Online Scrapbook Shop and FREE Shipping Through Monday!

Are you a scrapbooker or a paper crafter? There is a new on-line scrapbook store for you to shop!

Ginger Snap Scraps is a brand new, on-line scrapbook store run by stay at home mom, Cori Wagner. The store has many popular brands such as Cricut, Copic, My Mind's Eye, Echo Park, Peachy Keen and many more of your favorites! All Cricut cartridges are $35 and under all the time! You can shop the store now by going to www.gingersnapscraps.com

Shipping at Ginger Snap Scraps is $5 flat rate shipping to the US and $10 flat rate shipping to Canada. *Due to expensive shipping rates, we can not ship any 12x12 paper to Canada.  Shipping to military bases is always free, as a thank you for your service to our country. Help support small business and stay-at-home moms! Cori would like to offer all of you free shipping to her store!  Use the coupon code MM4 at checkout for free shipping on your order-good for US and Canada!

Outlet Sale Today and Contest!

This will be a different post than you are used to seeing here. I am a consultant with Thirty-One Gifts and I love their products! I wanted to let you all know that there is an outlet sale today starting at 9 am and running through the 20th, but only while supplies last. Products are discounted 50-80%. I have no idea what is going to be there as it's always a surprise, but I've never been dissatisfied with any of my purchases. There will be a link on my Thirty-One Gifts website at 9am which will take you directly to the Outlet Sale. If you can't get in right away, try again in a few minutes. The outlet sales are extremely popular and traffic is usually very high to the website. www.thirtyoneoutlet.com/72315 will take you directly there.

One of the neat things about Thirty-One is that for just $7 you can personalize most of their products. Here are some examples and how I use them:

Large Utility Tote

I use the Large Utility Tote to haul my rug hooking supplies to and from hooking events. It holds my frame, Bliss cutter, wool, and sometimes my cat Cinnamon. : )

Zipper Pouch

I use the Zipper Pouch to hold small stitching projects when I have somewhere to go and sit for a while; doctor's appointments, my son's sporting events, etc.

Lunch Thermal

Picnic Thermal

I use the thermal tote every day going to work. Sometimes I even use the Picnic Thermal if I have a lot of yummy things to take. It's a long day working until 2am and I need snacks to avoid hitting up the vending machines!

I love, love, love this bag. I have 3 Organizing Utility Totes! I have one to keep my Thirty-One paperwork organized, one I use as my work bag, and I have another one in the backseat of my car for all of the stuff that seems to accumulate. I have one customer who uses it as her cleaning supply bag as she has two bathrooms on separate floors and she doesn't want to purchase double the supplies. She just grabs her bag and off she goes! My mom uses one for her crochet projects. She keeps a ball of yarn in each outside pocket when she has multiple colors for one project.

April 2012 Monthly Special

There are also monthly specials with Thirty-One Gifts and the April special is: For every $31 you spend (pre tax and shipping), you can buy a purse at 50% off!  Unfortunately Outlet Sale purchases cannot be combined with regular Thirty-One purchases.

Everyone who orders either from the Outlet Sale or makes a purchase from my website in April will go into a drawing to win a Zipper Pouch in your choice of pattern and personalization! If you have any upcoming weddings, graduations, birthdays, or other celebration to buy for, I highly recommend Thirty-One. The Picnic Thermal personalized with "The Smiths est.2012" is a popular wedding gift. An Organizing Utility Tote would be perfect for the graduate.

I wouldn't recommend Thirty-One Gifts if I didn't love them and use at least 5 products every day (a purse, wallet, wristlet key fob, mini zipper pouches in my purse to stay organized, and a thermal tote).

I hope you don't find this post too 'commercial.' I guess it's no different than anyone posting what they have for sale, except I didn't make the totes. : )

Thank you so much for your support. : )  Please email me or leave a comment if you have any questions.

Michelle

Contest Winner- My Stitchery

I was so excited to win Valerie's contest over at The Wooden Acorn. I actually won something. Yay! She was so sweet to add a few goodies to the package as well. Thanks Valerie! : )

I got right to work on this project...something I usually don't do. I'm a big hoarder of craft projects. I'm trying not to do that anymore. I finished it within a week of getting the package in the mail, but it took me forever to actually finish it by getting it in a frame.

Well here is my interpretation of the pattern by Buttermilk Basin. I used 100% wool for this project.



I actually have plans to stitch another one of these for by my front door. I rearranged furniture in that room a bit and now need a few things on the wall that you see when first entering, and I think it will look great there.

~Michelle

Cat ladder

What an awesome idea!

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Cardinal rug progress

I hooked a little at a friend's house today and then while waching the season finale of Downton Abbey. I can't wait for season 3 to start! I am fascinated by it. My friend has finished a large rug and completed a medium sized one while I am still dawdling with my cardinal. I don't think I've hooked at all since my last progress post. I feel guilty taking time to hook while there are other things around the house that should be priority.
 

A little carving...

My fickle craftiness has me obsessed with carving stamps again. I did a few about two years ago for use with polymer clay...another obsession. This time I carved out a stamp to use on paper. The technique, for me at least, is opposite for work with polymer clay. I love buttons. 

Noah's Ark - Thrift Store Gem!

My son had a high school band competition on Saturday. After that was done, and before I had to deliver a Thirty-One Gifts party order to my hostess, I stopped at one of our local thrift stores. I hadn't been to this particular store in a while and they had done some re-arranging of their home goods area. All of the wooden items were now together in one spot. It was wonderful! There was this huge box on the floor and I figured it was just a box, like an old sewing box or something. It was heavy as sin!

I opened the little latch and couldn't believe my eyes.

Noah and all of his animals came tumbling out! Each pair appear to have their own cubby. I don't know if they are handmade or not, but it's still a wonderful treasure. It's a pretty good sized box, painted dark red with goldish stars. The paint is chipping and the label they used for the price tag pulled off some paint too, but I think with a little love and dark stain it will be okay.

The back of the box is painted with the ocean and a rainbow of course. The Ark has what appears to be metal flashing around it so it's not a great toy to give to a child, but I'm keeping this for myself anyway. : )

These little kitties........

....and these little sheep are my favorites of course.

And there are two drawers where I keep the fish.



The little orange blur in the background is Cinnamon coming to see what I was up to.



There were also these letter blocks inside, but I don't think they are part of the set as they are painted a bit differently.

I don't know if this is handmade, but I love it! I paid $5 for it and I probably would have paid twice that. I apologize for the less then stellar photos. I lost part of the charger for my camera and the battery is dead. These cell phone pics aren't too bad though.

~Michelle