2013 --Wow, You're here Already!

AND---January is half over!  Ok, so it seems I have been gone for awhile and it's time to get my you know what in gear and start posting again.  It's not that I haven't had anything to post, it's just that I haven't gotten around to it.    So Happy New Year to all by blog friends out there--hope 2013  is all you want it to be and more!
     There is really no use in rehashing the Christmas season, but to say we had a beautiful celebration with the kids and Grandkids on the 28th of December.  Santa was very good and there was a lot of fun to be had.

With the New Year comes new Adventures, and I thought I'd get mine off with a SNAP book this year.  and as the word implys, these books really are a "snap" to put together and so far to keep up!   As with any junk binder that I do, My cover usually ends up a hodge-podge of stuff.  but I love it that way--after all the inside will be that way in the end, too.

Inside the front cover  I've added more ---

 and so the pages go.  I've already filled up most of January's space (a usually boring month) and it's only half over.  I have already figured out I will be getting a second binder and the year will be in two books--as this one is already bulging at the seams with all the months in it and
no pictures--or "stuff".











With a junk binder on my mind, I designed a very simple one for my Scrappin Kidz class for Jan.  Since we don't have time to make a really elaborate one, I just designed 1 page   for each month and will give them a handout on how to add more pages, pockets, envelope pockets, cards, etc. to it.  It will be able to expand as far as needed and I think will be a fun way for them to save some of their 2013 memories.  I have a full class, so it must intrigue them some.

March

July

September

and December are just some of the pages!

 What else have I accomplished in recent days--well--look quick, because it won't last for long--but I've been "straightening" my "studio" --hehe!
I've decided to call it my "studio" instead of a scrapbooking room, since it just seems to take on more and more all the time, the organization is there among the caos,  I do know where everything is--really---but it is looking more like the "rooms" I see pictured in the designer (meaning scrapbook, multimedia designers) magazines where everything seems to be everywhere!  They do not spend a lot of time making their rooms look showplace perfect--they actually have rooms that look like they might use them to create in.  Mine certainly looks like that most of the time--not saying I'm at all as creative as any of them, but I can make a mess with the best of them!    At any rate, this is my stamping, card making desk-ready to go again.

I moved this little sewing cabinet of my mom's in (my brother refinished it for me)--for a little added storage and because I just love it.  Note--I even have a basket with NOTHING in it yet! (but not for long, I predict)

 and I moved my little cart on wheels to the opposite side--it holds all my ink pads, blocks, embossing powders, etc.  the little tuquoise thing (not really that little and VERY heavy wood), was one of those old tool caddy's my late father-in-law had (and probably made).  I rescued it from my husbands garage and he sanded it off and I painted it.  It is bigger than most you find in antique stores (and did I say LOTS heavier), has 8 compartments and is perfect for my favorite stamps at this moment.  I change it out with the seasons  and as my whims change--keeps my favorites right at my finger tips!

 I moved some of my jars over to the other side of my room.  This way I can see them all together--They have some of my buttons (yes, I have tons more of them too!), my twine spools, and wooden numbers and scrabble letters.

The jars now sit next to these handy little drawers with flowers, bells, clothespins, tags, etc., etc., etc. in them!

My next huge accomplishment (Thanks to a suggestion from my friend, Maggie B.!), I went through my huge, bulging at the seams "scrap" box and spent a whole day just trimming it all down into card "mats" and "fronts".  I think I ended up with hundreds in sizes to fit A2, A7 and note card fronts.  My scrap box is far from empty but it tidied it up quite a bit and it's now "manageable".  Now we'll see how many cards I actually get made--at any rate, I'm ready to go at any moments notice!

 

and then last of all, I finished up my little "explosion" box for my February Kidz Class and a Valentine bookmark below.

eThis bookmark is designed with a cute "birdcage" valentine paper and I used a T.H. sizzix cut for the bird and cage, a couple of hearts with pearls on them, and some ribbon to top it off.  Simple, but very elegant.     So this has been the past two days.  (I actually had the Snap album done --just added to  it.  I do find when I actually stay home, I get a whole lot done.  Back at it tomorrow--Kidz class and GNO ---one of my favorite days every month!  Have a great week, everyone---I'll be back soon!