Purging!

I got issues. Lots of them. One big one is I cant stop buying paper. I love paper!!! And I love a good deal... and a good deal on paper? Watch out! Well yesterday in a lull of quiet (who knows what the kids were into) I went through all my paper! I had paper in there that was a good ten years old! I went through and removed everything I knew that I would not use, lots of it was from those deal paper packs or clearance packs at the LSS. I have made a promise to myself that I am no longer going to be swayed into buying things I only sort of like just because they are a super deal. The picture above is the 5 inch stack of paper I am giving away to the teachers at school to use for art projects. I embarrassed by the sheer quantity I have!! YIKES!

More Issues...

Did you know that today Bath and Body is having their big clearance sale?  They are changing bottles again so everything is out the door.   I am embarrassed to say how much soap, shower gel, and bubble bath I now own.   It's shocking how much I can over do it!  Which, incidentally, is why I titled the post, More Issues!   I am saving money though... I probably won't set foot in Bath and Body again for another 6 months or so.  I bought 6 of the antibacterial soap... on sale for only $3!  I bought uh.. um.. 6 (yes six... ) bottles of bubble bath.  I was out, I needed more!  Plus most of it was only $3.  I bought a whole bunch of those little sample bottles... normally they are 3.50 but today it was only $1!  How awesome is that?  Those will make some great little gifts.  I also bought two things of lotion, normally I hate lotion but I have noticed my skin is really dry... could be age.... or it could be my diabetes.   Either way lizard skin is not something I want to have.   I also bought some matching products (shower gel, bubble bath, and lotion) for my friend's birthday.  The grand total was 68$!!!  YIKES but lucky me, I had a gift card so we were down to an easily manageable 40 bucks by the time I left.  Now I am sitting here thinking maybe I should have bought more shower gel, maybe I should have got those cute little lip-glosses?   Lucky for my bank account I won't be leaving the house anytime soon.

I Got Issues

One of them is I have too much stuff. Sometimes I buy things twice, or almost buy things twice. Sometimes I know I have something yet cant find it anywhere. Do you have these problems? I say this because of this card. I used the birds and swirls embossing folder for the background. Just two days ago I was coveting this folder on someone elses blog. I had to have it. I went to the store, scouring the aisles for it. Lucky for me it wasn't there. Thats because that night when I sat down to craft I dug around for my swiss dots folder and instead came up with this... yep the birds and swirls folder I was so desperately looking for I already owned!!! And now I cant find my swiss dots. Too much stuff I tell ya!

Thanks Ingredients:
PTI chocolate and vanilla cardstock
PTI berry sorbet ribbon
PTI mixed messages and borders and corners stamps
Hero ARts birdie stamp

Dark chocolate ink

Copic markers