Thursday, August 31, 2006

my new newest mini-album...









So, the challenge for day... yesterday ...9 I guess, was to get real ...which I needed, some serious therapy, you know, I came home from work, showered, laid in bed and cried for hours, until my sweetie came home to comfort me ...it was so bad, I really can just no longer stand my job ...I gave notice last week ...so I only have tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday left to work ...unless I decide that I want to stay 4 more days so that I've been there a year so that they'll pay me my unused PTO...but that is "totally up to me." I just don't know if I can stand that many more days of it, oh well, I guess it will all figure itself out within the next couple of weeks, right? Anyway, my Sweetie finally got home and I cried some more about my pathetic little life, heh, and then he took me out to rent a movie, any one I wanted ...we watched Shopgirl. I...am still not sure what I thought of it, all I know is that it made me very thankful for eHarmony.com, and it made me want to paint my walls green ...the rest of it...is kind of a blur...I just didn't "get" it, I guess, oh well. Anyway, so, after my Sweetie left for work this morning I stated work on a little "thank you" card for him ...also known as a mini-book ...because he, and his love for me, is what is real to me right now in my life .....and here are a few pictures, and I'll probably post the entire thing on 2peas...and I'll link it up here after the fact. I love you all, and thanks for coming around!

On milking cows...













So...I've gotten a little behind here, sorry! Tuesday, I milked cows, milking a cow is something that I have always wanted to do, and I finally got to!!!! :) I was so so happy! My friend Denise, from work, is a farm girl, her parents have cows, and for the longest time we've talked about her teaching me how to milk a cow, and it finally happened!!! Now, it's not as easy as they make it look, mind you, well, I guess it is after you've done it for YEARS, but it wasn't for me...I just felt bad squeezing the cows' tits so hard!!! You know? ...but you have to squeeze pretty hard. So...you don't really sit on a bucket next to the cow and milk it...it's more like there is a big... parlor.... they open the door and there's all these cows...they come in...and six of them line up on either side...in these like...stall things, with their backsides facing you, and the process begins!! So...After I get these photos uploaded and developed, I'll probably be making a mini-album... cause I am a bit mini-album crazy at the moment!

Also...that one that looks like a little deer...it's a baby cow! And the one Denise is feeding...that's the calf that was born the day I went out there...we went out to see the cows in the barn, and there as a new baby!! And it's mother's udder was HUGE!!!! It almost hung down to the ground, looked pretty painful!

Monday, August 28, 2006

My newest mini-album!






Day 7's challenge was journaling ....to sit down for 10 minutes and write about your dream job or studio or life or whatever...so I figured, I'm all caught up on these, and I don't have to work today...I could do a whole mini-album about my dream studio...so I did. :) Here are a few pictures...I'll probably post the whole thing here or something...probably tomorrow...after I learn how to milk a cow. :) (it's up!) :) For those of you who don't know, I've always wanted to milk a cow, and Denise, a girl I work with, is teaching me how tomorrow, and I am SOOOOOOOO excited!

Sunday, August 27, 2006

5&6




Here are my pages for5 & 6 ...I ran out of time to post last night ...and I was so glad that today's challenge was a quick one...oh, I guess I should tell you what the challenges were! #5 was a color challenge to explore what different emotions are evoked by various colors ...so I just went with a page about my favorite color, pink, and talked a little about how it makes me feel. #6 was a 10 minute challenge!! How cool! I actually took 20 on mine, all inspired by the movie we watched tonight, IQ...the little logo and slogan are both stolen from it. :) I took 10 minutes to x-acto the logo, and 10 to rub on the slogan ...maybe sometime I'll add journaling to this page ...or make a new one with journaling, about how Jason proposed to me at the top of the castle!! :) He's so great ...for some reason the day of our engagement keeps bringing itself to my mind lately. :) Happy thoughts.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Repetition.



Day four our challenge is to use repetition ...and I chose to repeat my color, the color of pink! I used most of the pink embelish- ments that I could find, brads, mini brads, crystal brads, flower brads, ribbon, rick-rack, buttons, flower sequins, acrylic tiles,eyelets, stickers, chipboard hearts, and using felt the other day made me want to use it more, so I made a felt flower, it was fun. This sweetie picture is of my niece Hayley, what a cutie! I like having little nieces, cause it's all the excuse that I need to use a lot of pink! :) :)

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Inspiration


Day three is all about inpiration, so I did a page to, for, and about my Hubby, my greatest inspiration, I love you so much, Sweetie, you're my favorite!!!
Tomorrow is our 5 month anniversary!! :)

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Today I learned...



...thanks to Rhonna, that listening to music while scrapping makes my pages COLORFUL! ...or at least that was the outcome today! :) I blasted my music to pump me up...which was hard ...cause most of the music in my itunes isn't hard music, it's soft, but oh well, there were a lot of fairytale songs somehow in the ones that I picked ...some Beauty and the Beast, and a little Faith Hill, Derek Webb and Chris Rice ...Jars of Clay too. (I think there was some Cline Dion, also!)
I had to photograph this, cause it will probably be next century before the fabric paint is dry!

10 days of creativity!!


I'm going to try to do Rhonna's creativity challenges, here is my page for yesterday...yesterday's challenge was to do something we had never done before, and mine was to use my index print pictures, and I think it turned out totally cute! Very fun, thanks for doing this, Rhonna!

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Round 2 *ding ding*



Here is my fun friends page, I actually love the way this turned out, but just by looking at the ones posted so far I'm pretty sure this is the end for me, which is ok, I just wanted to make it past the first cut!! But I think I'll continue to play along with these dares even after I'm out, cause they are totally making me do new fun and exciting things...I mean...when do I ever use 13 photos on one page?!? This was great, I think this one's going over my scrap space!

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

My fifteen minutes of fame!

check this out!
Thanks, Elsie!
Also, if you haven't read my Jelly Belly Day post, you must!!
Love you all,
Joy.

Monday, August 14, 2006

Jelly Belly Day!




...and it wasn't even supposed to be! We went to Kenosha today to check out Hobby Lobby and get an application for me...and then Jason showed me where he's going to work...just drove by the building...and on the way home, he took a wrong turn, and we got to see the drive-in theatre that he saw the last time he took a wrong turn and then went for an adventure looking for the Jelly Belly Factory, and found it! Just a spontaneous sort of thing! So...we didn't wait around for a tour, we'll do that next time when we plan to spend all day there...but we went inside the store and it was a great place!! We had so much fun, and ate a lot of candy! I just can't wait to go back, or work there!
And for those of you who have been following...I made it through the first round in "Last Scrapper Standing" and have finished my LO for the second! I don't really plan to make it farther...cause there really is just SO much talent competing...but who knows, right?!? Anyway, I should go, Have a great week!

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Last Scrapper Standing


This was my entry, I like it a lot....now just waiting to see who makes the cut!!! AHHHH!!....something like 350 entries or so...and we don't know how many they're cutting, tomorrow is the day!

Friday, August 04, 2006

In answer to my own challenge-


There she is!...Bazzill textured cs and star brads, MM definition sticker, Scenic Route pp, MOD and Scrapworks rub-ons, and the big circle is a sticker from Memories Complete, all with my just one piece of Winnie's Walls paper! I'm so proud of myself...now I just need to do some more of this...I've noticed myself doing a lot of this buying 2 or more pieces of PP from the same line so that it co-ordinates, now I need to make sure I use it with other stuff too. :)

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

I have my addictions and keep my share of secrets.



Hi, my name is Joy Jaeger, and I am addicted to Winnie's Walls.
...and my secret is that I HOARD the stuff, I have way way more than I use, and when I use it, I only use it with other Winnie's Walls stuff, it's almost tragic how co-ordinated my Winnie's Walls layouts are...it makes me want to just stick a bunch of mis-matched scraps on a page together...or at least use some Winnie's Walls with something else, so that's tomorrow's goal. Sigh.
I need a day off work.