It's been awhile!

But I promise you I have been busy. I have been finishing college and getting a degree, working, and creating. You can see some of the projects I've done on my artwork page over at my CTMH website.

My brother will be coming home from Iraq in about a month and we are all thankful for that. I even designed a "soldier" card that was given as a gift to a family member. Is that sneaky to encourage them to send something to my brother? LOL.

In the more recent news, I am starting a crop night at my church. I am getting the ladies together from about Junior in high school on up to our senior citizens for some papercrafting. I hope to do it at least twice a month so that we can all get together and do some fellowship. What I'd really like to do is a "card ministry".

Essentially my card ministry would involve making various cards such as birthday, anniversary, condolences, and get wells for the community. And I really want to get some more soldier cards done. Even though my brother is coming home, doesn't mean that everyone's brother or sister is. I like putting a smile on someone's face and nothing does that better than something homemade I think.

I'll post pictures soon! In the meantime check out my CTMH site for some of the projects I've done. I also did a scrap page featuring the day my daughter Grace was born. I'll get that posted soon!

I am a CTMH Junkie!

As someone who has tried several businesses in life, I decided that I didn't want a business. I wanted to join a company just so I could get some good discounts on products that I love! So, that is what I did!

I joined Close To My Heart as a consultant. If you don't know what CTMH is well, it is pretty simple. It is scrapbook, card making, and paper crafting supplies. I love the creativity of those who submit their artwork (all artwork in the catalogs are done by consultants!) and I love the quality of the products. I used to wonder how come my work didn't turn out as well as I hoped. Why didn't it stamp right? Why did it just not match up right?

Well, I've been taking courses to find out what I was doing wrong, and I got great products and found out what else I'd been doing wrong... I hadn't had good quality products. Sometimes you really do get what you pay for!

At any rate, I hope to post some of my artwork here and get some feedback on what you think. I am having my first workshop in Dec. We will be making Christmas cards and gift tags. If you live in the East Texas area, you can contact me to sign up :) I'll post pictures and let you know how it goes. I'm hoping for a fair sized turn out.

Well, I'm off to make some new projects. There are so many things I want to do and so little time. I work, go to school, and have children... so time is very limited!

Thanks for stopping by!