junk and stuff

Ok...

Here's my current crafty spot (taken before Valentine's Day~real plant by the way~I'm no faker*!*)This corner unit (that was built by my cutie pie Daddy)is in the kitchen (there is a pair of cabinet doors below...the shot was too close to the floor and my dust bunnies were peeking out from behind, thus the cropped photo) next to my very large kitchen table where I do my crafty *thing*.I can do NOTHING crafty while Mallory (the 2yr old) is awake...it all looks like such fun to her and it's right where she can grab it. Yep, she poured tacky glue on my living room chair and has used the glue stick as "lip kick" (lipstick) more times than I care to remember. Pretty much my craftiness is limited to any time the crazy kid is sleeping~she only naps for about 1 1/2 hours anymore and I usually do the blah housework during that time. The kiddos go to bed around 7:30 and after cleaning up dinner it's about 8:30...well, sometimes I make the mistake of sitting down. You know what I'm talking about...you sit JUST for a minute...then you start feeling the day leaving your body. It's like some invisible plug in your toes is pulled and all of your energy starts to drain out...and you can feel your level sinking sinking sinking. Well, the other mistake I make so I can *get my craft on* at night is drink coffee. Y'all, I can't drink caffeine...I get crazy. We weren't allowed to have it as kids and I guess my body is making up for it...I'll be up for HOURS if I have just 1 cup. SOOO, it's not uncommon for me to get to bed at 2:30am (which is my usual)...and our alarm goes off at 6:00am... Yup, I'm nuts. And if I DO get some crafty time, it includes about 30mins. of getting stuff out and 30mins. of putting back (can't leave all of my loot on the kitchen table...argggghhhhh)

Soooo....

I'm moving my stuff here:

Isn't it cute? Yep, it's a closet... 35" X 80". I painted the closet and refinished the desk myself...I'm pretty proud of my little space. During Rhonna's 21 Challenge, my goal was to finish unfinished projects (HA!) and in order to do that, I had to declutter (HA!). What a joke, BUT....I did find some interesting things in the process. I found this box marked

Scary....

This is the box of stuff I took from my parents house. I kept making excuses not to take it("Mom, we're in this little apartment." , "Mom, but the house is so small." , "Mom, we're still moving in." What I was thinking probably was "Mom, it'll mean I'm a grown up.") but, one day she just got tired of it and brought it to me. Anywhoooo... here's some funny stuff I found inside:

Why did I keep these?

Who knows?

What are you supposed to do with all of this?

H*ll yes...it's true*!* ;)

I kept these cuties in a tin and, I'm not joking...they still smell wonderful*!* Happy happy stuff :)

And my biggest dilemma...I've got 3 bags like this (this being the smallest), chuck full of notes, letters, certificates, programs,...What do you DO with this stuff? I hate that this stuff takes up room in my house but I just can't throw it away! (come on, a guy you date pours his wee little heart out by writing a beautiful poem about you...you've GOT to keep that~
that kind of cr*p doesn't happen after you're married...sorry Hon ;)

Now my crafty stuff is in limbo because half of it is in the kitchen and I can't figure out how to get it all in the closet where the other half is (aka Taj Mahal).

STUFF STUFF STUFF.......AAARRRGGGHHHHHHH*!*
I'll figure it out somehow!



Ok, enough of that mess...




I saw this awesome line from KI Memories that comes out next month...I LOVE IT*!* I swear I will not buy another thing (I don't have my hand on the Good Book or anything though) until then just so I can buy as much of it as possible....so colorful and happy*!* LOVE LOVE LOVE IT*!*







I bought this at Wal Mart in the office section the other day. It was 9 dollars and something or other...I'm not too sure how I feel about it. You have to possess a crazy amount of patience...of which I have little, but it works alright if you don't run it over with your car (which I almost did). I'm using it on my ATC's~ shouldn't be too bad since I'm going to be lazy and make them all the same. The image isn't too shabby once you play with it a little (by "play with" I mean pull the tiny letters and punctuation in and out, cuss, try to get all of the letters even, cuss, move them all around again because they don't look even, cuss...etc.)and all and all it is pretty cool to be able to customize your own stamp. Anyway, if you have little or no patience...proceed with caution~lest you smear it with peanut butter and give it to the dog (came d*mn close to doing that too).


Blah blah blah....

Hmmm...product review...shouldn't I be getting paid or something?

Have a great day all yous guys*!*