More storage...

Directly behind where I sit in my craft room is this sterlite cart. In the bin on top is where all of my alphabets are kept in their original packages. Chipboard, rub ons, stickers etc. They are all in here. The top drawer is where my stamp supplies (blocks, baby wipes, cleaning pad etc) are stored. The middle drawer is where I keep some SU stamps and the bottom drawer hold my heat gun, glue gun, extra rubber etc. Originally I had this drawer under my workspace, and the bin with my alphas were on a shelf on the other side of the island, but I kept pulling the alpha bin over to the other side and decided that it just needed to stay there! I am thinking about getting a clip-it-up for my alphas.. but it will not work for all of the items in their original packaging (KI Soup, Paper Studio chipboard, Heidi Swapp Chipboard... just to name a few.)

Relay Wednesday #2

Did you know that the ACS has a free summer camp for kids with cancer? And it is located right here in Kansas! Camp Hope takes place each June at Camp Aldrich near Claflin, Kansas. This year, 68 campers attended Camp Hope free of charge because of donations to the ACS. Camp Hope is a place where kids can be with other kids who truly understand what they are going through. There is round the clock medical staff along with all of the other activities typically found at a summer camp.

If you are interested in donating to the Relay for Life, just click on the badge at the
top of this post. If you would like to start a team for the Leavenworth
Kansas Relay for Life, please email me for information. If you would like to find out about a Relay for Life event in your area, check out the main Relay for Life website.

Finished Layouts

When I finish a layout it typically goes on display in my craft room. I hung two curtain rods parallel on the wall, and have page protectors hung (with the opening to the left) from curtain clips. This allows me to easily add and remove layouts for display. Though I have been trying to be better about putting layouts away in the appropriate albums after they rotate off of the wall, it does not always happen that way. My second location for finished layouts is in an iron wall pocket that sits above my desk/ counter-top.

Other items on my desk include my favorite fairy lamp, a basket of cards given to me, my "project" basket (the green one), and my ink/ paint storage. This space is where I set up my cuttlebug and sewing machine when I use them.

Relay Wednesday #1

I have decided to dedicate Wednesdays to Relay For Life.. at least on
my blog! Every Wednesday I will post something about Relay. How funds
raised are used in the community, what resources the American Cancer
Society (ACS) has available for survivors and their caretakers, updates on our local Relay etc.

This week I would like to tell you a little bit about what the Relay For Life is. The Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society's primary fund-raising event. This is what the ACS has to say about the Relay For Life:

The American Cancer Society Relay For
Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across
the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled
cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease.
At Relay, teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or
fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path.
Each team is asked to have a representative on the track at all times
during the event. Because cancer never sleeps, Relays are overnight
events up to 24 hours in length.

Relay began in 1985 when Dr. Gordy Klatt, a colorectal surgeon in
Tacoma, Washington, ran and walked around a track for 24 hours to raise
money for the American Cancer Society. Since then, Relay has grown from
a single man’s passion to fight cancer into the world’s largest
movement to end the disease. Each year, more than 3.5 million people in
5,000 communities in the United States, along with additional
communities in 19 other countries, gather to take part in this global
phenomenon and raise much-needed funds and awareness to save lives from
cancer. Thanks to Relay participants, we are creating a world with more
birthdays a world where cancer can’t claim another year of anyone’s
life.

If you would like to make a donation to the Relay For Life, just click on the badge at the
top of this post. If you would like to start a team for the Leavenworth
Kansas Relay For Life, please email me for information. If you would like to find out about a Relay For Life event in your area, check out the main Relay for Life website.

My Chocolate Girl

Lauren is my chocolate girl. Do not get me wrong, Megan likes chocolate also but not the way that Lauren does. Eric made cheesecake for my birthday, it called for dark chocolate ganache and he let the girls lick the bowl/ spatula. Megan did not like it at all, Lauren however...

A new layout

This weekend my SIL gave me the best belated birthday gift ever... she kept both girls overnight! The girls had a blast, and Mommy had some much needed alone time. I even spent some of it in my craft room!

This layout is about traditions. Specifically BBQ traditions in the Frymire house. I am determined to use up my stash, so out came some REALLY old PP by K&Co. The chipboard letters are from Heidi Swapp and Paper Studio (Large T) and were spritzed with Red Velvet Glimmer Mist along with the red gingham PP. The chipboard absorbed the glimmer mist differently than the PP (of course) and did not look right. So I pulled out my PTI Pure Poppy ink pad and added a little more red... perfect! The chipboard "S" has the edges inked with Pure Poppy also. Under the title and focal image is a scrap of "denimish" (ok.. not a word but I can not think of a better one right now) fabric that i frayed the edges on. The focal picture and the "s" accent are up on dimensionals.

I think that I want to go back and distress the edges of the denim PP a little, but other than that I like it!

Christmas Gift/ Decor Idea

I really need to get back in my craft room.. but I saw this today and wanted to share it! Such a cute idea!

Relay for Life 2010

October is the start of a new Relay year for Committee Members and Team Captains. Time to come up with fresh ideas to make this years relay the best yet. As a committee member for the Leavenworth County Relay for Life, I am ready to get started! I am so proud to be a part of such an amazing event. An event that not only raises money for ACS services in our community such as the Hope Lodge, Look good... Feel Better, free wigs, 24 hours phone support and Patient Navigators, but is also a way to show our support for survivors and caregivers in our community. If you would like to donate to my team, just click on the badge at the top of this post. If you would like to start a team for the Leavenworth Kansas Relay for life, please email me for information. If you would like to find out about a Relay for Life event in your area, check out the main Relay for Life website.

October

I can not believe that it is October already! The past month has just flown by. Between the cruise, which was FABULOUS! (see Disney Cruise photo album to the right) and our anniversary a week later (7  years!) we had a busy month. I will come back with a more detailed report from the cruise in a few days. And now it is October, tomorrow I will turn 33, and that means that Christmas is right around the corner. Don't you wish that life had a pause button sometimes?