I'm Bad ....

I was at work today &  had to run an errand & 

somehow got sucked into a vortex & ended up in Michaels

Believe it ?        Didn't think so 

anyway - I picked up another desk top storage bin 

& a few goodies - 

ALL on sale again .  I like the word Sale 

Not sure where I am keeping everything yet 

wanna clean up more of the stash & organize  better 

here are a few treats 

better get back to cleaning .....

will post more later 

have a creative day 

Dr Dreadful Alien Autopsy & new storage & Hull

Was up & put of the house early today driving 

Garett & his buddy to Hockey in the -27 ( feels like -40) weather 

I figured an act of great parents deserved a trip to Michael's on the way home 

Good rational, lol

Picked up some ... well a few things ...

First I grabbed a few Christmas cards that can be altered for next year at 50 cents a pack

Second as i was milling around the scrapbook products - 

Something in the isle caught my eye ....

5 Lifestyle Dies by QuickKutz for $12

They were all packed together - the only one I wanted & 

didn't get was an alarm clock but it was packed with others I had in my bin 

But I did get to use my 50% coupon on it - 

so maybe I will grab the stack for $6... 

I can always give the doubles away  

I picked up 2 pkg of ready to go cards & 2 pkg of treat bags 

I love having things like this handy for quick gifts  

Next one is blurry sorry - 

7 gypsies file tags for 2.99

and a cute pack of white trim for the 1.50 bins

I wanted some mosge podge for a really cool canvas I pinned recently - 

hoping to do in a week or 2 - picked these up for 6.99 for both - 1 matt 1 glossey 

I have a thing for skeleton keys

and beleive it or not these were 50 cents for 2

they were in the Christmas section 

I think they are going to be amazing on a valentine 

Then I grabbed a few Christmas Washi tapes ON SALE of course 

and a 3 pack of Valentine that was not ...

Will now need to talk to Tracy L for storage solutions for them ....

Lastly i picked this up for 50% off

It is shallower than most storage & is meant for table top ...

Wish they had two.

Top bucket comes out for an extra shelf 

& markers / pens can be used on the go 

Thats was my hull

On to my day ...

When I got home I made my little monster eggs 

he ate them up with the promise of an Alien Autopsy after

For Christmas I found him a Dr Dreadful candy maker.

They made these when my 15 yr old was younger ... 

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Intestines
 

  

Mini Book Upload

As I mentioned before here - I like to make Mini Books.

I really didn't realize that till recently -

 but I guess I adored them with out realizing 

Here are a few that I have made in the last year or two 

but am just getting loaded now 

 the first one is a trip we took to the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin dells 

the second book is a small one of the kids when they were small at 

their favorite place to swim - Little Dog

nest we have a mini with our first year camping in Beardmore ....

If you cant see the pages let me know and I will 

upload individual pages 

I think that is a long enough post for now - stay tuned as i load the rest of my books

October Afternoon @ PeachyCheap.com

I never used to buy a lot on line but lately I have bought 3 things 

The 3rd today!

Couldn't resist this deal...at 

October Afternoon Giant Paper and Sticker Kit

Today's Peachy Cheap deal is an October Afternoon Giant Paper and Sticker Kit. This deal has 47 sheets of 12"x 12" double sided papers and 4 - 12"x 12" sheets of alpha stickers. Shipping is $5.99 U.S. and $8.99 Canada.

 

October Afternoon Blog REPOST

I was looking through OA blog - September 17th and saw this awesome tutorial and 

HAD to post so I wouldn't loose it & had to share it!

Happy Tuesday! It's Laura Craigie here with a simple, and fun tutorial for you.

To get started you simply need a roll of your favorite washi tape!  I'm making two different cards today and chose these tapes.  The gray stars are from Daily Flash, and the green floral is from thePublic Library line.

Then you want to tear, or cut off two fairly long lengths of tape depending on how long you want your ruffle to be.

Take the two lengths and adhere them to each other sticky sides together.  This will give the ruffles some thickness, and not have the pieces sticking together where you don't want them.  I try to line up the patterns as best I can when possible.

Next you want to grab a stapler, and simply fold over a little section and staple it as close to the top as possible, and repeat it over and over creating a ruffle.  You want the staples to be as close to the top so that you have lots of the ruffle showing since we will be hiding the stapled part under some patterned paper.

Then you just keep going till you have the length you desire.  

Isn't that just so easy?  And it looks ridiculously cute on projects and helps make a dent in your washi tape stash, which I'm sure you guys are collecting too, right? :)

Here are the two cards I made with their washi ruffles.

The first is made with the Milk Money Daily Flash line, and Travel Girl Alphabet stickers.

And one more with the floral tape I just made, and the Girl Talk Daily Flash line.

Thanks so much for stopping by today, I had so much fun making these cards and I hope you feel inspired to try this technique on your own projects, and if you do, don't forget to share them in our Flickr Gallery.

Laura :)

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