Five Fabulous Favorites!

I've been really into MM stickers lately, I love all the velvet ones, and the tiny alphas are INGENIOUS, they are pretty much my favorite things to use in minibooks. So, for this minibook for Ali's challenge this week I used paint chips, mini photos, office supplies, and MM stuff, very fun!! It's so easy to put something together quickly when you choose a few products and repeat them throughout. :) The book is only about 4x3, very easy to get done quickly, it was fun!
you can see the individual pages better here if you would like! :) Have a great Wednesday!

Happy 6 Month Anniversary!

We've been married half a year today! :) Man, time has just flown by, huh? When I was younger half a year seemed almost like an eternity, but man, it feels like just last week we were getting married!! Crazy!

So, I get to go have lunch with my Sweetie for our anniversary today, yay! :) I love getting to have lunch with the most wonderful man in the world.

We had a pretty fun and tiring yesterday...after church we went to have lunch over a Pastor Paul & Lisa's house to talk about youth group, that was fun. Thank we came home and cleaned out Jason's car so that we could pick up a couple of kids for youth group, then we watched K-Pax on TV...it was weird, but very interesting! Then we got ready and left to pick up some kids and headed to the adventure we call Jr. High Youth Group! Wow, those kids have A LOT of energy! We played some getting to know eachother games, had a Bible lesson, played capture the flag, and ate some cookies and brownies. I feel like such an old woman though...I had to RUN in capture the flag and now my HIP is totally out of whack! Oh well...that happened to my OTHER hip just last week from doing pilates...but after a few days it felt better, so it's all good. He he he, they're really good kids, though, they're friendly and include everyone, I like them.

Also, I'm excited to get to start work on another minibook this week, the first issue of Ali Edwards' email newsletter is out and we are challenged to make a minibook of some of our favorite things, I'm stoked! Yay!

I hope you all have a great "Jason and Joy's Half Year Anniversary" today! :)

My Sweetie is the Sweetest!!

I had my first photoshop lesson tonight, and this is some of what we did, fun picture, eh? And you all can go ahead and leave me a comment about how much you like my banner!!! :)

Today is a singing sort of day!

I am having a really great day, you know that!?! Let me tell you about it...

I am totally getting stuff done, that's great.

I got Romani for cheap at HL this AM, gotta love that!

I had lunch with my Sweetie-Pie today, that always makes me happy!

I applied to be a tour guide at Jelly Belly, which would be SO fun!

I came home and had a 2peas gift certificate from my wonderful SSS in my inbox!!!

I ordered a bunch of really totally amazingly beautiful papers and didn't have to pay for them due to that gift certificate from my awesome Secret Sister!! :)

The only thing that wasn't so cool about today was that my LSS didn't have the stickers that I need to finish my honeymoon album, but Linda said they would be in today or Monday and that she would call me, so it's all good! :)

Since I haven't done ANY scrapping yet today, maybe I should get started on some of that before 6, huh? This picture...is my beautiful Starbucks ice cream bowls...my photoshopped version of it, did that yesterday. :) Jason's gonna teach me some photoshop stuff this weekend, so I can make that picture look even better! :)

I hope you all are having a day as good as mine!
Love and hugs!
Joy.

For Jenny-

Last time I talked to Jenny she wanted to know if I had done anything with Alex's bath pictures... and I hadn't even printed them yet, so I got right on that, and I even made a 2 picture layout, go me! :)

I've been working a lot on my wedding album now that I have some no worky time... and it is SO cool, my wedding album, I mean, not not working... I LOVE our wedding album it is SO pretty!! I can't wait to get more done, I think I have 7 pages so far, totally feels good, after having that silly 12x12 album sitting there for 5 months now! There was just something a little boring and not right about going with an all red-black-white color scheme, so I changed it up, and I really like it! Anyway, I'll stop talking about it!

I did something new and very exciting today!! (exciting to me at least!) After Jason left for work...I had this IDEA!!!...so I got on his computer and used photoshop! WOW...I had a really hard time with it at first, and eventually gave up, but THEN...after my shower and some thinking, I figured out how to do what I wanted...and even though it may not be spectacular to anyone else, I was very impressed with myself...and now I TOTALLY can't wait to get a real computer, and photoshop, and learn how to actually USE it, for REAL! Heh...wow.

I submitted stuff to CK and SS both today, heh, I guess you can't get published if you don't try, right? Well, you probably can...if people notice you and stuff, but I have to try, so I am, and it's kinda fun. :) It would be even more fun to actually be put in the magazines! :)

I'm going to Awana training tonight...I guess I miss the Cubbies too much, should be fun! :)

From Win a Date-

There it is, my Sweetie took a screenshot of this for me, and I took a picture of my page. Have a great Sunday, All!

The most beautiful green couch in the world!

And I don't even own it!

Some of you have asked about the top page in the last post...it is actually an effect from a movie that I have wanted to mimic...if you have seen "Win a Date With Tad Hamilton" (one of my favorite movies ever!) you may...or may not have noticed, you only see it for about two seconds...(I will have my hubby take a screen shot of this for me) the orange bedspread in Rosie's hotel room when she goes out to Cali...it has like...these big orange square sequins attached with beads...and I loved it, ever since I first saw it, so that's what I did on this page...(did this page the morning after watching that with my Hubby last week :) I cut a bunch of pieces of vellum and sewed them on with a little seed bead. ;)

In other news...I just went on a walk actually, to return a movie, and I'm not going to do that again soon, until I forget what my hands feel like right now! They are so swolen that I can hardly move my fingers, ach! It hurts so bad. Oh well, stick to the pilates, I guess! :)

Also, LA: the paper in the Alex one is by Heidi Grace (for Fiskars.) That line is totally cute, they also have ones that have like fuzzy parts or where parts are embossed, they're way fun...but expensive, so I just bought the regular ones! :)

Pages like I promised:

And here they are! Today I've been working on my submission for the April Becky's Sketch in CK..it's totally adorable, I have to say, I'm getting addicted to these sketches, it's so much easier than coming up with your own ideas...I'm not really very good with ideas for two page multi-photo layouts, ya know, so it's helpful, it turns every event into a spread...before too long I'll have an album full of them, very exciting!

un-e-vent-ful

that's my life, pretty much, I could share some layouts maybe, maybe tomorrow I will, I've had a pretty busy weekend, actually. Yesterday Jason and I watched Ferris Buhler's day off...don't know if I spelled that right, and went to his company picnic thing, and the weather behaved, but it was a bit chilly...until we started playing football, and I caught the ball once and ran a little ways...no TD or anything, but I did good, and there was a cute kid there, he was fun, and he said funny things, makes me look forward to having children. Then...last night...we...well, I don't even remember, oh well. Today we went to church and ran some errands and...I worked on my SSS rolodex swap cards, they're going to be really cute! :) Then Justin and Misty came over and we played an entire game of double 12 train dominos...or whatever you call it, it was fun, but I didn't win, oh well, then we all sat around and ate pizza. Fun, eh? I got a lot of cleaning done Friday, hope to do some more tomorrow, yay! :)

in other news...

I am now unemployed. Worked my last day at the old Harbor House yesterday...there are some things I'll miss...not things so much as people, Audrey, Eleanor, Phyliss, Fran...but I can go visit my lovely ladies, so it's all good. I submited a layout this AM to CK for the March Becky's Sketch, I really like the way it turned out...I think I'm quite a ways from being published still, though, maybe someday! I get to have lunch with my sweetheart today, very excited! :) That...is pretty much it. :) Have a great Wednesday, I know I will!