Gosh I'm so glad I asked you all to share stories instead of just leaving your name! Truly wonderful stories. Tug at your heartstring stories from Alicia's grandparents going back to work after retiring to support her and her brothers and Pam's grandma driving every Friday, in spite of going through chemo, to pick up her oldest son from daycare, and Kimber-Leigh thinking of her grandparents' sacrifice when college seemed overwhelming. Funny stories like Kristi's grandma handing her a dollar during the church service - but not for the collection plate - and Michelle's grandma sharing her secret fortune. And stories of people who aren't grandparents but are still seen as filling the important role of nurturing that need to feel special like Micayla's in-laws do for her kids and Rebecca's mom and Melissa's dad.
If you haven't read through all the stories, you should! I got some great ideas on how to earn my Superman cape from my future grandkids. I'm starting with Camp Grammy PawPaw every Sunday including a room in the tent decorated just for them where we'll make a huge meal of meatballs and rootbeer floats, pound cake and jello with fruit that we'll eat in our "restaurant" off of tables they build in my workshop with the window where they look over our cucumber and watermelon patches. At night we'll play Wahoo and eat cookies and not cry over spilt milk.
When they leave, I'll tell them I'll miss them like the dickens and after I'm gone, they'll still carry on the tradition.
Whew! You all just made my grandparent years very full and rewarding!
Truly, thank you for sharing your stories.
Annnnd, the winners of the boxes of scrapbook supplies are Jayna and Katrina! Email me your shipping address, girls!
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November 12, 2009 6:41:00 AM PST
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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
New Fiskars Project!
Project of the day on the Fiskars website is one of mine! I made this for my mother-in-law and am dying to go ahead and give it to her. I'm afraid if I keep it until Christmas as planned, I'll keep growing weaker by the day and keep it for myself. I may be making another one!
I just used a very boring $5 photo album from Wal Mart and created a book cover for it.
Instructions and a supply list can be found here.
I just used a very boring $5 photo album from Wal Mart and created a book cover for it.
Instructions and a supply list can be found here.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Day 315/365 and a GIVEAWAY!
I remember how little gifts like this, those "for-no-reason" gifts given to me by my grandma, were just as exciting as a Christmas or birthday gift.
The idea that she bought me something without a holiday obligation made me feel special. I'm pretty sure that's a universal feeling.
My gifts were drawn from paper sacks from Avon or The Jones Store or from a purse instead of a wrapped box with a bow made of leaves recycled from a house plant (my mother-in-law wastes nothing.) And they came from Granny, not Grammy.
I don't have grandkids but I really want to make someone feel like this! So leave a comment and tell me something about a grandparent (or an adult in your life if you weren't blessed with presence of your grandparents) that made you feel special. I'll draw 2 winners on Friday to receive a package of some cool scrapbook supplies. Good luck!
The idea that she bought me something without a holiday obligation made me feel special. I'm pretty sure that's a universal feeling.
My gifts were drawn from paper sacks from Avon or The Jones Store or from a purse instead of a wrapped box with a bow made of leaves recycled from a house plant (my mother-in-law wastes nothing.) And they came from Granny, not Grammy.
I don't have grandkids but I really want to make someone feel like this! So leave a comment and tell me something about a grandparent (or an adult in your life if you weren't blessed with presence of your grandparents) that made you feel special. I'll draw 2 winners on Friday to receive a package of some cool scrapbook supplies. Good luck!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Day 313/365
Today's photo, courtesy of Caelan.
Me (being goofy): Are we friends?
Will: No.
Me: We're not friends???
Will: You're my mom. That's better than a friend.
He must be genuine when he says this because a friend would say to me, "Would you please do something about those roots?"
Me (being goofy): Are we friends?
Will: No.
Me: We're not friends???
Will: You're my mom. That's better than a friend.
He must be genuine when he says this because a friend would say to me, "Would you please do something about those roots?"
New Fiskars Article!
There's a new article up on the Fiskars website on making winter pins. This is my contribution.
And a close-up of how I used the new Cardinal Song Squeeze Punch. Shrink film!
The full article, including pins made by 4 of the other girls on the design team, can be found here.
And a close-up of how I used the new Cardinal Song Squeeze Punch. Shrink film!
The full article, including pins made by 4 of the other girls on the design team, can be found here.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Free to A Good Home: Pet Elephant
I'm working on a big purge in my scrapbook room, going through every single box, basket, bowl, every single piece of paper. When I do deep cleaning, I'm forced to confront the ugly truth, the elephant in the room that everyone in our house, out of love for me, just ignores. I'm not the most organized, tidy person in the world. In order to get my room to where it's functional, I had to face the fact that I have pretty much everything in my room BUT an elephant. Unfortunately, this packrat can't just go in there and scare the elephant out. It's taking a lot of work.
Shawn built the room 4 years ago and I've yet to actually work from it. At one point I had it all bright and cheery and pretty but it basically serves as storage because it's downstairs and everyone is always upstairs. I work on our dining room table and when I'm finished with a project, I haul everything back downstairs and dump it on the floor, the tables, the bed, anywhere there's a little bit of space. When I get to the point where I can't find things, I do a superficial clean up. That method of working on my projects will change next weekend!
We started finishing the downstairs area of our house 2 years ago. If you've been around for a while, you might remember I blogged about finishing the floor down there, when we wanted stained concrete but couldn't have it because the floor was sealed.
Finishing the area has been a gradual process as we've scraped together the money over the past 2 years to buy the things we wanted to make it teenager friendly and next Friday, we'll have it complete. That means everyone will remove their butts from the sofa upstairs so we can move it downstairs where we will promptly reclaim our positions. And I'll have new leather furniture to gaze lovingly upon (and sniff enthusiastically) upstairs where we will still spend our daytime hours.
This all means my scrapbook room will need to be functional, thus the big clean out. And I have my eye on a new (old) piece of furniture to use for my worktable so I need to make room for it, assuming I can convince my husband I can't live without it. And assuming it's not really the exact same width as the doorway to the room.
I thought I'd share one of my favorite storage ideas today. If you do much handstitching, you know how frustrating keeping skeins of floss untangled both during storage and during use can be.
A couple of years ago, I found some of these old spools at a garage sale for a quarter apiece and started storing my most-often-used colors of floss on them. Not only do they work like a charm, they look really cool sitting out in my room.
I was fortunate to find about 10 more of them today at a local flea market for $2 each. You can find a variety of styles of these old spools on eBay but this is the style I prefer for this use. I like the metal banding on the top, I like that spools in this style are typically the longest (so they hold more floss), and since they are thinner than other styles, I can cram more of them in my little bucket!
As luck would have it, if any of you are interested in purchasing some of these spools and you don't want to deal with an eBay auction, I found them for a good price at Papier Valise. I won't be needing any more spools but I have my eye on a lot of other fun little things from this store!
Shawn built the room 4 years ago and I've yet to actually work from it. At one point I had it all bright and cheery and pretty but it basically serves as storage because it's downstairs and everyone is always upstairs. I work on our dining room table and when I'm finished with a project, I haul everything back downstairs and dump it on the floor, the tables, the bed, anywhere there's a little bit of space. When I get to the point where I can't find things, I do a superficial clean up. That method of working on my projects will change next weekend!
We started finishing the downstairs area of our house 2 years ago. If you've been around for a while, you might remember I blogged about finishing the floor down there, when we wanted stained concrete but couldn't have it because the floor was sealed.
Finishing the area has been a gradual process as we've scraped together the money over the past 2 years to buy the things we wanted to make it teenager friendly and next Friday, we'll have it complete. That means everyone will remove their butts from the sofa upstairs so we can move it downstairs where we will promptly reclaim our positions. And I'll have new leather furniture to gaze lovingly upon (and sniff enthusiastically) upstairs where we will still spend our daytime hours.
This all means my scrapbook room will need to be functional, thus the big clean out. And I have my eye on a new (old) piece of furniture to use for my worktable so I need to make room for it, assuming I can convince my husband I can't live without it. And assuming it's not really the exact same width as the doorway to the room.
I thought I'd share one of my favorite storage ideas today. If you do much handstitching, you know how frustrating keeping skeins of floss untangled both during storage and during use can be.
A couple of years ago, I found some of these old spools at a garage sale for a quarter apiece and started storing my most-often-used colors of floss on them. Not only do they work like a charm, they look really cool sitting out in my room.
I was fortunate to find about 10 more of them today at a local flea market for $2 each. You can find a variety of styles of these old spools on eBay but this is the style I prefer for this use. I like the metal banding on the top, I like that spools in this style are typically the longest (so they hold more floss), and since they are thinner than other styles, I can cram more of them in my little bucket!
As luck would have it, if any of you are interested in purchasing some of these spools and you don't want to deal with an eBay auction, I found them for a good price at Papier Valise. I won't be needing any more spools but I have my eye on a lot of other fun little things from this store!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
And the Winner is . . .
Kendra in Texas! Email me your address, Kendra, and I'll get your Cardinal Song Squeeze punch in the mail to you. Congrats!
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