Too Much Stuff!!!!!!!!

OK...I am back. I am feeling a bit overwhelmed to say the least....I sooo went overboard with everything...again!

First, I need to thank my dear friend Meri Wiley for coming over and helping me wade thru the chaos. The first thing we did was organize all of my scrapbook papers. First I had to go thru every sheet and decide "keep" or "giveaway"...that was pretty easy, as my tastes are pretty set now, but the problem is I have been collecting paper for 4 years, and never using it....I know, sick! I just love paper! But after going thru this, I have pledged that I am only going to buy paper if I have a project already in mind. Meri said I can call her if I get the urge to go nuts again! She is a real good friend that way....

I didn't take any photo of the actual purging and organizing process because to be honest it was a bit embarrassing....my shopping addiction was in full force with the paper.

So, I am going to show you how beautiful it looks now, we went to Staples and bought a file cart ( 39.00) , Meri put it together and went to town!

She organized the paper first by pattern or solid, or card stock. Then we had a few other categories, such as Holidays, then a few more by Company....October Afternoon, Cosmo Cricket, etc. This endeavor took Meri all afternoon! Again way too much stuff!

It turned out so nice, now I can roll this cart in front of me at any time....



I still don't have my shelves up, but I have been purging and putting things in my cute little boxes....

There is still so many things to go thru....I kind of hate doing this, because once again my shopping addiction is right there staring at me.

But, I am really going to be more aware of my emotional feelings when I go shopping. So very soon I can start creating fun things too!

Meri is coming back over on Monday, so I am sure we will get a whole lot more done!

I do have a note for all of you that thought the kitchen cart was a good idea for the printer....turned out it wasn't. It wasn't sturdy enough and it rocked, and messed up my print head. Everything printed fuzzy. Got the printhead realigned and Meri once more came to the rescue with this adorable vintage sewing table. I am going to paint it a fun color and put some decals on it. But it works perfect. The cart is in another part of the room now for storage.

Oh, and my boys came and took me out to dinner Friday, and brought me these beautiful flowers! I love flowers!!!!!

So hope everybody has a good week....those of the you in the terrible weather areas, please know I am thinking of you all. Keep warm! And hopefully you can all get to the grocery store!

P.S. I received a wonderful box from Elizabeth at Creative Breathing....I will show you what was inside in my next post! Thanks again E !

Happy Birthday!

They say it's your birthday ....Happy Birthday to you........


Yes, it is my birthday!

I keep hearing the Beatles song "Birthday" in my head! This is going to be a fun day...I am going out to lunch with one of my best friends, we are going to an old "catalog" ( the houses you could buy out of a catalog) bungalow house down in the town of Gilbert, I just love Gilbert!
Then we are going to dinner with my brother Brad and his wife Jo at Nando's, one of my favorite Mexican places. My brother's birthday was last Thursday. So we are celebrating both birthdays today....but he is old and I'm not! LOL
Tomorrow it is back to work on the craft room...I am feeling a bit overwhelmed. I had no idea I had SO much stuff!

The Craft Room continues

Good Morning Everyone!

It is a bright sunny day here in Arizona and I thought I would send a little of it your way! I know so many of you are struggling with the grey and snow of winter...so I thought I would try to bring you a little piece of sunshine!

This dining room table was a steal at Goodwill before Christmas for 29.00. It isn't s huge table and I felt it was just right for a workspace for my crafting! So, I got out the Krylon Cherry Red again and went to town on the apron and legs of the table.

As you can see, it is a nice sturdy dinning room/kitchen nook table.

I didn't bother to paint the top as I was going to cover it with a cute Oilcloth.

And here is the finished project! My husband and I had never done anything like this, and we were surprised at how easy it was. I put the oilcloth in the dryer ( low temp) for just a minute or so, got most of the wrinkles out, then I cut off the little bit of excess I had and Wayne went to town with the staple gun.....

I just love it! It will be easy to clean and fun to work on! I am sending all of you in the grey areas of the country a warm sunny day.....hope it gets there! Take care and thanks again for stopping by!

I am back in my new room!

Hi Everyone!

I am finally back at my desk in my brand new craft room! I have a long way to go in the next few days getting everything back in and the shelves and pegboard up but I wnated to share how far we have come!


This is what the wall looked like where I sampled paint. I had a color I was OK with, but it was much too bright, so I took the paint chip back to Lowes and had them mix a small can of 25% and 50% less color. The 50% less color was perfect! So my friend Linnie came over and between her, me and my husband Wayne we got the room painted in a little over 2 hours!

The color on the far right is the one we chose.....

And this is the color all done! I tried taking some other photos but they just washed out...so I hope you get the idea....it is the prettiest robin egg blue....I just love it!

Now, for the floor. When ever I take a photo, my dog Maya has to get in it, she ran in, turned around, sat down and she "posed"! I took this one so you could see how the floor looked first. Just plain tan carpet...blech!

Here, the tile is going in.....I was so afraid that when they took up the carpet the floor would be all uneven but we were pretty lucky, the guys that laid the floor only has one area to sand down. We live in a modular home, so it was board underneath the carpet.


And here is the finished product! I am so happy with it! We had to put 4 coats of polish on, and my husband thinks we need to buy a cheap buffer to keep it pretty...we'll see.
So what do you think?????

I was also lucky enough to find an old Cosco kitchen cart at Goodwill for 12.00. It was in pretty good shape, but the wrong color, so after a can of cherry red Krylon.....

This is how it came out! It is going to hold my printer, and paper and it holds my modem and such for my computer. Perfect piece for the room.
Well, this is all I have right now, but I wanted to share it as soon as I could! I can't wait to get into my bins and boxes and see what I have....you know it is that shopping at home again! LOL

Thanks for stopping by!

Now they are Messing with my Childhood!

I AM SO MAD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who doesn't remember these sweet little valentine treats?

OK...I wasn't going to do any posts as I have been super busy, but then I bought a bag of Necco sweethearts and just about flipped! Have any of you seen these???? New package looks like M&M's...and ( I just can't believe it) new colors and flavors.... they are horrible!!!!!! Green apple, grape, blue raspberry....there are no white ones!!!!! Are you kidding me????? They have taken away a candy that I have been eating for over 50 years!!!! And why????? Corporate America!

Now, messing with a candy that comes out once a year is bad enough but...are you ready? they are changing Necco wafers also!!!!

They are going all "natural"...don't these look yummy? YUK!!!! And there will be no more green ones! The green ones couldn't be made "naturally"...

"Natural" candy????? Still made with the same sugar that could kill us, but "natural flavors and colors" LOL
The chocolate ones..... the ones that you always kept for last? They are now coming in milk, dark, white and mocha chocolate! Again YUK!!!!

And these beauties......

They came out with these about a year ago or so...I only see them in the dollar stores...they are so bad very few were bought. Tropical flavors...are you kidding me? These are just horrible!

So take a look, you won't be seeing these anymore like this...another childhood item gone for good.

Who doesn't remember getting a pack of these sweet little wafers and being able to eat a few all day long! Of course, I chewed them down in 5 minutes...but you get my point!

Why must things always change????? They made billions of these little hearts and wafers every year. Billions!!!! You would think that would keep them happy. I don't usually get this upset about trivial things like this, but I am just tired of things changing just for changing sake....leave my candy alone! I have been to numerous candy blogs tonight and they are all raving mad about this! So I guess I am not the only one who is upset....

I will be hitting every 99cent store in Mesa tomorrow and buying up all of the old Neccos...they have a 8 year shelf life you know!!!!

Thanks for letting me rant.....sometimes you just gotta get it out of your system!

A short break

Hi Everybody,

Well, yesterday we painted my craft room the most beautiful shade of Robins Egg Blue, but I had to take my computer down and out of the space, ( that felt strange) so I am not able to download my photos and whatnot, my floor is going in on Tuesday and Wednesday and hopefully I will have the room put back together on Saturday. So....just to let you know, I am out here checking in with all of my favorite blogs, but I won't be posting anything for a while....I can't wait to show you the finished product!

100+ Followers! Happy Dance Time!

When I got to 10 followers I was amazed, and then 20, 30, 40 I was beside myself! They like me...they really really like me! LOL

Then 50, 60, oh my gosh is this really happening????

When 70 hit, I was just so pleased!

Then I got to 99 and I thought oh boy....so I would check a couple of times a day to see if the magic number had happened.....and guess what?????

I HIT 101!!!!!! I just want you all to know how very much I appreciate your support and the comments and the sharing.....it means A LOT!!!!!!!!

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