Tippy Tuesday

There are some mornings when it's just so hard to wake up....even when you're sitting up.  

Organize Scrapbook Paper: CHECK!

I have some updates to share with you but I wanted to get this post out of the way first.  Unfortunately, the two posts I'm excited to share with you are not craft room related.  BUT you will be happy to hear that progress has been made and it's possible that I might give birth to this little craft room prematurely.  If you're sitting there wondering what I'm talking about when I say I'm giving birth to a craft room, click here to read that post.  If you remember, my due date is October 9th.  I'll give you an update at the end of my first trimester which is April 9th.  Am I going a little to far with this whole "giving birth" analogy?  I can't help it.  With my first nephew (yes, we just found out it's a boy) baking in my sister-in-law's uterus right now, I have baby on the brain!  

So moving on, here's a quick little post about how I organized my scrapbook paper.  I don't have an abundant amount of scrapbook paper, so I didn't need some elaborate paper station to organize everything.

Before I tackled this little project, I stashed my random sheets in with these pads of scrapbook paper. 

I also had an IKEA box that I kept more paper in, along with some other supplies...like stickers, stamps, paper cutter and God knows what else.  Horrible, I know.

So as I was strolling the aisles in Hobby Lobby, I came across this.

It's an expandable scrapbook paper file that hold 12 x 12 sheets so I thought it was just what I needed.  I tore out all my sheets that were in those 2 pads of scrapbook paper that I showed you in the first picture, organized all of my paper by color, and put them in the slots from darkest to lightest.  Then I put all of my stickers in the front which you see in the picture below.  You'll notice, there are tabs at the top to label the slots but I haven't decided if I'm going to use them or not because it is already so easy to see what I have. 

This turned out to be a great little organizer!  I bought it a few months ago so I can't remember exactly how much it was.  I'm thinking it was in the $14-$16 range, but with the 40% off coupon, it was under 10 bucks.  The good thing about this is you could use this for other things too and not just scrapbook paper.  You could organize larger 8x10 or 5x7 photos or magazines or anything else that needs to be filed in a stylish accordion file.  

I've got a busy week coming up so I'm not sure when I'll get around to showing you all the updates that I'm so excited to share.  Let me just say that my Dad was involved in these two updates so you know it's got to be good!  :) 

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Tippy and sweet Scotty....back when she had all of her teeth and no gray hair. 

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A 40th Birthday Party! (AKA My Sister is Old)

A couple months ago, my sister turned the big 4-0 so I tried to plan a little surprise party for her but it didn't exactly go as planned.  We were wanting to surprise her by having some family come from 3 hours away but thanks to the snow that weekend, it didn't happen.  So it was just our immediate family but she appreciated the thought.  

We ate at Jack Fry's the night before so on this night, we went to our favorite Mexican restaurant El Torazo where the staff knows us and it's ok if we get a bit rowdy.  I came up with an excuse to leave early and just meet them there so that I could decorate the table. 

I put some birthday gifts on the table, like a tiara with 40 on it, a bottle of wine and a mug I made her. 

Let's take a closer look at the mug, shall we?  I drew 40 Sucks on a mug in a sharpie, baked it so that the marker wouldn't come off and added in her favorite cinnamon suckers.  

Of course I had to get a video of her walking in. 

And here are the VanHoose chicks.

Even though the surprise party didn't turn out as planned, it was still a fun night.  How can it not be when you're at a Mexican restaurant with margaritas and good company?  HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY, SHAUNA!!  #yourold

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Well here it is!  Tippy's new smile!  

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In case you forgot what it looked like before.....

You wanna see something real pitiful? This was taken at the vet after her procedure.  :(

So what do you think?  Does she look like a little hillbilly?  Snaggletooth? Or does she look even more like a bat?