Christine Smith Digital Design: The Wow Factor of Digital Scrapbooking

Christine Smith Digital Design: The Wow Factor of Digital Scrapbooking: "I think digital scrapbooking is really, really cool.  I’ve been creating digital scrapbook pages since June 2005 and have been a design..."

MIGRAINE:

So today, I had such a bad migraine. I was suppose to go to a pampering session with my friend. She had won it from when she was registered to get married.  I had told robert that I was going to go to it and he would always answer “we’ll see”. Well, I had asked my sister Lindsey to watch Katy so that I can go to this little party. So, I think it was around 115 and I was getting Katy’s diaper bag ready, and he starts acting stupid. Robert said I couldn’t go to the party becuz he didn’t feel comfortable having my 18 year old sister watching her own neice ( my parents were gonna be there with her). So, he told me NO I couldn’t go.

I could understand if he didn’t want me to go if we were together, but we are still separated. We just live together becuz he wants to eventually get back together with me and he doesn’t want 2 separate households. But he has some nerve to tell me that I cant go somewhere when I had plans for weeks for this party. Then he was saying I could go to the party but I had to take Katy with me. I couldn’t take her. This was my time to have some time away from kaitlyn since im with her like 24/7 anyways.

He went to work at 245, where he is currently since he’s working till midnight. THANK GOODNESS! But I laid down to take a nap with KATY and 2 hrs later, I woke up with a migraine. But after spending some time with my friend, my migraine downgraded to a headache and loaded up on some tylenol.

Hawaiian Style MailBox

 

So, Lona, my mother in law, loves anything that has to do with hawaiian stuff. So today at joanns, I picked up some scrapbooking paper that had some hawaiian style print. I then realized that I had some embellishments that I was gonna use for a layout for Katy’s 1st birthday (luau themed) that I just havent gotton around too. I realized that I can make something with the stuff I had around my arsenal of scrapbooking stuff. 

So, I got out my mini mailboxes that I got over at Target for a buck.

Then, I got my luau embellishment to start my project.

I took off the sides of the mailbox, traced them onto the hawaiian paper, and also traced the flag onto the paper too.

I started to decorate the actual mailbox.

LOOKS CUTE HUH? But I added more. I decided that the ends looked kinda plain so I got out some letters and glued the words NANA and LONA to the ends.

FINAL PRODUCT:

 

(my only problem is, which lona do I give this too? Robert’s mom or grandma, who lives in hawaii?)

 

WordLess WEDNESDAY!!

---BEAUTIFUL---

Felt a Lil CRAFTY today

Today, I felt the need to be a lil crafty. Kaitlyn was asleep for her afternoon nap when I was cleaning up our little room. I was putting our socks away when I got the idea.
I have 2 of these bins underneath my bed. I use them for mine and Kaitlyn’s socks. I get them confused all the time when I’m in a hurry trying to get socks for us. 

So, I had the brilliant idea of labeling these bins. I had chipboard letters. I was gonna put them on the bin. so I got them out, and the hot glue gun, but I had no hot glue. DAMN! So, I had these stickers that I had used for a different project last year. 

This is what I came up with:
Front:


Side:

Cute, HUH?

So, I thought if Im gonna do my sock bin, I might as well do my daughter’s.
Front:

Side:
So what do we think? I know it’s small but at least I got it organized. Not exactly what I wanted but at least it’s something.

Beginner Tips

So, as I was surfing my “LINKY PARTY”s tonight, I came across a very good article. I was over @ the HOH party. I saw a post for “10 GREAT BLOGGING TIPS”.

This artice was so great. Here are the overviews:

 

1. Download windows live writer

2. Set aside a certain time for blogging.

3. Make your blog more user friendly.

4. If you want to grow your blog start linking your projects up.

5. COMMENT!!!

6. Do not start your blog to earn money. .

7.  Pro Blogger.

8.  Get involved with social networks. 

9. Be Unique!

10.  Have FUN!!

So, with reading this article, im going to take her advice. Im going to make this blog about me and what I like.

IPOD carrier

So as I was browsing thru my "CRAFT" sites ( as I like to call them), I came across this cute contraption for my IPOD. Over @ LauraBray. It is just so cute.

This would be perfect for me when I actually go to the gym. There have been times that Ive had my ipod fly off the treadmill. I have battle scars on it now.

NEW YEAR!!

As of today, its Jan.1st.2011. The start of a new year. And this year, I hope that its different than 2010. Last year, i had a lot of bad stuff happen to me. But I wanna make this year a lil better. So, as of 9PM on 01/01/11, I made my resoulutions that I wanna work on for this year.


JENNIFER's 2010 Resolutions:

1.  Lose weight.  Get down to my ideal weight (180lbs).
   
2.  Go back to school. i want to get my BA in the near future so that i can get my career going.  
3.   Blog more.
   
4.    Spend more time with my baby. I feel that I don’t do enough with her. Like for example, making her smarter and more comfortable with her TODDLER peers.
5.   Create more. (I love to scrap but my issue is having the time to do it. Im gonna start to make time for it.
6.     Try to excersise more. i wasn’t to get more physically fit for my own health.
   Get back into reading. I have so many books that are just dying to be read. Im also wanting to get an Amazon Kindle.
7. Craft. I love to get ideas from other people and try them out for myself.
8.  Let small things go. Im tired of playing second fiddle to everyone so this will be the year that I am standin up for myself. 

And besides trying to accomplishing these reloutions, I want to get some things for myself.

JENNIFER's 2011 WISHLIST:

1.   CAR!
2. Amazon Kindle
3.    IPOD Touch, 32GB 
4.    New cellphone, preferably blackberry