I need YOUR ADVICE... PLEASE!

I have been thinking about buying a sewing machine. I don't know the first thing with it comes to sewing! I've watched some YouTube videos and it still seems complicated to someone who has never used one and never seen someone use one in person. I am in LOVE with the way sewing and scrapbooking combine. I've been drooling over layouts with sewing on them! Anyways, I need to know if this baby would be worth it and easy for a starter. I want something I can grow into and have something that will last. I know 100 stitch patterns might be too much for me but I don't want to buy one and wish I got one with more. If any of you are pros at these machines please let me know what you think about this machine and if it would be a good investment. I don't even know what a bobbin is or does! I am this new to sewing LOL! Any comments and advice would help and I would truely appreciate it!

Thank you for taking the time to help me!! You are my hero :)
Here is the link to one I've been eyeballing!!
This little guy :)

THANK YOU DREW!!

Ok, I don't think I can be any more excited! I mean, I almost jumped from my seat...

I screamed and got a weird look from my boyfriend

and I probably said "thank you" to drew a million times!!

I'M ON HIS DESIGN TEAM!!!

EK!!

Can today get any better?? The first team to be on!! And Drews first team he put together!!

HOW EXCITING!!!

I think what made it more real was going to his blog

Scrappy Happiness

And double looking this post

HERE!!!

Tears in my eyes!!... happy ones haha.

So that being said... because I can go on and on about how excited I am..

Thank YOU again Drew!!!

Go and check out his shop!! Can't wait to work with all the beautiful kits he has to offer!

Check It Out! :)

Ek thanks for reading! And of course CONGRATS to the whole team!! Can't wait to get to know you!!

I WAS FEATURED! YAY!

There is an AWESOME blog that I just can't get enough of. Swear I'm not a stalker but I have to check her blog every day to see if there is a new post! She recently did a spray paint project for her craft room and had a link party for the post too. I'm pretty new to link parties, but I figured I would link my tables since I used spray paint. Well I go to visit her blog and she put some of her favorite links on a post and included my tables!!

I just got super excited since it was the first time someone has featured me. You can visit the post HERE! And check out her full blog HERE! So this is my thank you for showing my little tables on your blog!!

I also want to thank everyone who has given me a visit or comment because of her post! I love reading the comments you leave and appreciate every single one! Thank you IHeart Organizing!!

"Hello" cards

Here are a few cards I made using Echo Park papers, Martha Stewart twine and Basic Grey pearls. :)

Thanks for stopping by! What projects have you been working on lately?

Wedding Layout #2

So here is the second page of the wedding album (brothers wedding). All the layouts look really similar to keep the album looking the same and more put together. If it was my own wedding album I probably would have gone a little crazy hehe. Enjoy:)

As for the embellishments... I loves making them!! Very simple and fast but really cute. Heres a couple pics of what I used and the finished embellies!

Pretty addicting. I'm really caught up on making small clusters or groups of layered embellishments and not using flowers! It's crazy, I have a TON of flowers and had to use them on everything in the past, and now I can't remember the last time I used them... I know I will get back to them in some way... I just like change once in a while. :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Camping 2011- Mini Album

WooHoo! So after a day of trying to load this album I finally got it!! Something is wrong with Blogger... as usual. And I'm having a hard time loading pics without them being different colors. Anybody else having this problem? I couldn't give up though!

So... here is a mini I made 2 nights ago. I used huge tags I got from my (old) local scrapbooking store. They measure 8.5x4 but I cut them down to 6 inches (6x4). Huge right? I love these tags and wish I can pick up some more!

I ordered the pictures from Scrapbook Pictures and loooove them!! I haven't found good paper to print on from home, but its probably cheaper to order from them anyways and they ship super fast and have a ton of custom sizes and options for the photos! Can't believe I haven't heard of them until recently!

This mini is from our first camping trip together! Just  the two of us:) It was fun, and cold, and only if I had pictures from the night we spent trying to sleep on the ground, with no tent, and high winds with flames from the fire putting holes in our sleeping bags haha.... soooo we ended up having to sleep in the car. I'm just glad my hair didn't catch on fire! :)

I used October Afternoon's Campfire papers and stickers, Maya Road chipboard, Melissa Frances pearls, Martha Stewart twine and punch, Basic Grey buttons and I can't remember where in the world I got the cute brads from! Sorry! oh!... and a little bit of hand stitching:)

So enough of me talking... prepare to view 18 photos!!

Pretty cute right? This has to be my favorite mini I've made. Sometimes less is more and keeping things simple helps show off the story (pictures) more.

Hope you enjoyed! Please leave comments:)
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Table Reveal!!!!!

FINALLY!! I finished the tables, yay! I'm pretty happy with they way they turned out, and it was a learning experience. So here is what they look like all finished, and I will walk you through the rest, or you can just skip it:) BEWARE- Picture overload :)

So, remember these ugly things? I bought them from Craigslist for 60 bucks, and paid an extra 20 for them to be delivered. Not too bad, but I probably should have talked them down. I know oak can be nice, but I'm just not into it. These babies also needed some love put back in their lives. :) (Don't mind the ugly green carpet! I would totally change it if I owned this place haha!)

As you can see they were well used. I just sanded them, which took awhile but it was worth it. I used 220 grit sand paper.

I first sprayed them with Valspar in Labador Brown. Note to self: always buy more paint then they tell you to buy!! Since this was my first project I asked how much I needed and the guy told me one can each... nope... I ended up using 3 cans of this brown and close to using a forth since the top wasn't coming out even, but I skipped it since it was just the base coat.

I like that color as is. Looks really nice and I made sure to use a flat paint:)

I wanted to go for an airy feel though and something softer. Most of the furniture in the apartment is in the brown and tan family, so these are a nice change. I used Valspar Baby Blue in satin. I wanted to go for more of a robbins egg blue but I wasn't able to find anythig like it, of course until I had to go pick up more paint! So it was too late by then. I used four cans of the blue. You can't tell in the picture but the tops of they tables came out spotty (again) since spray paint doens't come out too even, I did alot of sanding after it was dry which helped alot but they are still there. I think I have something in mind for them but I can't tell you just yet. If I go through with it then it will be another post:)

In this photo you can see that I did some distressing. I didn't want to do too much, just a little. So now you can see why I did the brown first, I knew I wanted to distress a little but I didn't want the oak to show through, I wanted a nicer darker brown to come through. So a little bit of sanding did the trick and I got the look I was hoping for. Since it was my first time ever using spray paint I wasn't sure if sanding it would take off all the layers, but it didn't! Yay. I'm so happy I went with it!

Like the flowers? :)

So what do you think about them? Have you refinished any furniture lately?
We have a dinning table to do next!! Thats my boyfriends job though ;)
Thank you for stopping by, hope you enjoyed!!