OOOOH! I was a busy girl today! I cleaned my studio and took some photos! There are a TON of photos to edit and then a blog post to write, but I wanted to show you some snippets. First things first…. My darling, sweet and endearing hottie husband cleaned out the window well for me today. I have this HUMONGOUS 4×5’ window in my basement studio and there was junk still in it from the flood from last summer, so…
Thank you for playing the StuffStak game with us! We got a lot of emails and drew one name for each blog. Amaryllis has pulled out the paper packs and snapped some pics for you and I’ve got a couple of Stamper Storage “$15.00 off the purchase of any InkStak” Gift Certificates ready to go to the winners! The winner for the Inky Smiles Blog is: DENISE WELLS! Congratulations! You’ve just won a Level 2 Road Trip paper pack and…
I LOVE this owl set! I have been playing around with it today, mostly just stamping in StazOn and coloring in the images… it’s like therapy and helps you avoid housework! LOL! Yesterday’s dishes are rinsed and sitting in the sink with today’s dishes, but by golly I stamped again AND (are you sitting down?) I CLEANED UP MY STUDIO RIGHT AFTER!!! {Tomorrow I have to build InkStaks with Brent and catch up on some sewing projects that I have…
I have been meaning to snap a photo of this fabulous little treasure that arrived in my mailbox last week…… Today I finally threw my coat on over my “fat polar bear lounging clothes” and modeled the treasure while Brent snapped a pic for me! (I’m clean & pressed, just no makeup… lol!) Jeanne is seriously one of the sweetest and most talented women I know! Along with many of you I have been oogling over her crocheted creations over…
We’ve been pretty busy this week and I didn’t have a lot of time to craft, but the adorable stamps I ordered from Karyn’s TAC party got here and I did manage to squeeze out some time last night to make a somewhat belated Valentine’s card for Brent…. Ok so it’s “sorta masculine”…. it’s got a MALE owl on it and loads of brown!! LOL! I stamped the word paper and owl outline with individual stamps in Timber Brown StazOn…
Amaryllis and I have been helping each other with major dejunking of our creative spaces over the past few weeks. Her alcove area and my closet have been giving each other a run for their money for the mess…. We’ve been sharing photos of the progress and one day she showed me the pic of her InkStak. I was peering at the pic and noticed that she had some rather interesting “non ink” type items hidden away in her InkStak….
Mama Mia! Here we go again Stamp! Stamp! How can I resist you? Mama Mia! Does it show again Just how I missed ya? Yes, I’ve been broken hearted, Blue since the day we parted… Why? Why? Did I ever let you go? Are you sitting down? I STAMPED again!!! For the first time in AGGGGGEEESSSSS!!!!! My friend, Judith, is here visiting from Berlin, Germany and we made a play date this week! We’ve been friends since we were youngins……
edited 2/6/09 – I don’t know what happened to this post… I originally posted it last Sunday and went back to edit it and it must have saved as a draft… ergh!!! Anyway…. on to our regular scheduled program! I am excited to announce that Stamper Storage has a new online store front! We have finally had time to give it a proper facelift and bring it into the “modern shopping cart” world! Brent and I have spent hours and…
I’ve been dedicating and spending more time this week to work in the studio and get some artsy fartsy things done. Really, it’s mostly done, just some odds n ends that I am working on like painting my InkStak making some fru-fru stuff for the space and some minor picking up of the place. I pulled out my fabulous little Bernina machine, some fabric and thread and went to work inventing some fru-fru to coordinate with my curtains. I also…
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.” —Rita Mae Brown (b. 1944), writer, social activist “A look at the history of the word {Inspiration} gives a glimpse, however, of humbler roots. The word comes from the Latin spirare, meaning “to breathe.” Inspiration, then, is a process of drawing from the world around oneself in order to create, just as our bodies draw from the air around us to take in oxygen and sustain…