Jean Bag trip to America

I stoopidly said to my sister I would make her a jean bag - knowing I may not be able to do so. Last night as she was packing she asked so where is my bag? Hard to brush her off when she's standing in front of me.

Really all I had to do was line it, attached a couple of velcro closures and a bit of bling on the outside. But what really stuffed me up was having to do training at work, doing full time hours and then we had organised a scratch game with our other U17 softball team - which is a WHOLE other blog entry

Rotorua - Scrapbook Haul

I'm never one to let Sport get in the way of scrapbooking shopping...muhahahaha!

1st Stop - The $2 shop by the Warehouse, scored me some bargains here, they had large felt alphabet sets; A-M and N-Z for $2.50 so of course I had to get one of each colour they had in stock. Along with some fancy, smanshy transfer alphabet stickers and a sheet of rub on's.

Warehouse had nothing but I did buy some gold tip scissors that I had been eyeing up in Auckland.

2nd Stop - Then round the corner to Warehouse Stationery - Got some ribbons and 2 Designer chipboard sets.

3rd Stop - Kraft Korner, got some $1.00 paper from the sale rack. N-Z felt alpha in black that the $2 shop didn't have.

4th Stop - Spotlight, this store is super clean and the staff are very friendly. I went down the scrapbook aisle first and found a chipboard alphabet set - cheap as. Then to the bargain section where I found some really good bargains, I was being selective with my purchases and thought... okay that's it, off to the counter BUT when she said $8.00!!! I thought WTF to which she replied all orange stickers are 50% off, it was like she read my mind "did you want me to put these aside while you go back"....HELL YEAH, even after I came back it was only $28.00 and I had a bag full

I think I did pretty well - I don't think I spent more than $120.00 all up. Which is pretty good cause last time I spent almost $200 just in spotlight alone, mainly because I brought bind it all accessories

Thanks Rotorua - it was a pleasure

Cake Stall baking Part2

I asked my nephew how did sales on my afgans go...he started out with a very thoughtful look on his face and said there were only 3 left. What the heck does that mean - didnt they sell out like I expected them too. He then went on to explain that this year they only had three tables and could only pick two things to buy which he said was a bit slack. Last year they had heaps more more home baking for sale - well it's the sign of the times really, I said they may have done it differently this year so everyone had a chance to buy something.

Cake Stall baking

My nephew's school is having a cake stall tomorrow and he asked me if I would bake something for him. Hey Carolann I got a weeks notice - when I told my sister about your short, virtually non existence notice, we had a giggle and shock our heads....KIDS!!!

Thinking, thinking thinking...I hadn't made these for sometime and my recipe wasn't the best. So what do you do at times like this - GOOGLE. I found an easy peasy one via the Woman's Weekly and voila

CHOCOLATE AFGANS complete with swirly icing and a walnut on the top

New Blog

hi guys,
found a new scrapbook blog
http://inspirationaltechniquesandtutorials.blogspot.com/

Isn't it amazing

how the amount of rubbish you put out each week reduces when you don't have money to spend on crap and have to dispose of the packaging lol.

Jean Bags

I've got this sure fire money making scheme(lmao) to make and sell jean bags made out of old pairs of jeans. Recently I made one for Al and some peeps have made some very nice remarks about it.

It just seems to fit with my recycling mentality and using what is available around me. I'm trying not to use new materials(buying stuff from a fabric store) for the lining but will make exceptions if it has that wow factor.

I'll add some photo's soon