Mother's Day Boutique Sale

Here is the info about our upcoming Boutique Sale!

Mother's Day Boutique Sale

Need a fast easy one stop shopping trip

for some Mother's Day goodies?

Look no further!

Join us on Friday May 4th from 7-9pm

at 10 Moore Drive in Bethpage...

Designer Inspired Handbags Buy one get one 50% OFF

Cookie Lee Jewelry -Spend $50 or more and get one item 1/2 off

Handmade Photo frames and Craft Items- FREE gift w/ purchase

FREE Make and Take Mother's Day Card (one per adult please)

FREE Raffles all night!

For more info please call

Denise 631-365-1107 or Toni 516-232-0216

email resqbarbie@aol.com or toni102@optonline.net

Back in the Saddle

Well, after that long vacation break (seemed like an eternity without school!) we are back to business! So many things going on too...First here is the scrapbook page I promised, uh ....a long time ago! It's even more appropriate as it seems we are going to get some real spring weather soon!

This layout was done using a Stampin' Up Simply Scrappin' Kit from SAB, Office Accouterments, Definitely Decorative Daisy (retired) and some extra Rhonna Farrer swirly stamps. I really like the color combo and the kit made it very easy to coordinate!

Next up is an Adult Stamp A Stack on Friday, April 13th. We will do our usual 8 cards for $20 and have a special raffle! RSVP to me or Toni...

We are doing a special Mother's Day Gift Set workshop on May 4th and 6th (Friday night and Sunday afternoon). This will be a great gift idea for any special "Mom" in your life. It will be 3 projects...a card, a mini tote, and an accordion album for $25. Call to reserve your place today!

Whew! And after that...we prepare for our first ALL DAY Crop! At the moment it is sold out but I will post if we have any cancellations...

Time to get ready for school! Have a great Day!

Update on the May crop...

Well folks, it looks like we are FULL! Right now, I have 4 people who confirmed thier checks are in the mail at this moment and as soon as I get them in my hands we are at maximum capacity! I will update and let you know if there are any cancellations or errors on my part (which I doubt LOL)...but for now, CLOSED! Thanks!

Scrapping again!

Oh, it's sooooo nice to scrapbook again! I was sucked into the awesomeness of stamping and forgot my old baby! We went to a PJ crop, 6pm to 6am and had so much fun! Here's what I did, along with a 6X6 Disney theme album and a 6X6 album for Chris' 2nd birthday. Whew! Seems like a lot but the 2 mini albums were kits with everything all nice and picked out and matching. It's really a great idea when you want to put something nice together but don't want to put the time into it. I use my 12 X 12 albums to try new techniques or long time consuming ones. Just wait till you see the pages I came up with for VSBN! Virtual Scrapbooking Night on SCS is April 13 & 14 and I am hostessing a challenge. Much like VSN but you get 2 hours for each challenge. I cannot wait to post them! I haven't seen Toni since Tuesday (shocking!) but when I see her again I will get the page we did for our stamp club.

oh BTW...what do you think of the blog header? I have been struggling with editing my HTML (why didn't I pay attention in college?) and I am still not happy with it, but I have all weekend to work on it...DH is doing OT on Saturday...

Oh....more exciting news! Toni (my friend and business partner BTW) has convinced her DH that they shouldn't rent their basement out and should let us use it as a classroom! How cool! So, from now on all our classes and small crops will be in the comfort of Toni's very spacious basement! Can't wait to fill it up with all our stuff! Hope to see you LI locals at some classes...I have some great ideas for a few and will be posting them as we set dates!

So................. hooray, it's almost Friday!!! Enjoy the weekend!

just a FYI...

I can't believe it but the May crop is almost full! We have about 5 spots open! We had such an amazing response, it should be a real success. The primas were ordered, and will be ready for purchase then also. We are so excited! Last night was the last meeting of this round of our stamp club...the next will start again in May, if you are interested in joining, call me or Toni for the details. Last night, we did a 12 X 12 spring layout using a Stampin' Up simply scrappin kit. It was so easy and pretty! Of course, I left it at Toni's house so as soon as I get it back I will post it.
VSN results tonight! So exciting!
AND....if that kid doesn't get booted off AI tonight I WILL stop watching the show. I swear!

VSN weekend!

What a blast VSN is on Splitcoast! Such a great way to stretch your creative arms! Lots of new techniques and ideas...wow! This time I was a hostess again and my challenge was to do a postcard (the theme was Vacation Getaway!) Now my big job is to pick 5-6 "winners"...yikes! There were so many great ones to chose from! Well, you know what I'll be doing tomorrow...anyway, here are some of my entries for the weekend...

The first one I attempted was to alter some kind of container to make as a survival kit. This was so fun! I used a mini paint can and made a new puppy survival kit, for all the necessities of a new puppy! I think I may have to use this one in an upcoming class...

Next up, the frayed and frazzled challenge from my friend Joni. You had to fray the grosgrain ribbon by cutting the ends of the ribbon and pulling apart the pieces. I just the other day made the same card (almost) for our stamp a stack. I just really loved this card (used polka dots and paisley too) and gave mine away at the stamp a stack (we raffle off the sample cards at the end of the class). For this one though I stuck with the challenge and I used a grosgrain ribbon and frayed the ends.

The next was to use a piece of vacation clothing in a card...I traced my DD's flip flops and cut them down a little and added the ribbon. I also used bleach to stamp the background with Best Blossoms...how fun!

Next challenge was to make a pop up card. I love them , so I found the biggest flowers I had (Office Accoutrement) and pops away!

Last one for me was to make a luggage tag...how funny I have been a nut with making them lately! So I used CausaBella and a ribbon punch for this tag...luggage tag for a cause...LOL

Enjoy!