Showing posts with label Handmade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Handmade. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

17:50

"I get up every single day and I do my very best with what I am and what I have"

I almost cried when I got to 17:50
I want to remind myself of this, every single day!
I can relate to everything she said

like this:
"you have trouble seeing life as a journey
and you are more likely to see it as a series of final exams
that happen every single day that count for your entire grade
that's how I see life"

and this:
"we all long to have there be somebody who has solved life
as if live is some Sudoku puzzle
and there are people who get clues to it and they solve it
and then they spend the rest of their life glidding thru life
we dream of that....but every single person is familiar with failure and disappointment"

and this:
"our lives are journeys that nobody can take for us"

and this:
"Should I have gone to Art school?"
"Should I learn French?"



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I am taking Claudine Hellmuth's "@home with Claudine" class.  I made the canvas on Week 1.

Monday, July 19, 2010

right now

I am loving...
...Ali's latest post
...Extreme radio on Pandora
...Elise Blaha's blog

QOTD

*Paula Best stamps

Don't ask what the world needs.
Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Howard Thurman
(1899-1981); Author, Philosopher, Theologian, Educator, Civil Rights Leader

Friday, August 24, 2007

happy birthday to me

“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting.So... get on your way.”
Dr. Seuss



Today I am 34
Today I am looking forward to eating chocolate
Today I am learning to see with my heart, my eyes, my ears and my camera
Today I am trying to find balance between my new job, my marriage and life in general
Today I am working on remembering to not forget to always have faith

Saturday, July 14, 2007

a new card


working on my to-do-list this weekend. I have one more card to finish, a few more projects to finish and I can focus on scrapbooking. This card is for my nephew Liam who turns 2 in a few weeks. Used some Heidi Grace stuff I got from Fiskateer Holly this weekend. Love getting free stuff!

weekend


Just finished this card for a friends wedding. Not much else going on. Mark got what we think is an elbow infection and can't move his left arm since Friday. He is finally regaining some arm movement but he is in a lot of pain. So we aren't doing much this weekend, just hanging out and hoping the meds take the pain and the infection away soon! I haven't been able to go see the new Harry Potter movie yet, so bummed out :( . Hopefully tomorrow. I go back to work on monday. Very excited about that. Seems like I will be busy for a while and that is really good!

Monday, June 25, 2007

Guest Book


I finished the wedding guest book for my friends Robyn & Todd. They love the beach and they love music so their guest book is a combo of both; a beach sandal with pages in the shape of a sandal with music lyric excerpts in between the pages.

I really like how it turned out. I don't like the "typical" wedding guest books. I find them to be a waste (sorry if I offend anyone, not my intention). But seriously you end up with a ton of blank pages and you hide it in a closet and you go over it on your anniversary? I like guest books that are different and can be used for decor. For my guest book I used a scrapbooking album with black pages. I put our engagement pictures all over it and people got to sign it. So now it's an album/guest book that we get to enjoy all the time. So I am hoping Robyn and Todd get to hang it somewhere in their home and they get to enjoy it all the time as well.

PS. My friend Robyn started Strike The Match earlier this year. It's a San Diego based service organization made up of our friends. They are doing tons of volunteer and fundraising work for charity. Very cool!

Monday, June 11, 2007

Gift for mom


Cover


First Page


Second Page


Third Page


Fourth Page


Last Page


Back Cover

I made this mini album for my mom for mothers day. I gave it to her when she came to visit us. I used a kit I got from my friend Elena last year. I like how my version turned out and I am happy I waited until this year to do it. I am really into excerpt cards right now. Used the cards for a mother's poem. Oh yeah and the whole thing is in spanish cause that's our first language.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

I dare you!



I finished these dare cards for my friend Robyn's bachelorette party. I downloaded the tag from Creating Keepsakes back in January (I think) and I changed the wording.

Revenge is sweet and I get to seek revenge on what she (and other friends and family) dared me to do during my bachelorrete party. I was quite embarrased and Ms. Robyn seemed to enjoy it quite a lot. : Here are some of he things I was dared to do.

  1. Have a random guy kiss my hand- I can do that

  2. Sing "Besame Mucho" at the winery, loudly-uh!

  3. Have a guy give me a massage with Astroglide pleasure massage oil - my sister wrote that one.

  4. Give Astroglide to any guy as a gift-the reason there is a lot of Astroglide talk is because my friend Tanya is a manager for Biofilm (the company that makes Astroglide) so we had a ton that weekend and a life long supply. yipee!

  5. Practive the waltz with some guy for one minute - ended doing this with the limo driver

  6. Propose to the bartender on my knees-proposed to some guy at the bar who had a girlfriend. she was nice about it.

  7. Tell the server "he has the most beautiful eyes"- server gave us some free wine. awesome!

  8. Exclaim loudly " Wow! That really....can't write what the card says...
ok, they weren't so bad after all.

our guest book


Cover


This is what opening the book looks like

I made this guest book for our guest bedroom. I am looking forward to having my parents and grandma sign it this weekend. I bought the notepad at Michaels for $1 (gotta love $1 sections). I used a bunch of keys we had in our messy kitchen drawer and scraps of ribbon. I really like how it turned out.

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Happy birthday Gael!


My cute nephew Gael Alejandro turns 1 today!! He is so cute. Can you see the curly hair?

I made Gael a simple birthday card which I love.
"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify" Henry Thoreau

Handmade with love

Cover

Inside

I have been experimenting with making stuff. I just finished making 33 bridal shower invitations for my friend Robyn. I had a hard time getting inspired so I found an Umbrella Bridal Shower design I liked on the April/May issue of Paper Crafts magazine (page 82) and tried to make it my own. The magazine design was in brown and vanilla colors but I needed to change it to beach colors (i.e. aqua, turquoise, sand) because that is the theme and colors of the wedding. I also played with the ribbon and stamps. I am so happy I am done and the invites are on the mail! It took me a week to figure out what the first one would look like. I spent hours in Joann Fabrics, going up and down aisles trying to figure out what material to use. After the first one was done it took me another week to finish all 33. I worked full time Friday night thru Sunday night. Lots of work but done with a ton of love. Good friends make it all worth it!