My Junk Store Finds and INCHIES (OMG)

Well, I finally made some inchies and now I don't want to quit! LOL
I have a little McCarty's bowl and my goal is to fill it with inchies.

I used some images cut from a very vintage comic book I bought yesterday for $2.50, and images cut from the "B" encyclopedia. Yes, I am cutting up my encyclopedias. I can't even believe it.

Here are my inchies:







































And here are pictures of my junk store finds: the comic book was $2.50, like I said, and the book of Rudyard Kipling's poems, leather bound and very old, was $7.50. But the others were 50 cents! On the front of the Counting Rhymes book is a cool clock with moveable hands. It is awesome.



The lady who runs this particular store buys your "junk" and I just happen to have an absolute ton of stuff from this move, so I am putting together what I think she would buy. Easier than a garage sale, right?

So, I am going to take this stuff and put together some little paper crafting kits for friends who might be interested. Whaddaya think, Jules?

Would you buy this?

I found some cool stuff here and there and got in my mind that it would make a cute kit. Here's some of it. There are vintage and modern buttons, vintage ribbons and lace, vintage book pages, modern Martha Stewart stickers and alphas, a little paper, some flowers and clips.....
















I think my friend, Jules, is gonna like it. And I have more of this stuff. I found some old children's books at a thrift store for 50 cents each.











Oh, and here is this cool thing I made:
Made it at wordle.net

New Dare and Family Pictures

Well, I totally missed blogging last week, since we were hot and heavy into moving. And I do mean, HOT....it's July in Mississippi, and that = HOT!

First of all, there is a new dare at ASF, and it is mine.

LOL - we have had so many communication issues over there, with the message boards being slow sometimes, quick sometimes, working for some of us and not for others. I thought Sara wanted to do this week, so I told her she could. Then I noticed that it was the last week of SEPTEMBER (not July) that she signed up for. So I posted a dare, then got a message from her saying that she would get her dare posted as soon as the site would let her. I tried to send HER a message, but the site was slow at that time and wouldn't let me. Crazy, I tell you. But it looks like we got it figured out, kind of.

Anyway, here is my DARE:

$250 for tickets, $90 for t-shirts, $35 for snacks.........taking your daughters to the Jonas Brothers' concert? Priceless! Okay, I made that up! But it IS my challenge to you. Make a "priceless" page. Model it after those Mastercard ads. There are no other requirements or restrictions! Well, maybe just one: have fun.

Here's mine.
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We had a nice family visit a couple of weeks ago from my aunt and uncle, cousin and her daughters. Here are a few pics:















Scrappy was a real hit with the visiting family. He is such a little sweetie, wearing his HOT DOG shirt that Sarah got him. No, I'm not making him wear shirts in this heat. It wasn't that hot two weeks ago.

New Dare and New Pictures

First of all, there is a new DT Dare at A Scrappin Friendsy. It is an ad challenge.
Check it out here: DT Dare

Here is the page I did. The pictures of my nephews: Ryan and Brett. Brett is 3, Ryan is 15. They are my brother's boys.
Second of all, my little Scrappy is growing and is so sweet! We will be moving in just three days and I will have to spend some time seriously housetraining him, as he is not perfect yet. Here he is in his Paw & Order muscle shirt:



Seriously, don't you want to just eat him up? Well, keep yer paws off - he's mine!


This weekend we had a rare and wonderful visit from my aunt and uncle and cousins. They live in Huntsville. Here we all are after a yummy meal at Cock of the Walk:


So, PennyG - I hope you are seeing this! I love you!

Gotta go get ready to move things to the house. The niece and nephew are here and I am going to MAKE them HELP! The kids are not good about getting this done. grrrrrrrrr Of course, the Mighty Hunter is not as anxious to get it done as I am, either. Sigh.

Oh, I won a challenge at Tallyscrapper yesterday. It was a digital challenge to make a page at Scrapblog . Scrapblog is a neat online scrapping place. Of course, my scrapping talent didn't win the challenge for me, it was totally the cute picture on the page! Who can resist a puppy?!?!

Now I really am going. Really.

New Challenge for this Week

at the A Scrappin Friendsy blog:

This one is courtesy of Sara:

Happy July all you Friendsies!! It’s been a wonderful summer so far, full of family barbeques, swimming pools and sunshine. My challenge to you all?? Scrap it!! I want to see what summer means to you. The challenge?? Your title must be one word, ‘Summer’ and it must contain AT LEAST 1 paragraph about your summer so far, whether it be a fond memory or fun time–get those stories on paper!!

Upload your creation to the gallery and link it back to this thread (which is in the Cybercrops and Challenges forum). I will put you all in a random drawing for a little RAK from the store–and a little summer happy from me!! These are due by midnight July 12th.

Have fun!!

So go ahead, do a summer page. It's time.

I am in the last of the meetings to review the data on the Algebra I test items that were field tested this past year. It is going quite smoothly. Much more smoothly than the item review to choose new items for testing, and much more smoothly than the standard-setting meeting last week that I didn't attend. We should be finished early, which is always good!

Got to get back to work on packing and moving! And poor Scrappy? He is regressing in his training for lack of time spent on it. Not his fault: MINE. And the rest of the family has to take some blame as well.

Yesterday I bought a couple of CUTE pairs of sandals (one hot pink and one silver) and some cute tops. I also bought some of those Not Your Daughter's Jeans jeans. They are expensive but I like the fit. Great for older ladies!!!

No other news beyond that, ya know? Think I will go check out Raspberry Road blog, and Sugarplum Paperie blog, and Flerg's blog while I have a second. Then I've got to get ready to go!

My First Layout

Ha! No way is this my first layout, but it is my first layout with the July Kit from Tallyscrapper! The kit is designed by Leah and it shows! It is just so "her." And it made me want to just throw cute stuff on the page. So I hope that's what I did.

The Gutter Girlz challenge this week had to do with addictions. Well, I had just done a page about my lipstick addiction, but I am also fairly addicted to Coffee Mate Vanilla Caramel Sugar Free creamer. And my friend Jules had just done a page with a cute flower pot on it, and when you put it all together and stir, this is what you come up with:

It's not the best scan I've ever done. Probably should do a picture instead. hmmmm, maybe later.

And in case you think I have not been gettin' digi with it (oh my goodness I can't believe I even said that! Maybe I should backspace over all of this. But, no, I'll leave it. Let's be real.) I downloaded a template that I thought was REALLY cute from Kristin Aagard on her blog HERE
I've been a fan of her stuff since I saw it in a designer contest at Scrap Orchard, I think it was. Anyway, my page is so so so not as good as her examples, but here's what I did with it: And I learned that I am not very good with a template, but I enjoyed using it. So, thanks Kristin. Y'all go visit her blog and download this template, ya hear?

And so, I took my own challenge at A Scrappin Friendsy and made this page: It is simple, but I think the colors are so, so yummy! And, no, I didn't create the challenge so I could use this picture. It just so happened that the picture matched the jar of candy I bought at Tuesday Morning a few weeks ago, that matched Kim's ribbon, that inspired this picture:
that inspired my challenge.

Well, Happy Fourth of July to everyone! Happy Birthday to this great land of ours. Remember our precious freedoms and those who fight and have fought for them.

"Exciting News"

Well, kind of exciting. I am sitting here when I should be getting ready. Lots of errands to run today. Most of the errands relate to my "news."

#1: We call him Scrappy. Scrappy Coco. Or Scrappy Doo, or Scrap, or Scrappy Doo-Doo, or Scrappy Boy (or little turd......depending on what he's doing.). This is why we call him Scrappy:

Thanks for all the suggestions!

#2: We are moving. Soon. No, we didn't buy a house, but we found one to rent in the neighborhood that we have wanted to be in for a while. It is rare to find a rental here. Very rare, so we are very happy. Here it is:


So, my errands include, walking through the house again. Meeting Lacey for coffee. Going by the school to get some boxes. Taking the deposits to the landlord. Going to Walmart. Finding a vet for Scrappy.

Now, if you haven't already, you should totally visit A Scrappin' Friendsy to see my DT Dare for this week. Yes, I am hosting, and I like the dare. I like it, and I have taken it, but I haven't posted my page.

You should also visit Tallyscrapper
sometime today. I have a surprise there (I see it isn't posted yet, but it should be sometime today).

Now, I really do have to go get ready. As you can see, I have a lot to do today!