While waiting for the phone to ring

Kelly was supposed to call when they arrived. I don't know why I would think she would actually remember to do this. So while I was waiting for her call I took some more photos of my organization in my scrap room.



This is where I keep most of my punches. The ones I go to the most, anyway. I really don't use my smaller ones anymore so I brought them to school for my afterschool clubs to use.

These are most of my little embellishements (brads, buttons, flowers, etc) and then below that are my markers and the whole line of Close to My Heart ink pads.

These are my Making Memories paints. I just noticed one was missing. I used purple on the lids of my glass jars. Need to put that back. Above are some of my ribbons. I have a lot more ribbon, these shelves are just the overflow that didn't fit in my ribbon storage. To the right you can see my small collection of Copic markers. I only have about 6 or 7 so far.

I love these shelves. My DH built them right into the walls of my scrap room. Originally they were for all my Stampin Up stamps sets but I have since gone unmounted so found a better use for these shelves.

Well, on a brighter note. Kelly did finally call. She and her friends had to check in, then get settled in the bunk room, THEN they had to go out and catch snowflakes in their mouths so that is why she forgot to call. I can go to sleep now. Good night everyone.

My scraproom

Thought I would share some photos of my organization solutions. Isn't that always a New Years Resolution? To get organized. Well I spent a good part of yesterday taking all of my cricut cartridges out of their old storage system. I had the Cricut storage boxes that come in Peach for fonts and Blue for shapes and each box held 8 cartridges. Well, This system just wasn't working anymore.
I finally realized there is a lot to learn from reading the books that come with the cartridges. I never read them. I would toss them aside whenever I got a new cartridge. I never threw them away (TG) but I never looked at them either. Now I know to read the books so I like to keep them with the cartridges and overlays. So a new system was needed. After searching many YouTube videos and other search engine for storage solutions I found this one on E-Bay. Now mind you I have only had it for 1 day now but I already love that everything is together.


This is the system. I like that I have space right next to my Cricut to store it. I had to add onto the one I bought for it to work better for me. The original came with 1 thin tray for cartridges, Another thin one for tools or overlays, then 2 larger trays for books. I needed a third tray for books so I ran to Joanne's Fabrics earlier today and picked up a Christmas storage box on clearance and added it to this.



Here are my cartridges. Though I only have one empty slot left so there really isn't room for growth with this.

I now have three of these trays with my books and overlays in then. I made the index cards with labels to make it easier to find the books I need.

Kelly is on her way

two vans for the kids and group leaders. The first van is all the luggage, sleeping bags, pillows, etc

Group shot. Three church groups are going together.

Kelly and her friends.

Well, She is on her way. I could tell she was excited but aprehensive at the same time. I asked if if she wanted me to go and she asked me to wait until they left. I hope she has fun.

Another project I started

Alright, I know it doesn't look like much now, but hopefully these will look good when I am finished. It was time to clean out the refrigerator. It gets a weekly clean out of the leftovers, but after Christmas it get the major cleanout. Condiments that have been there all year get dumped. I forget what was in these 2 jars but I don't like throwing good glass jars away so decided to clean these up and use them for something. I will let you know what the finished project ends up being.

Happy New Year!

Thank goodness 2009 is finally over. This has to be a better year than last year was. I am going to try to post a photo and info each day. This 1st photo is Kelly looking out our back window. Kelly is leaving for 3 days for a Church retreat. This will be her first one. She is very excited, though I am totally expecting a call around midnight tonight. She gets terribly homesick at night. I think the problem is that she in my Night Owl. She can easily stay up unitl at least 1:00 AM every night. When she goes away and everyone falls asleep earlier she doesn't know what to do with herself so starts feeling lonely and wants to come home.
Anyway, I plan to take a photo of her as she is leaving. There is a snow storm coming, which is good and bad. I will be a nervous wreck about the bus driving home on Sunday night. but I also know the kids will have a blast playing in the snow.


This is a project I was working on last night waiting for the ball to drop. They will be Get Well cards once I add a sentiment to the inside. I love the little House Mouse stamp.

Oh, It is time to go drop off Kelly. I will add more later.

Nearing the end of a bad year

For anyone following my blog you have noticed I gave up on it last January. It was just getting too depressing writing about all the bad things that seems to be happening to us. Well, this has been a very tough year for our family but we are counting our blessing as well as counting down the days until 2010. Next year just has to be a better year than 2009 was. So I am excited to start up my blog again. Bigger and Better things are coming soon.
As say this as I sit here at midnight recovering from minor surgery I had today. Why shouldn't this be how our year ends...It starting with my husband, Kevin, having major spinal surgery last January.
Tomorrow we are expecting a big snow storm, not good since I still have things to do for Christmas. We still have not gotten our Christmas tree, yet. Kevin and Kelly went out after her church group's Christmas party tonight but the tree lot was already closed. So tomorrow will be xmas shopping, tree shopping, winterizing the backyard and then hopefully some scrapping time with my sister.

Jan 24

Dad is insisting that he is going to go watch Tim's volleyball game. I am nervous it will be too much for him. We shall see how it goes.

Not only did he handle Tim's game but he went to Kelly's basketball game, too. Total of about 1 1/2 hours he spent out of the house. He is tired and sore tonight but he was thrilled to get out and do something normal.