fashion lovies.

just a couple of things in my closet that i am loving right now, something to keep me busy until the midnight release of my fave kits! well, midnight for story of my life, 2 am for poppy and either 9am or monday for zingboom (she is having computer problems) anyway here is the new dress;



i'm thinking that i will wear it for my birthday dinner tuesday. it's very 50's housewife, very fun. and here is the bag i got a few weeks a go i love city bags! i got it at tj maxx for like less than half of what it would be normally!



and here is a peek in to my shoe shelves,



i'm big into patent leather and peep toes lately. the red ones are the new patent leather sling back flats! love them!



what fashion necesseties are you ladies lusting after lately?

bam!

here's the first draft of the bam pop mini album class that i'm teaching!



so far just the page bases are down and some minor embellishing but once i get my photos in and layer some stuff i will post piccies of the actual pages.

alright, i'm off to house/dog sit for my aunt tonight and tommorow night. she even offered to pay me extra if i clean out her back porch and organize the house! i'm all about it. i would probably have been organizing even if she hadn't asked. hello my name is morgan and i'm a chronic organizer.

memorial day will be spent at work until 5 or so. we are on the memorial day parade route so we of course we are going to be open! hope everyone is having a great holiday weekend!

seriously!

i am having one of those weeks, a "seriously!" week. every aspect of my life has me quoting those crazy greys girls, and let's face it, albeit entertaining, they are not exactly stable so i'm a little disturbed by the likeness in our vernacular lately!

things beyond my control are spinning out of control and getting dumped on me! ergh! seriously! (i've been listening to falyn's mix cd from the cd swap over at poppy ink and guess what came on just as i'm typing this? the grey's theme! that is crazy!) anyway, my life is making me want to scream "seriously!" at all times ladies!

and, on top of all of it my birthday is in less than 2 weeks and i don't want to even celebrate it! birthday are so frustrating! i don't even care about getting older, i mean i'm only turning 25, but i still find them frustrating in ever other way!

i have indulged in a little, okay a little more than a little / 10 stamps a little, retail therapy over at the poppy ink stamp shop; http://www.poppyink.com/documents/stampshop.php i don;t know if anyone else needs some but if you do it's a great tool to hold you over until all the rad kits come out for june.

speaking of, the always amazing miss sara berry is spoiling us once again over at story of my life by giving us the full piccie of the june kit before june! so exciting! can't wait to see the awesome love, elsie loveliness that she has in store for us! between the mini peekie and the stamp set piccie that she showed us i so can not wait for this kit!

poppy ink's kit for june looks pretty cool too, not my normal colors but i'm all about these kits stratching my comfort zone. the peek was pretty tiny of the main kit, but the peek of the add-ons looks great. there is a really cute hedgehog and stump set in there, but with my recent luck and complete lack of money this upcoming month, i'm sure that it will be in the most expensive add-on! again, seriously!

thank goodness i already pre-ordered and payed for the june zingboom kit! and her add-ons are always crazy affordable! i love that about zingboom and story of my life! they understand that their scrappy sisters with limited cash flow want to play too!

alright i'm whining so i'm out of here, hope all you amazing ladies are having a better time of it lately than i am! i wouldn't say my sitch is extreme enough for a need for prayers, but maybe just some happy vibes being sent my way! <3 you all!

here we go!

okay ladies, this is going to be a long post, many pictures! i'll post the picture of the original lo and the name of the scrapper and then my lift.

this one is little lulu aka laurie dagg-labine's lo of her little girl,



and here is my lift with my little furry girl;



this is littleone's seattle version;



and here is my philly lift;



i was totally planning on lifting this lo from celeste at some point but was a little afraid to do it, glad this pushed me to do it;



and here is my blurry, incomplete lift (to be replaced with journaling typed and a better picture)



this beauty came from the amazing goddess of hambly, lu;



and here is what i did with my little chandy;



this came from miss erin m;



and here's my version using a different scenic route line;



the always fun miss jess nole sent over this fun lo;



which came out like this in my hands;



aimee sent me a really fun lo that i for some silly reason can't save to my computer so here is the link, http://www.flickr.com/photos/froggymonkey/467648068/in/set-503103/

and this is my lift, i thought she would appreciate one of my furbabies being in the piccie rather than me;



this really adorbs lo came from hillary;



and my version, using a really creepy piccie of me, looks like so;



my transparency tracing queen emine sent this beauty over;



which forced me to try my hand at transparency tracing in this little lovely;



and the always rad miss uber amber sent this amazing lo over;



which gave me the "inspo" for this;



and last but certainly not least, miss "barbielovesyou" sent this goody over;



and inspired this totally out of my box bachelorette tribute;



sooooooo....... after that super long lo rich post, i totally should announce a winner now, right? hmmm..... maybe. or instead i could give you a peekie of the winners name!
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just kidding! y'all would totally kill me! the winner of the rak goodies is... miss amber ulmer!!! woohoo! i already have your address for the rolodex swap so i will send your rak out at the same time! congrats girlie! and thank you so much to all of you for your amazing ideas and encouraging words! i think the scrappers block has lifted! i heart all of you!

natalie dee will hold you over

so i finished the last couple of lo's for the scraplift rak, took pictures of them and then realized that my camera chord is at home. : ( so, i will post the full lo's and pick a winner tonight around either 8 or 10, depending on wether anyone shows up for my class tonight.

in the meantime how adorbs is this natalie dee from a few days a go? it's called soybean dreams...

peek peek.

got one more done today, one of the toughest ones. 3 more to go before i post full piccies and a winner. don't you ladies get too excited! that's way too much pressure for them to have to be really good!

i am really trying to get them done. i have 3 classes in 3 days coming up this week and working every day so it's been a little crazy. thanks for holding out!

no poppy again today but sara over at soml is totally making up for it with an amazing mini peekie! can't wait to see all the other lovelies that go with that already fun set of goodies!

ooh! i also won the giveaway over at leslies blog! so awesome! the goodies for that look super sweet too! can't wait! thanks leslie!

more peekies!

i was looking through the entries and i remembered that there were actually 6 more entries for me scrap. i got two more done today and took some more peekie piccies of the 2 newest and 2 others from yesterday. so, now i really have 4 more to go! i will def finish them by wednesday, if not tommorow! so, in the meantime here are a few more peekies to hold y'all over!









hope you like! i am loving the work coming from this challenge! you ladies are the raddest!!!

oooh! guess what i got in the mail today? no, no poppy kit yet, i'm hoping tommorow, but i did get a set of rolodex cards and, my new zing boom stamps!!! i can not wait to use my little heart-bot and fawn silhouette! maybe on tommorows scraplifts. : )

thanks for all the compliments so far ladies! hope you like the lo's themselves even more than the peekies. : )

it's all in the details

here's a little peekie of some of the lo's from the scraplifting rak.











i've finished 6 out of the 9 lo's so far and i'm loving the amazing inspo that you ladies sent my way. i'll post all the pics and the winner of the rak package when they are all done. i think they are totally doing the job. i', pretty sure i'm back in the game!

thanks ladies!

looks like i have at least 9 awesome lo's to work on tommorow, plus some other things. thanks for the inspiration! i will put all the pictures up as soon as they are done and also randomly choose a winner then too. : ) it really is rad to be surrounded by such talented people, especially when you are all so fun and encouraging too!

alright, i'm off to paper pick and pack up for tommorow (even though i totally wanted to be in bed by now.)

night!

wow! keep them coming!

great lo's to lift so far ladies. but let's keep them coming! you have until about 9 or so tonight (est) to submit a lo, then i will be packing for the big crop. oh, and here's a little peekie of the rak, if that will entice you at all;



told you! fun stuff in there! touches on all the fun new obsessions in the scrapbooking world; birds, chandeliers, fruit, cutesy cartoon style, voice bubbles, crowns and my "rock * paper * scissors" music to scrap by mix! (if you already have it i will make you a new one.)

alright ladies, get to posting, and make sure your links don't cut off or i can't lift you!

so ummm...

... HELP!!!! ((please.))

i finally got to sit down and do a lo for myself rather than for the store or a class and this is all that came out!



it's cute and all, but it def does not reflect all that is going on in the creative part of my mind! i can't believe that i am still stuck!!! and, i'm going to a 12 hour crop saturday! : (

so, here's where you scrapping ladies and one gentleman (that i know of) come in! comment on my blog with a link to one of your lo's and i will scraplift it in one way or another while i'm at the crop on saturday. i will post all the lifts asap after that and also announce which one of you taleted people gets the rak that i'll be drawing for from the names of people who submitted.

sound like a plan? good! i've been storing up some really fun rak stuff! so get to posting!

k, i know i say super a lot...

... but i am so totally super duper psyched about this coming in to the store today!!!



yay! this means that i can start working on my 10 things mini book class that i was planning on doing with all of this lovely bam pop product!!! sooooooooo rad and totally psyched on it, like woah!

store fun...

little pieces of the brand new things in the store that i am loving right now;

and also, this is the magnetic message board class that i am teaching later this month, it's in a 12 x 12 frame and the green part is magnetic. : )



so, i'm off to hopefully finally get to my own personal scrapping. perhaps there will be some new lo's up later!

p.s. here is a little picture of the cat of many names, annabelle. she is my little girl and she is such a total crazy! this is her in the shower this morning. she pushes her way in to the bathroom while i'm showering and then waits for the shower to shut off and squeezes in to lick the faucet. she does this everyday! she just lets the water fall all over her and usually ends up looking like a dinosaur of some sort with little spikeys running up her back, neck and head from being so wet. at that point she goes by belle-zilla. yeah, all those little glittery spots? that's how stinkin' wet she is! : )

national scrapbooking day whirlwind

it was a totally crazy weekend at the store; new product, rearranaging, make and takes and working on class samples. then a little cinco de mayo celabration with some friends and some coronas. i'm hoping to get some actual, for fun scrapping done tommorow. there are just a crazy amount of deadlines looming, mostly self-imposed but deadlines none the less. anyone remember the deadline on the hambly guest dt application? hopefully i'll be back with pictures sometime soon!

it's going to be so hard to let go!

i just finished this banner as a special thank you for my tattoo artist, stacey, and i have no idea how i'm going to actually be able to let it go! the tiles aren't attatched to eachother yet, i'm going to get metal rings from michael's (I'll close my eyes while walking past the martha stuff) i think they will fit the topic and design well. i might take the fiber hanger off and make one out of linked metal rings too.

anyway, here it is!



parting will be such sweet sorrow! haha, cheesey but totally freakin' true!

8 cards in one hour!

they are northing super-fab-out-of-the-park-crazy, but they are fun for sure! i will get around to posting them on etsy, along with the photo albums i made last week, either sometime later today or tommorow at work. i used polar bear press paper and cardstock stickers, my new bam pop robot stamp and the oh so adorable godzill-ha stamp from soml! i love him, he keeps finding his way in to my projects!



also, here's a pic of the lovely tulips by the mailboxes, they def make me smile!



now i'm off to shower and get some more things done before i go over to a friends' to watch brick, : )

bad blogger returns!!!

i get so annoyed when people don't update often (usually just out of cute new lo withdrawel) and now i've been the bad blogger. the lo block is still in full effect, but with these new ::whispers:: martha stewart :: lovelies






and the amazing feltiness from aimee perhaps i will be able to unblock. tonight it's my goal to work on some new stuff to put up in my etsy shop.

tattoo update:: the bugger is soooooooo itchy!!! it's crazy! i can't scratch it though and yes i confess i'm a scab picker (along with being a sunburn peeler) so it is totally killing me!! i know, i'm gross, haha.

also, i have some rak's in the works! i keep finding adorable stuff everywhere i go so i've started putting it all in a rak box so that whenever i want to do one i can just grab stuff out! let me tell you peeps, there is some rad stuff in there already!

so since midnight last night, tech. today, it has been kit day and i am totally psyched on what i made away with considering i am trying not to spend too much.

let's see, over at story of my life i got the main kit, the swallow stamp, some 7 gypsies stickers and the bazzill add-on from last months kit that i had forgotten to get. i also got a godzill-ha stamp for crystal, she is so psyched to get him.

then, at 2 am poppy time i drooled over the add-ons, especially the lulu add-on! it has a cute little girlie owl stamp, but i just couldn't spend the money. however, upon seeing the full reveal of the kit i am so totally psyched that this month starts my subscription! maybe crystal will let me stamp her lulu owl stamp on some stuff next time i see her. : )

to bed i went and then set my alarm for 9 am for zingbooms kit reveal. that menagerie kit was waaaaaay too amazing this past month and seeing it again made me so jealous of the people who caught it in time. anyway, i already have much of the office space kit so i didn't want to re-buy but it is defenitly awesome! they did open a mini stamp shop though and i got that little heart holding robot that i've been drooling over for a while and the fawn silhouette. so psyched on those!

i know it doesn't seem like i behaved, but believe me, my paypal account and i could have done a lot more damage!!! these three kits keep kicking my cc's bumm! and, i can't wait until i have all these goodies in my hot little hands!!!

also, i was first order again over at soml and so sara hinted at an added surprise! sara is so super sweet, she also had a super rad shout out entry on her blog, which is just way too nice! it's so awesome to be recognized and encouraged by someone who inspires you in such a major way!

anyway, i'm off to ::hopefully:: make some things, wish me and my block luck!


p.s. flips are 2 for 5 over at old navy so i replaced some colors in my closet that were getting kinda grodey and got some fun new colors. the orange ones are a total shout out to aimee and emine! i never liked orange before but these ladies are showing me the light! haha.



::UPDATE:: i am so totally weak! i just went back to drool over my new zingboom stamps and noticed that next months peak is up and had to order the "so freakin' cute" kit as soon as i saw it! it really is so freakin' cute! the love,elsie and those adorable little green apples, not to mention the super rad food friends stamps, 4 of them! really, all three kit companies that i stalk have totally kicked it up a notch or 50 love it all! go check them out!!! all the links are in my kit obsessions section at the right there --->

::UPDATE:2:: yeah i just went on over to jenni bowlin and ordered some goodies too, like the felt birds, antique journaling spots and bird rub-ons. but seriously, now my card is going away! hey i wonder if miss amber ulmer will pack my goodies! hehe. that would be fun.