Happy Friday!

It's been a very busy week. We've had more storms, not as severe as last week, but fairly intense.

There was a retirement tea held on Wednesday, at our central office, for the 'classified' staff retiring this year. It was a nice time, and I got to see some folks that I haven't seen for a while. Of course, just in general, the end of the school year is always a frantic time, but knowing that this is my LAST end of school year, makes it really frantic. I don't want to walk away and leave a mess for the next person to come in to!

Anyway, not trying to make excuses, just wanted to let you know that I'm still here. Am working on several projects, but don't have any of them complete yet! I think I'll post an 'old' item, that only a few of you original readers have seen! These are a few scraplings that I played with a while back! My "class"y ladies loved making these in class!!!

Have a great day!

Patti J.

~I'd rather have Lockheed deliver the mail than ride around in a plane built by the post office.

Someone Read My Mind....

Theresa M., you SO totally read my mind! I was in my messy (I try so hard, really I do!!!) workspace yesterday, and found myself wondering what YOUR workspace looks like! Your work is always so neat, clean, and beautiful, that I could not imagine there being an extra scrap of paper on your desk! Ironically, it looks like you and I have almost exactly the same countertop type of worktop! Thanks for sharing with us all - someday, I'll try to post mine! (That's a July job!!!)

I have gotten so excited over the little Scraplings, that this a.m. I designed their own special little box! I've sent a note with the details to Hero Arts - we'll see if they want the pattern or not.

It works perfectly for both Scraplings and Nuggets!

Let me know what you think! (The box on the right below says to score 1" all sides)

I'm pretty bad with my homemade tutorial, but since this is my first time, there is hope that I will improve!!! Lol...

Back to the Superbowl I go! Have a great weekend - Cya tomorrow!

Patti J.

~Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5,6 (NIV)

I'm Hopeless...

So, here it is Friday night, and I am STILL at my work space - my friend Shirley told me about Scraplings, and I tried one and can't stop! These are SO much fun, and so fast! They end up being 1 and 1/4" wide, and 4 and 1/4" tall. Can you say - YAY for scraps!

The first one I had trouble finding a scrap that I liked for the bottom, so I snipped a piece off of the last bag I got when I shopped at Red Rooster!!! The butterfly stamp is an Inkadinkado, the baby buggy is Angel Company, the three sentiments are Hero Arts, and the "I'm Thankful" is a $1 stamp from Michael's.

Here are the little inside sentiments. They are just the right size!



The card below is also made with mailing labels. I sponged the labels with Blue Ice Chalk Ink, stamped The vine (The Angel Company, Simply Divine) and the sentiment (Inkadinkado) with Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink. I mounted them on brown paper, mounted that on tan Bazzill c.s., and trimmed the bottom with my Fiskar's border punch. On the inside of the card, I put a border that would show through from the front, and used the border punch on the top of it.

I think it needs something at the bottom on the front, but can't figure out exactly what! Guess I'll sleep on it...

Hope these brought you a smile, I sure had fun 'playing' at my desk tonight! I really need to be planning a Valentine's class that I'm having next Saturday! Oh well, back to my desk...

Good night all!

~The sole purpose for a child's middle name is so that he can tell when he's really in trouble!

Patti J.