Big Announcement!!!

I have some exciting news to share with you today!!!!

I have been invited to be a part of the

Paper Issues Design Team!!!!

and to celebrate I have a great deal for you!!!

Use my code when shopping @ Paper Issues

and receive 20% off your order!!!!

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Also I would like to send a shout out to the rest of the new & continuing DT members also!!!!

New

Lesley Croghan http://www.alwaysplayingwithpaper.blogspot.com/ 

Monique Lidetke http://moniquesscrapbook.blogspot.com/ 

Lisa Swift http://lisarukinswift.blogspot.com/ 

Caz Hancock www.cazhancock.com 

Shannon Morgan http://designsofapaddymack.typepad.com/ 

Evelin Tee: http://angelicquirk.blogspot.com 

Amy Coose http://www.amycoose.blogspot.com/ 

Leah LOrange http://thechroniclesoforange.blogspot.com/ 

Holly Gagnon http://www.ribbonsandglue.com/  

Mary Jo Rhoda http://scrapbooktreehouse.blogspot.com 

Danielle de Konink www.picsandcheesecake.blogspot.com 

Aleksandra Gadji http://colorsofalex.blogspot.com/ 

Andrea Wiebe www.ajourneysofar.blogspot.com 

Becki Adams http://beckiadams.blogspot.com/ 

 Danielle Higginbottom-Brown http://piperloo.blogspot.ca/

Kristine Davidson http://kristinedavidson.blogspot.ca/ 

Dee Dee Catron  http://umwowstudio.blogspot.com/

Kathy Skou http://kathyskou.blogspot.com 

JoAnn Valderama http://joboogie.typepad.com

Amy Lassiter www.sparklinggnome.com 

Continuing

Kate Vickers

Patricia Roebuck

Corri Garza

Kristy Dalman

Lori Wilbanks

Anna Sigga

Carol Monson

Bente Fagerberg

Ashley Horton

Audrey Yeager

Martha Bonneau

Sara Caron Zenger

Jamie Dougherty

Leslie Ashe

Jen Chesnick

Mandy Kay Starner

Judean Patten-Clark

Kelly Feldman

Aimee Maddern

       Jess Mutty

Melissa Gener

And I would also like to wish Cassie Box(owner) a very Happy Birthday this week!!!

Watching Daddy

What an exciting day this was for all of us! Hahahha!  I had the crappiest screen door known to man! You know the one I mean, the one where the dogs and kids have pushed out the screen because its on the bottom...(seriously, a man must have invented that idea) You had to take the bottom glass out so you could clean both sides (or I could have just went around the other side and lifted the screen to use my Windex) The glass was scratched, the frame was bent so if you sat on the couch a certain way, you could actually see daylight through the frame....


Anyway,( insert happy dance here.....) the day finally came, that I literally had a break down over my front door!  It was a chilly November morning and I had decided to wipe the finger prints, dog snot and boy spit off the door....it was this day that I lost it....I sat on the floor crying and muttering under my breath about this darn door....Clay was looking very perplexed, (probably thinking my wife is off her rocker, its a bloody door!)  Well, he must have had enough, because the next thing I know, he took off with the truck and came back with my new door!!!!.... 


So your probably all wondering, what's the big deal, why didn't you buy one sooner...well, because I am a mom, and I clean the door at least 2 times a day, I needed the perfect door....you know the one, its that one calling your name at the hardware store, but its completely out of your budget....the one a mom must have designed......the one where the screen is on the top, and....are you ready....the screen is a phantom screen that when you pull the window down, it rolls out of the top of the frame, and when you push the window up to close it, it rolls back into the frame......no more taking out glass so you can wash both sides, no more kids and dogs pushing the screen out! 

There was a day when I cool and fashionable and if I had $400 to blow it would have been on these Frye Harness boots and not a screen door....its a sad day when a new screen door brings you so much joy and happiness......

so to remember this day that brought me from one end of the emotional spectrum to the other I (like any scrappy mom...) took photos to remember this day and scrapbook them.  I will always remember this day when my Frye Boots new screen door brought me so much joy.....

So tell me....can you relate or am I just crazy SAHM ?

also don't forget about my give away below....if you enter your chances are really good!!!! lol!

My Studio

Happy New Year Everyone!  Sorry for my absence for the past few weeks, but the holidays were pretty hectic around the Brown house....Anywhoo.....I got around to rearranging my Scrap Room over the holidays to make room for new Christmas treasures I got, and to get my self set up for Project Life.  I will apologize in advance for A) the crappy lighting of my photos, but I`ve been trying to wait for a sunny day, and well thats not happening, and B) for the amount of photos (my advice, grab a coffee and take a rest)  Anyway here goes

 here is a photo as you walk in the door.  Its pretty small, (it was the nursery) but I don`t mind because everything is so close to my work space...normally on a sunny day this room is flooded with so much light! Check it out here  

 Here is a photo of my Mister Hueys/Zing Embossing Powder/Martha Stewart storage area.  We will discuss my mild obsession with Mister Hueys tomorrow!

 This is to the left of my desk. 

 These are all my brads....I like things out in the open so I can see them

 This is my carousel where I keep all my scissors, knives, and other misc tools

 This fabulous storage unit was a "just because gift" from hubby.  It holds all kinds of little doodads.  On the top in my strawberry pot is my markers and glitter pens

 This is my new wireless printer/copier/scanner/faxer I got for Christmas

(notice the bag of Skittles santa left me to the right? Mmm, my fav!)

 In the white slots are some of my collection packs.  I have acrylic stamps stored in the damask binders.  Under the rack in the brown wood tray is where all my Smash products are.

 Here you can see under my desk...more storage bins and some albums....The WRMK Kiwi binder is my Project Life Binder for this year!

 This is next to the doorway coming in....The big purple rack holds soooo much! I think I need to purge some of that paper on the top rack....what do you think?  Above it is a little shelf that holds some photos and a Royal Doulton my Aunt Pam gave me! Thanks Aunt Pam...xoxo  The big gold glitter box hold a crap load of Lush Bath Products, while the rainbow drawers hold inks, stickers, and more.

 This is the rack that sits to the right of my desk.  This rack holds, my magazines.  The big wicker basket holds my Studio Calico Kits, and beside that sits my almost finished December Daily Journal.  The big basket on the floor to the left holds all my ribbons.

 These shelves sit above the black rack and hold jars of buttons, and other things!  

 This is to the right of my desk.  The drawers hold Project Life Stuff, while the tray holds the current Studio Calico kit I`m working with

Here is my Project Life Card Station!  I`m ready to journal at a moments notice! 

 More storage on my desk!

This is a close up of where I store my Studio Calico Kits.  

(see the christmas cards standing up....check out this link from Pinterest to see what I`ve done with them 

http://pinterest.com/pin/703756161482592/ )

 Here is a shot inside my Project Life drawer

 Another Project Life drawer

 My egg basket full of fun little things

 A girl can never have too many colours of floss 

 My gumball machine - I believe everyone needs one of these in their scrap room!

This is under my desk.....the clear bin to the far left holds all my Thickers and other font stickers and to the far right, thats my sewing box 

 Embossing folders

 Acrylic Stamps (Thanks Stephanie Howell for the Cloud Stamps!!!!)

 Pens, Watercolour Pencils, Markers

 Rubber Stamp storage (that needs some purging)

 More Ink

 my 6 x 6 paper pad storage

 This is my pretty sparkly rock collection from Noah

 here is a close up of my shelves - the transport truck is circa 1976 from my house

growing up

The Batman Helicopter was from Clays younger days!

So thanks for stopping by and taking a tour of my Scrap Room....What did you think?  I`d love to hear!

UPDATE
I have given up this room for my son to have his own room
here is my new scrap space

Some Scrapbook Inspiration

Well the kids are fast asleep, the hubby is still working out in the bush (should be home by next week!) and I'm sitting back enjoying the silence drinking a Palm Bay Cooler, while searching the internet for some Scrapbook Inspiration.  Here is what caught my attention:

I absolutely love the colours and the pattern

here. I think this would be an amazing paper

or even a stamp, then heat embossed with some

Zing embossing powder! 

I love the colour combinations here

and I also love the pattern.  This would

make a great embossing folder.

If I could crochet, I would make these

stars and use them on a layout

I think this font is amazing and

would love to have it as a stamp set.

I think this would be the cutest 

stamp ever! Imagine this stamped 

over the top of a photo!

What do you think?