My name is Kelli.
Nice to meet you!
私の名前はケリです。
よろしくね！
내 이름은 켈리입니다.
만나서 반갑습니다!
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Hey all -
2 pieces of good news to share today… the first is that I made my 1st layout/scrapbooking DT!! Yahoo!! I am fortunate to be on the Double-Page Layout Team over at a brand new challenge blog (starting Jan 2014!), Stick it Down! Each Tuesday we will have a different challenge for you, from single page layouts to cards to double page layouts. How fun is that?!?
And to celebrate that, I actually scrapped! I don’t think I’ve scrapped since April? June? Sheesh it’s been so long I forget! lol.
I did a quick layout (under 90 minutes!) of my kiddos in costume this past Halloween. Yup, I actually got pictures of my kids in costume this year. MORE THAN ONE. haha! I think this is the first time I have multiple workable pictures of my kiddos since I had kids! I even dressed up the dogs… for those that don’t know, I have a thing against dressing up animals in people clothes on a regular basis. It’s just a personal thing. But for whatever reason, I felt like I needed to put these 2 puppies in costume!! And for the record… I only have and plan to put them in special occasion costume. We’ll see what that actually means in a year or so!
Here’s a closeup of the left-hand page.
And the right-hand side:
 Journaling reads, “This is your first Halloween with these 2 furballs… and the first time I ever wanted to put dogs in any kind of clothes or costumes. Thanks to all 4 of you for putting up w/me.”
That’s it for today. Hope you come play along with us when we start our challenges!! And yay for me for scrapping!
lovies, =o) kel
Hey all – just a quick card from me today. This was a freebie from the progressive challenge over at The Stampin Chef a while ago… When they were doing weekly challenges!!
I’m working on some new stuff and have happy news to share later this week so I’ll be back soon!!
lovies, =o) kel
Hi all - This week I’m sharing my crafting space over at Crafting with Dragonflies. A little bit has changed since I last shared my space… and I have to confess. It’s been MONTHS since we started moving things around and there is still a pretty sizeable pile of sCRAP that doesn’t have a home.
I am fortunate to have a dedicated craft space – we enclosed our 2 car garage, cleaned, repainted, and carpeted it to make it into a craft room/sewing room/holiday and misc storage/kids game room/business storage/romp room. It is nice that I can walk away from this space when I am done and come back to it later. It is in the far corner of the room so as long as I leave a pathway through the room, I can leave my space as messy as I want it to be… and it tends to stay messy. I don’t have that clean gene that my mom has!!! And to be honest, this room is RARELY clean. It only really is presentable when we have parties or people over.
If you remember, this is what my space looked like after the first big change – my desk. It has more stuff piled on it but is pretty much the same.
1 – pens, copics
2 – small embellishments, glitter, bling
3 – princess’ bed & new-to-me computer
4 – crafting calendar (DT work, classes, blog posting, orders due) + forms and paperwork
5 – 2 clip-it-ups with alpha stickers, themed stickers
6 – ink pads, acrylic blocks, 1/4-sheet white CS for stamping and coloring
This is the “before” looking from my desk towards the bathroom.
1 – PP, scraps, cardstock
2 – ribbon drawers – mostly big gift wrapping ribbons, and misc crafting stuff
3 – 1/2 bath
4 – unfinished card kits, misc. embellishments
5 – business PP, monthly kit clubs, misc. paper specific to certain projects
We moved some of the shelves to the closet to try and organize that space and condensed the shelves a bit to make a larger floor space, better for doing P90X and playing Kinect and whatnot lol! There’s still a lot of stuff that needs homes – I guess that’s what happens when you take away storage space… there are things that no longer have homes!
This is the closet that some of the shelving moved into. The before was a bunch of boxes and bins stacked on each other to the point that it was almost impossible to access a box on the bottom because it means having to move half the closet around to get to it. The kids’ (and by ‘kids’ I also mean J!) video game stuff is all on this cart and in these drawers. I also have a small collection of dvds that I enjoy watching while I work, although with Netflix built into the XBox, I watch less dvds and stream more stuff!!
The before of this corner was a folded-up treadmill that has since found a new home at xSIL’s house. There is a lot of miscellaneous stuff here. And it is another area that needs sorting and purging.
There’s still a bit more to share but I am embarassed enough showing you the messy work spaces… I am definitely scared to share my large pile of sCRAP!!!! One of these days I will get through everything and be able to share a fully clean space. I think. haha!! Thanks for stopping by!
lovies, =o) kel
This week over at Handmade Harbour, the challenge is “Winter Fun.” We like to think that we get tons of melted snow here in Hawaii in the wintertime. haha. There are places in the state where it snows but the island I’m on is not one of them. Anywhoo, I got to play with this adorabl penguin, “Cool Penguin” – of course I had to use him because he is super cute and he is a penguin. lol!
Hope you can come join us this week over at HH!!
lovies, =o) kel
his fortnight over at Crafting with Dragonflies our challenge is to make a Christmas ornament. We are winding down the year with our challenges and I can’t believe how quickly the year is coming to an end!!
We are fortunate to be sponsored by…
…and I got to play with this fun image, “Little Penguin Winter.” I made a handprint hanger ornament. My kids do handprints every year and I thought it would be fun to do one for the great-grandmothers. And the boys get to dirty their hands, which is always fun for them.
I thought about doing separate ornaments for each kid but I wanted to save space… instead of having two of everything I thought it would be easier to make just one and have them overlap their hands.
Hope you can come play with us at Crafting with Dragonflies! I can’t believe that Christmas is only a month away… I better get to work on our presents!!
lovies, =o) kel
Hi all – this time it’s been SIX days. haha!!! It’s almost like I’m challenging myself to space out my blog posts. But I promise I’m not! I have been a complete deadbeat and have done almost NO crafting this past week. I will be doing some fun stuff tonight though. Yay for carving out time in the midst of a busy schedule!!
I just wanted to share another quick card I made, this time using one of my many FAVORITE color combos. Black, white, gray, yellow. But not bumblebee yellow. Love it.
That’s it for today! I’ll be back to regular posting again soon, I promise!
lovies, =o) kel
Hi all – wow I can’t believe that it’s been 5 days since my last post. This is SO unlike me!! Just wanted to pop in quickly today and share a simple thank you card I made using super old stash. I think I had that Autumn Leaves PP and the “thanks” sticker since 2005? 2007? haha. Either way that’s much too long and I’m very happy to have made use of them both!!
I’m in the middle of sorting pictures again… Since I inherited my kids’ old desktop, I haven’t touched any pictures or offloaded any pictures from our phones/kids’ iPods, so I have MONTHS of pictures to print. I decided to stop caring how much I spend on photo printing and just get them printed… Can’t scrap any pages if I don’t print the pictures! Hoping to finish uploading them to the printer tonight and then picking them up tomorrow. Super excited!! Yay for scrapbooking again soon!!
lovies, =o) kel
If you’re looking for my DT post for the Perfect Sentiments Challenge, please scroll down or click here!
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This week over at Handmade Harbour, the theme is “Early Christmas.” I am DEFINTELY feeling the Christmas bug over here!! Since I didn’t get to enjoy my Halloween, I am throwing all that pent-up holiday energy into Christmas!! I say forget Thanksgiving, I am breaking out the Christmas decorations this week!
I got to play with this adorable image, Robin Family on Branch. Now, I am sure I have said it before, but I HATE BIRDS. Absolutely can’t stand them in real life, and only a few bird stamps have ever caught my eye or made it into this house. But this little birdy family is ADORABS!!! We don’t have robins here in the islands, so this is my interpretation of what color they should be. lol.
Hope you come play with us this week! What kind of preparations are you doing for the holidays? I always try to plan ahead… whether or not I actually execute those plans is a different story though! haha!
lovies, =o) kel
This week over at the Perfect Sentiments Challenge, our challenge is sponsored by
So…. this week is a sketch challenge. Here’s the sketch:
And here’s my card:
As you can tell, absolutely did NOT follow the sketch. haha. I completely messed up!!! All I remembered on this challenge was “Christmas” and “sponsor image.” I’m so sorry to my fellow teamies over at PSC!!
Hope you guys come play with us at PSC… make sure you follow the sketch!!! haha!!!
lovies, =o) kel
Today kicks off a week of Christmas Cards for me. haha. The challenge this fortnight over at Crafting with Dragonflies is “Things with Wings: Cards with Stickpins.” So there is kind of a 2-fold challenge… something with wings and stickpins.
We are sponsored this week by:
And I got to play with this beautiul sillouhette image… They provided the images based on the theme and I haven’t gotten around to actually finding out what image this is but I love it!! My stickpins are homemade… this is the first time I’m actually using them on a project. And I have a stash of them somewhere from kits and gifts, but in the midst of rearranging the room and reorganizing supplies, I have lost them. I’m sure I’ll find them soon, when I don’t know what to do with them again!! haha!
I only have a couple more cards for this week – my posting has been more spaced out because I honestly haven’t had time to do much other than work on DT projects, Christmas orders, and my own Christmas gifts. I’m hoping that I will find a lot more time now that the soccer season is over and the kids have absolutely NO extracurriculars for the year!
Hope you can come join us this week at Crafting with Dragonflies!!
lovies, =o) kel
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Double-Page Layout Team
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