Am I running in circles?? Do you ever feel like that? I was feeling a bit overwhelmed the last few days with so many outstanding creative projects and not sure which way to turn to get ANY of them done. Where to start first? After talking to my wonderful daughter about it, she pointed out something I often say to others... Start with the things that are the MOST IMPORTANT to get done first. Whether that is by priority of importance or by deadline of time, make a decision and get moving on that thing that really needs to get done first. Brilliant and somewhat obvious, right? Good call, daughter dear. So I got off my tushy yesterday afternoon and decided the Lone Star quilt for my son needs to get done by Christmas which by the way is less than 90 days away!!! That is a Reality Check right? In order to work on the quilt I needed to make room on my work table for the sewing machine. Which meant I had to clear off the games I had stacked there instead of putting them away. W...

  Old Days, Good Times by K Aho READY MADE  2 page layout 12x12 size ---only ONE of this style available so speak for it soon! $15.00 plus shipping. Rockester@charter.net My Story single pages (12x12) all READY MADE*  by Kathleen Aho    $8 each plus shipping Specify boy or girl please! :D

Sept 20th, 2012 Ready Made* layouts are here! Here is the first layout in the Ready Made* Genealogy series. This one is called "Discover Your Past"   There is a limited edition of 12. Buy one or buy many, when they are sold, they are gone. :D I took these  pics with my iphone at 11:30pm so the lighting and colors are probably most accurate on the journaling box pic and the leaf embellishment pic. Honestly I love how these turned out and you will love all the details! Plus you get charts and intro genealogy notes! It's like a class in a packet! $15 per set plus $4.50 USPS shipping USA only. More than two layouts shipping is $7.00 Order by emailing me at Rockester@charter.net and I will bill you with a PAYPAL invoice. Paypal payments only. Payment must be made before I ship anything out. A set includes the completely finished layout that you see in pic one. Everything is designed, cut, glued and ready competely for you to add your pics.  Enlarge...

Did You Know? A Word About Stockpiling Scrapbook Supplies Copyright Rockester (Kathleen Aho) 2001 Did you know that an inch of pattern paper is estimated to be 100 sheets or 75 finished pages? Did you know that one inch of cardstock is roughly 50 pages finished? How many inches do YOU have? How many pages do you do a year? Do you have over 12 inches (1 foot) of cardstock or printed paper? Do you realise that is enough paper for 1000 pages? Are you stockpiling for someday when you already own enough paper to do thousands of pages? Did you know that one tin/set of 100 eyelets makes and average of 20 pages? (And how many sets of 100 do YOU own?) Did you know that many paper packs and multi sheet slabs usually have 10-20% of their patterns that will not suit you within a pack? (one sheet in 5 may not be to your taste so don't keep it in the stash--so share!) Did you know that each sticker sheet you own will do aproximately a two page layout? If you have binder...

I am Takin Over! :D Note: This is a long post with a lot of photos. It's worth it! I would rather risk giving you too much info than leave organization questions unanswered. Click on any photo to enlarge it.   You see, this is what happens when you give them an inch…they make a pile. Let me right off the bat say that this was husband’s desk area in our family room in the man cave basement. The room is fully refinished and very comfy. I kind of let him roam around down there like it is his man-cave and take care of this area himself for the last year. Call me optimistic. . Some of you might be chuckling already. You know what happened next. Well Lately, I think that letting him tend the area himself was a mistake! LOL He is chronic piler-upper. He likes to stack things and sort things and then make new stacks. It's not all his doing, his Dad is moving soon and has given my hubby about two or three pickup truckloads of MORE stuff to sort out. He has a lot of sort...

Let me show you what I made today! My inspiration was a large lampshade I bought at a discount store that looks like this: (left) And in place it in my studio it looks like this: (right) Now, darn it, I didn't notice until I got home that there is slight flaw in the store bought shade. The wording is ALL upside down! You can't tell from a distance. And hubby couldn't even guess with 5 guesses! The factory error made me happy for two reasons. 1) It reinforces that no one is perfect. 2) It means I now had a good reason that I didn't have to go back to the store to buy the two matching little ones for my two button jar lamps! But I still liked the fonts on linen look and I still needed to spice up some shades for these two button jar lamps! I determined the only thing really wrong with the old shades were their age and they were dull looking. The shades have a linen fabric-like surface on the outside. DING DING DING! IDEA! But we have a solution for tha...