creative bliss

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and if you're visiting from blissfully domestic, welcome! have a look around and say hey so i can come visit your blog!

Balzer Designs

one of my very favorite blogs is http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/. she is an amazing artist and creates using lots of different media. she never fails to inspire me, and i am beyond flattered that she put a link on her blog to one of my ideas - she likes my acrylic stamp storage! so go check out her blog - i bet you'll read back through her posts. :)

Fabulous Challenge Blog

i have to tell you about a fabulous new-ish scrap challenge blog, work your soul. it is really cool, and so are Jen and Kim. i've only met Jen in real life since Kim lives in the UK! they come up with such original challenges and are both so talented.

and, i am so honored that they asked me for a prize for their current challenge! it's a lil book i made. so go visit, do the challenge and maybe you will win!!!

what i've been up to

i think i went shopping on black friday once, years ago. it really wasn't all that much fun, so i haven't gone back - which was especially convenient this year since Kate had invited me to a scrapapalooza for saturday! i needed friday to get stuff ready. it seemed like i packed up all my stuff, but apparently i hadn't. i was on my way there and realized i had forgotten photos, so had to turn back.

we had supplies all over - take a look:

it was so much fun to scrap together. add some good food, fresh-baked cookies, caffeine, and we were set. here's a couple of pages i made. okay, i only made two pages, but i did do other things too. like sew a book. and other stuff...i think.

you can't really tell, but i sewed a bunch of circles on here for added texture. here, maybe you can see it here:

here's a page where i went a little nutty with the gold:

here's a close look:

for some reason i didn't photograph either one really well - maybe because there is only daylight here for about 10 minutes these days.

i am sending off a couple of atc swaps and have a third one in the works. here's the "thankful" one:

and here's the "reduce, reuse, recycle" one:

the swap i'm working on is for the theme "Dr. Seuss" and i can't wait to see how they come out!

what have you been up to?