Tuesday, April 1, 2008

frame problems

I went to Ikea about 6 weeks ago and bought some frames. I designed some work for the frames and one piece was so big I had to order it from Shutterfly. Yesturday, it finally came. I brought it into my bedroom so excited to get into the frame. I grabbed the frame, which had been sitting safely behind our dresser, opened it up and got ready to put the picture it. The frame was broken! The corner looked like a termite had eaten it. I also had two broken frames in the garage that David and Christian knocked off the walls. I was not going to return those, but since the one frame had problems without our even touching, I decided that they were all going back.
We drove to Ikea and exchanged the frames. On the way out the door, I stopped by the As Is section (my favorite) They had a basket with pillows and a comforter that had been used as display. The pillows were $5.00 each and the comforter was $10.00. The comforter is faux down, but for $10.00 and since it is washable, unlike down, who am I to complain. I also found a pillow case in the set I am try to build up. So far I have a fitted sheet and pillow case.
Elemental Scraps is getting a new look! The shop is not quite open, but should be up and running later today. The forum, blog and gallery are all on line
Here are two layouts I did using the April Collab Kit Spring's Hope. I will put links in later today when the store is open.
We were having a discussion about fairy layouts in the forum and since I don't have daughters, I did a fairy layout with my cat Tiglet.

I went to my friend Meagan's baby shower on Saturday.

I used Daisy Fantaisy by Liz Thompson & Impressions of Peace, the March Scrapbook Graphics Collab kit for this layout. The curl template is by Helen Jole at NSDIB

This layout uses Back Spin and Bracketeering 2 by Rachel Martin which will be available in the next couple of hours at Elemental Scraps. I posted a thread begging for some bracket stitching in the forum and Rachel created Bracketeering and Bracketeering 2 in response. Thanks Rachel.

6 comments:

Melody aka pebbles7195 said...

Isn't that just frustrating to get home with something and find out it's broken and you have to take it back, but good thing huh - cause you got a deal!! Love your layouts - thanks for sharing!! :)

tracey said...

i hate opening something and finding that it's broken. the layouts look great!

Char said...

LOVE the cat fairy - too funny! Off to see Elemental Scraps new look...

This Jersey Momma said...

I love Ikea! I wish I had one nearby. The closest one is like an hour away. :(
I love your LOs. Very pretty!

AfriDigiDiva said...

You really know how to work do a layout! Awesome work!

DawnMarch said...

Your cat layout is SOOOOO cute!!

I love IKEA, but they definitely have some quality (and durability) issues!