I made this card to match the beach bag I made. I really enjoy the color combination of the Papertrey Ink Rasberry Fizz with Stampin’ Up’s Night of Navy. I have to do a major clean-up of all my crafting supplies with the color changes over at Stampin’ Up. I guess that can wait until we move though.

I can’t wait to have my craft space back! There is hardly any natural light in our rental so everything I have done is in artificial lighting. Blech.  I think the lack of light has put a damper on the mojo too. But I digress. We are hoping to go back down to the lot and see what progress they’ve made on the foundation tonight.

I have been crafting. I’m digging myself out of another hole of half finished projects and high ambitions back from June.  I actually found a little bit of my crafty self the other day. It’s too bad that my time is so limited. I really could have stamped/scrapped all day. Maybe sometime soon. I did pull together two beach bags to send out this week.

I did post a tutorial for these awhile back. It’s my most popular post. You can find it here.

They came out cute! I’m happy with them. Now, I just have to ship them. I hope everyone had a great Labor Day weekend. These long weekends go by way too fast!

I have had this Papertrey Ink Polka Dot Basic paper for while now. I finally put it to use. I love the color scheme is so soft and fun. I’ve been so jealous of all these cute flower frogs that I’ve been seeing and finally broke down and bought a set.

I have a few more finished projects to show this week. I finished off some towel beach bags. I just need to make cards to match. Hope everyone is having a great Monday!

We have quite a bit of land so the clearing was only about half of the depth of the lot. This is really nice. We back up to a Town owned lot so there will be some additional privacy.

We are a little closer to the neighbors on the left than I wanted to be. The houses will be about 75 feet apart. But the lot to our right is still undeveloped. If they do develop it, we wanted to leave more of a buffer on that side so that they didn’t build right on top on their left line. Not that I want neighbors right away. hehe.

You can kind of see where the house is going to go in this picture. It’s piles of the dirt with the stakes shoved in them that are the “house box.”  I should be more excited but I’m not. The whole lack of permit thing is frustrating. The town says they’ve had layoffs and things that used to take two days are taking two weeks. I’m going to cross my fingers for a permit by next week.

Today’s post is not too exciting. I spent some time playing with my Cricut the other day. I put the Cricut cartridge Tags, Bags and Boxes to work. It’s definitely my favorite cartridge. I cut the flower box and then cut the flower tag in blackout mode to make the flower pop. I found these cute little totes and had to buy them!

I filled them with a bunch of little goodies. It was fun cutting away on the Cricut. I used the Design Studio to make sure the things were the size I wanted. The software made it very easy to determine the size of the object I needed to  cut.

I have to get these all in the mail!!! I plan on breaking out the yudu this week. I have a belated birthday present that I must finish. I’ve been so far behind.