A Bit East-coast

lulu.

.[lulu].

Lulu makes our little family complete! She is doted on by all of us-I like to let everyone know that Lulu loves me the most. I am the one that she comes to when she wants water(always from the bathroom sink), to eat, or when she needs to potty. She knows I am the one she can count on-the others would let her starve, lol!

.[products].

TCD Memories line: flowers, letter stickers, envelope, diecut doily, cardstock sticker

a Valentine-layout?

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It has been a long-long time since I have done a layout. For my TCD dt blog post today I thought I would do a layout-to ease myself back into that side of my creativity, lol. I knew I wanted to have a few hearts popping off my page-so I stitched them vertically down on my page. I went from 8.5x11 to 12x12 by adding the white pattern paper-I had intended for this to be a 8.5x11! But it didn't feel right so I went bigger. I used TCD's Stationary Noted line for this page-a perfect line for Valentine projects. 

.[products].   garland, paper, white notebook pp, chipboard

 

 

.[what you said/what you asked].

 

www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawlMKwn_px2856WWnzhlkZAFW2oUliRfoU4 said:

Keisha, is a few years I follow your blog your creations are so gorgeous. I like your style! Please could you tell me the name of Martha's punch (heart with love inside)? I don't know where to buy it! Thank you. Giuli

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Giuli...try 

Martha Stewart Crafts Heart Seal Medium Double Punch that link should help you! I hope!! Thanks;-)

 

 

Heaven said:

Keisha, these are gorgeous! So simple and yet so elegant. Love it! I'm going to send you my mailing address so I can be on the list to get some of these goodies! (j/k) LOL :p

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Heaven...If I had your addres you might get a surprise!!!

 

 

Meganhoeppner.blogspot.com said:

Your work is just beautiful! I'm glad I found your blog. I've been pinning the dickens out of it. Thanks for the inspiration!

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Megan, you made me a happy girl...I love being pinned!! Thanks!!

white pumpkin.

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A layout using more of the new TCD Now & Then line:

papers-striped, floral, tape, stickers

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recent layouts.

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A few of my recent TCD's projects

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let the haunting begin.

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Last week I was thrilled to start pulling out all the crows, Fred the skeleton(I made him a sign), and his buddies for Halloween 2012! I am still working on placing things and need to stop at the local farmers stands for a few white pumpkins. I was so excited to see that this year two of the stands I pass have loads of white pumpkins-love the competition between the two farmers!

I also have ideas swirling around in my head of stuff I want to make-but where is the time? This weekend I felt like I was all over the place-drove to Cindy's house for her Thirty-One party on Saturday. Sunday I took Mira and a couple of her friends to the mall for Homecoming dress shopping-by the way, did I ever mention she now has her driver's permit...and she has a certain amount of driving hours to achieve before getting her license. The 20 mins we spent driving through the neighborhood was super fun;-)

Today-I am staying HOME! In my studio...I hope to finish a couple of layouts I started last week and doing some Halloween stuff. And maybe do some cleaning-Lulu's hair is everywhere!

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Q & A

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D said:

I have been wanting to leave a comment for the last month or two when I came across your blog through Making Memories. Quickly I added you to my "favorites". I simply love your blog and style. Everything you post from crafts to photography is chic, elegant, simple and beautiful. It not only shows in your craft but design, decorating and home. I LOVE popping in to see what other marvelous project has been posted. This is truely one sight I never get tired of looking through and spend sooo much time looking at photographs for ideas, inspiration or to simply look at pretty things like I would a favorite magazine. Your so blessed to be very talented. Thank you for taking the time to post all these pictures and share all the lovely things in your life. Looking forward to all your future post. -Jasmin : >

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Hi Jasmin...well, I just don't know how to thank you enough for taking the time to leave such great compliments. It's always wonderful to hear what people think and I always hope that everyone enjoys each visit. I love it when I go to a site and it makes me want to make something right away...or makes me go rearrange the decorations in a better way somewhere in my house-a site that makes me feel inspired makes my day...and then makes me want to also inspire those who come here to my blog. I am thankful when I read a comment like yours(or any comment left)-thank you Jasmine & all others who may feel the same way!!

Melinda Wharton said:

Keisha, I love this - it's beautiful. Just love how your photography blends so nicely with the album. Good work! I have the same questionsas those above! Melinda Wharton at scrapkit studio

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Melinda, I'll answer below for you!!!

Heaven said:

Awesome!! This is fabulous! How big is this album? :)

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Hey Heaven...it's a 4x4-perfectly mini mini, lol!!

Tammie Eberhart said:

You are so darn creative!!! Patty said it best - "SPOOKTACULAR"! What adhesive do you prefer for adhering the pages of your mini album?

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Tammie, I really like to stock up on Tombow permanent tape or Scotch double stick tape.

Joan Fowler said:

Keisha, I love this mini album. I recognise the skeleton stamp from My Mind's Eye but what company or companies is the paper from? Also those labels (Spider Fangs, Deadly morsels)are amazing but have no idea what line they are from either. I would love to use something similar for a mini album for my granddaughter if you could provide some company names for me.

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Joan...Lots of old stash stuff with a bit of new stuff! Ok, the Deadly Morsels is Martha Stewart from 2 or 3 seasons ago-look on Ebay for those stickers. All the other stickers( SpiderFangs, Hemlock, Trick or Treat and Oct 31) are new K&Co sticker set I grabbed from Michaels-the witch sticker too. The papers are all from My Minds Eye-a mix of two lines. One is their Halloween line and a line of black & white papers called Meadow Lark...I love doing Halloween in blk/wht with bits of orange. Yep, the stamps are My Minds Eye...and the skeleton at the end(or the first photo on black cardstock) is a Michael's stamp. Lots of old Making Memories stickers(letters/numbers and word stickers) & some Jenni Bowlin bingo cards and journaling cards. Studio Calico stamps(2006)...te glittery spider might be Jolee's...some black sequence...OMGosh, I am just noticing that there are a couple pages missing, lol. 

 

teresa collins 2012 cha.

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These are the last of the project that I did for Teresa Collins' cha booth using her new Tell Your Story & Vintage Finds lines

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busy.busy.

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Summer is flying by way too fast. And the past few weekends we have been busy-we just got back from Hershey, PA...Hershey Park is the sweetest place on earth! We all road lots of roller coasters in two days. The weekend before that we spent a evening in Baltimore for a Orioles/Tigers game-and the Tigers won!! Then yesterday I went for a quick trip to Alexandria, VA to meet up with Linda & Cindy.

Now-I am trying to finish up a project for a class that is due tomorrow. Sorry for the lag in updates. Once I get this project done I can focus on new blog posts this week. Here is a quick post of another TCDesigns project...

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new stuff...

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First page, was done for my first post from TCD's design team blog post yesterday. I used her new Sweet Afternoon line and stamps.

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These next two pages I have been working on for the past couple of days-I used BG Konnichiwa line

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t r y i n g

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Trying to do something! So I scrapped a page and a new tag last night-see, trying!! For the layout I used BG Indie Bloom line.

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Liz said:

Hi Keisha! As always, I'm loving your scrap room! I found the organizer for the Slice from Michaels (thanks for sharing that info with me, by the way!), but now I spy a divider in the drawer that I must have! Is that from the Container Store? It seems to fit perfectly inside!:)

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Hi Liz, lol...it does fit so PERFECTLY-I was shocked!! Go to Target...in the closet organizing section...there are some clear drawer organizing bins in 3 sizes-this is the smallest...i think it is about $2.99.

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On Wednesday--I scrapped! I stayed in my studio most of the day-working on this one page, lol. At least I did something. I used new BG PB&J line for my layout. The tags I did a few weeks ago and forgot to post them.

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