………….Yes! I am geeked about my new gig!!!! I got this Basic Grey lunch pail kit and am soooo excited to get to use it!!! I had fun throwing some paint and paper on it last night so I could start documenting all the fun I’m going to have with QuicKutz!!!! Things like my contest story & entry, my Teammates, my monthly design work, special projects, any trips I take or classes I teach, everything is going in this little pail!!! FUN FUN!!! January is already half over and I can’t let this year slip through my fingers without keeping track of the here & now!! I also used this as a sample for the Friday Fun Challenge over at Just 4 Keeps!!! You guys check this place out if you want tons of inspiration & motivation to scrap!!! I have a few more assignments to finish up with this weekend while the girls are at Tom’s and then I am hitting my Hall of Fame entry HARD!!!! I am soooooo excited though because I have finally mapped everything out and planned and journaled and visualized and taken serious notes. I am READY TO CREATE!!! I decided a little late in the game to attempt this creative giant but I am excited….I seem to work best under a bit of pressure. Self-inflicted or otherwise:) Allright….off to get some things done!!! Oh……and guess what???? Only 12 more hours until Tristan & Isolde!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Oh YES!!! One more thing……what ideas do you have for this lunch pail? I will throw your name in a drawing to WIN one of these…still in the packaging….ready for you to alter/create! Tell me what you have done already…..paste a link to a sample in your gallery…..just inspire me on the different things that can be done with this!!! Come on! Don’t be shy!!! 
January 13th, 2006
January 13th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
Jannell Says:
Hi!
I just wanted to say that I love your work. I see your stuff on 2peas and started checking out your blog. Love, love, love this pail! I made one for my mom for her to keep all her reciepts and shipping slips from her Mary Kay orders…shes a consultant. She loved it! I used Rob and Bob “purse”ality papers to make it look super girlie. Not in my gallery yet. Thanks for all the inspiration!!!
January 13th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Erin Says:
That is AWESOME!!! I love it! Good luck Shanna on the HOF….your work is amazing and you so deserve it!!!!!! BTW…enjoy your date tonight…LOL!!!!
January 13th, 2006 at 4:19 pm
Deanna Says:
Shanna, I don’t have any pictures to shear ebut if I won this, (and I so want one) I would use it for answering the questions from the journaling jar. Then as I am ready to create layouts based on those questions I could just pull out the lournaling notes and be ready to scrap! Or how about these other ideas?
- Girls hair bows
- Jewelry box for one of my girls
- Keepsakes from Makenna’s ice skating journey
- My layout submission box
Is that enough? Do I win? Can’t wait to find out!
January 13th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Deanna Says:
By the way I forgot to say that I think this is absolutely beautiful! Great keepsake!
January 13th, 2006 at 6:59 pm
karen Says:
Hi!!!
so glad you are going for HOF–you’re stuff is so good!
My idea for the pail? I have a ton of little love notes my DH puts in the kids lunchboxes each day. They are sweet little things that need a special place! That’s what I’d do with it!!
January 13th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Tammi Says:
WOW, 2 booths at CHA! THAT RAWKS! GOODLUCK doing HOF! That is going to RAWK TOO!
January 14th, 2006 at 12:15 am
Linda Holtzclaw Says:
Shanna…. I am not an organized person but I’m still trying to “get there”. With all the Christmas shopping & needing to return a few things, I am making one to hold all my receipts. The dividers will be the names of the different stores. I plan to use some of my favorite BG papers!
January 14th, 2006 at 12:41 am
Erica Says:
You know what I would do….
I would use it to keep track of things I am praying for and prayers that have been answered. I even know which papers I would use for it (basic grey Dawson and some other nice light blues..something about soft blue sky colors and creams reminds me of Heaven LOL!) Some blue blossoms and other soft accents (ribbons, lettering etc). I don’t have pictures except for the ones in my head
I just think it would be awesome to look back after a year and see what changes God (and myself 
) has made in my life!
BTW…not surprised at all about seeing your stuff at CHA! You rock! And your pail is beautiful! How do you find time to scrap anything with all your DT and other projects going on???????
January 14th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Ashley Says:
Shanna!! I totally need to do more of these. I altered a pail for the journaling challenge but I love this one I will have to go get another. Here is the link www.just4keeps.com/alb/showpic.php?uuid=172&aid=435&pid=7649
Hope it works. Anywho, your stuff is just flippin’ awesome! You inspire me!!!
January 14th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Alicia Says:
Maybe you can ask your teammates to each do a page…sort of like a circle journal.
Maybe you could make another one that categorizes all the different dies and sets you have. you could punch out one of each and adhere it to the cards. Then organize them by categories with the tabbed cards. With all the dies you’ll have, I’m sure you’ll need some reminders!!
I think I would personally use it to organize the list of all those LOs I have been wanted to do. Then little by little I can take the photos for them and jot down the journaling and keep them in the box until I scrap them.
HOF too!!! You are a scrappin’ machine!! Go you!
January 14th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
Tammy Says:
Love the lunch pail idea…I’ve been thinking of getting one to document a journey that my family has recently undertaken…my father was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and I thought that I would make him something similar with pictures of family members, his caregivers, even his past so he can look through it each day…(according to health professionals, pictures will help him retain memories of his loved ones and “jumpstart” a memory for him)…his very own “Memory Box”…
January 15th, 2006 at 8:04 am
Tami Says:
That is one awesome lunch box, girlie!!! I don’t have any ideas because my brain is still in a fog over here — coffee hasn’t kicked in yet! I just wanted to send my kudos to you for being a “ROCKING” scrapper! HOF, too!!!! I looked at the requirements for that one and must I say — eek!! I just know I will be seeing you in that issue — how could they turn your work down!!! Good luck!!!!!!! How was T&I? Did you make it through the movie without passing out from lust???
January 15th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Becky Says:
Hey Shanna!! I’m not coming up with any amazing ideas for the lunchbox, I just wanted to say that I’m SO glad you’re going for HOF. You rock, sistah! And I love the lunchbox you created. It’s PERFECT! Good luck with all your deadlines!
January 16th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Erica Says:
So how was the movie!!!!!!!!!!????
January 16th, 2006 at 10:53 am
Cindy Says:
Shanna, Love the pail…you did a great job! I too love your work! Good luck with the HOF entry!
January 18th, 2006 at 10:51 am
Tracy L Says:
I don’t have any examples but I LOVE when people use it as a recipe holder or an address book or a coupon holder. I have been dieing to do one but just haven’t had the time.
January 19th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
joanna Says:
That pail is adorable, Shanna!! Good luck with HOF!!!
January 31st, 2006 at 2:58 pm
Carla Lautner Says:
How do you get the paint to stay in the lunch box without coming off?
January 31st, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Carla Lautner Says:
I meant on not in… I really want to paint on the lunch box. But I think the paint will peel right off.
February 5th, 2006 at 4:56 pm
christine Says:
I would like to win a lunch pail because my mom passed away august 10, 2005 and I would like to make a recipe book pail of our favorite recipes that my mom made us and give it to my brother for mother’s day I think it would mean alot it him.
thanks
February 13th, 2006 at 2:28 pm
Cheryl Says:
Love the lunch pail. I am in the process of making one as a baby gift. Using the divider cards for the months of the year, for the first year of life. Decorating it on the outside (I know baby is a boy!) and also “pre-scrapping” the divider cards inside, one for each month, with a blank month calendar on each one to write special events (i.e. first smile, first roll over etc.) on it and also to add pictures to each page when available. Then in between, mom can put pictures taken during that month and either keep in the pail….or have them handy when she is ready to begin scrapping her own album. I am wondering however, did you use modge podge or something of the sort to seal the outside of the pail???? Let me know as soon as possible as I need to get the gift ready! Thanks!!!!! Love yours!!!!
February 14th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Cheryl Says:
Just wanted to update…. As I stated in the entry log prior, I was in the process of making a lunch pail as a mini Baby’s First Year pail. I had questioned whether or not you had used Modge Podge or something to seal the paper to the tin. Well, I took the plunge last night and just went ahead and put modge podge on my tin…and it worked very nicely! I painted the tin completely first (a day earlier so the paint dried completely). Then I chose my paper I was going to use and I used the modge podge to adhere the paper to the tin…and then applied on top of paper as well. When the modge podge started to dry, I had several huge bubbles pop up which concerned me. (I’ve had that happen also when using on other projects…so I wasn’t totally freaking out!
By time I got up this morning, the paper had cured…and my tin looked beautiful!!!! Now, I just have to finish my index cards and embellish the outside and I’ll be finished! When complete, I will post pictures. I’m really hoping the mom to be will LOVE the gift; I know I would have when I had my 3 children so I hope she does!