Ladies

I am in the process of adding names to my email to send out the Boy class directions, unfortunately in the real world there are not enough hours in the day. I will try to have them sent out to all of you by the end of the week.

Thank you for being patient with me!

Darby

Wow its been a long time!

Just wanted everyone to know YES we are still alive! Summer has been busy for both of us! Darby took a trip to Disney, I have had one very active boy....soccer, t-ball and just the social lite of the neighborhood!

Darby is doing a kids camp so she is busy with that, and I am getting ready to MOVE....yes I did say move....AGAIN! eek! Not such a big move though....just up the street a couple of houses. We are glad....it will be OURS...so for that we are glad. I can paint and make it home. Not worried about putting a hole in the wall to hang a picture and all that! We have been renting, and we are so glad to be able to call a house HOME :)

We are also getting geared up for CKC-Tulsa!!! For some reason they have different pictures being shown for our Oriental Trading classes. They are the same projects as we have done in St Louis though......

These are our Sass A Fras Classes also.....(they were soooo much fun!)

We are teaching all of our classes on Friday and Saturday....hope to see you there! If you can't get to the classes or to Tulsa, let us know if you would like kits....we do have some available for sale! Just email us!

Hope everyone is having a great summer so far!

Promise to post again soon......:)

Two new Calendar Kits for the Scrap Nook

There are only 10 of each of these so reserve your kit now.

Thanks for looking!

Darby

Pirate

Are you one of these 3 ladies??? :)

I have searched high and low in every box I came home with and can't find the list that had only 2 names and their email addresses needing instructions for the album kit we sold at the CKC in St Louis. If you are one of the 2 please email me and let me know!

Also, we are looking for Pat Sweeney that attended our Recipe Book class on Saturday. We have her email, but don't think she is getting them......Pat are you out there?

We had a wonderful time in St Louis, and we can't wait for Tulsa and Kansas City......so if you missed us in St Louis, try to catch up with us there!

Thanks again to everyone!

oh.....have you seen this contest that Oriental Trading Company is doing? It is for their alterable houses....you could win the scrapbook desk worth drooling over, or even gift certificates for the site! check it out!! "Best on the Block" Contest

Classes

For all of you who attended CKC St. Louis, Thank you for making it so much fun for us. You all were super teriffic!!

CKC Classes

All Girl

Using the awesome chipboard flower book and Princess paper line by OTC, this book is loaded with chipboard charms and embellshments. Showcasing your girly girl and maybe a frog or two. Hope you will take time to check this out and maybe join us for class.

Recipe Book

Need we say more... the Home Cookin paper and embellishments speak for themselves. We have been so lucky to get to use this incredible line from OTC. This class is SOLD OUT... but you never know, we might know where to get the goodies. Stop by and get a Oriental Trading Comapany Catalog from us before or after class.

A Boys Life

This is the cover for one of our classes at Creating Keepsakes Convention in St. Louis sponsored by Oriental Trading Company on April 3&4. This was so much fun to make and got to play with some GREAT products....those embellies on the cover...those are FELT!! They just made me happy! If you take this class, you might try to bring you own paper piercer, needle, and zig-zag scissors, but we will have plenty of extras to borrow if you forget! :)

We will post the picture of the girl album in a bit. Just wanted to go ahead and share the boy book....the inside is just stinking cute, we have lots of ideas packed into this book....so yes be ready for a fast paced class...but guess what, no painting....well, one little chipboard star will be painted yellow...but that is it....how can you not put just a little paint on this book! :)

Spring Fever

Is it too early to have it? The sometimes correct weather men say it is going to be 65 on Saturday and Sunday, but Monday... alas it might snow. I don't want snow, I want 65 degree days, I want to ride my New Pink Bike. I want warm breezes and sunny days.

DO you think that if we all clicked our heels together and said "We need a sunny day" that it might just happen.

Oh well, better just enjoy what we are getting.

Happy Day!!

Darby

Scrap Nook Retreat

I am really getting excited about the retreat. It will be a nice little vacation for me before Spring Break. I have been getting layouts together and hope to finish up my Disney Album.

Here is a picture of the class I am teaching for the retreat:


Happy Scrapping...

Darby

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!! :)

Hope everyone is having a sweet one! So, what have we been up to? Besides freezing you mean? Darby has been without power for a couple of days due to ice, and still no cable or internet! ugh!!! Just been crazy insane cold here. Really, this cold weather...so over it!

We are still waiting on a couple of things before posting more samples....sorry to leave you hanging on the Oriental Trading class samples......but they will be sooooo worth it! we promise!! ;)

Kits....yes been working on those. Took this one to Susie at The Scrapbook Store

I have lots more kits to be working on as well. Got some to do for Sheri at the ScrapNook also...yeah!! So be watching for those...I will let you know when they are sent! :)

I have been having fun seeing what all the new stuff coming from CHA will be.....some really great things looks like. I see shopping in my future!

Have lots of projects going on at once and the mojo just left me.....but I am trying to work through it.....I have something big that was promised a while back ready to go....just need the packaging details fine tuned and will be putting that up.

Etsy.....love the place...hate uploading! ha!! Just have to do it...too much stuff piling up to load in there! Hang in there with us though...it will get done! ;)

Off to enjoy a little Valentines time with my 2 sweeties.

Leaving you with a little Valentine goodie that I made for someone special.

Lucky us ... I mean Lucky You!

Why are we so lucky?

Because we have 2 great companies sponsoring us for Creating Keepsakes Conventions 2008!

1. Oriental Trading Company, if you have not checked them out recently you need to take time to look around... they have the latest and greatest in new products, a fantastic line of papers and the nicest bunch of people you could ever imagine working with. They are graciously sponsoring 6 classes in St. Louis. (3 on Friday and 3 on Saturday) Wait til you see the goods... not only fabulous products but great prizes.

2. Sassafras Lass, can you say great company! They are letting us use 2 of their new lines of paper and embellishments. They are sponsoring 4 classes in St. Louis, 2 on Friday and 2 on Saturday. We will have some sneak previews of other upcoming stuff from them and some great prizes. Boyz Rawk (Boyz arrgh cool) and "Owl" be your friend forever!

Happy Birthday to Darby!!!

Just wanted to wish Darby a Happy Birthday. Its a day late.....I completely thought today was the 22nd...not the 23rd.....oops! So guess I should say..Happy Birthday and a day! :)

So, anxious for the weekend, check back soon, Darby and I are getting together to work on lots of stuff...so there will be pictures of all kinds of goodies posted over the weekend......Sassafras classes, Oriental Trading classes, kits, just all kinds of cool stuff.

Just spoke with Sassafras Lass about the door prizes they are sending us for CKC......oh my are they going to send us some great stuff....their stuff is...um...PURE DELIGHT ;)

So, off to get things packed and loaded up for my scrappy weekend with Darby. Going to stop and see some family on the way, drop off some "Chilly" kits at the Scrapbook Store, and catch up chatting with a great friend.....all things happy! Then Sunday, back home... Sunday is John and my 13th Anniversary...wow! So, it is gonna be a great weekend :)

Hope you all have a great weekend as well! ;)

Have you seen these.....

These are a couple of the kits I have at The Scrapbook Store....just wanted to share them since I hadn't when I delivered them. :)

Memories 2 Cherish

Far Out Dude

Just have to say.....

I love this new little widgit that allows you to see where everyone is coming from....we have had visits from all over the US....I just realized we have had visitors from Canada, Poland and even New Zealand! Wow!! That is pretty cool!

Sass is in the house!

Having a blah day, and the doorbell rings....UPS guys...TWO of them unloading boxes....lots of yummy Sassafras Lass on my doorstep....gotta love that! Cheered me up a bit :) However broke Elson's heart that there was nothing for him!

My studio is a wreck, been working on a big project I hope to show you in a couple of days. Remember the big major kit I talked about? Well it is all over my studio and my family room! Keep watching!

I love to work late at night, hit a wall around midnight last night and couldn't think of anything to do what I needed, so sat down for a bit and watched a little CSI, got ready to go to bed went to turn off my ott lamp at my work table, and looked at that page sitting there....and it all fell together. My dear hubby came down to check on me at 3am to see what I was doing! yikes!! I was in the mojo mode and was so happy....paying for it now.....not enough coffee or diet coke in the world!

New Kits by Tammy!!

New Kits have arrived at The Scrapbook Store! Wanna peak?

You can call them to purchase if you can't make it to the store, or go in and see all the great stuff they have there! Susie and all the girls there are great and you will just love the store! ;)

Calendar Classes by Darby at the Scrap Nook

January Calendar Page Sample










February Calendar Class Sample


Can't wait to see you there!!!!

THE GOING ONS AROUND HERE :)

So I have been posting things to etsy like crazy.....took pictures of everything yesterday so I would have them all ready to go....I took 194 pictures! Yikes!! That is alot of things to put on. Granted they are multiple views of the same thing, but I think we have like 40 things to put on! Wowza!! So keep watching for all the new things....going to keep adding a few each day!

We have been busy preparing for the conventions as well, along with trying to customize the blog a little to get what all information we want posted on it. It has been fun, although I tried to do something to what Darby had posted and oops......really screwed it up.....so she had to fix.....sorry! :)

We are getting lots of traffic right now, hope to keep that up, that just encourages us to keep at the blog, and to introduce new things, along with offering giveaways and contests. We love to hear from you, so please let us know you are here! We get some emails, but we also love to get comments!! :) I know I am horrible at just stalking....and because I know how much I love seeing a comment, I have been trying to be better about leaving comments myself.

Things are still getting changed over to here, we do still have our old blog up and going until we finish getting things transferred. We just need 4 extra hours in the day! :)

I am also working on some new things that all of you that like kits are just going to love. These are going to be Paper Kandi Co kits and you will be able to find them on our Etsy store, I have so many things going on right now I am getting them all confused, but keep watching, they will appear soon! ;) These kits are geared towards getting pages done. That is all you are going to get from me about them until we post them! :) don't you just love a tease! ha!!

that is all for now, off to create! :)

Wow...

How much do you love the new way classes are posted on the CKC website? We love it so much that for the next lucky duck to comment we will send you a fabulous RAK from Oriental Trading Co.

Things are gonna be great in 08! Right?
Not only are there the exciting things coming up with CKC, but we have classes and kits hitting the stores...

I am starting a new series of Monthly Calendar Layout classes for the Scrap Nook - Pix to come( http://scrapnook.typepad.com/) Check them out...

Stay tuned for more fun to come...