save me from myself *** pics are up***

[joyah]

Okay so the next time I say I'm going near a scrap store or even CKC next year remind me that I need NOTHING and have room for NOTHING. I'm surround by stuff and I couldn't possibly use this much stuff in the next year.

too top it all off I still have a ton of paper left from the store that my friend so kindly gave me and that is not even in my scrap room.

I also need to have one or two of you or even more of you visit my house and force me to scrap my fool head off for the next year. so almost everyweekend from now to eternity I need you here with me forcing me to actually use all this stuff I have.

Okay crawling back to my corner now to try to hide some of this from Tom

[Lisa]

Christy, you can have as much scrapping products as you can hide from your husband. Now get working as using it!!!!

[LindaBabe]

I second that! You just don't have enough time and too many things competeing for what time you do have.

[joyah]

well lets see............ spend time Dis'ing spend time scrapping........ much less mental strain Dis'ing :lmao::lmao:

I have managed to to get 95% of what I bought put away now I just have a few piles of stuff on the desk and odds and ends on the table. If I can get them put away tomorrow night I should be able to get a few pages down on friday. Thurs is double sport night so that's out.

I also managed to get all the fabric bought put away.:rotfl: Mom's already talking about the tent sale and I'm thinking I need to kick the boys out of the play room my hobbies are taking over. but then I'd be in the basement and totally away from everything (that's not such a bad idea)

Off to bed.

[PrincessNancy96]

I vote for the basement... they never come down there!!! I scrap while I do laundry!!!! Kills two birds with one stone..and you know the men folk & kids don't do laundry; their hands fall off if they touch detergent!!!! (note sarcasm!!!!)

[joyah]

Actually Nan tom does his own laundry. I told him after E was born he was on his own in that department. L is started on learning how. They wear 2 sets of cloths a day so it's like doing laundry for 8. :scared1: I'd never keep up. The whole second floor of the house is ours, bedroom, bath and then the loft. I just have to share a corner of the loft for Tom's computer and another corner for the boys scrap area. they won't scrap forever so for now I share when theyare done I will remove their desk area and convert it to either a bookshelf for the scrapbooks or a true sewing area.

[PinballFamily]

DH is the laundry king around here - he actually separates by color and everything! (Me....not so much - separating for me is kinda like a "guideline" pirate: - I'd rather just toss everything in and get it done.

Christy - thanks for the great stuff from your "please take me" box! I never got a chance to look through it when you brought it to our CKC room party, but Z2H did and she grabbed the microbeads and tacky tape stuff for me. (I love :love: microbeads!) That was a terrific idea and I'll do it too, the next time we all get together. It is great way to clean out a bit and get scrappy stuff to folks who will use it! Marvy idea!!!

[joyah]

You're quite welcome. I'm trying to clean things out as I go and move them to a sell or give away pile. At a benifit crop we had a big pile out for people to go through and that is te only place I've seen it.

I wish you all weren't so far away. I've tried to figure out away that you all could make your way this way for a weekend get away to scrap. My house doesn't hold a lot but we could have fun. If we use the camper space I could hold more but then I'd thought about kicking the husband and the kids to that for the weekend.

[LindaBabe]

There's actually a couple "crop houses" not far from you, Christy.

http://www.cranberryfarminn.com/scrapbook.htm

http://www.quailhollowinn.com/scrapbook.htm

http://www.savorymemories.com/

[joyah]

Thanks for the links Linda. I knew about the Quail Hollow one but not the other 2! It's just expensive!!!! I'd love to win the lottery and buy an old building to renovate and have for things like that. And since I've won the lottery I could do it for dirt cheap.

[joyah]

hope you're all sitting down........................ I actually started a mosaic before I left for work this am (1/2 hour) and then another 45 mins tonight and I finished a 2 page mosaic!!!! Only my second one and the first one took me 2 days.:confused3

Since I was so proud of myself I gave me 10 mins to come tell you all about it. Now I'm going to do another one of the cows. Or at least start it.:woohoo:

[LindaBabe]

VERY GOOD, Christy!

(Me....not so much - separating for me is kinda like a "guideline" - I'd rather just toss everything in and get it done.


Yup. I resemble that remark ;-)

[party of 3]

Christy I'd love to see a pic of it.

[joyah]

Holly I'll take a pic of it tonight and post it for you. I'm still a novice at them but find it challenge and just something different. At first I'd take everything out and then couldn't cut up the pics (nerve wracking) so I'd put it all away. Now I go searching for ideas to do these with.

[Lisa]

Good for you doing the mosaic. I am not sure I would be up for the challenge.

[joyah]

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad332/cthazen/002-3.jpg

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad332/cthazen/005-3.jpg

http://i949.photobucket.com/albums/ad332/cthazen/006-3.jpg

Here you go!

[LindaBabe]

Those are LOVELY! You must have SO much patience!!!!

[joyah]

thank you Linda. Patience not so much. Mindset would be more like it, it is not something to try when you are tired.
that's what I loved about the Tami Potter system at CKC the tools make it easier. they have overlays that will show you where the cut lines will be. I have 2 more out with my Rock of Ages photos I want to do today. And I want to print out more lilacs and do one for Gram for tomorrow.

[party of 3]

Omg Christy I love it!!!!!!
Did you cut each square with siccors? That must have taken forever!
Thanks for sharing it with us!

[morgansmom2000]

Those are beautiful, Christy!

[DisneyIsTerrific]

That's beautiful Christy!!! Good for you on doing it!!!!

I've done one mosaic page and it took me forever to do it because I was so hesitant on cutting the photos.

[joyah]

Thank you all
It's actually a whole system. TB and Shamrock took the classes at CKC this past year. I'd bought it all last year after a demonstration at ckc. there is a whole cutting mat that has the measurements, and overlay to see where the cut lines would fall, and there is paper with grids for the layout. You use a metal ruler and exacto knife to do the cutting.

Stephanie it is denfinatly something you have to get used to. I now look for certian things that would work for these. It's a totally different look. Tom looked at it this am and was trying so hard to comment nicely:lmao:

[PinballFamily]

I'm just so cheap! Shamrock did buy an entire grid kit at last year's CKC, but she didn't touch (and I never took the opportunity to borrow!) it all year. I did buy some of the blank pages, though but never took them off my shelf. As a sort of practice, though, I did a "do it yourself" 1" grid set of cards (garden photos) a few months ago. They turned out *totally* great, without the kit (cut with my Cutterpede) and placed by eye (with help from a ruler). But I haven't yet tried it on an entire 12 x12 page.

TB and Shamrock did really seem to enjoy the grid class last weekend, so maybe now they'll give these layouts a try, too. And maybe I'll pick it back up again, too.

Christy - those look great. Love them! But, they ARE different - so give Tom a chance to appreciate their style! (Our menfolk are funny critters...)

[joyah]

Pam You should definatly borrow! the system isn't cheap but I figure once I've got it it was a one time expense. once you get over cutting up it's fun.

I'm so going to take one of the classes next year. I wish I had done it this year, decideing on the classes to take was a huge process for me but now I have a better idea.

It was really funny watching him struggle for words this am. but I'll give him a chance.;)

[AlexWyattMommy]

I love it!!! :love:

[DisneyIsTerrific]

I didn't even know there was a system for this. I just cut my pictures into 1 inch squares. I used it for multple flower pictures from our last Montana trip. They aren't spaced as nicely as yours so you can definitely tell I didn't use a system!:rotfl:

[joyah]

Stephanie
I had tried it that way and got NOWHERE other than a mess. So I gave up and invested in the whole thing. By the end of today I was doing 12x12 pages in about 20mins :cool1:

[Lisa]

Christy, that came out gorgeous. :goodvibes Forgetabout what Tom said or didn't say. He's a guy, what do they know. ;):lmao:

[joyah]

thank you Lisa! he still doesn't like them. I did another Lilac one on a black background (stricking) and then 1 from Rock of Ages granite quary. He looked at them and said I just don't get it. Okay so not his cup of tea.

I'm loving it. just soooo different. need to expand the mind. I bought some of thier kits this year haven't tried them yet.