I'm On A Mission

I have been working off and on for over a year with organizing and purging my scrapbook supplies.  Also with remodeling my scrap room.  Hubby got the ugly brown wallpaper off one wall and painted it.  Then racing season started.  Winter came and he still did not work on the room again.  In February my cousin came out from Montana to see us and visit the great state of NJ and our shores for the first time.  He is young and dose not like to sit still.  So he went out and chopped up nearly all the fallen trees for us then on rainy days he'd go in my scrap room.  He got the rest of the wallpaper off.   He needed to get back to Montana though to renew his driver's license or he would have stayed longer.  We are still waiting on his return!  So, my scrap room still sits in limbo.  Most of my stuff is in boxes in the back room.  But I am really getting antsy to finish the room.  To the point that I am going to do it myself!  We have 2 more weeks of racing season then my weekends will be free and I am finishing that room!  In the meantime, I have gone back to the purging and organizing part.  I just donated a box of cardstock to the library for kids crafts.  I have bought different sized bins that are stackable to keep things separated.   And my latest and greatest purchase is here and all set up. 
  So, instead of actually  scrapbooking right now, I am organizing!  I will post some before, during and after pictures soon!

TGIM

What does that mean?  Thank God Its Monday.  Never thought those words would come out of my mouth, lol!  We had the grandkids this weekend.  It was an awesome weekend but WOW!  Those BOYS are supercharged.  No sugar added!  They had a blast at the race track Saturday night and I had them "help" me clean up the house before we left so they were both given $5 at the track to spend.  THAT was a huge success too.  Sunday we had the boys, as well as our niece Maykayla (11) and Kristen's niece Addy (4) so we all played outside all day, had burgers and dogs on the grill and washed Aunt Krissy's Mustang.   The Mustang has been out of commission and kept in the garage for the past 5 years.  We are finally going to get it back on the road! 


So, it was a completely awesome and perfect weekend!  AND we are doing it again in 2 weeks.  Until then, I am sleeping!  The dogs are still hung over from the weekend, even Harley who NEVER stops playing!   

My latest goal...

I spent my summer scrapping my little heart out.  I have already scrapped more this year that in the past three years combined.  This is a great feat for me especially since 80% of my supplies are boxed up and out on the sun porch.  I was supposed to have my scrap room repainted and all new shelving and storage by now, complete with more lighting and a TV.  But as often happens, other things get in the way.  So I wound up setting up a temporary desk, adding a few shelves and grabbing a few themed projects to work with.  When that ran low, I made a few purchases.  Then I went to the Expo last month and  scored some really great deals!  I set up my workstation in half the room so that we can actually start working again around the door and closet area and all I really need to do is roll a cart out and put a tarp over a few things.  I won't hold my breath though!   


This is one of the most recent creations I made following a sketch provide by a talented friend of mine.  I used bits and pieces from about 4 different summer lines too which was pretty cool and love the way this turned out!

So Crazy

This is Kristen with our Hurricane Harley.  Tom and Mark were racing at Bridgeport Speedway that night and Harley loves the race track!