Scrapbooking

The girl and I are scrapbooking at Holly's today, but of course I walked out of the house without my project, so now I'm going to have to work on thank you cards tonight. So many people have done so much for me lately and I feel terrible that I'm so far behind on giving thank you cards!

You can never have too many

When we moved into the house, I dumped my boxes (yes boxes) of shoes into the closet in the craft room with the idea that I would go through them and get them organized later. The man decided to help me and got them all out and lined them up in the hallway. I'm not sorry to say that this picture doesn't even show them all. There are some around the corner at the end of the hall and more by my feet as I'm taking the picture. I think he thought it was funny at first, but I didn't mind them being there and it made it easier to decide which pair to wear the next day.

A couple days later we picked them up and put them back in the closet. I still need to go through them, but it was nice to visit with them for a little while.

orange closet

When I decorate, I tend to lean towards earthy colors - I like the browns and reds. It's rare that I pick a bright color, unless as an accent piece or something. For some reason, this house has me turned upside down. My family thinks I'm nuts and they man wants to put a hazardous waste sign on the hall closet. Every bedroom in this house is a different shade of blue.
The master bedroom has two pink walls and two baby blue walls. The kitchen/living/hall are actually two different shades of green. We've decided to live with the colors as they are until we are able to spend some time on each individual room and make the place our own. That being said, we have a closet in the hall that we think used to house the water heater and I thought it would be fun to paint it orange. I couldn't live with this color in my living room, but it's a pretty color and I thought it would be a cute little wink to whoever opens the closet. I forgot to take beforfe pictures, but the first pic was taken after I had primed the space. The second is the first coat of the orange. It needs another coat, but I love it. I think I'll do the coat closet and the linen closet in the same color :)

Happy Easter! We're in the house - for just about three weeks now and I finally feel like it's almost clean. I don't think the boxes will ever be unpacked because I'm convinced they're multiplying in the garage but I think we're getting there. The pool is clean and inviting, though the water is a chilly 64 degrees so I think it's going to be a while before I do more than dip a toe, but it's exciting to think about the parties this summer.

I think I'm going to be sick. We did our home inspection this morning and even though everything went well, I'm still queasy. There's going to be a lot of work to do, and I can't wait to get started on it!

moving

So now that we've decided to move this weekend, we find out that our house closes escrow on March 15th - finally. Two moves - one month apart.

I love paper! Most of my friends and family know that I love any kind of paper - I love taking something so ordinary and making something different out of it. A friend and coworker of mine is getting married later this month, and I offered to help in any way I could. This included making the wedding invitations for them (you'll see them later) and invitations for the wedding shower - because the Maid of Honor is a friend as well.

The shower invitations are 5x5 square silver cardstock with flowers cut from linen bookbinding tape and an overlay of vellum with the party details printed on it.

This is my very messy workspace. It's about a 2' x 1' space and I'm constantly relocating projects to another flat surface so I can work on something else.

A picture (below) of the flowers - applied to the cardstock and with their crystal centers already attached. The large flower has three heart crystals and the smaller flower has three small, round crystals.

This is the finished card. I used a strip of the same linen across the top to hold the vellum in place.

I think they turned out well. It was fun to figure it all out.