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{ Kenner Road } Will Take You Down Memory Lane...

as will Dime Store Daze.

This weekend I have 2 uber cool and super vintage-y women to talk about.

Kenner Road:

Most of you are probably familiar with my dear friend Kerry Lynn. You may know her by "KL" - I call her "Ker", but, either way, she is who she is and so ROCKS. The girl has an eye for pulling together the most interesting and delicious mix of vintage goodies (papers, fabrics, ephemera, trims, bling...you name it) and create to die for projects. And, now she is going to share her talent for this with all of us!  What with her workshop classes continually selling out & the popularity of her limited edition kits at her Etsy shoppe (K8tyKat), the time has come for Ker to share her talent with the masses...enter Kenner Road.

Kenner Road is a subscription based kit club. Pre-Sale subscriptions for the first Kenner Road release went live yesterday, August 15th, and are already SOLD OUT! Ouch, that's not hot...that's on "Fi-Yah!" Fear not though my friends....if you missed out on the pre-sale you will still have the opportunity to snag the September release on September 15th...it'll cost you a few more clams to get your pretty little glittered and glued hands on it but it's worth it....one more reason to sign up for the subscription is that you can save about $5 per kit which means one more Starbucks for you!

Now, in addition to these vintage delights, Ker is also launching a line of digital goodies so if you are a digi-scrapper, a paper crafter/altered art/mixed media/scrapper looking to get into a little digi, or full on hybrid, now is your chance to do it in style!

Keep checking back for the Kenner Road site launch as well as the availability of new subscriptions and the rest of the project kits & goodies that will be waiting to land in your mailbox!

Be sure to look for Kenner Road layouts in the September issue of Digital Artist Magazine!

Dime Store Daze:

Tomorrow, my other dear friend and local guru, Gigi Kennedy, and I will be taking a vintage jewelry class here at the Jersey shore with none other than the infamous & beloved Terri Ventura of Dime Store Daze. Looking forward to seeing Terri again, and, as if all that weren't enough, we will also be taking a beeswax class with Suze Weinberg!!  Can you believe it?!?! Neither of us can.....can't wait to get into a jam packed room with so many other creative and talented people and get schooled by all their knowledge and techniques!

Sneak Peeks of tomorrow's workshop kits:

Some of Terri's work from a recent swap:

Could you imagine getting any one of these charms in a swap...I would pass out from the beauty & excitement as I walk from the mailbox!  :D

Here's Terri doing her thing at Tinsel Trading in NYC:

You can find out more about Terri in the September issue of Digital Artist Magazine as well as see a couple of layouts inspired by her work!

Wanna Win A 100 Bones?

Check this out...so easy & so fun!

All you have to do is grab your August issue of Digital Artist Magazine (seen below), which is available now, and look for the clues.

This jam-packed issue is bursting with more than 150 pages of amazing inspiration, tips, informative articles and FREEBIES from Danielle of Something Blue Studios at CatScrap, TaylorMade Designs and Kelsey Smith!

This month’s Exclusive Kit is by none other than Holly Designs! “Calypso” is bursting with lush colors, beautifully textured papers and heaps of embellishments! Download this tropical beauty with your copy of Digital Artist Magazine!

That is one *luscious* kit!!!!

Don't miss this...there are a 100 bones at stake....now get hunting!!!!!

Digi Survey.....

Digital Artist Magazine is doing a really quick and easy survey.....it will take you less than 2 minutes to complete and you could win 1 of 5 really cool prizes just for taking a moment to answer a few questions.

Check it out by clicking the image below...

Back To Basics....

that's where I am at right now.

Just a couple finds from one of our favorite antique places.

The old icebox was buried behind some other furniture and had 2 really bad coats of white paint slapped over a really pretty soft green...the green was almost identical to Benjamin Moore's "Scenic Route", which is a beautiful soft vintage green. The wood is so pretty and in really good shape considering this icebox has gone unloved for quite some time but, I just can't resist painting it...a glossy bright aqua/blue-ish color is what I am thinking to contrast the yellow walls in the kitchen. If that blue doesn't get the green light it will be some shade of bright glossy red. Also thinking of adding some zebra print in the recesses of the doors.

The bench came into the store inventory as we were shopping and I could not leave it behind.....the orange velvet, the fringe and that wrought iron is to die for....cleaned it all up and looks cool in the living room.  :)

I'll be back with pictures of the old scale we found to put on top of the icebox, a killer set of TS&T pottery for the table, a cool framed painting, and a beat up old wooden Coca-Cola soda case. Wish it was a Pepsi case but it will do until until we can score one. Until then it's a little more sewing for me and taping off molding in my art room to prepare for painting.

Have a great Friday!  :)

Get 'Em While You Can.....

as they will be officially sold out by noon EST if they haven't already.....

Yep, Kim is back in action....she has been on a bit of a blogging hiatus while tending to a wee bun in the oven.....so, if you are lucky, you'll be able to snag one of these uber-pretty "Delilah" aprons...isn't she just perfect for the Spring/Summer season....isn't this newest creation so *delilahghtful* (yeah, I know...it is true - I am a totally self-entertaining moron)...can ot get enough of that modern polka with the pink ribbon & bow...oh, and those fantastic gray leaves on that green.....love it!!!!  And, if you're feeling real creative and all seamstress-y you can always snag the Delilah apron kit and sew it yourself!

There are 2 of these pretty little frocks on the way to 2 of my lovelies......

Remind me to tell you how my weekend was....it was interesting to say the least.  Have you ever been side-swiped? And while parked in a driveway in suburbia?????  I have. TWICE.

Testimonial.....

if you're like me you *never* believe what you read in beauty magazines. OK, OK, you got me...there was that one time - you know that month where the mags were running that amazing headline: "Lose 20lbs. In 30 Days On the Ice Cream Diet"...yeah, I know you fell for it too.  I mean, who could resist being told it was OK to eat ice cream and everyday??? Did I really think eating Ben & Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Chunk all day, every day for a month would not *add* 20?!? No! How foolish do you think I am? (That's a strictly a rhetorical question --- please don't answer that last question....I know just how foolish I can be, thank you very much.) Who wouldn't get sucked in by the green-light to inhale large amounts of ice cold sweet creamy delight laced with hints of cinnamon and vanilla? Again, don't answer.  ;) 

 
Back to the point I was trying to make.....yeah, so, I never believe the beauty mags but one item/review did get my attention....Allure magazine had given an eye cream from Avon the equivalent to the old school Siskel & Ebert "2 thumbs up".  As I read the review I sat and laughed, all jaded and remarking to myself about how ridiculous the outlandish claims of "plastic surgery in a jar" were...talk about pie in the sky!

Not only am I not one to believe the mags but I am also not one to doctor my photos...this is what I look like, like or not....my dues are paid in full and up to date for every little line and flaw I have on my face and elsewhere...these were hard earned and I'll be damned if I am going to erase them by way of computer. Besides, imagine the horror, shock and surprise of doctoring your photos up only to finally meet someone who only knows you by way of photo and they have no idea who you are b/c you look nothing like your photo???  That's more embarrassing than looking like a few flocks of crows have landed on my eye area as if we were shooting a remake of  Hitchcock's "The Birds"! I don't want to be that girl...I am not that girl.  Well, maybe that was until I read this Allure prize-winning product review.

Never one to fret about the lines appearing on my face, somehow the subliminal beauty powers that be had gotten to me...somewhere lurking in my subconscious the Eye Cream Gods were luring me into their web of deceit and lies thru advertising. Yes, I do use an eye cream as part of my daily moisturizing rituals (I am not that hardcore to go without moisturizer!)...after a free gift with purchase from Clinique I decided to try the sample of their Repairware Intensive Eye Cream. 

Sounds good. Sounds serious. Sounds like it will be intensely moisturizing, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. This was the opposite of everything the product name states with the exception of the "intensive". Oh, it was intensive alright, intensive DRYING....oh, and did I mention burning? It would not surprise me in the least to find this was a little vat of battery acid hidden in a moisturizer look-a-like!  Within a week my eyes were dehydrated and had the appearance of the salt flats....totally dry and tight...so tight the skin from my under eyes were pulling and wrinkling the skin on my cheekbones.....imagine your eyes looking comparable to this photo (minus that stunning blue):

...and, all the while you were trying to moisturize!?!?!?  WTH????

Enter, Allure & Avon with the claims of "plastic surgery in a jar"...now, if ever was the time I *needed* an eye intervention and QUICK! Ding Dong! Avon calling! Fast forward a week and a speedy delivery by my trusty Avon lady and I receive this little tub of gel and cream.

Everyone, this is Avon Anew Clinical Eye Lift. Avon Anew Clinical Eye Lift,this is everyone. I am sure you will all make quick friends.

This $28 gel/cream combo has been gracing my eyes twice daily for 2 weeks and all I can say is "Wow!". They weren't kidding when they said this stuff works....if I weren't using it myself I would swear I was lying about the potency of this little powerhouse....the first 5 days or so I could actually feel it lifting my upper lids - sort of felt like I had some scotch tape pulling the upper and lower lids to smooth them out ....that feeling has subsided but the effect has not.....for once the beauty editors weren't pulling our leg! Even the color of my eye area has subtly changed and I didn't even know I had a problem with discoloration around the eye! I want to see a review of this product simply stating "The shit works." Because it does.

Now I need to take my 37 year old eyes that now look 35 for a quick shower and reapplication of my holy grail eye product & upload my layouts for the June 2008 issue of Digital Artist Magazine.

Happy Friday people.

The Little Things....

that can brighten a day!

While grocery shopping on Sunday I came across a new detergent by Tide called "Pure Essentials" in a Lemon Verbena scent. I was drawn to the packaging...a soft beige-y or linen-esque colored looking container with a soft pearly green colored cap. Whichever firms did the marketing/packaging for this product hit a home run! The package conveyed a feeling of something new, clean, fresh and light. I had to open the cap to get a whiff and I was in love...I instantly felt a sense of "happy" or "goodness"....SOLD! This was such an unexpected and refreshing change from all the overly perfume-y and strongly scented detergents on the shelves.

 

Even the screenshot from the website exudes the feeling that matches how I felt when the fragrance hit me.

Did I mention I didn't even need detergent? Nor did I need the Downy liquid fabric softener, or the Bounce dryer sheets...all of which are part of the Pure Essentials line? No, I didn't need any of it, yet I bought it all.

So smitten with my new find I ran home and did laundry immediately after putting away the groceries....I never did throw the dryer sheets in for the dry cycle but the laundry held that light, happy, fresh fragrance! Oh I LOVE IT!

Now, if you go to the Tide website it shows a roll-out map for the release of the Pure Essentials line and my area isn't slated for release until next Spring (April '08) but we do have it so be sure to check your local shelves regardless of what the Tide website says.  ;)

PS - Clinique's "Happy" is one of my all-time fave scents....so this laundry find is only fitting.

Yes, I Am Among The Living...

Thanks for asking!

I had been meaning for a good week now to get some entries up but was just so terribly short on time. Alas, this weekend I have nothing scheduled but scrapping and some blogging about the LOADS (in the world of Jayne, LOADS = 4+GBs of files) of scrap products I've picked up, the gazillion photos of my Li-Ley I have taken, my new 30mm f/1.4 lens (which has yet to lay it's glass onto my stunning little Li-Ley), non-scarapping products I have picked up on my shopping expedition with Vik, some killer new Photoshop actions I picked up and just random other thoughts that have been ruminating and need to be journaled somewhere to catch this point in time for me...stay tuned.

And, in the meantime, if you are bored, take a look at this:

My fave little photo display/wearable art co. "Smoy" now has some new products in the collection...I see this one in Li-Ley's not so distant future, isn't it just adorable?

New Product....

available at JWD this week!

You can find it here!  This is the first in a series!

OK, Now I am Blushing!!!!

So, this morning I was at the office working hard on avoiding my all my duties when I start blogsurfing.....what better way to remedy a tad of "workitis" with some surfing. There I am happily surfing along when I look to see if Audrey had updated her blog only to find she has a brand spankin' new blog up and running today and BAM!  There it was.  My little 'ole name listed with a link under "Inspirations"! Me, my dumb name, nestled right there in between the likes of the scrapping greats....surely there must be another scrapper with the same name, I click the link and land on my own blog!  HOLY CRAP!  I almost fell out of my chair.

This immediately called for an extension of my "workitis therapy" and some much needed text messaging.  I shoot a text to Kim and I tell her I am dying over here.....we chit chat and by the end of our conversation she then throws in this little gem:  "BTW, did u see ur featured?" 

HOLY CRAP to the 2nd power!!!!  :D  I was just about to subscribe to the podcasts and hadn't even seen that I was listed as a feature in this week's "Dishin' The Digi - Coast 2 Coast" .  So now I start looking and just can't find where it is, blah, blah, blah. Kim is calling me blind and so I finally find it! Now I am home, navigate over to the section I need to be in and give it a listen...the show blew me away, totally cool and fun and then they got to my  Santa's Little Elves layout (as seen in the December issue of Digital Artist Magazine).....I still can't believe it was noticed and picked as a feature, let alone all the wonderfully kind and sweet things that were said about my work on it. As I listened it just wasn't registering that it was my work and page being discussed except for the flush feeling in my face that would keep reminding me...and to think, I wasn't going to let that LO fly b/c I was unhappy with it!?!?  LOL  Let me just tell you, as I sat all alone and in front of my laptop listening my cheeks were on fire....blushing is an understatement at this point! Flattered, floored, flustered, freaked & fascinated I was and still am all these "F" words only in the privacy of my own home I prefaced each one of them with my all-time favorite "F" word, the *Fug-Bomb*!! Come on now, I am a native New Yorker, it's in my blood!  :D

In other DiScTalk news, don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss out on a great interview with Kim (aka OliveJuice) in the Scrapper's Playhouse and you'll not only also get to hear Michelle Coleman of Scrap Artist talk with deann McDaniel but, you'll get an awesome free kit designed by Michelle for DiSc Talk Radio!  :)

Weirdness abounds over here right now...still not sure how I got into the mix for any of these items today but all I can really say is that I am on Cloud 9.....and thank you, thank you, thank you to Audrey, Shanah & Deann for giving me the warm fuzzies and actually even noticing any of my work!   I am *not* worthy!  :)

And, speaking of subscriptions, if you haven't already, run don't walk to Digital Artist Magazine aka the Best DAM digi mag ever, and get your subscription in. It's about that time to keep your eyes peeled for the January issue which should be out any day now...if you think the last issues were *loaded* with good stuff, just you wait until you set your eyes upon the January issue...it's just keeps getting better and better and you'll get the exclusive designer kit too!  :)

Now I must run to settle in for the return of Top Chef after too long of a winter's break! (Hey Kim: "Mr. Colicchio can you give me some sugar?  Oh, excuse me, I meant can I borrow a cup of sugar? I am baking a cake down the hall.")

PS - Anyone know how I lost the ability to center my posts????