Before pics

Most of you already know that I just bought a house. I've been promising pictures forever so I thought I'd finally post some. Start at the end of this post and work up to see it start at before and work up to remodel pics. I can't ever get my blogger photos to upload right so I'm just leaving them as is. As you can see, lots of funky colors have been covered up thank goodness and as rooms begin to finish I'll post those as well.

These are the shelves already in the laundry room that also has a built in table so guess what? I've finally got my own scrap room!

This is the kitchen in puke purple. This room will be the most changed since we had to order new cabinets, paint it and new appliances. Thanks for looking and I'll post more soon!

ACBailey Designs November KOTM!

November kits are now available at ACBailey Designs! This kit is awesome. It's fall themed, but I live in southern Utah, so the fall weather doesn't happen. It was 80 degrees today, if that tells you anything. ;) So far I've made these two layouts, that are totally non-fall. (is that even a word? lol) The first was taken in March and the colors in the photos matched the papers so well. I also used Glossy Accents

and some Thickers to finish it off.

The second one was taken on the first day of school (it was 100 out, still very much summer weather! lol). I also used some Glossy Accent on this one as well, and one of my favorite things right now!! Bazzill In Stitchz!

Thanks for stopping by!

Some new ventures (and some old)

Well, I just signed up to be a Scentsy consultant. They are sellers of a wickless candle system that is just awesome. You buy a warmer and the wax comes in bricks. You break a few peices off and place them on top of the warmer and they melt and smell wonderful. Even better, if you want to change your scent but you still have wax in your warmer, you just pour the melted wax back into the original container and switch! Love this stuff. If anyone is interested you can go to my personal website and order. www.scentsy.com/gmaloney The warmers are 30 and the bricks are 5, however each brick lasts longer than a large scented candle so buying refills saves you money in the long run. So check it out!

Another venture is an etsy shop...I know everyone has one, so I thought why not me too? That website is:http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6203208

Third is something I've been doing for awhile now. I'm a hobbyist consultant for ACBailey Designs. http://www.acbaileyltd.com/ They offer an awesome collection of scrapbooking supplies, a kit of the month and FREE SHIPPING ON THE FIRST! NO MINIMUM ORDER! No other site I have seen does that! So if you do order make sure you enter my name in the consultant box!

Thanks for stopping by!

ACBailey October KOTM!

ACBailey's October kit is now available! For $30 you get all of this:


ACBailey's kits are great because they are always chuck full of product and always worth the money. I get on average 4-5 layouts from each kit. I have a few projects to share made with this kit but I'll have to share them later, I still need to get the images ready!

October Dixie Pieces Reveal!

This month's Dixie Pieces kit just screams "Halloween!" This kit has so much in it, I still can make at least 3 more layouts with the goodies. It's well worth the $28.00. This first one is one of my most favorite layouts I've done. I used a piercing tool to scratch along the mummy paper "Seams" then wrinkled and rolled them and love the after result!


This next one uses Core'dinations as the base. It is so much fun to play with! I just sanded the front of the black and the orange core shows through!

I like how this one turned out. The skull and cross bones is Tim Holtz Grunge board, so is the arrow. THe arrow I just inked it with some chalk ink and the skull I just used my Signo White pen to do some outlining.


Lastly, this is a paper mache witches hat by Provo Craft I picked up at Roberts. I just painted the base with green acrylic paint, then painted on crackle medium, then covered it in black so that green shows through the black cracks. Then I decopauged (Spelling?) torn strips of paper into the cone part then sealed it with another coat of the glue. The buckle is one of the acrylic shapes from the kit, covered in paper and that's another grungeboard skull and cross bones; and for that I colored it in with my white pen again then used glossy meduim over the top, giving it a more dimensional look.


This kit is available now and I suggest if you want it, get it! Don't let it sell out! For more details go to Dixie Pieces

Thanks for stopping by!

September ACB projects...

are up on the ACBailey blog! http://acbailey.blogspot.com/2008/09/some-october-afternoon-deliciousness.html check it out!

My new beginning...

So I've started another blog. This will be a blog to sort of document the quest for a healthier me I am starting now. If any of my 2 or 3 blog readers want to join me and others in becoming the healthiest they can be check it out at: Thoughts From a Fat Girl . I will be posting journal prompts, tips, health challenges, and in a few weeks I will start Weight Watchers and be posting diet tips that I find from my archives (I've been a member at least 10 times, the program works, I just slack off). Anyways, if you want to check it out go right ahead! Maybe you'll be inspired to join me!

August ACBailey Projects

It's my reveal day for my August ACB projects. Well, sort of, technically I could post them starting Saturday, but life happens. Anyways, the first set of products I got to use were from Bo Bunny. THey are the "futbol" collection and they look great with these pictures of Hayden.

Then I got to work with Dream STreet Birdie Bits paper. I LOVE the bright colors of this paper set and made these cards for my make and take projects and my I heart Watermelon layout of Miss Sue Sue.

New Beginnings...

Start tomorrow...well, sort of tomorrow. Technically it's tomorrow but I"m meaning Sunday the 24th....Stay tuned..

Check this out!

My (well the ones I designed) are available through ACBailey Designs. Check them out here. I'm very happy how they turned out and I hope everyone likes them!

I can't believe I forgot...

to post my August Dixie Pieces projects! The kit this month is called Azure dreams. It's got this aqua, tealish, color theme and it's a great kit. There is so much stuff in there it's amazing! I made these layouts, an altered project and still have plenty of paper left, and chipboard! Then I also played with their digi kit "Joy In The Journey". Now, I'm a TOTALLY a digi beginner. So my stuff isn't that great but it's a start! Oh, and that font on the last digi layout...yeah, that's mine. :)

July ACB projects

For this month's projects I got to use American Crafts Keeler 2 Collections. Check it out here.

Ever feel like slappin yourself in the head?

Well, I sure do...I'm such a dork, for many reasons, but this time I've outdone myself. At ACBAiley Designs, I just placed an order for these yummy papers and chipboard stars....

However........I didn't realize that I ordered the same dang things 2 weeks ago and they are sitting in a box next to my scrap supplies!!! I'm a dork!! I can see mistakinly ordering one thing twice, but 2 things from the same orders???? Oh well...looks like I may have to offer a RAK somewhere...hmmmm....stay tuned to see where I'm going to RAK this at!

My Izzy

As we were eating dinner, our sweet puppy dog decided to lay down under the table while we ate like we usually do, but this time she decided to use my foot as a pillow. How cute is this? (the dog, not my pedicure needed toes!)

June DP SKetch challenge

I decided to host a sketch challenge over at www.dixiepieces.com for the month of June. I think it's a fairly simple sketch and tomorrow night I'm doing a layout with it which of course I'll post here. But if you want to see the sketch head over to Dixie Pieces and check them out. There are some really talented ladies there and the community is really fun and every challenge that you do for the month of June (same for every month) gets you into a drawing for a RAK from Sherry and Brenna, the owners. So come check them out! You won't regret it!

THe rest of my Scrap Scouts works

I forgot to post these but they were what I did for the Scrap Scouts Challenge at ACBailey. We've ended the challenge and are having a "scrap-off" to determine the second place winner! It'll be exciting to see what those ladies come up with!
This one was for the Flower Power Badge. You had to use 10+ flowers and I think I did it!



THis one was for the Altered art Badge. I just altered a composition book for my niece Jayde. I made the butterfly out of Maya Road chipboard petals and buttons...isn't it cute?



This one was for power of 3, you had to use scraps, doodling and 15+ of one item and I chose to use buttons. I used some leftover Cherry ARte "Boy Story" papers for this one.


This one was for the Class I hosted. It was a Stamping Badge class and the challenge was to use at least 3 stamps and no patterned paper. Patterns in anything else was ok, just no patterned paper. I was impressed with the ladies work.



And this one was for the Journaling Badge. It had to have 7 lines of journaling. I have been wanting to do this picture for ever and this whole layout came about so easily. Plus that's a chipboard scalloped circle from Fancy Pants that I've wanted to use forever and finally got to use it!

June Dixie Pieces "Milky Way"

So it's the first of the month so I thought I 'd share my works from the June Dixie Pieces "Milky Way" kit. It contained paper and transparancies from Fancy Pants "About a Boy" line and some yummy Cosmo Cricket, which I was excited to use because they fit so perfect for some of my son's soccer photos. I loved the bright colors and highly recommend this kit to everyone!

More Scrap Scouts

Here's 2 more items for the Scrap Scouts Challenge at ACBailey. One was to use 90% ACBailey Goodies. I used some Bo Bunny papers, stickles, bazzill flowers, AC buttons and AC big brads. BTW that cutie is my neice Riley.

The other was to make 3 cards out of the same materials, but have them not look alike.

TFL and have a good day!

Ok, last one....

Post that is. FOr today. I forgot to add these that I did for Scrap Scouts.