SaraSarawell it's not that hard with such a great idea.  That was all you and your foundation.  I just added the dramatic  eye liner.  So thank you for letting me play with your idea. I think some really amazing things have been birthed from co creations.  Unifying multiple ideas,  ahh, a recipe for all things kick ass.  Lol. The honor was all my beautiful.  Don't stop laying those foundations. You never know what greatness may come from it.  Best wishes

Ohh your showing your junk journal. It's so cute. You should absolutely add to it with your success. Or at least go back and look at how far you have come

I have to ask, if this is from 2018, how much has changed since then with your crafting space?

I died laughing when watching this. I'm so glad your one to take things with ease and laugh at the silly _____. Some would be really hard on themselves. And I lovedddd when you just said " you can have some massive mistakes and it still come out ok" that makes me feel better about all of my crafting haha.. so thank you. Be well friend. ❤️

Sara that is a great idea, and that could even be created with other purposes. So local friends you could do the flaps as drinks and appetizers, or apps and desert choices or what they can expect, the main meal on the front and the back be deserts and/or choice of activities for after dinner if doing a girls night or something. Or stay in and have choice of movies or board games. You really can customize the poop outta that little book. And even make each visit different with matted removable pieces so you can reuse the same menu book for an itinerary for friends that visit from outta town. AND THEN use those pieces or choices and create a book to place those cards creating a page for that visit or day. Then you would have a TRUE book if memories created to gift for their bday or even Christmas at the end of the year and do that every year. And this could be with a spouse or partner or even a beautiful way of giving choices to a child to allow them to feel like they matter and are offered choices. The possibilities are truly endless with this one Frances. Good job.

OMGOODNESS, you never cease to amaze me. These are by far the cutest. And reasonable item I think I've ever seen. Like you said the possibilities are endless. The idea I had with this is a children's book written by an adult or sibling. EXPECIALLY with the flaps. This very well could be an item that is cherished for a life time. Even as a recipe book. Get your mom or dad or grandparents loved meal recipe from them and create this so it could be a piece of them that stays with you forever. I thought of my dad and his non baked chocolate oatmeal cookies he would make every year at Christmas holidays and I would remember getting my ass beat for " stealing these cookies ". ( i would tske an entire shelf and hide in the shower, and act like i had no idea where 30 cookies went to.lol) He would have the counters, tables, any surface with a flat top lined with wax paper and holding these cookies. He would cover the house for days and wrap them in big tins or buckets for his coworkers friends and family. I remember the first year I had my own place. I was 15, he sent me by mail a set of these cookies and I cried my eyes out while devouring the entire container. Hahaha. Every year after that we would plan I come home and help him make them. We did this up until the year he ended his life in 2016. With it having been so sudden and a complete shock to all, I still make these every year. I feel if I stop, I'm letting him go and I'm not ready for that. So making this book for the index card he wrote the recipe on some 35 years ago, would not only protect it from any more damage but is something I can hand me down to my son, who was one to help him with these since the day he could sir a bowl. So I thank you so so much for this idea. It's going to become a stamp in my family for future generations to come. Love you Frances. THANK YOU SHANE as well. Lol. You are truly the flipping best babe. I'm gonna get started after I finish creating my new business . A soul-centered transformation system for coaches, creators, and business owners. Im their soul surgeon. Their resonance recalibrator. I'm really excited. Except sitting here thinking ohh she's got a business, but you already got that souls alignment and affect ppl on a much deeper level than just the very top service. Like most companies do. So here's to you firecracker. Keep doing the damn thing. Cause you're truly rocking the shit outta it. And to all who read this. We have crossed paths for a reason. And that's to tell you. Yes you reading this. That I love you. And I thank you for achieving a warriors win over 100% of what life has thrown at you. I know it's been hard beautiful, but I thank you from the depts of my heart, truly, for never giving up and for loving yourself enough to come join a like minded community, helping you achieve higher in the paper crafting niche. Doing the things that you love and enjoy instead of throwing yourself infront of a TV to continue to be programed and conditioned to stay in a box, and not shine. I thank you for choosing you. Because YOU ARE SO FREAKING WORTH IT. I LOVE YOU ALL SO SO VERY MUCH. (holding my bottle water up after saying kind things to it so it fills my body with those kind words,) Here's to each and every one of you doing the damn thing. Shining outside is the mundane box, knowing your worth and passion and creating unique purposes together all around the globe. Here's to Frances for making it all possible. By being the leader, the creator, and the voice, aligning with souls beauty and compassion for every one of us. Im filled with gratitude for all of you creating a safe space for all of us to have a voice, showcase our prideful creations and to embrace the loving and exciting energies from this platform. You never know what you're going to click on and have offered to you, or he books that some ppl write in the comments sections, toasting with a love energy infused bottle water. You just never know. And that's the fun in life. You never know. So I say, grab that thing called life, pull it close, slap a big wet one right on the lips and tell it " you're mine now" and then walk away while it tries to catch it's breath and make sence of what just happened. Leaving it so wanting more. And more it shall get. HERE HERE lol.

Thank you for sharing that story. I have Facebook and an email if you wanna share. I miss my boys being little but so glad ones nearly grown and the other half way there.

Lol. I can't get the boots outta my mind now. To stinking cute. And I'm so glad they allow such independence at such a young age. That's how it should be. Allow the child to be not try and mold them into what you think you want them to be.

I recall my oldest was 4ish and was helping me hang up my clothes and being a single mom working ad a nurse and then nights doing 2 different jobs I was always go go go. And laundry was done when i was on my last pair of clean scrubs. Lol.

Well he was helping hang clothes and I go put them away and tell em we got to go. Grabbed our things and headed to church. This particular day I was hosting a little surprise birthday thing for the pastor and his wife and a few of the church crew. Everyone comes in straight from church. They sit down while i grabbed refreshments and head out back to the grill to get things started. It's about 2 hrs in and we just finished eating and doing cake. Then I see in the corner of my eye the pasters wife running full force up to me with this look of urgency. I was speaking to someone and didn't want to be rude and just stop them in the middle and remove my attention to Mrs Annie. But we both knew Mr Jack would talk your ear off while you're house burns down and wouldn't even notice anything was going on around him. Amazing man. But she ends up pulling me away and she bends way down, I'm only 4'9 and a half on a good day, but she comes to whisper in my ear and im all freaking out like what are you doing. Hahah. I didn't realize how very awkward it is to hands over mouth and whisper infront of everyone. You just don't do that as an adult anymore, but she said you're aunties are in the living room at the mirror. I'm like my aunties. But i don't have any aunts. Completely Confused I go to the living room to see who's there and no one that I would say was an aunt. Or anyone that seemed to be waiting to see me.

So head back to the din area, amd grabbed gifts and here she comes again. And she's like why didn't you get them.

I was like Mrs Annie. I don't have aunts. You must have me mistaken. She looked at me now confused as ever, she grabbed my arm drug me to the outside of the living room and said. " you're PANTIES are hanging on the mirror. OMG I NEARLY DIED. every pair of my underwear were on this metal mirror that had vines and leaves. Do not know how in the world I missed that but sure enough there they they were. With nearly every eye ball on me as i went to get them off. But then like I said I'm 4'9. And my oldest was born nearly 3 foot long and 12 and a half pounds. At 17 hes 6'9 . So him standing on the couch would have them where I couldn't reach them. And as I went to get something to reach them down the pastors beautiful son who I had the biggest crush on walks up and asks are they clean. THANK GOD they are. Hahaha. I say yes and he starts untangling about 30 pairs of underwear and my spaghetti strp under shirts that i wore at work under my scrubs. And he grabs at least half of what was on there and of course the rest had become tangled and stuck on this mirror

The rest were lace and they were mostly thongs so what happened was my son wrapped this pair around several of the leaves and pushed through the lace. This man sits there trying to get these underwear off my mirror to save me complete embarrassment, only for it to be prolonged with this last struggle. I run to my bed room come back down stairs and hand him scissors and tell him to just cut them off. He had the nerve to say heck no, these are really nice. I thought I was going to die. Finally he did get them off and I had his baby 6 years later. Bahahaha but after that I was very thorough with checking behind my son when he helped. Except the time he made me breakfast on a day off and cooked the shells with the eggs. He said he thought it looked strange with the white things in there. Lol. You got to love kids.

I can say I have never gotten embarrassed after that. I was able to get through that. Nothing could cause me embarrassment ever again. And it hasn't.

Thanks for your time and creating this space for me to share this story. I've not thought about this in so long. Hahaha. So thank

I don't agree.

Just kidding. Gotta keep you on your toes. Lol. I'm trying to figure out how do I post a project on here .

It's only letting me post one photo. But these packs come with double sheets of 5 different 12x12 sheets. Frames and die cuts. Plus stickers and letters. Which I use and make more die cuts by putting the stickers on cardboard from any of the items I save that we use. ( cereals, crackers, Amazon boxes. w/e) but these are from hobby lobby and I got this one for less than 2 bucks. Reg price is 6.99 which is still very good for what you get. I think.

I went to Esty and got Pokémon digital papers and printed them out for an album I made my 7 year old son. I can email you what I have if you like. Save you a few dollars. Or you can go on there and look up boy themes digital papers and see what they have. I also got a paper pack from hobby lobby on sale that has like fishing I think and military. They may still have them. And i think they full price are 6 bucks and some change. Let me see how old this post is. Lol before I go digging things out. You may not even need any of this rn. Lol