What did I do before the Cricut? LOL. This is a bulletin board that my co-teacher and I did today. We are going to have the kids make up the rest of the story. Should be quite interesting.

It took a couple days, but here it is. The Sweetwater Christmas Countdown. I am putting things to do on it. Bake cookies, Decorate a tree for animals (we have birds, deer, etc.) I am still working on that part. Coming up with 24 is kind of hard.

I hope everyone had a great Turkey Day. It was great to spend time with my family. I am hating to see this 4 day weekend come to a close. Black Friday (I was off for a change) was good to me. I had built up enough store credit to buy a Cricut Personal Cutter. So now I have little die cut letters and saying all over my scraproom.
The Cricut has brought a room overhaul, I have been sifting through my messes and purging down.
I forgot to take pictures of the latest stuff I took to the store, so I'll have to go up there and snap some shots.
I did finish my Sweetwater Christmas countdown. I'll post that later.

This morning Art called me into the living room. He was watching this beautiful creature outside our picture window. I only got one shot, when I was trying to get a closer picture he flew off. I am thinking it is a Cooper's Hawk, but waiting to hear if I'm right.

Are you interested in stamps/stamping? I am currently having a Stampin' Up catalog party. If you are interested let me know. As of right now I am planning on closing on the 20th of November, but could make exceptions!

What a weekend. We did some chores outside and got everything ready for the coming cold. We had a little fun with the leaves. I LOVE Fall and I am sorry to see it coming to an end soon. Not sure I'm ready for Christmas just yet.
Here is a cute little bucket I did for the store. The papers are Deja Views. I was going for a not so cutesy look. (We have to get the guys into it somehow) LOL!

The blog is up for Scrapbook Factory YAY!http://www.scrapbookfactory.blogspot.com
I'm going to try to stay on top of it as best I can. I do know that there is so BIG news coming! Keep your eye out!
~J~

I thought these turned out so cute. I made these little invitations for Reed's 3rd birthday party. I LOVE when I can use up some scraps and make something cute. This will be the first party he gets to invite a couple friends from school.
This is another purse from Creative Imaginations BE Line. The pp is 3 Bugs in a Rug, a little Making Memories paint and some ribbon.
This is a puzzle from the BE Line. I don't know if you can tell that by the picture. It is all Bohemia by My Minds Eye. I piece of paper, a frame and some rub-ons. I waited to do this one last thinking it was going to be the hardest, when in fact the purse was. I was trying something new and funky, which isn't my style. But I like to challenge myself and try new things once in a while. Thanks for looking!
~J~

This is another one of those boards from Creative Imaginations BE Line. The paper is Deja Views and Making Memories paint.

Another one from the BE Line. This frame was so much fun to make. The paper is American Traditional Designs.
This tree has been sitting in my scraproom for about a month and a half. Waiting. It has been waiting for the perfect paper. I finally found it with the new Basic Grey Fruitcake line. A little Tim Holtz ink and tada! I am Loving it!!!! Now I am on the look out for the perfect redish paper for the base.

Persistance pays off sometimes, lol. Decided to try it one more time and look it works. WOOHOO. Reed was Woody from Toy Story this year. I think he liked the hat the best. We left work after the party. Came home and carved pumpkins. Unfortunately the pictures weren't very good of those.

Looks like I am having technical difficulties today. Won't let me load pictures. I have some new design team stuff and some cute Halloween pictures of Reed. I'll check back later and see if I can get them up. In the process of reorganizing the scraproom. (It is a disaster area right now)
Found this quote while I was cleaning that I thought I would share. "Creativity comes from a desire to express the true self" by Gloria Steinem.
Hope you are having a great day.