HELLO THERE!

WOW!  It has been a long time!  I was busy during the holidays and then when I got back from visiting family shortly after the new year (HAPPY NEW YEAR, btw!!), I've been busy with a few projects.

First I reorganized my crafty space.  I added a new book shelf with baskets and put my nestabilities and the like dies in binders along with clear stamps, too. Michael's had some good sales on their storage stuff as well.  I'm loving that carousel.  I got rid of quite a bit.... here is my improved crafty space:

I got all my 2013 photos saved to disc and uploaded to Costco where I have my pictures printed.

 

Then I bought some more 3 d-ring scrapbook albums and page protectors to actually put away the huge pile of pages I had stacked up.  I also did some rearranging and changed the location of the albums, so now they are much more accessible which will be easier to get completed pages put away and easier if someone wants to look at them. 

 This next one will be an ongoing big project, since I've been really bad about it:  getting the dates on the back of my photo prints and put into my cropper hopper boxes. I bought another one and they, too, will have a new home so that I can get to them more easily to get stuff put away.....  (not to mention easier to get out should we need to evacuate for fire- I live in So Cal and we need to do that sometimes, unfortunately).

 I also have been getting envelopes matched up with cards I've made.  I didn't take a picture and I'm too lazy to do so now, but there's hundreds of cards I need to get rid of. I donated a bunch even!  I'd love to sell them, but not sure the best way to go about that, so in the meantime..... they sit in bags.  Ugh. 

I did get this card made for my Brother In Law's birthday this month.  It was quick and easy (especially using that washi tape!), but I added some special touches:

 The beer stamp is SU!  I added dimensional glaze with a light sprinkle of glitter to the beer :)  Using a glue pen I embossed the frothy head with white embossing powder.  Happy Birthday sentiment is A|S and is embossed with black glitter ep.

Inside says: Cheers to you (also SU!)

WHEW!  I did check out a few of my fave blogs last week, quickly.  You know who you are.  I miss seeing the inspiration, but I do feel better getting things done besides sitting behind the computer.  I hope to catch up with you all soon!  HAPPY STAMPING AND SCRAPBOOKING!  :)