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My New Crafting Space

Well, we did it!  We moved across the country and survived!  Tomorrow marks one-week of living in Maryland and we love it so far!  A lot has happened. We met our wonderful new church family; my hubby landed himself a fantastic new job; we've already met some of our neighbors and we have already enjoyed a date night!  (We also had a water pipe break in the house!) What a busy week, wouldn't you say?

Oh, and we've also been unpacking. Let me show you around my new craft space with some before and after pics. This office space is large enough to share with my hubby; he has one end and I have the other. It's perfect!

It started out like this once the truck was unloaded:

There's a horseshoe-shaped desk under that mess.(It came with the house.)

I also found these empty cubbyhole shelves which I quickly incorporated:

Two drawers in the desk work perfectly for my stamp sets:

After a LOT of unpacking, with more unpacking to go, here's what I have tonight:

A perfect Cricut station:

And the cubbyhole shelves, filled with all my tools and goodies:

There you have it!  My new craft space! 

Thanks for looking!

Happy Scrapping!

~Tricia

Here it Comes!

The brand NEW spring/summer 2013 Close To My Heart Idea Book will go LIVE on Feb 1! I can't wait for you to see all the great new papers, embellishments, stamp sets and home decor items we have to offer! You are going to be blown away!


Click here for the online version of the Idea Book.




Here's a quick sampling of a few things to come:

Buzz & Bumble Workshop on the Go Scrapbook Kit:

For Always Workshop on the Go Scrapbook Kit:

Home Decor with Chantilly:

Home Decor with Claire:

And there is much, much more!

Call or email today to get your FREE copy of the NEW Idea Book today!

And, Studio J is pulling out all the stops for February! All Studio J layouts are just $5 each! 

No kidding!

Happy Scrapping!

~Tricia

Clean & Simple Cards

What a great start 2013 has gotten off to!  We are in the process of moving across the country and are very excited about our new ministry as well as our future!  The holiday season brought many blessings this past year. We not only had a wonderful Christmas Day at home with our three kids who still live at home, we had a family wedding on Dec 30!  All eight kids were able to be there, along with all but one of their spouses and one of our grandkids. It was a great time of being together and celebrating the family God has blessed us with. It continues to grow, too!

Christmas time brings presents and even though my hubby is still unemployed, we managed to give all the kids presents. It's amazing how creative I can be when money is tight. I made the vast majority of the gifts we gave.

We also received many, many gifts - and those gifts require hand-written thank-you notes. This year, I went with clean, simple designs for my thank-you notes.  I used a combination of CTMH's White Daisy card stock, my Cuttlebug with various folders and CTMH's Cricut Artiste Cartridge, along with a little stamping. Here's a sampling:

Have you made and mailed your thank-you notes yet?

Happy card making!

~Tricia

Get Organized in 2013!

Clearly the Best: Random Stamping