Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope it's a sweet one!

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Preparing

I'm doing two craft shows this year...in November and December.  Time flies (107 days until Christmas by the way!) and I want to be more prepared than I was last year.  I'm trying to make something every week and this is what I found time to make this past weekend.

Six little notebooks ~ and six more in the works.  I found all the images in this post on Magic Moonlight Studio and Vintage Stampers Freebies.  They have some great FREE images to share!

I found these notebooks at Target.  They're light weight and the covers (including the inside covers) are a nice "kraft paper" color.  I bought all twenty of them and guess what?

They were on clearance!!  They were 64 cents!!  I love clearances!!  

They are perfect for journals....much nicer than the ones I've used in the past!  I just have such a great time making things like this and I am so grateful to have such a special room to create in.  I have a lot of ideas and plans.....now I just need to have a lot of time! Better yet, I need to pray that I make the very best use of the time I have!!

Dress Forms

Now that my craft room is done I'm ready to do some creating.  I was browsing around and found these very nice dress form images.  Wouldn't they be great on some notecards?!  I have a triple opening picture frame that these might work perfectly in as well.  You can find these and more wonderful images on Karen's blog ~ The Graphics Fairy.  She shares the best things!

P.S.  Joyce, I thought of you as soon as I saw these!

Butterflies

Isn't this pretty?!  Karen (the graphics fairy) shared this today.  She always shares such pretty images!

 the graphics fairy

It's shaping up to be a very busy weekend for me. Fortunately it's all indoor busyness because it's suppose to be a HOT one tomorrow!  102 degrees before the humidity is factored in!!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend whether you're working or relaxing from all the work you've already done!

I enrolled in this class.

Your Vintage Gluebook

 

I'm hoping that it will inspire me to get creative!

If not, I'll at least be gathering a lot of ideas.

Mary Green of Green Paper is teaching the class. There are tons of amazing ideas on her blog.

She also has some very nice "FREE Vintage Images" to share.

Happy May Day

This beautiful image is from Green Paper ~ thank you Mary for sharing all these beautiful images!

Treasures Found

It's amazing the things you find when you start to dig out a very cluttered and disorganized craft room. Yes ~ I've taken the plunge! I spent about six hours sorting stuff into piles (keep, giveaway & toss) last Saturday. I have a long way to go, and since I have to squeeze this into evenings and some Saturdays, who knows how long it will take. That little craft room still has a story to tell and I'd love to share it ~ but for now I'll just share these three sweet little girls. It's an old birthday card that I found at an antique mall a few years ago.

The last two actually looked like this.

Please enjoy using them if you'd like to.
Right click all to enlarge

Images to Share

A lot of the blogs I visit share beautiful images with others. I have so many of those pretty pictures in my files. I'd like to reciprocate a little by sharing several today.
I found some old notecards at the thrift store recently ~ aren't the birds sweet?!
Enjoy using the images in your artwork!

I may frame these and hang them in my bathroom next to the

large one that's already there.