Goodwill Hunting

I have been caught up in an addiction to my local Goodwill. First of all I must say that it has the best turnover of merchandise than any other thrift store I have gone to and also the best pricing. However the other day I was in there and I noticed some of items were grossly overpriced, maybe they have a new volunteer and they have not mastered the pricing gun and instead of it reading 1.99 things were marked 19.99.

I found some clay poker chips and a cool set of carved wood chess pieces and a really neat 1776 Bicentennial scarf, what I will do with that I have no idea.

Has anyone seen the new commercials for JC Penney's? At first I didn't understand them but the latest one with Ellen D and the 14.99 price was so funny. Ellen goes back in time and she is in a huge turn of the century hat and she kept telling the sales lady 15 dollars and the sales lady said the price was 14 dollars and 99 cents. So funny!

OK my collection of staplers is growing, Can't wait to post my latest additions. I love it when they work, it is not a prerequisite that they work when I buy them but it is a bonus to their appeal.

Tim Holtz Christmas Tag Day 3

Oh no! Not another day where I have to be inspired again, LOL. Well, I do not have anything but the die again from this days tag! So I started digging through the seasonal stash paper pad and when I saw this paper I thought it would be perfect because I could cut out letters. Just added glossy accents. Made my own ribbon using the paper tape. Can't wait to see what is in store for tomorrow.

Tim Holtz Christmas Tag Day 2

This tag just about did me in! First of all I had only the deer die and it is the mini one, so everything else was improvised. But I loved his original tag so much I had to try. The hardest part was that I did not have the kraft resist paper, so I tried to make my own using Utee however I could not find my Christmas stamps from last year or my white paint.

     Okay so here goes, after the 4th try I die cut a tag out of just plain kraft cardstock, glued 7Gypsies music tissue paper to it, ran it through the machine in the Merry Christmas folder then mixed floating medium with cream colored paint to get a translucent look and swiped the whole thing with a baby wipe to get off the excess. Found one stamp set so I stamped the holly and Merry Christmas added distress stickles for berries. Sprayed with pearl mist and pretty much followed the TH one. Oh yeah, had to use a pipe cleaner and changed the color of an old MM happy holiday tag using some gold Adirondack mixative stuff. Also could not find burlap which I know I have somewhere in an unpacked box so instead used this beautiful hand died silk ribbon I have been hoarding since 2005 when I picked up a bunch of it in a gift shop in Colorado. See ya for tag 3 tomorrow.

Tim Holtz 12 Days of Christmas Tags Day One

Ok here is my rendition of the tag. I first gathered up all things TH in my scraproom, this made it a little easier. I dod not have his kraft core card stock but I did have the distress paper pad so I used a color out of that and hit it with brushed cord. distresspad and it kind of looked like kraft color. then I embossed it with a folder, Uteed it and then swiped picket fence crackle paint over the top because I could not find any of my paint since the move.
     I used the flourish die and the M&S 25 die cut from grunge board then covered in glitter, the rest is the same as the original except that I had to hand cut the banner. Love, love, love the pinecone sizzlix die.
 Not bad for 4 hours of work, haha. See ya tomorrow

Ustream addiction

Thanks to my sister I am currently finding myself addicted to Ustream scrapbooking channels. Fortunately I have had the chance to use up some of my stash.  The hope mini is from Paperphenomenon and the Roadtrip album is based off a Christmas organizer that Followthepapertrail did.

The paper used for "Hope" was BoBunny Butterfly Garden.  How can an album turn out bad with paper like this? Prima goes great and I used an old scarf to make the tulle flowers with my die cut machine. I found the owl charm at a thrift store, took it off it's original chain and clipped it on to a TH clip.

The paper I used for the Roadtrip mini is Crate Paper "Static", I loved this paper line when I saw it but I had no clue how I was going to use it. There is a notepad inside for journaling and a folio to store pics, ideas, whatever.

Okay off I go back into Ustream world.  I need to remember to set a timer so I don't miss Project Runway tonight....

Owls, can't get over this find

I was in a thrift shop on OBT and found this awesome owl lamp. It had a shade but it was disgusting. Someone painted it cream I guess at one time because when I cleaned it there is dark brown underneath.  Well I opened up Flea Market Style magazine this month and there was my lamp (here it is from their blog), however, my lamp has a bowl in the base. So it was originally dark brown. Well now I won't feel bad when I paint it. I can't decide pink or teal. So for now they just are perched. I love it because not only is it a lamp but it also has a bowl built in to the base! It works and was only 20 bucks.

Finally got my scraproom organized!

I spent the last 3 days cleaning and organizing my scrap space. I needed more tabletop space and I have to have everything out or I won't use it.  So I tucked a folding table up under a scrap cube table. Love how this came out, didn't think it would fit all in there but there is plenty of space. It will work until I can find my green vintage desk that is on my wishlist.