New Blog

Well...we are in San Pedro, California now and slowly trying to get used to life here. I decided before moving that I wanted to start a new blog and have a fresh start. This was my first blog and I have learned much and I know there is still much more to learn. Thank you to all of you who stopped by. You can check me out now at Kitschy Details where I hope to continue my crafting endeavors.

Love to all!

dre

What I've been into and the crafty going ons

Ok...where to start? I feel rushed about this particular post because after the 31st we will no longer have internet service in our home  = (   Looooooooooong story......so needless to say I want to get this post in because I don't know when the next one will come!

So, I will start with what has been plaguing my mind this past week....LOST! I am a huge geek about this show so I was really sad that we had finally reached the end last Sunday. We went to a fun party at a friend's house and her whole family was really into it. We had a blast! They even put Dharma stuff all over everything.

Since that night DH and I have been having lots of discussion and lots of reading on my favorite LOST blog DarkUFO. Check out Vozzek69's thoughts on the finale because they really are interesting. I will say that when I first watched the show I was not happy with the ending because I felt cheated out of some big questions not being answered. After reading Vozzek's thoughts I think we will rewatch the ending and see if it makes more sense and sits a little better with me. On another note, ABC store has released these awesome prints by Ty Mattson. I MUST own at least ONE of these!

 

I think I mentioned earlier that I bought a sewing machine finally and I've never sewn in my life. I have been having a lot of fun with it! I am so glad to finally start sewing. It has always been something I've wanted to do. So I bought two books that are full of super cute beginner projects.

I plan on making this reversible tote bag using these two fabrics

A dress using this reproduction feedsack print

And cuffs and who knows what else with these cuties!

I am ashamed to admit that moving next month has not slowed me down from buying vintage home decor. Thanks to a post from Elsie Flannigan's site, I am now into vintage paint by number paintings. I went shopping on Etsy and found these two salty pirates. 

 
I immediately thought of the 2005 artwork that Disneyland used to celebrate their 50 year anniversary. I told DH that I HAD to buy these two scalawags as a present for the boys' new room.

I also could not resist these kitschy lamb. Isn't he so sweet???

 

I also have not had enough of Emily Martin's work so I am planning on buying this little girl. It reminds me of my favorite movie, Amelie!

Ok....so now onto what I've been doing in my craft room on actually on the floor which for some reason is my new favorite place to scrap....go figure!

 

 I especially love the last one because I just ADORE that dress! 


Well, hopefully I will be able to blog again before we leave Virginia. I cannot believe it is about time to pack up everything and make our way to the West Coast to sunny Los Angeles! We still don't even know exactly where we are going to live! Don't you love the military!  I did just buy an iPhone which will be in my hands sometime next week and so maybe then I can do some blogging. 


Have a great Memorial Day weekend....we will be camping and going to Water Country, USA!


xoxo









 

Just a tad behind....but at least my butt looks great!

Ok yeah....I really need to get better about blogging especially since our internet service is going to be cut at the end of the month (Fort Belvoir Starbucks with the laptop and an impatient 2.5 year old, here I come!) and moving at the end of June. I have been crafting and even broke out with the new sewing machine (LOVE IT!) but need to get the pics up ASAP!

I thought I would go back as promised and at least show some pictures from my amazing Mother's Day weekend. Like I said before (sorry if this sounds soo familiar...see following post) we went camping in a cabin near Gettysburg, PA and we did a lot of antique shopping. I tried to get the cutest vintage stuff I could but I had no luck in the clothes department. Turns out that antique malls don't do vintage clothing so much = (

Me in front of our cabin, sporting that new haircut I didn't know how I ever lived without!

I did manage to find this sweet hat that turned out to NOT be vintage but it definitely is vintage inspired!

I picked where we ate lunch so I wanted to give the local businesses our support. We ate at this super cute old fashioned ice cream shoppe. 

 They had the best greasy food and their ice cream flavors were awesome! 

My Achilles' heel are chocolate shakes but if you look closely in this picture you might see someone else trying to reach for it as well: 

Me and S! I love him soo much.

On our last day we went to Oxford, PA and did more antiquing and then we discovered this which made the boys soooo happy!

Before we left we stopped at The Sub Stop and ate THE BEST sub sandwiches EVER! Never had anything as good as that! We had a little picnic outside so the boys could get as loud and messy as they wanted = )

Well, I hope to have some more pics of stuff I've been doing lately. I have to admit it hasn't been much with the move coming. Just glad to at least get this out on the blogosphere!

Happy Hump Day!

xoxo

dre

Playing catch up!

I sure have been busy these last few weeks and I have missed blogging! I had planned to do it last week to show some of what I did at the National Scrapbooking Day crop I went to but then life of course happened and I didn't get around to it. I also promised I would show off my new 'do and so without further ado' (hehe) here it is:

I really feel like myself since I got it chopped. Even DH thinks I am a new woman! If you have always wanted to take the plunge with a really short haircut then I would definitely research haircuts with your face shape online, print out some pictures, and take them to a trusted hair tech. I love mine! I think I hugged her when I saw how it looked in the mirror...she was a little scared after that  =)

I loved National Scrapbooking Day this year. I wrote down the laundry list of challenges that Studio Calico was listing and I only managed to do two of them = (    Of course that's because I was busy doing lots of shopping at Scrapdoodles and I had the pleasure of meeting Frisk-a-teer, Wendy Jo (who is a RIOT!) and I won a new Friskar cutter. I hugged her too when I won it! Check it out on the Friskar blog here.

Here are the projects I did:

 This is my take on Davinie's card challenge

 This layout was inspired by a layout featured in May's Scrapbooking Trends mag.

 I did a two page layout that was from Stephanie Howell's challenge but I didn't have good lighting this afternoon so I will post it later! 

I had a blast this Mother's Day weekend. First on Friday evening we went to the Bible Study/Ballroom Dancing class we have been attending for about 6 weeks now. We learned to do the Foxtrot! Let me tell you that it is not as easy as it looks! Then we left on Saturday afternoon for Gettysburg, PA and went camping in a one room cabin. We spent the night eating steaks cooked by DH on the grill and sat by the campfire. 

  I bought some cupcakes from the commissary and they were a big hit with my two boys! 

The next morning my allergies, which had flared up before we left, were doing better thanks to the Neti Pot so I felt great on Mother's Day. We did some shopping and ended up seeing Iron Man 2, which according to a dear friend's daughter, is what all the cool mom's were seeing for Mother's Day. I think she was working her mom over to see it too...what do you think??

 My gorgeous boys and I in front of our cabin on Mother's Day!

I also did TONS of antique shopping while camping. Did you know that New Oxford is the antique capital for central Pennsylvania? How fortunate that I was like 15 minutes away! I will devote an entire post this week with the wonderful things I bought. I want to go back before we move to pick up a few more treasures. Thank the Lord that my husband loves old stuff almost as much as I do!  

Here is my Thank You card to my husband that I made in the cabin!

Speaking of which, today, I am SO happy to be celebrating 8 years with my wonderful husband. I love him more and more every day and he is such a blessing to me from the Lord. Thank you, God, for loving me so much that you sent a man that could be my perfect match!

Have a fantastic day y'all!

xoxo

A Quick Hump Day Update

I really had a great weekend. I got a super short hair cut that I just LOVE...pics will come soon. Got to hang out with some girlfriends and scrap. We had some really good Thai tea with what I thought were blueberries but were actually black tapioca pearls. Yummy! Here are the layouts I completed:

However this week has not been good so far. I came down with the stomach flu on Monday night and hardly slept. Note: Do not watch "The Fly" if it is on late night cable when you are fighting the urge to vomit! Yesterday was a total wash. I spent 80% of the entire day on the couch or in the bathroom. On a good note my jeans are feeling loose today! Now my youngest appears to have caught the bug and after talking to DH this morning it sounds like he's got it too! All before I go away tomorrow for the Fort Belvoir PWOC Spring Retreat. I think everyone got sick right before I left last year too. Yeeeesh! 


To help celebrate feeling better I went online today and bought these beauties on Etsy. I think my new thing for vintage circus items was in the back of my head! What do you think?

Trapeze Lovelies from mammaslittlebabies

50's Summer Circus Dress by eyelovethat

I also was planning ahead for next Christmas and went to Bake It Pretty and bought this whimsical Christmas Vintage Village cupcake decoration set. They have lots of themed decoration kits for cupcakes so check them out!

 

I cannot wait to get these goodies in the mail. Also next week is the reveal for the May Studio Calico kits so that's even more goodness coming soon! I love getting mail like that.

Hope all of you are healthy and Happy Hump Day!

xoxo

A Happy Wednesday

Last week I think I was too ambitious to think I would be able to blog a week about Savannah. It was just another crazy week! DH's job has been keeping him busier than usual even though we are leaving soon for California. I am still busy with all of my commitments and of course being mom! I will post again about my trip to Savannah and my favorite part of all....the shopping! 

Scrapdoodles hosted a class with Claudine Hellmuth last Saturday and let me just say.....she rocks! Her paints and products rock! I learned so many new techniques and I am so excited to start incorporating them into my crafting! Thank you Scrapdoodles for having her!

I am so glad that I signed up for the Sketchbook class by Kelly Purkey because it gave me so much needed inspiration for my scrapping. Here is a layout I did using Nicole Samuel's take of Day 2 sketch:

I love how the banners weave around the photo. I would never have thought of doing that! I also had fun added cellophane to the back of those super cute K& Company photo frames and using it for my title block. I can't wait to go back upstairs and do more!

As I mentioned in my last post I got a really boost from poking my nose in the ShopSCAD store and I saw an idea that I wanted to incorporate for home decor in my own house. Here's what I made:

This just makes me smile so much. I want to do more of these in different styles and give them to friends before we move. I intentionally put three eggs in my bird's nest because we are playing around with when to try for our third chick-a-dee. I hope soon because the baby is almost out of diapers. Don't want to get too spoiled do I????

I also saw on SC's blog the challenge for the home decor. So while I was at the thrift store I saw this super ugly Christmas corkboard that was just screaming, "Make me over please!" It was only a dollar so I grabbed it and went to work on it. 

 

 I am so happy with the colors. I think that blue is personally my favorite. I also got a chance to dip into my stash and use those Sassafrass flowers from last year. I loved that line and I swore I would use those flowers right away but never did! I also got to use the Prima centers from this month's kit the big flower. I hung it in my 2nd floor hallway and it makes me smile when I pass it. I don't usually like the stuff I make but this time I am satisfied! DH liked it too!

Well, that's all for now!

Happy Humpday!

xoxo

Welcome to Savannah Part One....SCAD

 If you have ever visited Savannah then you know that besides the Southern Gothic feel of the place, like 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil', there is a highly artistic side to the city thanks to Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).  The university was founded in 1978 and has become one of the top 25 schools to attend for the arts.

The entire university is sprinkled throughout the historic district of Savannah and they have done an excellent job of  preserving the charm of Savannah while making it a functional, creative place for the students. While you walk through the many squares you can find students painting or drawing. There is a lot of emerging talent!

There is also a store called ShopSCAD where current students and alumni can sell their wares. I wish I had pictures inside the store because it is AMAZING but they don't allow photography = (     But at least here is the front! Good news is that you can shop online here. One of the first artists I discovered in that store was Tiffani Taylor. She does pottery, paintings, and also stationary. Here are some examples of her work:

 
Some of the most amazing jewelry artists can be found at ShopSCAD. Two of my  favorites are Megan Clark and Halligan Norris.

Here is some of Megan

Here is some of Halligan:

 

Definitely check out the store. This is just a sampling of the many talented artists featured at the store. 

Well, I hope that this has whetted your appetite for more Savannah. I am so glad that such an amazing school like SCAD is in that wonderful city. If you ever visit there you will be inspired by the young artists there!

xoxo