Shady Creek Lane

Thursday, August 5, 2010

FREE IS A VERY GOOD PRICE

CALLING ALL SCRAP BOOKERS AND CRAFTERS ALIKE

Have you ever checked out wallpaper books for scrap booking paper?

While purchasing paint at a SHERWIN WILLIAMS I noticed that they had quite a few wallpaper books to look through. On the off chance I asked if they ever sell or give away their outdated books and GUESS WHAT? He told me that they pull old books at the beginning of each month and they usually just throw them away...CAN YOU JUST HEAR MY HUGE INTAKE OF BREATH? So I casually asked if he had any that were going to get tossed any time soon. "Yep, as a matter of fact," he said, " I will pull some for you right now." SCORE!!!! He gave me seven huge books.I posted a few of the papers. (This is only a small fraction of what is in them.) Check them out.

I think I can craft for the next ten years and not use all of what is in them.

Go to your local paint and wallpaper store and see if you might score some for yourself.

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

A Little Rant

(Photo courtesy of Flickr)

OK, I have a little something that has been bothering me that I NEED to address

Here it is:

I spend a lot of time and energy posting about different things but mostly posting about crafty projects that I have done. This rant does not apply to my faithful commenter's (and I love you all so much)...But this is to all of those bloggers who host bloggy linky parties.

A comment back to us who link up with you would be appreciated, after all we post a link back to your blog which drives other readers to your blog with the potential for you gaining more followers. Now I realize that linking up to your parties also drives readers to our blogs, and that is wonderful, so thank you. I also realize that you may get as many as 200 bloggers, or more, linking to your blog party and commenting back to each one could be very time consuming but please try to comment back whenever possible.

Now, for all of you who link back to our blogs from linky parties if you could just please leave some sort of comment it would be soooooo appreciated. Who doesn't like to get comments? It gets frustrating when you see that 40 or more people have checked out our posts and not ONE person leaves a comment. Even if you have a critique (and please be nice) we appreciate that too. Feedback is a good thing, it lets us know if what we present out into blogland is even worth our time doing it.

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE OFFENSE IF YOU ARE SOMEONE WHO COMMENTS REGULARLY ON THESE POSTS, BUT YOU ARE THE MINORITY.

I would love to hear your comments on this subject.

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE.

(Ok, now I feel better)

Midnight Crafting Madness

Here it is 12:35 AM and I am just finishing up a few crafts to add to my bazaar inventory.

Dollar store frame + scrapbook paper + vinyl = fast and easy craft.

I was inspired by a Super Saturday craft from another blog (can't remember where I saw it, sorry) and changed up a few things to make this Christmas project.