Scrapbookers Dream!

So here it is. An entire scrapbookers room for thousands less than you would pay by purchasing these items one at a time. I have over 8,000 items. Many of the names in this lot are Close to My Heart, Jolee’s, Paper Bliss, Stickles, and MANY MANY more. I am selling my entire scrapbook room. I will also include all the plastic storage boxes that this stuff is stored in, so that you can keep your new scrap booking stuff organized. I am selling this for $150.00.
This stuff retails at over $4000.00.

PAPER, Embellishments, Stickers, Chalks, Frames,
Die Cuts, Rub-on’s, Letters, small tools
Tags, Ribbons, Fibers, Eyelets, Brads, Flowers,
Card kits...

I also have 2 books that will show you how to make beautiful layouts for scrapbook pages as well as I also have a 3 ring binder with The Close to My Heart Reflections Card Kit Recipes. The books are filled with over 100 layouts and designs. The Binder is a 500 page binder with over 700 card making ideas that will tell you the entire recipe in making the pictured card. It tells you all the dimensions, and how to cut your paper to get the most usage out of your paper pieces. I also have another book that is called Bradittude and it shows you how to get super creative with brads.

I also have the following Clear Acrylic Stamp Sets from Close to My Heart (each set retails for at least 14$ - 23$ each): (the u= used 'only once or twice might I add' and the n=brand new never used)
Solo I - u
Solo S - u
Solo V - u
Holly Jolly Season - u
Elegant Script - u
Playful Caps – u
Playful Lowercase – u
Playful Numbers – u
Birthday Script – n
Party Invitation – n
Halloween Dingbats – u
You’re Special – n
Throughout the Year – u
Christmas Wishes – n
Curly Greetings – u
Post Marked – n
Little Treasures – u
Card Commentary – u
Thanksgiving Day – n
Soul Mates – n
Holiday Jubilee – n
Kissy Fish – u
Watermelon Picnic – u
Flutter – u
Twinkle Toes – u
In the Wild – n
Frogs – u
Whimsy Garden – u
Dino Roar – n
Joy Forever – u
Gracious Greetings – n
Love is – n
Autumns Treasure – u
Frosty Friends – u
Seasons of change – n
Beauty of Christmas – u
Warm Wishes – u
Curly Sentiments – u

I also have over 34 Different CTMH (Close to my heart) Ink Stamp Pads. I also have 36 coordinating colors of chalk to match the papers and inks. I have over 300 Die Cut Stickers, as well as over 200 different sets of stickers. I have over 40 Jolee’s Boutique embellishment sticker sets, and over 30 Paper Bliss Sticker sets. I have 2 stickers that have miniature led lights on them that light up when you push buttons.

I have over 1000 different brads, and eyelets. I also have all the tools to set these items into your project.

I have a large roller bag to carry your scrapbook projects in. This is a great asset to have to bring your projects to parties or crops.

I also have two paper cutters, and two sharp micro tipped scissors from Close to My Heart.

I have over 700 different 12 x 12 papers as well as 5 large 12 x 12 paper packs that have over 50 pages in each. I also have many paper kits that have matching papers, embellishment, and stickers. All of my paper matches all of my stamping inks.

I will also include all the storage boxes that you see in the photographs so you can organize your new scrap booking supplies.

There is just way too much to write down. Trust me when I say this is a scrap bookers dream. This is my entire scrapbook room being sold.

You can get all of this for just $150.00. Again all of the items you will receive retails at over $4000.00. This will make a great Christmas gift for yourself or for someone you love.

these are the light up stickers.

Paper pack like this one

script stamps like these

these are line stamps to help you journal in a cute way on your pages.

this is one of the embellishment holders. Each little circular plastic tube contains at least 50 brads, or eyelets, hinges, ribbon threaders, and etc.

This is a large 12 x 12 divider holder that houses over 700 Sticker sets

These are watercolor pencils, and the water color brush to add dimension to your projects.

Just a small and I mean small sample of the die cut sticker sets

Quotes and rub ons

the eyelets, and two different eyelet setter tools

these are three bottles of "liquid Glass" and one bottle of "flocking".

Each one of these color sets have over 150 different embellishments from brads, eyelets, frame holders, jewels and so much more. But they are all color coordinated.

These are the stamp cleaner pads with two spray bottles, and one large refill of the liquid. these are what you put the stamps on. These are the acrylic stamp blocks.

These are new stickles. They add glitter to your project without adding so much gloppy glue. They are so awesome.

These are some of the large 12 x 12 paper packages. A lot of the papers also have glitter on them. Beautiful paper.

Sing a little song...Do a little Dance...Get Down Tonight!

Wow, it is so nice to finally be able to have the smell of homemade bread in the house again. I got my Bosh bowl in the mail yesterday, and do I promptly washed it in the dishwasher, oiled it really well with olive oil, and then proceeded to make my first loaf of homemade bread in over 5 months. All the kids were swarming around me, and didn't want to go to bed. Finally with the promises of eating the bread for breakfast they all reluctantly went to bed. Each of them waking in the morning asking if they could have their bread now. It's so nice to know they too love the taste of homemade bread with a little real butter put on top. Here are the beauties. They tasted really good too. In fact I got sick because I ate a piece with some honey on it. I can't stomach honey or more than half a piece of bread at a time. But it was worth getting sick over.

Bad Me!!

OK OK I know I messed up. I didn't post anything for yesterday or the day before. I have a good reason...My camera (well my point and shoot) ran out of batteries and I need to get to the store. However I haven't had time, since here is my day yesterday. I woke up at 8am, got dressed, showered, and then got my mother in law, myself and Nessie into the car. Sabrina stayed home to have Daddy time, and Isaac was home sick. SO I started driving, and didn't stop driving till about 1am this morning. I drove 18 hours. I'm TIRED, yet here I am at work. I did have one hang up though driving back home. Nessie was such a good girl the entire way. But as we all do when driving, we ate bad food for us. "The Drive Through Window", and our bodies didn't like us for it, since we don't do it very often. Well about an hour away from home in the pitch dark of night, away from any sign of civilization, Nessie woke up instantly and threw up all over me, the car, the console, the portable DVD player...EVERYTHING! Well since I was alone, and didn't want to get out anywhere but a WELL LIT Gas station, I drove like that for 1/2 and hour. I then got out and cleaned up as best I could. I had to throw out the DVD player (there was throw up inside it where I didn't know throw up could go. Absolutely no way to save it. I threw out the mat, and then put all her clothes and shoes into a plastic bag. I then drove the rest of the way home smelling vomit and "Christmas Spice" air freshener. Needless to say I was never happier to get out of the car. It needs a good shampooing. Which when I can afford it...will be done. Nessie feels fine now, so I think it was just a combo of driving all day and eating bad food that our bodies weren't used to. So now I am off to get new batteries, and take my pictures. It's too much to lug around my big SLR just to take candids on this project. But I use it more than I do this point and shoot. Anyway..I will be much better tomorrow about documenting my life. I promise.

Day Four - Extreem Buying Power!

OK...Here we go. This was a lot of fun. I woke up, and looked at my email as I usually do. I then got an email saying I was outbid on this BOSH bowl and to enter a higher bid. I only had 10 min to do so. So I upped my bid, and watched in anticipation. Mind you I was looking at having to spend over 80$ plus shipping to replace my broken BOSH bowl. So I watched and watched. It went up dollar by dollar for a little bit, and then at about 2 min stopped at my price. of 51$ with free shipping. I continued to watch and watch, and I WON!!! 51$ for my bowl replacement. I did a little dance, ad went to check out and pay for it. Even better news arrived for me. I had a 10% off coupon from Ebay on ANY item. SO I used it. I paid 47$ for my new Bosh bowl. That's a savings of over 50%. Actually more since I am getting a dough hook, the splash ring and top which were an additional 65$ from the Bosh replacement store. SO I got a steal of a deal.

Then the kids came downstairs for breakfast. I made cinnamon rolls, and they were really yummy.
Then Nessie hurt herself, so we had to ice her big bruise. Poor thing.

Then we got ready and headed to take Grandma to Vala's Pumpkin Patch. Holy smokes it was swamped. But the kids all had a great time.

It was Star Wars days at the pumpkin patch, and so we snapped these cool pics. Sabrina was afraid, so she wasn't in any of them. We thought about Taylor and BenBen and Owen while we were there, and said that maybe one year they could come see the storm troopers and visit. It was a really fun time. One question though....how do you get a straight man to wear black spandex with white thingies taped to him I will never know.

The kids also made old fashioned candles. They had fun doing that as well.

We were there for about 5 hours. They wore poor Grandma out. And Myself. So we came home and relaxed and all went to bed early.

Day Three - ROAD TRIP!

Ok. Sorry I didn't get this posted yesterday morning. Trust me, my day wasn't that hard to forget. I went to bed, and then woke up 1am. I got all the kids into the car (Carrying each of them asleep down 2 flights of stairs to the car) And then said my prayer for the safety of us and the car. So here is the time we left the driveway. 1:12 am. And so starts my 7 hour driving journey all alone with my thoughts and three sleeping children.

Sabrina was in the front seat with it pushed all the way down. She did really well that way. Still wished I had a mini van to do this with.
I accidentally woke up Nessie while taking this picture, but she quickly fell back asleep. She was laying down on the back seat sleeping.
And here is Isaac asleep. He was lying ion the floor of the back seat, but apparently he sat up to put his head on the back seat and slept sitting up. Kids can sleep in the funniest positions.
Anyway I continued to drive forever, and saw my first sunrise in a very long time. I don't ever get up this early. Unless there is a good reason.
Here it is a lot lighter outside, but still really early. I ended up getting to Mom Caffertys by 8:30 am. Only about 1/2 hour after the kids woke up for the day.
We then stopped off at IHOP for breakfast, and sat and visited till about 10, and then headed back in the car to Nebraska. We got home ab0ut 7 pm. At that point since I was up forever, I went to sleep.

By the way....I don't reccomend taking midterms, being up all night, and getting a 2 hour nap, and then driving for 16 hours straight. Not the best of ideas.

Daily Life Day Two...

Well today started off really well. Will decided he would take the kids to school for me for the first time, and so I was able to take another shower in the morning to warm up. I got too cold last night, and so I had to stand under the hot water for about 20 min to warm back up. My body is weird that way ever since the surgery. Now I know why mom would always walk around the house huddled into herself shivering saying she was cold, and she had on socks a sweatshirt, and sweat pants. I am now doing the same thing. Go figure. Must be a sign of old age. :-) Sorry Mom.

Then after my shower I ate a really nutritious breakfast (NOT!) of Ramen Noodles. Ask anyone in my family I always eat strange things for breakfast.

I then went outside and walked down the street to work. It was FREEZING cold outside. It was about 40 degrees outside. Needless to say I have broken out the winter wear. But it was a nice walk, woke up all my senses, and cleared my head for the day. It was nice to have some alone time.
This is the back side of the building I work in. This is the Pharmacy School/Med School. This is just a tiny tiny part of Creighton. The campus is extensive.

After walking to work, I always cross into these doors. This is the Creighton Medical Copy Center where I have a small space to do the Graphic Designing. Hate the space, but LOVE the flexibility and hours, and the people I work with.This is what I see everyday. Basically a Kinkos or Office Depot.

This is me waiting for a copy job to get off my printer so I can print out some of my stuff that people always says is a "RUSH" job, and they needed it like yesterday. You then do the job, and put it on the shelf. Email them that it is done, and then it sits there for a day or two. It never ceases to amaze me what people call URGENT.
This is my little area. I usually use both computers simultaneously, but someone else was using one of them today since theirs was on the fritz.And here I am back at home with the kids after I had taken my midterm. I did quite well, and am sure I aced it. Here are the kids with the little things Grandma and Grandpa Larsen sent to them for Halloween. I wish I could have snapped the camera out faster to get their reaction to seeing a package with their names on it. You would have though Christmas, Easter, Halloween, and any other huge holiday was today. They were so excited, and were jumping up and down yelling. It was so fun to see how happy it made them.

Then, I decided since I did so well on my midterms, and I haven't killed anyone in the process of studying for them that I would treat myself to a pedicure. So here it is. The nails are DK. Blue glitter, almost black. I did it for Halloween. Didn't want to pay any extra for artwork. I know I know I'm cheap! What can I say.
So there you have it. My day. It is now 8pm and I'm off to bed, since I am getting up at midnight to drive to IL to get Grandma Corrinne. The kids are way excited. So I guess I will be posting later tomorrow. Good Night! All in all I'd say it was a pretty ordinary but good day.

My Life in Photos!

My sweet sister Tiera sent all of us in the family a challenge. To log your daily events for a week through pictures and words. We are to take a camera with us everywhere and log our daily life, then blog about it each night. So here we go. I started today, and will continue through till Tuesday next week. So have fun checking out my site daily.

First off I got ready for work and school this morning. That always consists of doing my hair and makeup and getting dressed. I then take the kids to school, and then park the car and walk to work. I had also put up my window ghosts late last night. SO here is what I saw leaving this morning. When I got to work today I was just fine, until one of the Medical School Advisors brought in all these baby pictures. They were of her sisters baby who only lived for 8 hours due to Hydro Anencephaly. Where the baby is born with the perfect body head and all, but inside there is no brain, just fluid. Well that was all I needed to get me to cry as I was designing her posters and program for the funeral. All I could think about was Gavin, and Gabe, and how lately so many little souls I know are being taken early to help in these the Last Days. So here is what I looked like after I blubbered for a while, and melted off my makeup. Thank goodness I'm in a little hole, and no one really sees me.

Then I came home and let the dog out to go potty from being locked in the house all day. I then got onto my computer and did my homework and got my midterm ready to go. I took a picture of the car, because I feel like I live in it. I'm running all over the place. Kids to school, from school, shopping, and any errand that needs to be run. I then went to the craft store to get more yarn, since I ran out. I'm working on some gifts for Christmas. ;-) Wink Wink, Nod Nod! While we were there, they had the Christmas shoppe open, and so Nessie and I looked at the Christmas stuff. She saw this pink tree that was actually pretty cool.

Then Will taught the kids science at CLC (which is an after school program) at King Elementary, so that is him finishing up. We then went to the grocery store to get stuff to make dinner, and Nessie had had enuf. In fact all the kids had enuf and were whiny and tired, so I snapped a pic of Nessie throwing a fit by being passive. So funny. Anyway now it is time for the kids to go to bed, and me to finish up homework. I will probably be up till about 11:30 and then go to bed. I hope tomorrow will go ok with my Midterms. Till tomorrow......

My favorite month is October

Hi All, Will Here...

I just have to say how much I'm enjoying the cooler weather. I never was one for 90-degree heat, even when I was young and trim. Now that I'm older and wider, I find that I prefer the cool Autumn days to any sweltering Fourth-of-July.

Along with the cooler days come cooler nights. Yet our squash and jalapenos continue to produce despite the rain (and resulting lack of sunshine). The garden is being put-down for the season and our "spare-time" is being put into other areas, like a visit to Nobbies to see the Halloween decorations.

Amber is in charge of the Conestoga Branch's playgroup Halloween party next Thursday morning. I have been tapped to provide some fun with dry ice, etc for the kids. Amber had to twist my arm pretty badly to get me to make that promise.

Speaking of over-extending myself... I was asked if I could give any further science demonstrations for King Elementary on any Monday or Wednesday afternoons from now through December. I was able to accommodate a few days for October, but only a single day in Novemeber. Time is a very limited resource, and I just don't learn new things as quickly as I did when I was 19. But I was able to set couple of dates in December, so I should get enough enjoyment out of these visits by the time the semester ends.

As most of you know, my mother will be living with us once her lease is up in April. In an effort to get her excited about coming to live with 3 of her 4 grandchildren, we invited her out over the weekend and part of Fall Break. It will be an effort to go get her, but I felt it wa important for her to do more than know that she will be living with us. I want her to be so happy about this new (albeit very different) chapter in her life that she counts the days until she comes here. In short, she needs to come, but I want her to want to come to Omaha. Between the Children's Museum, the zoo, and the library, I'm sure when she's settled-in that she'll wonder why she took so long to accept our invitation to live in our home.

Of course, this means that we'll be moving when our lease ends, shortly thereafter. We are looking for a house, with a fenced yard so that Rommel can get the exercise he needs, as often as he needs it. We plan to let my mom have her choice of bedrooms, and live at the place until we know where I will have my first job as a pharmacist. We don't know where that'll be yet, of course. But I have to admit that my perspective has changed in the last 2 years. When we moved here, I was counting the days until I could go back to Utah. But with what people pay for a house that's only 10 feet from the next house...I'd never get the farmette that inspired me to go to pharmacy school in the first place. There are many houses and lots that Amber and I like in Iowa. Truthfully, there are many worse places to call home.

As far as getting that 1st job out of school; the annual career fair is Friday, November 14th. AS a 3rd year student, there are jobs available that start after I graduate. It's not just a chance to fill-up on novelty pens and "practice" interviews this year. There is the possibility of receiving a firm, legal, offer fo employment. While it probably won't happen that way...it does make me realize that graduation is no longer in the "Buck Rodgers"-future. The end is in sight, though it's still a ways off.