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GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS......

IT'S DOUBLE PUNCH THURSDAY!

JUST MENTION THIS POST AND

GET DOUBLE PUNCHES ON YOUR

PUNCH CARD.

GREAT WAY TO FILL THAT PUNCH CARD UP

FOR $10 OFF OF YOUR NEXT PURCHASE.

GET READY TO PAR-TAY ALL MONTH LONG!!!!

August brings us our TENTH year and we are going with a

 circus theme for the retreat and fun celebrations we are offering to 

THANK YOU 

for those wonderful years. 

Each week we will bring you some fun in addition to the shopping and cropping. 

Mark these dates on your calendar. . .

Week I--Aug 1-7 Empty a Tray or Clear a Peg to get a prize from us. You must show us what was on the peg or in the tray that you cleared. (1 prize/customer/day please)

Week II--Aug 8-14 Spin to Win We will have a board to spin so you can see what your prize or discount will be.

Week III-Aug 15-21 Pop Goes the Savings Pop a balloon to see what your discount will be. Discounts range from 10%-40%
 

 Week IV--Aug 22-30 Free gift with $40 purchase. 

We have some great give-a-ways for this week.
 

If you have not signed up for our retreat with Fancy Pants you need to do so soon. 

We still have room but need time to make up kits.

 It will be a great time full of fun, frivolity and friends!

Mark all of these fun events on your calendar so that you 

can celebrate our tenth birthday 

ALL

MONTH 

LONG!

MEOW WOW AT CAT MEW

Did you take Back to the Basics at Cat Mew? 

Now let's up the game and go for our Bachelors of Arts with Meow Wow. 

 This will be an all day, technique driven, 

 

outta the box and over the top creative event. 

Learn to use the latest in mixed media and altered art that 

 works for your layouts as well as home decor. 

Everything from basic stamping to Tim Holtz style tags with paint, 

inks, 

distressing 

and whatever we come up with.
 

 You will complete an altered art canvas during this session. 

Make it whimsical, 

make it elegant, 

make it vintage, 

make it YOUR way! 

 Upon completion you will get your 

Bachelors of Arts Degree if you took the Back to the Basics class on August 9th. 

You will receive an honorary degree if not.
 

 Lite Lunch Included.

Guest Instructor: Nanci Holtsford

Cost: $50 Pre-registration by August 23 is required.

SCRAPBOOK MEW

Welcome to Scrapbook Mew...

On Saturday, August 9th, Cats  is offering

Back to the Basics all day event. 

Here is what to expect:

 

 Scrapbook 101-"Tools" 

 Learn the necessary tools for all classes that will carry you through with ease.

Scrapbook 201-"Layouts" 

 Learn the ins and outs of quick and easy basic layouts.
 

Scrapbook 301-"Sketches" 

 Learn to use the sketches as a tool to help jump start your creativity when making layouts.
 

Scrapbook 401-"Embellish"

 Learn to add fun embellishments to your layouts. 

Everything from ribbons & buttons to stickers and flowers. 

You will complete 6 pages during the course of the day and

receive your Associate of Arts Degree from Cat Mew!

Lite Lunch is included.

Cost: $40 

 Pre-Registration by August 2 is required.

Sunday Musings from Cat (it is really me)

Cat here with the blog post today. Marilyn is feeling a bit under the sciatic nerve pain which seems to be rather aggravated by her knee surgery. She is really doing fantastic and has managed to do all the blog posts but one (now two) since her surgery. Her physical therapy is going great and she should be dancing a jig quite soon.  For now her sciatic nerve is driving her crazy and this is more like it:

Butch is trying hard to take great care of her and seems to be handling her demands quite well. She is not being too terribly demanding but then there are her moments of:

We hope Marilyn gets back moving and grooving soon as her laughter and fun spirit have been missed at the last few store functions.  She always makes us all laugh and realize we are so blessed. Take care Marilyn and get that new knee ready for scrapping.

IT'S A HOT SUMMER SALE!!!!!

 

CAN YOU BELIEVE

IT IS ONLY

FIVE MONTHS

UNTIL CHRISTMAS????

You know what that means!!!

New product lines are being released for the 

holidays and Cat needs room at the store!

SO.........

ALL

Holiday collections are 50% off

SATURDAY, JULY 26TH.

That means:

50% off of Valentines collections for photos of your Valentine!

  50% off of Easter collections for those adorable Easter pics!

 50% off of 4th of July collections for those patriotic pictures.

 50% off of all those Halloween collections for 

those spooky pictures!

 50% off of the beautiful Thanksgiving collections for

all those photos you took of your family gatherings

at Thanksgiving.

 You know we have LOTS of beautiful Christmas collections

for you to choose from,

And all of them are 50% off 

TODAY ONLY!!!

So, hurry to the store to pick up your favorites

and

S A V E!

HAVE YOU SIGNED UP YET?

 HAVE YOU SIGNED UP FOR THE BIG 
TEN YEAR CELEBRATION YET?
 
We are going to be TEN YEARS YOUNG in August!
10 Year Anniversary Retreat
Friday August 15-Monday August 18

What a Circus it will be with Fancy Pants as our Specialty!
Get your Fancy Pants on & join us in celebrating our 
10th anniversary retreat style.
This retreat will start on Friday, August 15 
and end on Monday, August 18. 
 
If you want to arrive on Saturday, August 16 get here by 10 

to start the Circus Activities with our 
inclusive Layout Class from Fancy Pants Designs

 using, what else, but their Circus collection. 

 We will start on Friday with an inclusive class at 3pm from Nanci and Cat

 to celebrate our 10th Anniversary. 

The traditional 10th anniversary gift is tin or aluminum. 

The class will be centered around that and altered art. 

 Great way to see if you like this new trend in crafting.

 

Our special guests for this special milestone event will be

 Fancy Pants Designs owners Jared & Jodi Sanford. 

They will be teaching the layout class on Saturday morning. 

They will also offer a class on Saturday afternoon for all the card makers

 using their Burlap & Bouquets collection. 

At 4:30 on Saturday the Circus will open complete with 

games, food, and lotsa fun as well as photo ops. 

We will have 
peanuts,
popcorn, 
cotton candy, 
lemonade, 
hamburgers & 
hot dogs. 

 Get your tickets for the games and food 
from various scrapbooking fun (Hint Hint)

 

Sunday will find Jodi & Jared teaching another additional class 

that will be an album with the Me-Ology Collection. 

When this class is over we will have until Monday 
afternoon to crop on our own projects.

 

 There will be PJ Raids to the store on Friday, Saturday & Sunday night. 

Cost: 2 night $245
 3 night $275 
(For those wanting Saturday night only please call.) 

Includes:
Cabin for two or three 

All meals starting with Friday night 
6ft Crop Table
2 classes
 Circus fun with prizes 

 Goodie Bag

 

Additional Classes available:
Fancy Pants Designs Card Class $25 

Album Class $35

All retreaters must wear their own uniquely designed
 “Fancy Pants on Saturday”.

 Jared & Jodi will be judging and the winner will get a great prize.

 (This will be good for photos, lol!)

DON'T DELAY.....
SIGN UP NOW.....
WHILE THERE ARE PLACES STILL AVAILABLE.

GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS.....

 

COME ON.....

GUESS WHAT DAY IT IS......

IT'S DOUBLE PUNCH THURSDAY!

JUST MENTION THIS POST AND

GET DOUBLE PUNCHES ON YOUR

PUNCH CARD.

GREAT WAY TO FILL THAT PUNCH CARD UP

FOR $10 OFF OF YOUR NEXT PURCHASE.

Craft Room Ideas

My sweet hubby decided I needed a bigger craft room so he took the window out of my existing room and added an extension room. I have a 10x12 room with a 9x13 extension. I use the original room to house most of my extra supplies. The new room has all the working space with the table, TV, and things I use all the time. He put in 3 windows giving me a gorgeous view and lots of natural light. Then he turned me loose with figuring out how to "fix" it. I looked at all kinds of craft rooms on Pinterest and had all these ideas. Well, I just chunked most of those when it came down to it and went with re-purposing things I already had in the house. It was so fun rummaging through cabinets and closets to see what I could use. My original room is done in Coca Cola theme so there is a lot of red. I wanted more turquoise for this extended room and was able to bring the two together.  There is a 3 foot doorway between the two rooms. Here is my view in the new area:

Needless to say I will be quite happy looking out over the hill at the sunsets as I work.  I plan on making a cute banner to hang across the windows. This was my grandmother's chair, then my mother's & now I have it. Kinda like having them here with me. But then, they are always with me!

Still need to paint some areas on my craft table. Ray made it so that I can sit or stand on either side. Or I can have a crafty guest and we can both work as this thing is wide.  This table came with the store and Ray re-worked it so that I could use it at home.

Got a little crazy doing some altered art on the table top. I just love playing with paints and fun stuff. The shelf is covered in On the Boardwalk from Graphic 45. There is pegboard on each end so I can hang things.

In my quest to find fun stuff to use in my room I found this old live flower arranger. Hmmmm, it is perfect for my brushes.  Ha! it worked and I was able to carry my Coca Cola theme over into the new area with this glass to use for water when painting. 

Add in a few little buckets in the corner to hold miscellaneous or "don't know what to do with stuff". Extra pens are in one right now and the second one has overflow foam squares.

My Mind's Eye had this washi tape that was PURRRfect for my color blending of the red and turquoise.  I covered a board with it to hang on the wall. Ray screwed in the two pen displays I had, I added plastic jars from nuts and now my markers have a happy place. Plus it looks pretty on the wall. 

 I get tired of having to unroll and roll up my non-stick craft mats so Ray helped me out again. He cut me this big ole "top" from really thick cardboard. I then painted each side different and added a craft mat to each side. Now these are non-stick for a reason. So, duct tape is about the extent of what will hold them down. 

 It hangs so nicely on the wall next to my table as it is really light. It is always flat and ready to go when I am ready to ink or paint. I can leave my self healing mats down on the table top and just grab this as I need it.  

Ray had these crates taking up space in his shop.  I decided a filmstrip they would make. He had the hardest time visualizing my filmstrip idea. Once he was on board with me he decided he liked the idea.  I used an old bushel basket for my scrap papers and the coke box is not just decor. See below.

I just love how this crazy idea turned out.  Fun stuff re-purposed on the wall. I have a mix of some of my custom albums and useful things in and on the crates.

My old Coke box is perfect for housing all the little unfinished projects I am working on at once.

Ever have a class project you don't know what to do with? Well there is no way I was going to wear and ruin this apron so I made a "curtain" out of it.  Don't really need curtains since we live in the middle of nowhere on top of a hill but this gives color. Notice: without having a clue for down the road it is turquoise with a dab of red!  Meant to be wouldn't you say? This is the 3rd window that helps with all the natural light. Of course I need a TV for listening as opposed to watching most of the time. All my various brands of dies and stamps are housed in that cabinet. My stencils are in the carry case. Need to get some decorative hooks and I will hang it next to it.

On the other side of the window is my Sizzix Pro on it's own table all covered in Bohemian Bazaar from Graphic 45.  Ray made the frame above the table and I painted and added the chicken wire. We then put the shelf on top of the chicken wire for some fun. I can hang tags, etc with decorative clips. The turquoise bins have embossing folders and small dies in them. Even held two of my custom albums. Found this bright happy light at Lowe's for just $20. Grabbed that puppy in a hurry. It makes me happy!

Step inside the original room for more goodies. Ray made these shelves years ago and I love them. My photos, papers, etc are located here. More custom albums on top. I keep my card stock in the rounder in the corner. Then I am not digging constantly for the right color.

This is the second wall of shelving that Ray made for me. More goodies (or as he says "crap") stuffed into these shelves.  Whenever we got in broken plastic cases I always took them home and used them myself. They hold a ton of goods in these shelves. I have little Tchotzkies on the top in fun containers.

No more olive oil and herbs in this little jewel. It now holds brads, etc.

No more sugar in the Coke container, more brads. Washi tape and corks are great in old vases.

Every scrapper must have loads of ribbon! Now that I am not sitting under the ribbon I am going to make 1 large rectangle of color instead of having most of it spread out in a long row.

Another fun re-purpose. . .an old cot spring. Ray cut the legs off and I now use this for adhesives, tools and whatever will fit on it. It is very, very heavy so it can hold a lot of product.

Now you have seen the re-organization thus far. I have just a few teeny weeny little ideas in my head that Ray can make for me and it will be complete. For now it is ready to go and I am ready to C R E A T E!  Lots of crazy ideas here in my craft room. I hope you were able to find something that inspired you to see what is in your closets to re-purpose. You just never know what silly little something can be used for a totally different purpose in life.

See ya at the store,

Cat!