Bubbly goodness.

A crafty friend of mine, Nicki from Hey There Cupcake put together this awesome necklace. Nicki is this wonderful cupcake designer, you can check out her awesomeness on
her flickr account nickisalbum.
She twitpic about it a couple months ago, when she made one for herself, and I knew I HAD to have one too.
Totally cute, custom made length. I'm wearing it today. I love it. I'm not normally a jewelry wearing kinda girl, unless its durable & can withstand my clumsy/ boyish behavior, but this is one of those... HAD TO HAVEs

w/o getting into any technicalities, the iphone4's front facing camera is really grainy. Plus it was at night, as I lay bored out of my mind on the couch. I actually was taking a break from some bead making.

I love my bubble necklace! yeee! It's so fun!

Back in my college days, I use to carry a bubble gun in my car. At red lights, I would turn it on, and there would be a steady stream of bubbles coming out of my driver side window. I stopped doing it when a car accident between two other cars occurred. LONG LIVE THE BUBBLES!!!!!

shen

A crafty summer...

So I haven't been really updating this summer. It's been crazy, so I'm hoping to bring you up to date on what I've been up to. 

My revamped beach sign

My new Ironing Board Cover (IBC)

Shell w/glass beads wind chime

cocktail umbrella gardland deco for my dad's 60 bday luau

multi-color streamers for the luau too.

knitted seat for my bike

my japanese alcohol apron

Sam's ipod touch kozy
I made Linder's a pocky one but for some reason can't upload the pic from FB
Linder's pocky cover

a fun & easy tissue cover (beach style)

a revamp of my iphone holder for my bike

Yup, that's it. That's all I can show you for now. All the other stuff has been items I'm working on for my girly spazms etsy shop, which is due to open in a couple weeks. It's been slightly delayed because as I prepared items to sew one late night, and cut out all the patterns. I sat down at my sewing machine ready to go, and then bleh! Nothing. I fiddled with it forever, and finally decided it was actually time to take it in for that long put off servicing. Keep in mind, my machine is over 10 years old, and I only started really using it the passed 2-3 years.  Yeah.. yeah.. I asked for it.
So as it sits in the  repair shop, I've been looking seriously into getting a serger. I mean, I've looked into it before, and had an idea of what I've wanted but the passed week, and Labor Day weekend I've been hunting one down to a point where I had a migraine, and was completely fed up with looking for one. 
I flip-flopped on getting a decent "starter" serger/overlock VS getting a higher end version.
And finally, as I looked on ebay, I came across one that I think will be just fine. 
I'll blog again when I get it, and have it set up. I may even broadcast in my craft studio, something that I've been meaning to do, but haven't gotten around to doing.

Hope you all had a wonderful Labor Day weekend... As for me, it wasn't as eventful as I had hoped. I basically worked all weekend. Housework, or worked on crafting projects. 
So my Labor weekend, was full of Labor. Go fig! 
Now, it's time to get into the full swing of the school year, and work mode. Bye-gye summer. Oh how I'll miss you. Til next year...

 Goodnight for now! 


shen

Time flies...

August?!?!

Geeze, this summer went by quick. In little over a week, the kiddos will be back to school, and we’ll be back to our same weekday routine.

I’m not complaining. It’s been fun, but I’ve felt like such a bum that, getting back to an established routine is very much welcomed & definitely needed.

I’ve been working a lot more on crafting when I can (while we're watching tv @ home, knitting in the car at lights, or when I'm not driving), and I've tried to finish a small quick day project while working on a larger project. So just a quick update on latest and greatest.
I working on a few pieces to put up and set up shop on etsy. Finally. 

I got some business cards made up. I’m pretty happy with them but I could have made the font a little bigger. I’ll be sure to do it in the next batch.

I also got my logo done on a rubber stamp, so as to have something versatile for tags, jewelry cards, etc. When I ordered them I expected it to be larger, unfortunately I should have zoomed in more & cropped it before submitting it in for the order. It works though, and I will eventually get a larger one...

I went a little stamp happy when it arrived. 

At this point, I've set up my etsy shop. There isn't anything for sale yet... 
but it's there!


http://www.etsy.com/shop/girlyspazms

There's so much more to do on there besides post my items up... Shop policies. Maybe I'll get to work on that a little bit tonight or over the weekend.  I need to get that portion set up before I start selling. 



I'm ending for now.  Remember to leave me a comment so I know you stopped by. 
Thanks for coming by! :) 

shen

home project: Living Room wall gallery

I started this home project last year a couple months before my 30th birthday. With a long piece of yarn, Tony & I determined the area of the rectangle, and this was my border to follow...

I eagerly told myself that it would be done in time for my big party, and my guests would have something awesome to look at. As the time came & went.... the project went unfinished for a whole year. 


It was a constant reminder as I looked up at the wall... "UGH! I need to finish that!"

I carried a picture of my progress on my iphone so when I was fortunate to find a frame to my liking  I could figure out if it fit in a particular spot...

 I'm proud to announce! TA-DAH! it's done... well kinda. The frames are all up... Now I'm working on which pictures to put up. I wanted to put up my favorite pictures of friends & family.... Not necessarily studio portraits, but pics I enjoy looking at. A nice mix of color, black & white, and if anything scenery... I'm hoping this portion of project will go a lot smoother and FASTER than the first half... 

But this is what I carry around now. I shall update later when all my pics are up w/ a story or brief description.

                                                



The summer has been absolutely nuts, and just when I think I can take a breather. The kids will be back in school in about 4 weeks, so I'm gonna take the time to play & be mom a little longer until we're back to the ho-hum schedule of school days again.  So much  for working on more projects before Summer came to and end. 
I am, however, finally getting my business cards, and a rubber stamp of my logo. I'll post as soon as I get them..

In the meantime, I will be putting together a collage of the summer crafts I've made, so I can finally share with you the things I've been up to. 



shen