, me! But they are excited to go back to school too.  Well, my girls are but my son is not.  He loves to learn but hates sitting still all day.  I will get back to stamping hopefully tomorrow afternoon.  After doctor's office and school clothes shopping for the little two.  Hope you had a great weekend and keep creating wonderful things. Keep checking for new updates. Thanks for stopping by.

New Product Arrives

For the last couple of days I have received boxes of new products to try out.  Now where to begin- Halloween, Christmas or make items for back to school....so many choices.  I did make a couple that my daughter has started babysitting for an anniversary card for her to give to them.  I will upload the picture shortly and more.  Learning how to resize photographs and touch up along with watermarks is fairly new to me.  It is almost like as my children go back to school so am I.  And I thought I was done with school. I am also learning to link my websites too.  This is like learning a new language.  Slowly and surely I can master this- atleast I hope I can.  If all else fails, I will call on my teenager for help.  Have a great day and come back soon as construction is still in progress.

Pictures Soon

I am buying a computer program for my watermark in the next couple of days to be able to edit and add watermarks to protect my work.  I have been organizing my stamping room and researching online craft room ideas.  But sadly, I have been in a stamping block and getting frustrated so much so that I give up and leave my craft room without making a single item.  I have been using my new framelits that match my stamp sets.  I do love them and like the fact that I can run many through the die at one time.  So I have been working but just not completing any one project.  I now have a need to find some way to organize the items that I have stamped and punched out.   Please keep checking back and soon you will be rewarded.  Thank you for stopping by.

Stamping and Yard sale prep

I have not been able to get to my stamp room as often as I would like to since this week we are Yard Sale-ing crazy.  I will have numerous items from my craft room available for purchase soon on our demonstrator only website and then I will send along the list to anyone else interested.  I am learning to copyright my pictures so no one can take and use without my permission.  I hate doing this yet if I post a picture with my kids on it I want them protected too. I am also going to try to make a video in the next week of a technique.  I hate my voice on the camera too.  I sound goofy like I am still in puberty.  Not a pretty thing to hear so maybe I will just use music and a powerpoint presentation for it.  I am really scared about all this.  Thank you to my supportive children and stamping friends from Missouri that are cheering me on.  Happy stamping everyone.  I will post a picture up soon of some of my swaps- I PROMISE.