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Right now

February 26, 2014 by Jess 1 Comment

  • not enjoying this winter in Illinois. Not. At. All.
  • Did a deep clean of the house yesterday and it felt fantastic. Although now my back doesn’t feel so fantastic….
  • Stayed up way too late last night and woke up way too early. (huge thank you to 2 of my dogs for waking me up to go outside at 3:00am – after they had been out at 1:30am!!)
  • I would actually be very happy if I never saw snow again.
  • I want sushi right now in the worst way.

 

In other news:

I recently got to review a very cool music album over at the Little Lake County Blog

This mini album of mine that was in my book was featured a couple weeks ago in Women’s World Magazine.

friends mini album

friends mini album

 

Over at Homeketeers I did a couple tutorials on some Kids Crafts:

These crayons were really fun to make and they are so easy for Ava to hang on to!

DIY homemade toddler crayons

DIY homemade crayons

the other kids craft is also using crayons: stained glass crayon melt art

stained glass crayon melt art kids craft

I’ve been baking and creating new recipes like crazy. All those cookies that I baked last week took me back to the baking I did for our wedding almost 3 years ago. I baked hundreds of cookies and hundreds of cupcakes from scratch! Right up to the morning of our wedding day (as I wanted everything to be fresh). Thankfully a few of my friends helped and one of my friends husbands came over to finish baking some of the cupcakes for me so I could go get my hair done! Thinking back on it now, I can’t believe we managed to pull it all off!

For old times sake, here are some photos of our wedding baked goods: everyone got one of these Mickey cookies – which turned out to be HUGE so there were 100 of those.

mickey mouse wedding favor cookie disney

wedding favor heart cookies

 

Then we had plates of mini heart cookies on each table so there were probably 300+ of those. And we had a Cupcake Display as well as a cake. My goodness. I think we had about 100 full size cupcakes and 100 mini cupcakes. 3 different flavors and 1 plate of gluten & dairy free for those with special diets. More on our wedding here

wedding cupcake display

wedding cupcake display

white chocolate chip cupcakes wedding

wedding cupcake display

I did create all the recipes myself so I will scrounge those up and post them up here soon. The few months leading up to the wedding I did so much baking, trying to find the perfect recipes. It was a good thing I had 100 testers as not only would my 5 roommates test them for me, but I took everything else to the zoo and let everyone there test them out 🙂 I do miss those days…. Now my only taste testers are my toddler and my pig and neither of them provide very accurate feedback. Ava will eat anything in a cookie or cupcake form and Norman will eat….well…ANYTHING at all. Steve does not like sweets, so he’s out. (occasionally  though he’ll like something, like the cookies I made last week).

So that’s what’s going on around here right now. Feel free to share what’s going on in your world 🙂

 

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Filed Under: Animal/ Zoo stuff, Crafts, Daily Life, Kids/ Babies, Recipes, Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums

Book Giveaway!

January 17, 2013 by Jess 15 Comments

A huge thanks to Women’s World Magazine who is featuring my book: “Outstanding Mini Albums” in one of their articles in the newest issue! I was thrilled when they contacted me last month to interview me for this article. If you read the article, I’d love to hear from you! In celebration, I am doing a giveaway for a copy of my book “Outstanding Mini Albums”. Just leave me a comment here or on my book’s blog (www.outstandingminialbums.com) and tell me what your favorite scrapbooking supplies are. A winner will be selected randomly on Feb 10th.

Also, my FREE technique classes are going to be offered again this Spring. The exact date has not been scheduled yet but keep checking back. They will be starting sometime in March 2013.

This may just be the push I need to get myself back into scrapbooking. I haven’t done any since Ava was born and I have so much catching up to do!

Filed Under: Giveaways, Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums

A week of tutorials!

March 7, 2012 by Jess Leave a Comment

I just wanted to post up links to the first week of tutorials over at Homeketeers. There will be a new tutorial up every day for the entire month! Also don’t forget they are giving away a cricut machine each week as well so be sure to enter!

Here are all the tutorials that have been posted so far:

 

Filed Under: Crafts, Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums, Tutorials

“Astoria” kit creations

January 5, 2012 by Jess Leave a Comment

I made a layout and a fun exploding box album with this great kit.

 

 

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Day 12 of 50 Days of Journaling and new layout from a sketch

November 21, 2011 by Jess Leave a Comment

Today’s prompts:

(and I will get my pages done and posted to all these eventually!)

1. Magazine Headline Inspiration

Grab one of those magazine you were about to throw in the recycling bin and choose a headline from one of the articles. Use that to jump start your journaling. If you don’t mind cutting your magazine up, go ahead and clip the headline right out and stick it onto to your page.

2. Fill in the blank:  “I wish I were____________”

 

This past week I got to work with a fabulous sketch made by Sarah Nolan to create a layout from it. here is Sarah’s sketch and my layout.

Filed Under: Journaling Prompts, Scrapbooking/ Mini Albums

New mini book and November kit reveal

November 5, 2011 by Jess 1 Comment

I had a lot of fun working with this month’s kit!

I actually managed to create 2 layouts, an entire mini album and 2 art journal pages from this kit, plus I still have leftover stuff to create even more!

Here are the 2 layouts:

The journaling on here is about a funny story regarding our Flemish Giant Rabbit. She’s an enormous rabbit, weighing in at about 15 pounds right now and still growing. Soon she will be bigger than all 3 of our dogs! One day she happened to be sitting on the floor behind Steve when he opened the door for the pizza delivery guy. The guy started to tell him the total and then he saw Trixie so he was like “Your total is….oh my god, that’s the bigger fricken rabbit I’ve ever seen!!” haha! So then a few weeks later we order pizza again and this time we go pick it up on our way home. That same delivery driver was inside, in the back and when he saw Steve come through the door, he leaned over to his co-worker and said “That’s the guy with the huge rabbit!!”. 🙂

This is a little mini album I made to give to my husband for our upcoming anniversary. I used a lot of machine stitching on it and I distressed all the edges.

 

 

 

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