One Craft Studio, coming right up!!!!

Hi everyone! 

Within the next two to four weeks, my family and I will be moving to my mother-in-law’s previous home after she has moved into her new house.  This move will bring a craft studio to our house.  Although I am very ultra excited about having a dedicated room for all things crafting, it is not just for me.  When my husband first suggested the idea of a craft studio to me, I told him that I wanted it for the whole family, not just me.  We all agreed, it will include my husbands model car supplies and my daughter’s jewlery making supplies. 

There will be a place for my computer, a sewing station, a jewlery making station, a car model station, a place for my cricut machine, a place for a medium sized TV and a bookcase to hold paper and other embellishments.  Of course, this is just the bare bones of what I have planned so far.  Here are some ideas from my Pinterest board:

This is just a few of the 150 pins I have in my Craft Studio Ideas board.  If you want to see my full pinterest board title Craft Studio Ideas, you can find it here.   There are so many idea of how to arrage the studio that sometimes I feel overwhelmed.  Well before this craft studio is completed, we have a few things that need to be done.  The room needs to be repainted, the windows have to be repaired and painted along with the trim, I need to make curtians for the windows (no mini-blinds for my craft studio!) and it needs to be cleaned.  I also want to start hitting yard sales and estate sales to find just the right piece of furniture to use in the studio.  I plan to have vintage pieces in this room, well as much as my checkbook will allow!    Once we are ready to get started on the studio, I will take before, during and after photos and maybe…just maybe, if I can figure out how to edit and upload, I might do a video or two as well.  We will see how that turns out.

So, check out my pinterest board Craft Studio Ideas and let me know what your suggstions would be for our craft studio in the comments below.

Have a crafty day!

Tricia

Thank you!!!!!

Hello everyone. I would like to thank everyone for their kind words, thoughts and prayers. On February 3rd, we lost my husbands grandmother. My husband was very close to his grandmother as she was a second mom to him and his brothers. She took care of them while their mom worked two jobs. Needless to say, the family was really rocked by her passing.

I do have a few post planned to get back up to speed and I hope you enjoy them. One of them is a craft studio project that we are planning. It’s an exciting project that I am looking forward to sharing with you all. Another one is the sewing projects that I am planning to enhance the decor of our house.

So I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for keeping me and my family in your thoughts.

Have a craftastic day!

Tricia

Bear with me…

Dear Readers,

We have had a death in our family and we have been dealing with the loss.  Please bear with me as I get back up to speed and post the planned blogs.

Thank you.

Tricia

One Little Word – February Blog Hop

Used with permission.

Welcome to my blog and thank you for visiting.  This is my first bloghop and I am so excited to be a part of it!   In the middle of January I decided to join Ali Edward’s One Little Word.  Its a great way for me to stay committed to scrapbooking something every month and now that I have joined this blog hop, I can stay accountable.

Our January assignment was to create monthly intention cards.  I really enjoyed creating them and when I drew the boxes, I included a little bit of my flair into it.  Here are my cards.

My title page.

My 12 monthly intentions.

Comment and let me know what you think of them.  I enjoy reading all of the comments and making new friends.  Next up in the blog hop is Jacqueline.  Scroll down and you will see the link to her blog.

Lee: http://thelinarstudio.typepad.com/embracelife/

Cheri: cheriandrews.blogspot.com

Lisa: http://backtoallen.com/category/challenges/one-little-word/

Lynn: www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com

Nikki: www.inkyart.com.au

Kathryn: www.katlodesigns.com

Missus Wookie: mrswookieswanderings.blogspot.com

Veronica: www.veronicanorris.typepad.com

Eydie: www.whatwecreate.net

Karen: http://womenontractors.blogspot.com

Kelly: http://www.septemberblue.net

Melanie: http://mellybirddesigns.wordpress.com

Valerie: http://naughtystamper.blogspot.com/

Marya: www.lotustreecrafts.com

Nupur: http://woodpeckertales.com

Angela: http://angelanoel.com

Janet: http://lifeinsideascrapbookroom.blogspot.com

Dona: http://orangegearle.blogspot.com/

Ruth: http://suburbansahm.blogspot.com/

Naomi: http://www.poeticaperture.com/

Pam: http://pammiek.blogspot.com/

Kara: http://iwannabemewhenigrowup.blogspot.com

Clare: http://claresthomas.blogspot.co.uk/

Margareta: http://www.paperpilekitten.com/

Tricia: http://onecreativemom.wordpress.com/  <<<–YOU ARE HERE

Jacqueline: http://goodwolve.blogs.com/jacqueline/  <<<—GO HERE NEXT

Have a very crafty day!!

Tricia

Help me pick a new header….

Hi everyone!

So, yesterday I posted a review of MyMemories.com, a company that created digitial scrapbooking software.  I used it and made some really pretty page layouts, a calling card and three blog headers.  You can read my review here.

Well I liked the three blog headers so much that I decided to use one for my blog unfortunately I can’t decided which one to use.  I need your help!

Please help me pick which blog header I should use!  No prize or gift will be given for helping me choose except for my eternal gratefulness.

Here are the choices (please click on the image to make it larger):

Header #1 -

Header #2 -

Header #3 -

Header created with MyMemories.com

So there you have it, the three blog header options that I have to choose from.  Please post a comment and let me know which one you think will look better as the new blog header for this blog. Thank you so much for reading and helping me decide.  I appreciate it very much.

Have a very crafty day!  :-)

New to digital scrapbooking…

Hi everyone!  Well today I want to post about my first venture into digital scrapbooking.  Now I have been scrapbooking for almost 16 years and have never tried digital scrapbooking.  I get a thrill when I complete a layout particularly when my plan comes together.  Well back in November, I received an email from MyMemories.com asking for me to review their software.  In return, they would allow me to download the software for free so that I could try my hand at it but also to give to one lucky winner a free download of their software as well.  I must say that at first, I was against digital scrapbooking.  I was a very staunch paper scrapbooker and thought it wouldn’t be for me, but I decided to go ahead and try it.   I must say, it wasn’t what I thought it would be and once I got the hang of it, I was a digital scrapbooking fool!

So here are a few examples of what I had made:

My album pages – My wedding – 10/3/2010

Photos used in these pages are owned by the author and used with permission. This layout was made with MyMemories.com

The next page was created for our vacation photo from Walt Disney World trip back in November, 2012.

Photos used in these pages are owned by the author and used with permission. This layout was made with MyMemories.com

So that is what I tried with the scrapbooking layout options.  However, you can do much more with this software.

This next photo is of a sample calling card I was thinking about purchasing for myself.

I also tried my hand at creating blog headers for my blog!  I was really excited to try this and really enjoyed it!  Here is one of the three that I made.

Header created with MyMemories.com

Anyhoo, the nice people at MyMemories.com have graciously allowed me to do a giveaway for one free download of the digital scrapbooking software.  Here are the instructions to be entered into the giveaway.

1. First you must visit MyMemories.com and find your favorite digital paper pack or layout.   
2. Then you need to post your favorite in the comment section to this post only.  Do not post on any other post your favorite, I won’t use that post as an entry.  One post per person please, you will only be counted once.

That’s it!  That’s all you need to do to enter the drawing for the giveaway.  The giveaway will be open until noon on Saturday, January 19, 2013.  A winner will be picked using random.org and you will be notified of winning shortly afterward.

Well, I can now say that I have created page layouts and then some with digitial scrapbooking software!  I still like my old ways of paper scrapbooking, but I can get into digital scrapbooking more and more.

Good luck in the drawing and have a very crafty weekend!!

Tricia

One to cross off my list….

Photo by author and used with permission.

Towards the beginning of the month, I posted about my monthly aspirations for January.  You can read it here.  In this post, I talk about registering for One Little Word presented by Ali Edwards.  Well I have taken the plunge and registered for it!

I had a small list of words that I was contemplating on using for this project but I have narrowed it down and finally picked CREATE.  This word is meaning full to me and has been jumping out at me since October of last year.  Little did I know then that it would be for a reason!  I have downloaded all of the materials, seen the video, and read the handout.  I followed what Ali suggested in that I went through my personal stash of scrapbooking supplies and I did not have an available 8 1/2 x 11 3-ring album.  All of my albums are post and except for one they are all 12 x 12.  This will be my first official 8 1/2 x11 project.  I do have tons of paper however for the color scheme that I am planning, I don’t have enough for this project.  So, I have gone online (I have no local scrapbooking stores that sell these items) and purchased my album, protector sleeves listed in the supply list and some washi tape.  Now I know that I don’t need to buy washi tape for this project, but I have never used it before and I am really excited to try it.  Also, when I went to Target yesterday, I purchased a journal just for my OLW project and a small package of paper that is pink.  I am waiting for my album, protector sheets, and washi tape to arrive in the mail.  I am hoping it is soon!!!  I have already starting writing my thoughts in my OLW journal.

Photo by author and used with permission.

Are you joining the One Little Word project with me?  If so, what word did you pick?  Let me know in the comments below.

Have a very crafty day! 

Tricia