Creative Chaos

I had to interrupt.....

my kit preparations to share this with you.......glitter clothespins.   I saw these somewhere and was determined to make some for the tops of the bags of my kits. 

 
They are so easy to make.  All you need is a package of clothespins, spray adhesive and a big container of glitter.   I just kept the pins attached to the cardboard sprayed the adhesive on and dumped them in the glitter.....ta da!   I foresee lots of glittered clothes pins in my future. 

Ok...I have to get back to putting everything together for tomorrow's fundraiser at Denise's house.  Here's what I'm teaching.....

 

 
 I'll talked to you when I get back!   Karin

 

The glitter is still flying......

 

I've been wanting to do something with this scrapbook paper since I got it last year.   I think...correct me if I'm wrong...it's 7 Gypsies.  I love it. 

 

So I went ahead and whipped up two of these babies when I was supposed to be organizing my craft room......

 

How do you like the green bat?  I used this new glitter from Martha Stewart that I happened to find hidden in the back of the shelf behind a couple of punches.  It was the only one.   I told Cosme it was fate.  Cosme told me it was misplaced inventory.  I told him that iridescent Black Licorice and I were meant to be together.  Cosme asked me how much glitter can a person have?   Right then and there I questioned our wedding vows.   Then he asked if I wanted some ice cream and then I remembered why I married him. 

Although I was tempted to keep this secret all to myself, I just have to share it ........

 

She has these new iridescent glitters.  This one is Black Licorice.....Randy, if you're reading this you will love it.....

 

Anyway, I'm having fun with it.  Hopefully, there's more to be had.  Because unlike some narrow minded people in this household, a person can never have enough glitter......

On my way out.....

 

 to Paper Tales to drop a few things off.......

 

 

I can't believe it's been almost a week since I last posted.  I was substituting for 1st grade last week and also preparing for a fundraiser this Saturday at Denise's house.....Craft for the Cure......

 

I'm teaching the halloween cake......

 

I'm really excited about it.  Ok....gotta run before the kids get out of school. 

Oh...I almost forgot!   Guess who strolled into town last week?  

 
The Count and his friends.  Looks like it's going to be a busy week ahead of me.  If you don't hear from me in a couple of days, you'll know where I am......Karin

 

 

Can you tell the difference......

 

between the three of these glitters?  The other day when I went all glitter crazy, I started mixing up some custom colors.....

I worked on a couple more little halloween cupcakes.....

 

 

Yes, that's the Martha Stewart paint back there.  I picked up a couple in the glitter paint.  I haven't had too much of a chance to work with it yet though.  

Oh...here's a little journal cover I quickly threw together at Paper Tales the other day.  I love this candy paper......

 

I'm off to teach 1st graders tomorrow and Friday.   First grade is such a fun grade.  Although much of it involves a lot of crowd control, they are so eager to learn and tell you whatever is on their mind.....or, what his or her classmate is doing that he shouldn't be doing :0)   I better get to bed....I'm going to need all the sleep I can get!  talk to you later!  Karin  

Have you ever......

 

Started paying bills.....

 

and then spotted your glitter sitting across the room......

 

then all of a sudden abandoned your obligation to pay for electricity in order to satisfy an urge to glue glitter on paper mache stars you just purchased at Paper Tales......

which then gives you the idea to start mixing your own concoctions of glitter mixes.....

 

 prompting you to proclaim "who needs electricity anyway!"........

 

Or is it just me.....

 

BIG....HUGE....EXCITING News.....

Seriously....this news is so big, so huge and so exciting that I may have to borrow someone else's blog just to fit it all in.....Quite possibly, even a third blog...... that's how big this is.

So, if you have been following my blog for any amount of time you may remember Part 1 of....There's No Way my Kid Ate $83.00 Worth of Lunch Food and Other Misconceptions of the Kindergarten Years  back in February.   This was a time where the whole family gathered around and proclaimed the innocence of the accusation that a 6-year-old was capable of consuming $83.00 worth of chicken nuggets and carrot sticks on the school's dime.  Houses were mortgaged for legal teams, tv news stations were contacted and protests were forming in front of the school all in the naive belief that my child would never just throw away my love and peanut butter sandwiches for a school hamburger......sigh. 

Then came part Part 2 of....My Innocent Son Would Never, And I Mean Never, Turn in his Lovingly Made Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich for a Fried Mozzarella Stick...and Other Tales of Mommy Turning into the Biggest Idiot That Ever an Idiot was in the Kindergarten Years.

Sigh. Again.   As you know, I was duped by said 6-year-old who apparently got confused and enticed by the smell of hot dogs and somehow made his way into the lunch line thereby running up a $83.00 tab with the school district.   

Only me.

So after several attempts to discuss it with the school district, citing a little known code in the school district lunch rules and responsibilities manual: Section 6, paragraph 12, sentence 3, common sense 1, I told them if they can't keep track of student lunch tabs rising to over $80.00 due to a wayward kindergartner who has never been to a lunch line before, then it's not my problem or concern.  So there.

And then I hurried up and hung up before they could say anything else to me.   

No....I really did tell them that I wasn't going to pay for their ineptness when it comes to tracking lunch tabs.   I told them unless I followed him everyday to the lunch room there was little I could do to know what was going on.   Of course, my husband wanted me to pay it off right away and just be done with it.  HA!    I told him "Are you crazy!  This is the principle of the thing!   This affects everyone at the school!  This 83.00 could buy a lot of craft supplies at Paper Tales! I have a moral obligation here!" 

There was no way I was giving in that easily.  Reputations were on the line....plus, a shopping spree at Paper Tales was just in my reach.......

So here's the big, huge news.....Because I just know everyone has been sitting on the edge of her virtual seat wondering how this conundrum was going to play itself out.  Well wait no more because I just got notice the other day his lunch tab was down to $0.   Yay! Told you it was super huge.   Either my highly coordinated flash mob protest paid off.....or, they were just sick of calling me. Which ever way you look at it,  it spells more glitter and stamps for me......off to Paper Tales!   Talk  to you soon....K

A couple of classes......

 

I finally got the crepe tree and haunted house done for classes at Paper Tales......

 

The Crepe Tree will be on Saturday, October 8th from 4-7pm  and the Haunted House will be on Saturday, October 15th from 3-6pm

Also, if you are in the neighborhood on Sunday, October 16th, Jenny will be teaching her Little Red Riding Hood paperclay class......

 

Click here for Paper Tales full class schedule.  There are a ton of fun classes scheduled.  

Ok.....I'm substitute teach a bunch of first graders today....Talk to you soon! Karin

You know when you are supposed to do a bunch of stuff.......

 
 and then you look at your messy craft room.....

 
and it just overwhelms you......

 

and then you spy all your halloween stamps that you said you would be able to use as soon as you clean your desk.....

 

but that particular time really never presented itself.............

 

and what you really want to do is use your new stamps......

 

 Well.....it was that kind of day.....

Boo.....

 

Well, first and foremost, we all managed to survive "Blackout 2011....the Harrowing Tales of Survivors without electricity for 12 hours."  And, six of those hours for us were spent sleeping.    To listen to all the media you would have thought the entire southwestern sea board was set adrift in the Pacific Ocean for 30 days and nights.   All the headlines screamed  "We're you prepared!?!"....."Did you survive?!?"... "Was life the same without Facebook?!?"   The only thing at risk was all the food in my refrigerator....including everything I just had bought at the grocery store 5 minutes before the power went kaput.

Anyway, that night I was just about to do a post on this......

 

A cordless hot glue gun!  Cordless!  I just love when my friends really know me.  Randi and Michelle got it for me because they know how much I love my glue gun.   Now, with a cordless one, the possibilities are endless.   I could theoritically wear it everywhere I go.   At any given time or place I would be ready to glue objects to other objects.   Sigh...my life feels complete now. 

So imagine how I must have felt when I realized that I could craft all night long with my "non electrical" glue gun.   Of course that excitement was tempered when I realized that the sun wasn't going to be shining all night and at some point I would be working in the dark.   Funbuster husband wouldn't go along with my grand idea of paper crafting by candlelight.....mumbling some sort of nonsense about firehazard....ridiculous....go to bed......

Whatever....

Anyway, in the following days of the crazy blackout, I finally made some progress on my Halloween tree and house.........

 

 

 

 

 

Off to Paper Tales to get these babies on the calendar!  I'll talk to you soon!  Karin

Making some progress.....

 

Now, if I can just keep the 6-year-old sub ontractor's hands off it, I'll be in business......