It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. When Internet connection is limited it’s hard. When I wrote last I was in Seattle, I started out in Sonoma Ca. for the weekend. Then drove to Seattle was there for a week then drove back to Cali. Currently I am in Isleton. Monday was my 33 birthday, wow to say that I am freakin old…. Kevin and I went to Berkeley so I could shop at a few of my favorite stores. Anthropologie, Paper source, and of course a scrapbooking store. So after the traffic on the way to they bay we figured it was a good trial run since Kevin was flying out of Oakland on Wednesday. So first up the scrapbook territory, wouldn’t you guess it, they were closed. Yep Mondays they are closed… So we went to the other stores and had lunch on 4th st. Then we drove into Frisco. I haven’t been there since I was 10 so it was pretty. I don’t thin k I can ever drive on the bay bridge again, freakin terrifying! I went back to Scrapbook Territory yesterday after I dropped off Kevin at the airport. OMG this store is defiantly is tied with green tangerine as my favorite store! This week started the Big Picture free workshop, words to live by. I will post pictures when I can. Sorry this is a pictureless post due to lack of time and available Internet. I think I will get some post written so next time I have Internet I can bring you a more exciting post!
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
cheating:
These pictures are all from this year and kinda recent!!! I know it’s cheating but I needed to play catch up! So here we go:
day 1: self portrait
originally taken 6/27/11
day 2: what i wore
originally taken 6/26/11 trying sweater on at anthro
day 3: clouds
originally taken 2/18 /11 arizona sunset
day 4: favorite color {as of right now}
originally taken 6/11/11
day 5: someone i love {today is his birthday}
originally taken 6/16/11
there you go the first five days haha
Thursday, August 4, 2011
30 day photo challenge:
Ok Ok, so August already started. I just found this fun challenge yesterday and have been thinking about it non-stop! So I’m gonna cheat this month and fill in the blanks with pictures I already have… But I am gonna go all out come September. How awesome would a little mini be or even a layout. What a great way to document the month. Now my minds gotten a little ahead of myself but here’s another one. I was trying to participate in one little word-FAIL. Last year I tried project life-FAIL. I just don’t have the dedication to follow along. But if all I had to do was take a simple picture and I had a prompt for each day, You know take the picture first thing in the am, or right before bed.
I just might have a chance following though on this one. So what do you say, are you on board? I will come up with 365 days of picture prompts and we can start anytime. I am gonna ask my swap group to join in with me too. This is simple and how cool will it be to see the year in pictures. I will think of some great way to put this together too. Let’s make this fun, Aimee
And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my BF Kevin Happy 40th babe!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Cherry Lynn Designs:
So I am back but for just a few brief posts. I have a few post I will schedule, but I will be gone on an adventure to Seattle… you may get a post here and there but I dought it.
The next design team I am trying out for is Cherry Lynn Designs. I have never heard of this company, but when I found out about their design team call I checked them out. Guess what they are a die cut company, MY FAVE.
So if anyone knows me personally you know how much I love my QuicKutz! They are one of my true passions. I always wanted to work them… I keep hearing of new or other diecut companies and now here is my chance to work with one!!! YEAH.
Now I have not played with my dies since I closed the store. Since I don’t have the space, and I am so bad at putting things away I have just left them alone. I am suppose to create something for Cherry Lynn Designs, but I am just gonna show them some of my past work. And since I don’t own any of their dies that just might be better.
SO I have gone through my pictures {think I’m missing a bunch} and these are what I came up with. Some of these pictures are sooo bad. Tori {I miss that girl sooo much}and I were always having little photo shoots for the SPK's website.
And what’s even worse we didn’t always photograph are work. It really sucks when you are looking for some old work and cannot find a pic of it
So to start I found this one on The SPK's website gallery idea
OMG, I remember making that calendar, I never wanted to see all those little numbers again, but this page came out so good-it's a classic
Tori and I created this bra for a Melissa Frances Breast Cancer Awareness Contest CHA Winter`09
I wish we had been smarter and got better pictures, it was so
phenomenal
is this deer not the cutest little guy you ever seen?
I still have him around!
I recreated this Layout, I found it on the QK website back in `09 and loved it so.
It really made a great sample in the store. And that little leprechaun, is really a santa die! yep clever me figured to make him multi-holiday
See Santa became a multi-holiday die with just a few accessories!
I adore this rainbow! For a while there I would find a quote and then need to make singage with it.
The best one is at Kevin's house hanging over his bed, and I don't have a picture ={
My all time favorite quote!
A 6x6 fall kit I put together for SPK
anyone interested in them I still have a few kits laying around...
I also created this little tag for SPK
and I just mailed the ones I had left to my swapping group!
And last project of this post is a mini album that I made while taking a BPC Class
Ornaments of an ordinary life...
I hope you guys enjoyed going down memory lane with me pulling up some of these photos really gets some water works going, lol =}
Let's hope Cherry Lynn Designs like my work and then you will be seeing a lot more from me!!
Monday, July 18, 2011
on hiatus:
Taking a little vacation from bloging
collecting my thoughts and sipping lemonade
hoping summer never ends
and remembering the beautiful things in life
i'm on hiatus, but still around.
feel free to contact me if you are feeling crafty!
Aimee
Monday, June 27, 2011
staycation 2011:
Well I won’t be going anywhere for the 4th this year. Normal tradition would be at the delta house. Yes the house will be missed this holiday. Since I have to board a plane to Chicago on the 5th we are planning to have a little BBQ here and watch the fireworks at the school! So with that in mind I found this cute DIY, and decided in honor of the long weekend I will just camp in my kitchen window sill… he he This little project was super easy I messed up the first set of chairs so I just re-printed and now 3 munchkins can sit around the fire pit. And no project is complete without a hipstamatic photo-shoot.
So there you have it. Are you going anywhere fun for the 4th or hanging at home like me?
Sunday, June 26, 2011
out and about:
So I ran a few errands today nothing important. Picked up a few things here, returned some there.
I was at one of my favorite stores {I won’t name it in this post to keep some privacy}
and as I am being rung up I noticed this girl behind the counter, she looks so familiar to me… hummm were do I know her from, and then I notice what she is wearing. I have seen her in this outfit, the salmon chrysanthemum I know it!
So I ask her is your name Lauren, she looks up at me and says yes,
now I have her attention and she has gotten side tracked from the customer she is helping.
And before anyone can say anything else I blurred out “I read your blog” OMG I felt like a stalker. To quickly cover up my stalker statement I let her know how I found her blog and I knew she was local.
I mentioned some of my favorite post, and also explained I do similar work. I could of Squealed. It was so exciting meeting someone in person who you already feel like you know.
Anyways she was super nice, and of course I already love her, so I gave her my blog info and of coursed said “facebook me” Hopefully this will lead to a new friendship and if not I could always stalk her since I know where she works…lol j/k
{ i want one of these so bad }
So go check out her blog and etsy shop she has super cute things, I have been debating on ordering my name embroidered on a spool even though I could make it myself.
Hopefully Rachel and I will get Epic Events rolling and I can order super cute things from Lauren…
Did you meet anyone fun this weekend?