Yesterday, I had an awesome class at Ink It...it was the altered cigar box memory box called Wings of Hope. For those of you who emailed me about buying kits, they will be going out in the next couple of days. What a great group of women I had in class...not only were they fun to teach but it was wonderful to see and hear how they interacted with each other...some new friendships were made yesterday.
After I finished setting up the classroom, I had a little time to browse and came across some new groupings of fabric...I tossed these three sets into the basket....wonderful combos. Some of you had emailed me about the fabrics I previously posted and I had mentioned that a good number of them were from a company called My Weakness but that I couldn't find anything about them online. Well...here's why! Mary Ellen, owner of Ink it, put these fabrics together herself... they are her weakness and, I must say, mine as well. I asked her yesterday if she would take mail orders on them and she said that she really can't because there are no guarantees the fabrics will be available again. So, if you are a "townie", stop in and see the awesome new combos. Great to add into a layout or a little fabric book. And, if you're coming in to town for Art Unraveled, Creative Escape or the scrapbook convention in September, stop by and ask Mary Ellen about her weakness!
I came home to find Ashley, Elizabeth, and one of Elizabeth's younger sisters, Erica, all scrappin' on the kitchen table...and also spread out on the sofa, the ottoman, the rocker..... :)) They were having a blast creating their Disney travel journals (Erica was doing some out of her stash of misc. photos)...all three were doing such a great job. It was fascinating to see how different their styles were...and yet how cool all of their pages were. I wish I had thought to grab the camera and get a few shots but....I didn't! Hopefully, they'll do it again sometime soon and I'll be able to capture it and post a pic.
On Friday, I went over to Comp USA to pick up some yellow ink for my Epson printer. I swear that printer eats yellow ink for breakfast, lunch and dinner...plus snacks. I have two packages of colored ink, each one is missing only the yellow ink because I've had to replace it so often...isn't that weird? Wonder why it does that? Anyway, while I was there, I decided to pop into Marshalls...I love browsing through that store...you just never know what you're going to find. I had been looking on e-bay for vintage kitchen scales to replace the very functional, but very unattractive (and very unsexy) postal scales I've been using to weigh out coffee grounds, horse supplements, etc. What I was finding was that the best scales are from the UK, but with the pound so strong against the dollar, the prices were pretty high and the shipping was even higher. A lot of the scales from the USA were so rusted, I'd be afraid to bring them into my kitchen, let alone put food on them...plus on quite a few of them, the numbers were worn off. Well, I love vintage, but in this case, I needed practical as well...how in the world would I know what I had if I didn't see the numbers? Well, back to Marshalls...I'm walking down the housewares aisle...never know what you'll find, right? Out of the corner of my eye, I see this kitchen scale. I backtrack and take another look...I can't believe my eyes. Here's this brand new scale, made in the UK, just the right color and, get this...at the very nice price of $14.99. I grabbed it off the shelf...the only one there!!!!!...and went off to find a cart. When I got to the cash register, the cashier couldn't believe I had kitchen scales in my cart. She told me that she had just gone to Wal-Mart and picked up a set (not made in the UK!) for 14.99. She was quite upset that she missed that good buy in her own store! I'm tickled...off the scale tickled...hee, hee.
This is hibernation time in Phoenix when we stay inside and hug the air conditioning vents...most pools feel like bath water this time of year so aren't too refreshing. Even the dogs have their spots in front of the vents...Thatcher in the family room and Bodie in the Master Bath...smart puppies!
Hope you're having a great weekend.
My passion for books began when in early 2002 when I started teaching book classes at the legendary Memory Lane. It was an incredible experience to then be able to work with many talented artists as the lead on The Book Book, published by Autumn Leaves. If you haven't had a chance to see this book, it's really pretty cool...it definitely stretched us as artists to come up with fun, doable but challenging and meaningful projects. You can get a copy of The Book Book here.
