POKEY PEAS REFUGEES CHALLENGE for April 2016

Wow, 5 pages!!! Look at us! Not very Pokey this month. Hope you all are doing well today. Not much artsy going on today but maybe later.

Cindy- Your new stamp sets sounds fun and glad you are enjoying playing with it. So you do have a small Brown's collection. That is cool! The draft is this week. Our new L.A. Rams got the first pick. I heard they are going for a quarterback but I never heard of either guy.

Nylene- Hope that weather warms up soon. Nylene, I hope you try mixed media and mess. Mess is good! LOL! I would like to take a class too so I can see ways to add medium to my layouts. Haven't quiet played around with that enough.

Grammadee- You have really been having fun. I gotta go over to the gallery and see your work. Your mixed media should be great too.

Nylene that missing icon is your Two Peas pea. It was back for a while and now is missing again.

Kelly I am going to check it out now!

I wonder as both of mine are photo bucket images. They did reappear earlier as that was how I knew your's was your pea and your jumping turtle was still there

Hellooooooo Pokeys

Sorry I have not been around much lately.....busy busy busy. Spent all day Saturday in Albuquerque, watching the granddaughters last soccer games for the season, gong to Costco and Walmart, and we even had a little lunch at Chili's which is a treat for us because of our healthy eating plan hubby does not let us go out very often. Sunday I spend all day working in the yard (which is not my thing, I am an indoor girl), but really want to get the yard in order. Although hubby takes care of the yard very well, it is maintenance, he does not have much design sense. So I was putting in flower beds, arranging yard art and patio furniture etc. We have neglected our yard (other than maintenance) for too many years and we both really want to get it looking nice this year. Still working on my organization, and I am happy with where I am and I am ready to start scrapping for all the various May events. I still have some things to complete, but I am forced to wait for some storage items I have ordered or wait until I get full pages to print labels/tags etc. I have shared one area below and hope to share another area tomorrow and so on.....

Wow 5 pages, and so much scrappy/art you all have posted. Will be leaving love for all the recent additions today during my down time a work. I am so jealous that I did not get to complete any projects in April (but I will make up for it in May)

Madi & Me - your art is absolutely wonderful. I could feel the breeze and smell the fresh grass. I wish I had your talent, I can not paint a stroke. Thank you so much for sharing this lovely piece with all of us.
grammadee - loving all your work. Sure sounds like you are going to have a busy May will hosting the event here, participating in Load (are you going to share your Load projects here? I would love to see them), and the various other NSD events from other sights. Be sure not to wear yourself out. It has sure been a pleasure getting to know you, I am so glad you joined the Pokey Thread.
nylene - You have been a scrappy fool this month. Great! I am sure regaining your health has been a huge part of that enthusiasm. You had been under the weather for so long, once you felt better, I am sure your creativity was just bursting to get out and play. ditto to you scrapincin . I am so glad both of you ladies are feeling better and lets hope the remainder of 2016 continues with no further health setbacks for any of us.
LisaDV - thought of you last night while walking my hour. Boy, my legs are sure sore from my yard work on Sunday. Used muscles doing that I don't normally use. I was really wanting to cut it short, but your words were ringing in my ears, and I kept going and hit my hour. It was worth it. Thank you for continuing to motivate me.

Here is my first organized area. This area is on the wall as the door opens to my room. In it you can see a step stool (When the door is open it opens up in front of this stool) and behind it you can see a board with magnets on it. On the wall you can see to additional white boards (also for magnets) These have to be organized and will be an ongoing process as I will have to go back to my scrapbooks to get dates on when I visited those places. My plan it make a little banner piece with the location (if not noted on the magnet) and date of visit, and then I will place them in chronological order on the white boards (I will need to purchase more two will not be enough). Next you see two show cubbies (which I do not understand whose shoes will fit in there, not mine or hubby's that's for sure and I only where a size 5?) I purchased some boxes from Uline which are 4x4x10. I applied yellow paper to the front and used a die set to cut the scalloped lables. (more on the contents in the following photo). On top I have my Stampin Up products (except for paper) and my Thickers. Next to that are two Jet Max cubes. Border punches, Martha Stewart punches and Creative Memories punches are in the one with the three drawers. I will move my Creative Memories punches to a Creative Memories tool storage tote after I purchase it. Since I occasionally attend Creative Memories events and they like you to use only their product at those events I like to house those item in something toteable so it is easy to pack for these events. The cube with the four drawers is currently empty. You can see behind my Heidi Swapp Marquee M some hat boxes, those hold my ribbon, and in the pink case next that is my Bow it all (which I desperately need to learn how to use, I can't tie a bow to save my life, and I have watched video after video after video - LOL)  Contents in the cupboard above the M will be shown in my next post.

IMG_1470 by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr

So in the following photo I pulled out three drawers/boxes to show you how I am storing my items within them.  I have all the Stampin Up Ink collections in their own drawer/box, I have a labeled dauber for each color and I put those in empty Avon face moisturizer boxes (not shown).  I also have my Tim Holtz distress inks, same containment on daubers here as well (accept that I am waiting for my next empty box).  For the drawer I am showing, it contains the 2015 ink colors and I cut and laminated the individual colors from the poster they released and put it on a Acco binder ring.  I also have all my stamped colors in a catalog, similar to the Totally Tiffany style of organizing.  I am keeping my mists here as well, and the third drawer shows another Acco ring with little tags I sprayed.  These drawer contain my enamel dots, pearls, other bling, stamps (other than my Stampin Up ones) I have been using this system for over a year and it works really great.  I was never organized, and labeled so I hid the ugliness under a large yellow bath towel, but now I can feel good about my storage solution.
IMG_1472 by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr

Oh yea, and that red and white gift bag you see, that has more magnets (but not travel magnets) Just living there right now until I decide what I am going to do with those.

Okay so did I put everyone to sleep?  Sorry.  

Have a wonderful day.

Day 2 of my scraproom share


IMG_1474 by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
IMG_1475 by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr
IMG_1476 by Maribeth and Jim Robison, on Flickr

So I don't scrap at my desk, I have a standing table area that will be shown on a future post.  The cupboard to the right of my desk (as you look at the photo) contains all the little plastic boxes that I lined with yellow paper and created tags.  Most of the drawers contain the those items that I use for all of my ongoing projects (courthouses, abandoned buildings, abandoned cars, churches, schools, trains and depots, NRHP, etc..) they also hold some of those really tiny embellishments, as well as my homemade flair.  The cabinet to the left (as you can see is a jumble of electronics and wires), above that I keep some mailing supplies and some paper trays.  The binders are temporary, I am waiting to get some yellow binders - those house my cataloging system based on the Totally Tiffany concept.  Under my desk I have my computer(s), some additional paper storage, my printer and my shot box (which is behind the basket with the flower faces.  In that basket I have my rulers and my paper edgers.  Most important of all in the photos above is Desmonds box to the right of my monitor!

Hope everyone is enjoying the week.  I am so looking forward to the scrapping events beginning on Sunday.  I will be working in the yard on Saturday (weather permitting), but Sunday will be mine to scrap.

See you later!

So between phone calls and housework, I was able to complete two pages for Mikey's book this morning. Here they are:

adventures with Jacob by Gramma Dee, on Flickr
Connecting with Ryley by Gramma Dee, on Flickr

Good Friday morning!

This morning I have lots to do, but somehow can't get my butt out of my chair by the computer!

This afternoon, justjac and I are heading into Edmonton. This evening, we will be meeting Dyan Reavley--the lady from Ranger's "Dylusions" paints and stamps and sprays. Tonight is a meet & greet, so hope to get a photo with her and an autograph.

Staying at dd's tonight, and then all day Saturday we will be at Dyan's classes. Will get to meet another pea, melanieg who will be taking one of the two classes as well. Loving the idea of having fun with friends and getting VERY messy!

I am going to add a challenge to the 2Peas May Tell Your Story challenge thread about Scrapping about Scrapping, just to give us an excuse to snap some photos and put at least a couple of pages together about this weekend. I am super excited!

Wow I finally made it over here! I have been so busy the past couple of days. I am chilling today though since my body is telling me I am totally exhausted! Friday wa Arbor Day and Maggie was being presented at the city arboretum since she was one of 5 winners in a project they did with the 6th grade honoring trees and what they add to our lives. Of course there is going to be a page. Then yesterday I made a dinner and cake for y neighbor-yes the Browns lady had a birthday. Her name is Barb! She goes by Aunt B so her cake was chocolate, with Cleveland Browns orange with little sugar bees scattered around her cake. We dubbed her Queen Bee!

So I am going to work on the badge as that is not to strenuous! LOL Then I have a lot of things I need to scrap!
I love your room Maribeth and Grammadee your pages were awesome! Good to see you Lisa! sounds like you must be having a good time with those albums!

OK BBL