Archive for October, 2009
October 21st, 2009 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
You know you’re a veteran card-maker when your spouse lets you know about upcoming events and commissions a card to be made! 
This was definitely a request I was happy to oblige…
Cardstock: Bashfull Blue, Certainly Celery, vellum. Ink & Brads: Gable Green. Ribbon: unknown (from my “stash”). Rub-on: Chit Chat (Stampin’ Up). Punches: Circle & Scallop (SU), feet and hands (Fiskars).
See, who needs cards from the store when you’ve got everything you need to make pretty ones at home? Although I admire that store-bought cards are trying to emulate some of the home-made look, it’s just not the same.
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October 16th, 2009 -- Posted in EZ-blog Oven, work/career |
I have 2 blog entries started with the latest scrappy/stampy projects… but I don’t want to post the hand-stamped card entry until after my hubby goes to the baby shower at work on Thursday (you just never want to spoil a surprise). And for the latest scrapbook layout, I did both sides separately so the 2nd side of the 12×12″ double-page album layout needs to have it’s photos uploaded and all that.
So in the meantime, I’ll bring you an important and much-needed blog announcement! In my exploration of life as a WAHM and savvy web mompreneur, I’ve always been open about my business activities – for the sake of honesty and transparency, but also to help other moms find out what it’s really like out for the average mommy blogger and webmaster (who is not of Dooce-caliber-fame).
It’s tough out there but I am doing my best to make something happen. You hear all the time about people earning $ from the web just doing nothing, so it absolutely infuriates me that I’ve gotten next to nowhere after a couple years of working hard to try to earn some income from my already-in-progress projects (and those couple years came after a decade of volunteer work and running websites and groups for free!!!).
If I ever get famous though, I’m taking my friends with me, dammit. I know so many talented, crafty, and hard-working women who are running their own businesses (either on their own, online or offline, or through an established Home-Sales company like Stampin’ Up or Creative Memories) and just aren’t tapping into what is promised. There’s gotta be some tips out there to help create success, and I’m on the lookout…
Here are the changes that’ve been made in the past week or so to increase privacy, but also increase website success:
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October 14th, 2009 -- Posted in house to home, pics |
This beautiful home decor project was made possible by my awesome friend Trina, who managed to track down these products here in Canada after I’d seen them online. 
The flowers attach to your walls with small nails and have little spacers to allow them to stick out enough. I used almost one whole set of them on this “hallway” (if you can call it that in an open space house like ours) but have a few of them stashed away for my bathroom.
Oh, and also added to the whole design was the white frames and mirrors. They weren’t in the original plan, but they totally jumped out at me when I saw them at the store (on sale, no less!), since I was in the midst of doing the wallflowers (I think at that point I’d had them temporarily adhered to the walls with stick tack so my DH could OK the concept first before we put actual holes in the wall). And with a little re-arranging they fit right in and were a perfect match!!
Both the flowers and the frames worked super well with my existing strié glaze effect in the French Cream paint. It comes together to create a really soothing look that I still really enjoy seeing every day.
Also, the last framed circle is now filled with a collage of our very favourite babies (4 babies all born in 2008 and 2009 to friends of ours from high school!!!) – Eve, Hannah, Taimi, and Logan.
I think we had all this done by the beginning of September but I am just getting around to taking and posting pics now. The decorating has definitely slowed down but we are still slowly working through all that needs to be completed. I’m trying to enjoy the planning, designing, and browsing online for furniture and decor I like ( would you still call it window shopping if you’re looking online? as long as no one with a PC tries to call it “Windows shopping” I guess). I figure so what if the pace is slow and it takes us years to decorate the whole house? It’s rare to have the chance to bring colour and life to so many blank canvases so I’m focused on making many parts of the process as pleasing as I hope the end results will be.
*please note: the wallflowers were a gift and my “ooh pretty!” comments are unsolicited by the creators of them, whom I have no affiliation with.
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