RAK Winner!

GLOANN said...
That's a great boy LO! I'm always looking for ideas for those since I have two little grandsons! Would love to win the Swiss Dots folder.

August 17, 2009 12:14 PM

Gloria email me your addy to kck182 at comcast dot com and I'll get this in the mail to you!

A LO and A Giveaway!

So it's been awhile since we have done a RAK here on the blog and guess what I found...


While using my Cuttlebug last night I found my missing Swiss Dot Folder. I had bought another one since after a serious clean fest, I was still unable to locate it. So I thought I would share this extra one with a lovely blog reader. Just comment below if you are interested in the giveaway...and if you have it already and just want to say hi that's okay too!

Below is a scraplift of the wonderful Lisa Truesdell's LO of the week on the Studio Calico Blog. You can see it here.

I have been a huge fan of her work for awhile now and am always excited to new LO. Thanks for the inspiration Lisa!


We don't go out to eat often, mostly only on vacation in Disney and the occasional trip to Chili's since they do a good job preparing Colin's food. It's just too hard sometimes and the other times that it's not that hard, I'm just not up for the possibility of someone making a mistake. So needless to say, Colin hasn't had a ton of experience learning how to behave in a restaurant. So if you are ever out and about and see a monkey who swallowed a Mexican jumping bean that's probably us and I apologize in advance :-)!
Happy Saturday everyone and I will keep the giveaway open to Monday or so. Take care and thanks for stopping by!

So I Guess I Was Taking A Break...

from blogging. Things really haven't been that busy but for some reason I have been pretty tired lately. I have loads of photos to share but wanted to make sure that I let you know that today is Design Team day at the Collage Press Blog. Be sure to head on over for your chance to win a paper pack. I can't tell you how much I love working with this stuff so I will be crossing my fingers that you get a chance to win. Here's my additions to this month's gallery. I finished these the weekend I was at CKC Valley Forge and finally get to share them!




Well that's it for today, thanks for stopping by today and have a great weekend!

Quick Post and New LO...

Just wanted to stop by and say hi! Hope everyone is enjoying beautiful weather this weekend. We have a full weekend planned that includes lots of time outside. But before I go I wanted to share a new LO. A few weeks ago Colin dressed himself before going to school. I agreed with his choices as long as I got to take a few photos. See a win/win. So when Cosmo Cricket released the boyfriend line and it included that cute little clothesline, I knew I wanted to use this photo.



That's it for now. Enjoy your weekend and remember to take lots of photos!

So Apparently We Have A Baby...

Colin decided yesterday that he wanted to bring home a baby from school. He told his grandparents that she was in his playroom but she was very shy. He would go in to see if she would come out. He went into his playroom, closed the door behind him and when PaPa went in to see what he was doing he asked that no one come in since he was trying to get her out. He comes out of the playroom a few minutes later and states that she is too shy to come out and that maybe he would try later.

(Hopefully you realize by now that Colin has his first imaginary friend/baby and that we aren't randomly taking daycare babies home with us and locking them in the playroom).

Delanie did however come out for bathtime and needed her own bath, help with brushing her teeth, her own PJ's, and her own spot on the bed. Colin very lovingly carried the baby to bed and picked out a stuff animal for her to sleep with.

This evening was complete with jealously that the baby was sleeping too close to me and that Colin couldn't sleep because the baby was being too loud.

He was very concerned that the baby was going to make him late for swim day today. We had to feed the baby breakfast this morning and make sure she was buckled into the van right next to Colin.

I think my favorite part of this whole thing is that he knows he is being silly when he asks me to buckle the baby in yet he giggles when I actually do it like I can see her too.

I love that he thinks I'm the crazy one, lol!

So when did your child's imaginary friend pop up and were they a same age peer or a seemingly sly request for a sibling.

I'm Back and I Have Lots to Share...

Hey ladies how are ya?!
Let me just start this post off by saying that things are going really well in the Faust household and I am the most relaxed that I have been in a long time. It's very possible that may change but I wanted to post it so I remember that it was real, lol!

On to the important stuff!

I had to do a little searching but I found the link to where I purchased my Thicker Storage Container in the previous post.

Here's the link at the Office Depot website. I was able to buy this in the store but recently our Office Depot closed so I don't know how many stores are still around. Thanks for the comment Anjanette, trust me I understand how imperative it is to get an answer when you find the thing that feels like it will solve a Thicker emergency! Hopefully you are able to find it soon!

And I also wanted to give a shout out to erink88 and say thank you for loving my blog! I am working on my photoshop post about how to take photos of LO's. I hope to post that this week.

So have you guys seen this?


Oh my gosh, I can't even explain to you how excited I am to see the rest of this release. So stinkin' excited!

I also want to share a little about my trip to Valley Forge this weekend. So I helped with about 8 classes this weekend including 4 for Creating Keepsakes and Papercrafts. I will say that they CK and PC classes were really well done and the products in the kits were the most current. I was truly impressed with both sessions and how well prepared the teachers were. I have to say that the best one was Susan Opel's class that she taught for Paper Crafts. You can definitely tell that she was a teacher in a past life and did a great job keeping the class on track with the materials. She even had me thinking about making a few cards, lol.

Since it's late I will keep the rest of this short. Some other highlights from this weekend include....
-Shopping with Cassie and getting some dinner at the Mall.
-Running into other CKMBer's and getting to catch up a bit.
-Staying up late in the hotel scrapbooking and watching Comedy Central.
-Shopping at King of Prussia Mall, okay mostly eating.
-Getting my teeth whitened since I had about an hour to kill before going to the crop. Gotta love all of the stuff that pops up in a mall these days!
-Getting an extra issue of the July Issue of CK at the Send Off Crop.
-Everyone else getting copies too and some very lovely ladies asking me for my autograph. *blush*
-Sitting with some lovely ladies who made me laugh and welcomed me into their group.
-Realizing that I NEED to buy a new printer. A Cannon, large format, 9000 series to be exact. During the show they had some Cannon reps demoing their stuff at the crop. I figured that I would bite. I had my thumb drive with all 3000 of my photos on it. The rep printed that fabulous photo of Colin flying that vintage plane at Knobels. Yeah...um...just imagine that as a 13 by 18 print on high quality glossy photo paper. Yeah...it was that good. I think they sold quite a few of those printers that night.
-Finishing 2 Collage Press LO's that I hope to share soon.

All in all it was an awesome weekend that provided some much need rest, made a dent in my scrapbook stash and allowed me to hang with other women who are just as passionate about this stuff as I am. Life. Is. Good.

Now if I can just find a frame....

Some Organization...

One of the major draws to scrapbooking for me is that I get to organize my supplies in cute little containers. I enjoy moving things around almost as much as I enjoy creating. I love even more when I score a great deal or find a use for a non scrapbooking related item. So here are a few of my favorite finds.


This is where I store new purchases/DT stuff that I want to make sure that I use or that I tend to grab often. I purchased this at an office supply store and it was MUCH cheaper than the scrapbook versions. It is light enough that I can fit this in my rolling tote and bring it along to a crop.


My next office supply purchase. I. LOVE. THIS.
This has worked the best for storing my alphas. (Which are mostly Thickers) I enjoy flipping through here to see what I have. It has inspired me to consider a flippy way to store my pattern paper since I don't tend to remember everything I have in my current system. Seems I need to see it and see it often to remember to use it.


See...Thickers :-)


Buttons...Dog Bowl from TJ Maxx.


Embellishments...bowls from Wegmans.


Tools, Pens, Ribbon...Tool and Pen Holder from Kitchen section at TJ Maxx. Ribbon Holder from Jo Anns Sewing section. That green bag is a makeup bag that I got as a free gift with a Clinque purchase. I use it to store my tiny pieces of pattern paper and some bling that would get lost within my scrap storage.

Well there you have it. I love creative storage ideas and I'm constantly looking for new ones. I am currently trying to change my paper storage. I want to use ALL of it and feel like I want to use a hanging file system. Do any of you currently do that and if so...how is it working?

FYI...I am working on a few "how to" posts, so keep a look out for those in the next few days. To include but not limited to...scrap storage, how to take photos of LO's, how to improve photo quality in blogger, and a start to finish LO. I am also considering doing a post about my basic workflow in Photoshop Elements. I by no means am a pro and have a VERY limited understanding of PSE but if people are interested, I don't mind posting what I am currently doing.

I hope to blog and/or tweet this weekend from CKC VF so if you are there be sure to stop by and say hi!