Hope You're Ready...

for the cuteness that is my nieces! I made this great little book last week at what turned out to be a little art party.



It helped that my sister had amazing photos taken. That is always inspiring!

Jessica, Angelique, and I made these cute books using 8 x 10 canvases for the front and back cover and cut down 12 x 12 cardstock for the pages. To finish it off I used decorative scrapbook papers and cute black scallops from my Cricut! I can't wait to see Buffy on Monday!

Seriously

This is seriously the top of my art desk right this minute. My computer desk looks the same way. It is so exciting! They have both been hiding from me for weeks!



I also did a little reorganizing of supplies (so that I could actually clean off the top of my desk) and now my suply closet looks like this.


Only the center three boxes and plastic storage envelopes are new but I am posting a picture by request. :) Hooray! Now I am ready to mess it all up and work in my journal and it is only day one of Winter Break!

Look Who...

Look who I ran into at Weight Watchers today! I was so glad I was not wearing my "I ate the milk and cookies" shirt! HA!

Mini Sharpie Holder For Cricut!

So while I was goofing around on the Internet I found a lady, Amy Chomas, who designed (or had her husband design anyway) a pen holder to fit into the Cricut! She sells pen holder for mini Sharpies, micro mini Sharpies, and mini gel pens. It was hard to decide which one to try first but I thought the mini Sharpie would give me a better graffiti look. I am so happy with this pen holder! It came to me super fast and is fun to use! (It is the silver thing in the photo.)


When it arrived I went out looking for mini Sharpies and ran into the best deal on the planet! Office Max had a deal this week where you could buy $5 worth of Sharpie products and get every single color of mini Sharpie available for free! That's $16 worth of mini Sharpies!

What will I do with this great find? Check out these fun experiments!!

Hello!

I didn't mean to go missing on you. I have been "playing" with a sore throat and related inconveniences since the day after Thanksgiving which has made me less productive. I actually had to take two days of of school because I had zero voice and Jim said I was just being ridiculous to go in. :)

My Cricut machine arrived saftely to my house last week and to say it is love might be an understatement! You might be thinking that the Cricut is a little bit scrapbooky for my usual art but 1) oh the classroom decoration that can be done and 2) just wait 'til you see the ideas I have! Plus I love to make albums for Buffy's family.

I took a great class at Scrapbooks Etc. last weekend with Sandee called Cricut 101 that taught how to use all of the cool features on the machine. At $12 with my montly discount it was a steal and great motivation too!

Here are a few things I made this week for my clasroom. First for my calendar the December label. (The flags have been in my room for a few years just giving them a new twist. :)



Cute window decorations.



And best of all I cut these cute 3-D tree patterns to use with my kids next week for those of them that are done with their before break work! I can't tell you how happy I was no to have to ust thenm all out myself!



More Cricut coolness on it's way!

Stalker

This is the funniest shirt I have seen in a while! I'm seriously considering buying the apron! it would be great to wear while taking Classes with Kelly! Ha!

Welcome December!

With the tree all decorated in black and white it was the perfect time for an art party!

With an extra day off school Ayesha and I decided to put up the tree on Wednesday. I will admit it was a little weird to have the tree up, be celebrating Thanksgiving, and finishing a Halloween journal all at the same time but now it all seems just fine!


I love these new ornaments that I found 70% off on Black Friday! I'm not sure how they got the snowflake to hang in the center but I love them!


Jessica, Barb, Kara, Deb, and Ayesha joined me to make Star Books on Sunday. It was so much fun and we loved the way our books all turned out! I love working with other crafty people. Everyone can work at their own pace and know exactly what to do!