SANTA FLAG FOR CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE
AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A SAFE
AND
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

                                          

Christmas is coming......the turkey got eaten!

Hi there everyone. Christmas is coming...............

Christmas Countdown

Thanksgiving Gratitude Journal

Thanksgiving Planner

 It's time to be getting finished with all the Christmas projects. I took a number of my books to another Christmas craft fair at a local church last Saturday. Not only did I sell a number of my books but also had a number of people wondering if I taught classes. When in CA I did teach at 2 scrapbook stores. I really enjoyed teaching. So I collected a few names and will be holding my first class on Wed next week. Hope
it goes well. We'll see if there will be any future classes. Looking forward to it.

Christmas Planner

 A number of these items are already sold. If there is anything you are interested in just let me know in the comments section.So here are a few of the books I made for the show. At the time I signed up I didn't have any Christmas books so I had to work for a week getting together some Christmas things. Here are a few pictures of the items I took with me.

2013 Daily Planner

12 Days to Christmas

 25 Day to Christmas

Thank you for stopping by. I will be adding other projects soon just check back with me.

Blue Ribbon

     Well my hard work paid off. I went to the North Carolina State Fairgrounds to pick up the books I had entered in the competitions. WOW..... to my surprise I had won a First Place Ribbon! One of the books received a BLUE RIBBON for first place and the other won a YELLOW RIBBON for fifth place. I was excited!

     Now I would like to show you some of the inside pages to my Halloween mini album that I made for this years pictures.

I loved working with the this years Graphic 45 Vintage Halloween paper.

This is a picture of the charms I made to hang on the outside of the album.

Here are some pockets and tags I made to journal your thoughts or pictures on.

Loved making fold out pages to hold alot of extra pictures. The "moon" tag actually 

pulls up and out with room for journaling or pictures.

The page on the left opens to reveal a calender for the month of October.

The following picture shows the page open.

That's it for now. Next I will show you the "Witches Handbook" I made about

three years ago.

Thank you for visiting my blog. I would love to hear from you. All the albums I show

are for purchase upon request. All are one of a kind.

Leap of Faith

 I took a leap of faith......

My husband has been my biggest supporter of the Dream Journals that I have been making now for about a year. He has tried to encourage me to show my books more and make them available for purchase. Well, we all think our work is good but to put it our there for others to see may not be what you might expect. When in California I was making scrapbooks for people who had seen some of my books and had asked to make one for them. That was fun and kept me busy. Then I got away from that and started making my books. Little ones in the beginning just for myself and alot of them for gifts.

Well when we moved to Clayton, NC, I continued to make my books, again for family or friends. The neighbors became interested and loved seeing my works. Being away from my scraping buddies left me with lots of days to myself to work more on my craft. I fell in love with my books. When I took time to look around I realized I had more books then I knew what to do with. So came my first leap of faith.

Again with my husbands persuasion I agreed to enter my items in a local craft fair. I worked on my books for about a month wanting to make sure I had enough of them to offer. I kept thinking to myself, "Why am I doing all this work. It may not be worth it". All I could think about was that I would end up with ALL these books what would I do with them? I thought, well I would have them for gifts, my girlfriends, family, birthdays, Christmas, whatever came along. I was pleasantly surprised and somewhat overwhelmed. It seemed to be something no one here had seen before. It was exciting! I sold just about all that I had taken with me that day along with a couple of special requests from people who had attended the show that day.

My girlfriend in CA has been a big help and a true friend. She also has encouraged me and has pushed me again. She has helped me get started on facebook and on Etsy to expose my books to a larger audience. So I will now be posting them on these two venues along with this blog. At the end of the day yesterday I sat down to check my emails and facebook. I was in awe! I had received so many comments on my work that I was not expecting. It was so nice to hear from so many people. Again I was overwhelmed with it all. I am now loading pictures on Etsy to show my books and offer them to all of you out there.

Last week I went to the North Carolina Fairgrounds to enter two of my works in the competition for the North Carolina State Fair which starts on Oct 11 thro Oct 21, 2012. Winning something isn't the important thing to me. It's meeting more people who do and like the things I do and like. I have met sooooo many wonderful people during this process. It has been scaring at times but putting myself out there has been so rewarding.

I told this story thinking there maybe someone out there like me who loves what you do and to let you know how rewarding it is to share it.

Haylee's Jean Book Update

My sweet granddaughter loved her "jean book" I made her. I sent it with her Papa who is visiting the kids in California right now. Her mother told me that she has been writing in it and adding a number of pictures of friends and of course her Papa. I hope to get pictures of it so I can see what she has done. I was told she has written a couple of letters to me in it. Can't wait to see it.

Yearly Travel Log

                     
                         This book can be your "catch-all" for all those little trips during each year.
        Okay, I know that you have seen travel logs from me before but this one is a little different.
 Different in that it is much larger than the ones I have made in the past. This one measures 10"x 6 1/2".

With a date on the cover, you can make this a yearly book.

On the right side it looks like a floating postcard. I have added a few
plastic pockets to drop little souvenirs into.

This is actually a little portfolio to add pictures in or to do
some journaling .

Front and back cover.

                               

   
         Okay, I know that you have seen travel logs from me before but this one is a little different. Different in that it is much larger than the ones I have made in the past. This one measures 10"x 6 1/2".

         What about all the "little" trips you take throughout the year. You don't want to make a book for each one of them so, in this book you can track the trips during the year and put them all in one book. Using the pockets and envelopes you can store things like tickets, maps, receipts and other memorabilia and still put pictures in it. If you have say for instants a map you want to keep, just zutter it, slit the little opening on the binding side of the map and push the tabs over the coil.

Sweet Little Girl Jeans

I think it is time for a new post. I was so excited to finish this book for my granddaughter that I felt I just had to share it with all of you out there. I love the feel of excitement I get when I have made something that just tickles me. This so much makes me think of my little granddaughter in California that I have to smile.

The front and back cover of this book is made from a pair of jeans she was going to toss out last November when I was there for a visit. I helped her clean out her drawers of clothes that no longer fit her. Some of the things she was going to give to a close girlfriend and other things she was going to get rid of. I pulled this pair of jeans from the "throw-away" pile. I had seen her wear them many times and thought they were so cute. I thought maybe I could do something with them.

So this is what I came up with:

I had seen something similar on Pinterest about a year ago and it had stayed in my mind.  I changed it up a bit to and used a different pocket from the jeans. Here's the rest of the book,

The last page has a pocket on it in which the little note pad slides into. If she doesn't want the note pad in the book she can use just the pocket. Also if she uses the note pad and wants to replace it she can do that too.

The paper used was from Target when they carried K and Co. back a couple years ago. I had thought I would use it back then to make her a scrapbook but I am so much happier that I waited this long to come up with this idea. I like it so much better.