The big day is almost here!!! I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it!  The 2nd Annual Creative EdVentures National Scrapbook Day Cropathon is THIS SATURDAY!  This year is going to be so much bigger and better than before with demonstrations from amazing artists covering a wide variety of scrapbooking, art journalling, and memory [...]

Creativ Festival (formerly the Creative Sewing and Needlework Festival) has been operating since 1988.  It happens twice a year (April and October) in the Toronto area and is Canada’s largest consumer show covering such areas as knitting, quilting, sewing, beading, paper arts, and diy decorating.  There are demonstrations of the latest in crafting materials, Make [...]

I know, it’s not Friday anymore but I was exhausted after a long day at CreativFestival in Mississauga yesterday and couldn’t work up the energy to post this then.  I’ll do another post telling you more about CreativFestival but for now, I wanted to share with you, the rubber stamp company I discovered there. Local [...]

As a classroom teacher, there were many times that I had the experience of working with children who came to school hungry because their family simply couldn’t afford enough food for them.  We collected suitable winter clothing so that they were dressed warmly enough to brave the Canadian winter weather.  At Christmas, we had toy [...]

Welcome to another Festive Friday!  Festive Fridays is a bimonthly blog hop hosted by Terri Sproul.  It gives us the opportunity to create Christmas cards all year long so that we have a batch of them ready to send out at the holidays.  You should have arrived here from:   Angela’s blog  If you’d like to [...]

For your convenience, here are all of the links to the posts I did about attending Oprah’s Lifeclass Live in Toronto and the insights I gained from them.  It was an amazing experience (despite the poor job done by the organizers in terms of logistics for getting 9000 people in and out of the building) [...]

Happy Earth Day!  One of my favourite ways of recycling is to turn something that would normally be tossed away into a piece of art.  Check out my 5 favourite recycled crafts below! A silhouette in a mini frame made from a ribbon spool  (Sorry – no link for this one.  The site where it [...]

It’s been four days of reflection on what was said, of thinking about how it applies to my life, of where I want and need to make changes.  Like I said in one of my first posts, nothing that was said is anything new or anything that we all don’t already know in our hearts [...]

I arrived at Scrapfest in Kitchener, Ontario at 4:30 pm to register and get this party started!  After meeting up with Roberta, first up was receiving our VIP swag bags filled with paper crafting goodies. Some of the swag we received; I also won a new pair of Westcott Titanium scissors! We still had an [...]