Inter-Webular Goings On

We are currently in the thick of finals period kids. During this time period it is common to find students all over the nation drinking coffee as fast as it can be made, with bags under their eyes, stressed and un-showered. This is including myself, as evidenced by this group of texts Random yes. We were planning getting some supplies or Christmas dinner later this week.  And just for your information “And I shebang showered in days” is read “and I haven’t showered in days” ha. I was waiting for the bus, my fingers got cold and spazzy and my phone auto-corrected whatever I had typed to shebang. Classic autocorrect. But yes, I haven’t showered in days. My hair is disgusting and I’m keeping it contained in a hat and I don’t think that I’ve started to develop a smell so…

Anyways, there are some pretty exciting things going on around the interweb this week.

First, my pal London (holler!) of Such Sweet Tierney is currently hosting a 12 days of giveaways on her blog. Its currently day three and you can enter every day, all 12 days for a chance to win some really cool prizes. So go on over and get yourself some good swag.

Next, Vanessa blogged about the time back in September when I went to go visit her and crash the baby shower she was throwing for miss Katie. Here is proof that this little meeting did in fact take place. Yay! it was fun to be reminded of the good weekend we had. I can’t say it enough how cute and sweet Steven and Katie are, and Vanessa was a wonderful, and funny, with a fridge full of boxed wine. Such a good hostess. Anyways, go here to read all about our fun weekend.

Finally, the lovely Kimberly Scott asked me to take part in a little Christmas Vlog she put together. So I got out my little camera and started to ramble on about all things Christmas. Here is the video that Kim put together – its super good and totally worth your ten minutes.

Check out Kim’s post about the video here to see all of the fantastic ladies who were involved. It was just the break from studying I needed to keep my sanity and I’m so happy I got to be a part of it. Thanks Kim!

Aaanyways, I am going to take the rest of the day off (I think) I may motivate myself to give this little apartment a deep clean but we’ll see.

I’ll be back tomorrow to share the full, uncut (awkward) five minutes of me just rambling on about Christmas.

ilu.

ps. i love you This super pretty picture was in my email the other day in an email I got from Toast. Pretty right?

All I Want or Christmas – CT December

So last week the new Creative Type prompt went up and I thought I’d finally share my little project with you.

The prompt was “All I Want for Christmas”  and we had to use something vintage on our project.  Here is what I made... It is a little envelope in which you can keep all of your Christmas wishes!! I used some vintage fabric scraps and I used a vintage colour palate. I am currently loving the seventies olive and mustard combo. This is a fun little project that all of you can do too. Or something you can do with your kiddos on a snowy day. Just grab an envelope – I reused one that someone sent me some goodies in – and then decorate it all up however you’d like. Now go forth an make one yourselves after you check out what everyone else came up with for the prompt at the Creative Type.

Happy Weekend.

lovelove Jer.

Ps. I love you.  These pictures of Vee’s home make my heart happy. I love the little ornaments an the way she processed them? I dieee.

Kroes Family Portrait Session

When I went home for thanksgiving last month my family asked me to take some pictures of us to update the portrait on our wall (the one I took at thanksgiving two years ago) and to have one for Christmas cards this year. So before we headed off to my Aunt’s for dinner we had a quick (like 15 minutes quick)  tripod, self-timer portrait session. Ok you say, its now the end of November and we haven’t seen any of these pictures yet? Well my family came to visit me yesterday and said the same thing. So needless to say I finally got around to editing the pictures today – which was actually a much needed break from the day to day homework routine that I have found myself in the past few weeks.

So, here are a few shots from the session.

The one where my dad is blowing in my mom’s ear? Yeah that’s the way he can usually be found in pictures – doing something to someone else to make them mess up the photo or making some really strange face himself. I’m pretty sure my grandma (who probably takes a hundred pictures each time we get together) does not have one ‘normal’ picture of my dad because he always makes some kind of a face. And love it about him. I’m actually super surprised that this went as well as it did given his usual antics.

Anyways given our short length of the shoot I was a little worried about not having anything usable even though in those 15 minutes I probably took close to a hundred pictures – but I think its safe to say there are a least a few usable shots from the day.

Now, to choose one and develop a Christmas card from it.

xo Jer

PS. I love you These photos by Natalie Franke of the super sweet Haddox Fam are so perfect. I’ve looked at them like 13 times today. Katie and Steven are one of the sweetest couples I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting and these pictures capture them so well.

A New Project & A New Layout

So the other day I mentioned some exciting news and that news is that I am now a member of The Creative Type! I was thrilled when Danielle asked me if I wanted to join and I am so excited to be a part of the team of super talented ladies over there. We are changing things up, doing things a little bit differently and its all really exciting stuff.

Anyways, we are back for the fall season with a new prompt. This month the challenge is to create a layout about someone who inspires you. We all chose to do a layout about or inspired by or lifted from someone else on the DT.

Of course, since I had just visited her, I did mine about Vanessa. I was feeling extra “artsy” the night I cranked this layout out, so I channelled my inner Vee, Dina and Dani and ended up using lots of mists and paints etc. Because I failed at taking pictures during my little trip photo cred goes to the talented Mandi (thanks Lady!).  Thanks to Steven for insisting I keep that little pink ride ticket from the fair – because it was the perfect little addition to my layout along with my admission ticket (the red one) which I didn’t mean to keep but was in my bag when I cleaned it out. Aaaand the super cool red sibling rivalry label was from the bottle of wine we enjoyed on the Saturday night (not the actual bottle, but another bottle of the same that I have since consumed). Nostalgic right?

Aaanyways the point is, you should head over to the Creative Type to check out the new things going on, and to check out this month’s prompt. And if you do play along, link me up because I definitely want to see.

Jer

PS. I love you Kara blogged the second instalment of her “Hey I Know You” series this week, in which she interviewed her super charming grandma who is an eloquent writer and an amazing painter. It is so inspiring and really lovely and you should check it out here.

a layout.

You may or may not remember, but a while back i guest designed for my friend Tara at Up the Street Scrapbooking. You can see the layouts that I made with her pretty kit here. And then while I was in India, she posted a DIY that I did using her kit and you can see that here.

Well, if that’s not all, I made one more layout with the kit that I used in my Hambly DT submission earlier this summer and never got around to sharing. Anyways, here it is. Its probably one of my favourite layouts in a while.  I used the Studio Calico  paper, the Cosmo Cricket letters and the brown paper packaging from the kit along with my American Apparel bag with some SC FabRips underneath.

Simple. Fun. Just the way I’m liking my pages lately. Also, I forgot just how long my hair was before I went to India. It was super long.

Today I am helping my sister paint her room a nice shade of lime-ish green. I’m also going to attempt to scrapbooking using some really old supplies I have around here.

What are you up to for the day?

PS. i love you I am in love with this Persona series by photographer Jason Travis . He takes a portrait of someone he meets in his daily travels and snaps a picture of whatever they’ve got in their bag and then creates these amazing diptychs.

So perfect.

See the full set here.

Really quickly, hi from India.

Before I left, I did a DIY for my friend Tara at Up the Street.
Check it out to see how I got from this:to this:

xo Jer

Ps. I apologize for the AWFUL formatting of this blog. I'm using the online blogger editor which I loathe. Hopefully if we find some wireless somewhere in our travels I'll post a real update, complete with some pictures and good formatting.
Ps. I miss you, but I kind of love it here .

Overheard + A layout

Here is another layout I made with the March kit from Up The Street Scrapbooking. This is probably one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a long time. We were sitting in our microbiology class last month and this is how the events unfolded. . .

Dr. Colby: “The best sweet you’ll ever taste is. . .”

Amanda: (to me) “Nanaimo bars!!!”

Dr. Colby: “. . .pure cane sugar.”

I had to excuse myself because I was laughing so hard.

Aanyways, nothing from this kit is going to waste. I used the paper bag it came in as my background for this layout, the negative space from he Cosmo letters as a mask for misting and I used some of the negative letter space to tone down the striped Cosmo paper.

You can see more of the layouts that I made with this kit down below. Or you could click right here.

J

Ps. I love you its a little magic, no?

via David Wallace

some layouts.

A while ago I blogged a sneak peek of a layout I made for my friend Tara (if you are here from Tara’s blog welcome!! I hope we can be blog friends and you’ll come back again and again!). When she asked me to play around with one of her kits I could not say no. 1-because my student budget along with my trip to India budget, does not allow for the purchase of any new scrapbooking supplies. And two, once I took a look at her kits I knew I’d love to play around with them.

I used the March kit from Up the Street Scrapbooking and it was fantastic . It was a lovely mix of Studio Calico’s Anthology and Cosmo Cricket. I of course gravitated to the modern vintage SC line, but the Cosmo supplies were fun too.

Here are some of the layouts I made with the kit. This was inspired by a layout by Jen. I haven’t made cards for literally years, but it was fun to play around with them again. I like that you can get a couple done in a short period of time – it makes me feel like I accomplished something without really thinking too hard. Which by the way is sometimes just what the Dr. orders for those inspirations slumps.

I have tons of this kit left. You will be seeing more layouts from this kit for a while . I have a few more already done that I will be sharing sometime in the near future. So keep checking back for those.

What have you been up to lately?

J

Ps. I love you This little boy had the saddest face when I was photographing some of this stuff. Those big sad eyes?? I diiieee.

(aaaand Yes, that is a scarecrow in the corner. We rescued her from the side of the road two Halloweens ago. Her name is Suze.)

i should be sleeping.

Buuut instead I’m popping in to quickly tell you that I’m featured over at Steph’s blog today.  So first of all, if you are here from that profile, WELCOME! I hope you’ll come back again.She has this really cool feature called Inspiration profile where she interviews people who inspire her. If it isn’t cool enough that Steph wanted to feature me (which it is), I’ve joined the likes of people who inspire me such as Vee and Tina who have also been featured. I’m super honoured. So thank you Steph for asking me to do this!!! You are sweet :)

For the curious, you can check out the feature right here to learn a few things you may not have known about me.

Happy Tuesday!

Ps I love you

Quick Update.

So I know I have been an awful blogger lately, but yesterday I wrote my last exam and as of yet I’m still unemployed so I guess now I have no excuse not to blog because I essentially have unlimited amounts of time on my hands. lol.

So yeah, I wrote my last exam yesterday.

I leave for here in just under 9 weeks. (source)

I cried myself to sleep that I wasn’t at Coachella. But remain hopeful that I will attend one day.

I had a glimmer of hope in attending Lollapalooza but its the week after I return from India so those hopes were dashed. But I remain hopeful that I will attend this one day as well (just pleeaase bring back arcade fire the year I go).

This starts next week and I am SUPER excited. (source)

A while ago I posted this post and then today I was featured in this post over at the Dares (if you are visiting from the Dares, welcome!! i hope you’ll stick around for a while). My dare was to be inspired by skateboard graphics and here are my pages and the boards they were inspired by.   I hope you play along with the dare this week. If you do link me up to what you create because I would loove to see them.

xo Jer

taking the day off. . .

  [buy this cutie here]

. . . to be a robot. I’m guest blogging for my cute friend Vivianna at her blog PolkaDotRobot. Go on over there and check it out – its a good one. ha!

ilu. jer.

awkward.

I’m sure the suspense is just killing you, so here is my layout for the Such Sweet Tierney revealThis is my brother and his friend at their 8 graduation back in June – and this is definitely my favourite picture from the whole night. Every time I look at it I just crack up. How classic? Love it. We did actually end up getting a good one of the two of them, they just had to work themselves up to it – hence, this picture. Here is the good one.

Ps- Wes has style eh? I mean, c’mon, white suit, pink shirt. Veery nice and he knew what he wanted and picked it out all on his own. Although he does have a good style icon to model himself after if I do say so myself. (You’ll have to excuse the awful, aaawful hair style and the baby fat)

Changing the subject. . . . I need to figure out a better way to make those little rosettes – or at least to adhere them to the cardstock – or something because they were tedious, and now the ends keep popping up. I just used Zots glue dots. I tried to use my sewing machine and then pull the top stitch to gather the edge but the fabric i used was too stretchy and that didn’t work out so well. Aaanyways, if you have any great tips for making rosettes I’d love to hear them.

Also, this layout is inspired by a Maggie Holmes layout I saw, I think its in her Studio Calico gallery this month, but I’m not 100% sure.

If you have any questions about process or products you can leave a comment or email me, whatever’s easiest.

I am going to nap I think, and then I think I’m going to see Funny People this evening.

xo j

ps. Check out the rest of the DT reveal here. There is some amazing stuff you will be inspired.

i can’t think of a title for this post.

Its August so that means the Such Sweet Tierney DT reveal will be happening any day now. London just made a big move to Seattle last month so it will be up as soon as she can get it up – you know how big moves are. Aaanyways, here is a quick peek at my first project for the month.

Keep checking London’s site for the big reveal, there is amazing stuff there every month – the girls on the team are sooo talented and there is always a bunch of eye candy on the reveal date.

Hope you are having a good weekend.

Jer