I'm hooked

ok its offical I am addicted to scrapbooking and all the lovley things that comes with it I have taken into account that I have enought machines to keep me busy for the next 20 years I should be able to make pages from now till eturnety and beyond. This is my baby cricut and I love it, she makes me look like a pro at the things I do,  shes a great cutter and been a loyal friend to me for our time together, but just like mordern tech shes getting old there are times I put the mat in and it just gets stuck but after turning it off and on again she starts working fine, now the only draw back to this little baby is it cuts with cartridges and they cost around $80.00 each now cricut has a lot of great cartridges but who can afford that.

these are some things that I have cut with my little baby this is a birthday card I made for a challange over at scrapbook.com it was entered in a contest and I didnt even get one vote but thats ok cause i like my card I think its cute.

this is a bag I made for Ashley's birthday I made 5 others for the girls she invited to her party but thats another story and another machine.

now this is the big girl I just got her and I love love love her she can cut the same cartridges as the little baby but much larger and when I say larger I mean larger this one uses a 12x12 cutting mat and has a lot more fancy butons to make it do things that the little baby just wont do flip lcd screen flip button quanty button and much much more.

.I cut these flowerw with the big girl and I love them I can now make my own embellishments and don't have to buy them anymore

now here is my ssilhouette another machine I love love now the silhouette goes on a completly different concept then the cricuts, first you have to connect it to a computer and that makes it very hard to transport to crops and such, but not impossable. thats the down side of this machine, but the up side is there is no cartridges to by just plug it into the wall, computer, bring up the software and you can download just about anything on the quickutz site and boy oh boy they have just about anything you can think of I have joined the unlimited download club and can download as much as I want any time I want I love that part if I'm scrapping at 3 am and need a certain die if its not in my library I can go to the site and download it, not a problem, this one also uses a mat and the size of this one is 8 1/2 x 11 thats about as big as it gets but the images are limitless because in this software you can change the images where as the cricut you cannot change anything your are pretty much stuck with what you got.

these are some of the things I cut with the silhouette they are just stinkin cute and when embellished right they look like they just came out of the store.

here is a cake I made for a challange ( I do a lot of swaps and challanges dont I)

ok now that was my electrict machines her is my little hand crank baby, this one has a special place in my heart because it comes with a nice carrying case and I don't have to plug it in so I can take it to any crop I go to now my problem with this is I think I put something to big into it and now when I crank something into it some of my plastick gears start falling out, I have to call quickuts to find out how to repair it but all in all its a good machine, now this one cuts dies and they can cost anywhere from 1 dollar to 150 dollars I dont have a lot of dies for this machine, but the ones I do have are nice I just need to use them

this is my latest little girl shes another crank machine and will cut any die on the market, shes kind of chuckey but it is suppose to take the place of all the other crank machines I have. shes cut dosnt have a little carrying case but I like the wide open mouth so I dont have to cut my paper in such small peices to make my cuts, but I like it.

now thes little one is called the big squeeze it cuts 2x2 dies only and i only have one set of these so I really cant do much with it but I like the font so I use it often when I make mini albums and such.

now i saved the best for last this is my Zutter bind it all its a little machine that binds books together and when I first saw her it was love at first sight, I saved up my little nickels and a relationship was formed I live this one because I really never have to buy another small album again I can make them any sized and shape now if that aint cool I  dont know what is.

so thats my machines and now that I get a chance to look at them side by side here I relize that I got them because I was tired of looking for embelishments and mini albums it just sucked if I found what I was looking for it wasnt the right color or size, so now when I scrap and need a bug or a car I go to one of my little machines and cut it out in the size and color I need, and when I want to make a mini book I go to my little zutter and bind it up after I cut every thing out . well thats all for now, will post tomorrow I think I will go through my scrap room and see what else I have an over abundunce of. lol

I got it

WOW I did it I got my blog right and looking good now I think I will start posting more so when I get home I have some thing I want to say but I need my pictures and my own computer so tonight I will start a new trend and will try to post everynight something anything but something

diaper cake

I made my first diaper cake for my niece baby shower and I was very proud of the way it turned out it took me and the girls about 2 hours to put it together, but it really was not all that hard we rolled and put rubberbands and rolled and rubber banded 4 packs of diapers (did i mention that this was my first one) I think it turned out alright, got a lot of things I will do different next time but for my first time I think we did good, everyone loved it at the baby show it was just what I wanted it to be the center of everything, the color was right, the size was right it was just right and now all the babies are born, theres no one else to make a dipar cake for, o well this was fun while it lasted

Found me some new toys yesterday at Joann's Fabric and I cant wait to get creative the pad of paper has 180 sheets 3 of each print and everyone is lovley and it was only $8.97 love it, the box of cards matches the paper pad and it was the same price I just love it also got me some stamps to add sentaments to my cards for 4.97 just love that Joann's Fabric. will post some finished product when they happen.

Been a while

I have not been here in a while I know, so I just curzed by to say a word or two. first of all I think I will link this to my face book so my family can read this blog of mine, next thing I have to just have to post more of my work here I am now working on a book from this email I got and I think it is turning out very well so as soon as it is finished I must post it here, I really dont have much to say today but I will be back as soon as I can to post something else.

Our little Max

well I've been mia for a while, and thoug I thought that I was gonna do a post a day I have come to the conclusion that it just aint gonna happen, I am not a one a day anything, a pill cook dinner, wash dishes, post on the blog, nothing just nothing, so I will post as much as I can, well today my Ashley is mad with me because I have decided that our little Max has to find a new home, I love that little dog but he is just to much for me at my age, and Ashley is just not helping like she should, she walks him when she is ready feeds him at her own convenience and plays with him when it suits her and that dose not work for a dog, he needs activity every day food twice a day and to go potty at least four times a day, and right now I'm the one that dose the most of it and when he wants something anything he comes to me and that is really draining me with the both of them fighting for room on my lap and my attention, after a long day at work, I am drained already, I just cant do it anymore so I will be looking for a good home for my little max, it will hurt and I know I will cry, but if I don't do it I'm not sure how long it will last.

day 2

O.K I made it to day two of journaling and I'm proud of my self, well what can I say about today, today was back to work day after the Holidays, it felt kinda of good to get back to work, you know the whole something to do thing, other than staying in the house and playing games and eating all day. I enjoy going to work no two days are ever the same at my job we talk, we laugh and sometimes we wonder just what the hell is on some peoples minds half of the time, but hay you cant change people you can only watch them and stay out of the way of the craze's, try and help the lost, and maybe sometime give a shot at trying to fix the broken, and all the while keep your own sanity at the same time.

I cant find my scrapbooking mojo, I go into my room look around touch a few things and turn around and walk out, I have a few ( who am I kidding I have a lot of projects) that I need to finish. but I cant find the mojo to finish anything, I really want to work on my family library but just cant muster up the creativity to do so. Ive been checking out the blogs of my favorite scrappers, Stacy Jillian, Tim Holt, and Ali Edwards, I've read a lot of things I would like to start, things I would love to do, but still no mojo, well I guess it will come in time.

Stacy is now talking about 365 a layout a day a picture a day and journaling everyday, sounds so good but I know that I can not commit to such a thing I'm just not a every day scrapper, as much as I would love to create a layout a day in reality I know for a fact that its just not me, I will have to be content with just journaling everyday on my blog and sometimes pull something out and do a layout on it.

I still have not finished my books by Ali Edwards maybe if I read some of them I will find my mojo in there some where. I havent been on Stacy's blog for a while so I really must go back and back track a lot of her posts, she is my big picture person she is the reason I changed my whole system and way of scrapping , yea thats it I will get back into her and thats where I will find my mojo, working with my family library, filling up those books with pages that my future generations will enjoy looking at. a library that will tell the who, what, when, where, and why of our lives and times, yea thats what I'll do. I will finish reading my books and start working on my family library

Well thats it for now talk to you tomorrow.