Shabby Miss Jenn

tagged and a lil boy birthday

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!! Or had a great weekend! LOL Okay it's nearing Monday. And that means it is our Josher's 3rd birthday! Yikes times just FLIES by sooooo fast!!! No fair! :) Anyways, I am in for a long day tomorrow as well as another LONG week! My oh my things just never slow down. But that's okay! I am definitely taking a few seconds here and there to smell those shabby peonies! YUM.

Soooo, I am just getting soo excited about a few upcoming things and events and well I am just not going to say more about those! LOL And the transformation on that vanity is going splendidly well! I am just tickled seeing it live right before my eyes. That mirror is to die for yummy...it's even beveled!!! Okay will be sure to post pics once that is done.

And Miss Janna tagged me! LOL This was a fun one!!!!

What were you doing 10 years ago?

Wow..at 23 that was my last year at college..so majorly getting coffees with friends, running around town. It was winter so it was cold where I was. So I always went tanning and met Chris in the cafe for a coffee...ahhh we still were not even dating..just good friends. I was preparing  to get information to go to Spain and excited to see my girlfriends Inez and Mercedes in Spain. Getting excited to graduate with my Bachelor's Degree.

What were you doing 1 year ago?

Matt was almost turning one...so he was still nursing all the time-LOL. Chayce was in preschool..Josh was such a butterball still. I took Chayce to preschool everyday and everyday when she got out we all went to lunch and playdates. Just fun!

Five snacks you enjoy (in no particular order, as all snacks are created equal)

1.  Baby Carrots
2.  Almonds
3.  Pretzels
4.  Tortilla chips
5.  Cucumber

Five songs to which you KNOW all the lyrics:

1.  Signing Time song
2.  You Got a Friend in Me (Toy Story)
3.  We Live, We Love-Superchick
4.  Light in Your Eyes-Sheryl Crow
5.  If you Love Somebody, Set them Free-Sting

Five bad habits:

1.  Worrying-about anything-LOL
2.  Not drinking enough water
3.  Not writing down check numbers
4.  Leaving toothpaste cap off
5.  Over cleaning

Five things you like doing:

1.  Being creative
2.  Having coffee with girlfriends
3.  Riding horses
4.  Going to Huntington Beach
5.  Smooching the hubby

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get again:

1.  Non Rachel Ashwell sheets
2.  Plastic blinds
3.  Aqua Net-LOL
4.  A Perm
5.  Poorly made shoes

Five favorite toys:

1.  Ibook-oh yeah baby!
2.  My paintbrush
3.  Wacom Tablet
4.  Camera
5.  Cell phone

Have a FABULOUS Monday!!!!! I am going to enjoy some "Incredibles" cake! LOL Smoochies!

Jenn

I am tagging Holly, Susan, auntie pea, sweet mindy and Sara.

shabby update...

Well we are sick. I am proud to admit that now it's almost February and I am finally sick. Wow not too bad with 3 babies who have never ending sniffles and coughs! LOL I guess I have no time to get sick. Just feeling a tad tired but not too bad. At least not yet! LOL

Yesterday was such a blast. My friend met me for coffee at this place and I tried one of their brand new Cinnamon Dolce lattes...YUM!!!!

Anyways it was so much fun! Sooo much chatting about life, shabby businesses, favorite places to go and shop..too much fuN! Really learning to scrap more of event types of my life so I did. :) Thanks Hol! I used all Shabby Princess goods! :) 

We even chatted about tons of other goodies. And I remembered my deep love for glass knobs! And then I also remembered Auntie Pea's cute cabinet doors! Just look!.  Too cute!!!!

And I had to search for a few things last night before I hit the shabby bed early -finally!- and came across these fabulous Valentines brushes..YUM! Free! Ooh did I say free? LOL Just too cute!!!! Love the scalloped border. I love that site! Too many awesome goodies for Photoshop Queens!

This is HILARIOUS! Our dd takes dance class and the classes are held at our church. At the entrance to the children's area is this sign...LOL

And then another project to come. :) Our sweet family friend, Aunt Patty, was helping someone move and she stumbled upon this old vanity and mirror. And offered to me..for free!!! Wow!!! Of course how could I turn this down. It is sooo adoreable! That mirror is scalloped and curvy and those are hard to find now. And the mirror is a tri-panel one. Love the drop down vanity part too! So this will get the Shabby Miss Jenn transformation in the next few weeks. I cannot wait to see how it turns out. Should be totally adoreable and just too cute. I am thinking white or pink? Tough choice indeed! Might have to get clear glass knobs or those sweet pink glass knobs too! We shall see! Either way I think this vanity is going to be suuuuper cuuute!!!!

Well I hope you all have a fabulous day!!!!!!

Shabby Happiness!!!!

Well I adore my sweet friend Jennifer, or more well known as Shabby Happy and yes she is one of those girls who is always pretty happy about life and I adore that about her!!!! Anyways, she is doing fab on her new journey in marriagehood and I could not be more thrilled for her!!!! I had such a great chat on cell session with her today and just wish her the bestest!!!!!

Also, my dear friend Michelle (blogless)-LOL-is going to be teaching Sign 2 Me classes to parents and children in northern Florida. How cool is that!!! I highly recommend  those classes!!!! And she asked for some pics of our Josher's signing. :) Well I got a few fab pics. And she is planning on putting them on the bulletin board and possibly the brochure as well! Cool! Our kids learned to sign from Signing Times and they are just about the coolest dvd's your kids can view. I love that they can sign a ton of words even before they learned to talk. Amazing. Anyways, here's one of my favs of Josher's signing the letter "B". :)

Okay onto some more fabulous stuff!!!! Remember those sooo totally chic and awesome glass crystal hooks I got? And was going to use on a special project? Well here it is!!!! :)

Amazing what you can do with an old door. My builder did this for me once I sketched it up! Sure it took him a few days but isn't it worth it? I love it and love the appliques all over it.  Gave it the Shabby Miss Jenn painting treatment #23 (yes I might write a book about all my painting techniques someday-lol). But I LOVE how it turned out! The bottom opens so that our kiddies can throw their shoes in there and also can easily get them. The backpacks hang from those hooks and so do the the baseball hats! LOL Shabby Jul's handmade bag looks so great up there too! Love the shelf on top too and it holds my princess frame of our dd and my old McCoy vase and old roses  tin. :) Ahhh to live the shabby life..totally fun!!!

Well I have another major TOOT for miss Susie Scraplifter.   She just got published in the CK Top Ten issue that I got in my shabby mailbox this morning! WHOOO HOOO!!!! Her lo is PHENOMENAL!!!!!!! She used Ronna Penner's Time will Tell kit and oh my word she really did a fab job on it! Here's the issue! I couldnt' help but post it cuz it is sooo gorgeous!!!!

Okay and one more last thing to share...I had a paper crafty day today! I love doing that!!!!  I saw that Kristie got a fabulous and darling monogram from her friend. Well I wanted one for me by my desk. So I went to my craft store and scrap store and got a few papers and also a Rhonna paper and they are soo cute!!!! I put mine on my "J" and sanded away. You see this shabby girl's most favorite toy is her electric sander (craftsman of course, dh wouldn't settle for anything less). LOL And I went to town on it. Love it. Then I added a huge fluffy silk rose, a dark thick screw (from the shabby barn-LOL), a rattled old tag and two lovely Hedi's shabbied pink chipboard hearts! LOVE THESE!!! YUM.  So there I had this all done and love it and it hangs right on the wall by my shabby desk. Ahhh...sooo fun!!!!!!

Okay so that is one dooozzeee of a post! LOL Warm shabby wishes to you all!!! I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!!! Lots of rest, relaxation and fun!

smoochies!!!

Jenn

Ha ha!!! Tagged again!!!

By my suuuuuper sweeet bud Holly!!! LOL

But since I am here, here's a cute page I did of Joshers...Love this! I used Gina Wina's new Wonderland kit and also the most AMAAAZZING felt hearts by the fabulous Amy!!!! Ahhh!!! Sooo fun to do this page!!!

What scrapbooking lines/products/etc do you DISlike?
Hmmmm, in paper scrapping I normally don't like the die cut thing...In digital scrapping, I guess I don't like to use non realistic looking things.

What is the hardest thing you’ve ever had to scrap?
The hardest was my sweetie friend and her baby.

What technique do you use more than any other?
Too many dropshadows! Always have, always will! :) Also photo tinting, sepia and other photo effects.

Ever been published?
No..LOL..I have only submitted once! :) I have been publshed for my shabby chic stuff! :)

What’s the smallest scrap of paper you save?
Oh about 3". :) I save everything! LOL

Ever have any scrapbooking-related injuries?
Yes on my first crop I took the blade and accidentally knicked my finger! LOL Then the nice sweet host helped learn how to do it right!!! LOL

Finish the sentence… “If I wasn’t a scrapbooker, I would spend my money….”
Massages!!!

Give us your best storage or organizational idea.
My best storage idea..well I can't really share my secrets..but I do love to store all my goodies in anything Shabby and old and cute and vintage! :) Organization..still working on that!

You just won a week-long scrapbooking cruise for 4. Who’s going with you?
Susie Scraplifter, Kristie the princess, Holly McCaig and my friend Kimmy so I could teach her how to scrap. :)

You’re turn!
After you’ve answered the questions, tag 6 of your scrapbook buddies!

Gina, Manda, Janna,
Andrea, Jennifer and Jennifer!-you don't have to use the scrap tag if you don't want to babes! :) !!!!

Some Shabby Confetti...

Okay this is what I call a post with a TON of small bits of pieces and information!!!! OH and fun too! But I can't think of anything huge right now since the 3 cups of java have not done one single thing to me yet..still waiting! LOL

I just wanted to first THANK YOU for your sweet comments and emails about our baby boy. It's totally funny that he is soo fine and dandy, but mommy is the one who is the wreck about this still. But he's fine. Happy and loving life!!!! :) I know things could have been a ton worse, but thankfully all is good! :)

My sweet friend Gina Wina is back and her and her sweet boy are home safe! SOOO Happy!!! And sooo you have to go check out her fabulous new goodies at her site.  They are soooo yummy indeed!!!

Also if you have not seen Ronna's new kit called Roseblush well you have got to! It's now one of my all time fav shabby kits! I made this with it!

Oh and you have to check out Hol's blog. She has some exciting things going on over there! Oh great! I just see she tagged me! LOL!!!!

Okay here's my answers!

Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
At a donut shop while I was in high school (yeah that was a tasty job-LOL), at a bank as a bank teller, at Starbucks (when we first got  married-oh I miss all those free shots! LOL) and at an Advertising Agency-most fun!!!!

Four movies you would watch over and over:
Coal Miner's Daughter (LOL-Kristie), All James Bond movies (for hubby), Steel Magnolias and Sixteen Candles (my all time fav!!)

Four places you have lived:
Hungtington Beach, CA, Seattle, WA, Portland, OR and Sonoma, CA.

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Noggin (LOL-you know why), Design on a Dime, Friends and Paula Deen!

Four places you have been on vacation:
Hawaii, Colorado, Hawaii, Hawaii! LOL 

Four websites you visit daily:
Scrapbook-Bytes
Digital Design Essentials
Shabby Princess Blog
Holly McCaig's Blog
Two Peas in a Bucket

Four of your favorite foods:
Fajitas from Chevys, tacos from Macheezmo Mouse, chicken caesar salads and bagels with cream cheese.

Four places you would rather be right now:
on a massage table, shabbying up a house, napping and scrapbooking!

Four bloggers you are tagging:
Susie Scraplifter
Taran Conyers
Kim Hill
Jennifer Pebbles

Also you should keep checking back at this site...Some yummy stuff is coming I am sure! And don't forget the PRINCESS site as well! I can't wait to see all the goodies coming up!!!!!

Also, you have to see how cool Hanna's blog is!!!! She is a superb crafter and loves Shabby Chic too!!!! And she even has some fabulous Shabby Vintage Victorian die cut graphics FREE to DOWNLOAD. Wow she is soo generous and I just adore her stuff!!!!! Thanks hanna! I especially love this page!!!!

Oh and before I forget, Auntie Pea totally has me looking for new quotes. Love that!!!! These are my new favorites!!!!

Oh and one more thing! LOL You have got to take a peek at the ModScraps blog.  It is sooo fabulous and they have got some goodies I have got to go get! Like this and this and this and this and this and this too!!!!

Well that should do it for now! LOL I am almost done working on a the project to show you all! Can't wait til it's done!!!! :)

Smoochies!

SMJ!!!!

a little bit of tragedy

and I am still recovering from the stress and shock! This morning when we were getting our daughter ready for school, Matthew was playing by a dresser and he hit it on his mouth and it knocked his front top tooth out...completely out!! I didn't realize it but he was crying and I was holding him and then lo a behold his mouth was all red and I looked and saw a little hole...and then his tooth was on the floor. Ughh! My lil guy plays hard! We just got back from the pediatric dentist and he said he did a fabulous job extracting his own tooth. It came out completely clean, no leftover tooth or anything remaining. They don't put baby teeth back in for fear of aspiration and absess. So Matt has lost his first tooth! LOL He also said he'll be totally fine and just have a unique smile! :) Okay I am feeling better now...especially that matt is fine. But my oh my....what a morning! Here's a pic...

a lil bit of delish and cuties...

for your eyes to view! I LOVE shopping and window shopping and flowers and well you get the idea!!!!! One of my faaaaavorite layouts of the week....and our lil girl is definitely "delish" in my eyes!!!

Okay are these flowers just yummy or what? Most of them were free from Hol's blog and Taran's site.  Amazing!!!!

And my sweeeeet shabby bud Susie Scraplifter has a great new blog full of inspirational lifts to do. I love them!!!! They have definitely helped me get out of my rut! :)

Sooooooo, some of my most favorite things to drool about are always Shabby and Chic. I absolutely LOVE this store!!!!!! It is YUMMY CHIC in my opinon!!!!!

A few of my favorite pics of goodies I might just have to get!!!

Aren't these just cuute? You have to check out her sweet shabby home too!!! It's sooo fab!!!!

And soooo there you have it! Lots of yummy shabby eye candy for you this week! I hope it finds your week wonderfully soothing, relaxing and definitely shabby!

Smooochies!!!

Jenn

a shabby lil birthday

Ahhh you girlees are just too sweet!!! I had a fabulouso day!!! All the cards truly melted my heart! Seriously I just appreciate every one of you who are my scrappy friends! You are just the best!!!!!  Love this card by Amy. She is just a sweetie pie!

Then the sweetie hubby set me up with this yummmmmmmy collection of Sugar Wafer scents, lotions, candles and bath stuff and oh my it is sooooooo YUMMMY indeed!!!!! LOL

And to make my shabby birthday even more fun and crazeee and wild, hubby took me and the three shabby babies to my favorite LOUD PLACE to eat yummmy mexicano food! Talk about laughing my tooshie off watching our 3 babies laughing their cheeks off! LOL Totally hilarious!!!!! And because it was loud and popping, no one even noticed our 3 kiddies. LOL Matt was drawing on the table with his crayon, Joshie was playing with his 2 cups of water and our sweet lil princess was being soo good of course! LOL And to make it an even better dinner, I enjoyed a few of my favorite margs!  These things are sooooo fabulous and I love the strawberry one.

Talk about YUM!!!

Okay so thank you all my sweetie friends! Shabby smoochies to you! Off to shabbyland to create a few more goodies and then back to the scrappy drawing board for some fun new pages!

Smoochies!

SMJ