Craft Shows are so much fun!!

Do you like going to craft shows? Do you sell at craft shows?

I like doing craft shows around Christmas since most of the items I make are little giftables. I recently had a request to make baby shower favors. I make and sell little teapot favors and she saw them last weekend at that the show. She asked if I could do little onesies instead of teapots. I said of course!! So now I'm thinking of extending what I make and offering favors on my Etsy shop. Here's a few pics of my table at some of the shows and some of the items I make. Let me know what you think, any constructive criticism, and advice! As always, have a blessed day!

xoxo Charity

Paper Sale!

Hello everyone!!

Hope you all are doing fabulous!

As many of you know, I am kind of the single, crazy, cat lady! I currently have 17 - yes, seventeen! - rescues that I call my own. To top it off, they are all indoor and some with special needs! So I'm sure you can only imagine how expensive things get around here. Not only the feeding, litter, and daily maintenance, but the vet bills getting them spayed/neutered and healthy, all add up greatly!

I have decided to purge some of my crafting supplies!! There are also items that I have made myself to help raise some funds for these rescues. Join Affordable Scrapbooking, Cardmaking, Crafting Supplies Buy, Sell and Trade. It's an amazing page where you can shop some wonderful deals on crafting supplies. I have a few albums on there for you to see if there's anything you like!

PAPER

EMBELLISHMENTS

Once you join, make sure to check the Albums tab under the Photos tab. The albums change frequently to keep up with new product coming in.

Please email me with any questions you may have or you may message me on FB.

Thanks, everyone and have a wonderful weekend!!

xoxo Charity

Challenge #123 - Christmas 2012

LM #123 'Christmas 2012'

Thank you for joining us last week!! We loved seeing everyone's LO's for our 'Something old Something new' challenge! There were some really creative LO's!! 
This week we have a brand new challenge for you! It's called
 'Christmas 2012'
So we would love to see what you did this Christmas!

I took my son on Mr Jingling's Express! I really wanted to go on Polar Express, however, I waited too long and missed the boat on that! All the tickets were sold out!! :(  To top it off, my son had a fever the whole 3 hour train ride and was miserable. It was really hard for him to muster up a smile, but he appeased me and played along 'for mommy'!! 

And yes, I spelled Jingling's wrong on the page! I JUST realized this while typing up my blog page!! Oh well! I'll go in and fix it later. I made my page with the My Memories sweet software. Check out the link on our Lasting Memories Blog for more information on the software.

NOW!! GO CHECK OUT THE OTHER DT'S AND GET SOME PAGES DONE!!!!

xoxo Charity

Lasting Memories Challenge #120!!!

Santa Claus Is Coming!
Hello!! Well, this is our last challenge of 2012, can you even believe that?? Thank you all so very much for joining us each and every week! Your encouragement and support has meant the world to us!! Looking forward to a great 2013 with LOADS of new challenges!! So, onto our last challenge of 2012!!

 Our challenge this week is ..

"Santa Claus Is Coming!"

and you're welcome to use this amazing sketch from Tanya!!

I didn't use the sketch because I had only one pic for this challenge and it is of my son with Santa this year. For the first time I have a picture of him WITHOUT me in Santa's lap too!! Last year the only way I could get JaKobe in Santa's lap was for me to sit on his lap, then JaKobe sat on mine!! Merry Christmas Santa!!! LOL!! I just bribed JaKobe a little and told him I wanted a picture so he kindly obliged and let me get the pic!

The Santa paper behind the picture is actually the front of a Christmas card we received this year! And from the same card I cut out the Santa you see on the left!! Love it!! Now go see some other DT inspiration and get scrapping those cards with your pictures!

Challenge ends 12/29/2012 at 6pm EST

Snow Layout Challenge #117!!!!

Hello Everyone!!!
Happy Sunday and happy new challenge!! It's all about the snow, snow pics, kids playing in snow, your favorite snow pics, whatever about the snow that inspires you to make a layout of it we want to see it!!!
I did not make a layout with pics because, well, my pics from quite a few months are in the bottom of Lake Erie! Yep, you read that right! I'm one of those procrastinators that never take the time to upload pics from my phone.
Me, my boyfriend and my son sailed to Kelly's Island over the summer, had a fabulous trip, took lots of pics, and welp, we were on our way sailing back and here's me, trying to get one of those uber great shots of the morning sun behind the sail. I tell my boyfriend to move his big head as I started to lean to get the shot..........and..........there it went............bounced off the rim of the boat..........off the second ledge..............PLOP!!!! My HTC 4G Evo sunk with a quickness. The Lake consumed it with a fury like it was tasting a cell phone for the first time and it was a candy like no other!
I watched it for a second, slowly cry for help as it was sucked in by the waves of Lake Erie. Sheer terror on my face, I turned around to face Joe. He was now standing over me, the look of shock had drained the color from both of our faces. He looked at me and said "Honey, I will buy you a new phone cause I love you". (btw, first time he EVER said that 4 letter word!)
My eyes started to burn as I held back the fit of rage and sadness that was welling up. Every cute, funny, weird, hilarious occasion, single moment, planned celebration for the past 6 months was on that phone.................was now sinking hundreds of feet below the surface where we breath..........to thump (if it makes sound under water) (will it? if no one's around to hear it..lol) into the bottom causing a cloud of sand to settle around it, where it will rest for the days of it's life.....
SO! That's why I do not have any 'snow' pics!!!!! How was that for a suspenseful story of a scrap book LO!! hahaha!!

Can't wait to see what you've got!!  

Link up by Saturday 12/8/12 at 6pm EST to be a part or our TOP 3 or Featured throughout the week!! Be sure to come back tomorrow to see our MONDAY MOJO  and check out all of our DT projects up close and personal!!
xoxo Charity

A Homespun Christmas Blog Hop!!

Hello and welcome to the A Homespun Christmas Blog Hop. Thank you so much for hopping with us, we hope this hop provides lots of inspiration on gifts to make for the holiday season. We have 2 sponsors for this blog hop.
The first sponsor is Scraptastical Kreations.
She is offering a $20 Gift Certificate to her store:
http://www.scraptasticalkreations.com/To be eligible to win the Gift Certificate you must go to her Facebook fanpage https://www.facebook.com/pages/Scraptastical-Kreations/120204111343309?fref=ts and like the page (if you’re not a fan already) and you must also leave a comment on the fan page.
The second sponsor is Hot Berry Designs.
She is also offering a $20 Gift Certificate to her store:
http://www.hotberrydesigns.net/To be eligible to win the Gift Certificate you must go to her Facebook fanpage https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hot-Berry-Designs/288054737891436?fref=ts and like the page (if you’re not a fan already) and you must also leave a comment on the fan page.
You should have came from Cathie's Blog. If you started at my blog please go back to the beginning to Christine's Blog so you don’t miss any inspiring gift ideas.
My boyfriend's Mom loves the cards I make and I always give them to her after making one for a challenge or a Design Team. So for an early Christmas gift I decided to make a bunch of Christmas cards for her to give to her friends.
I punched out the reindeer with an EK Success punch in glitter cardstock and white cardstock. The background was embossed with the snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder. The 'Merry Christmas' is a sticker I purchased from Pat Catans. It was a whole sheet of them.
I wrapped a ribbon around the center paper, popped up the reindeer and added the googly eye and red rhinestone for his nose.
 I used all different paper from the DCWV Christmas short stack. It's hard to tell from the pictures but I adorned various snowflakes with Stickles so they glitter! Gotta have some Stickles somewhere!
Your next stop on the hop is Vanessa T!!
Here is the complete list of blogs just in case someone is having technical issues. Thank you for hopping along with us!
Christine -http://hotberrydesigns.blogspot.com/Kristy - http://scraptasticalkreations.blogspot.com 
Nancy - http://alwaysastorycreationsbynancy.blogspot.com/Cathie - http://cathiescafe-scraphappy.blogspot.com/*YOU ARE HERE* Charity - http://thebookinroom.blogspot.com/*NEXT*Vanessa T http://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com/Suzanne - http://www.zannieberry.blogspot.comKatie - http://www.ktscreativeinsights.blogspot.comElecia - http://creationsby-kahaulani.blogspot.com/Leslie- http://krochtacreations.blogspot.com/