A Garage Sale of All Garage Sales!!!

OMG, I am sure I was in heaven today...really!!! Our local scrapbook~paper store had a store "garage sale".....the customers bring in all their unwanted items, rent a table for $10, the store gives you stickers with your name and a sku# on them, you do your own pricing, and the store sells your items for the next 3 days! In return you get a gift card to the store for all you sell, I am soooooooo going to do this next time. But even MORE fun was the shopping part.....I really didn't know what to expect, but there were Cricut machines and cartridges, Quikutz, Sizzix, SU, Close To My Heart, Creative Memories, so much stuff it was mind boggling!! The only draw back was it was all cash.........and I NEVER, hardly EVER have cash on me, so I had to scrounge all thru the house and came up with about $28, so why didn't I go to an ATM you ask?? Well, because my hubby would of killed me...LOL!!!

But I got a ton for my money, and I love the vintage look so I got lucky with lots of goodies, some (lots) were brand new, never even opened packages! I got new Sizzix dies, a pack of See-D's sentiment stamps, a Gelatins Coffee Break set...for only $2, Bind-It-All wires for $1....new never opened! Even a bag of stamps that had 3 House Mouse in it...woowho!! I wish I would of taken pictures of it...wow...I might have to go back!!!

Chocolate Swap ~ Does This Make My Butt Look Big?

Okay, now that I have your attention from my title, I'll tell you what it means! I am in a chocolate swap as was mentioned before in my previous posts (turtles). I was in 4 groups and just completed my last ones. Whew! It took more time than I thought. There are six people in each group and we are to send chocolate, decorated however we want. that means I will get 20 chocolate packages back, all different. It has been fun getting them, and fun to make. Now for the explanation, I have a warped sense of humor at times, and decided to use a "Chunky" bar for one of my groups, stamped a hippo, punched out a flower and put it on her butt, hence, that is where the "Does This Make My Butt Look Big?" comes from, right below in it in the bag is the "chunky"!

The other one is a peppermint bark, so I wrapped those in DS paper that was "doggie" and cut out "woof" on my cricket...simple, but its cute. The last group is getting a Valentine "cracker"..this one is my favorite, as I love the vintage Valentine look , and it has "that look". these "crackers are FULL of chocolate! So what do you think? Would you be happy to receive any of these??? Also, how do you like my new blog look????

Season Of Friendship Tree and Stickles

After Christmas I was playing around with my Cricut and my SU Season of Friendship set, these are 3 quick cards I came up with, The second card I used the Cricut cartridge Walk In My Garden and used the bleeding hearts and I used Stickles on all of them...just messing around and put these together!

Paper Star Ornament

Finished ornament

Ornament when folded...not finished yet!

I saw this cute star ornament on http://www.soshelli.com/ blog and knew I had to try one! I actually made a couple of them, but will share this one for now...I really haven't finished it totally, but was so excited by it, I just had to post it! I took it to my sister's and in minutes we made one there, too. My brother-inlaw wanted to know "Is this all you ever do?"...I only had to give a second's thought before before my reply was "Pretty much!"!!!