giveaway winner & what's new

Chiara, please email me for your PDF file of the coptic book tutorial! Congrats!!

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So I waited as long as I could. Definitely WAY after my first trimester...and got my hair coloured. I was already feeling really haggered and didn't want to look the part too. Much better now :).

Sorry for the delay in posting the winner for the giveaway. Just came back from this girl's house. We made Valentine's treat bags for family and coworkers with the Daisy Ds treat bag kits. Saw them at a local dollar store for $1.25 and had to get like 9 boxes LOL for a total of 90 treat bags. It came with baggies, the topper and ribbons. It was such a good deal!

PS. I won't be making Valentine's embellies this year after all. It's just too much to push myself cause I started feeling not so good again. But will instead work at restocking old fave embellies and kits ;).

studio update and giveaway

Love looking at this neat area as soon as I make my way down the last few steps of the staircase leading down to my studio.

Studio is almost all tidied up. I just have to figure out what I'm going to do with all my scrap paper. Maybe just give it all away to my MIL's friend's grandkids to play with? And just get a fresh start in accumulating more:). Then there's the Christmas stuff...think I told you that I ordered/collected enough stuff to make 200 Christmas art journals but only ended up making 140 because of my feeling crappy. Maybe I'll put together little baggies of these items and list them for a good price just to get it out of my space. That'll be later though. Got too much restocking to do.

Bought more fabric to make more Sew Grateful kits. I thought the last batch was going to be it but there's still a few of you out there who want more. They'll be back in shop soon - thanks for being patient:).

Been sitting on the couch a lot and just taking it easy but feeling too good to sit still still so have been sewing like mad. These were done within the last week or so heehee.

Plan for next week or two:

-order remainder items for Escape Art Journal and make a few more

-put together some Valentines items (just a few)

-start working on restocking some other kits

-put together a new art journal:)

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Giveaway: Have you been contemplating on making your own journals lately but undecided on what kind to make? I would love to share the Coptic journal PDF tutorial with one lucky winner if you haven't gotten it already. If you already have it, you can still enter and if you win, you can pick 3 Evalicious embellishments instead:).

To enter, leave me a comment on how many scrap projects you've made in the new year so far. I'll pick a winner tomorrow @ 8pm PST:).

Iphone photo love

She introduced me to eating these steamed purple yams all on its own. They're actually quite yummy - sweet. They're apparently a white-ish colour raw but when steamed, they turn purple. The actual raw purple yams do not taste good at all.

My sister got me a Snuggie for Christmas. Guess who was the first one to wear it? LOL!

Taken when we were at Whistler Village. One of the reasons why I married him and am having his baby:P.

Happy Hump Day!

Look what we did last Sunday & Monday

Baby stuff is SO CUTE!!! Wish we had an endless budget.

A little getaway

My friend Yolanda and her hubby invited us to spend 2 nights with them at the suite they rented up in Whistler, BC on Jan 9 & 10. We stopped at Subway before making the trek up the mountain on Saturday evening. It was the first time in my life that I ate a whole foot-long by myself LOL!

It was so pretty up there. I was mesmerized by the lights that draped each tree and its branches (as you can see in the photo). I love how I never go hungry when I'm near Yolanda. She had a ton of food waiting for us up there. I never truly appreciate her love for food until this moment in my life:). Eddie gave up his chance at snowboarding to walk around the village on Sunday with me while Yol and her hubby went skiing. We met up again in the evening for hot pot and another game of Yahtzee. Made the trek down the mountain on Sunday late morning. Think this might be our only escape before baby arrives.

Some storage solutions

Thought I'd share one of my favourite areas in my craft studio. It used to be my work table but now the computer sits on it. The little space on the right has been quite bare so I thought it would be a nice spot for my white plastic tote caddy that I picked up at the dollar store from a while back. Inside it is a glass cup, a small metal bin, and a mug. I use it to hold little knickknacks that don't fit anywhere and things that I want close to me when I'm creating stuff:)

The wall behind the computer - where ceramic thingies and a metal bin hangs. Got these from IKEA in the kitchen section. It houses my often used items like my fabric & paper scissors, xacto knife, journaling pens, and awls.

Then there's this wire basket that I also found in the kitchen organization section in IKEA a while back. They don't carry it anymore unfortunately. I stick all my label sticker and packages of fun goodies that I love looking at in here. It's getting really heavy which reminds me that I maybe should do a little purging soon:P.

What's your fave little spot in your craft space that you can't stop staring at every time you pass by it?

My studio - right now

Told you it was a mess. Eddie did a little more rearranging and sadly will be doing more because the new computer station is not working out for my poor legs and back. Can't wait to be a little more creative once the cleaning is done.