Scrapbooking Armoir for Sale

A work center built by my husband out of oak - it is currently unstained. Two piece unit: top unit is 23" deep with four shelves. Inside shelves are adjustable to any height. Shelves on right side of door to hold craft punches or other items, dowels can be used for ribbon spools. Pull out work table can be put away with your project/scrapbook left as is until you can return to it - 40" wide and 24" deep.

Bottom unit of armoire has side doors that retract into unit. This unit is a closed floor style. As you can see the bottom is raised off the floor. Price starts at $1200 for unstained armoire, without bottom drawers. It also shows a separate set of drawers that is optional to purchase for $600, unstained. It has 16 drawers to hold 12 x 12 papers/scrapbooks/tools - sizes range from 1" to 5" deep. Can stain for additional fee if requested.

Overall unit dimensions 48" wide, 24" deep, 68" tall with top and bottom sections for easy moving.

Please contact me if you have any questions or are interested. Live in Minnesota and may be willing to deliver depending on your location, or possibly meet halfway, etc.



This is my armoire where I work on my crafts. I love it because I don't have a separate room to do my crafting, so this looks beautiful near my dining room when not in use. I can also leave my works in progress on the pull out worktable and not disturb anything when I need to put it away.

This is the open floor style bottom. As you can see, I have wheeled units I can roll in & out when I'm crafting. This style starts at $1000 unfinished and $1400 stained.

The L Letterpress Tool Kit Giveaway!

The L Letterpress Tool Kit Giveaway!

This is one of the coolest new tools I have seen in a while! The concept is not new (in fact, letterpress is an old art) but it is so cool to see it back in a smaller, more user friendly format! Go and enter to win one of these great tools!

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Girlfriends!

Check out the cute "girlfriends" you can make at the CM blog! Go to this link to see both traditional (using paper & punches) and digital versions. Cute, cute, cute!!

http://blogs.creativememories.com/ideas/2009/11/make-friends-with-cm-no-literally-.html

New Laptop

My new Gateway NV7802u laptop...woohoo! So far I love it!! 17.2" screen looks great. Windows 7.0 is taking a little time to adjust to. Can't wait to start doing some digital scrapbooking with my Storybook Creator Plus 3.0 software from Creative Memories on here!!

The Gypsy 24-hour Design Challenge Project by K Wiggins

The Gypsy 24-hour Design Challenge Project by K Wiggins

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Check out this awesome layout using the new Gypsy from Cricut and the Life's A Beach cartridge. What an inspiring and fun layout!! You can vote for her to win the challenge by clicking on the link above.

These are a couple more of the make and takes we did at Scrapfest this year. The first one is a container to hold treats/candy inside. The bottom one was made at the Hero Arts booth.

Make & takes at Scrapfest

I'm finally getting to another post from Scrapfest. These are two of the 15 free make & takes we did this year at the various booths. Most of these projects only took a few minutes to do. I will post more of my samples in the coming days.

Scrapfest 2009 at MOA

Yes, I'm still here! It has been far too long since I have posted anything. I went to Scrapfest at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN for the first time this year and had a blast! My sister and I were able to make 15 of 33 free make & takes on Saturday. Next year we hope to be able to attend Friday and Sunday as well. Some of the lines were definitely a long wait, but we had fun and tried some products we hadn't used before. I definitely recommend going next year if you are able!

Scrapbooking Armoire For Sale

A work center built by my husband out of oak - it is currently unstained. Two piece unit: top unit is 23" deep with four shelves. Inside shelves are adjustable to any height. Shelves on right side of door to hold craft punches or other items, dowels can be used for ribbon spools. Pull out work table can be put away with your project/scrapbook left as is until you can return to it - 40" wide and 24" deep.

Bottom unit of armoire has side doors that retract into unit. It also contains a separate set of drawers that is optional to purchase for $600. It has 16 drawers to hold 12 x 12 papers/scrapbooks/tools - sizes range from 1" to 5" deep.

Overall unit dimensions 48" wide, 24" deep, 68" tall with top and bottom sections for easy moving. Price starts at $1400 for unstained unit without bottom drawer set. Can stain for additional fee if requested.

Please contact me if you have any questions or are interested. Live in Minnesota and may be willing to deliver depending on your location, or possibly meet halfway, etc.

April is half over already?

Wow time flies by fast these days. I definitely see the challenges in blogging now that I have one of my own. There never seems to be enough time in the day to accomplish everything you want to do, including posting new entries to your blog. I had hoped to stay on top of this a little better, but I will try to be more diligent.

I do have some photos of a new scrapbooking armoire I will be posting very soon. My husband built it and it will be for sale. Pictures and info will be posted sometime this week.

Thanks for checking out my blog!

Strange Brew

These are two of my guy friends clowning around at a brewery tour. They both love being funny and they both love beer. I used the All Mixed Up Cricut cartridge for the title on this page. The patterned sheet came from a discontinued Creative Memories paper pack called Asian Miyabi...I liked the way it worked with the rest of the layout.

Colorized Heritage Photo

This is another photo of my great-grandparents on my maternal side. It was hand-colored at some point, probably not professionally done. Still, it is a neat candid picture of them. My grandmother, who is now 92, still remember the day they took this photo while visiting family in Washington state many years ago.

I used a fancy gold, embossed sheet of paper that I had been saving for some time on this layout. My Cricut was used to make the dual pink flower design at the bottom right, using the Home Accents Solutions cartridge. I also added a couple fabric brads at the top.

Thommes' 50th Anniversary

This was the photo taken for my great-grandparents 50th Anniversary. I am proud to say both sets of great-grandparents on my maternal side made this milestone celebration. It certainly doesn't seem to be the norm anymore, although there are rare occasions that it happens.

I used my Cricut for the lettering and stamped the word "celebrate". I really like the fancy metal embellishments in the corners. I saved these for a long time until I had that special photo that was just right to use them.

More Family Heritage Layouts - The Sisters

Here are a couple more layouts I did for my family heritage album. They are photos of my grandmother with her sisters. I love these old pictures. It is so neat to see the hairstyles and clothing, and in my particular case the extreme age differences between the siblings. My grandmother was the 17th of 18 children, so she is the youngest in both layouts.

111 of My Favorite Movies

This is a list (not complete in any way) of some of my most favorite movies. You know the ones. You will watch them every time they are on TV and you never get sick of watching them again. As I first mentioned, this is not a complete list. In fact, I may find myself adding to this list as I think of more great movies. There are many movies I have seen and liked, but these ones stand out for me. Some are Oscar winning/nominated films, others may have received two thumbs down from critics, if they were even noticed at all, but they entertain me and I enjoy watching them. Hope you enjoy reading my list.

Air America (1990)
Air Force One (1997)
Airplane! (1980)
American Grafitti (1973)
The American President (1995)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Back to the Future (1985)
Bad Boys (1995)
Bad Boys II (2003)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Bettlejuice (1988)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Big Daddy (1999)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Blast from the Past (1999)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Bring It On (2000)
Broken Arrow (1996)
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Cocktail (1988)
Con Air (1997)
Dante's Peak (1997)
Die Another Day (2002)
Die Hard (1988)
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Disclosure (1994)
Doc Hollywood (1991)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
E.T. (1982)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
50 First Dates (2004)
Fire Down Below (1997)
Footloose (1984)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Ghost (1990)
Golden Eye (1997)
Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Grease (1978)
Guarding Tess (1994)
Happy Gilmore (1996)
Hope Floats (1998)
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
Independence Day (1996)
The Italian Job (2003)
Jurassic Park (1993)
The Karate Kid (1984)
The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)
Kate & Leopold (2001)
Legends of the Fall (1994)
The Living Daylights (1987)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001, 2002, 2003)
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Message in a Bottle (1999)
Michael (1996)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns (2001)
Murphy's Romance (1985)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Mystic Pizza (1988)
National Treasure (2004)
The Net (1995)
No Way Out (1987)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Panic Room (2002)
Pirates of the Carribean Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Pirates of the Carribean Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Poltergeist (1982)
The Presidio (1988)
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Pretty Woman (1990)
Rain Man (1988)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Real Genius (1985)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Risky Business (1983)
Rear Window (1954)
Road House (1989)
Sahara (2005)
The Saint (1997)
The Secret of My Success (1987)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
The Sound of Music (1965)
Stripes (1981)
Sweet Home Alabama (2002)
Swordfish (2001)
Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)
Tin Cup (1996)
Top Gun (1986)
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Under Siege (1992)
Walking Tall (2004)
The Wedding Planner (2001)
West Side Story (1961)
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
When Harry Met Sally (1981)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Wild Hogs (2007)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Working Girl (1988)
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)

Shanty Town page

This is a layout I worked on over the weekend. I used the Cricut Printing Press cartridge for the title and other lettering. For this Jaycee project we camped out overnight in a mock shanty town to collect donations of food and clothing for the local area. We built our "headquarters" from wooden pallets that were lined with cardboard. This was done the weekend of Thanksgiving and it was actually pretty chilly out, despite the lack of snow...probably in the 30's.

Laff Olympics

This is a two-page spread I did for an event back in 2000. Teams did various relays and races. It was a cool September morning, but it was a fun time!

The title was made using Cricut's All Mixed Up cartridge

Weekend Accomplishments

Here are a few pages I finished over the weekend. This is another big book project I have started to highlight my 13+ years as a Jaycee. The organization has been a great influence in my life and I strongly encourage any men & women ages 18-40 to join their local chapter. If you don't have a chapter one can be started in your area with enough interest. The people in this organization are like my second family, and the skills I have learned have made me a better person.

For the first layout, "#1 Chapter, I used my Cricut and the Mini Monograms cartridge for the scalloped layers, Street Signs for #1 and the sub-title "in Minnesota", and I used Stone Script for the word "Chapter" and "2006".

The second layout used Going Places cartridge for the arrow and couple, and Alphalicious for the title. I like the way both of these turned out.

Minnesota Jaycees 2005 Scrapbook

I was asked to make a scrapbook for the 2005 State President to highlight his year in office. I spend many hours working on this throughout the year as events took place and photos were sent to me to include. Some of the photos are not the greatest since I wasn't planning to post them when I took the pictures three years ago, but at least you can see the layouts.

Family History Title Page

This is a title page I made for a family history book. I used my Cricut machine to cut the letters and tags. I used Opposites Attract cartridge for "Thommes" and "Family". I also used some satin ribbon and brads inbetween the two layers of paper. I think it turned out very pretty.

This is a project I wanted to start a long time ago but never got to until the middle of 2008. I still have some pages to do, but have a large chunk of it done now.

I hope to show you more of my family history pages in the future. Hope you enjoy looking at them!

Vintage Photo Layout

This is a layout I did showing my Grandfather leaving with two brothers to catch a freight train from Minnesota to Washington to look for work in about 1940. It is one of my favorites. I really like the way it turned out. I had some ribbon that looked like burlap I used across the top along with some jute to tie/hang the photo from. It really mimics the photo as the men had bags wrapped in rope with their bedding, etc. for traveling.