Acrylic Advent Calendar

I love all the cookie sheet advent calendars that I have seen around so I decided I had to make one! This one had circle and square acrylic pieces with the numbers stamped on each piece and little Holiday embellishments to each one. I used Basic Grey Blitzen paper and left the calendar part plain so the acrylic would show up! I added 5 little acrylic birds that I embellished and added bling!

A Layout or Two

It seems like all I have done the past few months is teach mini album classes and make them but I finally did 2 layouts this past week. Of course now that it is done T tells me I spelled Brittany's name wrong, so I will fix it so I can be socially correct! The ear piercing layout was done using an old Scrapaddict kit, the Halloween was just scraps from a mini album!

Acrylic Lights and Wooden House

I cut these cute little acrylic Christmas lights using an Accut die machine, thanks Linda. I stamped,stickled, added a little bling and ribbon..viola tree ornaments!
I bought the unfinished wooden house at Recollections and couldn't wait to paint and snow this fun little house!
Guess I should learn how to date the date stamp off this camera :)

Thanksgiving in Red Oak

We had a super time with the kids but it was so cold. The cold front brought wind and sleet so outside activities were limited to few and far between. We did some scrapbook shopping at the Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie, T&K did a fun make and take.
We did visit Santa but it was so cold we didn't stay long. Had a fun lunch at the 1801 restaurant with super coconut cream pie for dessert! The turkey day and food was wonderful and of course we all ate way too much!T spent some of the cold time outside in downtown Waxahachie taking some pictures of buildings and things that caught her eye!This picture was an elevator in the Rogers hotel, opened in 1801. My DIL did like her Summer Fun album!

A Little More Acrylic

There are a few more acrylic items I have done for the Holidays! I love using the acrylic!The mini album is 2.5 x 3.5. The hanging picture is acrylic cut 6 x 12.

House Board Book and Pink Tongue

What a fun day yesterday! We picked dil up and headed for Arlington. We ate at PeiWei (yum) did some shopping at Michaels and headed to Recollections to meet Patsy and Lisa and Lisa's friend. We did some serious shopping at Recollections. I am really sorry to see them close! We celebrated Patsy's birthday and Kerries. Lisa brought yummy cupcakes and they turned our tongues bright pink! The class was fun and the board book house is cute! Dropped Kerrie at her house and headed home. A long fun day!!

Another Road Trip

tomorrow. We are going to Arlington via Red Oak to take a class at Recollections. My dil's birthday is this month so we are treating her to a mini album class. We are meeting two friends at Recollections to celecbrate Patsy's birthday also. Papa gets to stay in Red Oak and play with the boys for a day! This should be a lot of fun! We plan to eat at PeiWei's and have birthday cake at Recollections!!

Board Book House

This little board book house is for a class I am teaching at the Fever Dec.1. The front is copper that I scored to look like bricks. Love the snow!! The inside is all done in the awesome Cloud 9 Holiday papers!

Acrylic House

I saw a version of this acrylic house on the net and dh was nice enough to cut several for me. It is a fun 4 page, stamped, glittered, and jeweled holiday gift.I love the little door knob and hinges. If you are interested in an acrylic house to decorate just email me, these make perfect gifts or one to keep for yourself

Invisibly Spooky Album Give Away

Here are some pictures of the class last night and Linda won the album! Congrats!! Linda! It was a fun class and turned very lively around 9pm. One of the women had taken some pain meds for a back injury and had a reaction. I called 911, the fire truck and ems, lights flashing and sirens screaming,came to the store. They tried to take her to the hospital but she refused, hopefully she will be ok!

Halloween

Of course it is Halloween night and T is finally off restriction so she is trying to find a costume. We dug out the box of costumes and this beautiful blonde mop of hair became Brittany. We are past the age of baby dolls but she borrowed some from a neighbor. Once again you are never too old to love Halloween!

Texas Road Trip

The official unofficial name of the album is Junkyard dog license plate album.I will be teaching this fun class at the Fever Nov. 17th.

Mexican Martini and Fried Iced Cream

My good friend came to town last night and we celebrated her "29th" birthday, late, but we had a great time! We went to eat at our favorite Mexican food place, sitting out on the patio at the end of October!! We enjoyed meeting her new beau and had a super but way to short visit!! Happy Birthday!!

Holiday Explosion Box

A fast little Holiday Explosion Box using 101 Heavy Artist's Cement for the snow!! This stuff is wonderful!!I will be teaching this fun, fast and perfect for giving box at the Fever in November!

Retreat Weekend

What a fun sleepless weekend in a town full of history! MD Resort is a beautiful bed and breakfast in Aurora Texas, 13 miles from the county seat, Decatur, Texas. This town is small, quaint and full of history! Janet and I took a quick walking tour of this county seat and these are some of the fun sights on our walk!
The retreat was great fun, lots of fun ladies and good food! Patsy of Scrappers Hideaway has great retreats for those of you in the central Texas area! We made 2 shopping stops, the Scrap Pad in Colleyville, lots of fun and a huge store, and the smaller but very friendly store in Decatur! We also walked the grounds of the resort, visting the buffalo, donkeys, and horses just waiting for our attention! Yes, in the picture of the resort there are people in the pool and it is October! Gotta love the Fall in Central Texas!

Off Again

Janet and I are off to Scrappers Hideway Retreat this weekend at MD Resorts in Aurora, Texas! Of course we have to do some road trip shopping!! Know we will have a lot of fun with little sleep!!

Crop Night at Archivers

Janet and I met Kathy and Liz at Archivers yesterday for a long day of scrapping and fun! I actually did a few layouts before I left and we worked on our pumpkin albums that we bought at Recollections on our last road trip! Janet actually glued again:) and she ordered an ATG gun!! We are trying to get some projects finished before we go to Paty's Scrappers Hideaway Retreat next weekend!!
Club Soccer is coming to an end and we finally won a game today! One more game and this long season will be over and school soccer will start!!

The Tat and Skydive

I am not a big fan of tatoos, smalls ones are ok. My son & dil have small ones in places that won't sag :). T friend turned 18 last week and to celebrate went skydiving and got a tattoo! Luckily, T can't do either for 2 more years! As far as getting a tat, I think when they come at her with the needles she will change her mind! Skydiving may happen, and that will be ok. She is taking aviation in school and will be flying her first plane next week!

Pumpkin Patch

We really don't have a pumpkin patch here, nor do we have a lot of fall colors, so this is the nearest thing we have. A local church brings in a truckload of pumpkins and T and her friend were "forced" to go there today to take pictures! There were a little embarrassed being the oldest "kids" there but cooperated for a few minutes!

Invisibly Spooky Album Give Away

I made this cute little acrylic mini album for SBF and since I have at least a million mini albums, we decided to share. We will give this away Nov.1 after the Invisibly Spooky Album class. It has Rusty Pickle paper and Wonderful We R Memory Keepers rubons! I hope that the lucky winner will enjoy it as much as I enjoyed creating it!!

Road Trip

My friend and I took another road trip this weekend...we stopped in Killeen at I Scrapbook (after a slight delay, which we won't go into here, lets just say we weren't paying attention to the GPS)fun, fun store!! Next stop was Waxahachie, late but we got there. Met my dil for a quick lunch and shopped at the Crafty Scrapper for a few hours (yes hours). Then on to Arlington! We cropped at Recollections Friday night until midnight and then took a beautiful album class from 10-5 Sat. We stayed to crop again Saturday night until midnight and during the course of the day did some serious shopping!! Janet actually glued things down and went through several rolls of adhesive (I keep trying to get her to get the ATG), so I had to take a picutre of the adhesive event!! The picture of our back seat is just what we couldn't get into our suitcases!! A super fun shopping and scrapping weekend!!

License Plate mini album

I just had to make this for T's new car! I made it out of an old Texas license plate, perfect for the first car pictures!
Leaving tomorrow for a scrapbooking road trip to Arlington to take a class at Recollections. Janet and I will do some side trips to lss in Killeen and Waxahachie and meet my dil for lunch!! Gonna be fun!!

Acrylic Album Class

I taught the On A Clear Day acrylic album class last night at SBF! What fun and these ladies made some beautiful albums!!

Some Bling

T stopped at Target on our way to church Sunday night and did a little bling shopping in the $1 bin....
This lovely wants to go to Brazill spring break for a mission trip. It is a lot of hard work and committment but she can do it!

HOTS retreat!

A fun weekend in Temple at the HOTS retreat!! Janet and I left early Friday morning and stopped at Waco. We love my GPS!! Spent time at Crop, Paper, Scissors, making some fun purchases and then had lunch at Jason's Deli! Checked in to the Hilton in Temple and headed for the retreat!! We were so lucky to have Kathy and Liz at our table...never a dull moment!! Janet worked on her Christmas explosion box, Liz cranked out vacation layouts, Kathy did adorable layouts of her cute boys and I worked on my circle album!! Sunday Liz, Kathy, and I entered some of our work in the contest for best layouts and mini albums! Kathy won honorable mention,Liz won first place for mixed media, and I won first place in mini albums! We had a lot of fun but very little sleep this weekend!!

12 x 12 chipboard album

I decided I had to try my hand at a 12x12 chipboard album! Painted with acrylics, lots of transparancies,bling, and different page chipboard inserts, made this a fun album! Thanks Dot for the fun stamps, Linda for the Staz on refill, and Janet for all the beautiful bling!!

I Finally Had the MoJo

to scrap some layouts! My mojo seems to have gone on hiatus since July but hopefully a little has come back! These are a few I did last week and the circles are the front and inside cover for a mini album for a special person on her birthday!
My friend Janet and I are going to a HOTS retreat next weekend...this should be a blast, then the next weekend we are off on another adventure! We are shopping our way to Dallas and then taking a class at Recollections and going to their crop Friday night! Can't wait for these to fun adventures and meeting new sb friends!

One Excited

16 year old! T never reads my blog but for some reason she read the post about getting her drivers license. She had a sneaking suspicion that something was going on when we met at my LSS. We had parked her new car, complete with painted windows and a bow, in the parking lot and when T and dh came up we sent her out to the car with a set of keys...she found the car and you can tell by the picture she was a little excited!! After we went to eat she was off to show her friends her new car. I do believe she thought about sleeping in the car last night!