mollie

Well... Woopity Doo to you!

2009-11-11T18:36:00.003-05:00

Holy cow.

It's been since JUNE since I've blogged.

Wowee.

You know how people always say that "time flies"... ? Well that statement has never been more true for me than in the past couple of months. It feels like JUST yesterday that I was swimming in the sun and going to summer concerts and enjoying sunlight until 9:30 pm.

*example*

(random wednesday afternoon at Manhattan Harbor)

I really miss the Summer. And what makes it worse is that I absolutely dread the winter here in Kentucky. Let's just say I'm not looking forward to it.

What I AM looking forward to however is:

*getting back into the creative state of mind
*making time for new/old hobbies
*coming up with fun/brand new things to put in the etsy
*letting go of all inhibitions that are holding me back from blogging again (did I use that big word correctly?)
*blogging about everyday things and not worrying about if people will enjoy the topics or not
*getting my camera back and taking ~~a lot~~ bajillions of pictures
*buying cute christmas gifts like this for my family and friends
*finding more and more and more amazing blogs/websites like Celine Navarro's
*and more...

Speaking of amazing blogs and websites, here are a few that I've come across lately (I'm like a kid in a candy store when it comes to surfing the web. I jump from blog to blog so fast and excitedly that I forget how I got there and what the website was...)

*These prompts are awesome (especially #14)
*This makes me excited to be in school for graphic design right now ... logodesignlove.com
*This is for when I get back to the creative state of mind
*Some pretty cool eye candy here

Well. That's all for now, but I hope with all my heart that I will have enough motivation and inspiration to come back and blog again in the very near future.

p.s. encouraging comments always help in the blogging venture. So if anyone is out there... get to it... :) tankie. out. :)

Make Believe...

2009-06-12T15:15:00.012-04:00

heyyyyyyyyy there... I've been tagged! eeek! Here goes nothin...

*What is your current obsession?

Parties. Gradutation, birthday, baby showers, and even random last minute parties for absolutely no reason. It's all about the parties this month. I'm in the process of planning a Hawaiian Luau baby shower for this Sunday... yay! It's going to be great... And for those of you who don't know, the dollar store has amazing summer themed stuff if you are in need :)

*What's for dinner?

More than likely... and hopefully... A few of these:

photo credit: houstonfoodie

*What's the last thing you bought?

Besides the cute little paper umbrellas I bought for the baby shower on Sunday... My most recent purchase was a few t shirts for Eric and I from ebay. Funny t shirts. Those are Erics favorite. :) OH! and at the same time I bought these adorable art prints from vol25.

*What are you listening to right now?

This is actually the reason that I started this little survey right now... because I wanted to wait until I was listening to something totally rad. I am currently hearing the sounds of:

Fo real... Check him out...

*If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?

to see Eric.

*What is your favorite quote (for right now)?

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all
your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your
consciousness expands in everydirection, and you find yourself in a new, great,
and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you
discover yourself to be a greater person by far than youever dreamed yourself to
be.”~ Patanjali – the author of Yoga Sutra

*What is your dream job?

Honestly, I just want to do something that I love doing. Whether it's designing my own scrapbook supplies or being the president of the United States. I just wish I could fall into something that makes me happy every day. I'll let ya know how that goes... lol

*What's your worst habit?

Biting my fingernails... ekkkkg. And procrastinating.

*Do you admire anyone's style?

I admire this gal... both creative style and attire. Her personality shines thru regardless of the mood she's in and I think it's something I can really connect to sometimes. Shout out Amy!

That's all for now... The inspiration has hit... Gotta act on it before it fades away... :)

Hello Loves...

2009-05-26T11:33:00.005-04:00

Boy oh Boy it feels so nice to have a few days off in a row from work :) I've been catching up on all of my shows online. So needless to say, I've had plenty of time to sit here and be creative while meeting thirty new gorgeous guys on The Bachlorette, seeing Ugly Betty get promoted to special features editor, all while trying to figure out who Mike Delfino is going to marry on Desperate Housewives. And create, I did!

It feels so nice to be scrapbooking again. I got so caught up in The Jelly Bean Joint for a while that I kind of forgot all about it. But now that the shop is going strong, I can relax and come back to what I love the most about paper and scissors :)

Along with being able to scrap again... I have also fallen back in love with a little place called SIS. Everyone on the site is super nice and the coolest scrapbookers ever! Soooo much talent floating around that place, for real. If you are on SIS, hit me up and let me know so I can mark you as a fave and check out your gallery :) Otay?

That's all for now... Goodbye Loves :)

Just Paintin'...

2009-05-19T11:42:00.008-04:00

SOOoooo... I'm sitting at work right now. Listening to the lovely beep-beep-beep of the cash registers, the crying of the babies, and the repetition of the wonderful grocery store music station.

For those of you who don't know, I work at a bank that is inside of a Kroger grocery store. It gets old sometimes, but I swear I hardly even hear the beeping cash registers anymore. George Michaels is singing Faith right now. I'm so bored I almost want to get up and dance like I'm singing karaoke. I'll tell you how bored I am. No... I'll show you. We don't have much on our computers here so Paint has become one of my favorites. Here are a few of my recent masterpieces...

Brilliant, I know, right?

Well, I guess I'll try to do something that's actually productive although I may be back with the Mona Lisa of Microsoft Paint. :)

Cute ness...

2009-05-18T10:58:00.006-04:00

How cute are the designs in this shop?? Pixel by Pixel makes all things promotional for your shop and the designs that I see here are super cute. Even if you aren't looking for business cards or anything like that now, you should def. mark it as a fave and check it out later when you DO need em. Anyways, I'll quit talking and show you some cuteness...
Plus, there's this really cool giveaway on this really humorous blog, Keeping Up With Mom for 1,000 deluxe business cards! And you get an extra entry if you blog about it, so what the hey :) Check it out :)

Layouts? What?

2009-05-17T20:28:00.013-04:00

Wowee... I can't beleive it's already been two weeks since I was in Washington D.C. visiting Eric! It's nuts I tell you.

So, Eric has been home for the past two weeks. Amazing. I love the feeling of normalcy. I haven't felt normal for a long time. When Eric is home it just feels like everything is falling into it's right place. But now he's gone again. As soon as things are getting back into the same old groove that I love and that I am so used to, I have to drop him off at the airport and just drive away. I hate that part.

So I've been moping around the house all day long. The most productive things I've done all day are:

1. Unloading my scrapbook crop stuff from the car. (It would have stayed in there for weeks if I hadn't)
2. Scanned and uploaded layouts! Woop woop!

Speaking of scrapbook crop... I went to the Scraptacular crop yesterday (benefiting Oppurtunities Without Limits) and it was so fun! I had to drive to Louisville, but it wasn't too bad. I made new friends, who are awesome... And I actually got some scrapping done, which is a huge deal because I haven't been able to finish a layout for months now. Look!
So yea, while I was at the crop, I sat with a couple of lovely ladies who were super nice and so much fun to talk to! Sammy Jo (who was there with HER etsy shop too, 62 cards) and her sister Dana were pretty much my best friends yesterday. We shared stories about our families and friends and talked about Etsy and scrapbook stuff and blogging allll day. Since I don't have friends that scrapbook and I've never been to a crop before, you can only imagine how relaxing and enjoyable it was for me! Plus, it got me motivated to scan and upload my layouts from the last couple of months. woo! Here are some of those:

That's all for now :) Be back soon :)

*Oh Happy Day!

2009-05-03T21:05:00.000-04:00

For those of you who do not follow me on Twitter... You probably don't know that I've been in Washington D.C. visiting Eric for the past couple of days! yay! We've been staying @ the Hilton for the past few days... Going out to eat and watching movies and all that lovely, fun, nonsense! (By the way... We ate at a restaurant called Red Rock Canyon Grill last night and oh my lordy... It was amazing!)
*Noodles and Company has also stolen my heart. (and their website is super cute to boot!)

We went and saw Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (starring my other boyfriend, Matthew) and I must say that it was rather cute... And I think Lacey Chabert is just so adorable! We also saw Fast and Furious 2... Or whatever it's called. All I have to say is... "eh."

Anyway, we both fly back home tomorrow and Eric will be home for two weeks! His birthday is next weekend and were having a big bash... Can't wait!

More updates to come! I just got done taking a 5 day tutorial by Tim Adams (check out his awesome site, Handemadeology for sooooooo many awesome tips and tricks!) and part of the tutorial was about setting deadlines and committing to posting on your blog... So I'm totally pumped and inspired now, and I have lots of fun ideas floating around in this little brain of mine! See you soon!

p.s. Eric has a Mac in his room and I'm totally obsessed. I want Photobooth... I want a Mac.

woop woop!

2009-04-02T01:58:00.003-04:00

I am pretty darn excited about this workshop that Elise Blaha is starting! :) For the following reasons:

1. I haven't made anything other than stuff for the JBJ in a looong time.

2. I can't wait to make things out of THINGS... and not traditional scrapbook supplies.

3. Elise is awesome and she probably thinks I'm creepy for blog stalking so much, but she's seems so cool. lol

4. I can't wait to get inspired again and get my mojo back.

5. It's only 20 buck a roo's! I'm so there.

Soooo, if you haven't noticed, I'm basically obsessed with making lists lately. I'm not sure why but it seems to get the point across so it's cool.

I wish I had more interesting things to talk about, but like I said, I haven't had a lot of time to create for personal amusement lately so I don't have any fun pictures to post! Sorry guys... On a brighter note, I'm going to visit my love, my boyfriend, my Eric... later this month and I can't wait a second longer. I am trying so hard to think of something cute and creative and sweet to do for him but being so far away makes it a difficult task. If you have any ideas, let me know :)

Until next time... :)

In the works...

2009-03-30T17:41:00.002-04:00

Hello lovlies!

Today is a good day... I'm off work, I managed to get some laundry and cleaning done, and packaged two new orders from the shop! Plus, it's sunny and pleasant outside and I've had a little time to sit on the porch and enjoy it... :)

Fun things in the works:

1. A new alphabet design for The Jelly Bean Joint
2. Trying to get back into the groove of creating a actual scrapook layout
3. Sponsoring over at Gettin Sketchy for the month of April (I got a sneak peak at the sketch... it's awesome!)
4. Planning to create some kind of tutorials, that include items from The JBJ, for the next video blog post!
5. Re-organizing and putting some destash items in the shop... Can't wait to have the extra room in my scrap space!

I am an active twitter-er now! It's a lot more interesting than I ever thought it would be! If you haven't already, you should def. try it out... It's addicting. Follow me on Twitter!

Here's an up close picture of the Pieces of Me album from my video post earlier this month... I forgot to add it then, so I figured, better late than never, right?

Toodles!

Vlogging... ?

2009-03-05T18:52:00.001-05:00

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiii....

2009-03-05T18:08:00.003-05:00

*Goofy* video blog coming soon :) Here's a little something to amuse you while you wait! (I love my friends)

Free Mini Album with your purchase :)

2009-01-21T00:31:00.000-05:00

Check out the pretty sweet freebie on The Jelly Bean Joint Blog!

That's all for now!

*Muah!*

Woweeeeeee!

2009-01-13T15:37:00.004-05:00

I know I haven't been around for a while... I've been a bad blogger! eek... Buuut the good news is that I've been working a lot on my Etsy shop! I know the Jelly Bean Joint already has it's OWN blog (check it out!) but I just have to shout it from all of my blog rooftops because I'm having so much fun with the shop right now! I updated pictures, policies, packaging, appearance, the blog, and things are REALLY coming along! It's very exciting... And I wanna share this with you all!

And the BEST part as of lately? ---- If you would like to support the shop you can upload this BLINKIE onto your own blog or website! yay, it's so cute... Check it out!

Soooo I just wanted to update and let y'all know that I'll be back soon with scrapbook layouts and all that jazz... In the mean time, I've posted a few times over on the shop blog if you wanna check that one out. :) The Jelly Bean Joint Blog

p.s. If anyone is wondering, Eric's doing really well and I will get to see him in a few weeks hopefully :) yay!

The Etsy b-Etsy Spider...

2008-12-08T20:37:00.012-05:00

Went shopping for Christmas goodness...

Yea... Anyways, lol I've been obsessed with Etsy lately and I've bought quite a few Christmas gifts over the past few weeks. Now I just want to share a few slices of goodness from Etsy Heaven...How cute is this??I just bought some of these awesome letter mini prints :) So you'll be seeing those on future creations. adorable... enough said... Please check these felt alpha sets out :)

I'm obsessed with these bracelets.
Her prints are adorable :)

Customize this... Because it's so flippin sweet.

She has so many amazing, fun, fantastic prints... So whimsical and care free :)

And I didn't want to overload this post with pictures, so definitely check out these shops too... oooh so cute! :)

SusyJack *Contemporary Paper Goods

SuperSweetCreations *One of a kind gifts for babies & people who love them.

MuthaCrafter *Most amazing shirt of all time... If I'm ever pregnant, someone needs to buy this for me, pronto.

Jet Set Paper *Inspired by the art of travel

xobellaaimox *She believed that life was pretty sweet...

Jean Skipper Originals *Handmade mixed media Jewelry with a sentimental twist

rarrar press *Type high since 2004

That's all for now :) yay!

Layouts galore...

2008-12-02T22:13:00.008-05:00

Well it's about time that I did a blog post with an actual scrapbook layout on it, dontcha think? Some of these are from over a month ago... I've just been so darn lazy. But I'm excited to show em!

First is a fun layout I did for the sketch challenge over at Scrapstars! It's a layout of my "Christmas Wishlist". As you can see... I'm not very picky. I just want one thing :)

Using lots of Chatterbox goodies :)Using a few things from the Home Sweet Home set from The Jelly Bean Joint.

Taking it all the way back to 2004... woot woot! Get YOUR school HERE!

Funny story about this layout... Not five minutes after I got done with it, Eric called to tell me the bad news... That he wouldn't actually be home for another nine months. I wanted to rip this up at the time because I was so frustrated... But now I'm okay and so is the layout... But you can understand the 'change of plans' layout after knowing the whole story.
see you soon my loves :)

Happy Turkey-Video-Blog Day :)

2008-11-27T10:24:00.004-05:00

Happy Thanksgiving! :) I don't know about you, but I personally have a lot to be thankful for... And I love today and I can't wait to eat! hehe

but what I'm really excited about is posting this video blog! yay! Other than my long, straggaly (sp?) hair, un-organization, and weird breathing noises behind the camera... I think it was pretty fun. And you gotta check out Elaine's blog, A Life In Cupcakes, because I'm really just copying off of her.

p.s. there are two videos because my camera shut off in the middle of my amazing performance. And don't mind the ringtone... you'll see. Sooo here goes nothing...

The reason I was going to post today was to follow up from being tagged by Elaine, but I figure I'll just do that on my next video blog... See ya then!

Yippideedoda!

2008-11-21T00:56:00.002-05:00

Guess what!? New blog for The Jelly Bean Joint! :)

yay! Check it out and mark it as a favorite so you can check in and see new updates and such :) I'm super excited about this! And check out the newest addition to the shop!

My hero...

2008-11-12T00:10:00.007-05:00

I know I'm a little late... Anyways... In honor of MY hero, my love... and to all of our veterans, past, present, and future.

"fall" ing... get it!?

2008-11-01T22:55:00.003-04:00

Get your behinds on over to Scrapstars! The challenge this time around is pretty simple... But it's a sketch, and it's awesome as always... :) So ya gotta try it. I never really have done sketch challenges but now I'm obsessed and I've been looking up sketches for the past couple of days and making a new book out of them for reference haha So anyways... Check it! Here's my LO for the Scrapstars Halloween/Fall challenge!Speaking of Eric... If anyones wondering... I haven't talked to him in a couple days... Hopefully that means that he's on his way home. :) I can't wait!

Happy Halloween! :)

2008-10-31T19:50:00.004-04:00

In honor of this spooky, frightening, and FUN Halloween day...

You like? Check out The Jelly Bean Joint for more :)

Anyone still out there??

2008-10-28T23:41:00.021-04:00

Well hello strangers.... It's been a long time! Sheesh, it's been like, over a month since I updated the blog. Yikes. sorry! Well... like I said over a month ago, all I've been doing is getting ready for the craft show. Well, the craft show didn't go so well, sales-wise, but I did have a lot of fun doing it and I do plan on doing it again! The most awesome thing that came out of this whole ordeal is that I got a huge update in my shop! The Jelly Bean Joint is back up and running, so check it out for sure.

I haven't had any time to scrap... Except for the couple of cards and layouts I did for examples at the craft show. I DO however have pictures of the minibook I made a long time ago after I got home from my girlfriend trip to Gatlinburg TN! Soooo here's some of those!
By the way... The blank books that I put together that I made that Gatlinburg mini out of will be in my etsy within the next couple of days... They are so versatile and awesome!

GOOD NEWS!!! Eric is coming home! :) We don't have a set date, but sometime within the next couple weeks hopefully... four months earlier than scheduled! I can't tell you how happy I am... More pictures to come of me and eric, I'm sure. :) :) :) :)

I'm going to beddy by... I'll leave you with some pictures from the craft show!

What up?

2008-09-21T21:30:00.004-04:00

Yo! I've been designing, scanning, printing, cutting, and packaging pretty much all day long. Why you ask? Because I've decided that I'm going to join in on the fun and be a vendor at a Craft Bazaar that is being held at my old High School in about a month. I'm a little nervous, but I figured I'd try it! :) It's pretty exciting though to see all of these piles of colorful journaling tags filling my whole desk. They are so fun and it makes me want to stop "working" and just play and scrap. But anyways...

What I really wanted to tell you is to check out the new challenge over at Scrapstars! It's pretty cool and you have like, a million different options as far as your challenge goes... You could really go just about anywhere with this *adventure* of a challenge. hehe. Here's mine... My scrap idol!

So yea... Elise, if you ever come here and read my blog, there ya go! lol Love your art dude.

That's all folks. :) Be back soon!

yippee!

2008-09-13T22:51:00.014-04:00

Holla! I'm back! I finally got to scrap today and it was pretty amazing. I can't show you what I made today... Because it's for Challenge #6 at Scrapstars... But I can show you some LO's that I did a while back. Before my hiatus and before Eric came home.

And this one was obviously from a pretty long time ago.. considering that when Eric came home a couple of weeks ago I hadn't seen him for about six months. But enjoy anyways...

Other good news? I've been working on updating my etsy shop and so far it's been pretty good :) Stop over there and see what's new so far! Here's a couple of sneaks. Throughout the next week or so you'll be seeing more designs... And as always, if you are interested in custom ordering, just lemme know! :) I've been working on some new, more professional-like packaging and it's pretty cute if you ask me.

The almost three weeks that Eric was here... were amazing. I can't even describe it. We had so much fun and it was so nice for things to seem "normal" again. It DOES suck that he's gone again... but I'm still so happy with this boy that it's crazy. yay for us!

Eric decided one night that he was going to make some homemade guacamole for me because I had never had it before... and because he HAS and he loves it. Well, besides the fact that Eric has a hard time keeping his eyes open for pictures, he also had a hard time with the guacamole.

We didn't haven't any kind of mashing untensil... So he had a hard time smashing up the avacados... And after using just about every untensil we had in the kitchen (fork, spoon, spatula, blender), and after the cabinets, counters, and our shirts were covered in green goo... He ended up using his own untensils...

Ridiculous, I know... But we had a good laugh :) And it was still really yummy.

this sucks.

2008-09-10T11:36:00.002-04:00

I dropped Eric off at the airport this morning. It sucked. It still sucks. Especially since now I have to be at work all day. If you don't hear from me for seven months... It's because I decided to fall asleep and not wake up until he comes back home. Depressing... I know. Sorry about that.

On a lighter note... You know how, sometimes, you collect random pens on accident from random places? Like the doctors office, or the grocery store when you are signing your name on the credit slip? Well... I'm using one of my randomly collected pens right now. I just noticed that it says:

HANCOCK DRAIN SERVICE INC.
#1 In The #2 Business.

Get it? My day is a tiny tiny tiny bit better now. Thanks Hancock Drain Service. It's like you can read my mind.

All I have to "say" at this moment goes a little something like this:

2008-09-05T12:21:00.005-04:00

p.s. I <3 picnik.