Tomorrow morning, I will leave bright and early for NY, NY. What am I doing in NY when Eric is scheduled for surgery on Monday you may ask? Well it's the Surtex (surface and textile) Design Show...
If you are good friends with the staff at your local coffee shop, you may be able to get empty tea bags for free. That is what I did. But if you have to purchase them don't worry.... 200 will ru...
I'm sorry for my lack of blog posting! Would you like to know where I went? Let's play a little game. If you pick the winning answer to where I've been, I'll enter you into a draw...
Boy, oh boy, have a gotten a lot of mileage out of my bamboo placemat. Even with yesterday's and today's projects I still have more than half of it left!I'm really happy with this cute...
These cute accessories were made from a lonely bamboo placemat I picked up at Ross for 3 bucks. They only take minutes each to make and you could literally get dozens out of one mat. I made the cuff ...
Follow these tips and you may just find yourself on your way to the land of creative mojo.#1. Don't go shopping!Hey, isn't it my job to convince you to go to the store and buy all the lates...
Maybe it's because I am a romantic when it comes to sappy, inspirational, and somewhat cheesy quotes, but I love framed messages. I think this one is especially sweet being framed in an old book...
Happy Monday everyone. I am recovering from a terrible virus this morning. Did you all have a fun National Scrapbook Day on Saturday? Did you get lots of paper crafting in? I hope so!We had five craf...
I think I may be the last person on earth, with four children and no media player in the family van. I don't usually notice this fact, except that June 2, I will drive Ethan, Kate, Suki (don...
You've seen us make them into Kindle Covers Shaddow Boxes And Secret Compartment Boxes Today I'll show you what I did with "The Story of a Bad Boy." I found the title so funny, an...
The results of my 9th grade aptitude test came with a suggestion for possible career choices. These included:Mechanic Every 14 year old girl's dream. "Hey Eric, can you bring me the washi t...
Good morning everyone!My friends over at Memorable Seasons sent me some awesome inspiration to share with you all. If you've been looking for pages featuring our new lines, then this post is for...
Before we get to this week's challenge, let's take a look at what you all did last week and congratulate our lucky random winner: Janet Lebeau. To try and become a lucky, random winner your...
This unexpected Saturday blog entry was made possible by the lovely Tracie Clairborne. Tracie sent me the following cards and they are so cute that I just had to share them with you all.She used our ...
I love making these type of projects. They are deceptively easy to do, but don't worry, we won't tell your friends. Today I'll show you exactly how to make the flower vase collage, but...
Today, for Thrift Thursday, we'll go from this, a 25¢ sewing pattern found at my thrift store (and yes, I really did sew that top in peach striped fabric for my seventh grade sewing class.):To t...
Join us tomorrow for Thrifty Thursday to see what we do with today's thrift store finds. The sewing pattern cost a total of 25¢! Can you believe that. There is a ton of tissue paper in one patte...
I was going to get a project done over the weekend to join the fabulous projects below, but alas, Eric woke up Saturday with his knee locked at about 80 degrees and couldn't walk. Do you know ho...
We have had some great entries for our element challenge so far that I'm excited to show on Monday. If you haven't played along with us yet, I'm here to inspire you.I personally love o...
I use a lot of pre-folded card bases that come with envelopes, but I rarely use the envelopes. Do you have this problem?Needless to say, I have stacks of card-sized envelopes sitting around. Everytim...
I have a big butt and I cannot lieYou other mothers can't denyFour pregnanciesDid something to meIncreased my family and my pant size.So, as always, I am trying to pare down my pear figure. And,...
Today I'm going to share some of my odds and ends. We'll start with the odds:One very odd thing about me is that I can't tell the difference between cars of the same color. That's...
Before we get to your great projects, I have to ask, "Who didn't cross their fingers?"I think I remember asking you all to keep your fingers crossed the home inspection in Austin would...
I think we all fell in love with this project when we saw it. Now we owe a very special thanks to Donna Budzynski for teaching us how she makes these fabulous, stitched paper purses! Donna made a sec...
We'll start with the winners. As always, we have some really great projects from friends to share with you. If you haven't played along with us on a challenge, you should. Playing is fun an...
The good news about April fools day is that I "get" a lot of people. The bad news is that I am so on guard, that when a friend really breaks a rib, I don't believer her until days late...
1. A Super-Cute friendship tag by Donna. I love how she combined the Tea for Two papers with the Baby Jane chipboard! 2. Hunger Games. Have you seen it? Ethan is a huge fan of all the books and so Er...
Eric Comstock is not a man of many words, but he is a man of many pictures. Enjoy some of his fun art today. It always brings a smile to my face!
We had several of you mention you would like a challenge to use stitching in a project. Well, I'm here to make that happen. If you haven't ever sewn on paper before, don't worry. Here ...
How was your April Fools Day? Eric and I both fell for a trick at Cafe Ibis. I honestly don't know what we were thinking... I'm blaming it on the early hour and fact we hadn't had our ...
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