Scrapbooking Tip Bead Bundles

     Bead bundles are a great idea for bracelet charms, necklaces, and scrapbook pages.
     1) Collect felt in your favorite colors or to match a project you are working on.
     2) Cut the felt in squares all the same size.
     3) Spray each square one at a time with adhesive spray and stack on top of each other. Let them dry overnight.
     4) Cut them in smaller squares and rectangles with a rotary cutter. Be very careful while doing this--I almost cut off the tip of my finger!
     5) Find a big 3" darning needle and slowly drive the needle through the center of the square.
     6) Find an embroidery needle that will go through small beads.
     7) Take a double strand of embroidery floss and wrap it like a present making sure to take the needle through the center hole.

     8)Sew or glue two beads to the top of the bundle.

     You can leave a tail on the bead so you can tie it onto a bracelet.
     I made some of my beads in only two or three layers so they would be flat enough for an ATC card or a scrapbook page.

My Sweet Life

      I've lost 5 lbs.! It shows mostly in my clothing. I put on a pair of pants, yesterday, that are usually tight. When I put them on I had to double check to see if they were the pants I thought they were! Awesome!
     I have more energy than I know what to do with. I get up early feeling awesomely positive and continue through the day with a steady flow of energy as long as I have 2 shakes and a healthy colorful meal. I plan my healthy colorful meal around eating with friends and family. The meals are big with a salad and meat and anything else I want. I try not to go too overboard.
      I do want to lose a little weight.  My goal is reachable. I want to lose 1-2 lbs. per week and this is week 3 so I definitely want to lose 2lbs. next week. I am sure it will come off if I start walking regularly. Up until now I have only been going for a walk once a week.
     I am slowly doing more and more because I feel so great. After 3 days on the shakes all my joint pain went away! For the last 4 years every joint in my body has hurt from morning through the night. Even my spine hurt! It was awesome when I realized what was happening.
      A few days after I started I was telling someone about how great I felt and I realized that my acid reflux had gone away! Really, I am not kidding!
    

Scrapbooking Tip Embellishing Brads and Other Metal Charms

Brads are an awesome invention aren't they? For many years they were just used to keep papers together but since the advent of the scrapbooking craze brads have become plentiful in many sizes, shapes, and colors. A great way to decorate brads is to use rub-ons on them. I have used this idea on a lot of 7gypsy products. I like to use a rub-on on the back of Flair charms for their name, date of birth, or date of the event.

Scrapbooking Tip Dollar Tree Buy

My parents and I arrived at All About Scrapbooking twenty minutes early so we decided to go to the Dollar Tree store, my Mom loves these stores. So we wandered the aisles and I came upon this awesome gel sticker that I thought would look really cool on a halloween, desert, or museum scrapbook page. The sticker was solid black and I thought it needed eyes. Purple eyes would have been neat but I didn't have them in my rhinestone storage box. What to do? I had some plain rhinestones just the right size so I glued them on with Ranger 's Glossy Accents. It needed color. I found my Stickles box but did not have purple so I used Ranger's Orange Peel Stickles and applied it to the top of the rhinestones. It turned out awesome as you can see. If you could see it for real you would see it is even more awesome! It's now ready to put on a scrapbook page. I am considering copying the advertising packaging  on a more matte surface paper and covering the gel sticker letters with a title or the persons name.

Quotes for Scrapbooking--Think on These Things

Dew Evaporates

And All  the World is Dew

So dear, so fresh, so fleeting.

                            A haiku on the death of his son by Isa

This haiku has been a guiding light in my life since I was sixteen years old. Life is dear and fleeting so enjoy every precious minute you have on this earth. Let that thought guide you in all that you do and you will become more patient and compassionate with others.

Back Up!

     Well, I 'm finally back up online. My pc was having trouble connecting. Apple said it was Sprint. Sprint said there was nothing wrong with the wifi card. Michael Green finally got it figured out for me. Bless him!
     We were very stressed here anyway. Denise almost died last week from a miscarriage. She lost a liter of blood and her blood pressure dropped dangerously low. Thank you to the doctors and nurses at St. Luke's Hospital.
     I have to go today but I will be back tomorrow with ideas and photos.
    
    

Sweet Life Shakes on Day Two

     195.6! I'm on my way down with very little effort. For breakfast yesterday I had my favorite shake with peanut butter, banana, and almond extract.
    At lunch I went through McDonald's and had a medium coke and a double cheeseburger--one of my biggest vices. I don't like to eat out alone so I go through the drive thru if I'm out. If I am not out I do pretty good by making myself home made soup. I'm working on this issue.
     Denise had emergency surgery yesterday and it was such a stressful situation that I feel the shakes helped a great deal. Normally, I would have stressed over being thirsty and hungry and not wanting to leave the room but Michael went back to the store and brought us a shake. Therefore, I didn't wait until the emergency was over and pig out at McDonald's. Awesome!
     When we got Denise back to her apartment I drank a Passion Tea from Tazo so the thirst issue was taken care of again. I felt nutritionally happy and it was easy to go home, have a glass of water, and go to bed.
Sorry girls, no scrapbook talk today. I will be over with Denise making sure she is okay.

Sweet Life Herbalife Feeling Energetic & a Few Scrapbook Ideas

     197.2! I think this is a good start since I didn't drink enough water, ate lunch at Wendy's with Mom and Dad, didn't drink my second shake until 9pm, didn't walk, and took my cell activator pills all at once at 9pm and still lost weight! By the way I wouldn't suggest taking the activator pills all at once. I had nightmares all night and that probably was the reason.
     Just think, I could have lost more weight if I had walked and drank more water. It's okay, though, I may do better today. The great thing is I don't really have to push myself about any of this right now. As long as I drink the protein shakes I am not near as hungry and the weight will come off anyway. I know this because I have been drinking the shakes whenever I am around Denise and I noticed I didn't think about food as much and I felt more energetic. That's why I really signed up!
    I made my protein drink with a drop of almond extract, and a small chocolate bar left over from Halloween and it tasted good. I have to get to the store because I love bananas and strawberries. I just might try them together. I think I will pick up some other extract flavors and Denise has been making a pumpkin pie shake that sounds delicious. I can't remember the ingredients. You could call her and find out how to make it. Call her and or leave a message at All About Scrapbooking or aascrapbooking.com if you want to email her.
   Hey, if any of you are interested in doing it with me email me at clworner@yahoo.com. I need three people to sign up before the end of the month for the powder etc. I would love to have some people to do this with since it is more motivating to have friends support each other. We could also talk about scrapbooking and maybe even work on books together! Also go out to dinner together since there are so many places to dine up north or even down by me on the Plaza.
     About Scrapbooking--I think I had some good ideas last night. I have old silhouettes of the kids from when we went to Disneyworld. I think they would be precious resized for ATCs and Scrapbook pages.
I also found a neat blouse at the thrift store for a dollar that had animals from Africa on them. I am going to cut them up and adhere them to an ATC card, of course, I will add more embellishments like a little natural colored raffia and a charm.  I will make a couple extra cards for my scrapbooking stash. My last brilliant idea! ha ha is I have taken cork pieces I bought at the hardware store and stamped them with inchie cat stamps. Next I colored them in with sharpie markers. They are already sticky backed so they are just sitting there waiting for me to make them into refrigerator magnets, note holders, ATCards, and scrapbook pages, of course.
     I have just spent the last twenty minutes trying to remember how to get photos into my blog! When I remember I will put some pictures of the ideas on here. See you later!

Sweet Life News

     Okay, I have to admit I want to weigh my ideal weight. I think I am a little envious of Denise and so I have decided to start the shake challenge. I 'm only 5'3" tall and should weigh 120 lbs. So that is my goal grow taller and weigh 140 lbs! No, I am just kidding. I would like to get down to 120lbs. My current weight is 198lbs. Now the whole world knows!!!
     I made a chocolate shake with peanut butter this morning. It was delicious. Denise says this particular drink helps her hide the protein powder flavor and I agree. I did learn not to put the peanut butter in first! If you do, it gums up the blades and stays in the bottom. Note to self--put the peanut butter in last!
     I plan to go for a stroll today and have another shake for lunch.
     Dinner will be lentil soup I made for lunch yesterday.
     I also plan to drink a lot of water.