Happy Saturday

Hope you are having a great day! Just wanted to share the links to the video's that the ladies of House of 3 have posted via their website www.houseof3.com . Hope you have had a chance to visit their site, if not take a look when you can and just poke around their site. Enjoy!

Click Here to see Heidi's Video and click Here to see her pages.

Click Here to see Janet's House Warming pages and click Here for Video.

Click Here to see Rhonna's House Warming Book pages and Here to see Video.

Hope you get a chance to read lots of their comments as they are taking time to read ours and leave comments back. They are so fun!

HO3's House Warming Party Weekend

Hope you make time to stop by House of 3's site to join in on the fun, they are having a House Warming weekend! I've taken a peek and they have some incredible art that will be available soon. You can use it to print out and create your own stuff and if you are a digital scrapbooker you can download the files. The picture you see here is one I made using some of the digital art they sell. It's not exactly what I wanted but I wanted to show you how you can do cool stuff with their products. Too fun! Hope your weekend is a great one!

New Look

You only thought you had seen my latest and greatest Blog Look, hee hee. With House of 3's fabulous site I can change the look of my blog daily, weekly, as often as it suits me! No, I don't work for them, I am just one of their biggest fans! They are having a House Warming party all weekend long and you too can get this look. And if you sign up now you can get their Housewarming Blog Set for free while it lasts! I will tell you that I tweeked mine to suit me. Go check them out here.

Metamorphosis Monday

OK. I'm back this week with a before and after shot of a simple Valentines card I made for my DH. You should be able to see it in larger size if you click on photo. I found some plain white damask embossed cards at Michael's for $1, I think there were 6 in a pack. I simply took some scrap paper stock stamped it and then used some red stickles to put dots around the card stock. I then took some of Teresa Collin's Crush paper and cut out the two tickets and glued one down flat and used dimensionals on the other for a little pop. It turned out cute and it only took me like 5mins to make it and I left it there for the stickles to dry and presto, chango a plain card made fab. Hope you are having a great start to your week, be sure to stop over at Susan's Between Naps on the Porch to enjoy all the other before and after links she has posted. Ciao for now!

p.s. the frame I used to display this weeks before/after photo is by Rhonna Farrer you can find it by clicking here or for some similar frames go to her new site by clicking on the house of 3 blinkie.

New Blog Couture

If you visit my blog now and then you probably know that I like to change up the look of my blog and lately it has been frequently. I have been working on my Photoshop skills which are mostly lacking. What I know is mostly from surfin the net and visiting some sites that offer free tutorials. I have created my own blog headers in the past and just kept my blog background neutral. Well, if you follow my blog (I know I only have 9 followers, hee hee) you know what a HUGE Rhonna Farrer fan I am! Surely you have clicked on the House of 3 Blinkie and if not then WHAT are you waiting for? Well, Rhonna, Heidi Swapp and Janet Hopkins have started up House of 3 and it's already a HUGE hit! It's on their site that I purchased (for just $3.00 total) the background and header you see now. I have bought many other items from them, brushes, hybrid printable kits and other background/headers. So, I will warn you know that my blog will change often. It's become an addiction of mine, like shoes, purses and scrap-ing supplies. LOL I was off today and had a second company come in to give me a bid on flooring, a third is coming tomorrow morning before I head off to work so I better get to bed! Hope your week started out well, ciao for now!

New Floors on the Horizon

Yeah! Hope your weekend is going well! Mine is a 3 day weekend as my customer HP is closed on Monday for Presidents day and since I'm officed at their location I took the day off too! Yeah! OK, so yesterday we went flooring shopping, we came home with lots of carpet samples and one sample of wood floor for my studio. I'm going with a dark distressed floor and I'm not talking laminate! I'm so excited, can you tell? OK, I'm off to do some shopping then when I get back we are going biking. MY DH and I got each other bikes for Valentines and so exercise is going to be a routine in my near future! Have a great Sunday! Ciao for now.

Happy Valentines Day

I hope you and yours have a wonderful day! Here is my sweet, wonderful, handsome, sexy Valentine! I love you Love Bug!

A nice surprise

My friend Rozette over at Scrapping Out Loud gifted me two awards, Yeah! My close friends know how addicted I've become to blogging and how excited I get when folks visit and leave comments. So, when Rozette told me she had something for me over at her blog I was super excited! So, what I'm supposed to do now is share 5 of my addictions with you then hand out the awards to 5 of my favorite bloggers. I hope you take the time to go visit Rozette and the other ladies I've listed below as they are all wonderful, creative and sweet ladies! Hope your week is going well, it's almost over! Yeah!

My Five Addictions

1. Blogging

2. Creating

3. Facebook - Silly but finding so many long lost friends!

4. Decorating my craft studio

5. Wii Animal Crossing City Folk - I know, nuts!

And the awards go to.....

Joan Ervin at Stamping with a Passion -Her work is incredible!

Rhonna Farrer at Rhonna Designs - She is a Digital Artist Master! I tell my husband she is a celebrity in the Digital Scrapbooking & Art World. You know, the Celine Dion of digital art, hee hee. Which he quickly responds with "You're a Crafting Dork"! My current blog header is one of her designs that you can get at House of 3.

Daniela Dobson of For the First Time - She makes incredible cards and shares photos of her sweet little boy!

Carol at Meadowsweet Days - Talented Wreath Maker -While visiting her check out her link to view her Conservatory, it's incredible!

Cindy at My Romantic Home - She has some awesome stuff to show you!

Metamorphosis Monday - Week Four

Welcome back to MM, I didn't participate last week but hated to not this week so I'm pulling more photos of my studio. For those of you who don't know, we had a tree fall on our home when Ike came to town. My Studio was one of the rooms that was affected by this and so a room that we had just completed is now in the process of being redone. ugh. OK, so this time around I used a lighter shade of pink on the walls and waiting on new carpet. I was off this past Friday and so I couldn't resist placing the desks back in so that I could decide the new layout. This also helped me judge where to hang some of the wall stuff. Please note I am NOT finished, there is still much to be done. I will be bringing back the chandelier and curtains but have decided to change out some of the wall decor. I have also opted out of displaying all my stamps as I did before, I just can't bring myself to putting it all back the same way. When this is all said and done I will have a slide for the before photos and the after photos. Till then here are some photos of the latest. When you are done looking be sure to click here so you can go visit Susan and see her before/after's as well as all the others playing along this week. Have a great Monday! P.S. You should be able to view the photos in a larger size if you click on them.

Media Cabinet turned Craft Storage

* Please excuse the concrete floors, carpet still to be installed.

Wanted to share with you a couple of photos of the new cabinet I bought at Pier 1 on Sunday. It was tucked away behind a bunch of other furniture pieces but I spotted it. And when I saw that it was on sale I gave it a second look. After all it was $100 off the original sale price, how could I not take a good look, right? It's meant to be a media cabinet, for me it will be craft storage. Well, as you can see I couldn't walk away from this deal so home it came with me. It has four shelves in it and so I plan on storing some of my card and envelopes along with some other items. My only concern was seeing the items that I will be storing. So, I bought some foam board today and I think I will paint it the pink that is found on my walls and then insert it from the inside. What is really neat is that the way it is made it allows for the foam board to sit snugly and so I can still open and close the door with ease. In one of the photos, I opened the door against the wall so you could see what it will look like. I will be sure to re post photos once I actually finish the project. So, this sweet black cabinet has found a new home! Ciao for now.