Showing posts with label scrapbooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrapbooking. Show all posts
Friday, July 18, 2014
Life Lately
Most of you know that I love to scrapbook, but I have been so bad about keeping up with it. But for some reason, the past two weeks I have been on a scrappin' craze!!!!! Here are a few of my favorite pages that I've been working on.
Friday, August 30, 2013
Five on Friday
So, I never did post about my kitchen facelift, nor have I posted anything in almost 3 weeks....but I'm still here! Life has just been a little busy - preparing for baby, moving Emmalee into a big girl room, going on vacation...oh, and did I mention preparing for baby???
But today is Friday, and everybody say "Praise the Lord for a 3-day weekend!" So for today's Five on Friday, I thought I would post a few things that I am working on preparation of baby, which includes some of the project I want to do in Emmalee's new big-girl room!
We decided to leave the nursery as is, and move Emmalee to a big girl room because it was just an easier "plan," in my opinion. But creating a whole new room on a budget is not the easiest thing. The biggest problem I am running into with Emmalee's room is simple, but cute decorations, and I could use a few to spruce up the nursery, too. Each of the ideas below are different things that I have now stuffed in my "book or ideas" for cute, but simple, craft or decoration ideas for the girls' rooms.
So, without further ado, here is my Five on Friday!!
You may have seen something similar to this before, because I know I have seen this style of door-hanger done many ways, but I was thinking this may be a great door-decoration for the girls' rooms. My local Micheals has started carrying the thick cardboard frame in all these great boutique styles for just a few dollars. I think I'll get some, paint them, then get a big "E" and "M" and put them on the front of the frames. Then I can hang them on the doors to give a little added "somthin'"
So what are your plans this weekend? Can you guess what mine are????
But today is Friday, and everybody say "Praise the Lord for a 3-day weekend!" So for today's Five on Friday, I thought I would post a few things that I am working on preparation of baby, which includes some of the project I want to do in Emmalee's new big-girl room!
We decided to leave the nursery as is, and move Emmalee to a big girl room because it was just an easier "plan," in my opinion. But creating a whole new room on a budget is not the easiest thing. The biggest problem I am running into with Emmalee's room is simple, but cute decorations, and I could use a few to spruce up the nursery, too. Each of the ideas below are different things that I have now stuffed in my "book or ideas" for cute, but simple, craft or decoration ideas for the girls' rooms.
So, without further ado, here is my Five on Friday!!
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I am IN LOVE with this idea! Let's be honest - paint samples are FREE! You can get them at any home improvement store, and just a few of them gives you a ton of color options!
This is also a great idea for holiday decorations! Get a circle cutter & use hues of yellows, oranges, and other fall colors. Use some twine or raffia as your string, and you have an adorable Halloween or fall banner for any room of your house! Heck, do the same for Christmas!
If you have other paint sample projects that you have done, tell me!!! I love these type of crafts because they are cheap and simple, but absolutely perfect for any room or occasion!
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This is another idea that I just love - button projects! I actually plan on doing this on Monday with Em. I thought it would be a fun project for her and I to do together for her new room. On the wall with the window, the window is in the middle, but I need something on either side. Since these projects can incorporate MANY colors, I love the idea of doing these (probably in a bit larger scale) on either side of the window. I'll take pics and tell you how they turn out!!!
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I love this idea for an arrangement over a dresser. Em's walls are light blue, and all of her furniture is white. The dresser is long, like this pictured here, and I have been struggling with what to put above it. I do have a mirror that I considered painting and putting up, but I'm worried about the scale of the mirror vs. the dresser. So, I love the idea of making a wall arrangement like this one here.
{FOUR}
You may have seen something similar to this before, because I know I have seen this style of door-hanger done many ways, but I was thinking this may be a great door-decoration for the girls' rooms. My local Micheals has started carrying the thick cardboard frame in all these great boutique styles for just a few dollars. I think I'll get some, paint them, then get a big "E" and "M" and put them on the front of the frames. Then I can hang them on the doors to give a little added "somthin'"
{FIVE}
I have fallen in love with this idea, too!!! Emmalee has red curtains in her room, but they are simple and somewhat boring. Madeline's are a little more "fru-fru", but they are still a solid pink, so I could do this in her room too. But I love the pennant idea to put over the curtains just to add some pizzazz!
I don't know about you, but each of these projects are so fun and simple, and I cannot WAIT to try them! I promise to do a post next week of all the new things in the girls rooms!!!
So what are your plans this weekend? Can you guess what mine are????
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Scrap Happy
If you're looking for day 4 of Jenna's Commenting Challenge, keep scrolling down...you'll see it!
So y'all know how I love my digital scrapbooking. Well I am so behind on Emmalee's baby book that I am trying to kick my own rear into gear and get as much of it done before Madeline comes as I possibly can. And you also know that I love showing off what I've done - its kind of like a motivator for me to keep going, LOL!
And if you're a scrapper too, tell me! I love looking at other's work and getting new ideas!!!
So here are some of the pages I've completed lately!
So y'all know how I love my digital scrapbooking. Well I am so behind on Emmalee's baby book that I am trying to kick my own rear into gear and get as much of it done before Madeline comes as I possibly can. And you also know that I love showing off what I've done - its kind of like a motivator for me to keep going, LOL!
And if you're a scrapper too, tell me! I love looking at other's work and getting new ideas!!!
So here are some of the pages I've completed lately!
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Being a Wife, Being a Mom, and Still Trying to Be Me
There is a fabulous group of ladies hosting a series called "Build Them Up." I love it! They are just fantastic and I, personally, love the idea of us all rallying around each other to encourage and build each other up.
Today's encouragement is how to stay "me" when your are constantly surrounded with your children and families. How do you keep the "you" in your life.
Its funny because when I think of who I am, and who I have always been, its a mom. My mother can tell you stories of me as a little girl and I was always toting a baby doll around or playing "house" for hours. I've been known as the baby-hog forever, hence the name Aunt Grabbie. I LOVE children. I LOVE babies and I LOVE being mom.
I think its this reason that struggling for infertility for 2 years was so hard on me, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. All I have ever wanted to be was a mom. But I won't lie to and tell you that it fulfilled my every desire, because it hasn't. What it HAS made me realize is that there is so much more to me.
I think I put my whole self into being a mom because that was the desire of my heart. For 2 year, I forgot what it was like to a wife, a sister, a friend. So it wasn't until after I became a mother did I realize that I lost myself.
So, in order to keep the "me" in me, I do a lot of things.
1) I work outside the home. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to be a SAHM, but working is actually so good for me. I have developed amazing friendships and have mentors that I can look up to. I perform a role for my company that is essential - its keeps things "functioning." and when I come home each day, I get to lavish hugs and kisses on my 2 favorite people, my daughter and my husband. I love what I do, and for me, its been so important to have these adult friendships and relationships.
2) I scrapbook. Its my way of releasing all of my creative "juices." For me, its relaxing. One of my favorite times is getting together with my sister or several girlfriends and just scrapbooking. There is nothing more fun than going to a scrapbook retreat. I love it. Its something I do just for fun, and just for me.
3) Bubble baths! They are pieces of heaven sent down to earth for our pure enjoyment. Now granted, do not take a bubble bath when your toddler is awake because your relaxing bubbles will soon be all over your bathroom floor. But when your house is quiet, and lights are turned down low, just fill the tub, grab a good book, and RELAX! (and just FYI, my favorite bubble bath is "Sleep" with lavendar & chamomille from Bath & Body Works).
4) Last, but not least, find a girlfriend that you can escape with. Get away for a weekend, or even just a night. Its okay to work on your friendships too, even when your a mom and wife. Friends are the people that will be there when you need to gripe because your husband didn't unload the dishwasher, but your pregnant so your hormones are crazy; when you just need to cry and have someone understand you...its them. So don't take them for granted, and remember how precious their friendship is to you.
Today's encouragement is how to stay "me" when your are constantly surrounded with your children and families. How do you keep the "you" in your life.
Its funny because when I think of who I am, and who I have always been, its a mom. My mother can tell you stories of me as a little girl and I was always toting a baby doll around or playing "house" for hours. I've been known as the baby-hog forever, hence the name Aunt Grabbie. I LOVE children. I LOVE babies and I LOVE being mom.
I think its this reason that struggling for infertility for 2 years was so hard on me, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. All I have ever wanted to be was a mom. But I won't lie to and tell you that it fulfilled my every desire, because it hasn't. What it HAS made me realize is that there is so much more to me.
I think I put my whole self into being a mom because that was the desire of my heart. For 2 year, I forgot what it was like to a wife, a sister, a friend. So it wasn't until after I became a mother did I realize that I lost myself.
So, in order to keep the "me" in me, I do a lot of things.
1) I work outside the home. Don't get me wrong, I would LOVE to be a SAHM, but working is actually so good for me. I have developed amazing friendships and have mentors that I can look up to. I perform a role for my company that is essential - its keeps things "functioning." and when I come home each day, I get to lavish hugs and kisses on my 2 favorite people, my daughter and my husband. I love what I do, and for me, its been so important to have these adult friendships and relationships.
2) I scrapbook. Its my way of releasing all of my creative "juices." For me, its relaxing. One of my favorite times is getting together with my sister or several girlfriends and just scrapbooking. There is nothing more fun than going to a scrapbook retreat. I love it. Its something I do just for fun, and just for me.
3) Bubble baths! They are pieces of heaven sent down to earth for our pure enjoyment. Now granted, do not take a bubble bath when your toddler is awake because your relaxing bubbles will soon be all over your bathroom floor. But when your house is quiet, and lights are turned down low, just fill the tub, grab a good book, and RELAX! (and just FYI, my favorite bubble bath is "Sleep" with lavendar & chamomille from Bath & Body Works).
4) Last, but not least, find a girlfriend that you can escape with. Get away for a weekend, or even just a night. Its okay to work on your friendships too, even when your a mom and wife. Friends are the people that will be there when you need to gripe because your husband didn't unload the dishwasher, but your pregnant so your hormones are crazy; when you just need to cry and have someone understand you...its them. So don't take them for granted, and remember how precious their friendship is to you.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Scrap-Happy Weekend
We had a really great weekend, did you? Friday night was the start of college baseball alt DBU. It was the inaugural game to open the new Horner Ballpark. It is really beautiful. I'll try post pictures soon. With the start of baseball season of course, come the start of my widown-ness! HA! I joke, but sometimes that is what it feels like.
Brant's position at DBU requires that he is at all of the baseball games. Since the majority of games are weekend, I definitely feel that I am often a single mom during baseball season. But my husband loves his job, and that it what matters to me!
With the two of us girls left at home on Saturday, we invited Aunt Cookie and Kate over to play. It was so great having Kate around because Emmalee adores her. The two of them played, and played, so Aunt Cookie had a chance to work on some new marketing tools, and I got to scrapbook!!!! I feel like I haven't scrapbooked in ages, but I have got to get caught up on Emmalee's book.
Here's a few of the pages I got done this weekend.
Brant's position at DBU requires that he is at all of the baseball games. Since the majority of games are weekend, I definitely feel that I am often a single mom during baseball season. But my husband loves his job, and that it what matters to me!
With the two of us girls left at home on Saturday, we invited Aunt Cookie and Kate over to play. It was so great having Kate around because Emmalee adores her. The two of them played, and played, so Aunt Cookie had a chance to work on some new marketing tools, and I got to scrapbook!!!! I feel like I haven't scrapbooked in ages, but I have got to get caught up on Emmalee's book.
Here's a few of the pages I got done this weekend.
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| You might recognize some of these pictures from my post the other day about our day at the park. I LOVE the way this page turned out! |
Friday, January 6, 2012
I'm a fool...for Scrapbooking!
On New Years Day Mom, Sister and I sat around and scrapbooked...ALL day long! It was glorious! So since this week has been a "slow" week, I have been working like crazy on Emmalee's scrapbook.
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| Digital Kit(s): Sweet Petite by MLE Card |
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| Digital Kit(s): Some Like it Hot by Zoe Pearn; |
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| Digital Kit(s): Mia's Room by Shabby Miss Jen; Burst Into Spring by Julie Bullock |
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| Digital Kit(s): Taking Chances by Wild Dandelions |
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| Digital Kit(s): Express Yourself from Shabby Princess |
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| Digital Kit(s): Calliope |
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| Digital Kit(s): Autumn Blanket by Summertime Designs; Damask and Dots by Shabby Princess Designs; and Fancy Pants by Traci Reed |
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| Digital Kit(s): Cupcake by Designs by Krista |
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Digital Kit(s): Angel Mother by Summertime Designs; Blooming Heart by Wild Dandelions; Color Me Wild by Julie Bullock  |
Y'all, I love scrapbooking - especially digital scrapping. There is something so great (at least to me) about the idea of being something to leave something behind for my children to always have and always remember - something made just for them by their mom. I love all the actions and "cool" things you can do to your photos to make them "pop"; I love all the papers, and elements, and cute alphas. I'm really falling in love with templates right now - they are just so great and easy to use...especially when you have a lot of pictures - you just pop 'em right in without having to make sure they are perfectly sized and lined up. And, of course I love looking at other people's work. I could spend hours in online galleries just browsing through pages and getting great ideas for my next project. Oh - I could literally go on and on about how much I love this.
I am so excited that we have nothing going on this weekend - so I plan on spending most of my weekend on the floor playing with a sweet little ray of sunshine, and scrapbooking her baby book some more! In my opinion, that is PERFECT weekend! So, if you're a scrapper, PLEASE let me a comment and a link to your page or gallery - I want to see your incredible pages too!!!!
Monday, April 4, 2011
Just the Girls
So this weekend, my mom, sister and I had our own little scrapbook retreat! We had an absolute blast! Friday night we all met over at mom and dad's house for pizza, then the girls headed upstairs to our "suite". It was awesome because we set tables up in front of the TV, so we could watch movies or whatever else we wanted while we worked. We gorged ourselves on junk food and Chick-Fil-A sweet tea!
Saturday morning, we got up and dad fixed up the most delicious pancakes with a gooey apple pecan topping! They were to die for! Then we all got dressed for my last baby shower hosted by my Sunday School class. After the shower, we went back to our computers and scrapped the entire afternoon and evening.
The three of us just had the most wonderful time laughing and joking - this will definitely become a tradition!!! Here are a few of the pages that I finished (all from our trip to Hawaii)!
Saturday morning, we got up and dad fixed up the most delicious pancakes with a gooey apple pecan topping! They were to die for! Then we all got dressed for my last baby shower hosted by my Sunday School class. After the shower, we went back to our computers and scrapped the entire afternoon and evening.
The three of us just had the most wonderful time laughing and joking - this will definitely become a tradition!!! Here are a few of the pages that I finished (all from our trip to Hawaii)!
