tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2468669411441412462024-03-14T04:52:34.756-07:00Huckleberry Pie"sho 'nuff moon gon' rise like a huckleberry pie in the middle of the sky..."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-77869364630635468862017-01-11T23:17:00.000-08:002017-01-11T23:17:05.390-08:00Julie Nutting Paper DollsI'm obsessed. Seriously. I've got it bad. And like all my obsessions I make sure others get obsessed too. It's usually one of my sisters. This time it's Carolynne. I don't remember how I discovered Julie Nutting dolls. I think it was because my friend Caron is obsessed ( are you seeing a theme here?) and she showed them to me. I really don't remember. Carolynne doesn't have her own dolls so of course I stamped out dozens for her and outfits and shoes and leggings and skirts and tops and... and ... and... well, you get the idea.<br />
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Last year, about this time, we decided to challenge each other to make a doll tag and stay within some given parameters. We chose the colors red, white and black and newspaper. We also had to use the same doll stamp. Then we took pictures of our finished tags and sent them to each other. Here's the result. <br />
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This is Carolynne's doll. Isn't she gorgeous? Of course, Carolynne had to alter her from the original. It's how she rolls.<br />
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The layering and detail is just exquisite. And the shoes! Are you kidding me?? And the coat!!!<br />
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Here's my doll.</div>
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Carolynne was restrained in her use of newspaer. Not me! I went hog wild. The background, the banner, her dress and the flowers are all made from newspaper. I used Lindy's Stamp Gang spray on the background and it has a bit of a shimmer to it. </div>
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I have made seasonal dolls that I put out on my hutch. I'll post more pictures soon.<br />
In the meantime, see my post <a href="http://%28see%20my%20post%20here%20for%20some%20dolls%20i%20made%20for%20broadway%29/">here</a> for some dolls I made for Broadway. </div>
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I love her so much. She has served me faithfully for over 37 years! I have had her longer than I've had my children! She has been with me through thick and thin. She has let me down occasionally but I never held it against her for long. Most of the time it was my fault because I neglected her something fierce. Norm bought her for me in the summer of 1980 in Chino, California. She was $100. We had to make payments because we were so poor. <br />
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Every time we moved, and we've moved a lot, I carried her in the trunk of my car along with several other precious things I never allowed to go onto a moving truck. <br />
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As her name implies she created a lot of Magic. She helped me de-stress, relax and be creative. I made leather chaps, prom dresses, little boys overalls, pajama pants, dresses, skirts and tops, buckaroo shirts and more craft items and stuffed lambs than you could ever imagine. Both of my kids learned to sew on her. She helped Ty make a pair of pajama pants for his girlfriend who is now his wife. She instilled in him a love for sewing and now he has his own sewing machine. <br />
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I made my first 10 or 15 quilts on her and even quilted a few of them. Quilting is what drove me to purchase a new machine because this old gal doesn't have some of the features I wanted. I will never get rid of her permanently. She is always there, waiting and hoping that I'll use her again. And I will. I promise. Thanks, Magic. I will always love you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-76036855257861089062017-01-04T19:35:00.004-08:002017-01-04T19:37:10.168-08:00Huckleberry Pie revived again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here I am once more attempting to revive my poor neglected blog. My life has seen some changes and perhaps now I will have the time and inclination to keep it up better. It snowed most of the night and rained most of the day so it is a wet, sloppy mess out there. How grateful I am that I didn't have to go out in it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I spent time today reflecting back on 2016. It was an eventful year for sure. As 2017 begins I thought I would pick a word for the year. I know others who have done this and they have found it to be a rewarding, experience. I wasn't sure I wanted to commit to that for a year but after some soul conviction and a desire to make a difference in the lives of others I decided that I would choose a word for my life in 2017. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> That word is GENEROUS. This year I will be attempt to be GENEROUS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my time with others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my love for others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my forgiveness of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my grace toward others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my acceptance of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my laughter with others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my love and kindness and caring for others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with my prayers for others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And GENEROUS to myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">GENEROUS with permission to be the best me I can be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It may not be easy. NO. It WON'T be easy but the I'm going to attemp to do it anyway. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">May your New Year be filled with lots of love, life and GENEROSITY! </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-65309128241300892222015-09-24T16:51:00.000-07:002015-09-24T16:51:18.099-07:00<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Here is the first Pocket letter I ever made. I exchanged with my dear friend in Ohio. We are both obsessed with the Julie Nutting paper dolls. The papers I used are from Crate Paper. A line called "Farmhouse"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> This is it all folded up and ready to send. I made a band to go around it to hold it all together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I just love this paper line. I used a 6x6 pad for this project but I have the 12x12 pad as well. I'm kind of hoarding it. The banner across the top is removable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">These are tiny Julie Nutting dolls I laminated and make into paper clips. The rhinestone on this doll and the heart on the one above are adhered on top of the laminate. They are just so darn cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am hooked on Pocket Letters now, too. I made on for a sweet young mom in Italy and received a lovely one back. Next I am making another doll one for a lovely lady here in the US. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-34235254790806813452015-09-24T15:10:00.003-07:002015-09-24T15:10:34.557-07:00SYS Cards<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I like to make what I call <b>Simple Yet Striking</b> cards. SYS for short. Here's one I made using a Stamps of Life set called Crazy For Daisies and the matching dies, Tim Holtz's Tattered Leaves die and a simple sentiment stamp. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This whole card took me less than 15 minutes to make. In the time it took the hot glue gun to warm up I had it assembled and then I just adhered the rhinestones to the buttons and glued them to the centers of the flowers and voila. <b>Simple Yet Striking</b>. Don't you agree?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-85624754348371432982015-09-24T14:58:00.002-07:002015-09-24T14:58:42.947-07:00Crazy Birds for Broadway Boys<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The girls got Glamour, the boys got Crazy!!! I made 14 of these for the guys in the cast. Coloring is not my forte although I enjoy doing it. I'm just not that good at it. I figured with these silly birds by Tim Holtz I couldn't go too wrong. I used my Prismacolor Pencils.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">By the time I got to these time was at a premium so I only got this one picture. I used brads on these instead of the flat back pearls. The music paper is from an old music book. Again, I hand stamped Best Night Ever. I don't think you can see but I used Tim's Tiny Attacher to secure the baker's twine and in 2 corners of the music paper. Tags inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Tim Holtz.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-102976600265211082015-09-24T14:48:00.003-07:002015-09-24T14:48:44.526-07:00Prima Dolls for Broadway<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm so in love with Julie Nutting's Prima dolls. I have "adopted" more of them than I care to admit and joined a couple of FB pages. Here are some tags I made for all the gals in the cast of the Broadway Under The Stars show I did this summer. I made 17 all together. Because I had to make so many I kept them simple. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I used all the same elements on each tag. I just switched them around. Each doll represents a gal in the cast. Each one has the correct-ish hair color and usually there was something about the doll that reminded me of that person. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I made my own "chipboard" letters using my Cricut and handstamped the Best Night Ever phrase. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Each one had something sparkly or shiny and several had bits of lace. I love these dolls so much. I'll have more posts of them soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Materials used:</b> The kraft paper is from Joann's cut using SU's Top Note die and inked with Vintage Photo Distressed Ink Pad by Tim Holtz. The doilies are Martha Stewart purchased at Michael's. The bodies are stamped on dictionary paper and inked with Vintage Photo. The papers are from my stash. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-70640322827842228912012-10-24T10:00:00.000-07:002012-10-24T10:00:00.147-07:00A reminder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I love tight family harmonies. The first time I heard it was years ago when we lived at Green Oak Ranch. Sue Story sang it at First Baptist Church of Vista. It</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> makes me sob out loud every time. Ugly cry. Enjoy. Have a Kleenex handy.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-67607789332952729752012-10-10T10:00:00.000-07:002012-10-14T23:31:28.850-07:00Plate rack for Sylvia<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Another great thing that happened earlier this year was that I got my kitchen cupboard done. I </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">have been wanting open cupboards with plate racks like I see in magazines. Plus my Kitchen Aid didn't fit under my cupboard and I had to keep it on the other side of the kitchen which made no sense. So the plan was to make the cupboard about and inch shorter than the existing one in order to get it to fit underneath. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I've had the plans in my head for about 3 years and I finally</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> talked Norm into doing it. We bought pretty expensive plywood at a wood specialty shop. I don't have a picture of the cupboard "before" but here is step one of the rebuild.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Old cupboard pulled off, wallpaper scrubbed off and wall painted. Originally I was going to leave the wall behind the shelves white but decided to paint it yellow too. There are a lot of marks and stuff on the wall because of the way the house was built. I thought painting it would disguise it better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You see there is a big gap between the wall and the edge of the cupboard. This whole house is wonky like that. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After Norm got the other cupboard up he filled the holes with putty and also tried to smooth out the wall a bit too. By the way, the reason I was able to talk him into doing finally tackling this project is because he got an air nailer. Gave him an excuse to use his new toy. Whatever it takes, right? As usual I was in a hurry so we set up the little heater to dry the putty faster. We did this project in early March and it was wet and damp so it was taking a long time to dry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Doesn't my Kitchen Aid look cute under there? And my new Fiestaware? I had been wanting Fiestaware for about a year and this motivated me to finally get it. I still love my red dishes and have put them away in a cupboard but I got them in 1986 so I thought it was time for a change. Macy's and Kohls often has Fiestaware on sale so it was easy to get it on the cheap! The blue flowered dishes are the ones I got in Rossland with my sister Carolynne. As usual she was very supportive of my purchase - coughcoughshetalkedmeintothemcoughcough. They are from a British company called Port Meirion and the pattern is Crazy Daisy. Cute, eh?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Isn't it fabulous? The cupboard doors are the original ones; just cut off to fit. I love it sooo much. Half the dishes were in the dishwasher when I took this photo but you get the picture. I'm so happy with it. Thanks, Norm! Oh.... and happy birthday to me!!!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-55392972361734551252012-10-07T13:00:00.000-07:002012-10-10T00:14:16.237-07:00And I thought they loved me.<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This weekend is Canadian Thanksgiving. My niece Kirstin and my daughter in law Dusti organized a big Thanksgiving lunch at Kirstin's house. They called it a Cousins Thanksgiving but were kind enough to invite us aunties too. Dusti created an Event on FB and then everyone commented about whether they were attending and other stuff about what they were bringing for food ect. I wasn't able to go and although I was sad to miss it I 'm excited that they all get to see one another as they all get along so well. Ty and Dusti and kids drove up from Washington, Cody-Anne and Penny from Vancouver, several from the neighboring towns. Soooo, there was much discussion about what everyone was going to bring; some like cooking others not - the merits of pumpkin pie vs other pies, and the like. Amongst the discussion I wrote <i>"Please don't anyone make huckleberry pie cause if I'm not there to eat it, it'll just kill me if you do."</i> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what does Kirstin post on Facebook Sat. evening? THIS abomination!!</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-71539157680485644902012-10-06T20:01:00.000-07:002012-10-06T20:04:00.476-07:00Won't You Take Me To Funky Town<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today was Super Saturday at the hardware store. It's all hands on deck-no parking-long lines-everyone eating popcorn-free employee lunch craziness. I spent most of the day out on the Patio but came into the store about 3 pm to finish my shift. Looked up and who was standing in front of me but - </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Apparently he lives in my town. It was my second time waiting on him. The first time I didn't acknowledge I knew who he was. He mentioned his son's name and said he loved coming into the store. When a customer uses a credit card the register prints the name of the customer on the bottom of the receipt so I took a peek at it to confirm in my mind it really was Peter Krause. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sometime after that I watched the Season Premier where Christina finds out she has cancer. One of the side stories is that Crosby (Adam's brother) discovers that Adam (Peter Krause's character) schedules sex with his wife - Christina - on his smart phone. They call it Funky Town. Today when he came in the conversation went like this-</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Me:</b> Huge, huge fan. My friends told me if I saw you again to mention Funky Town but I decided against it.</span></div>
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</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-87433715467833024322011-10-29T07:00:00.000-07:002011-10-29T07:00:08.918-07:00Creating in action<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is my scrap studio in the midst of a creating frenzy. My mojo has been flowing lately and this is the result.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrbKT-l3_sIkp7tX-vUkF2R2sRxR6SdMjfrFx4R6LEm8IlApeMxZJpuwo-IK3BeqZrmvq-q5jbGPVkMpoU1YdbDfZLW3zXzM7RFHvraBCjZkr1S2vwynkH3W2OlxPLsSjCUy-3FBwv7WyL/s1600/Creating+in+action.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrbKT-l3_sIkp7tX-vUkF2R2sRxR6SdMjfrFx4R6LEm8IlApeMxZJpuwo-IK3BeqZrmvq-q5jbGPVkMpoU1YdbDfZLW3zXzM7RFHvraBCjZkr1S2vwynkH3W2OlxPLsSjCUy-3FBwv7WyL/s320/Creating+in+action.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">And yes it's small - just 8 feet from the edge of the white dressers to the window and 6 1/2 feet from side to side. What's not visible is a HUGE closet which houses even more scrappy treasures.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246866941144141246.post-20095269122366941732011-10-27T07:00:00.000-07:002011-10-27T07:00:06.277-07:00Explosion box swap<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This is an explosion box I made for my partner on <a href="http://myscraproom.ning.com/">My Scrap Room</a>. I got the pattern from a YT video by Laura Dennison of Follow The Paper Trail. The sides and flaps are all made from envelopes. I pulled paper from my stash and made all the felt flowers myself.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2mnbsIzZjnI1RxKk2hBV0Z0sEEvdJjZwQwo7TTaeqGx9o_gZJS1-R0PEqkmNQMbdWdmHDcm4o4KLRgAt48Ko3ttwM8dwQ1M-tlv70wHODqxtaXUKYnMUri5iNRMs_I2j9XLoN40YDBkg3/s1600/Top.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2mnbsIzZjnI1RxKk2hBV0Z0sEEvdJjZwQwo7TTaeqGx9o_gZJS1-R0PEqkmNQMbdWdmHDcm4o4KLRgAt48Ko3ttwM8dwQ1M-tlv70wHODqxtaXUKYnMUri5iNRMs_I2j9XLoN40YDBkg3/s320/Top.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just used cheap craft felt and hot glued them in place. Some I used die cuts to get the shapes; others I cut free hand. I also made one of the stick pins. The other 2 I got in another swap. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVc7oG-Djm2ejJJzSxCP2qJlh-3lbmgCI_dypC2fCdnZ0O64fcefSU0zntRGA6qmE93PIlGU8k82Ekv1Tdhmb_FkBmE57iv2hqmeNCD1vrlxSDesonEZTC_1Z_rJMbfm1KojOd1WWX70i/s1600/Green+side.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVc7oG-Djm2ejJJzSxCP2qJlh-3lbmgCI_dypC2fCdnZ0O64fcefSU0zntRGA6qmE93PIlGU8k82Ekv1Tdhmb_FkBmE57iv2hqmeNCD1vrlxSDesonEZTC_1Z_rJMbfm1KojOd1WWX70i/s320/Green+side.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I just love border punches. I think I have about 6 now! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGIKzTaugOgGk7OPDIjaf1yjMVJ2tW7F1-rl5WVCMPQW6hsT5algmUbCcqtZyaF3h2fV0KjuzI33bs1NflSVwjbVc0Y7zLYzwoNLkaMpWkAcepw5Y9JtIyZhRKfApvHCMai5CGBnD6f49_/s1600/Pink+side.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGIKzTaugOgGk7OPDIjaf1yjMVJ2tW7F1-rl5WVCMPQW6hsT5algmUbCcqtZyaF3h2fV0KjuzI33bs1NflSVwjbVc0Y7zLYzwoNLkaMpWkAcepw5Y9JtIyZhRKfApvHCMai5CGBnD6f49_/s320/Pink+side.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These are Bo Bunny papers from about 2007 or so. Pays to hoard until you find the perfect project. I had to plan really well in order not to run out of paper. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZvOQJpXXk2hZguQbWY4lRWU4tAnsZZhP6AGiFGFahsxYDoZD9NzYKI71K6XubwNQ1tWcAJQ6cqucpmbZQuib2N6-pnTBZiKbriPw3zOaMKVp21DwCrd-ug0J23KOYPg3id2GMlFFRnoP/s1600/Yellow+side.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGZvOQJpXXk2hZguQbWY4lRWU4tAnsZZhP6AGiFGFahsxYDoZD9NzYKI71K6XubwNQ1tWcAJQ6cqucpmbZQuib2N6-pnTBZiKbriPw3zOaMKVp21DwCrd-ug0J23KOYPg3id2GMlFFRnoP/s320/Yellow+side.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A bit of bling sets all things off to a T.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdXZdMhlvkheGfxQh4iK7cT9BYVLIHr4eyzhEvvnxx6TIM5XotrWK5GvrTbEXenOiEheBFbIuzTqcCHDJCYSiI0tgX2HstAceDV-Rm-PTRXFeDuIelZ0lJrOy4bvnaIm1BFe0Etry6YH4/s1600/Red+side.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdXZdMhlvkheGfxQh4iK7cT9BYVLIHr4eyzhEvvnxx6TIM5XotrWK5GvrTbEXenOiEheBFbIuzTqcCHDJCYSiI0tgX2HstAceDV-Rm-PTRXFeDuIelZ0lJrOy4bvnaIm1BFe0Etry6YH4/s320/Red+side.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are pockets on the outsides formed by folding up the bottom of a business size envelope. The flowers on the corners are pull tabs for hidden tags.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRG2Bc_JZV7iuZJSfugdCIk8IV0bID7jtnxEpmqKfFs0QKfVMilfkffVMSbC6dhch0Zr0z9QO7KiC_BERBFdN4d9mmRENRImFSwVOf3M2CQtLWjIXgDVHeyTBrStMrFmO7AZLZbwaOR7o/s1600/Inside.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiRG2Bc_JZV7iuZJSfugdCIk8IV0bID7jtnxEpmqKfFs0QKfVMilfkffVMSbC6dhch0Zr0z9QO7KiC_BERBFdN4d9mmRENRImFSwVOf3M2CQtLWjIXgDVHeyTBrStMrFmO7AZLZbwaOR7o/s320/Inside.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pop off the top and this is what you see. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The small inner pockets are made using coin envelopes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4FIv4P8nJUfJyvL-yorrTGcFRatAru0vHj-KUnEO8M-qxsAhSuXGjHJA6lU5cC7liy9MuFfcl7Y3WbIHHxTOj60PEMGZW5nn3mdIJvPSDywzS3XmPXZEahlK3_zL3LGBveNc9xSJT7RH/s1600/Close+up.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR4FIv4P8nJUfJyvL-yorrTGcFRatAru0vHj-KUnEO8M-qxsAhSuXGjHJA6lU5cC7liy9MuFfcl7Y3WbIHHxTOj60PEMGZW5nn3mdIJvPSDywzS3XmPXZEahlK3_zL3LGBveNc9xSJT7RH/s320/Close+up.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">There are lots of hidden tags with room for photos or journalling. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
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