moving announcements

The day after we found our place I was so excited I couldnt contain it and started making announcements to mail out. I wanted to print it on carboard pieces but didnt want to pay extra postage so settled on some brown cardstock. I drew some 'box' sayings on the front and when I got to The Ups Store, I put a bunch of different stamps on it too. I downloaded a type writer font to make it cuter and stamped and drew on it some more. I forgot our apartment number so made the owl exclaiming it. Mailed em out and cant wait for people to start getting them!














[sorry the pics are sideways, they werent on my camera and arent on the comp but upload this way]

moving!

Soo my boyfriend and I are moving from our beautiful home in Santa Barbara to start our next chapter in Los Angeles. Its not a town I would choose to live in but we need to to both go to the universities we need. We looked for apartments yesterday and found the perfect one for our family :] Its adorable, has little built in bookshelves and 50's ish charm. We are excited to have our own apartment after living with roommates for 3 years and now we have one to ourselves. Lots of crafting to come and decorating. Yayyy.

Scrapbook Pillow

Im plugging along on my pillow and its coming along nicely, even though I've only finished one 'memory' on it but I'm happy with it and getting more and more excited. Heres a picture(sorry its not that great I didnt have any sunlight at the time) and a picture of the original photo that I was modeling it after, this is the street that Jason and I stayed on in England with my aunt. Enjoy!

Absence

So I haven't been blogging lately with so many things going on right now. I have been having car troubles for 4.5 months now and then had a gnarly cold for two weeks now with no end in sight. I will be crafting again soon though. I've made a couple cards but bought more stuff then I have made recently. I'm going to start powering through me pillow cause I want it finished cause I'm so excited about it. Here's some hipstamatic pics for now and hopefully I'll have some craft pics up this week. :)

Anaheim angels game



Boo's new toy, pink poodle!



Beautiful flowers Jason got me for our anniversary(5 years!!)

So busy

School is starting to get down to the end and my anniversary(five years eek!) is next week and my boyfriends birthday is a week later so a lot of planning and crafting in secret going on here. I'm plugging a head on my London pillow and it's turning our better than I imagined. I got a new app too that allows you to do an inventory of embroidery floss and attach them to projects- now I dont have to bring it to the craft store and match thread I ran out of, it's awesome! Have a good weekend everyone :)



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New project!

The only thing I need is something to inspire me and distract me from all the things I need to finish...oh well!!

I was inspired by these Sundance embroidered pillows and decided to make my own and put things from our London trip on a pillow for our giant sofa. Just got back from Michaels and got some thread and gonna start printing out and carbon transfering to my fabric. Can't wait to update the progress.

we're home...

Were finally home and had an AMAZING holiday abroad. We managed to have some awesome adventures that im sure we will be telling our kids about one day. The architecture is so amazing, I probably could have taken photos for years but I think my boyfriend would have finally left me. My favourite thing: the wildflowers in England are daffodils, I think its the coolest thing ever that they grow everywhere and theyre wild. We did a lot of antique shopping there, I tried to hit every market that I could and ended up coming home with a few things, but it wasnt the antique finds that I was expecting. My aunt was telling me that they are a very throw away society so stuff just doesnt end up at the antique or seconhand stores the way that it does here. Kinda sad really cause I thought it was going to be some of the coolest stuff. Oh well I did manage to bring home 2 secondhand fur coats--that being said I would never ever buy fur that wasnt secondhand. Well heres some photos from our trip and Im already working on a couple crafts that ill post in a bit, I left my camera at my bfs moms house so she is mailing it to me.