He-Art Journal Challenge week 17.

Wow I have been doing this for 17 weeks, and I haven't missed one yet ;)

WEEK 17 - SOUL Food

Assignment: Create a spread or a page based on your favorite food or dessert or drink! Not necessary to use any TGF stamps, this is YOUR journal, do what you want cuz you rule that journal!

First I was going to go with Chocolate. I LOVE chocolate.....well actually I love sweets.
I am even known to hide chocolate, and hoard it for later.
Or share it with one of my girls who seem to need it at the time ;)

BUT I went with Coca-Cola.
Yup my addiction.
I have it down to one can of coke a day. I trick myself. See if I buy a 2 liter I feel it should only last 2 days, So I drink more.

Onto my challenge page.
I cut one of my pop cans in half.
All the Coke stickers are from Ashley. When she was into scrap booking she wanted them, then never used them. Perfect for my page :)

The black vines are sticky back felt.
I fed the vines through the pop tabs.

Ice cold Coke. Yummy :)

Onto My Day:
Picked up my photos, they are perfect this time.
I had to get an oil change for the jeep.
Travel insurance.
And go to the bank for American money ;)
Yup we are going to the States tomorrow.
I am so excited......to shop ;)
Not excited to be leaving at 6:00am though.

Hope you all had a creative Thursday.

Tracy

A trip to the mall.

I had some errands to do today, so called Ashley at work to meet me at the mall for lunch.
They had this display in the food court.
It is for the Christmas food drive.
I thought this was a pretty creative way to help put the point across to fill up some one's home with food.
The paper chain tree was a nice touch as well. I see they aren't finished painting the display though.


 Last Saturday, Bath & Body Works opened up.
This is the first one in our town. I heard that the mall was packed.
Funny as they are right beside Lush.


Onto My Day:
I didn't get a chance to work on my mini album. So much for wanting to have it finished by Thursday :(
I am working on my Challenge page for the He-Art Journal right now.
I ran into my brother at the mall. We should have gone to lunch together, but I guess neither one of us thought of that...plus he was walking out of the mall with Taco Time ;)

I went to get 5 more photos done. I wanted them pretty small to fit into something. Well when I went to pick them up, the guy asked me if anyone told me there was a $10.00 charge to re size each one......WHAT, no actually he didn't, lol.
So he just charged me for the one. I also told him that I think that the photos are way to small. So he said he will redo them at no charge ;)
So I will pick up the new ones tomorrow.
I also went to my LSS and picked up some adhesive, I was on my last roll.
Adhesive and a stamp, yup that's it....they didn't carry my advent calendars either, but her husband said she will look into it ;)

Hope you all had a creative day :)

Tracy :)

I made it to the Big Screen ;)

Woke up this morning to thick frost.
But look at the pretty design it made on the hood of my jeep :)


Look my blog made it to the big screen.........TV that is, teehee.
Wayne and I have yet to see an episode of Castle this season. So he figured we should watch the ones we have missed on the Internet.
So we ran to Staples to pick up a special cord to hook my laptop to the TV.
After a half an hour he found a site where we could watch it from.
Only thing is we didn't know it was a trial thing and it cut out during the second episode, lol.
So we have to wait 57 minutes before we can resume watching. lol.
So we put my blog up on the TV, how cool is that ;)


Worked on my mini for a while today...as I watched Night of the Living Dead, and past shows of the Waking Dead ;)

Hope you had a creative Tuesday.

Tracy :)

Advent Calendar...I so want this..........

I WANT one of these...actually I want 4 of them.
I want to make one for Ashley,
One for Heather,
One for Kristy and
One for the Home....Mine ;)

I was searching all over for these. I do have a LSS, but she is closed on Monday's, so I will phone tomorrow and see if she carries them. I kind of have my doubts though.
 I found one place online that has 3 of them.
But to ship them (to my U.S pick up place) by Friday, I will have to pay $25.00.
I did see that Joann's on-line sells them also, I wonder if they sell them in the actual store.
We don't have a Joann's here. But I will be going to one with weekend :)

Still working on my mini album.
And yes Becky, you are probably correct in why it takes me soooo long to complete a project ;)
I am almost finished my second page.
It does not look like I am going to be completed by my goal date of Thursday.
I just can't seem to take the short cuts. Sometimes I wish I could, but I can't.

Tracy

The difference distress makes

I do like to distress things ;)
Here is the difference between the papers I distressed.
The one on the left is the paper in its raw form.
Then I distressed it with 3 distress inks and then I used some distress ink refill and added a bit of water to it and flicked it on the paper with a toothbrush......I don't think Wayne will miss it, lol.

Funny thing is I picked this paper because of the crackle look to it.
Now that it is distressed you can't hardly tell it had a crackle finish. But I do love how it looks.

I worked on my mini album today.
Why does it take me so long to complete anything :(
I am still working on my first page!
Then I discovered that I flipped my front cover to the back cover. So my first page turned into my second page ;(
So I have to remove my front cover and add it to my back cover.
Luckily I didn't add anything to the cover of my book or else I wouldn't be able to fix it...but then again if it was embellished, I wouldn't have screwed up.

Onto My Day:
Hubby and I slept in. He didn't go to work today. I woke up earlier then him, but didn't get up as I knew he would have woke up. He needs his sleep.
We took down the gazebo, and cleaned the backyard to get ready for (gasp) winter.
Worked on my mini album.
Hubby and I made a huge taco dip for the family :)
Now I am going to watch "Once Upon a Time" and them my all time favourite " Walking Dead ".

A little funny:
I say to my Hubby tonight, "You know I spend to much time on the computer, when I look at the television and expect to see the time on the bottom right hand side of the screen". LOL

Hope you all had a creative Sunday

Tracy :)

Trying to keep organized

I thought I would share with you a little tip that is helping me stay organized while I am working on my newest project.
I end up loosing everything under my paper. Even my large tape gun!
I end up spending more time looking for items then I do working on my projects.
So this is the first time I tried this and so far so good.

I have 3 containers.
One for scraps and pre-cut papers.
One for different types of adhesive and scissors.
One for distress inks and applicators and rulers.

Here is my work area.
I covered up what I am working on...I want it to be a surprise :)
It may not look like a big area to work on, but with everything put into these containers, its more than I had before ;)   See that is a 12x12 piece of paper...lots of room :)


Onto My Day:
Slept in....nothing like relaxing in bed before I start my day :)
Talked with my nephew on the phone for 2 hours.
Took Kristy and her boyfriend out for lunch.
Picked up a few groceries.
Worked a bit on my mini album.
Drove Blake home.
Picked up some toilet paper, as we only had 2 squares left...not 2 rolls, 2 squares. Remember there are 4 women in this family.

Hope you had a creative Saturday :)

Tracy :)

He-Art Journal Challenge week 16

I forgot to share my He-Art Journal challenge pages from yesterday.
I am so honoured I was featured on the Greeting Farm challenge for my Halloween (two toned) pages and this one :)

Here was our challenge:
WEEK 16: "Heart to Heart"

Use hearts on your page and have a little "heart to heart" with your soul while doing so, right?

I copied this from my blog entry, from February, Wayne's and my 23rd Anniversary.
I then drew and coloured the vines and the hearts growing out of the vines :)

Awww look how young we were ;)
             
 I am not sure how well you can read this. I have to re size my photos in order to post them on their site.
And my original photo is on my external hard drive.
              

Onto My Day:
Went for my morning walk with Lynne.
An hour later it started to snow, big fluffy flakes. But it has since melted.
I worked on my mini album for a bit...and I mean a bit.
I seem to work better at night.
No matter how good my intentions are to work on it during the day, I never seem to get very far.
But at night I don't want to stop.

Watching GRIMM. No scrap booking night tonight, everyone was either busy or out of town.
Heather and I got Wayne into watching it ;)

Hope you had a creative Friday..and if you don't come back to visit me this weekend, hope you have a creative weekend :)

Tracy :)