Welcome to the good life.

April Goal: 1 House Improvement Project

Another April goal was to start 1 house improvement project. We have a slew of them to work on. Hmph...so overwhelming.

Our very first project was having our old box lights in the kitchen removed and adding recessed lighting. The kitchen lighting was terrible. One of the covers fell and broke. One of the bulbs was burnt out causing our kitchen to look like a scene out of a horror movie. I don't think I need to continue explaining...

The lighting project has started. Can't wait to for this to be finished and to enjoy the finished results!

xoxo.

Currently.

• Drinking: Cafe Mocha, via Keurig
• Eating: nothing. I hate eating breakfast.
• Watching: Re-runs of Housewives of New Jersey. Perfect.
• Wearing: my comfy pajamas and lululemon scarf. I could stay like this all day.
• Feeling: like I need to finish a scrapbooking project for a co-worker.
• Weather: sunny  and cool. My favorite.
• Wanting: to be in the Bahamas already.
• Thinking: about shopping today. Loving these shoes.
• Wondering: if I should get up and go for a run.
• Loving: life. And my two new camera additions...Cannon A1200 and my Instax

Have a nice Saturday, friends!

Getting Crafty With It.

Currently packing for Jenn's Relay For Life Crop at Timeless Treasures today. Bringing crafty stuff to finish up my Vino mini and getting caught up on Project Life. Looking forward to craftiness+good friend time.

Also watching reruns of Housewives of New Jersey. D-R-A-M-A. Love it.

Sadly, this week my precious iPhone died. Dead in the water. Luckily, I had just transferred all of my photos to an external hard drive. So I am forced to use Jon's old Droid phone until I breakdown and buy a new iPhone. I'm confident the breakdown will occur any day now.

Have a nice Saturday, friends!

Mini Love

I got a good start on my little mini which will be holding our Temecula wine tasting pictures. I took quite a few photos (via iPhone, of course!) and just wanted to make a small+simple mini to document our fun day. I gathered inspiration from the Kelly Purkey class at Paper Tales...I'm still in love with her "Oh, Snap" mini. That concept will work perfectly for this project too.

My mini is 5x5 with photos printed on white cardstock from our HP Printer. I was too lazy to actually have the photos printed someplace. When in doubt, print from home.

The pages are bound with random washi tape. Gosh, this stuff can seriously be used for so much. I started with a turquoise Hambly overlay (lying around in my stash) and Studio Calico paper. I misted the Studio Calico paper and with *VINO masked. Loving this technique. And than I stamped the rest in black. Pass the vino sums up our trip.

Just used random Studio Calico papers and more washi tape.

The other foundation pages are just patterned papers. I'm happy that I got this little mini started, hopefully it will be easy breezy to put together this weekend at my friend's crop. Looking forward to finishing this up and moving on!

Can You Please Pass The Glue?

Since the AT and KP scrapbooking-poolza class last week (read about it here) I've been on a creative high. I love learning new techniques and than actually using them.

In the last 7 days I proceeded to sign up for two additional online classes...Kelly Purkey's Sketchbook class with Studio Calico and Amy Tan's Collect & Create Class on TwoPeas. Holy. Moly. Creative overload. Can't get enough. I'm loving online/self-paced classes...I can work on them when I want to. When I feel inspired or a lack of inspiration. So wonderful.

Finally finished our anniversay book from our Temecula wine tasting trip last June. I started this like 8 months ago using a 7 Gypsies bound book. Boring. I just could not get into it. So I had to rip it apart (just a few pages) and start fresh using a cute Amy Tan Daybook. I'll probably use these books forever and ever. So versatile and easy to create with. And of course, I used The Good Life paper (my fav!), embellishments, and some other random goodies from my stash.

Making a serious mess of my dining room table. Lots of Thickers, sequins, washi tape, paper scraps, and pop dots.

I nicknamed my book "little fatty" because this book is F-A-T. Fat with memories and pretty paper. Love it though.

I was able to tie in our "welcome" card from Temecula Creek Inn. Nothing quite like incorporating collected memorabilia into my books. I added business cards, wine tasting cards, and packaging in the book too.

Used my new misting and masking technique here. And my coveted Lawn Fawn polaroid stamp.

"Grab Your Glass"...the theme of our trip.

Added a little pocket here for our wine tasting cards. This Daybook had full size pages, I prefer having smaller pages intermixed. To solve the problem, I used my pinking shears to cut pages to the size I prefer (right side).

Used another misting technique here. My new favorite mists are Sunrise (LOVE!!) and Sunset by Studio Calico.

Even though its almost been a year since our trip, I love looking back at the photos and journaling about our experience. Documenting.

The end. Project Anniversary Trip done...many more projects to go.

Enjoy your Saturday, friends!

And I'm In Love

...with my Prinstagram photos.

Yes, it took a full two weeks for them to arrive. Slow boat from Taiwan...literally! They were well worth the wait. They are perfect in size, great quality, and just darn adorable. Need to place a second order again very soon.

And now that I have all these beautiful photos, its time to get back to scrapbooking.

Enjoy your weekend, friends!

Here Goes Nothing.

Well, the inevitable has occurred. My pictures from PostalPix arrived. Oh boy, they turned out nice. I like just looking at them and reflecting on how much fun January and February 2012 have been so far.

I've even attempted to start my Project Life...and I'm already not enjoying it. I'm hoping a little time with my friend in my favorite scrapbooking store with some coffee solves the problem.

Dear Creative Mojo,

Please return to me ASAP. I'm sorry for neglecting you. I miss you.

Love,

Stephanie

Enjoy 2012

en·joy

1. To receive pleasure or satisfaction from.

2. To have the use or benefit of: enjoys good health.

 

3. To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.

Synonyms for enjoy:

adore, appreciate, be entertained, be fond of, be pleased, cotton to, delight in, dote on, drink in, eat up, fancy, flip over, freak out on, get a charge out of, get a kick out of, get high on, go, have a ball, have a good time, have fun, like, live a little, live it up, love, luxuriate in, mind, paint the town, rejoice in, relish, revel in, savor, take joy in, thrill to

Symbols for enjoy:

-Sun

-Bird/Swallow

My favorite enjoy quote:

"It is not how much we have, but how much we ENJOY, that makes happiness." -Charles Spurgeon

I finally started my One Little Word project last night. I've been gathering ideas for my cover page and also trying to wait patiently for the page protectors to arrive. My Amazon order has been canceled like 3 times...ick. So, instead of waiting for the page protectors I decided to just start OLW. I journaled some ideas and finally put them on the printable journaling cards. Love this project so much already. And I'm loving my word, ENJOY.

It's Begining to Look A Lot Like...

...a three day weekend! With everything that has gone on in the last week, we decided to make zero plans for the long weekend. Lots of relaxing, T.V. watching, and scrapbooking (for me!).

I'm making good progress on Project Life 2011. This project fell off my radar mid-year so I've been doing a lot of catch up. I'm starting on December today and should be finishing it up today. Its been fun documenting the year and remembering all that we celebrated in 2011. And it makes me excited to stay on top of Project Life 2012.

I also need to do some serious organzing of my scrapbooking goodies. Paper, chipboard, and glitter...oh my!

And a happy welcome to my newest additions...my Slice by Making Memories and pink ATG. Must haves! 

Enjoy the day, friends!

One Little Word 2012

After much deliberation, I've chosen my word for 2012. This will be the first time I have participated in One Little Word. Needless to say, I'm excited to embark on this word journey. Twelve months of reflecting on my one little word. 

My word for 2012 is ENJOY. The word ENJOY spoke to me...and nagged me when I was considering another word.

I was inspired to start compiling my thoughts (thanks to a good friend!) in my Smashbook. I wrote about the purpose of One Little Word, a to-do list, and supply list. I've also included the definition, symbols, synonyms, and special quotes for the word ENJOY. Just writing about my word made me excited. And I had to include color/paper ideas...also speaking to me is Amy Tan's paper by American Crafts. Very ENJOY-like.

I'll leave you with my favorite quote specific to ENJOY:

"It is not how much we have, but how we ENJOY, that makes happiness." - Charles Spurgeon