Scrap Room Make over / Olivia Graduation from High School

Here is my scrap room cleaned out and now my dinning room holds all my stuff (crap like my hubby calls it)!

 Love my five book shelves that hold alot of creative items to play with and to hold inspiration to keep around me!

 My hubby scored me some counter tops for my room and we just had to buy the wood and nails, a make over for $30.00+ whoooo awesome deal, love it Lee, thanks to you and Tom for doing this for me.

  Computer center and a place to do my videos and who knows what else is in the future, and a standing counter for me. Love it.

My daughter Olivia is graduating this Saturday June 18, 2011 from White Mountains Regional High School. We are so proud of her and love her! Great job and momma and daddie loves you!

4x4 Tiles of Artwork for Charity Drive: Reece's Rainbow

 Here are my 4x4 Tiles of Vintage Inspired Artwork for the Charity Drive that Marion Smith is hosting. Anyone who wishes to lend a artful hand please visit Marion's blog at http://www.apieceofcraft.com/ for more details. Here is a short overview of what will take place, Marion has challenged us creative spirits to create 4x4 tile pieces with a Vintage Theme and feel. We are to send them to her and she and a creative team will put all the tiles together to form one big piece of ART!!!!  Depending on how many tiles maybe they can make a few pieces, then the piece will be sold and all the proceeds will go to Reece's Rainbow. How awesome is that we can't be there in person but our art will be there in heart. Thank you Marion for such a heartfelt cause.

                                                          "sending a heartfelt note"

"all we need is love"

                                                                          "simple joys"

                                                                 "soar above the heavens"

Supplies used:
4x4 chipboard
7gypsies papers: Magpie, Mesofauna
Graphic 45: Le Romantique Collection-Enamored Embrace, Alphabet 2
Distress Inks: Brushed Cordurory, Walnut Stain
Stazon Ink: Timber Brown
Punch: Martha Stewart butterfly
Die Cuts: Sizzix Die-Leaf Swirl, Tim Holtz Dies-Caged Bird, Heart Wing, Sewing Room
Glossy Accents and Scott Quick Dry white glue
Ranger Liquid Pearls: Bisque
Color Me Crazy white flowers
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist: Frost, Coffee Shop, Sunflower
Tim Holtz: mini pins
Findings: Antique buttons and lace trim, moss, pearl gems, jute, seam binding...

Sharing from the Heart

Hope for Japan

 We've all been reeling with the images of tragedy and devastation in Japan. If you're looking for an easy, real, practical way to help relief efforts, then I invite you to contact your Close To My Heart Consultant!

Typically, our A-size sets retail for $7.95/$8.75 CAN, but the "Hope for Japan" set will be available through April 30 for just $5--and Close To My Heart will be donating 100% of the profits to the American Red Cross to benefit relief efforts in Japan.
 If we all do a little, together we can do a lot. Let's show our support and together, provide real HOPE for Japan!





 

 
Close To My Heart is an awesome and heartfelt company who is always giving a helping hand, we may not be able to go and give in person but in our stamping and scrapbooking family we can support and share here at home from our hearts.

More information on how to order this great stamp set to come. So stay tuned in, you won't want to miss a great chance to give a helping hand.

Thanks to our Leader Jeanette for sharing this with us, check her blog out at http://jeanettelynton.com/

Blessings,  Peggy Lee

Home Sweet Home "Stripes" Challenge

 Yes again I joined along with Simon Says Stamp and Show Blog with their weekly challenge which this week was create something with "Stripes"!! I started out with creating a small wall hanging art and turned it into a home sweet home wall art, that will be proudly displayed in my living room, for I love how it turned out.

 The based is cut out of black chipboard, and covered with one of my favorite paper lines Graphic 45 (paper collections I used: Baby 2 Bride-Baby Button Bingo, Botanicabell-Dragonfly Duet, Commuique-Shutter Speed, Renaissance Fair-Enlighted, Playtimes Past-Jack & Jill, G45 Collection-Die Cut Alphabet 2)

 "Stripes" Tattered Floral Die Cuts and Cagedbird Die Cut (cage and bird). Studio 490-leaf stamp: (Ticket To Art) Archival Black Ink, along with Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Peeled Paint, Forest Moss, Brushed Cordury, Walnut Stain). I also used Distress Embossing Ink and Tarnished Gold embossing powder by Ranger to make the grunge paper key look weathered and old. Embellished the wall art with Tim  Holtz Idea-ology metals ( washers, brads, jump rings, foliage).

Added some Distress Stickles (Vintage Photo) to give the home a little weathered worn look and my Home Sweet Home peice of art is ready to be hung and admired.

Valentine's on my Mind

I do have Valentine's on my mind lately, I found a video that shows how to crochet these little hearts!!!! So love these, I am going to make more...(also thinking of selling a package of them) that is in the works.

Day 9-HomeSpun Holiday

Day 9 of 25 Days til Christmas HomeSpun Holiday!!! I must say I love getting and giving handmade heartfelt gifts...This little Bittersweet prim pillow and adorable prim heart ornament would be welcomed in a home for the Holiday Season for all to enjoy. The Stitchery was hand drawn and stitched by me. (I created this for my home a gift for me. shhhh it's good to create something you love and enjoy it).

 The heart was so simple I just folded a piece of white paper in half and drew a half of a heart shape, cut it out and folded my material in half, pinning the paper heart still folded on the material and cut out... this way you save a step. Then I sewed and stuffed the pillow and heart, took some red felt two square shapes and cut out a spiral for the rolled flower, rolled and hot glued together, added some lace trim for the hanger. For the leaves I used Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves die and hot glued onto the heart pillow and then glued the red rolled rose...and your done.

 

close up of the pillow front and back...I love to create primitive home decor items to admire around the home and to brighten some one's day. 

Happy Homespun Holiday to you and your family & friends.

Peggy Lee

Holiday Headache!!!

So sorry I woke up this morning with a headache that wouldn't go away-it didn't stop me from creating today or doing a little shopping. But while I was out picking up trims and gifts, my headache got much worse. By the time I picked up my girls from school=my simple pain in the neck headache (there is to much to do for a headache this time of the year) turned into a major migraine (the bad kind sick to my tummy-lights a killing one) so off to bed I went.
So please come back in the morning and I will have a post of  Day 7 and Day 8 of Homespun Holiday-25 days til Christmas.

I am going to try to do a little creating tonight.

Peggy Lee (we still have snow a fallen)....

Day 2-HomeSpun Holiday

 Day 2 of 25 Days til Christmas: HomeSpun Holiday

 Well to begin this morning is to say I hope everyone here in the Northeast is safe and warm in thier homes, we had a bad storm last night. The high winds and heavy rains, alot of trees down and people without power.

Ok let's get to Day 2 of HomeSpun Holiday-today I am sharing with you a handmade Christmas ornament I made last Christmas of my sweet niece as an angel in a Christmas program at the local Church....here is how I create it:

Supplies:

coaster (from a local restrurant) free!!!

Graphic 45 Christmas papers

chipboard

trims and embellishments

Stickles

Distress inks-vintage photo

glue and scissors

cover coaster with glue and add your favorite papers, add a photo and some little pretties!!! punch two holes add some ribbon and you have a handmade cute ornament to adore your tree.

 Here is a closer look-A Christmas Wish

This morning I get our page ready for the photos for Day 2 in our HomeSpun Holiday Scrapbook.

Tonight is OLDE TYME CHRISTMAS

in Lancaster, NH our family goes every year tonight should be snow a fallen. I added a shipping tag for adding some notes and title.

 here are some photos ready to be printed and added to Day 1-trimming the tree.....

family

little pretties!!!!

Sneak Peek.....Holiday

Here is a little sneak peek of what I have been working on~~love this new line of paper from Bo Bunny..... There will be a surprise inside~~~so stay tuned~~~to share in my Holiday mood!!!!

WHOOO HOOOO JUST REALISED THAT THIS MARKS MY 200TH POST!!!!! KEEP A WATCH OUT FOR A HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY!! To celebrate this mile stone in my creative world.

Peggy Lee

What I've been Doing!

Not much in order-but I have been away for awhile, so I thought I would share what I've been doing in my busy life as a mother, wife, daughter, and a creating chick.... Here is a pic of my mother's sunflowers up in Maine-I went home last week to help out with some family issues and to visit my family. My moms garden is pretty much picked over and cleaned out-but the sunflowers were still trying to hang on. Do you see the little visitors enjoying the nectar of the flower-I got pretty close to them, the little bees didn't seem to care about me. I had a nice visit with my family, here is my mother Ada, she had a few strokes about 6 years ago and her life is spent in a wheelchair and she enjoys living, always smiling and happy. She loves to sit and enjoy the birds that flock to her bird feeders and enjoys her sunflowers. She is a strong women and I admire her will to live and move on everyday (she only has use of one arm and one leg..). So proud of you mom.

While visiting my family, I brought my crafting supplies, I created some handmade cards for my mom to have...love the daisy flower ones....

God's beauty-here is me driving up to Maine (all I can say it's a long drive)!!!!

Oh Yes!! Can not forget that our baby Olivia got her driving license before I left-Whoo hooo she did it, we are so proud of her, and happy it's over, now she can drive for us!!!!! hahah

Our children grow up way to fast, if you have young ones enjoy them. Life moves fast.

My little Scrap Helper!!!!

Don't you just love my little scrappin helper...Her name is Sasha!!! I just love her, I placed my worktable next to the bay window in my room and the cats just love to lay on it...arrrr

These pics are bittersweet for me, see this cute girl has been sick for a few months and we just found out that she has all the signs for FEIL Lukema and possibly AIDS...very sick little girl.

My heart is so broken, I just love her she is my baby, I hold her like a baby all the time and she loves it but since her fever 103 lasting over a month she doesn't like to be held...ok have to stop the tears are flowing....

it looks like she doesn't like that placement of that flower...come on mom!!!!! lol

She is so weak and tired but what a love, she has filled this family with such love and blessing for the past year.....


queen of paper!!!!