I'm Still Around

I just thought I'd stop by and check in! Lol! I've been busy making cute stuff for my shop and coming up with ideas for it. Its been a lot of fun! I also started drawing again. Its more like doodling really, but fun and relaxing nonetheless. I found my old box of colored pencils from when I was a kid and boy does that take me back! Lol! The box is filled to the brim with pencils so the sound of them shuffling against eachother while I search for the perfect color is what makes me feel all nostalgic! Haha!

The picture was taken with my phone so its not the best and its unfinished, but I thought I would post it anyways.

I also brought home a box full of all my little toys that I played with as a kid! They are so cute! Most of them are from the dollar store and some are The Littlest PetShops toys back when they were smaller. The ones out on the market today are big and have big heads. Still cute, but I like the ones that I have better! haha! As a kid, my brother and I spent a lot of time with my grandparents during the summer because both of my parents worked full time. As a treat, my grandparents would take my brother and me and my two cousins to the dollar store and to lunch. My cousin Monique and I would usually pick something similar so that we could play with it together. I kept all of my little toys like these for obvious reasons! They are so cute!!!

I have a few sets of these mini toys. One set is called Teddy's Wonderland and has cute little bears the size of....well they're really tiny!! The other set is Meow Meow's Wonderland! Lol!

The last photo I used the technique for shooting in Macro with a 50mm lens by flipping it around.

Its been somewhat stressful around here lately. There's just some stuff going on here that really should have stayed one soldier's family business, but instead they blew it all out of porportion and made it a lot of people's problem. Never have I experienced something like this. In the real world this would have never have affected anybody's home life or work life other than the person going through it. But in the military, where you work is home. Its ridiculous. For as much as I have grown to love this place....the place...not the people.....I've been finding myself making frequent trips to town just to get out of here for awhile. Last weekend the first half of the problem came home and caused quite an uproar. My hubby has to pick up the other half of the problem from the airport tonight. I hope it'll be a quiet weekend....fingers crossed.

****Just to let you know.....I deleted the photography blog because I kept posting to it unintentionally! Lol! Doesn't make much sense to have two of them when I'm only posting to one! I was just being stingy! Haha! I'll just post all my stuff here!****



I've been up to a lot of crafting lately! Gotta love it! Lol!

I've been feeling really inspired by this awesome Military Wife and Scrapper for awhile now! Her pages are pretty much "timeless" and she doesn't get caught up in all the "latest" hype! She's in it for the stories she wants to tell and record for her daughters. Me on the other hand, I do tend to get caught up in the newest and cutest scrappy stuff on the market and worry about that more than the content of my pages. I chalk it up to not having any kids yet and not really worrying about the stories til they come along, but I'm trying.

Anywho, here's what I've been up to around these parts.

I love those sassafras buttons so much! They are so cute...just like my baby cousin! Lol! Gosh, this kid makes me all mushy-hearted.

I've been playing around with the idea of opening up my etsy shop again. I was playing around with these tiles and came up with some ideas. The monogrammed "K" and "B" pieces are for my friends two little girls. The bottom piece was just for fun.

Here's another page I did. Just wanted to play around with my SC kits and my stash of fortune cookie fortunes to make a page. I like it.

These next two photos are just some ideas I've been playing around with for the shop. I had an etsy shop last year for a few months. It did surprisingly well for the small amount of time it was open! I closed it for the time being due to us PCSing across the country, but we should be pretty stable for another year or two....fingers crossed! With winter coming, I thought it would be a fun little venture to keep me busy through the long winter months!

More photos will come soon if I decide to move forward with the reopening of my shop!

The other night I was flipping through my Body + Soul Magazine and really liked how some of the advertisements and pages were layed out. I decided to give myself a little challenge and make a page using the layout from one of the pages.

Here's what I came up with! Pretty cute, right?! Lol! Of course I added my own touches to it.

I used Studio Calico's June Kit called Soda Fountain.

The few embellies that aren't from the SC kit, but from my own stash of cuteness are: the cute doggie shape I used for the "i" in "their", the "puppy love" stamp, the small heart and arrow, and the blue paper.

I love the color pallette! Studio Calico always puts together such nice kits, you should check them out! I've been a subscriber for the past 6 months and I haven't been disappointed. They always have new papers and embellies from my favorite manufacturers, as well as their own papers and stamps that they design!

I know we are so spoiled around here in the fact that we have three day weekends while the rest of the military has two day weekends, buuuuuuuuuut I can't help but want another day off! Lol! I haven't touched my school books at all this weekend! All I've done this weekend was play with paper, scissors and glue, hung out with the doggies and my hubby, cookout, and relax. So darn nice!

I've definitely been in the mood to scrap some photos that I took while in Tucson a few weeks ago. The two photos I used of my Nana were actually taken earlier this year when we moved from South Carolina to Utah in March or April. I love these photos so much!

The weekend started Thursday evening after Chris got off work. We were so worn out by the end of the day that we just relaxed all evening and then I ended up staying up til like 3am playing in my craft room.

The mornings have been so beautiful around these parts lately! Chris and I sleep with the window opened a few inches and in the morning the room is cool, bright and feels so fresh! Its a lovely way to wake up!

My friends and I have been walking a lot and spending a good amount of time outside!

No official plans for the weekend as usual, but thats the way I like it! Just going to do some scrapping, plug in the new Wacom tablet I bought and learn to use that!

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!