Updates and goings on as requested!

I had several emails asking for more pictures of the owl.I took the first set at like 10pm at night and the lighting in the scraproom is poor, so hope these are better in the day light. The great thing about the album is the front cover owl is raised, so after painting the cover and it dried I took some sandpaper to it and it removed the top layer of paint leaving the rest in the deeper areas of the owl.I then used some colored pencil to fill in the eyes, feathers,beak and eyebrows. To finish I used 3 coats of matte mod podge. To make it quick inside I just painted instead of papering the whole thing, as I am currently doing with my cupcake album( see below). Way below.

Some of you may remember my friend who visited me from Maryland;she blew out her knee at the Donna Summer concert.

Well she has had sugery and is recooperating at home. She wanted to duplicate this and see a picture so here it is!

This is a frame from Ikea and basically pretty simple inside. I used Heidi Swapp's worldtraveler line, mostly the map paper and tore it, distressed it, inked it and pieced it into the frame. I added some pictures of my husband and I over  the last 27 years we have known each other, and there you have it. OH, and totally copied Tim Holtz's heart and wings up at the top.

I also recently made this, which is still a work in progress because the contents keep setling to the bottom of the jar. In any case I have seen on several decorating shows the idea of displaying treasures, so when I was redecorating our room I thought I would use this idea to get our 27 years of memories out of the shoe box and up on display. This jar is now what I see every morning and every night . It is filled with concert tickets, great america pictures, ski lift tickets and the most special of all, the letters my then boyfriend wrote to me throughtout the 4 years he was away at college. Think about that for a minute. If you were at school now would you have those from your boyfriend? In his handwriting? With his litle hockey stick drawings? Maybe not, in this techno age you would probably have texts and emails. So I really love looking at that jar and remembering those youthful years and the love that is shared in those pages.

What am I working on now? Well as usual I have several things in the hopper. I don't have  a very long attention span, my mind is always going to the next thing. That is how I scrapbook as well. Right now I have a table outside the scraproom with all the projects I have started and layed out to get done. I am also still decorating for Halloween. Yesterday I got Tim Holtz's new spider web mask and had to try that out immeadiatley. Here is the result. The mirror is from Ikea.

Have you heard of Matthew Mead? www.matthewmeadstyle.com I just bougt his Halloween book and he is the reason I cannot focus on scrapbooking! Every idea in his book is fabulous! When I saw his version of the witch wardrobe hanging on the wall I went nuts! So the following is my updated version of his wall hanging. If I had that cool of a wall hanging I would hang mine as well, but for now I've added my Elphaba stuff and I am going to redo the keys tag to say Oz ..... get it?

Other than the cupcake book I need to rescrap this picture. The layout doesn't do it justice. I did his make up for this, and frankly it is Darn good! This was taken when he was in 3rd grade and now he is in 7th. There is way cooler stuff out there for this than what was available back then.
 

And lastly, the cupcake in progress. Hopefully by next week I will be able to show you my coffee cup album and some other projects from Wilna's class at sistv cupcakes and coffee. My computer died without a back up hard drive in the middle of her class, so i am playing catch up this weekend. That was the cutest class ever. Next week look for some hopefully great photos since I will be taking the online photo class from Courtney DeLaura  from sistv!