Crate paper DIY shoppe

I've been taking advantage of my little but if down time before the semester goes nuts. I played with a 6x6 paper pack from crate paper DIY shoppe. I'm playing with patterns and ink.  

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January card club

Well I went to crop at a local library for my friend's birthday in early January.  I was able to plan card club for the month.  I was nice to go be creative with ours for awhile.  Here is the result 2 masculine cards using close to my heart pro player pack. The girls liked them, so that's always good.

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My busy December

JaDecember was a crazy last month of 2013, but it was crazy in a good way.  I had another successful semester of grad school.

I made a great gift for my bestie. I used a frame from Michael's, word collage and Cricut everyday cartridges, and paper from hobby lobby and glitter pape from ac Moore.  A little side note about glitter paper I used the close to my heart glitter paper first and I LOVED it but only had one sheet and made a mistake so I HAD to use glitter paper from AC Moore.  I hated it the glitter made a mess and was falling off. Close to my heart's there was no mess.

She loved it. 

I had an awesome Christmas I received 2 of the art class dolls (I wanted) and Elizabat from mom and dad.  Along with the other items in this picture.  I'm blessed.  I probably could have gotten nothing and would still be thrilled.  Just seeing my nephews and my family was enough.  

All my ghouls from November to December.  I am loving them all and tucked in the back I got miss webrella! Yes the doll I stood in line for an hour and didn't get at comic con.  She was a Christmas gift from my boyfriend.  I was truly surprised he's always picking on me for my doll collection.  Of course he knows he's not going to stop me.  Lol.

My Alex and ani collection has been expanded I got my aunt bracelet (from Jamison) my apple (from my brother, his wife and Landon) the motorcycle and a wind and fire daddy's little girl from mom and dad.

Jamison was awesome! He loved everything he got and was so animated!  He even loved the pants he got and Landon is such a cutie.  I love these boys so much being their aunt is by far one of my favorite titles in the world!

My little cousin got married, so we went to his wedding the day after Christmas.

I rang in the new year with my babies.

My amazing, goofy parents and family.

My bestie (who was just resting her eyes lol). 

 My boyfriend who was loving the attention from the girls.  I think Jamison was a little jealous.  I sure was they never climb all lover me like that.

Jamison and "yaya" had a little cuddle time.  Jamison wasn't feeling well.  He and Melissa did wake up in time for the ball drop.  On to a new year! I'm excited to see what it has in store!  I'm hoping some crafting outside of card club would be awesome.  I will be crafting Friday and Saturday this weekend to celebrate Melissa's birthday.  Sorry for picture overload but I haven't posted in forever, so I figured it was okay. I'm hoping to post more often but sometimes with school it's just not possible. 

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Not sure what to do....

I know I said I wanted to come back and share stuff I did for card class, but of course I haven't and frankly at the moment its just not gonna happen.  I'm so stressed over the end of the semester stuff and I just need a minute to vent.  I feel like things just are getting piled on top of piles and soon they are all going to crash on my head.  On top of school my cat Noelle has gone missing.  I'll be honest and say she isn't the friendliest cat in the world and she really didn't like me, but the fact that she is missing has really gotten to me.  Noelle was a stray when I got her almost 2 years ago and she has always kinda been interested in outside a few months ago against my better judgement Noelle started going outside for an hour or two at most and she never really left the front yard. Thursday day night she went out as always and at about 11 pm I realized she hadn't come home.  I called her and looked around her usual hangouts and I could not find her.  Now its been 3 days and still no sign of her.  I think the thing that bugs me the most is that I have no sense of closure.  I don't know where she went or what happened to her and I don't like that feeling.  This is why I only like having indoor cats.  I don't have to worry about where they went or what they got into.  I know they are safe at home with me.  Now my indoor male cat has been off his rocker since she left and I don't know what to do.  He is used to having a friend.  He's never been the only cat and kinda up my butt more then usual.  I'm not sure what to do next... Do I wait and hold on to hope that Noelle will suddenly reappear, do I add a new cat to the family or do I just do nothing and deal with Raven driving me crazy... For the moment I wait and ponder on the choices I have before me and deal with school.  I'm just sad that she's not here anymore.

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uuggghhh!

I feel emotionally drained and warn down but school, but the end is near.  One more semester of classes then student teaching so by the end of December next year I will have my special education degree then its just a matter of doing 5 classes of literacy.  I'm excited, but sooo stressed.  It seems like the last 5 weeks are going to be project after project due.  I just can't wait for my winter break.  The sad thing about being so crazy with school and work is that there is no time for creating.  I'm hoping to get some in during the break I have.  I have to play catch up and share the last few card classes as soon as I have some time.

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Trying something new

So I started collecting monster high dolls a few months back. I used to collect cabbage patch but frankly they became pretty boring. I like monster high because they are smaller and their not Barbie (I love Barbie but if you have seen one you've seen them all.  In my collecting i have come across some defective dolls and for the most part Mattel has been awesome about replacing them. The neat thing is that some of them they haven't wanted back. Which works out nicely for my nieces and nephew.  Well the last defective doll I got had a "lazy" eye.  The placement was all off and I couldn't just dump it in the kids toy basket so I started looking up how to customize her. I wipe off her make up and went to town.  I started over about 5 times. Certain things just weren't coming along the way I wanted, so I started over. Well today I finally finished her.  I am super critical but I realized that she is my first and she's not too bad. So here she is before: 

Cleaned: 

Midway: 

Finished: 

Her eyes are a bit intense.  I wish I got them to be a little softer.  Maybe the next one will be a little better but it's all a learning experience and takes time and patience. I got her a new outfit. I was on the fence if I will try again but I might... We will see. 

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Unity stamp Jen girl stamp-teacher card

So I HAD to buy the Jen girl stamp set from unity stamp company.  Why? Cause she's a teacher of course.  I love these new girl stamp sets and this one was a must have.  So I have been working on coloring her in a million colors.  And making these cards and I finally put them together today.  I used a green paper that was supposed to look like lined paper.  On the sheets that the red margin was missing (cause I cut it) I drew it in.  I added so alphabet ribbon so it looks like the border that is in just about every classroom.  Then simply glued the chalk board on and popping up the teacher.  Then stamped "thanks for teaching".  I think they are simple but cute.

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