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3 Great Projects/ 3 Great Things

So, below you will find three really great Cosmo Cricket paper crafting projects. But before we start there, can I share three really great things in my life?

#1. All four of my kids are in school full time!!! Do you know what this means. My house stays clean until 3:00 in the afternoon. I am not in the kitchen all day, everyday making snacks for small people. I think this has freed up hours of my time! And, I am writing this without Jack sitting on my lap.

#2. I am going to Holland on Friday! It will be a very quick trip, but my family is from Holland and so I am super excited.... a little bit nervous, but super excited!

#3. Ohhhh, I am such a tease, because I am not going to tell you number three until tomorrow. But it is really exciting! Not only for me, but all of you too. You are going to LOVE this news because it is going to mean something really great for all your crafty hopes and dreams! Stay tuned and be sure to check in tomorrow!!!!!

Now onto three really great projects!

The first is a fun layout from Daphne, "a German girl in the UK". I love the colors in Clementine with kraft paper next to them!

Next we have some beautiful simplicity from Jennie McGarvey and Odds and Ends.


And, to finish off, Kary Lim brings it all together with some Unity Stamps featuring artwork from Clementine with papers from Odds and Ends.



Have a great day everyone and happy crafting!

Adventures in Crafting

Some people think that crafting is boring. All I have to say is these people have never crafted with me!

One day, when we were newly married, Eric had a button come off his shirt. I told him to put it in my sewing room so that I could fix it for him. Well, he did and somehow it got covered by the fabric I was using to make throw pillows with. It just so happens that when I cut out the fabric for the pillows, I happened to cut out some fabric from Eric's shirt!

Many of my adventures involve Eric! Another day, I was hanging a shelf I had painted. This required a power drill. Teasing Eric, I poked him in the behind with the drill and "accidentally" hit the power button. Wow, jeans wrap around a spinning drill really fast!!!

Having craft supplies around kids always makes for an adventure! You may have read the story about Kate coloring her entire body brown on the Moda Blog. But, did you know that she cut off her bangs, right to the skin, so that she could add hair to a doll we were making? I had envisioned yarn hair personally, but Kate likes realistic details!

Anyway, next month is National Sewing Month. I altered some old, rusty containers to try to get myself organized in an effort to avoid more personal mishaps. But, who knows when you get four kids, one dog, three sewing machines (yep I have more sewing machines than TVs), at least a dozen pair of scissors and one insaniac woman together!

 

 

Julie Comstock: Arrested in a Strip Club

A day ago, I was tagged in a post on facebook as the one that would get arrested at a strip club?!?!?! What!!! I haven't ever even been to a strip club, well not as a guest... just kidding, really NEVER!

Anyway, it was a hilarious post that you can see on my wall. But it got me thinking of our own game. So, take the friends that show up in your sidebar on facebook and in the order they are listed, add their names to the following descriptions. You can do this here, on facebook, or just in your pretty little mind. It's only for fun, so put on your sense of humor caps!

You're at a store crop with your best friends:
Runs with scissors:
Spikes the punch:
The "Nazi" Instructor:
Laughs so hard she snorts:
Glues something to her behind:
Shares too much personal information:
Gets thrown out of the store:
Kisses scrapper next to her:
Slaps the scrapper who kissed her:
Wins the prize:

Hope this made you smile! Have a happy weekend everyone!!!

 

 

Three Random Things

Random Thing #1: Today is the kick off of our warehouse sale. If you're in the Cache Valley area, or anywhere nearby, you won't want to miss it! We have lots of really great stuff, but on some things I was surprised how few we even had. For example, I think there are only 8 mini decks in the entire sale! If you're looking for a great deal on them, come quick!!!

Random Thing #2: If you think you know every single thing about me, and you're kind of tired of it. Then please forgo this link. But, if you just can't get enough (maybe you're a stalker of something) then here's an interview I did about our fabric line for Moda. I did share one story in there that I don't think any of you have heard.

Random Thing #3: It's the first day of school. Here's some pics.

Unfortunately, from a photo standpoint, only Abby was on the good side of the bus. I love this pic of her though!

The older kids left when it was still a bit dark. It is really hard to photograph these two together. Ethan is 6' 4" and Kate isn't quite 5' yet.

To cool for school. No, I didn't pose them. They did this all on their own.

I can always see this look in Jack's eyes of nervousness combined with excitement combined with "Why are you making me do this mom?!?!?". Hang in there Jack! The first day of first grade is a big deal, but you'll do great!

Circa 1934 Quilt!

It's so nice to have talented sisters! My sister, Emily Bailey of Aunt Em's Quilts took the fabric I designed for Moda and made them into this gorgeous quilt.

And, if you think I am biased because she's my sister, just know that she made the cover of McCall's Quick Quilts! GOOOoooo EMILY!!!!

So, if you're interested in the quilt then check out this link where you can find a kit for making it along with more information about it.

Have a great day everyone!

Cosmo Cricket Warehouse Sale of Biblical Proportions and an offer for our Blog friends

So this week, Thursday (8-6), Friday (8-6), and Saturday (8-1) to be exact, Cosmo Cricket is having a huge, gigantic scrapbook warehouse sale of biblical proportions. We rarely do this, but thought what the heck, you guys deserve it. Our address is 1665 West 2960 South Nibley, Utah. If you get lost you can reach us at 435-755-2999 and we will talk you here. :)

We have some really fun stuff that we will be selling at 40-90% off of the retail price. We know some of you live close by, but others not so much. We wish all of you were here to play with us :(

But.........................since you're not, you are our friends and Julie had a great idea that she thought you might like.

She proposed a Cosmo Cricket Mystery Box for the first 250 emailer backers, at a price of $50.00 with a retail of over $200.00. You save a little over $150.00 thats all.

Sounds like a pretty great deal to me. The box will include paper, embellishments, chipboard, stickers, sticker books, Lacing Card Kits (anyone remember these?)etc.

Those interested email [email protected] ( that would be me) and let me know that you want to participate. Include your name, address and credit card info! Pretty simple!

Have a really great day!

Time for a new sketch

Are you ready to create a card?!! We sure hope you are because if you create a card using Cosmo Cricket you can win a publication in Cards magazine!!

Our very own Debbie Olson created a sketch and a sample card aspecialy for this challenge.

 

Make sure to have your link posted here in the comment section by August 27th. The editors of Cards magazine will select a winner and you can found out who it is on September 3rd, right here on the Cosmo blog!!

Have fun playing along! 

Kate + Mom = Girl Day

When Kate was a tiny, little girl I promised that when she turned 12 I would take her to get a "real" haircut and have her make-up done.

Well, her birthday is Monday, but I could only get two back-to-back appointments for yesterday.

We began the day by getting our hair done. Kate wanted to go second so that her hair would be the newest when we went to lunch afterward.

Here's what she looked like after the cut.

Holy Moly! I love Oscar. He is a good friend. But, when he made my little girl look all grown up I had a momentary desire to hurt him. It was fleeting though because I've got to tell you, having a third party tell my daughter that her hair is beautiful, her smile is great, her face shape is so cute, etc. is totally worth it. Why can we never believe these things from people close to us?

Then we headed for lunch were we discussed lots of important topics like the difference between taking care of yourself and being selfish, making goals for the future and not doing stupid things that will mess them up, being nice to everyone, etc. You know, all those good mom words of advice, that girls with new hair-do's are more inclined to listen to.

After lunch we headed to the MAC counter for make-overs.

They did her make-up so that she still looks like a young girl. I love it, and personally I think this girl is just about the cutest thing on earth! 

In some ways it is sad to see her growing up, but in other ways it is so fun and exciting! I really think she is going to make good choices and do great things in the world.

So, here's to you Kate!
Love, mom.

A Wedding Scrapbook Page

 

Enjoy the above layout, featuring Odds and Ends with 1" Gluber flowers, while I tell you a story about my wedding day.

Eric and I were married an hour and a half drive away from my parent's home, where I had been staying over the summer. On this drive, the reality of committing the rest of my life to one person started sinking in.

I asked my parents, "How long have you been married?"

They replied, "25 years."

"25 years" I said in shock, "that's longer than I've been alive!"

To appreciate the humor of this, you have to understand that I am the THIRD child of a VERY conservative family. So it was no surprise when my mom answered, "Well, I hope so!"

Now for our winner, congratulations go to Sherry Tasker. Sherry, send us your info and we'll send you your prizes. Email it to cathie at cosmocricket dot com. Thanks!

 

Cosmo Cricket Interactive and a contest

Tell you how my day has gone:

1- Arrived at work 7:10AM thinking I could get a great start on the day, only to find that our server was down and I had to wait for our tech to get here to work his magic.

2- Our Printer was supposed to have all of our new products here bright and early this morning. I talked to him Friday and he said that he would bring it on Saturday and me being the chipper guy that I am, said, "no worries, don't come on Saturday, just have it early on Monday." It was suppose to be here last Wednesday.

Well.....It's now 11:30AM and no sign of product. Is this one of those "no good deed goes unpunished" kind of things?

3- And last, I had terrific projects for today's blog all of the way from Brazil and Typepad is being uncooperative. Can't post them. :(

So here's the deal, my bad luck is your good fortune. We love interaction with our Typepad friends. It's kind of therapeutic. We know you have questions about us and would like to get to know us better and we would you too.

Ask a question about Julie, Eric, Sookie, Me, anything. I will attempt to answer them all. Then this week, we will draw a winner for a brand spanking new Clementine Collage kit (If our printer ever gets it to us).

Remember i'm having a not so great day and the pressure is on you guys to ask some really fun questions!

Have a great day!