Apron Love...

So the other day I was making fresh raspberry cobbler in the kitchen and I realized I never did post a picture of the awesome apron Dana sent me! In fact, I've pretty much neglected to post any of the great things people have sent me in the last few months, though I'm making an effort to catch up on that. So... Here it is! My new apron! I LOVE it! And if you can't tell from my words just how excited I am about my new apron, let me show you...

It looks like this on one side, and the other side has an olive green and cream design. I wear the other side out most often, but for some reason (probably to match my white shirt) I was wearing this side out on the night we remembered to take pictures. And it can tie in the front or the back, and I do either, depending on the mood I'm in.

As I said before, I love my apron. I wear it frequently and I'm so glad that fall is here so I can start baking up a storm and wearing it all the time!! =D Thank you, Dana! Thank you! Thank you!

Holy RAKtastic, Batman!!

I just have to share this great RAK I got in the mail yesterday from Sandy! It is full of such fun goodies... I can't wait to play! (especially with that unmounted elephant stamp... you can't see it in the picture, but it is awesome!)

Vintage Valentines

A while back Andrea sent me these vintage style playing cards. Ever since, I have been trying to figure out what on earth to do with them. They'd be perfect for altering, but, well... I'm not much of an alter-er. So last night (in my CLEAN craftroom) I pulled them out and saw that there were four of them... perfect for a set of Valentines! I got out some lace from Freecycle (got this box a couple months back and hadn't really done anything with it... until now!) and some stamps, some $pot flowers and buttons. I like how these turned out! I don't really hand out valentines, so I'll probably put them up on Etsy. We'll see. In any event, it was a fun foray into the vintage world. I'm sure I'll be back for a visit.

I won!!

It's always exciting to win something. And this time I won a RAK from Julie, the Sweet Pea Diva herself! I don't win things very often, so when I checked her blog this morning I was pretty amazed to see my name as the winner. I was so amazed that I read all the comments just to make sure there wasn't another Elizabeth commenting that *really* won. Silly me! But no... it really was me! Yippeee!

PIF-ers

Goodies will go out soon to the next two players....

TAMARA and BETH!!

I got your packages all ready to go, so I hope you enjoy!! Thanks for playing!

Lately

There has been a serious dearth of postage from me lately. Sorry about that. I've been doing some scrapping, but haven't been in the mood to scan and stitch LO to get them posted. I finally scanned a bunch of stuff the other day, and I've worked on stitching a few one-page LO, but I haven't posted anything. Sorry. I'll get to that one of these days.

I have been taking pictures of my wee one. Target had flower headbands in the $pot (haha! looks like dollar-pot! Okay... I'm tired.), so I took a few fun pictures of her in that. Silly girl - I'd put it on and she got all cute and charming as if she KNEW I wanted adorable for the camera! I've even got a photo-less LO done for a picture of her in it, just waiting for me to print the picture. And best of all, most of the items for my LO were RAKs! (Random Acts of Kindness, for those not in the know...)

I joined a RAK group on 2ps and have been having fun sending off stuff for others to use that I didn't particularly care for. You know - the few papers out of the stack that weren't my style. Or the leftover embellishments from projects I'm finished with. The cool thing is that I've also been getting RAKs from people, so I'm getting new things to play with! YAY!

Mostly I've been working on stuff for my classes at the LSS, working on updating the blog for the LSS (but really... getting paid to combine my love for blogging with my love for scrapbooking?? It's great. Kind of like getting paid to combine my love of teaching with my love of scrapbooking, really....), attempting to clean up my craft room (unsuccessfully, I might add...), planning Protocol for Petra, and getting ready to go to Texas in a week. So things have been crazy. But I will post new things soon, I promise.