Visiting the Cottage

Just thought I would share some beautiful photos from our cottage yesterday :)

We closed up the cottage last month, but we had things to bring up and it was a lovely day for a drive...so we went. 

One last look at our stunning lake. 

We are so lucky to have a place like this to relax at. 

On our drive home I went through my phone and deleted over 1500 photos. I didn't even get through them all in the 1 1/2 hour drive. I still have over 1500 to go through :0

I hope you all have a Creative day. 

Tracy :). 

Defunkifying my Craft Space….one challenge at a time.

You have seen me post and have seen photos like this from me over my 5+ years of blogging.
I love my room…but why is it such a struggle to keep it organized.
This is the "after" photo if you are wondering, lol.

6 yrs ago (when 2peas in a bucket was up and running ) I did a whole room re-do following Wookiemouse's challenges.
I loved that my hard work paid off…I loved my room and could find anything I was looking for :)
Here is a link to her blog with the prompts My Life with the Label Maker

I am going to do it again :)
I am following both the challenge prompts that I did 6 yrs ago that Wookiemouse put on, but I am also following another challenge site.
The Keeper of Memories 
Two challenges are better than one…right ;)
I have done the first few challenges that Cristi has put on and I am also checking in on her FB page to keep me motivated.
Today I had to clean my desk…..again.

These are the challenges I have done so far :)
I cleaned off my desk.
I did a space audit.
I cleaned off my desk again.
I created a project.
I cleaned off my desk..yet again ;)

I still want to fine tune my desk organization…but that will get done with the upcoming challenges.
Plus I am re-thinking my desk set up.
For one thing, I need a new desk, this one is really warped in the middle…if you look closely, you can see the stacks of post it notes keeping my drawers straight, lol.
But I do have a bit of a dilemma, as I like my drawers there to set up for shooting my videos.

Here is the overall look of my, kind of, clean room.
What you can't see is all of my supplies that are hidden under my desk, teehee.

There is a challenge a week, for 52 weeks.
Some challenges may take me longer to complete, and other shorter than a week.
If you need some help in this area..come and join me with these challenges, we all can encourage each other…and what else is there to do with the cold weather here :)

I hope you all had a very Creative Day :)

Tracy :)

I love my planners

Boy, am I a sneaky one ;)
I told myself I can't buy any crafty supplies for the whole month of November.
When Ashley asked me to go to Michael's with her, I told her I couldn't go with her because of my goal.
She guilted me, by telling me that she just wanted to spend time with me.
We have had snow most of the day….but when my girls need me, I'm there.

Ashley and I are both planner girls and we both loved this one from Heidi Swapp.
I reminded her that I wasn't suppose to be buying myself crafty goodies for this month.
Well, being the clever girls that we are, we came up with a genius idea.
My girls would give this to me for Christmas.
This way I still get it without breaking my goal.
I then grabbed one for Ashley for Christmas….pretty slick eh?

Kristy suggested they get me these for Christmas as well…but on the way home, I convinced her to just give me them now, teehee.

I need another planner like….well like I need more scrapbooking paper, teehee.
But there is just something about planners, the excitement of decorating the pages, dreaming of how much more organized I will be when using it….and just looking at it, lol.

I hope you all have a very Creative Day :)

Tracy :)

Fauxbonichi Journal..Day 19 & 20 and my Honey's Booboo

I wanted to share these 2 pages in my Fauxbonichi journal as I really like how they turned out…even though I am almost a month behind in sharing them.

I used a large oval shape stencil and drew the oval.
I had this small flower stamp, but I wanted to stamp many of them and wanted them to over lap.
So I had to make a mask.
I stamped one flower on a post it note…but made sure to stamp it where the sticky part of the post it note was….then the fun part, fussy cutting it out.
As I stamped, I would move my mask on top of the flower I had just stamped.
Lastly I drew the sprigs along the oval.

I repeated this for the second page :)
Then added some colour to the flowers with my markers.

You all know how much I love my washi tape…but I decided to stamp my borders on these pages.
I did this for 2 reasons
1, I have a few (a lot) of border stamps I have yet to use.
2, I want to lessen the bulk that washi tape makes to the borders.

I really like these fall colours.
If you look closely, I added a couple of colours to the leave border stamp before stamping.

The writing took me forever to come up with on these pages.
I wanted to do different fonts for each word or sentence….but as you can see, I ended up just doing my own handwriting.

Second page.

I added colour to some of the words, the reason being, if you only read the words with colour it says "Being Creative is a Way of Life"

Onto My Day:
I didn't post last night as I was at Emergency with my husband Wayne.
He banged his hand on the cupboard when putting his razor away.
He tried to hide if from me…but when he did show Heather and I we made him go to the Hospital.
It looked like his knuckle was out of place and sticking up.

Good thing I told him to take off his wedding ring before it swelled up too much.
Supposedly it isn't broken…..but that is what they told him about his wrist when he hurt it last year, which was broken and still hasn't healed.

I made Wayne take the day off of work today.
So my day was spent watching movies with my Honey :)

I hope you all have a very creative day :)

Tracy :)

Work Zombies

Walker Sunday and because of it, I will share with you a project I made tonight ;)
Pretty fun file folder..right?!

The girl in the office assigned this pink file folder for my husband.
If you remember…he didn't like the tie he was going to wear (for Ashley's wedding) at first because I pointed out that the tiny flowers in the design were pretty…so the pink file folder….not his style, lol.

So I gathered my materials.
Pink file folder
Zombie themed scrapbooking paper
Camo duct tape
Large Xyron adhesive machine
Lable maker

I know it is pricey to use the adhesive in the Xyron sticker maker but for this project, I wanted full adhesion.
And I wanted to complete this quickly.
I used the camo duct tape for the bottom of the folder as I thought it needed to be re-enforced…and I didn't have any zombie duct tape….hard to believe, I know, lol.
I used my label maker to print up the name on the folder (not pictured).

That this is my husband's new file folder…I have to admit, I even like it so much better than his pink one as well :)

I am off to watch some zombies….or I should say Walkers ;)

Hope you all have a creative day :)

Tracy :)

A Girl and her Tools

I have been busy the last couple of days helping out a friend.
She wanted to re-do her laundry room and needed my help.
We put up a wall of peg board, a hanging rod for her laundry and a long shelf.
When ever she needs help and power tools are involved…she asks for my assistance :)

Every women should have her own tools….and know how to use them.
But that doesn't mean we have to have a boring tool box…oh no.
I keep some of mine in my pretty pink tool tote :)

I keep a mixture of tools in here.
Hammer, nails, measuring tape, level, utility (exacto) knife, power drill with various sizes of drill bits and screw heads..as well as a multi head screw driver…as well as various sizes of screws.
I also carry a short and long extension cords in here….nothing worse then needing your drill and the plug in is too far away.
I don't carry a rechargeable drill as they would run out of power just sitting in here.
I also carry heavy string, different sized hooks and other  miscellaneous pieces in here.
Depending on the job, I will add other tools as well.
Today I needed my jig saw.

I have to say, my tools and this tote sure do get around :)

I hope you all have a creative day :)
It is Friday Night Scrapbooking, so hopefully I will get some creating in…as I seem to chat more than create during these nights, lol.

Tracy :)

Fauxbonichi Journal Day 17 & 18

More pages in my fauxbonichi journal…I will get caught up on my photos on here :)

If you remember from yesterdays pages…I coloured those beautiful sunflowers with my Chameleon markers.
But I forgot to add a blotter in between on one page…so got some bleed through.

One of the drawing challenges on the Fauxbonichi Journalers FB page was to draw a pumpkin.
So I used this prompt to clover up the bleed through :)

Once I coloured it in…you could hardly tell that there was any bleed through at all :)

As you can see, it was a Walking Dead viewing day :)

I was quite happy to see that the city came and filled in the lake at the end of my driveway….I had only phoned them 3 times, starting in April.
Sadly it is now a muddy mess….but I guess that is better than a water hole.

I am also catching up posting my YouTube videos.
Here is a flip of my June Fauxbonichi journal.
If you would like to watch it on my channel…just click the link Tracy's Treasures24
I hope you all have a very creative day :)

Tracy :)