tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8263703479557499342024-03-13T15:43:48.388-07:00my creativity in progressAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454153751276364983noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826370347955749934.post-18594091770060380992013-06-26T11:32:00.001-07:002013-06-26T11:39:10.429-07:00New website!Hi everyone. I know it's been so long since I've posted.<br />
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Good morning! It’s been a busy week for me. My job moved to a new location this week and I absolutely love it! Our new space is so beautiful and professional.</div>
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So I just wanted to share this super cute project that I made awhile ago. When I was cleaning out my desk to move I found this really old cheap bulletin board. It wasn’t anything fancy, just cardboard and it was starting to fall apart. I decided I would take it home and see what I could do with it. I had my yarn from my yarn wreath also and I put both in the bag. So when I pulled it out it dawned on me, why not cover this board with yarn! I covered the board in yarn one direction and then once that was done, I covered it in the opposite direction. I actually ran out of green yarn so I finished it in the white which turned out pretty cool. I also made a yarn pompom which didn’t turn out so great, I need more practice LOL Re-purposing old items is a great way to breath new life into items that you’d probably throw away. I decided to take it to work and hang it in my cubicle since I have the green theme going.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454153751276364983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826370347955749934.post-34995530202971787862013-04-23T06:16:00.002-07:002013-04-23T06:36:58.413-07:00Embellish Me Happy a go...Hello everyone. Today begins the first set of challenges over at Embellish Me Happy and I'm so excited to share my Project Life challenge today!<br />
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Here is my Week 14 layout...my favorite color is green and I just happened to find a box of green embellishments when cleaning out my desk at work. My tag is colored with different colored green markers and highlighters and embellished with flowers and some cool feathers I found too.<br />
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I'm so behind with sharing my pages, so this is picture heavy. Here are Weeks 7 to 13...<br />
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Week 7: I received my first Studio Calico PL kit in February, so alot of the pieces are from that kit.</div>
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I included my Valentine's Day card and some pictures on the back that I never got to insert in Week 7.</div>
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Weeks 8 & 9: this was the two weeks that I was very busy with the whole moving process. This was the best I could do and for me it's better then having nothing for those two weeks.</div>
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BTW I got that airmail washi tape at AC Moore, it's so cool.</div>
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Week 10: I love typing text onto my photos and including digital elements to my layouts.</div>
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Week 11: the "We Have Laundry" picture has a very funny story to it. My first week getting my laundry done the people lost all our clothes :( It was horrible, but we were refunded the money and bought some new stuff. Getting the laundry back the next week was awesome LOL</div>
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Weeks 12 & 13: not many pictures these two weeks and I somehow lost my mojo with PL.</div>
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I moved to a new apartment in March. So far we've been enjoying our new place and it's been a lot of fun decorating and getting organized.</div>
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Since I moved I've been planning different projects and I knew for sure that I wanted to make a wreath for my front door. I started looking online for inspiration and found this awesome <a href="http://www.craftaholicsanonymous.net/simple-valentine-wreath">website</a>. The valentine yarn wreath really caught my eye, I especially loved the two tone yarn.</div>
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I decided to do mine in green since it's my favorite color. I cheated and bought all the flowers and the doily I found in the dollar bins at Michaels. I love the way it turned out, even though my son asked why there was a tube on the front door and the fact that my boyfriend stuck his head thru the middle of it...but they're guys, what do they know LOL</div>
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I'm back with a catch up of my Project Life pages and some little tips along the way. FYI: I do one week on one side of each page protector, two pages a week is way too much for me to do LOL</div>
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Week 1 - Tip: find cute items that you get at stores or restuarants and use them in your PL album! I got this cute postcard from Bath & Body Works and used it as my Week One card :)</div>
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Week 2 - Tip: use a little pocket on your page to hold extra pictures! I used one to hold extra pictures I took at Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum.<br />
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Week 3 - Tip: even if you're not a "digital" scrapper, you can add images on top of your photos for added interest. I added the Fox News Flash to the picture of Michael doing dishes.<br />
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Week 5 - Tip: don't beat yourself up if you're page doesn't turn out like you wanted it to. I really hate this page but didn't have time to go back and make it look better. I just moved on.<br />
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Week 6 - Tip: experiment with different types of page protectors. <br />
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Are you doing PL? How's it going so far for you?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454153751276364983noreply@blogger.com0Staten Island, NY 10314, USA40.5952146 -74.18271190000001540.4987661 -74.344073400000013 40.6916631 -74.021350400000017tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826370347955749934.post-71252256334682895532013-03-26T10:51:00.002-07:002013-03-26T10:51:45.233-07:00What's going on...<div style="text-align: left;">
Before I begin, I wanted to share something very exciting! My friend Toccara is starting a brand new challenge blog...</div>
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So hello there. It's been ages since I've written on my little blog. February was a blur and where did March go? I'm glad it's over though, bring on the nice Spring weather. </div>
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<span style="color: red;">watching</span>: My favs right now are Grimm, Project Runway and Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars. <br />
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<span style="color: orange;">reading</span>: not much reading going on lately. I did get Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, has anyone read it?<br />
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<span style="color: #bf9000;">listening</span>: Ashley Monroe - yes I hate country but this girl sings so good I don't even care that it's country music LOL I also *heart* STRFKR, The Drums, Block Party and Ra Ra Riot.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">feeling</span>: so happy that I started working out again. I decided to do Couch to 5K. Two workouts down so far and I'm feeling great. My goal is to lose the rest of my goal weight this year.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b5394;">planning</span>: I'm still doing Project Life and I'm pretty much up to date. I just need to plan time to actually sit down and work on embellishing my pages more. I will be sharing my pages soon.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple;">loving</span>: my new apartment, been there for a couple of weeks now and it's been fabulous. And of course my sweet boyfriend. Any guy that buys adorable owl cups is a keeper :)<br />
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I'm loving my brand new blog re-design by my awesome friend Val!!! Thank you so much. If you're interested in getting a new blog design, check out her blog <span style="background-color: orange;"><a href="http://allthingschula.com/">here</a></span>, she does great work!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454153751276364983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826370347955749934.post-48581566526621393662013-01-08T12:04:00.002-08:002013-01-08T12:06:50.069-08:00What's going on...<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: x-large;">currently:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">reading</span>: still on book 3 of Fifty...yeah I know, I know you're saying "how did you not finish that book yet?" See the next topic for the reason!<br />
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<span style="color: #6fa8dc;">listening</span>: Damn Google Play music store!!! Giving away free songs - knowing I'll get hooked and buy the full album. I'm loving these new artists... Minus the Bear & Coheed and Cambria, plus the new Bruno Mars album (love). And I never get tired of listening to Scream & Shout by will.i.am and Gangnam Style by Psy.<br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">making</span>: I haven't been making anything lately. Just working strictly on Project Life this year and trying desperately to get my scrapping mojo back. <br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af;">planning</span>: on having some fun this year. Doing what I have no idea yet, but I do want to have fun and enjoy life in 2013.<br />
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* a certain someone that is very special to me :) :) :)<br />
* My word for 2013: BELIEVE. I believe that great things are going to happen in 2013, I choose to believe that I can become a better person this year and I want to re-focus on believing that with God all things are possible.<br />
* Every single item in this awesome digital shop: <a href="http://creativebubble.bigcartel.com/">http://creativebubble.bigcartel.com/</a> If you're doing <em>Project </em><em>Life</em> definitely check it out.<br />
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So far I have 3 spots left...any takers???<br />
Leave a comment here and on my FB and let me know.<br />
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Hugs, MarleneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454153751276364983noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826370347955749934.post-72016226264958002152013-01-04T07:43:00.001-08:002013-01-04T07:44:34.835-08:00Project Life Cover Page<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
I'm so excited to start on a brand new year of Project Life for 2013!</div>
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The polariods are from one 12x12 sheet of paper, I just cut them out and added the silhouette pictures and word quotes.<br />
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If you're doing Project Life, please leave a link to your blog/gallery. I love seeing what everyone else is doing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454153751276364983noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826370347955749934.post-6857178916165314922013-01-04T07:27:00.001-08:002013-01-04T07:34:11.820-08:00Project Life Organizer<div style="margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 500px;">
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I'm so geared up to start my 2013 Project Life album! I bought some new supplies recently which I'll be sharing soon. I've learned some things from doing PL this year, the main thing is that I want to improve on adding more journaling. So I decided to make a little journaling binder that I can keep with me at all times.<br /><br />I had this cute little binder laying around, so I covered it with these cute Sassafras Paper Whimsies cards that I had forever. I bought some basic graph paper, cut them down to side and added them into the binder. I made sections for each month of the year. I also included December 2012 so I can journal for my December Daily section of my PL album. I made an inside pocket cover to hold small items. I now have pages for each month where I can write down which week it is, the dates, and all my journaling and picture ideas.<br /><br />So hopefully this will keep me a little more organized for 2013 and more importantly help me add in more journaling, cute sayings that my boys said...stuff like that.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10454153751276364983noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-826370347955749934.post-21512036112472091652013-01-03T18:26:00.002-08:002013-01-03T18:26:40.980-08:00Welcome<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Hello and welcome to my brand new blog...<br />
<i>my creativity in progress</i> <br />
I'll be posting lots of Project Life, Instagram pictures and everyday life.<br />
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