by Cindy Smith Gift bags are great. No talent is needed to produce a beautiful package—just a casually crumpled spray of tissue paper to cover the gift. Perfect. No fuss, no tape. Even my husband likes them. They are available in a myriad of sizes and as many prices. … Continue reading
It happens to everyone at one point or another – we look around our home and think, “Man, I have a LOT of CRAP! What do I DO with it …
If you want to know how to help a hoarder, you must first appreciate the fact that hoarding is a mental disorder. Hoarders are not lazy, dirty people. A dump truck or bulldozer won't solve the problem!
Hi di ho peeps! I have a bit of a confession to make...I'm a hoarder of designer series paper...I buy it and stroke it and then hardly use it. It's just soooo pretty! I have similar hoarding tendancies with ribbon too although I'm certainly getting better at using my DSP, I have a long way to go... I am so fortunate that Stampin' Up! make such beautiful papers, that you can let them do the hard work for you. So I'm challenging you all (including me) to showcase your DSP...here's a card from the Merry Mistletoe class to get you started... Make sure you leave a comment with your links to your cards showcasing some DSP, I can't wait to see them! Happy crafting! Nxxx Product List Merry Mistletoe Clear-Mount Stamp Set [143655] Be Merry Designer Series Paper [144111] Stampin' Scrub [126200] Stampin' Mist [102394] Clear Block F [118483] Stampin' Trimmer [129722] Stampin' Trimmer Cutting Blades [126995] Liquid Multipurpose Glue [110755] Whisper White A4 Thick Cardstock [140490] Garden Green Classic Stampin' Pad [126973] Cherry Cobbler Classic Stampin' Pad [126966] Gold Foil Sheets [132622] Big Shot Magnetic Platform [130658] Big Shot [143263] Stitched Shapes Framelits Dies [145372] Banner Triple Punch [138292]
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I'm sure I've confessed here before that I'm a wee bit of a hoarder when it comes to paper scraps. It's ridiculous really, but, in my defense, I really do dig into the stash and use them...EXCEPT for my gel prints. They're just so pretty! Reality is setting in though and I'm resigning myself to using up the little gems. Today I've been working on Christmas cards... This doesn't even scratch the surface of my stash but it's a start. Ho ho ho!
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Earlier this week I told you about my Harry Potter Party and all the amazing characters who showed up. Now I get to tell you about my decorations. I had so much fun trying to make the party feel like a Harry Potter Party and not just some party where we dressed up like Harry Potter characters. I was really excited to have an actual reason to buy HP things and not have my husband constantly asking why we needed them so I figured it would be the perfect time to buy these amazing movie posters I found. I'm in love with my posters! Yes they stayed up permanently after the party. If you can't tell by the picture, the one on the left is from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and it has the boats pulling up to the castle and it says "the magic begins soon" (that's my favorite part) and the one on the right is from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and it is the castle on fire with the words "it all ends here" (that is my second favorite part and holy crap I can't wait for the last movie!). I made little hats for the house elves to find so they could be free. I originally meant for them to be used as a wine glass rings so we wouldn't get our glasses mixed up but I figured out something else. The table with all the party favors. I picked up wine glasses from the dollar store for everyone and used my husband's paint pens (the red and gold were dried up - come on those were the most important colors!) to write "HP 2011" and a lightening bolt and then all the guests were able to write their names on their glasses as they arrived. My husband (Ron) thought it would be stupid to use the character names instead of our real names (he thought he was too cool for all this...he also thought he was too cool to die his hair red but I convinced him otherwise) but as soon as my step-brother showed up with Ron's wand he was all into it! My wine glass with my name on it. My work friend (Tonks) told me I should hang candles from the ceiling. At first I thought I would never be able to pull it off but it turned out to be so amazing! I found some reasonably priced flameless candles, fishing line, and some awesome mini hooks with the easy remove tabs and I was set! Lights on the ceiling of the Great Hall Advise on hanging lights from the ceiling... 1. don’t let the husband take them down 2. If the husband tries to take them down, he will take off part of ceiling so don’t let the husband take them down 3. don’t place them in a spot that has apparently been patched and then repainted before you moved in 4. don’t drop them...although they seem to be plastic, they will shatter
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Lobster Baby and the Bedroom Hoard So, we bought a new mattress. This necessitated clearing the conglomeration of crap out of the master bedroom to facilitate the delivery of said new mattress. Thus, the entire family was enlisted to carry boxes, bins, baskets and bags full of accumulated crap out of the master bedroom and into the... the um.... where the hell can we put all this crap? Why don't we sort through it and throw most of it away? Yeah, but we're kind of in a hurry here. Oh, I know, the Dining Room. And away we went. Now that Christmas was out of the way, we were done with the Dining Room for awhile so sure, let's push all this crap up under the Dining Room table. Brilliant! Done! Let me just interject right here that anytime we start shifting stuff around, the cats go insane. Who knows what they are thinking. Maybe something like this: Monet: Are we moving? Cotton: What is all this stuff? It came from the big room where we are not allowed to go. Monet: Are people coming over? They always do this when people come over. I hate people coming over! Cotton: Maybe some of it is good to eat, or to lay on and shed white fur. Monet: Maybe they will stir up some bugs I can kill. Anyhooo - then came the task of pulling out the long forgotten crap from under the bed. And that's where Lobster Baby enters the scene. Lobster baby, pictured above, is something none of us remembers. It is not a treasured childhood toy. Who knows how long it's been under our bed? Buffy says that Lobster Baby is the reason she will need therapy in her 20s. Honey Bunch says it's the reason he hasn't slept well in years. I say, it probably came from one of those claw machines. It is a cheaply made, stuffed lobster with a baby doll face sewn on. Why? Who thought this was a good idea for a toy? Honey Bunch did go through a claw machine phase in the late 90s to early 00s. (is that a thing? 00s?) More importantly, WHY THE HECK DID WE KEEP IT??? Follow up: The bedroom hoard has now been moved form the Dining Room, which we will want to use again soon, to the sitting room. I did eliminate two boxes so far so - I'm getting there. And please remember, as always, It's okay for me to call myself a hoarder. It's not okay for you to call me a hoarder. It's like that friend you have who is always bitterly complaining about her husband, until you suggest a divorce attorney and then she unfriends you.
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Self-confessed Ribbon Hoarder .... Stripey ones, Spotty ones, Stitched ones, Patterned ones .... I love them all!
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