My craft room

This is a BEFORE picture (and sort of an after picture)




I took the pic last night after cleaning up ONE quarter of my room...

believe me, it looked a lot worse than this...LOL

I sent the real before picture to Kathy ....her blog link is below...
Kathy will tell you it definitely looked worse!!!!

http://joyfullymadedesigns.blogspot.com/

I have never met Kathy (wish I could). She not only makes fabulous cards, she also

gives great organizational hints on her blog. She gave me a few for my room which I am trying to implement in my small space.

I need to get this whole room straightened up and purge as much as possible, so when our contractor comes in the next few weeks to fix my water damaged ceiling, broken window, and to put in a new floor, I have to move everything out of the room. The less I have in the room the easier it will be.

Last night, I literally had myself in tears because I had to throw out so many UFO's. But it is part of my problem, with my clutter, I start projects and they never get finished. I had to be honest with myself last night, and admit that I will never finish them and they had to leave the room. I was wondering...

How many Unfinished projects do you have?

Or are you one of those people who never start a project without finishing another project.

(to the people who never start a project without finishing another one...I admire your self control LOL)

This is also part of my One word, project, I want to BELIEVE that I can do it...(get my craft room organized.

Have a good weekend, everyone,

Blessings,

Jill

Craft night friends

I am so fortunate to have two great friends who come to my house every Thursday night to craft with me. We have such a great time, and I have learned so much from them. I made this as a thank you card for one of them. It's supposed to represent the three of us. If only I was a size 3 just like on this card...LOL. NOT! Actually, I was when I got married but that was a few (smile) years ago. I used a digi, from http://freevintagedigistamps.blogspot.com/2011/12/free-digital-art-stamp-vintage-sewing.html
I found the digi site posted at Nikky's blog http://rubbertherapy.typepad.com/
Thank you, Nikky for the posting the site.
My husband colored the digi's with copics, and I used Stampin' Up desinger paper for the background along with buttons from the stampin' Up button die, added a sticker and some pop dots for dimension.

Embossed Tree

This card was made for one of my crafting buddies as a thank you card for the crafting goodies she gave me as a present for Christmas. She helped to get me back into making cards...

The card was made with a Darice Embossing folder, and I sponged the tree with Tim Holtz distress inks, added a ribbon, a sentiment printed on acetate, and Stampin' Up designer paper.

Iris Folded Valentine card

I FINALLY found some time to make a card...I feel rusty...LOL
I found the pattern for the above card in the link below...

http://www.circleofcrafters.com/irisfolding/irisfoldingheart.html

I used some red ribbon that I had on hand. I believe the dp is from Stampin' Up,

and I added a Jolee sticker.

My "ONE WORD"

A few weeks ago, I happened upon this post on Rebecca's blog...

http://bellacarta.typepad.com/rebecca/

http://bellacarta.typepad.com/rebecca/2012/01/one-little-word-2012-take-2-.html

Rebecca found the idea from here at the link below...

http://aliedwards.com/2010/12/one-little-word-2011.html/comment-page-19

I thought it was such a neat idea that I had to give it a try myself...

My one word is below

My above image (which I hoped showed up for you...had trouble posting it...)
I think I am out of practice with posting...It looks like I've only done about two posts
in the last couple of months...I feel like I have to learn all over again....smile...

http://pinterest.com/search/?q=Believe

This one word experiment has already been very powerful for me

I have myself look for quotes on the word "Believe" and then try to apply them to my

life. I really like the workshop idea, but I think I am going to wait till next year to try it.

I'm also finding myself looking for songs on Utube with the words believe in it...

Like the one below sung by Josh Groban

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT-sC33vB5M

It is a Christmas song, but I love the lyrics...

You have everything you need...If you Just believe...

"PS. I apologize for this strange posting. I can't get the underline to go away

and I can't get the font color to change for me... (I told you I was out of practice)

I'm sorry, I haven't been visiting your blogs as much lately. I hope to do better, and

do some blog commenting this weekend...

until then have a great weekend everyone,

Blessings,

Jill

Beautiful cards I've received.

Some Beautiful Homemade Card that I received...

Christmas card Above is from Kathi

Christmas Card above is from Cherie

Christmas Card Above from Brenda...

This Christmas card came from Stacie...I just love all the different embossing on this card

Like everyone else seems to be these days....I've been so busy...
Sorry, I have not posted much...Hope to do some more posts this week.

In the meantime these are some CHRISTMAS cards that I received. Yes, I meant to
say Christmas! And it is a bit late...However, since they are all pretty SNOW scenes...I thought they would work for January...smile, and I thought you would enjoy seeing this beautiful cards. I know I did. (By the way...I only manged to get a few cards out myself this year...)