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Craft Room Sale Part 1: The Stamps

Keeping only my alphabets and a few other gift wrapping & kiddo appealing sets, I’ve segregated a pile of 125+ stamp sets with which I am soon.  It’s a hard decision, but they just aren’t doing me any good sitting on the shelf gathering dust.  So, here’s your chance to grab some awesome sets (most of which are retired!) for a great price. 

Here’s the complete list & information: Stamp Sale Info - UPDATED! (9/9/09)

Here’s the fine print:

• Payment thru Paypal only.
• Sets will be held for ONE DAY after the Paypal invoice has been SENT.
• Shipping can be combined on multiple purchases. I’ll recalculate & respond with the combined postage as quickly as possible.
• Priority mail items ship within 1 business day of payment being received. 1st class mail shipments will go out on the upcoming Monday or Thursday.
• Shipping prices quoted are for US shipments only!  For shipping to Canada, please contact me!
• Information is deemed reliable but not guaranteed. Please feel free to independently confirm any or all of it before making your purchase.
• All stamps come from a smoke free home.
• Splitcoaststampers has a great gallery for examples of each stamp set:  http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/su. 

Other questions – comment or email me! 

Here's the list to scan:

A Is for Adorable - $9.00
All About U - $14.00
All I have Seen - $7.50
All-Year Cheer II - $15.00
All-Year Cheer III - $15.00
Alphabet Soup - $7.50
Alphabits - $8.00
Amazing to Zany - $21.00
Amazing to Zany - $25.50
Around & About - $6.00
Artifacts - $11.50
Background Basics - $6.50
Beyond the Basics - $6.00
Birthday Greetings - $14.00
By Definition - $8.50
Canvas - $9.00
Check it Out - $11.50
Cheery Chat - $14.50
Crosshatch - $8.50
Cute Converse - $9.00
Day-to-Day Flexible Phrases - $11.00
Delightful Doodles - $6.00
Dotted - $9.00
Everyday Flexible Phrases - $17.00
Expressive Flexible Phrases - $20.00
Fabulous Four - $7.50
Fancy Flexible Phrases - $24.00
Figures of Speech - $11.50
Fontastic - $8.50
Fun Phrases - $10.00
Garden Blocks - $9.00
Gently Falling - $7.50
"Good Sign, A ", $12.50
Good Times - $11.50
"Greeting for All Reasons, A ", $14.50
Greetings Galore - $15.50
Groovy Lines - $8.50
Handmade with Love - $6.00
Happiest of Holidays - $7.50
Happy Birthday Greetings - $8.50
Happy Everything - $9.50
Happy Harmony - $9.00
Happy Occasions - $7.50
Holiday Spirit - $10.00
Holiday Wishes - $11.50
Houndstooth - $8.50
In Full Bloom - $12.50
It's About Time - $11.00
Itty Bitties - $7.50
Itty Bitty Backgrounds - $7.50
Just Jeans - $8.50
Let's Party - $6.00
Letter Patterns - $9.50
Letter Prints - $9.00
Lexicon of Love - $7.50
Linen - $9.00
Listen with the Heart - $7.50
"Little Love, A ", $8.50
Looks Like Spring - $15.50
Made From Scratch - $7.50
Make A Wish - $9.00
Make it Count - $11.00
Mini Mates - $15.00
Mini Messages - $8.50
Mixed Bouquet - $14.50
Mixed Greetings - $6.50
Nature's Secret - $11.00
Noteworthy - $9.00
Off the Chart - $9.00
Office Accoutrement - $19.50
On the Spot - $9.00
Paint Prints - $9.00
Peace & Love - $12.50
Phrase Starters - $10.00
Polka Dots & Paisley - $11.50
Print Pattern - $9.00
Quick & Cute - $8.50
Renewed Faith - $9.00
Sage Advice - $12.00
Sassy Sayings I - $10.00
Sassy Sayings II - $10.00
Send a Celebration - $9.00
Simple Sayings - $10.00
Simple Sayings II - $10.00
Simply the Best - $9.00
Sincere Salutations - $12.00
Sketch An Event - $11.00
Small Script - $7.50
Smitten - $9.00
Smorgasborders - $8.50
So Very - $9.00
Soft Swirls - $8.50
Solemn Stillness - $15.50
Special Day - $8.50
Spooktacular Greetings - $10.00
Stars & Swirls - $6.00
Stipple Celebrations - $14.50
Stippled Stencils - $6.00
Stripes - $8.50
Surprise! - $7.50
Sweet Spot - $5.00
Tag-Alongs - $9.00
Teeny Tinies - $7.50
Terrific Tulips - $12.50
That's Nice - $7.50
Think Big - $12.50
Timeworn Trim - $7.50
Vertical Greetings - $10.00
Warm Words - $11.00
Weathered - $9.00
What Could Be Better - $14.00
Wishes Awash - $10.00
Wonderful Weaves - $7.50
Wonderful Words - $11.00
Word by Word - $8.50
Word Search - $11.00

Craft Room Clean Out & Transformation

My craft room is a happy place … or at least it used to be.  These days it has become a crap catch all as illustrated by these embarrassing photographs.

Over the next few months this room will going through a metamorphosis into the Reed Family Creative Center.  Chris will be claiming one side of the table for his drawing and artistic projects while I’ll keep the other side of the table for my scrapbooking and photography productions.  Many of the cabinets will be cleaned out and stocked with munchkin friendly arts & crafts supplies in anticipation of the day soon to come that Logan will be working on projects in there with us. 

The 1st phase of this project involves a fundamental change in the way I create scrapbook pages.  For a lot of reasons (most notably time & convenience) I made the decision a few months ago to go all digital with my scrapbooking and card making.  The biggest impact is that I’m in the process of cleaning house of my traditional scrapbook supplies.  Over the next few weeks, I’ll be having a virtual craft room sale to clean out the supplies that I’ll no longer need.  Check back later for those posts.

Along with cleaning out my scrapbook supplies I have a number of other organizational & cleaning phases to complete:

• Memento organization
• Cabinet clean out & organization
• Closet clean out & organization
• … and several more I’m sure!

I’m excited to get started on this and share the results as they evolve and the Reed Family Creative Center is our new happy place!

Me: The Abridged Version

Angie and I signed up to take an online class with creative goddess Cathy Zielske called Me: The Abridged Version.  It’s based on the book by Amy Krouse Rosenthal called Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.  This was the first week of the workshop so Angie and I decided to block out some time between her recovery naps this afternoon to work on it.  What a great way to start off a long holiday weekend!

The most significant task this week was to come up with 2 words for each letter that were representative of who we are right now.  We had both been brainstorming a little here and there.  Today our goal was to actually narrow down our lists to the 2 words that would become our encyclopedia entries.  I’m stunned that I think we both have actually accomplished our goal!  If you're curious, here’s my list.  It’s not etched in stone yet, but I think it’s 99% there.

Bonus: I even snapped a couple of the accompanying photographs!  Check those out here.

I'm excited to share the finished product as we make our way through the workshop over the next few weeks.  Stay tuned!