Finally got the kitchen finished!!

I think I posted some pics awhile back off removing the ugly wallpaper. I really love how it looks now!







Here are a couple of befores. See that ugly, peeling wallpaper! I have only hated it for a little over 5 years!!

Oh Rainy Day

It's was a cool, rainy, dark and dreary day today. The kind that you just want to stay in bed all day or on the couch curled up in a blanket and read or sleep. We made our usually dump run and got lottery tickets, hey can't win if you don't' play.

Got a layout done today for a challenge. Couldn't find patterned paper that would work, so I made my own! One strip I used stamps, really cool ones actually. The circles fit inside each other, so you can customize them. The other strip of paper I used stickers to create, I really like how it came out...



That's about it for today.

Why do I need a title??

I really don't have a particular thing to call todays entry...why do we need those anyway??

Yesterday I finally started exercising again, I know, bad word...I should wash my mought out with some Hershey's Special Dark Chocolate. Anyhow, I bought that EA Sport Active for the wii. After yesterday's workout, set on easy, I thought, this is nothing, I'm gonna have to bump it up to moderate. OMGosh!! I'm a hurting tonight!!! Thank goodness it let's me rest tomorrow..lol.

Today my goal was to do two layouts, one being for a Page Maps challenge on SB.com the other was going to be a 2 pager for my book of me. Well, I cut this cool snowflake background out with my Silhouette, knowing that I would have to take the time to poke out a lot of the small pieces. However, I did not realize that that time would be close to 2 hours!!! I know this because I went through 2 episodes of "Dead Like Me". Here is the pile of little bitty pieces I had to poke out


Spread Out

Piled up - for dimension!!

Then I had to also cover part of it up for the journaling, I tried using a transparency, but you just couldn't read the journaling.

Where was I going!?

So today I decided I needed to get out of the house, I haven't gone anywhere since Thursday and that was to buy groceries. Oh, I did go to the dump Saturday. We do that up here, almost no one pays to have their trash picked up. It's actually called the transfer station, but hey a horse is a horse, an apple is an apple and the place I dump my trash is a dump. Anyway, I went to a Target that I don't normally go to, it's a little further away and newer and bigger. But, it's been so long since I went there I forgot where to turn and ended up on the toll road and about 15 miles away from where I wanted to be!!! So it took me twice as long to get there as it should have.

Did find some neat 99 cent scrapbooking embellies in their little scrapbook section. And they were actually scrap brand name stuff!! Colorbox. Then I just wandered around and looked at stuff.

And the really good news is, I managed to get myself back home!!

Threw this together today, it's the remainder of the memorabilia from the cruise we took back in 2006.



I cut the DVD holder with my Silhouette














I used a ruler to make the folds even.













A large brad holds the drink cards in place













And the Deck Map can be opened.

I always take pictures of my Chrismas decorations, then wonder what to do with them, so the other day I decided to make a layout with the ones from last year.



For the flowering vine I had to cut and reshape the sticker.



This spread is for the 2 page sketch challenge I host at Scrapbook.com. It never fails to amaze me how one sketch can look so different when several people use it!!



I hand "colored" all of those little white dots with a pencil. Talk about writers cramp!!

What have I been up to...

Finally decided to remove the ugly wallpaper from my kitchen. It only took me 5 years of hated it to remove it!!! It was a bit time consuming, but fortunately the previous owners weren't the sharpest tools in the shed and some areas weren't on very well. Found some very interesting things behind the wooded chair rail. I wasn't going to put that back up, but decided I would, it's just easier. The chair rail stuff is only in the eating section of the kitchen, so no biggie.






Bye Bye Ugly Paper!!


And you know it was ugly...because the bare unpainted wall looks better!!



So far we have spakled all the little holes and other spots and sanded those. And THAT was a mess!!! Let me tell you!!! That dust from sanding the spakle went EVERYWHERE!!! It even went down the short hallway, around the corner and the stairs to the bedroom!!! I spent the entire day yesterday cleaning, like it was spring!! No to pick a color and paint....