Leah's Hope

It's finally Friday!  This has been a busy week but I have accomplished a lot.  I am almost settled in  I am re posting this since something went wrong with Blogger and they wiped out 2 whole days of postings.  If you have followed  me very long, you know about my nephew Jamie who has Downs Syndrome and what a blessing he has been to our family.  A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon this blog, Leah's Hope, and read the story of a mother who had recently lost her precious baby girl from some of the complications that go along with Downs Syndrome.  Her story is heart wrenching to say the least but the thing that stands out to me is what she is doing to work through her grief.  She has started a mission to give baskets to the parents of children that are hospitalized for long periods of time filled with things they need to make their burden of being away from home a little easier.  She knows first hand what these needs are.  She takes monetary donations as well as things she has listed on her blog.  I really admire what she is doing and so I gave a small donation.   Last week I got this beautiful thank you card in the mail from her so I thought I would share it with you, you can check out the whole story here.

Here is one more photo of my stamp and punch storage.  I have two of these shelving units, this is 15 feet long and the one is 10 feet long and they have shelves on both sides.  This side has all my clear mount stamps plus all my punches and miscellaneous tools and the other side is full of my wood mount stamp sets.  I use the tops to display current projects.  Thanks for stopping by!

Classroom/Blog Candy Winner

Good morning!  Today I have a photo of my classroom to share.  This is for smaller classes, I also have an area with two large tables for when I have more than six for a class. 

This is my office, sorry the photo is so dark but the wood is dark and hard to photograph.

Now on to the winner of the blog candy!  I used Random.org to choose a number and gave the comments a # in the order they were received( I also had email comments) so the final count was 47.   I also only counted one comment per person per day.


Random Integer Generator


Here are your random numbers:



21

Timestamp: 2011-05-10 14:39:04 UTC


And the winner is Cheryl McAskill!!!  Cheryl get in touch with me to claim your $50.00 in SU products!

More photos tomorrow.

Part 1 Revealed

Good Monday morning! I still have a lot to do in order to get everything organized but I thought I would show you what I have done so far. I will be back later today to give away the blog candy.

 This is my favorite part of the whole building.  The person we bought the building from was an architect and he had built in drawers for his maps and the minute I saw these I knew they would be perfect for paper storage.  Plus the counter area is my work space and has built in lighting.  There are 30 drawers and each drawer will hold 3 packages of 12x12 paper.

But not only will the paper fit but there is a little rail-like thing where I can store the marker, the ink pad, the re-inker, and the ribbon for each color!  Love it!

 Then above the work station are cubicles that reach all the way to the ceiling and my Big Shot dies claim this space.

I couldn't have designed a work space any better than this one, it is perfect!

 I added punched flowers to the drawers and organized them in the order that they appear in the catalog.

Check back tomorrow to see more!