As most of you know I have a “Woman Cave” full of Jet Max Cube.  I was so excited when I walked down an aisle at M’s and found the dividers for the Jet Max Cube drawers.

They come looking like this but it is pretty obvious how to put them together; however, they also have a page that gives you the instructions.

They make the drawers look so nice and neat and they really do help keep all those little things in their place.

What better way to use such an awesome drawer than for all the “Distressed” stuff from Tim Holtz.  Now everything I need is right in one drawer.  Yeah, I don’t have any of the new colors but when I get them I’m just going to stack them up in the like color cubes.

I almost have the little monkey card done (it is so cute).  I was going to upload some pictures and make it a two part posting because it is a little long, but Picasa is not working tonight (ugh!).  I don’t know if it is because of my laptop or Windows 7 or something else but I can’t get the pictures uploaded.  I’ll try again tomorrow.

This just blows me away.  About once a year I get a package in the mail from Kable Products, in Fairfield, Ohio.

I received these Kimberly Hodges, Embossed Stickers.  They are really cute but for the life of me, I don’t know how they got my name and address or why they send it to me.

At my church (Elevate) we are currently in the process of 40 days of kindness leading up to Easter.  I don’t know if I’m just more aware of random acts of kindness because I’m doing my best to pass them out or if because I am showing the love, God is returning the blessings.  Either way if you sent me this RAK, thanks it absolutely made my day.  I can’t wait to use these on a card or maybe include them in my GS or GD’s albums.

Also, if you sent me this let me know I would love to return the blessing to you.

Over at Cardzforu.blogspot.com, Mary showed where she  found these ruled index cards at Walmart for about $.97.  You can take them and cut them in half and they make perfect little journaling cards.

A little bit of inking on the sides, a rub-on or a hole with some ribbon in it and you have the perfect size of journaling card.

You can change the color by simply using distressed inks to add a little color or maybe mist them with some Perfect Pearls and a little distress re-inker.

I’ll try this and show you how they come. Hmm, I’m wondering if I could get these to work for making a flower.  I’ll try my hand at that too!  Can’t wait to see how these come out.

The two small ones are $1 stamps at M’s and the large one is various definitions.

The larger one I got with the M’s 40% off coupon and I’m going to be using it for a background stamp.

There are some new techniques with distressed inks that I want to try, so keep tuning in to see where these stamps show up.

If you haven’t seen my “Woman Cave” here is the link.  I fell in love with these JetMax cubes simply because they house all the stuff you need for crafts in a very orderly way and there are so many versions of the cube to meet every organizational need you could have for a craft room.

Since Christmas and my Birthday I ran out of space to store some items so I decided to add more JetMax cubes.  These cubes run about $29.99 retail (or as I say $30.00) at M’s; however, I wait until I get a 40% off coupon and they are not on sale (when they put them on sale they are usually only 30% off).

My TV sat on my desk and all of the drawers underneath it are full of Cricut cartridges.

If you look underneath my desk you can see the edge of my printer.  It is setting on a plastic two shelf stand on rollers.  Needless to say the printer is bigger than the stand and so it shakes when I use it to print.

Ok, I confess I’ve added 3 new JetMax cubes to the 21 I already had making me a grand total of 24.  I added this 3 drawer underneath the TV.  Yes that is Barefoot Contessa on the screen.

I decided to see how long it would take me to put this little 14.25″ square box together.  Now let me say before I begin this is one of the easier ones because it doesn’t have any drawers (with a bunch of little screws).

So it is 3:45 PM and I snap a picture of the clock.  Honestly, this is real time stuff…..I know you are on the edge of your seat.

Since I have put so many of these together, I have figured out there is a simpler way to put the initial box together than how the instructions says to do it.

I put the bottom and the sides together holding them in place while I slide the back panel in and then put the top on.  I then screw the top into place, turn it over and screw the bottom into place.

Here is the finish product.  This one is going directly under my printer with the longer slots horizontal to hold the paper for the computer.  I have 8.5 x 11 white paper, some pink paper and some paper that has been printed on one side.  I’ll recycle that paper for test cuts or test printing.

Drum roll!!!!!!!!   Yep, this took me no time at all, of course I used an electric (ok, battery operated) drill.  Thanks Phyllis & Joel (it was my Christmas present 2 yrs ago).  Nothing like having friends who understand your love of power tools.

Slipped it under the printer (of course I added the little 4 drawer JetMax cube as well) and it works perfectly.  It steadied my printer and the cubbies are perfect for my paper, ink and photo paper.

I’m not paid by JetMax to advertise their product; however, every dealings I’ve had with this company (they are here in TX) has been very pleasant.  Out of  all the JetMax cubes I have bought only one was missing some screws and a handle.  I called them and they sent the missing items to me no charge (not even postage).  This is a great product and I wish I had thought of it!

There are literally so many combinations you can arrange with these little cubes.  My favorite are the 4 drawer and the 3 drawer.   Some of them even come with little dividers so you can corral all the tiny stuff.

Hmmm, I wonder where I can add the next group of JetMax cubes?

I couldn’t resist, Henry was so “chillin out”!

Ok, so I got this card magazine and it showed a marker that when heated with a heat gun it would puff up and look like snow.  I couldn’t find it in the stores so I went on-line and ordered three of them, 1) One for my BFF, 1) for my Mom and 1) for Me.

Like any other paint pen you have to open it hold the tip down until the stuff starts running.  Yea, it started rather fast and so I’m calling this my “snow cloud” (not)!

Here is a tip… it doesn’t work well if the items you are using it for (ie “snow”) is too faint.  You need to have a dense amount so there is enough product to puff up.

As you can see this is way to faint.

Looking at this picture you can see where I put dots around the punched out border.

Second tip, it is best to let this product dry overnight, before you use the heat gun to make it puff up.

Unfortunately, you can’t see how much this puffed up, but in real life you can definitely see a difference.

Now, let me tell you I went through all this trouble (ordering a pen, having it shipped, paying shipping cost, etc.) only to find out that liquid applique does the exact same thing.

Hmmm, I wished I’d know that first.

By the way, I don’t get paid by Marvy to review this product.  I just thought it was a cool pen and I would let you know that it works (only negative is waiting until it dries).

If you hadn’t been in M’s lately you might not know that MS has come out with some new items.

This is a large, deep border punch and runs about $17.99.  I don’t buy these items without my 40% coupon.  Why pay full price?

When you take it out of the box it is all folded up and all you have to do is just push down the “wings” on each side and it will make a large border stamp.

Absolutely beautiful!  These are larger than her normal border punches and they go deeper into the side of the paper.  There are several new designs for this size of punches including a heart with cross hatching in the center of the hearts.

This one compliments the dollie border punch very nicely.  She also has a new group of punches that comes with an acrylic stamp and the punch to match it.  Then she has started grouping the corner punches with the border punches.

If you haven’t checked her line out in awhile be sure to take time and see what she has released.  Also, some of the border punches that you could not find are on the shelves so don’t let this season go by and miss the one you’ve been looking and waiting to re-surface.

No, I don’t get anything from MS to push her products, I just like the quality and designs

I went to get my hair cut and lucky for me I was a little early.  Right next door to where I get my hair done is Tuesday Morning.

They have a small craft section and I try my best to check it out each time I’m in the area.

This is a set of Inkadinkado stamps that came in a box with an black Ink Dot, various tags and some Christmas ribbon.  All of this for $1.99…………sweet.

I kept looking and believe it or not there was a box of wooden stamps.  They were Inkadinkado stamps and they were Christmas stamps………..the going price $.99.   Yes, you read that correctly $.99/ea.

I’m using the large stamp I think for the message inside my Christmas cards this year.  Well worth the $.99.

See you just never know, a quick 5 minute stop at Tuesday Morning and I walked out with two sets of small stamps for Christmas tags at $1.99 each – one set for me, one set for my Mom and these two beautiful stamps.  Grand total was $6.45………….Bouya!!!!

My Mother wanted some Christmas papers for card making so off we went to see what we could find.

Believe it or not there was not much out there.  JoAnn’s was just putting out the Peppermint Forest pack but Mother wasn’t wanting to spend that amount of money.  She also didn’t want to pay $.99 – $1.29 a sheet for open stock but she ended up doing that at Michael’s.

On an end-cap at HL they had a bunch of their paper marked for clearance.  We would have passed it up but there was a piece of Christmas paper that caught my eye.  This may have been last year’s Christmas paper but Mother liked it and she got it for $.21.  So we took some time and started going through the various stacks and she came out with some pretty Christmas papers.

In amongst all the papers was this 8-1/2 x 11 vellum.  It was originally priced at $.69 a sheet marked down on sale for $.24 a sheet.  As you can see in the first picture there was some gold and this picture is the silver.  I can’t wait to use this on some Christmas cards.

Just keep your eyes open and spend some time to see what you can see on the end caps at HL, Michael’s and JoAnn’s.  I find a lot of bargains there, you just have to be willing to spend some time looking.