Melon Berry Birthday

So one of the downfalls about going a while without crafting is that you lose mojo and creative flow. For inspiration or down right CASEing I go to a lot of the amazingly talented girls of Papertrey Ink. This card was very much cased (with the products i had on hand ) from THIS post by Nichole Heady aka my stamping hero!! The background was stamped with Close to my Heart Spot on Backgrounds with PTI Vintage Cream ink. The Fun Pass stamp is also CTMH Ticket Tags I believe is the name and stamped it in PTI Smokey Shadow. Button and Ribbon PTI Spring Moss. I used the Stampin Up punch for the notebook effect. I would love to chat a bit but i must be getting ready for Bear Camp. which is a type of open house for new students and parents of middle schoolers. WHAT?? middle school already? wasn't she just born yesterday? Sheesh!! Thanks for coming by for the visit today!!
Cheers!
~Julie~

Happy Birthday to YOU!

HELLO long lost blogging friends!!!
Sure hope everyone is doing well on this blazing hot Wednesday. Okay, so getting this house together has taken WAAAAYYYY more time than I anticipated or wanted. But... it is looking more like a home. We just finished the kitchen which required one coat of primer AND two coats of paint... ugg.. we did not skimp either we bought the good stuff from Porter Paint!! Oh well it looks great now. we still have the living room to go.. but I am hanging my painters hat up for a while. anywhoo.............. i have gotten in some play time!! here is one of the first cards i have made in a very long time. I already had the poofy flowers made from around Christmas time. I decided to use them up on this 5x7 card. The heart punch is from fiskars. the blue vinyl letters are the paper studio. not sure about the black polka dot paper. and the happy birthday sentiment is from Papertrey Ink. Thanks so much for visiting me. sorry it has been so long. I am so excited to check out everyones blogs that i have been missing. Have a GREAT night!
Cheers
~Julie~

New BLog Layout!

Okay... so I do not have anything to post but I have a new blog layout!!!!
One step at a time people.. one step at a time!!!

i PAINTED all weekend. still slow moving. but getting there.

Big Weekend

OMG it has been over a month since i have last blogged. I did manage to squeeze in 6 mothers day cards. 3 designs 2 of each. i gave one to mom and sold the others at work. it was soooooo nice to play a little. i did not take a picture to post because they were totally cased!
so friday went out of town to my daughers dance competition in Huntsville Alabama. Our team did excellent!! lots of first place awards. Fun times.
sunday woke up to these delicious and sweet pancakes!! visited my mother in law and then met my sister and mom for dinner. super busy weekend but all was great. today i celebrate my 37th birthday!! DANG time goes by so fast! hubby just called me for dinner so gotta run. thanks for stopping by!
Cheers!
*Julie*

You Make Me Happy!

Good Easter Morning!!!
What a beautiful day in Tennessee today!!
So I realize it has been forever and 5 days since I last posted and visited blogs. Life has been CRAZY busy but good. It seems we are finally making a dent on the house project. Still so much to do however. Needless to say this is a scrapbook page I did a while back. I still have lots of my craftiness in a boxes. SOON though, soon I will be able to get out all of my crafty goodness! I just hate to get it out and all set up when I dont have the time to get to it right away. Once it is all out sitting there I will for sure not get any house work done!!! LOL. I cannot remember all of the goodies used to make this but what I do know is:
Paper kit is My Minds Eye.
Buttons: MME and PTI
Die Cuts: flowers and butterflies Cricut
STamp: (barcode label) CTMH
Thanks so much for visiting I hope to be back to my normal crafy self soon! Have a wonderful Easter day!!
Cheers!
~Julie~

STRIPPING, STRIPPING AND MORE STRIPPING

....WALLPAPER that is...
GOOD gravy. Wallpaper needs to be outlawed!!!
I still do not quite see light at the end of the tunnel yet. Although we have 3 rooms primed and ready to paint. We are finishing up the wallpaper tear down. I think at this point I am going to have to completely finish one room just to have a sense of accomplishment. We still have about half or more of boxes still not emptied. Slow wins the race right?
Cheers!
*Julie*

PAINTING THIS WEEKEND

ONE of these days i will have some artwork to share with you all!
This weekend is painting weekend. Mostly priming. Color paint will come soon I hope. we still are living out of boxes while we are still cleaning and scrubbing and fixing things. The rest of the furniture will be moved in this weekend also. So we are on our way... slowly. Working full time while trying to move into a house is exhausting!
Cheers!
*Julie*

whoop whoop INTERNET BABY!

Came home from work today and internet and home phone are in working order!! yeehaa!!!
I am going to spend a couple of mins looking at your blogs then I will have to get back to unloading boxes. We are leaving after work tomorrow for a dance competition in Louisville KY and wont be back until Sunday so no chance to unload boxes, get things in from the garage. I just cant seem to create or cook when boxes are all around. we are have canned Chicken Noodle Soup and grilled cheese for dinner! HA I am ready to be normal again. However it will still be a while yet.
Have a great weekend!! If your in TN it is supposed to be really nice like 60's!!!
Cheers
*Julie*

No Internet

well, we are all moved it. everything is in boxes. we really needed to wait til the carpet gets put in until we moved furniture or whatever around. so everything is piled in the basement, kitchen or dining room or where ever there is hardwood! cleaning has been a MASIVE project. this house has been empty for over 6 months and apparently the previous owners did not take very good care of it. we still do not have the t.v. or internet hooked up!! (i am on the computer at work shhhh... dont tell anyone!) dosnt matter really, we have way too much to do when we get home from work to worry about either! so anyway just wanted to pop in and say i hope to visit you all soon!!! the carpet is supposed to go in today! we will be able to move things around but we have to go out of town this weekend so NO work on the house! arrg. thanks for the visit and well wishes!
Cheers!
*Julie*

IT'S MOVING DAY!!!

OH! The looooonnnnnggggg awaited time is here! We closed on old house and new house last night. Woke up early this am to get the party started. Well.. I had to have some coffee and blog first. But I am ready to rock! Here are a couple of pics of the house. PLEASE keep in mind this is a fixer upper. I am a little frightened to show you most of the pics. The kitchen is HUGE! i have never had a large kitchen. I am very excited about it. My daughter who is 11 years old cannot wait to get an island for the kitchen. Now why in the world she cares about that? I don't know! HA. Check out the double oven!!! WoooHOOO!! I may start cooking again! The front of the house needs lots of work. Monday we start construction for a new driveway and stairs up to the front entry. We are replacing some wood with vinyl and fixing the roof. New carpet also goes in on Monday. We will have to move most everything in the basement until the carpet goes in. Today we start all the cleaning, scrapping, dusting, etc while the heating and air people put in our new heating unit. Hopefully that will get the walls warmed up to start painting tomorrow and Sunday before the carpet goes in on Monday. So LOTS to do. I need to drink up this coffee and get going.
Thanks for all the well wishes through this adventure!
Cheers!
*Julie*