Jenni Bowlin Studios Home decor anyone?

I will be the first to admit I am a chronic hoarder of anything butterflies and Jenni Bowlin Studios UNTIL I find the absolute perfect use for them. Well this week has been my week to conquer the mess of my daughters' room. My 7 yr old and 4 1/2 year old share a room and I swear that room fills up with more stuff than I even ever knew they had. So after some cleaning, more painting, dismantling of the baseball ceiling fan that had been in there previously from their brother occupying their room, I decided to 'alter' a ceiling fan for them :) I first painted the blades a shade of purple to match the colors of their room, then just used two different rub ons, alternating which blade they went on and came up with this...


My next little project was a brainstorm of just how I could get my girls to quit using packing tape to hang their artwork on their newly painted walls??? They both LOVE to draw, write, color, and paint and always want their artwork displayed so I came up with an idea of using a regular 1 by 4, adding some JBS Mercantile mini papers to it, then adhering some clothespins on it for hanging papers and now there is NO tape going up on their walls anymore :) Makes this momma very happy!



I definitely think the crappy Iowa winter weather is getting to me...cuz if I don't stay busy creating, sewing, altering, or painting, I just might go INSANE!! Next project...the girls art desk ;)

Random Blathering

I have not blogged in two weeks and feel I could cover a lot of ground, but would you really be interested in reading it all? doubt it....so I will summarize...

SNOW DAYS X 5 with no snow days built into the school schedule, we will be lucky to be out of school before the 4th of July ;)

THE FLU hit us all like a ton of bricks...first the wee one, I was up with her all night, and then it spiralled downward, we dropped like flies in this order, Kamy, Averee, ME, Brayden, Jason, and then Brayden again? (or was that just a ploy to miss another day of school??)

THE BIRTHDAY Today is Averee's birthday...she is a very glorious seven years old and acts the age of a much older, much more sophisticated 14 year old. I love that about her. She is laid back sometimes, way too loud other times, and just down right, undeniably irresistable. Due to above mentioned sicknesses, all parties are postponed til next weekend when we are all healthy and ready.

SEWING I have been doing some sort of sewing almost every day. To break up the day, to break up the monotony of no sun, to just play around and learn and love and create.

SCRAPBOOKING That has been a big part of the last week and I guarantee it would have played a bigger role, had we not all come down with the plague. JBS Mercantile Janury mid month release :) I give a little tutorial on how to create this on the JBS Inspirational Blog if you would like to see.




I am already working on a project for the JBS blog for February and boy am I in the festive Valentine spirit already! Want a little peek?

Most of what you see here so far is just fabric, but will be asdding lots of Jenni goodies to it to make it complete! Look for my project to be on the blog February
2nd.

January Jenni Bowlin Creations!

and what a kit it is!! I love the color palette and still have soo much more creating to do. With the holidays now over, and the kids back to school in a couple days, maybe I will be able to get something done :) I did get a chance to create two layouts already...




And there will be lots more to come on the 10th at the JBS Mercantile site, where the design team has a mid month reveal, so don't miss that!

I have been sewing....

A LOT. I have become one with my sewing machine again and have been trying all sorts of new repurposing projects and I even made TWO dresses from patterns of all things! Yes A PATTERN!!!



since Kamy is my one that is home the most time, she gets to be guinea pig :) I have been bookmarking lots of blogs as well to inspire me and thought I would share them with you to see if you are inspired as well...

Make It and Love It...this gal is SUPER inspiring and can make something out of pretty much ANYTHING!
Ruffles and Stuff...LOTS of very very cute ideas for little girls
Matilda Jane...not a repurposed site but a website for selling dresses. Their color palette and mixture of patterns is DIVINE and their pictures are gorgeous!
My Mama made it...another FABULOUSLY inspirational site for repurposing clothing!

I know this has started an obsession that will hopefully continue and I will get 'good' enough that I will even let the kiddies wear the clothes I make OUTSIDE of the home :)
Sty tuned for in two days is the January release for the Jenni Bowlin Studios papercrafting kit and design team creations! I have barely had time to scrap since the holidays let alone even get all my pictures uploaded to possibly scrap them...but promise to have layouts done already with the kit....YUMMMMMMY!

Revisions to the etsy store...

and SLASHED prices!!

You can see my etsy store right here!!

Now off to try and warm up by the fire...-3 degrees is waaay too cold!

Snow and LOTS OF IT!!

Last week my little home and pretty much most of Iowa was SLAMMED with snow and blizzard conditions shutting down school for 3 /12 days and making us a prisoner in our own homes. NOTHING necessary got done, just a lot of me being activities coordinatore for all the kids here making sure they stayed out of mischief, which seems to happen when they get bored :) We actually got to play in the snow before the temps dropped to sub zero...

Of course I have no pics of my son playing in the snow because he was out galavanting with his frineds and sledding. :(
But then the HEAVY snow came, over a foot, and the near impossible to believe temperatures....YUCK! Three snow days and a late start later, i't getting a little warmer. I actually did get to take the girls out again today to frolick in the snow while the boys of the house were deer hunting and before the bone chilling cold comes again next week.




I am completely OVER winter and cold weather and it just started :) Now the next two nights we get freezing rain and a couple inches more of snow.....eeeeh just pile it on what we already have!

And now to share my JBS Mercantile mid month releases!






And I wish I could tell you what in the heck is up with my camera sometimes....it is putting a blue ish tint on some of the pics. I know I have the settings right? Any suggestions??

Taking pictures....

short post for now....been experimenting with manual focusing :)

JBS Mercantile December Kit!!

I have two layouts up so far in the JBS Mercantile gallery for now and more to come on the 10th :) I havent even had time to touch the project kit but I know just what I want to do and can not wait to get started! You can find the JBS KITS on the
JBS Mercantile site!




Today all the kiddies were at school and I decided to try out making a crayon roll for my girls. Well I made two and I am going to make some more!! I am absolutely FED UP with the messes they make with their colors and markers and papers and I really really hope this helps in the process of staying a little more organized. Here is one of em...


These just might make perfect Christmas gifts for my nieces and nephews :)

lots of VINTAGE goodness

in my ETSY STORE!! I have been slowly adding to my store some goodies perfect for the holiday season....go check it out! let me know if you are interested in any custom orders and I will see what we can work out...oh and just a reminder....38 MORE DAYS til Christmas :( That is just downright insane! Here's a preview of what's in store :)

How bout a sneak peek of festive??

and just one sneak for now :)




I will tell you that this sneak peek is from the JBS November Project kit....Jenni puts together such AMAZING project kits! I have loved every one! And of course they are already sold out :(

I am overlwhelmed with inspiration!!

at the new November kit for JBS Mercantile. This up coming kit is now ranking as my absolute favorite and I am having a hard time NOT creating. Honestly....that is an AMAZING feeling :) Going to be posting some sneaks tomorrow!

As for my life, it has unfortunately not included anything scrappy related in a month :( But the reason is a good one....my little photo biz has taken off greatly and I have been busy busy busy photographing some BEAUTIFUL families. It truly makes me soooo happy that I am able to do what I love and put smiles on the clients' faces when they see their edited pictures!

We carved our punkins lat night :) Just in time for Halloween tomorrow! I already have one kid that is NOT going trick or treating cuz it 'just ain't cool' anymore to go at his age. Time is truly slipping away from me. But still have two little very excited girlies going tomorrow night!

And here is our punkins!

I can do better.....

You know I have tried blogging four different times in the month of October and blogger has not let me post ONE SINGLE TIME. I am here trying again! I will not give up!

First share is for the JBS Mercantile October kit full of gorgeousness. I think that Jenni bowlin blogged just today how there is only two or so kits left! I can definitely understand why!









as for my life beyond scrapbooking it has really taken a turn lately and for the better I am hoping. I have now launched my own photography biz and tryng to make a go at it. I am just as passionate about taking pictures as I am getting them scrapbooked. I received soo much support from my peers about my abilities that I had to try :) I do have a facebook page dedicated soley to my photos if you would like to see.....

Life's Moments Photography

The process of me even starting a business is a huge step for me considering I have been staying at home with my children now for ten plus years and running strong. I am hoping and praying that it all works out and I will be able to do this on a full time basis....pursuing my dream!

Homecoming Week!

I just love how the themes are going this year for Iowa Valley's Homecoming! first was Nerd day, then color day, fairy tale day today and rock star day tomorrow. Of course Friday is school color day!

Here are a couple pics to see what my little nerds have been looking like :)



Can't wait for tomorrow's rock star day....getting out the hair color again ;) In just a few more days, the new JBS Mercantile October kit will be debuting and you will not want to miss that! Sneak peeks to come!!!

I feel soo incredibly HONORED...

to be mentioned on Scrapscene!!! I created a Halloween haunted house with the new JBS Mercantile Halloween Bingo cards and they featured it in a post!!





You can find it RIGHT HERE!!.

And with a step by step tutorial, you can make one yourself RIGHT HERE!! Just follow the link to the JBS Wholesale site!