~Wednesday ohhhh a tired Wednesday~

I had intended on drawing a number for the RAK lastnight but family life got in the way!
So I put the numbers in random.org and number 14 came up!

Michelle said...

Pinky,
I had a "pinky" moment and created a pink layout of my son's Valentines Day party at school! It turned out pretty cute! I have not showed him yet though..LOL!
HAve a ~FABU~ Day!!

So Michelle, Send me your addy and I will get this PINK RAK off to ya girl! LOL
Your comment made me giggle!

I did manage one half pages yesterday but that was all.
I was busy working on an article for Treasured Scrapbooking newsletter (March)
and of course the ever present SEWING!


~Pinky~

~Beautiful Quiet Tuesday Morning~

I went to bed early lastnight after working on this project.
It is a box for games/cards.
I am real pleased with how it turned out I must admit!

So how is your beautiful Tuesday?
I know many of you have asked about my toe.
It is feeling much better thank you.
Between the icing, taping and relaxing, I am able to walk around now.
YEA!
I need it to be better for my crop in KY this weekend with MINDY and Rebecca!
WOOHOO! I am so excited!
Have a beautiful day
~Pinky~

~Monday...oh Monday~**RAK ADDED**

Ok for that ADDED RAK for RAK day today!!! I have a Teresa Collins BLING RING Some Heidi Swapp Felt Butterflies and a Cloud 9 MINI Album! So leave a comment and send a friend over to say hi! Or not... Just have fun and tomorrow night I will pick a WINNER!

I woke up this morning LATE!
My son was crawling into bed with me singing about a video game.
So I rushed up and made some cream of wheat and toast for the kids,
went to my doorway, lo and behold there was a package with a
brand new rotary paper trimmer and a package of paper!
From Rebecca @ Fiskateers! I won it last week in a chat!
WOOHOO Monday!
So see, I might RAK alot away but I also get prizes here and there!
I am sure I can find a FUN RAK for this week in my stash too.
I am awake now!

Now you might wonder why in the world I have a Mosh Posh Blinkie on my blog today.
Ok technically it is NOT blinking.
But..it is because they are having a blog party!
So go on over and check it out and tell them Pinky sent ya!
You will get a chance at some goodies and so will I
I did it for a friend as well!
I do love Mosh Posh Kits.
No money to buy them but I love them from afar.
I like to window shop at Mosh Posh!
http://mosh-poshkits.blogspot.com/
My gf loves them, she gets them every month.

So if your blog hopping today hop on over!
Have a great Monday!
~Pinky~

~Sunny beautiful Sunday~

It is only 40 degrees this morning but it is simply beautiful outside.

I love waking up to days like this. I wake up and the sun just makes me feel happy.
This is the 15th so it is my second Reveal for Kit #2 & Treasured Scrapbooking.
On this page I added the red cardstock
BUT I took my machine to it and went crazy!
I actually made this page for Holly (Come barefoot blog)
So I just set a picture in it for reveal purposes.
But now that it is revealed I can mail it to her!


And this is just ONE of the mailboxes I did for the kids this year.
Never again I say! LOL Tin suck to alter!
But it was fun and I like it.
The others were much more child like to appeal to my 5 year old.
The thing that counts?
They LOVE them!
So that is all for me and kit #2~

Hope you have a beautiful Sunday
~Pinky~

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!!!!!!

Well, yesterday I managed to break my toe LOL
So I have a huge swollen black and blue toe.
I am limping, but I did manage to climb the stairs and prop my foot up
and finish the mailboxes and the cards.
I made the pretty Pink Card for Andrew.

And these cute little postcard Valentines for the boys.

It was so cute too. My 6 yr old looked at me and said..."Mom ? You know my favorite things today?" I said "No what?" He said "This (grabbing the card I made) and these (the candy)."
Now tell me that doesn't melt a momma's heart!

SO My beautiful friends, Thank YOU for stopping by to say Happy Valentine's Day!
I appreciate every one of you!
And Happy Valentine's day to you all too!!!!!
~Pinky~

~So many projects, so little time~

Well I never did like alcohol inks before now!

Now I am in LOVE!
I used leftovers from my kit class (which I could do 10 more) and took this transparency and painted it with the alcohol inks, let it dry. Turned it INK down and glued it on the page.
Then I used stickled to add dimension and more color.
WOW I was so pleased when I was done.
This is a book of Music, Minda from Tally Scrappers is sending it person to person, like a circle journal, for each scrapper to decorate a page.
This was my contribution.
I like alcohol inks but the tye dye look was not for me!
This method definitely is!
Now I just need to find more transparencies.

Well off to finishing my boys Valentine's Day cards and goodies.
Have a beautiful Friday and enjoy your weekend, I know I am looking forward to mine.
~Pinky~

~Thinking Thursday~

My heart lays heavy this week, in prayer and thought of little Ellie and the Willaert Family.

Now, I have never "met" Nikki or her family, but we have known each other online for a long time now.

I ask today that you pray with me, for the family to find some faith and comfort.
I have been making cards, I almost do not want to share, because I sat in tears making them and they feel so personal and private to me.
I enclosed scriptures in each card with very little message except the message of faith.


I would encourage you, if you do "know" the family or have followed their story to please send a card of faith to the family.
I know we cannot do anything to help from so far but we can pray and send a sense of community from near and far. So please, whatever your belief send thoughts and prayers their way.

This is Nikki's request of prayer
Many of you ask continually "what can we do for you?" My answer is to pray - just keep praising God for all He has given us and thanking Him for Ellie and her goodness. Pray for the healing of her body, a complete and total restoration, so that she will go on to glorify God with the story of her healing. Pray for Pat as he struggles to hold his family together. Pray for me that I find the right words at the right times when my children ask me difficult questions. Pray for our parents, brothers and sisters as they stand close by to us and strengthen us, even though they are struggling themselves. WE love all of you and so need you, thank you so very much for fighting with us.


~Pinky~

On a sweeter love note, I wanted to thank LisaMarie for coming to my blog.
She won the stamps and privately messaged me to please send them to Jingle.
I just thought that was so sweet and that is what true love and friendship is all about!
Thanks for sharing your kindness Lisa!
I don't I can explain what that did to my spirit today!

~We have a stamp winner!~

1. Lisamariemlt

Timestamp: 2009-02-11 13:58:23 UTC

Well as much as I had secretly hoped Jingle won for sending so many people over to my blog (thank YOU Jingle) To be 100% fair Lisamarie's name came up! Congrats girly!!!!!!Jingle if you send me your addy I will send you a little something!LisaMarie send me your address I will mail you some stamps!!!!!!!

Thanks everyone for stopping by and saying hey all the time.I have no scrapped anything but a couple of personal cards the last 2 days.And of course SEWING! Just a quick heads up....Rebecca informed me that my sewing tutorial for the caddy and the GIVEAWAY of the PINK caddy will be up I think tomorrow on the blog! So make sure to check!

~Have a beautiful day~

Pinky

~These Stamps ROCK~RAK~

Yes, I have been waiting to put up a RAK because I am a broke ass fool! LOL
But I found these on clearance and may I just say they ROCK!
So I picked them up thinking they would make a great RAK.
This is a LARGE set of Acrylic Stamps from Making Memories, the Fa La La line.
Calendar stamps.
So leave a comment here and if you refer a friend to my blog then you will get 2 entries!
Have fun! I will choose a name on Wednesday!
Happy Valentine's Day to all my Blog friends. You all are the reason I keep posting!
Thank you!
~Pinky~

~Productive weekend??~

Was it a productive weekend?
Well, not so much scrap wise.
But family and sewing wise YES!
As always family comes first in my house,
well more like children come first!
We had a lovely weekend.
Hubby and I got up on Saturday and cooked a BIG family breakfast.
Then we all played a bit and he took them
to the park so I could sew/work.
Then back and we made supper.
On Sunday I hopped out of bed and made pancakes.
So no I did not get much scrap time in.
But scrapping is definitely not as important as that
time with my boys I loved every second and it was a great weekend!

I did eek out this LO
Along with 6 dresses, so not too bad!
And this morning was a BALMY 50 at the bus stop! HOORAY!
So back to the last little one, he needs to eat.
Have a beautiful Monday!
~Pinky~

~It's no secret I LOVE horror~

I thought it was about time I made a LO about my love of Horror novels/movies.

I also love Jack Nicholson movies.
When I was only 10 or 12 I snuck in the living room in the middle of the night
and watched the movie Carrie and Stephen King had me HOOKED!
The last scene when her hand came out of the ground,
I was in pure terror heaven!

Well back to sewing and the boys!
Have a beautiful Sunday
~Pinky~

~Simple and QUICK Candy covers~

I had a few of you ask how my candy wrappers were made.

I feel silly posting because they are so simple.
But here we go!

Step #1 Cut a strip of 3" by about 9" or 10"
It really depends on how long you want your flap.
If you want to make an extra fancy one or one on each end.

Now fold your flap over. No real measurements here, I just placed
the M&M wrapped inside to make sure it fit is all.
Then fold a 3/4" crease in the middle and match up the other end
trimming where necessary.
It should look like this when your done.
Now you have a couple options, and I used both options.
I stuck a little strip of glue inside and placed the candy OR you can
staple the tip of the candy bag to the top of the flap (not where you will glue it down)
But right at the crease.
I did this one most and stapled the flower in as well.
Now you can play with these and get fancier.
With this one I made the flap and extra 1.5" and I used my Fiskars Border punch,
then I folded it up and glued it in place.
On this one, I left it 12" and folded DOWN, scalloped,
and glued making the inside a longer flap

Then on the folded flap I scalloped again.

Hope you have fun and make some of your own! I would LOVE to see them!
Have a beautiful Day
~Pinky~

~Crafty Valentine's Treat~

No this is not the most creative thing I have done,

but no project has ever brought me so much joy.

My son is doing his class Valentine's and I bought him the ones from the
store because he loves choosing them.
BUT I wanted to do something special so I started making little candy matchbook covers with flowers on little M&M's bags.

He walked into my scrap room and I showed him what i was doing...

he gasped in delight and said "Its a good thing you know how to scrap MOM!, now my gifts will be even more special than anyone else's!"

He even agreed to graciously give me one more day to finish 20 of them! LOL And told me I could go to bed last night instead of staying up all night finishing them! ROFL!

He said "IF you get tired, you CAN go to bed, I can wait one more day"


I love my kids, I love my life today~
Have a beautiful day
~Pinky~

~Tuesday is my PINK DAY!~

I know I know you are saying...Pinky...PINKY why all the PINK! LOL
Well my DT kit was pink so by golly I am making PINK pages!

The white embellishments are actually clear stickers I placed on cardstock and cut out.
Tomorrow I need to work on making some fabric embellishments as well!

Hope y'all have a great week!
Here's to crafting!
~Pinky~

~Mayhem Monday?!~

So excited I finally get to share some of my work from the February Kit #2 on Treasured Scrapbooking! These are just a couple pages I have done in the last 2 weeks!

I never did find a title for this one, I just liked it bare. It is my 7th Wedding Anniversary TODAY! And I sort of made this is commemoration of it.
Well this and a sex coupon book LOL


And here is a LO using the stamp in the kit and my sketch to match.
I have to say I managed to make 3 ALL PINK boy Lo's this month! Not bad right?
Bwhahaha! You can make ANY scrap page work for you, just remember..NO RULES!
I love this pink page and who cares if it is PINK it still rocks in my book!
I still have one more page that is all PINK for tomorrow.


Great mix right?
Its all for fun anyways. No pressure!
Have a great Monday
~Pinky~