Twas The Night Before....

Twas the night before a very important day, and all through the house, all the humans were scurrying to collect obscure agility items to insure that day would be pleasant...

Our very first Agility Trial is tomorrow.  I am super nervous..I'm hoping Santa grants wishes in May, or a genie or whatever...We're hoping to do well.  But well or not, it will be a learning experience for us all. 

I've got some things on the horizon, tomorrow is Mother's day...if you've forgotten, you better hurry..

I've got cards made, photos taken and they are on the computer..so I'll be ready to go with that post tomorrow. 

But today...it's sort of like Christmas..Santa can you hear me??

I finally got my light tent working!  Jonathan got me a tent and lights for Christmas, but the tent was too big..we finally got a replacement that is the right size.

It is wonderful. So the Mother's Day edition will feature the first cards photographed in the tent...I must say already with my complete lack of knowledge..they are leagues better than the ones I have been taking on my desk.

I hope you notice a difference.

Wish us luck!
Hoping for a Q!!

Jessica

The Hole Incident

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you "The Hole Incident".

I mentioned that the studio could benefit from some more lighting, and inquired about how difficult it would be. The electrical engineer jumped on this..and said that he'd check but didn't think it'd be a problem. He wanted to drill in the attic to see if there was an open space above my desk (which has its own roof line..it sort of juts out the back of the house..like a bay window..but not.) Ok so this should have been my first red flag..but I said ok (like an idiot.)

My sister was over and we were working on a project of hers (read: working at the desk) Jonathan was drilling in the attic. It was sounding horrible. Just as I had the thought "Hmm that drilling is sounding awfully close..." CRASH..or something like it...

This happened. I didn't think to get a picture of just the hole before it was patched, but you can see the problem...a random hole in the ceiling. Oh yeah, and all sorts of plaster on my desk.
There were words exchanged (not nice ones) and lots of cleaning on his part. He decided that he shouldn't have done whatever he was doing up there (really?) But that there is in fact a space above the desk and that we could install some lighting.

He could hardly wait to get started. So on Sunday we went and picked out a fixture and got the tools to do the job.

This is a room that has too much stuff in it...
Oh yeah, and it's night time..and we didn't have any power. Which I suppose is a blessing because electrocution doesn't sound like a good time.

That's the beginnings of a 5 inch hole for the fixture...the first hole was almost right...almost. The anxiety was at an all time high here...you can't come back from a 5 inch hole in a plaster ceiling...you just can't.

At least this story has a happy ending. Except for the patching that needs to be finished on the first "mistake" hole.

JRo Productions now has a kick ass light fixture above the desk.

Yes, admiring his work.

But it beats the pants off the light that was available before..crafting after hours was miserable.

I do have a few more things to bring you, and we'll return to your regular programming tomorrow.

Jessica

Because Everybody's Doing It...

Everyone always shows their scrap room, so I thought I would to. I've finally got it mostly finished, and hopefully there won't be any major renovations after this point.
Please keep hand and feet inside the tram at all times...


Here's sort of an overview shot from the door. It's dark, but it looked worse with the flash, so we'll all just have to use our imaginations for the remainder of the tour.

Here is the other section of the room...it's a really great room.


My desk is 8 feet long and 30 inches wide. My husband built it, you can see how here on his new blog. It is absolutely perfect for everything I need. It holds my Cricut, my Gypsy, my drawers with my Cricut/Cuttlebug acessories, my Copic markers, I have a cutting mat, my paper trimmer, my pens, pencils and a ruler, my Cuttlebug, current paper I'm working with, my acrylic blocks and black ink, my tin with stamped images to be colored/used, my current photo album, envelopes, and a cute picture of me and my husband.
The sad part is all that stuff is the most often used stuff that needs to be on the desk, I have a whole bunch of other crap that I need the rest of the room for.

Like my paper racks. These actually only hold my Stampin Up paper, I just got the second rack this weekend...woot. I also keep my paper stacks on top of them, and my embellishments drawers.
I realize I have a problem...
On with the tour!

Ribbon storage. I stole this idea from someone's scrap room..it's actually a pantry storage thing, but works absolutely wonderful for ribbon..I'm going to be needing a second one.

Underneath that is all the drawers I started scrapping with. When this whole mess got started it was just the big drawer on the bottom, and one set of 3 drawers...When everything was stacked together while we lived at the apartment it was over 6 feet tall. Jonathan build the cart underneath it..it has wheels so I could move it about the apartment...that was great until I realized I could just take over his desk. He's much happier now that I have my own room. :-)

I have a bulletin board with random stuff. My wedding veil, my bouquet is on the shelf above this. Pictures of my niece and nephew, my cats, my CLS classmates, my husband, my Cricut Circle certificate and a few business cards.

My shelves came from Lowes, and I love them for storing my Cricut cartridges, my flowers, the Gypsy box I'm not ready to part with and pictures and other random things on top.

My communication center (oh yes we have a high tech system going on here) It's got a very long list of scrapbook pages I need to make, as well as upcoming cards that I'm going to be needing. And a little section where I write what I need to buy at the store...the current item being a Martha Stewart punch that I can't find anywhere!

Well that brings us full circle back to the door. I hope you've enjoyed traveling with JRo Productions, and come back anytime.

Jessica