Tool Thursday

Good Morning my scrappy friends!  It is Tool Thursday here at the scrappin place!  I was looking around my scrappin place to see what tool I have that I could review today .  I then looked at the top of my desk and there it was!  My Ranger Craft Mat!  Sometimes people don't think it is really a tool, but I think so!  It keeps my desk clean, it assists me when I am applying my fav distress ink (Vintage Photo) and when I need to heat dry my projects, it keeps me from causing major damage to my home! LOL!!! 

I have two of these mats and I can say that they are handy tools to have in your crafting tool kit!

Day #6 of my journey and I feel better everyday.  I am getting a little grumpy (if you talk to hubby, he would say a lot! Poor guy!)  But it does get a little easier on me everyday.

Off to the scrappin place and I hope you all have a scraptacular day!

Scrappy Hugs,
T

Whatever Wednesday

Good Morning my scrappy friends and welcome to Whatever Wednesday here at the scrappin' place!  Today for my post I decided that I would tell you all about how I got started scrapbooking.  I must say I think I was a secret scrapper when I was young, as I would go to visit my Uncle and Aunt in Oregon.  The first thing I would do is just sit and look through his many, many photo albums.  My Uncle, God rest his soul, when he passed away, he had over 75 of these albums.  So, Uncle Mike, thanks for preserving those wonderful memories!

I wanted to find a way to store all of my photos, and my sister in law told me to start a scrapbook and I thought okay.  I still have my very 1st page, which I can say is pretty bad, but  we all have to start somewhere!  That was over 4 years and a Cricut Expression later!  LOL!  I love this adventure and while I have not even put a dent in my stack of photos, I can honestly say I would not trade it for anything.

Now it is day #5 in my journey to quit and I had a rough day yesterday, but today looks better!  I am going to treat myself to some new scrapbook papers!  You know that you are a scrapper when you want to treat yourself to some new papers or other scrappy items!  LOL!

Hope you all have a scraptacular day!

Scrappy Hugs,
T

YouTube Tuesday!

Hello again my scrappy friends!  Welcome to another YouTube Tuesday here at Scrappin T's Place.  For today I chose a lovely lady who not only does wonderful tutorials, her kits are just fabo!  I am talking about Kathy Orta of Paper Phenomenon.  She recently made a tutorial vid on a different way to do a paper bag album.  You all should take a peek at it. Her YouTube Channel is http://www.youtube.com/user/kathyorta.  She has other tutorials as well, so go over and view her channel. 

Now, it is day #4 on my journey to quit and I am having some difficulties today.  I have come to realize that I used smoking to supposedly calm my nerves when I was mega upset, or mad.  I have some challenges that I must face, but I must find a better way to deal with them.  While I have not smoked since Saturday,  I can not say I have not wanted one.  Which is okay, but I also really do not want to get into another habit to quit this one.

Well, my scrappy friends, time to get off my computer and clean up my house.  I really am attempting to set aside time for my scrappin, which I have not been able to do.  So this is one short term goal I have is to have a set time everyday for the scrappin place. Let's see how long it takes to reach that goal!

Scrappy Hugs,
T

Exciting news for my friend, Penny Duncan!!!!

 Good Morning my scrappy friends! I just got some wonderful news about one of my favorite artists, Ms. Penny Duncan and I am just sooooooo uber excited for her.  If you have not seen her blog, you need to stop reading this post and head over to http://pennyduncancreations.blogspot.com/

She has been asked by Cri-kits, who makes pens that fit your Cricut, to make some items for their CHA booth!!  In my mind, they could not have asked a better person than Penny.  So show Ms. Duncan some scrappy love!!!

I will be back later with my Youtube Tuesday post and more on my journey.

Scrappy Hugs,
T

Blog Review Monday!

Good Morning my scrappy friends!   I know I have been MIA for awhile, but now I am back with Blog Review Monday!!!! I was viewing the many, many blogs that I subscribe and follow, so you all know it is a major decision when it comes to Blog Review Monday!  There are sooooooo many wonderful and creative bloggers out there!  Today I have chosen Joy's Life.com.  She is a kick and her site, which does take some time to load, but the reason for that is she has soooooo many wonderful tips, tricks and other great stuff, it is worth the wait! (It just maybe my puter!) Here the link: http://joyslife.com/

Please give her blog a look and send her some scrappy love!

Also, it is day #3 of my journey to quit smoking and it seems to be going okay.  It seems a little harder today because I am home and no one else is.  One would think that I would enjoy this me time, but my boys were a big help this weekend with the journey.  So, I will just have to get moving so I don't think about it. 

My goal is to spend the time and money that I will be saving in and on my scrappin place, so I am off to do some housework and then going to my scrappy place! 

Scrappy Hugs,
T

The long road to quit

Well hello my scrappy friends!  I made a major decision the other day and thought that I would share my journey to quit smoking.  Yup that is correct, I said quit.  I am using the nicotine patches and so far I seem to be doing okay.  I did not smoke in our house, so that part was easy.  Driving in my car has been a little hard, but thanks to gum, mint and water, I was able to do it.  I will keep you all posted on my progress.

Scrappy hugs,
T

Tool Thursday

Good Morning my scrappy friends!  It is really cold and foggy here at the scrappin place.  It is now time for Tool Thursday!  Now, with all of the new goodies I am sure that all of you got from Santa, including myself, I figured that there are some new Cricut user out there!  Come on, admit it!  : )  With that said, I can not say enough about my bug!  There are soooo many other die cutting machines, which are good too!  But, I love, love, love my Cricut!  It is one of my most used items in my scrappin' place!  I am in the process of deciding how to give my bug a new look.  So there is my Thursday Tool review for this week.  I am still doing the 31 Day challenge and remember to leave a comment for my blog giveaway!

Hope you have a scraptacular day!

Scrappy Hugs,
T