Seriously! I don’t want to alarm anyone, but yes, I did some small amounts of rubberstamping!

Here are the four Project Life filler/journal-cards I created for swaps. My house is still in disarray, and my little studio looks like a tornado touched down, but I have fulfilled my swap responsibilities, have them packaged up, and I am looking forward to signing up for a few more.

…so, I am wondering if it is too early to begin the countdown until completion of my MSN?…37 weeks. Wow…it actually feels like it is within reach!

Here’s to a beautiful week ahead of us. Until next time, be well friends!

-Jenny

One of my nurse friends surprised me with a beautiful card, and a special note written inside.

Today I have been [attempting] to continue to pull the house together. I have found sweet cards, and notes that I had forgotten about, as well as items that I have been hoarding. I had the parlor picked up, and put back together…for about 15 minutes. Now it looks like a tornado touched down, again.

Look at what is in the house! Papertrey Ink and Studio Calico delivered on the same day!

Here’s a sneak peek at the project I am working on with the papertrey ink stamps…

New course [Integrating Technology Into Nursing Education] has opened, and wouldn’t you know I am already behind. Don’t know how this happens. But, what I do know is, the race is on, and the journey is getting closer to being completed!!

On that note for here I am going to run. Take care friends, and talk soon…

-Jenny

It was a lot of work, but I have officially completed downsizing my studio [well almost completed, I have a project planned --I'll share when it is completed, and I need to paint the chair I will be using].

The original studio can be seen here. I sold my antique library catalog, and my work table. I went thru everything [holy cow, that was not fun!!]. If it was over two years old I tossed it. I am ashamed of the ‘stuff’ that I had. The money that I spent on ‘stuff’ that I didn’t use, but for some reason at that moment I ‘had to have it.’ The number of projects from attending CKU’s that I never finished. Absolutely ridiculous.

I took the antique buffet out of the diningroom and painted it, and purchased a smaller bookcase, and an antique table from my favorite antique store.

I chose to keep two of my suitcases. The bottom suitcase holds very few punches, and the top suitcase holds acrylic paints, etc. The wire basket holds the very few wood stamps that I chose to keep.

Love CTMH storage, and my Raskog.

Of all my dressforms, and vintage cameras, I chose to keep two of each. The two pink boxes on the bottom shelf hold very few embellishments.

Thank you for looking, and I hope you love it as much as I do. I am ready to work on a couple of projects, and to get moving on my project life! Until next time…

-Jenny

I am still organizing and destashing the scrap/stamp supplies… Fed Ex delivered the CTMH organizers that I ordered, and I love. love. love them!!

The small organizer holds 12 craft boxes which I am using to hold the monthly PL pieces from Studio Calico.

 The medium organizer is holding the SC, BH, and MAMBI PL cards perfectly.

…and the large container is holding 6×6 papers that were originally 12×12. I ended up discarding a large plastic tote filled with patterned paper, and still have more to go thru. [not counting a lot of cardstock...] Organized by color, and a few categories such as seasons, holidays, etc., these papers will be used for card fronts, and scraps.

There’s a few more pieces that I need to purchase, but for the moment I am very happy with these three pieces.

The other morning after my dentist appointment, Keith and I were standing in ACMoore and I commented that I wished Michaels was closer. We looked at each other and at almost the same time we said let’s go [we had brought Oliver with us to my dentist appointment so we didn't have to worry about getting home to him]…and look what I brought home!

I am looking forward to my studio being completed so I can get in there and create! Until next time, be well friends!

-Jenny

The destashing of my scrapbook/rubberstamp supplies has proven to be a job within a job, but it is slowly coming together, as is the organizing of the items that I have decided to keep. I have to tell you that these enclosed binders are perfect. Right now, I have one specifically for Studio Calico stamps, and one specifically for misc clear stamps.

My scrap/stamp area has changed drastically. Gone is the excess stuff, and all of the furniture that I previously had [The Art Studio]. In its place I’ve added a smaller bookcase, a small antique table, and I brought the antique buffet table out of the diningroom and added it to my room…

…and decided to paint it.

I matched the color of my Ikea Raskog with Sherwin-Williams paint [using the ColorSnap app], and chose to go up just a slight color darker. I love it! Pink is still my favorite color, but sadly Ikea doesn’t have a pink option for their Raskog, and I didn’t like the grey color. So, though I am decorating around the color of the Raskog, I’ll be slipping pink in, here and there…of course.

Pushing to get the room pulled together. Feeling the need to be creative. It’s been awhile.

-Jenny

we are on day one hundred and twenty four of my son being in Afghanistan. To those of you who offer me your support…thank you.

Easter day found Keith and I home. Alone. Our holidays are so different, and now I understand my mothers tears, and pain that she felt when her children became adults with families, and had responsibilities that prevented them from coming home and continuing the family traditions. So…Keith and I celebrated Easter as empty nesters –

I have [slowly] been working on organizing my scrapbook and rubberstamp supplies. As you can see our diningroom is a disaster, as is our livingroom. I am looking at all of this excess, and to be honest, I am feeling ashamed.  The amount of money that I have spent on this ‘stuff’ — a lot of it not used, let alone opened…

As you can see from the first photo of the small bookcase, I am downsizing hugely. I am keeping only the absolute basics that I need to scrapbook, and rubberstamp, and moving the excess ‘stuff’ out of my house.

Three more weeks remaining of Teaching Strategies for Nurse Educators. The professor is pushing us hard, but inbetween my whining with the believe that she is killing me, I appreciate how she is teaching this class.

Well folks, there’s a bit of a peek, around here. Until next time, be well…

-Jenny