UIU Week 12 !!!

Bet you thought I forgot again didnt you ! LOL Nope I have just been doing the great clean up of 2012!!!!! I have posted before that I had to move back in with my folks and so my craft room is also my bed room. Well it has gotten out of hand to the point that I hated craftting. I didnt want ot do anything at all!! I cant have that because art and crafting is like air to me and i was dying with out it!!

So this week there was no UIU crafts but no spending on craft stuff. I did have to get a bookcase but that will not count because I had to replace the one I had. The one I had in storage broke some how :(

SO HERE WE GO ( the pics are crappy but you will get the idea)

Before:

AFTER !!!!

 I am soooooooooo Happy !!! Now I can find things and I dont have to dig like a Mad woman !!! I cant wait to Play in my new space!!! OH and did you see that BIG BOX under the printer !! YUP thats my PAZZLE!!!!! I can NOW open it!! I told myself that I was not going to open and play with it untill I was done cleaning WOOOT!! Bad thing is I am stuck at work right now ((( shhhhh dont tell me boss))))

Hope everyone is having a awesome week and thank you for keeping UIU going !!!

P.s I took off the capcha stuff for the comments now. Some poeple were having a hard time with it so they will be off from now on.

UIU weeks 9, 10, and 11

Hiya everyone,

I am sooooooooooooooooooooo SORRY that I missed so many posts. I have had a lot of crazy / drama /sadness going on. All I can say is real life sucks some times. I am slowly getting back on track and I will be posting again.

I have been good with UIUing my stuff but I did get some things.

#1 was Glossy Accents – I wanted to add a little something to a box swap that I was in and I thought that would be the best thing. I never had that stuff so I treated my self to a bottle. The funny thing is I didn’t use it on the box because it just wouldn’t fit right. LOL but I do have some plans for it.

#2 I got a Crop-a-dile. I have always wanted it one but always pushed it off. I have the old school hammer setter so I didn’t need it. We I will be working on a challenge piece and I will need to use A LOT of eyelets and since I now live with my folks again and have to have my craft “room” in my bedroom the old school hammer is not a good thing. I craft a lot at night and hubs is right there sleeping and then the folks are right next door (see the prob) so that is not happing. I gave in and got one but I do not feel bad for that because it is a tool that I will use a lot.

#3 This is the BIG one! I got my electric cutter!! WOOOO HOOOOO Now this I should feel bad about but I don’t and why you ask well 2 things, 1 it was on my UIU board as on of the things that I really wanted and 2 the deal I got. I ended going with the Pazzle inspiration over the silhouette cameo because if you get it from Pazzle site you can sign up for 2 years for there images and the machine will only be $99. NOW I know that the monthly fee of there plan will end up costing me the full price of the machine but I look at it as a payment plan and I will be getting a ton of images for free!

I know that one day I will get a die cutter too because they each have there purpose but for now I am good with this.

I still can not believe how strong UIU is going still after 11 weeks!!!! And I am proud of each of you. I may not comment much on blog post BUT I DO READ THEM ALL. And it real touches my heart to know that so many stand behind this Crazy UIU!!

I will be putting up a few posts with all my projects that I have been working on and they are UIU but I just wanted to make this the update post. So keep a look out to see what I have been up to and again thank you so much

xoxoxox

UIU Week 8

Where is the time going !! WOW

Ok I am posting this for a place for checking in. I have to work today (boooooo real life) I will edit this when I get home or on Monday with my UIUs so check back. :)

I hope everyone is doing good and still having fun!!

UIU week 7

Hiya everyone!!

Sorry this is a bit late but Sunday was crazy and today I was lucky enough to hang out with some awesome online friend in real life!!!! We meet up in  Makefield NJ then headed to New York! I had a bast with them. We went to some amazing craft stores! OHHHHHHH MANNNNNNNN !!!! the will power I had to have!!!! I wanted it ALL!! They had things I never saw in my life! BUT I was really good.

The 1st place we went to I FINALLY found fabric that I have been looking forever for!! It was a wood grain print. It was $20 (ouch ) but I had to get it to finish a quilt top I have been working on this past year.  I did write it down on my uiu clipboard but under my basic list due to I have been looking for a long time for it.

 I also found a book from district market that was really cool. I will not be putting the book on my uiu clipboard because I will not be using it as "crafts" even if it was found ing the craft store. Its going to be my purse note book. I keep getting note books for me but they keep "growing legs" ** eyes up family** and NO one knows were they are. Well with this one I KNOW its mine!!!

The 2nd place we went to I go a few gift for some other friends and I had a coupon for free 12x12 papers if you spent 30 well the gifts were a bit under so I treated myslef to a $6 stencil.

So a day that was filled with shoping I did great just walking out with 2 things!! (but man I still wanted it all!!) I did some awsome gifts and art friend the meet up with friends and I really think they like the things I made them. If you ever get the chance to meet some of your online craft buddies DO IT!!!

till next week
xoxox

Mitzi's Pizza box challenge

This was my entry for Mitzi's pizza box challenge.

The point of this challenge was to use a pizza box and make something out of it. She said to " think outside of the box" but I just thought of a different box. LOL

What I have made is a Mail center. The top has a drawer for pens and stamps the middle will house envelopes and cards and the bottom is an address book. There is a blank black space in the front and that is for my sticky notes that i have ALLLLLLLLLL over the place. I am really happy with this challenge and I really needed it too. I have a really small space and this will hopefully help keep me organized with my mail and things that have to go out. Now only if this thing can take things to the post office for me that would ROCK!

Thanks for looking.
xoxo

Leftover pizza boxes ( I use 3 of them to make this)

UIU week 6

Holy cow 6 weeks down!!!!!! And I am so proud of everyone!!!!!! This has been so awesome!!!!!!! (can ya tell I am excited hehe)

Still no shopping from me but I have been very tempted but I keep looking at my clipboard at the things I really want this year and that has kept me
on track.

Not much crafting this week. I am still working on the crochet shawl but I did make a necklace. I can add the button from my phone but its 100% UIU :)

See ya next week
Xoxo

UIU week 5

Wow we are in week 5 already the time just flew by!!

Here is the pic from last week that I forgot to post.

This week I did 4 more ATCs and a postcard

I have also been working on a shawl for myself (lets see how long I can keep it when its done!!)

I have been working on another project but its for a challenge so I can't show it just yet but I am really happy with it.



How are you holding up? I have seen blog posts about some people giving in but its OK you can still do this!! Dont beat yourself up to bad we will all slide but we are here to pick you  back up ((((HUGS)))