yessiree, it's that time again!

A page from a "Fast & Fabulous in 40 Minutes" session

Spring has sprung!

I have a little confession... I have a real love/hate attitude about spring. First, I *love* it for its absolute gorgeousness. The clean, crisp feel of the air, the sunshine, the little tweeting birds, the fact that everything is budding and blooming and green. Isn't spring just grand?

But just to temper my wonder and amazement at the glory of the season, I am usually beaten down by allergies and asthma and sinus trouble and (sometimes) vertigo. Bummer, dude. And, of course, there are also the taxes which are no fun for me since I save all my financial entries up all year and then have to scramble to excel-a-tize them before my appointment with the tax specialist. I'm up to my eyeballs in that mind-numbing project right now. Sigh.

On the positive side of the ledger, though, it's also time once again for class kickoff at SGT. I have a whopping four classes on the upcoming session. WOW! I've added a session of "Fast & Fab 40-minute layouts on 4/25 right after Intro to Scrapbooking, then another session of back-to-back "Fast & Fab" layouts on 6/27. On May 9th, I'll be teaching "By the Sea" which is a technique-heavy mini album. If you've been curious about Glimmer Mist and want a chance to try it out, this is the class for you!

"By the Sea" mini album

You can take a peek at all the upcoming classes at the SGT website here. Better still, come to the kickoff this Friday from 5-7pm and see all the samples up close and personal. Hope I see you there!

take a peek

Here is a little taste of one of the classes I'm working on for the next session at Scrappin' Good Times:


In case you can't tell, I've been having fun playing with Glimmer Mist and Stickles.

we can rebuild him — we have the technology

Remember that old line from The Six Million Dollar Man? Well, I've been re-building in a sense, anway. Or maybe it would be more appropriate to say I've been "re-working". Yup, ever since the new Graphic 45 papers hit my doorstep, I've been altering stuff. And I've got plans to alter more.

I have not done a whole lot of altering in my crafty life. There have been the occasional cigar box and product package, but honestly I'd rather re-finish a piece of furniture. Not sure why that is, but there you go. Anyway, something about the G45 papers has got me all het up about altering. I'm sure being in the G45 booth at CHA may have had a little to do with that.

Suddently I'm itching to remove all the floral wallpaper from inside my scrapdesk hutch and replace it with G45's Fashionista. That's actually a bit ambitious for me right now considering it *IS* time to work on taxes (again!) But in the meantime, I've done some small projects that were so fun. First I started work on a little caddy. Before the paint was dry enough to add paper to it, I spyed with my little eye this box in my desk hutch. I store vintage stamps in this and it is the perfect container except that I've never really cared for the dark plaid. So, I leafed thru my G45 papers and lo-and-behold there is a nice bright red plaid that would be perfect. What the heck the paint brush was still dirty from the caddy project, so I painted just the edges of the little storage box (in case the box edges weren't absolutely straight --and they never are-- the black would disguise where the paper didn't reach the trim.)


Here is the finished project. I love my little box even more now! The funny thing is I like how this box turned out more than the caddy I was working on -lol. (I'll post a pic of the caddy after I take one.)