Handmade bookmarks

I can now share these on my blog, I made these last month for my Aunt who lives in W.V. as a gift. She loves to read books and needed more bookmarks so I decided to surprise her and make her a few special ones with pictures. Now that her package has been sent and she has gotten them I can share them here.

 

The picture on this one is a picture I had from a few years ago of her and her husband when they came to visit me back in 2004

this picture has a little glare on it, since this one I laminated by hand with transparencies to protect the pictures on front and back.

Double sided sticky tape order

 Spring Savings!

www.classdetails.com (my online store)

Double sided sticky tape on a roll...1/4" wide with a whopping 21 yards on each roll

This sticky tape is just about as strong as the red tacky tape on a roll which you only get about 5 yards on a roll.

This tape is "the best" when it comes to adhering ribbon and covering chipboard albums

Order Details

• $2.00 per roll
• Sold in quantities of 10 ($20.00)
• Order 30 or more and price will be $1.75 per roll
• Place your order by Friday, April 10th
• All orders will need to be pre-paid before I place the order! 
• Need to place order by email send order to TinkersP@live.com
• I will send you a paypal invoice that will include shipping charges

Don't miss out on this order!!!!

I only order this tape twice a year in bulk the next order will not be until the Fall.....

stock up now and save!!!

• All local orders will need to add 5% VA sales tax plus $3.00 shipping
• Out of state orders there will be NO sales tax and I will need to calculate your shipping charges on your paypal invoice

Thanks,

Tina Powell :)

2nd Grade Play

Madison's 2nd Grade Play,"How Does Your Garden Grow?" was Tuesday night. They all did such a great job. The play was so cute and the songs they sang were just too funny. It was all about Spring and gardening, so some of the kids costumes were cabbage, weeds, scarecrow, farmer, bunny & flowers. Madison was a Flower and had a small speaking part.

   

spreading a little green

Well it's not quite St. Patrick's Day yet but I thought I would spread a little green around for good luck! Kaitlynn and her friend went to a high school baseball game this past weekend and they both had on green shirts so I thought how perfect for St. Patty's Day. Then Wati & I went out to lunch one day last week and we too both wore green shirts...and we didn't even plan it that way, it was too funny when we both showed up in green.

 

Photo book

Fed Ex came today! I was so excited to get my package...I made a photo book of some of the snow pictures and had it printed through www.blurb.com Don't know if you have heard of this company but I love their site for photo book printing. In the past I have uploaded my pictures to other sites and made photo books, but I really like blurb. Here are some of the pros I found out about why I love this site.

• One of the main reasons...once you download their photo book software you work right from that program on your computer and import your pictures from your computer.
• You do not have to upload each and every photo one at a time to their site, it simply imports your pictures inside the downloaded program and you work on your book at your own pace.
• Plus it auto saves each page as you go along so you don't have to worry about losing what you just did.
• You can use any font loaded in your computer for your journaling inside and on the front, back covers & spine.
• They have tons of templates to choose from and it super easy to drop your pictures right into the template. Then when your all done you upload the entire book to their site, it takes you right there to place an order.
• Another really cool feature that this site has is for all us "bloggers" out there, you can turn your blog into a book!!! Really easy to do. I might try that too!!

This is a cool way to get lots of pictures in one book, since we take so many pictures through out the year it is nearly impossible to scrapbook them all it would cost you a fortune to print all of your pictures out. I love making mini scrapbook albums but as much as I love making them there are some pictures that you would simply not print for a mini album so this is a good way to get all your pictures in one place. Great idea for Year in Review book. Not to take the place of scrapbook pages but so you could have an overall picture book with all your pictures in one place.

The book below that I ordered is a 8 1/2 x 11 in size, Image wrap hard cover, 32 pages total. The cost was fairly reasonable and comparable with other photo book sites. I paid around $32.00 all together for the book plus shipping. I am very happy with the way it turned out and will be making more in the near future.

 

**Now that I have my first book in my hands and am very pleased with the way it turned out I am so ready to make my next book.

{Snow Day "Photo Shoot"}

more snow pics

As promised I do have more snow pictures to share with you, but just a little slow getting them posted. I did not get on the computer all weekend and wasn't feeling the greatest Sunday and Monday. I am trying to get back on track today with lots of things to do, I am up early with coffee in hand to start my day. Already got Kaitlynn off to school as she catches the bus at 6:30 Madison will be getting up at 7:30 to start her day and get ready for school. So I have a few minutes of silence to myself. I can't post them all because we took hundreds of pictures on the second day of the snow during our "Snow Photo Shoot" with Wati & the kids.

Snow Days

Wow what a nice surprise on Sunday....and in March of all times our biggest snow fall in a very long time. We measured right at 7" at my house. The girls were in aahhhh when they woke up on Monday morning  and looked out the window to a blanket of snow everywhere. Then to find out there was NO school, what could be better than that? After we ate a late breakfast we got all bundled up and played in the snow for a few hours. We built a very small snowman, if there was ever an award for the smallest snowman I think it would go to us. LOL . Then we came back inside to thaw out a bit. I thought Madison would want to go back out and play again, but I was surprised when she said it was too cold and she didn't want to go back outside again. I was fine with that cause it was really cold out there and I had already took 131 pictures so I was fine with that.

Tuesday(today), NO school again!  Time for more pictures I snapped a few of the girls outside, then Kaitlynn left and went sledding with friends. My friend {Wati and her kids} and Madison & I went out to lunch and came back to the house and guess what we did?????? Yep, more pictures, this time I was not the only one taking pictures so I was actually in a lot of the pictures. Wati set up her tripod and we had both the Nikon and Canon going, we had lots of fun on our Snow Day Photo Shoot. I haven't yet counted how many pics in all both of us took  today but I know it was LOTS!!! I will share a few in this post and I am thinking about uploading  them later online to one of my photo galleries and post a link so you can go view the rest later if you'd like...

Oh by the way.....NO School again tomorrow its 12 degrees out there right now and the roads are expected to still be icy in the morning so we get yet another SNOW DAY.