Sew Many Ways...: Tool Time Tuesday...Mini Christmas Wreath

Sew Many Ways...: Tool Time Tuesday...Mini Christmas Wreath: Happy Tuesday! I know...Christmas? It's not even Halloween yet. However, this is a quick and easy project and you're recycling too! Today's...

Check out this GREAT stamp set for only $5 with any My Acrylix purchase in November!!!

Cricut 3" Vinyl Figures - Cricut Shop

Cricut 3" Vinyl Figures - Cricut Shop

How cute are these!!!!

Just a little card I made with Close to My Heart Acrylix stamps!

CLOSE TO MY HEART

Hi everyone!!!!  I am so excited to be a part of the Close to My Heart family!  As I start this new and exciting journey, I hope that I can count on my dear sweet friends to help me out!  I can't wait to show everyone about the awesome products that Close to My Heart offers.  It is truly the BEST of the best!!

Here's my website.

http://teresazhickey.myctmh.com/


If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me and I will be glad to show you!!

Unity Stamp Co. AUTHENTIQUE Fast Feature - 30 Available

Unity Stamp Co. AUTHENTIQUE Fast Feature - 30 Available

Craft room now.....

Remodeling the craft room!

Hi all!  I thought it might be fun to show you what my craft room looked like before it was a craft room!  Here are some pictures of the room!


http://www.flickr.com/photos/77231763@N00/sets/72157600514590495/

It's big! Huge!!!!

I have a HUGE announcement to tell everyone on Friday!!

It's totally going to rock your socks!!!

Awesome!

Super duper!

Excellent!!!

I know you can't wait!!!!

Cropper Hopper Projections Expandable Sticker Stadium

Cropper Hopper Projections Expandable Sticker Stadium

I'm always looking for new ways to organize my desk and I am loving this Cropper Hopper expandable file folder! It's a really reasonable price too!!

Memphis weekend!

Jason and Larry judged a bbq competition in Covington Saturday morning and had a blast!  Brandy and I hung out at the hotel until they were done and then we went to Beale Street.  Friday night we took a carriage ride through downtown Memphis and our driver told us all about Memphis history.  Saturday night we went back and hung out on Beale Street for awhile. 

Places we ate:

Gus's World Famous Chicken

Seriously it was THE best chicken ever!

Superior Bar on Beale street

Meh.  Bar food, but at least we got to watch part of the Auburn game.

Rendevous

It was okay.  If you have never had competition bbq ribs then it was okay.  I dont think any of us thought  it was that great. 

Neeley's

Yep....like the show on Food Network....Down Home with the Neeleys.  It was really good.  I had bbq nachos and they were delish!  Everybody else had rib tips and we all agreed it was the second best place we had eaten all weekend.

Today we went to Graceland.  We had no idea it would take all day to tour it all.  Jason and I want to take Elizabeth soon.  Its worth going back to. 

All in all we had a fantastic weekend!   Cant wait for our next adventure!

Mini album in a weekend

I love this little mini!  I used Bo Bunny 6x6 refill pages for my pages and DCWV Ciao Bella stack.  Also my mulberry flowers I had gotten on clearance at Michaels awhile back. 

I also used lots of CTMH distressing techniques and inks. 

Losing it!

Ok - in 8 months I have had three surgeries.

The second reconstructive surgery did not work.

I fell off a chair.

I broke my toe.

I lost the key to our new truck.

I can't catch a break!!

Welcome to our Team's Homepage

Welcome to our Team's Homepage

Stamp storage

This is how I store my stamps.  I just recently did the clear ones in the binders.   I really like the way they came out.

Swap-Bot and how I handle my swaps...

Getting swaps together is so much fun for me!  I get to go through my stash and see what all kinds of goodies I can find so share with fellow swappers -

-This is a portion that I have copied from my Swap- Bot profile -


Ok - I have finally figured out a plan of action when I have alot of swaps on my dash. This may also help you, so I wanted to share. I write each swap down on a sheet of paper and next to it write the deadline date. I start at the top of the page (since they're already in order anyway) and work my way down. Even though some are profile based swaps, you can get everything together for that swap and have it ready to go. I write on the back of the envie what the swap is and those go in one pile. I have a basket that has already addressed swaps in that need to go to the post office. Once the partners are assigned, all I have to do is include the profile goodies, write a little note that I have already put in the envie, seal it and go! I had roughly 18 swaps and a handful of RAKS that I did in 4 hours tonight. I'm kinda proud of myself!! Hope my system makes sense to you - if you have any questions, please ask! Thanks for reading!


To me, it makes sense.  


Here's an example:


PVT Swap w/ Jill - due Aug 1
PVT swap w/Brandy - due Aug 5
School ATC - due Aug 12


and so on and so forth.....When I get one done, I cross it off my list.  Of course I cross reference my list to the dashboard on Swap Bot as well.  


I don't know why I didn't think of this before!  LOL


Probably because I have never done this many swaps at one time.  But, now that I know I can do it and do it efficiently  there is no way I'm going back now!  So, watch out!

Surgery.......and recovery......

Ok - My surgery was two weeks ago tomorrow - I've had the cath in for almost two weeks - One week to go.  Jill and her girls came over on Wednesday of last week and Jason went Friday to pick up her husband.  We crafted just a little and I tried to rest.  Friday night, Tammie and Shawn came over Friday night and Shawn helped do some housework - he's such a good house husband.  LOL  Sunday, Jason cooked ribs - They were really good.  Brandy and Larry came over Sunday.  So did Susan!!!  She's taking care of me this week while Jason's out of town in New Hampshire.  I'm not having to do a thing!!  Susan is awesome!!  Jason will be home tomorrow and Susan is leaving Saturday.  I'm not going to know what to do being here by myself next week!  I go to the doctor on August the 5th to get the cath out and I am so excited!!!  Wow - What a thing to be excited about, huh?  

Projects using vinyl

Here are some projects I've been working on.  I think they all turned out super cute!

Home again gigity gig

We made it home safe and sound.  Miss Susan and Chuck already! 

After we got home Jason put together my bookcase fit my craft room and it looks awesome!  He says there isn't any more room for anything else in there!  Lol

Heading to Birmingham in the morning to pick Elizabeth up!

Heading home from spending time with friends ....

We had a wonderful weekend full of shopping, eating, and just a fun time! 

Susan and I went all over the place Saturday..Daphne....Spanish Fort .... We shopped till we dropped! 

Sunday Susan, her husband Chuck, Jason and I spent the day at the outlets in Foley.  Jason of course had to go to the kitchen stores!  I think hes worse than me!  Susan found a ton of double walled cupids with lids for super cheap.  I did the majority of my shopping on Saturday ..... But I did find some super cute Auburn flip flops!

We had a delicious dinner at PapRoccos!  Then headed to the beach so I could put my toes in the sand! 

Can't wait till our next trip!