The Simple Life

on my desk...

prepping and kitting valentine banners today ♥

sneak peek into my creative space...

oh how i wish my room was spotless right now! i can't believe this was taken back in march. right now between summertime and orders and LIFE, i haven't dedicated much time to getting my room back where i can create happily! it is going to take a good 3+ hours of uninterupted time to get it back to normal again. since my last few sales i didn't quite bring it back to life, we just unloaded everything, and my mess is not so much a creative mess but more like a hoarder/disaster work zone. check back with me friday...that is my personal deadline to have this place cleaned and organized again! ...and wow...looks like i need to get my blog caught up too.

where memories are created {on paper}...

i miss my scrapbook room.

it's been a LONG while, since i've been away from it.

for now i miss my old room. just being in it was enough for me!

i know i will have a new one, but it may be a couple more months before levi has time to start working on it. it needs completely gutted out. i'm excited that it will have "real walls." i get new sheetrock, new carpet. it has lots of windows, so i'll have to make a plan on how i will arrange my decor. i have to have my stuff on the walls...it's my inspiration and makes me happy! i sometimes feel like my time is being stolen, because i could be scrapbooking right now! at the same time, i still have a lot of house projects to be working on, so i try and make use of that and get them done. i'm almost done going through my photos of my old scrapbook room...i have too many, it may be a long post...i love all my photos!

for now i will leave you with this one...

ahhh...i love polka.dots.

♥

Time...

I have been working on this album for a couple weeks...I thought that this would be Levi's Christmas present if I actually got it finished in time...I worked on it on Sunday, and I think I have about 3 more 2 page layouts plus I have to figure out what to do with the cover of the album! I just wish I had more time....hmmmm what will I be doing tonight in the wee hours! 

Project starter...

I have been working on yet another project. You can call me project starter girl...I always have an idea, so I start it, so that I don't forget about it, but then I don't finish it. I have a problem with that...actually I think I get it from my dad, to tell you the truth...lol.

Anyway, I have had this green window frame lookin' mirror for 2 years now. When Max was getting ready to move over to Ace...he was having a sale on a lot of misc. stuff, I bet this thing was sitting in the back room for years, because it's just ugly! I was originally going to just paint it black and use it in the bathroom or something, when Scrapalicious was in Driggs. But I never got around to it.

Until...I found paper that matched my curtains that I still haven't made...

So with that the creative process started again, and I couldn't sleep last night, because I was thinking and dreaming about it all night! So this morning I started to put something together...

I am going to paint the frame black, use the mirror that goes behind it, on another project that I don't know about yet...and put scrapbook pages behind it, and hang it on the wall, remember this...

that is where it will be hanging...

so hopefully this weekend, I will have:

• my curtains sewn, completely finished and hung
• my new artwork finished and hung on the wall
• my table, desk, and window sill cleared off

Wish me luck, I want to FINISH projects and to be able to enjoy them while I can!

My Scrapbook Room...

okay so I have finally had some time to clean my scrapbooking room...I pretty much have everything where I want it to be {again} and for once it is clean. I am going to try really hard to keep it clean and organized, yeah right! It is so hard but its usually a creative mess.

And on with the pictures! This was before I had painted and moved everything in...

and here are the close ups...

Sometimes I like to do things backwards...

So on Saturday I bought some really cute fabric to make some curtains, well I'm not making them, cuz I don't know how, {mom you get to make them!} Now I am actually motivated to paint my scrapbook room, now that we just listed our home! Anyway here's a picture of the fabric, it is so awesome, I absolutely lOvE these colors! Well after work, I went home so that I could paint the drawers on the built-in desk. The drawers are a lime green, and I wanted to paint them coral. While I really like the green, I wanted to change it up a bit, and paint them coral. So I started painting them, and I had 2 drawers left, and I thought to myself...I should bring up the fabric to see how it looks with the paint! I ran downstairs to get the fabric, and then went back up to my scrapbooking room, put the fabric against one of the green drawers, and what do you know-it actually looked really good together, almost better than the coral! Why I didn't check before, who knows, but now I had to make up my mind. I ran into the garage to get Levi, so he could help me decide on which color to go with but he was too busy, so it was up to me to decide! Here is my thought process: I like the green but it's too bright, that's why I painted the coral. But the green looks better with the fabric. If I like the green then I need to hurry and wipe off the coral paint, because I don't have any of the green paint, and I don't know what the name of the color is. If I decide the coral does look better I can always just paint them again. Maybe I should just use both colors, alternating the drawers with the two colors. Why can't I make up my mind? I feel like Cherry right now! {No offense Cherry!} I need to hurry and figure it out because the paint is starting to dry... So I ended up, wiping the coral paint off, although I forgot to wipe off the inside of the desk, so now that is dry. I started painting the tan on the walls, and now I have to say that the green doesn't look as well as the coral would against the tan walls!!! Oh well, I will wait and figure it out when the walls are completely finished!

my Scrapbooking Room...in Driggs

here's my ribbon...I know it's an addiction.my closet with all the s{crap}...everything organized into themed catagories... my magnet board that I made... my cardstock table... tags, Heidi Swapp roller stamps and mini pink iron...never used it but it sure looks cute just sitting there... my s{crap} bucket...my computer desk... that house used to NOT be there in the window...my thread bucket... my Eiffel Tower frame from Paris... adhesives and stamps... AND NEVER AGAIN WILL MY ROOM BE THIS CLEAN!!!