Scrapbook Paper update

I am trying to get the new shop up and running and I hope to have Paper Kate up and running very soon. I will be offering more than just digital scrapbook supplies I will also have embelishments for paper crafting, yarn, knitting and crochet books, and much more. I will be excepting PayPal as well as check and money order. I have posted a sample of one of the embelishment kits for digital scrapbooking. I am also searching for Design Team Members for my Digital Scrapbook kits. If you would like to be considered for the design team please e-mail me with links to your blog and galleries that you post to. You can e-mail me here. Also you can leave a comment to this post with a link to your blog and I will look it over and let you know.

Paper Crafting Blogs

This picture makes me feel cold just looking at it. I took this last evening in my back yard.

Here are a few paper crafting blogs that I found today, so I thought that I would share a few links that I thought some of you might like to check out. Let them know that I sent you.

I hope that you all have a good evening.

{Letters from Lizzie}
The Scrappy Chick
Stampin' Spots & Other Crafty Thoughts
Stampin and More with Crystal
pine is here.
No Time To Stamp?

NGT
Musings of an Addict
little treasures
Listen to this...
Just Give Me Stamps...

Inky Paws
imagine. dream. create.

erika designs
card creme

Hollywood Comes to Town

For the past few weeks Hollwood has come to visit. Shadowlight Pictures, is filming Good Intentions, a movie staring Elaine Hendrix, Luke Perry, Leanne Rimes, Garry Grubbs, Jon Gries, Jimmi Simpson,and more.

Here I am with Elaine Hindrix (Parent Trap, Superstar, ROMY & MICHELE’S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, and more).

Ok, so you might be asking what this movie is all about. Here is the story from the production company:

ETTA'S hopeless husband CHESTER, wannabe entrepreneur and liquor store owner, blows every nickel he makes trying to get rich on hare-brained inventions. After their young boys, SHANE and CHRIS sneak off to try smoking and blow up the backyard shed full of Chester's homemade fireworks, smart and sassy Etta realizes she must take matters into her own hands to fulfill her dream of sending the boys to college one day.

Inspired by the success stories on ‚"The Antiques Roadshow," Etta formulates the perfect investment strategy. She'll invest in antiques and sell them off later to bankroll the kids' college fund. Now all she needs is some seed money. To raise investment capital, Etta dons a ski mask and takes to a life of crime, robbing Chester at gunpoint. Moonlighting as the county's‚Äö most wanted criminal, Etta turns quiet Myra, Georgia upside down, outwitting local authorities and pulling heists between carpools and little league games.

Etta's plan takes an interesting turn as she uses her 'loot' to purchase the heirlooms. What she doesn't know is the antiques she's buying are fakes. And the cunning antiques dealer is interested in Etta for more than just her money.

With their 'savings' gone, her husband suspicious, and their children in peril, Etta concocts a scheme of unexpected proportion to get back their money and save her family. There are just a few things she has to do first, including blackmailing the sheriff, holding up the grocery store and getting some much needed advice from the stripper at the Shangri-la.

I just had to check

Found you!
You signed up on June 12, 2007
You are #8439 on the list.
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11598 people are behind you in line.
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I am a little antsy so I had to check today. I have been hearing all the great stuff about Ravelry that I really can't wait, I really need a place to organize my stash because I know that if I do I will be able to see what I have and when I go to pick a pattern I will know if I have something in my stash to make it with. I also can't wait to get to explore the pattern and group features.

Ok so I would like to pose a couple of questions.

1. Are you on Raverly?
2. If so, what is your favorite feature?

MS3 to the froggies . . . .

• I have finished clue 1, with a good start on clue 2, when the dropped stitch just dropped. I know that anyone who has knitted lace knows what I mean, when you drop a stitch it is a pain to try to get it picked up correctly. Well I did not like the results so I just frogged it back onto the ball. I think I will pick up something else this weekend. A quick little project.
• I have been looking at these and so I picked up one of my japanese craft books and started a little creature for Shae. She love the way they look and has been asking me to make her one.
• I hit the mother load at Goodwill this week, I have a huge bag of brand new yarn (wool, cotton, and novelty yarns), I also found almost the whole set of American Girl books for the girls for only 75 cents each (I got a like new copy of The Devil Wears Prada book for me). I am going to make a few creatures out of some of it, and I might use the cotton for a crocheted lace.
• I have joined a few Yahoo groups in the past couple of days: Crochet Peaches, Crochet Menagerie, and Knit Swap.

Some Great How-To's

I thought I would list a few links that I have been enjoying lately.
I subscribe to the Cut Out + Keep Podcast and I really love there projects.
I really like the Fabric Ball Necklace, I can think a few other uses for the fabric balls, like tie-backs for curtains, a garland for a party, and I can think of a few more.

Crafty Daisies has some great how-to's and I think that this one (on Paper Making) is a great one for crafting with the kids. I really love this Tree tote bag and it seems so easy to make.

Instructables has a great selection of how-to's and you can even post your own if you would like. Here is a great Contest for you to enter if you think that you can make something cool out of office supplies all you have to do is document your steps with photos and post it.

Adorn Magazine has a great how to for a Passport Wallet and a whole section of Web-Only Projects.

I love Molly Chicken and the tutorials here are great I have made a few of the fabric flowers.

I hope that you enjoy these links. I wanted to share the ones that I have found very useful.

Posts that caught my eye today

• one love the socks.


• two another sock but a great new pattern


• three some lovely yarn and a link to get your own


• four scroll down to see the lady spinning yarn right off the rabbit in her lap


• five spinning silk hankies


• six a cool japanese braid, I love this stuff.


• seven a very cool log cabin blanket knitted with brown sheep worsted, and som cool moo cards.


• eight I night have to find out where Canyon Lake is for my road trip.


• nine look at that great scarf it is so light and airy.


• ten I love this blanket and I think that it might be a nice one for the next few baby blankets that I have to make.

Oh My Gracious

I can not belive that I have let it go so ling with no post. I have been on the road for the past 5 days. Driving Camper trailers all over the southeast. Here is an update on what I have been doing.

• Wed, April 18, Left the house (outside Atlanta, GA) at 4pm to drive to Ocala, FL , arrived in Gainsville FL to stop for the night at 11pm.
• Thursday, April 18, Left Gainesville to go to Ocala, Left Ocala at 11am to Drive toward Franklin, TN. I did not want to go over Montegale Pass on I-24 so we went through Tallahassee, FL and then to Dothan, AL, and ended up in Birmingham, AL for the night at about 11pm
• Friday, April 19, Depart Birmingham, AL at 7am Central Time and Head to Franklin, TN it took about 3 hours to get there and after dropping both campers off at the horse show, I had to stop at a local craft shop, being the crafter that I am, I was Gotta Bead, in FRanklin TN if you are in the neighborhood before May first you have to stop in, they are going out of business and everything is on a super sale. I did pick up a lot of beads and I will show pictures of my haul asap. WE then left their for Five Points, TN and picked up a camper there and headed back toward Cleveland, GA, We did not get that far we stopped in Elijay, GA at about 11: 30pm for the night.
• Sat, April 20, We deliver the camper to Cleaveland, at about 8:30am afer getiing up at 5:30 to start back driving. We headed home after that to pick up the girls and then go back to Alpharetta, GA to pick up another camper to take to Franklin, TN at 1pm. We made a stop in Kimball, TN for the night to get a good dinner and good night sleep.
• Sunday, April 21, We deliver the camper at 11am central after a 2 hour dirive and then head back to Chattanooga, TN and we decied to ride the Incline Railway to the top of Lookout Mountain. The girls had never gottten to do this yet and they had so much fun. (pictures to come). We head back after a nice afternoon on the moutain to Alpharetta, GA for the night.
• Monday, April 22, We get up at 6am eastern to drive to Cumming, GA to pick up 2 more campers and one other truck. We leave there by 7:45 and head back to Franklin, TN. We get back to FRanklin at about 12 central and drop the campers and one of the trucks off and I just had to make one more stop at the bead shop because I will not get back before the close for good on May 1st. I picked up a few more strands and on the way back made 6 pairs of earrings and 1 charm bracelet. We arrived home at 8:15pm tonight.

Over the whole trip I made 20 pairs of earrings and 3 charm bracelets. I will try to get some pictures posted tomorrow. I have to take them to Anastasia's school in the morning because some of the teachers want to see them.

I have news

I am now an official member of the Peachtree Handspinners Guild. I was a guest at the spring retreat this weekend and I decied I had been a guest twice and so I might as well join up.

I got alot done this week. I spun up 8oz of fiber into a wonderful single, and I started a pair of socks for Shae for her birthday which is April 11. My baby will be 5, I just feel like crying. I started a swap over on swap-bot so go and check it out. http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/2884

I saw this and I think that this is great

I found this Via Inspireco and I just had to make one of my own.

If you would like to make one of your own you can go here.

I got one thing done the screen is clean and I am now working on 3 new limited edition design to screen. I cannot wait to get the ready to try out.

Whats in the shop now

NO School for the Week . . . .

For me that is. I start back to school the first day of the girls Spring Break. UGH. But at least I get a week for crafting. Today has been sent setting up the shop so I have got to get crafting tomorrow, but the heat here is GA is feeling like July instead of March. It has been in the 80's for the past week and the pollen ugh the pollen my head is pounding because of it. I have so many ideas for this week and I know that I will not get half of if done but maybe I will make a dent in the list.

• The Screen needs to be cleaned so that I can put a couple of new designs on it
• I really would like to get my embroidery machine back up and running and
• I need to get the surger re-threaded.
• I have to put the finishing touches on a couple of patterns that I have been working on.

Wish me luck. Well on a more fun note I have my shop open now and I had my first sale in the first hour after I opened. Yipee.

I would also like to thank Laura for being my first sale. I don't know if she has a blog but I just thought I would give her a shout out.
Please go on over and check it out and let me know what you think. I still have a lot more items that need to be posted. Over in the sidebar there is a Etsy Mini that showcases a few of the items currently in the shop.