lies... to ariana that is

i told ariana i was going to bed...
well, that was the original plan.
and once i got to my room, and lugged the clothes bin that has been hovering in my room for over a week (i need to put laundry away like nobody's business) i decided i needed to show off my three m's of today's scrapbookage... since i got little top stitching done on my bags (even with that said, i have 2 outsides totally done, and the other 6 in progress through my sewing machine... literally they are still in the machine)

so here we have the M's

the mess
sticker maker, corner rounder, glue, sticker squares...
the sticky neccesities

the machine
best dicut machine i've purchased...

wait, its the only one.

and its sidekick, the juke box

the masterpiece(s)

these are the 6 pages i knocked out today when i shut myself in my room while everyone else watched disturbia in the living room. the original plan was to work chronologically through the book to catch up to now... yeah, that didn't work so well. the first 4 are in sequential order (2004) and then we jump forward 4 and a half years to october 31, 2008, skipping the pages for my birthday (november 08) and on to january 09... and yes, i HAD to use a vanilla ice lyric for the ice skating page... haa.
perhaps at some point, when these pages are all said and done, i'll scan each one of them, and make a photobucket album of all my lovely little scrapbook pages. i can just tell this is going to be one fat and happy little 8x8 album.

btw, the title, because the front of the album has one of those picture slots, is going to be "to germany, with love"

cute, i know :)

what a week

i don't have any "i remember when..." moments
but since this week has been quite a hard hit for the celebrity type.
heres a moment in memory of ed mcmahon, farrah fawcett, and michael jackson.
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and as for today,
my inital plan was to get bags cut out
and perhaps even pieced together.
instead, i came home and scrapbooked...
and mastered running random things through my xyron sticker makers
today's object of interest...
haa haa. this silly little plastic snake [who after texting kasey, determined for some reason we named him rupert] that i don't even recall the orgin of, but he was a running theme of sophomore year of high school. i decided, that since i kept finding him on my floor each and every time i cleaned my room, i decided it was about time to find him a stable home... aka my high school scrap book page...
see the creativity? he makes the "s" in "sup?"
hah. brilliant i know.
yeah, it was one of those happy accidents... since i had the S cut out originally... just my piece to put it on wouldn't fit it.... darn P being so large. so theres my little crafty update... i'm off to the gym now, so that i can return home to watch so you think you can dance's result show commercial free...
man, i love dvr.

we all live in a yellow submarine

well... FINALLY the bags are done...

insert sigh of relief. although, the strap on my bag is crooked.

oh well. and that was even after taking it out and redoing it once.

annoying part of bag 1 - view a's rounded corners...
NOT fun to sew at all. but hey, it doesn't look bad... in my opinion.

my goal was to have both sides of the bag to look the same (heads on the right, "the beatles" on the left...) yeah. my mistake when cutting out the pieces. but it looks fab anyways :P

inside pocket has the beatles heads print inside, and the strap (attatched with D rings) had "the beatles" all over print. nice and roomy. also has magnetic snap.
i've concidered making another one of these bags,

but i'll have to figure out when i'll have patience to do another one. haa haa

those corners kill me!

i'm determined to figure out a way to maybe do an alteration on the bag.

perhaps squared corners... lol. idk.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=26406275

now, on to my bag :)
each strip is a different buzz lighyear print...

well, more or less

6 different fabrics, 2 doubled up.

the outside two are from the same fabric - dark blue background

looks like individuals of buzz and zurg (left over from my window seat cushion fabric)

that took some creative cutting for sure :P

i wanted to try and get as much buzz in the triangle i could.

some fit better than others... lol and have the same "pose"

other than that, some creative arrangement of the strips

and whaa laa, amazing laptop sized carrying bag :)

simple black lining, pocket is one of the coordinating buzz prints.

now if only i had somewhere to take my laptop to and show off my bag. haa haa.

i may have to make another one of these to list on our etsy site. :P

i bought some other fabric to do some different variations on bags using buzz lightyear fabrics, as well as need to make a quilt of all my different lightyear prints. haa haa

so you can see the itty bit-ness of my laptop in comparison to this bag :P

on other notes

got my cricut cartridge alphalicious the other day,

as well as won lyrical letters font on ebay today.

lovely day off from work .

do i really have to go tomorrow?

heh.