My new evening purse

Carey came into the store a few weeks ago with these very cool balsam wood 'containers' from Dollarama on Circle Dr. Thank you Carey for this idea and for making the trip to pick up a few for me.

painted

some Silver glimmer mist..

A little bling and I have an evening purse.

Cute eh?

Happy Birthday to me!!

Yup! It's my birthday today. I am 51 and I can say that because I feel like I am 41! :) (Most days anyways) I am a child of the King - so I have no complaints!

Didn't do anything too special today - church this morning and than an all afternoon church meeting and here I am indulging in some computer time this evening. I also finished the ironing and cut Harolds hair today - so it was productive! And I love productive days! It's part of being a type A I guess.

But I have to say the best part of the day was seeing the look on David's face (after dropping a million hints) when I said to him just after lunch that "umm today is my birthday dear"

He TOTALLY forgot and felt so bad. Poor guy. Then on our way to the meeting we stopped in at Tims for a quick decaf and I told the nice guy at the till - "It's my birthday and so I am going to have a Boston cream!!" He said "hey Happy Birthday!" and I said "thanks! Your the first one today to wish me a happy birthday!" He looked at David and I got to see that completely embarrassed and ohhhh soooo sorry look again. LOL

If you're reading this dear, I can say all this because you treat me like it is my birthday every day of the year (well, almost), so REALLY, it's okay!! However I do reserve the right to use this against you in any way I like. (wink wink) Anyways March 16, my day! :) Remember that dear because if you forget next year things may be different...wait a min as I recall my 50th....never mind.

Now to some altered projects. I was dashing through Walmart last week with the plan to be in and out of there in 8 min flat and eyed these really creative picture frames - grabbed two. They looked like this before I did a little painting.

I inked and shimmer sprayed the matting (to match my office/scrapbook/computer/create room) and then inserted some fun photos that I changed to B&W. On the laugh picture frame I altered the photos in Photoshop to give them a bit of a posterized look. They were "soft" photos and needed something funky done to them!

Now I just have to decide where to hang them!

Blessings to you all!

Julie

Mother's Day Gift.

I have today off - YAHOO!! and I should have got the oil changed in the car, got some laundry done, gone for a bike ride and done some sit-ups, washed the car, picked up some groceries, looked for a wedding gift for a wedding coming up....but you know what? I played most of the day with my scrapbooking supplies...and okay I did a little laundry and made some delicious turkey rice soup! But most of the day was scrapbooking. I made a little gift for my Mom for mothers day...so much fun. These just came in to Just Scrap It on Tuesday...and I happened to be working Tuesday night...sooooo of course I bought a whole bunch of stuff! Couldn't wait to use it all.

This was so fun and really easy to do. I searched all my pictures and found as many pics of my Mom with us kids - seven of us (who had time to take pictures) then resized them and cropped them. Box says Best Mom in the world.

Inside are the photos on a cute scalloped mini chipboard album.

Lots of fun.
thought for the day...
Job 19:25-29 For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!
Blessings!
Julie