Corrosive Challenge #36 - No Cards!!

This is the 4th Post that I have put up tonight. All are posts for challenge cards or projects. Please make sure you scroll down to see my 2 Sketches 4 You card, my Moxie Fab card, and my BasicGrey Ooops card as well!! So this week, the Corrosive Challenge #36 is to not make a card. Well, that sounds pretty easy right!! I've had this idea sitting in my head for a while. I saw one a while ago but it was saved to my computer before it crashed and now I have no idea where I saw it. If anyone recognizes this project please leave me a link to the original creator so I can give credit and so that I can see that blog again...I remember it was filled with lovely things!! So, you are thinking, what's the big deal, it's a round card and doesn't even fit with the challenge.... well think again!! It isn't a card at all....or at least it isn't a traditional card.

See how it is really an old ribbon spool...that I have altered.

And look , there is the message...it unrolls from

the spool!! Cool hey!! I got stuck because I didn't know how I was going to get the strip of paper to stay in place when it is rolled up. I ended up usign a tiny piece of velcro!

So ladies....save your old ribbon spools! When I re-organized all my ribbons onto cardboard I did save the best spools so I can make a whole bunch of these!!!

Enjoy!!

Donelda

Stamps: Made of Snow, Mixed Messages, Guide Lines (all Papertrey Ink); Paper - River Rock, Bravo Burgandy (both Stampin' Up!) and a small scrap of linen green designer paper - for trees; Ink - Old Olive, Chocolate Chip (SU!); Other - old ribbon spool, white computer paper, white embossing powder, Chocolate Chip marker, Coluzzle, corner rounder, sponge.

2 Sketches 4 You - Nov. 28 Sketch and Giga Guide Lines

And look at this, another challenge card -- created, posted, and linked up to the challenge site before the deadline!! This makes 3 posts for this evening (and I'll be keeping them up all day Friday so make sure you SCROLL DOWN for my Moxie Fab Challenge card and my BasicGrey Oooops card!!!).

So this time it was the 2 Sketches 4 You challenge. I could see how my new Giga Guide Lines stamps could work with this layout so I went for it!! I also got the newish Enchanted Evening cardstock from Papertrey Ink just this week so I had to play with it too!!!

Supplies: all supplies are Papertrey Ink unless indicated: Stamps - Giga Guide Lines, Background Basics: Retro; Ink - Enchanted Evening; Paper - Enchanted Evening, Spring Rain, Whisper White (Stampin' Up!); Other - white satin ribbon, gel pen (Signo), dimensionals (SU!).

Just one more to upload....but then you've already seen that post :-) !

Donelda

Plum Crazy - Moxie Fab challenge

So you all know how bad I am at creating cards for challenges but then never getting them actually loaded up and posted to actually enter the challenge!! Well I'm trying to change all that!! Tonight I am loading up 2 posts, so that I can link to 2 challenges!! (hehehe, nope, this is one of 5 posts that I did tonight -- but then if you've gotten this far you've probably seen the 3 posts above this one. Keep scrolling, there is one more post after this one!!! ) This card is a Plum Crazy card created for the Plum Crazy card challenge over at Moxie Fab World. Obviously, we were to use the color of plum on our cards. I don't often use purples so I had to give this challenge a go.

I just received my Giga Guide Lines stamp set from Papertrey Ink and wanted to play!! I love these large images and this one looked like a frilly flower so I decided to stamp it in Plum Pudding and cut it out. I added it's mini match (from Guide Lines Two, also Papertrey Ink) stamped in Lavender Moon and adhered it on top with a dimensional. Then I added some Star Dust Stickles (Ranger) at spots to add some flowery shimmer!! I adhered my flower to a piece of Plum Pudding cardstock (Papertrey Ink) matted with Lavender Moon cardstock (Papertrey Ink) and adhered all this onto a white card base. I added the sentiment (from Damask Designs, also Papertrey Ink) using white embossing powder.

It turned out to be a real Clean and Simple card and certainly Plum Crazy!! I'm off to see all the other plumy offerings!!

Donelda

BasicGrey Challenge - but not really

Okay, here is my second post (wrong again, I was only going to do 2 challenges but I got started and couldn't stop. This is actually the last in a long list of 5 posts for this evening) ...but this is a bit of an oops. You see, when I saw the inspiration picture for the latest BasicGrey challenge I got really excited becuase I love red and brown together. And I remembered that I had stamped out these polka dots in red and brown and not used them for anything. So, I jumped right in and created this card. You can tell I've been watching a lot of Kristina Werner laterly ... there is even white stitching and look, I tried to write my own sentiment.... but my handwriting isn't nearly as great as hers!! Guess I'd better keep practicing.

Now for the oops ... just as I was loading up my photo to this blog post, I realized that there is not a stitch of BasicGrey product on this card!!! Sheesh!!! Can you believe it... obviously it won't qualify. Well, maybe I'll go try another one. I did just pick up some sheets of Indian Summer and it's got lots of red and brown in it!!!

Supplies: Stamps - Remember, Background Basics:Retro (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink), Chocolate chip (SU!); Paper - Whisper White, Chocolate Chip (SU!); Other - white gel pen (Signo), red crochet yarn, corner rounder, dimensional.

Well, off to try again!! LOL!!

Donelda

smARTworks - Chinese Inchies

If you've been on Susan's blog recently you would have seen this card posted there. This was a card I created using one of the new inchie stamp sets put out by smARTWorks. and you all know how much I love inchies ~ I couldn't resist getting at least one of their sets!! I would love them all....but one at a time!! I wanted to create an inchie card that is different that when I usually do with inchies...3 images in a row. So, I decided to use 2 of the more oriental images and add this cool chinese coin in the middle. I used my Copic markers to color in the images, drew a box around the orange mat, and added the sentiment to the designer paper. Do you have a favorite layout when you use inchies?? If you have a great one I'd love to see it, I need inspiration. Thanks for dropping in. Donelda

Embellish Magazine - Color Challenge

This was the challenge for the Dec. edition of

Embellish Magazine. Unfortunately the deadline was Sept but I just couldn't resist the colors... arn't they great!! I had to create something with them.

I love that curve in the Kraft carrdstock and the whole thing is attached to the Chocolate Chip card base with dimensionals. And I love the clean and simple look even thought it has lots of color!!

Supplies: Stamps - Birdie Fun (smARTworks); Paper - Tempting turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Kraft (Stampin' Up!), Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Chocolate Chip (SU!); Other - hemp, 1and 1/2" circle punch, dimensionals.

Enjoy your day!! Hope it's TWEET!!!

Donelda

Inspired by Lucy

So one of my favorite new blogs for inspiration is Lucy's! I just can't get enough of her stuff!!

I copied THESE cards (scroll down a bit on the post) but made a few changes. I used cork as my main layer, and instead of real buttons, I used a smARTworks stamp set. Cute hey!!

Supplies: Stamps-Of a Feather (Memory Box), Cute as... (smARTworks), Paper Tray (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Whisper White (Stampin' Up!), Spring Rain, Sweet Blush, Lemon Tart (Papertrey Ink) cork (unknown); Ink - Black (Ranger); Other - Labels Die 1 (Spellbinders), 1" circle punch, Cuttlebug (Provocraft).

Thanks for dropping by!!

Donelda

Vintage - Key

Every once in a while I like to try my hand at vintage stamping. I find it rather difficult and I'm rarely satisfied with the results. This project is "okay" with me and maybe my favorite vintage work I've done yet.

It all stared with that piece of scrap designer paper I had in my stash. I loved it but was not sure what I was going to do with it. Then I thought of this awesome key image by smARTworks and thought it might work. I started out by stamping it onto some vanilla cardstock and coloring it in. Then, I used my linen background stamp and sponged in spots using various distress inks. Next, I added the decorative top and bottom by using pieces of stamps. A little more distressing and a sentiment and the focal image was complete. I adhered it to the card with dimensionals.

Stamps - Lock and Key (smARTworks), Simple Little Things, Guide Lines 2, Wedding Day (Papertrey Ink); Linen background stamp (STampin' Up!); Ink - Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, Tea Dye (Ranger Distress Inks).

I am off to see if I can find some inspiration for vintage cards. Do you know of a blogger that tends to do "vintage" stuff?? If so, I'd love to get a link!! Thanks!!

Donelda

Saturday Spotlight - In So Many Words

This Saturday at Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential the challenge is to make a card using sentiments / wording as a main focus. Well, I saw THIS CARD by Shari Carroll a while ago and it was in my "I have to do this" file...so i knew exactly what I was going to do when I saw the challenge!! The sentiments come from a variety of Papertrey Ink stamp sets. Since they are clear, it makes them easy to use in this way. I simply took all of the sentiments I wanted to use and stuck them strategically to my grid acrylic block. Then I stamped with versamark and used white embossing powder on Kraft cardstock. The edges of the card were sponged with Walnut Stain ink (Ranger). I added a strip of holiday designer paper (Anna Griffin - my favorite holiday

paper) and some ribbon (Michaels). One tiny strip of green cardstock that matches the green ribbon and the card is finished!! I'm heading over to Saturday Spotlight to see all the other cards. I'm sure there is going to be a lot of inspiration!! Thanks for dropping in!! Note that this is my third post today ... so make sure you scroll down and see my Loonie Stamper's card and my halloween cards. Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge #64 - Copics

So I missed last week's Loonie Stampers Challenge, but I saw that Regan picked Copics so I wanted to jump in on this one! However, I have so very few Copics...only 20 plus the colorless blender. And, very few are shades of each other which is required to do all the great blending that the pros do!! That's because I bought a set ... If you are considering getting into Copics I would NOT recommend that you start with a set!! The problem is the smaller sets come with various colors but the brilliance of Copics is the blendability...but that is only possible if you have colors that are close in hue. Regardless, I do the best I can with what I have.

I decided to pull out Simple Little Things (anniversary set from Papertrey Ink, not available for purchase) and create a border with one of the circle stamps. I love this particular image and since I do have a few greens, figured I could do a little blending with those!! I started out by coloring the leaves Lemon Yellow, then adding about 3/4 of the Yellow Green, and finally justa small amoutn of Forest Green at the base. Then I blended with the Yellow Green and again with the Lemon Yellow. (Note- you can click on the picture to see it larger which will help seeing the blending). Finished off the rest of the image by adding Pink and more Yellow Green and Lemon Yellow.

Of course, I don't have any pink or green cardstock that matches these particular marker colors...but no fear, I just took some white cardstock and used my markers to get the right color!! I love doing that!!

I ended up with a long strip of the border and only used some of it so I cut out a few of the remaining circle images and crated a 3x3 card and a Scrapling card too. The sentiments are from Simple Little Things and Mixed Messages (both Papertrey Ink). I also used the dotted square border from Borders & Corners {square} also from Papertrey Ink.

Off to see what the Loonie Girls did with their Copics:

Dee, Wendy, Maria, Regan, Jewels, Char

Thanks for dropping in!

Donelda

Halloween Cards for 2009

Okay, so I love all those great Halloween stamps out there ... but I just don't make Halloween cards and I wouldn't do any home decore with them either ... so I've kept my stash rather limited. Just a few dollar stamps from Michaels is all I have. I do, however, like to make just 2 cards, for my boys (that's my husband and my son!). Because I don't have many Halloween stamps it forces me to be creative. This first card doesn't have any stamps on it!! The silhouettes are actually from a Halloween card my son received from his grandparents last year. I had saved it all this time :-) The ribbon is a sweet gift from Jessica (Hi Jessica!) that I have also had for a year...or maybe 2. The sentiment is from a package of stickers that came in that card from the grandparents - convenient! Just a bit of torn black paper at the top and we have a great halloween card. Next up is an image I got from a friend (by Doodle Factory). I colored it in with my Copic markers. When did green and purple become Halloween colors??? The papers are a gift from my friend Dawn (Hi Dawn if you are out there) - they are the Creative Memories Hallowen prints from last year! Very cool!! and the sentiment - well the 'happy' is from my Everyday Flexible Phrases set (retired from Stampin Up!) and the 'halloween' is made with Hero Arts alphabet stamps. A bit of creative cutting and another great halloween card. If you needed more inspiration, the Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential challenge site held a challenge a few weeks ago where Halloween cards were to be made without any Halloween stamps. You should see the great and creative cards, including my card HERE. So, if you don't have halloween stamps that doesn't mean you can't get creative!! Happy Halloween everyone! Donelda

Raspberry Fizz Ribbon

My co-worker gave me a present for my birthday a few years ago and it had this awesome ribbon tied around it. A number of months later, Papertrey Ink reseased the color Raspberry Fizz....and this ribbon was the exact same color!! I've been looking at it and wanting to do something with it...so I finally did.

I kept the card really Clean and Simple to show off that great ribbon.

Supplies: Stamps - Everyday Classics (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Raspberry Fizz (Papertrey Ink), Close to Cocoa, Basic Black (Stampin' Up!); Paper - Whisper White (Stampin' Up!); Other - Ribbon (from my friend).

Thanks for dropping in.

Donelda

Bold Bright Catterpillar

I found this awesome piece of polka dot scrap paper and then a piece of green cardstock that matched. I decided I wanted to work with some bold and bright colors so went to work creating a card.

As I was looking through my sets, I realized that I have not used this catterpillar yet and figured he would look great in bold colors! He is from the Pond Life (Papertrey Ink) set - there are some great images in that set!!

The rest of the card is stright forward!!

Thanks for dropping in for a visit!!

Donelda

Old Witches Shoes

For anyone who has followed my blog over the last few years, you'll have seen these before. They are not new, I made them in 2007!! However, my dh asked me to order my Splitcoaststampers Gallery by views and this was the item in my gallery that has had the most views, 12003 to be precise, althought I noticed that there were 5 views added while I was typing up this post!!! Ha, you can tell it is halloween.

The picture in my gallery is a better shot and actually has 4 shoes so if you want to take a peek you can see them HERE. The link to where I found the template is also there!!

Enjoy!

Donelda

BasicGrey Color Challenge - Color Combo 2

I love BasicGrey paper - so much so that I tend to buy it and never use it. It is just so pretty to look at that I find it hard to actually cut up!! I know that is silly and makes no sense so I am determined to start using it. (Trouble is, now I buy 2 sheets - one to keep and one to use - crazyness!). Anyway, I was glad to see the BasicGrey Challenge Blog up and running again because it will make me start using all my beautiful paper (well, the "use it" sheet anyway *wink*).

So this challenge is a color combination - a nice blue, red, green combo - pretty easy!! I started out making these great circle embellishments with a bunch of different papers in the colors for the challenge. I punched the more decorative paper with a 1 1/2" circle punch and cut a scallop circle with the darker/solid color using my Nestabilities. Then, I cut a 1/2" circle out of the darker/solid colors too. I piled these all up on top of each other and added a button witha hemp knot on it (tip - to get my buttons to lay flat on the embellishments, I tied the hemp into a knot and then added them to the buttons with a half glue dot). Finally, I added my curved sentiment over each circle. One of the reasons I love acrylic stamps is the ability to make straight sentiments curved!!!

Supplies: Stamps - Simple Little Things (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Jet Black (Ranger); Cardstock - Whisper White (Stampin' Up!); Designer Paper - Pomade from Eva collection, Henley, Long Underwear, and Vintage Tee all from Boxer collection, Make a Wish and Kazoo Blue both from Cupcake collection (all BasicGrey); Other - hemp, buttons.

Do you love BasicGrey paper as well?? Are you a horder like me?? If not, what is your secret to just using it all???

Thanks for dropping in!!

Donelda

CAS 38 - Ways to Use Brads - Holly Brads

The latest Clean and Simple challenge over at SCS is#38 and Jen asked us to pull out our brads or eyelets and use it on a card.

It was all a bit of an accident - just walked by this stamped image. You see, I had taken this stamp and made a bunch of impressions using Twinkling H2Os last year but didn't use them all. I keep all my Christmas stuff in a seperate box so when I walked by thinking about how I would ever create a CAS card using brads....I saw this image and instantly knew what I would do!!!

I cut the image out making sure to emphasize the curvy corners. Then I put brads in where the holly berries are at. I adhered it to the card with dimensionals. Then came the tricky part, where to put the sentiment!!?? It ended up bottom center of the image. A few rounded corners and the card was finished!!

Supplies: Stamps-Happiest of Holidays (retired Stampin' Up!), Faux Ribbon (Papertrey Ink); Ink - Pure Poppy (Papertrey Ink); Paper - Whisper White (Stampin' Up!); Other - Twinkling H20, paint brush, brads (Making Memories, I think), dimensionals, corner rounder.

Thanks for dropping in to my blog. Your comments matter !! :-)

Donelda

Happy Birthday Susan!!

Today is Susan Trask's Birthday - she is the owner of smARTworks stamps, a great little rubber stamp company that I happen to know *wink, wink*. Dina, our Design Team Leader, was on the ball and asked us to all create birthday cards for Susan to mail to her and post on her special day! This is exactly why Dina is our "leader" - she is good at getting us together!! Here is the card I created. It is not very original as many of you probably saw this one done by Jennifer McGuire. When I saw it I knew I

wanted to try out my Copic markers using one of the many great butterfly images by smARTworks. Unfortunately, I am rather limited in the Copics that I own (only 22 at this time) so I had to be rather creative at getting the rainbow effect! And I never use so much bling on one card...but for Susan, I went all out!! Supplies: Stamps-BF-04 Sm Trio, WD-183 Great B-day (both smARTworks); Paper - Whisper White (Stampin' Up!); Ink - Brilliance Graphite Black (Tsukinek0); Other - alcohol markers (Copic), rhinstones (various sizes from Dollar store), corner rounder. Make sure you stop in to see the birthday cards that the other Design Team members created too!! Dina, Donna, Giovana, Trish, Peggy (on Dina's). And don't forget about our October Challege over on the smART Word Challenge blog - this month's inspiration word is FALL - prizes are up for grabs for cards posted by Oct 27th :-) I hope you enjoy your day Susan!! Donelda

Cute Buttons....any color you like!!

Here it is again, this cute little stamp set by smARTworks . It might just be my new favorite set!!

I like it because you can create any color button you want!! I have a bunch of ideas to use with those buttons, but I just started out with a rainbow of colors for starters!!

Supplies: stamps-cute as (smARTworks) second card sentiment - Limitless Lables (Papertrey Ink) third card sentiment - Mixed Messages (Papertrey Ink); Paper - various pieces of scrap and Whisper White.

Thanks for dropping in!!

Donelda

smART Word Challenge Oct. - FALL

If you've been following along on my blog you might have already heard that the smARTworks Design Team launched a new challenge blog called the smART Word Challenge blog. Each month there will be one word to be used as inspiration in creating. Once you have a card, just go to the original word post and link your card up with Mr. Linky! This month's word is "FALL" and here is my card. I started out by stamping these awesome leaves onto a piece of white cardstock. Then, using my newly purchased refills and an aqua painter I added various colors all over the page until I got the colors the way I liked them. Next, I stamped and cut out more leaves and colored them in with more colors. I then created my own text paper...it was easy, I just downloaded a bit of Wuthering Heights from an e-book, adjusted the text and color (brown) to what I wanted, and then printed it off. I adhered the leaves and tag with dimensionals. Finally, I adhered all this onto a Chocolate Chip card base and finished off the card with some home-made photo corners. I love all these colors in this card. Some of my favorite colors to use when creating!! You still have time to add your card in for the prizes that are up for grabs. Just create a card based on the smART Word FALL??? Why not??!! Get going !! We'd love to have you join us. For more details, check out the smART Word Challenge Blog. Hope you are having a great FALL (actually, we moved directly from Summer into Winter....as we have already had lots of snow!! sheesh!!). Supplies: Stamps - FL-26 (leaves), WD-54 (partial sentiment) (both from smARTworks); Paper - Chocolate Chip, Whisper White (Stampin Up!) home-made text paper; Ink - Summer Sun, Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral, Really Rust, Pumpkin Pie (Stampin' Up!); Other - oval, scallop oval, and tag trio nestabilities (Spellbinders), aqua painter, printer, sponge, brown hemp, dimensionals. Thanks for dropping in. I'm off to see all the FALL entries. Donelda

Feathers

I love using real feathers on my cards. I was using a sentiment from the Birds of a Feather set (Papertrey Ink) the other day and realized that I had yet to use the bird nest in the set, even though it is one of my favorite images in the set. So I decided to pull it out and ink it up, finally.

Because it is a bird nest, I also decided to use some feathers on the card as my embellishment! I love using feathers as they are 'different' and can be soft like here or masculine like on THIS card.

For the blue panel I used my ruler and a Versamark pen and drew versamark lines. It gives a nice subtle background that doesn't take away from the more important stuff on the card.

Don't you just love that bird nest and those sweet little eggs in it!!

Thanks for dropping in! Your comments mean a lot to me!! Feel free to leave some :D

Donelda

smARTworks - One Layer Addy Keeper

So the Clean and Simple challenge #37 over at SCS was to make a sympathy card.

This card is so simple!! It is one large image from smARTworks. It is supposed to be an "Addy Keeper" - you know, to stamp on envelopes to write an address in. But when I saw the 3 in THIS SET, I just knew they would be great on cards too!! (see, some days I can think outside the box!!).

I simply stamped it onto a white card base and painted it in using a paint brush and my Stampin' Up! ink pads and re-inkers (mostly used River Rock, Old Olive, and some Cameo Coral for hte ribbon).

Thanks for dropping in!!

Donelda

Saturday Spotlight - Make a Scene

This week's challenge from the Saturday Spotlight blog was to Make a Scene. I pulled out one of my favorite sets, Of a Feather by Memory Box and got to work. I stamped the various trees onto a piece of white cardstock. Then I ripped some green scrap designer paper and added it as hills. I re-stamped the trunks over top of the hills. Then I added the sun and birds. I colored in the trees and red birds with Copic markers. The sky is colored with my chalks - haven't pulled them out for a long time. Might have to challenge myself to that next week!! I stamped the sentiment (Beyond Basic Borders by Papertrey Ink) and colored it with the same chalk but it looked so lonely and boring. So, I added one of the red birds to the letter 'o' and I boxed it in. Of course I had to go back and add a box around the main image!!! Off to see all the other 'scenes' that were created for this challenge. Thanks for dropping in! Donelda

Loonie Stamper's Challenge - #62 - Holiday Elf

So Jewels picked some great colors and requested a Christmas theme project or card. That is great becuase I am in the middle of creation tons of Christmas cards. I haven't shown you any because I am saving them up for the weeks leading up to Christmas.

So, these are great colors: Dark Chocolate, Aqua Mist and I picked White to go with it.

I decided to go a bit of a different route and printed off one of Dustin Pike's Freebies - this cute little elf. Then I did some paper piecing with Aqua Mist paper and colored his shoes and face with Copic markers. For the white edging on his had and sleeves I used some dimensional fabric paint. Then I was stuck as to what to do for his big moustache and eyebrows. In the end, I used a light grey Prismacolor marker and also outlined him with the same.

For the rest of hte card I added some Dark Chocolate Bitty Dots paper, a bit of Aqua Mist twill (I am loving the PTI twill as it cuts so clean!!) and a holiday sentiment (from Everyday Classics, PTI).

Check out the Loonie Girl's work:

Jewels, Dee, Char, Regan, Wendy, Maria

How are you doing with your Christmas cards??

Thanks for dropping in this evening and for your comments, they mean a lot to me!!

Donelda

Organization???

So my friend Susan was bragging about how organized her crafting room was. Well, I can show her pictures that would make her skin crawl...so I took some just for a good laugh!! On the top right is my stamp organization!! Hahaha - this is where I put my unmounted stamps....just in some photo boxes. Ooops, look that one on top just might fall off!! hehehe. Then there is my carry-all bag. I have all my scissors, rulers, hobby blades, brushes, sponges, dimensionals, adhesies, and everything else you might need all jammed in here. It sits on the top right side of my desk in easy reaching distance!! :-)

This next photo shows some of my inks...some Hero Arts, Papertrey Ink, all my blacks, versamark, cubes from Stampin' Up, Ranger distress inks (see them under the Hero Arts Color Box inks) and any other "odd" stamp pads go in this drawer. And here is the jar I put my bits and pieces of ribbon in -- Hahahaha, like I'd ever be able to find anything in there!!

Now, of course I only took photos of the most unorganized areas of my stamping room just to get Susan's skin crawling (her OCD is probably kicking in right now and she is purchasing her plane ticket to come here and help me organize my space - LOL). But truth be told, there are quite a few "organized" areas in my room too -- but they weren't nearly as much fun to show you !! Hahahaha!!

Remember - not only do you not need all the latest products to make great cards, I am convinced that you also don't really need to be all that organized!! Like Susan said "Stuff isn't nearly as important as imagination and determination" and I'd like to add that being organized isn't all that important either!!

Enjoy my mess!! It makes me very, very happy!!

Thanks for dropping in and I hope you had a great chuckle (Sue, I can here you laughing from here!! )

Donelda