Archives for June 2011

Made for Monday!

June 13, 2011 By JulieK

Yeah!! In this installment of Made for Monday… I have 2 major things :) First is the little table gifts that I made for this past weekend’s Anniversary Crop for the wonderful croppers who came to celebrate 1 year at Late Night Croppers!! I made these little hand sanitizer containers, and matching post-it note holders… When I finished them, I realized that they would make a cute little gift for the teachers at the kids’ school… So, I made them in a “teacher” version too :) They are super easy to make, but I think that they are also super cute!!

Here’s the version I made for Late Night Croppers (papers are My Mind’s Eye)… The post-it holders are the little acrylic frames, so they sit on the table at a little angle…

Here’s a side view of the hand sanitizer… You can kind of see how it works… there’s a little piece of velcro holding the flap shut, so it can be opened and closed easily…

And, the teacher’s version… Instead of hoarding this BEAUTIFUL Studio Calico paper, I actually used to to make gifts!!! I may have to purchase more just so I CAN hoard it ’cause I love it so much :) I’m using the apple paper (that goes with the line) for the kids’ main teachers’ gifts in addition to these… I’ll post pics when I’m done… Needs to be soon ’cause their last day is Friday :)

The original idea for the Hand Sanitizer container came from one of my favorite blogs… Dawn’s Stamping Thoughts… BUT, of course, my hand sanitizer was a different size… So, the dimensions etc are completely different… took some trial and error, but I love how they came out!!

And… I have the July Zutter Book for the next class at Ink About It in Westford all done!! It uses the fabulous “Liberty” line by Bo Bunny… But, it’s not necessarily a 4th of July book… Could be used for any fun pictures!!! It uses cover-alls :) Here’s a sneak peek of the front cover… Give the store a call if you want to join in the class!! You don’t need to have your own Zutter machine, I always bring mine :) New people are always welcome!

and a little side view of the little pinwheel…

Whew! That’s about it for now… Still have a bunch of projects to finish up… but making some headway!!

Thankful Thursday!

June 10, 2011 By JulieK

Wait… What?? It’s Friday?? Friday night??? How did THAT happen?? Actually, I thought it was Monday for most of the morning, and was going crazy trying to figure out why I couldn’t get into the course website for the online course I’m taking… Well, I realized about 3:00 while I was waiting for the kids to come out that it is actually FRIDAY, and it doesn’t open til MONDAY… ‘eh :) that’s OK… It was a crazy week!!

I’m thankful for many things this week!!! Very successful field days at school, that were better (behavior and participation-wise) than I expected, and more thankfully… OVER :)

The major heat was bad, but not too bad… I was actually out of school on the worst day, so it was a pretty good week that way…

I had a super fun class at Ink About It in Westford last night, everyone loved the project… They have kits available at the store, so you can still pick one up if you want one… It is always fun to see my core group of ladies, plus there’s always a few new ones too… We’re using the Bo Bunny Liberty line for the July class (but it won’t be specifically 4th of July) LOVE those red white and blue papers for summery projects!! It will be completed and in the store this week, so be on the lookout for a sample :)

This weekend is the 1 year anniversary of Late Night Croppers!!! Our little crop space has been open for a whole YEAR!! And, people seem to like it and enjoy coming!!! We’re not quite full for our Anniversary Super Saturday… So, if anyone’s around and wants to stop by, please let us know… There’s a table gift for everyone (that I made… you’ll see them on my “Made for Monday” post) and of course prizes through the day… PLUS dinner is included… 9am-midnight, only $35… I’ll be there at 9am :) come on over!!! Check out the Wall-o-Cartridges, which has certainly grown over the last year… Even if you can’t crop, come on by and say hello!!

Ok… bed time… getting up early for crop!! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!!!

Made for Monday

June 6, 2011 By JulieK

Today’s installment of “Made for Monday” is a preview of my upcoming Zutter Class at Ink About It in Westford!! We’ll be making this fun 8×8 Summer themed book THIS THURSDAY!! June 9, starting at 6:30pm. If you’re interested, please call the store asap to get on the list! The cover is acrylic, and the back is white chipboard… The inside pages fold out… It uses (super fun) Echo Park patterned papers!!! Here’s the cover… I took the picture outside, so ignore the “tree glare” on the acrylic :) It’s really clear, with the fun stickers on the cover…

When you open the front cover… All the pages have one side that opens out…

and the next side, opens from the middle…

There’s lots more pages, but you’ll have to come to class to see them all!!! Hope to see you Thursday!!!

AND :) I just saw my name as a “Cameo Ribbonista” with May Arts!!! Yeah!!! I am so excited to be working with such fabulous ribbons!!! I’ll be creating projects every other month as a regular guest!!! Thanks so much May Arts!!!! Check out the post here…

Thankful Thursday!!

June 2, 2011 By JulieK

First and foremost… I am very thankful that the storms from last night are over… It was crazy, the sky got all oddly orange… It was beautiful, but scary at the same time… Then there was the crazy lightning… Like I remember when I was little, we called it “heat lightning” when it just lights up the sky, but there’s no thunder… (we got plenty of thunder earlier in the evening)… but once it got dark, the light show was amazing!

I’m also VERY thankful that my hubby got me my new camera :) I LOVE the thing… So far, I’ve been nothing but thrilled with it… We had such a wonderful weekend… It was busy, but we took Sunday afternoon and went out for a ride in the “race car” Up route 133 (one of our favorite drives) into Gloucester… This is picture heavy… But, here’s a picture view of what we did Sunday…

Ok, this is another Iris picture… I’m justifying adding it here ’cause we did yard work before the little road trip :) so it still ties in… Well, I should rephrase that… Mike did yard work, and I walked around taking pictures of the Iris’…

Here we are… On the road… Sean’s trying to duck out of the breeze :)

Kathryn never tries to duck anywhere! If you hear a random WHEEEEE coming from outside, we’re probably driving by in the “race car”… She thinks it’s her own personal roller coaster…

Oh, hey, look! It’s me :) and Kathryn giving me bunny ears…

I didn’t get a picture of Mike driving ’cause I was “distracting him” while he was “trying” to drive :)

About 30 minutes down the road, we stopped in Ipswich to see the falls… but 2 someones had fallen asleep, and couldn’t be woken… So, we continued on our way (in peace and quiet for a few minutes!!)

Then we got to Gloucester! LOVE IT! And, you know I’m not a “water” person, but it was a beautiful day! We stopped at a random beach where we found a parking spot (not near the “big beach” areas) Pretty!