The newest toy..the Yudo!

So I bought the Yudo...I know crazy! But I have to tell you that it is very fun...and I haven't even scratched the surface of the fun things that I can do with this thing!

OK...I will admit I have ruined about 10 t-shirts...but now I have the hang of it!
Luckily for me my sister was in town and her MIL does real silk screening for a living...so she gave me some helpful tips(that I really needed!) I will say that getting the emulsion sheets on was a challenge for me but finally...success!

For Claire's birthday party I made shirts that the girls could decorate. It was a lot of fun for the girls and it only took me an hour to clean the scrap dungeon. I had made the shirts fro night shirts but the girls all wore them to school...which I thought was pretty funny.

So memorial day week-end is upon us and I am ready for a fun 3 day weekend!

Have a great one!

W-

The return of the Scrap dungeon...no more!

Well, the basement is finished and for those of you that may visit my very neglected blog you will be happy for me that I have once again have access to my scrapping supplies! It was painful to pack up the dungeon and even more painful to try and get to them while the basement was being finished. But TA-DA! I made numerous trips to IKEA and although I am not completely done at least I am done enough that everything is back to where I can get to it. As you will see that my walls are pretty barren and I do not have a desk yet...but I am very picky and I haven't found one that I like...or let me re-phrase that...I haven't found one that is under 500 that I like. I am so excited to be able to get all of my stuff out and start scrapping again and cutting and creating!

Initially I was going to make this a toy room for Deacon but Greg convinced me that I should make it a scrap/craft room, I think that the sight of all of my scrapping supplies that I had "organized" back into the closet was driving him crazy! That and the fact that I had completely stopped scrapping because it was just to big of a pain in the rear to get anything out. Now before you feel to bad for Deacon we do have a toy room upstairs and he refuses to go up there and play...all of his toys are in the family room. Now that the basement is done he won't come down here unless someone is down here so it was wise not to make another toy room...I would then have 2 rooms that he wouldn't play in.

This has been a crazy year and although I usually bounce back quickly from personal tragedies...and like everyone I have had some doozies! I have really struggled with the death of my sister. There are son many emotions that you feel when there is a death in a family and I think that I am finally at acceptance. When my mother passed away 7 years ago I was so busy trying to get everything in order and keep my fragile family together that I really did not give myself time to grieve...and I think that with the death of my sister that all of the feelings that I had boxed up and put on the shelf were unpacked and laid out on the floor again...like a really unhappy Christmas. But it has been 2 months now and I have been trying to get my "head back in the game."

So I am excited to get creative again! It was fun to get everything out and get it organized. I will tell you that I was really digging IKEA- I was able to get everything that I wanted so that the furniture is the laid out the way that I wanted it...and I put it all together myself! I am now an expert furniture builder!

So I am back and ready to create and share!!!

W-