Craftiness

Here are a few of the things that I have been working on lately. The first is a Thank You card for some of the baby gifts that we are already receiving! YEAH! I love the I'm Here stamp set from Stampin Up, I don't think I will be getting rid of it for a LONG time!

The next scrapbook page is one that we created at club this past month. This was the boy version. I just love this color combination: Bordering Blue, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, and Whisper White! So fun!

Here is a close up of the pocket. I will do a tutorial on how to create this pocket soon!

And here is the Baby Girl version! I love the Nursery Necessities stamp set! So cute!

And here is a close up. The color combination for this page is: Pixie Pink, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, and Whisper White.

Hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving weekend! Come back later today for a post about Stampin Up's great specials this weekend...or just check them out on my website: www.kimryden.stampinup.net.

It's Clean!

Good news club members! My craft room is clean! And this is also good news for all you blog readers. This means that I will now be able to create more and post more craft projects! YEAH!

Tonight I worked on the classes that I have coming up. I will post pictures of the projects soon!

Wednesday Update

Sorry that it's been so long since I've posted anything craft related! (But you can see something at my family website http://www.therydenfamily.blogspot.com/.) In the picture below you can see the state of my craft room... so I have to work on cleaning this up before I can create anything! HA HA! And for you club members, this why we were creating in my kitchen last month! HA HA!

Here is another project that has been taking up some time in our house. We are in the process of painting our bathroom...don't you love the color?

And we we are ready to lay tile once we have access to a tile cutter!

And here is our baby room. It has (for now) become painting central! The ceiling is painted and we might get some color on the walls this weekend if we can't tile!

And in other news...1 of 3 pieces of the baby furniture arrived this week! The changing table is here and ready to be assembled after painting central is cleared out! YEAH! It's a busy time in our household!

Happy Halloween a Week Late

So Halloween this year didn't really happen on Halloween in the Ryden household. On the real Halloween we were at my brother-in-law's house and the puppies were at home in the kennel. So we played Halloween on Monday! Here are the puppies during their Halloween photoshoot.

This year Chloe was a Bumble Bee! Look at that cute head tilt! (And yes, her hat is hanging around her neck...they need to design those things better!)

Gus was a lobster! Doesn't he look so scary?!!

There's me with my 2 babies. It was kinda hot that day and very windy!

Look at that cute Bumble Bee!

And again with the lobster!

Calendar Class or KIT

Calendar Class
Stampin Up
DATE: Monday, November 17th
TIME: 7-9 pm
LOCATION: Kim's House
COST: ONLY $22

Come on out and create a cute calendar for 2009 using the calendar kit that can be found in your new Mini Catalog! This class will include the calendar kit as well as an embellished Chipboard Clipboard to hold the calendar all year long! This calendar would also make a GREAT Christmas present! You are welcome to purchase more than one kit!

If you are unable to attend on the 17th you can plan on making your calendar at the crop on November 22nd (between noon and midnight) OR I can mail the kit to your home for an additional $5 OR if you are in town, we can arrange to get together and get you your kit. (Kit will include all of the items needed to embellish your calendar and clipboard, except glue.)

YOU MUST RSVP by midnight on Wednesday, Nov 5th for this class or purchase of the kit. I will then order the supplies so that they will be here in time for our class. If you RSVP for the class and are unable to attend on the 17th or 22nd you will still be responsible for the purchase of the kit.

To RSVP just email me at demokimsu@yahoo.com. Hope to see you all soon!

File Folders

I have a file folder at work that is labeled: "My Issues"! That just made me laugh a little today! I probably need one of those at home as well!

Hope you are having a great Thursday. :)

New Items Added to my Blog

Hey Everyone!

I just added a few new items to my blog. You now have a direct link to the Stampin Up catalogs as well as the current specials and a link where it will take you directly to order online! Please check it out and let me know if you have any questions.

**Please note that in order to view anything of the catalogs you will have to have Adobe Acrobat.**

***Please also note that if you are currently in a club or attending a workshop for a freind, those club and workshop orders still need to come through me so that I can add them to the total for the hostess! Online ordering is just for items that you want shipped directly to your home and do not count towards a hostesses order. THANKS!!***

I'm a total 10 Year Old!

So on Friday after work I was talking to my best friend asking her what her plans were for the weekend. Well she mentioned that her husband was really wanting to go see High School Musical 3: Senior Year. She asked if I wanted to come since she knew Sam wasn't here this weekend. I said, "Ummm...yeah! I didn't know any of my friends would want to go see it so I was just going to go alone sometime!" So tonight...we went to see this....

I just have to say that Zac Efron is totally worth seeing this movie! He's my new celebrity crush. There were many times in this movie where he was very sweaty! :)

Don't worry...I just looked up on imdb and he did just turn 21. So it's only a 6.5 year diference!

And did you know that the average age of everyone in our theater was probably about 10? I don't think there was one high schooler there. What is up with that?! I would give the movie 3 out of 5 stars...it was a little cheesy...just like the first 2 but of course the dancing and singing was great!

Friday's 10 - This Weekend!

Hey everyone...I'm bringing back the Friday's 10! So here goes...

#1 - My hubby left me today. He's headed to AZ to help clean out and pack up his grandparent's house. They used to winter in AZ where it's WARM! But Grandpa passed away just a few weeks ago and they weren't planning on heading back there this year anyway. So part of the family is down there this week to help out and my hubby and his brother are the lucky ones that get to drive the moving truck back to Kansas! So I'm alone all weekend. Drive safely boys!

#2 - Tonight I'm scrapbooking at church. I'm very excited to get to see my girls there and meet a few new people too! I think we will have a good group tonight! I'm still trying to decide what I want to work on tonight...probably finish up my clear album. I will let you know how it goes!

#3 - Tomorrow morning I'm heading to Archiver's with a few freinds to scrapbook all day! Well atleast from 9:30am until 4pm!!! I'm very excited about this. Yeah! I haven't seen Becky in ages and I miss hanging out with her! If anyone wants to join us...just let me know. It's free to crop during the day there! (Except the stuff that you are enticed to buy is not free but I will live!)

#4 - After scrapping on Saturday I'm heading accross the street to DSW to see if I can find some new shoes! I feel like I need something new! And my flip flops just won't work in the snow! Ha Ha!

#5 - Saturday night I'm looking forward to catching up on my shows that I didn't get to watch last night. I know, I know...I missed the best night of TV! The Office AND Grey's Anatomy. So don't tell me what happens!

#6 - Then Sunday I will be heading to church at 9am and hopefully my best freind and her hubby will want to have lunch with me that day! I'm calling her after work to see if they want to.

#7 - THEN (I have an action packed weekend planned)...I will be heading to a Holiday Mart that is being held in KC. I'm excited to look around and try some good food!

#8 - Then hopefully my hubby will be home on Sunday evening. But if not, I plan to curl up and take a nap then wake up to watch Desperate Housewives and maybe The Notebook. (I saw Nights in Rondathe last night. It was good but not nearly as good as The Notebook was. So I'm thinking I need to watch it again!)

#9 - I might also find some time to organize my scrapbook room OR clean our bedroom OR list stuff on Ebay OR clean the bathrooms OR make sure that all scrapbooking stuff is downstairs...it seems to invade the house all the time! So you see...I have tons of options that will take me well into next week!

#10 - I'm headed to Panera right now to have a salad and some potato soup for lunch. YUM!

Regional Projects

Hey everyone. I just realized that I never really posted the projects that we made at regionals. So here they are!

This is a little pocket thingy...don't really know what to call it.

It holds a few cards and some envelopes.
Look how cute these cards are! I love that little birdie!

Then we got to use the Big Shot to make this cute little basket! Isn't it just adorable?

This is a little pouch. Very cute!

Cute little card. We used ribbon to make the flower. So cute!

I didn't really like this set when I first saw it. But this card is kinda cute. Did you know that you could watercolor with craft ink? That what we did with the Old Olive on this card!

And the final make n take was this 8x8 scrapbook page. There are a lot of elements that go into the bottom portion of the page. Very cute!

So there you have it finally. If you have any questions...ask away!