Infinite Goodness Tile

When this stamp set came out, I just had to get it. I loved the images as well as the sentiment. I created this tile to show the guests at the workshop one of the many possibilities that you can use your stamps for, besides just card making or scrapbooking.


I used the masking technique from SCS when I did this tile. The french script is a really old background stamp that I had from when I first started stamping; it's stamped in Timber Brown StazOn. The pear is stamped in Always Artichoke and So Saffron craft ink and the sentiment is stamped in Always Artichoke craft ink. Many of them liked this idea, so maybe we'll do this in the future at a stamp club.

Sorry for the short post......Michigan State is getting ready to play shortly in basketball. It's a late game...hope I can stay awake for all of it. Go Green!

Music

I've added a music playlist to the bottom of the blog. I need music when I am trying to be creative. If I don't have noise, my mind just seems to wander and I can't concentrate. I was like that in school too.....I needed music or the TV on in order to concentrate, otherwise I would think about all these other things that I needed to do instead of doing the task at hand. This is just a beginning list of some of the songs I like. I enjoy all sorts of music, so this playlist will be a work in progress.

My 2 cents worth

I've been reading on a few blogs lately about the pressures of blogging and "trying to keep up with the Joneses". (Sorry if your last name is Jones....you probably get tired of people using that analogy :) Blogging means different things to different people. Some people do it just to show their crafts, other do it as a place to "be themselves" and say whatever is in their heart and for some it is a mixture of both. For me, blogging is my creative outlet, as I say in my title "my own little corner of the world". It's a chance for me to escape my everyday life of mother, wife, housekeeper, cook, chauffer, laundromat, etc. We are all human, and we can't always escape our life. It's going to "spill" over into our craft life that we have here in blog world. Whatever people's reason is for blogging, we should not be judging them or criticizing them. If you feel that people are "pulling you down" (as one person said) or if their lives are too dramatic for you, then please don't read their blog. No one is making you go to their blog and read it. But please don't go and leave nasty comments. This isn't high school anymore....it's the real world. As I learned growing up, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all".

People are feeling bad that they don't get many comments or visitors. As you can see from my blog, I have a little over 1400 hits since July of 2007 and half of them are probably me!! :) I rarely get comments and even ask questions and no one leaves comments. That's okay with me. I don't blog and share my stuff for it to be a popularity contest. I started it as a means to show my friends and family what I enjoy doing. And if I am able to inspire someone to create something from what I share, that is wonderful....an added bonus. Of course comments and RAK's always brighten someone's day, but we shouldn't validate ourselves on whether or not we get those. At the end of the day, our family (& friends) is what matters the most. Not how many visitors or comments we had on our blog. Okay, I better step off my soap-box now, or I could keep going forever. It was breaking my heart to see some of the mean things people were saying out there, so this was my way of getting it off my chest. Thank you for listening to me ramble on.

Craft Room - back of door #6

Well, this is the last of the craft room series, until I reorganize again! LOL! This is the back of one of the double doors to my craft room. You'll notice my "little helper" in the picture...Emerson just had to hop in! LOL! This is an over-the-door shoe holder. I think it was around $6.99. It is perfect for all those miscellaneous things that don't really have a home. I have misc. ribbon rolls, extra adhesive, misc. small punches, clothes pins (for ribbon), foam brushes, luggage tags for bags, glue sticks for the hot glue gun and whatever else I can seem to shove in there! Notice I still have an empty door.......just wait.....I'll get another shoe storage container and fill it soon! You can't see it in the picture, but I have a white pillowcase under the door hanger so it wouldn't scratch the paint when I hung it over the door. Thanks for looking! I hope some of these pictures give you some inspiration to organize your craft room. I LOVE to organize things, but staying organized is a whole other issue for me! LOL! I would love to see your craft rooms and how you organize your space. Feel free to email some pictures or post a link to your blog so maybe I can get some different ideas. Thanks for looking. Enjoy your day....I'm off to the grocery store...yuck!

Craft Room #5

I posted this picture back when I first started my blog, but have added some things since then and also labeled the picture, so I thought I would re-post it.

The desk is from my husband when he was a kid. I repainted it white and put new hardware on it. The desk was VERY narrow and didn't give me much room to work, so I put a piece of melamine board on top to give me more surface area (it still isn't enough, but I'm making do!) You can see my ink caddy on the left, which is totally full, not just of SU stamps, but all my StazOn, Tim Holtz Distress Pads, VersaMark, craft pads, etc. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to store additional ink pads? I'm slowly replacing my Spots with the regular ink pads and therefore have no place to store my non-SU! stamp pads. How do I store them?

I absolutely love the ribbon holder on my desk. My mother works at a dentist office and it used to be a sticker roll holder they used to give stickers to the kids. It's perfect for ribbon. I wish I had another one! This holds the ribbon I use the most. The is also a small dish to the left of the ribbon that holds all my little scraps of ribbon. I decided that if it was right out in the open, I would be more apt to use them than if they were hidding in a jar somewhere.

I ABSOLUTELY love my IKEA chair. You'd think it would be really uncomfortable, but it's the most comfortable $20 I'd ever spent! It's so nice to wheel around to the table behind me, wheel over to my closet and be comfortable all at the same time!

To the right of my IKEA chair, I keep all my scraps. Each SU! color has it's own folder. When making something, I always go to my scrap folders first before I pull out a new full sheet of paper. I think the rest if self-explanatory. I tried to label everything . There are also some more pictures that I didn't re-post that are filed under the CRAFT ROOM category to the right. Thanks for looking! I hope this inspires you to do a little spring cleaning in your craft room!

Craft Room - Embellishments

Well, I think I jinxed us here in Michigan. In my last post, I talked about it looking like Spring and the snow finally melting. Well, we got a huge snow storm yesterday and we are all covered in the white stuff again! Will it ever end?!?!?!?

Okay, I digress. This is where I store most of my embellishments. I picked up this shelving unit at a local flower/craft store when they were re-doing their shelving. It can be hung up on the wall, but this works for me right now just sitting on the table. The little jars are baby food jars and I spray painted the lids black.

I store my eyelets and brads in this "tic-tac" style organizer (see pic. below). My SU! ones are labeled so I know the exact color. I have 3 of them and they are almost all full! My flowers are stored in misc. jar or paint buckets. Whatever I have around and will fit flowers, is what I use :) I have tons of eyelets and brads that I got from a share a while back and they are currently stored in mini zip lock baggies. I don't have nearly enough "tic-tac" containers to store them all in yet, so I have just left them in the bags.

Believe it or not, I have more craft room pictures to show you. Stay tuned!!

Burp Cloths #2

Here is the second set of burp cloths that I did for the baby boom going on amongst our friends. They are expecting their second boy any day now. Season wise, they are born only a month apart, therefore they have most of the clothes, etc. that they needed, so why not some new burp cloths...plus they are easy to mail!


Don't look too close at the stitching! I can do lines, but never promised that they would be straight!! LOL! I am a beginner/novice at sewing, at best. When I saw that camo. ribbon at the store, I couldn't pass it up. I wasn't sure if the black ric-rac was girlish, but it was all I had for the burp cloths. I loved the orange polka-dots when saw it....it made me think of Spring. I hope they like them! Thanks for looking! Enjoy your day.....the snow is finally melting here and it's starting to look like Spring out there. We'll see how long that lasts!