Shabby Miss Jenn

OMG!!!!! Xmas is near!!!

And we are sooo not ready yet! LOL Way too many things going on! OH but of course I do have time to scrap! We did go see Santa last week and we got the cuuuuutest ornament! Isn't this adorable? I loove this and we plan on getting one every year.

Also had to scrap it! LOL I used Susie Q's cuuuute new kit! It's FREE on her blog! Yup free..amazing! Also looove the "sparklet" letters by Jen W!

And if you haven't bought this yet, RUN! Go to Gina's site and grab this adoooorable Jubilant kit! WAY YUM! I looooove all the stuff she has in it!!!! Just awesome!

Okay back to wrapping, painting, blogging, designing, cleaning, baking...you know the rest! LOL

Holiday Fun....

Is sooooo when you go to see the real Santa and your baby boy HATES him! LOL Oh but the pictures are worth a thousand words right? LOL Really he was soo looking forward to sitting on Santa's lap and once he got there, he was miserable! So luckily I got a shot of this! LOL Priceless in this house!

It's SNOWING! And is soo magical! Really this is such fun...something new for us..and we are enjoying it! Right as we were going into Pottery Barn...just the right kinda of holiday shopping for us!

Then to top the day....some warm Starbucks lattes! Our friends here have made us even more addicted to this coffee than we ever have been! LOL

And then, LOOK at what I got in the mail!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! I was soo incredibly stoked to have ordered one of these babies right when Donna opened her store. YUM! Let me just say that this camera bag is even more INCREDIBLE in person! The thick canvasy material is soo sturdy....darling colors...awesome print...I looove the pocket, magnetic closure, adustable straps, buttons to secure the top even more..padding..this is no cheap bag! I am so glad I got it..and am even thinking of a   one too! LOL I've gotten so many compliments on it too!

Getting Ready...

For Christmas! Okay I admit I'm missing home a tad now. But the idea of a White Christmas thrills me to death! We pulled out the ornaments the other day! FUN! The kiddies loved it! Can you see the love here? ROFL! No seriously...it's starting! Christmas ornaments are already getting broken...well thrown around because our little one thinks it's fun! LOL And I just saw the most AWESOME huge shabby thing the other day! Have to go snap a few of that! And to those with these HUGE MEGA Digital SLR cameras, what is the proper etiquette when going into a store? Do you just pull out your huge camera and start shooting? Or do you ask the owner politely if you can snap a few? I'd love to know! :) K I'll leave ya with a few!

Smooch!

J

Memorial Day

I hope you are all having a wonderful Memorial Day. I love seeing flags everywhere today. So inspiring. Anyways, just had a moment to blog. :)

Shabby Hubby's birthday was yesterday! :) So we had quite a full day. :) Went to church, played with lil friends.  Then we went to run errands, find a few shabby thing and headed to Costco to get a few things. :) The boys had to have a Costco hot dog for lunch and miss priness a slice of their cheese pizza. :)

Then we came home. :) Pulled weeds...LOL...cleaned up while the boys napped. :) After an afternoon of reorganizing, cleaning and all that fun stuff, we headed out for Chris' birthday dinner. :) Fresh Choice resturant, our favorite but we go because the kiddies LOVE to eat there. :)  They love to just graze all that yummy food! LOL Especially because they get to have dessert. LOL We ate dinner, walked around the mall and went to a carnival in town. The kids had so much fun and played a few games and won some prizes.  :) Then we headed home to open some gifts and eat cake.

And last night I scrapped! LOL I really miss it and need to start waking up EARLY to do some more pages. Totally looking forward to summer so when the babies sleep in, I can get up and scrap! :) Of course miss Gina Wina came out with some new awesome felties! LOVE these! So I created this from a photo I got yesterday of Chris and his kiddies. :)

Well I hope you all have one fantastic day! There is soo much we have to do now it's not even funny! :) School is ending so tons to do! :) Have a fabulous holiday!

SMJ

Happy Mother's Day

From this lil shabby one to you!!!!! All you mommies know that this is the hardest yet most rewarding job out there! So enjoy your day being pampered and appreciated!!!! Okay I am resting up now! LOL Sweet wishes to you! Oh and is this card just the cuuutest thing ever? I made it using Janna's awesome new shabby roses kit called Grandma Sally's Roses. YUM!!!!!!! Shabby smooochies to you all and please ignore me the next few days....I am reorganizing this bloggie! LOL

Toodles!

Happy Valentines Day

 

 

 

 

Well I hope all you shabby sweeties are having a wonderful and definitely yummy valentines day! :) Dh came home tonight with a dozen red roses just to begin this great festivity! He is just the bestest! I love this man! He never quits and is always  up to something new:) *(Yup Miss Shabby Happy he is the bestest)*

Sooo this will be one pretty long blog. LOL This last week has been totally crazy and I have not only painted and delivered shabby chic, but also have scrapped shabby chic as well! LOL  SO where do I start? Okay the shabby chic scrappin! LOL My sweetums friend Miss K invited me to her sweet shabby artist team. And since there were no set page requirement, well that could easily fit into my schedule. :) Soooo with her most brilliant kit called "Flea Market", I had to scrap one of my most favorite flea market finds! My antique aqua watering can from France! No not at a flea market in France-LOL-I wish and someday that will happen:)-but one found from a dealer who solely brings garden treasures from France to the US! Love this dude! Soooo the watering can is my very very favorite find! :) Clients continually ask me to give this up for them at any price I choose. But my heart is stitched to this baby! :) Ahhh my favorite!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay and shabby pink drumroll please..................................LOL!!!!!! The vanity is now FINISHED! :) WHOO HOOO!!!!!  I take waaaaaaaaay too long trying to figure out what color to paint something! LOL WE are talking way too long! LOL And after scrolling through the book of "Shabby Miss Jenn's Painting Techniques", I decided that the painting technique no. 167 was the perfect touch for this sweet vanity! Not only is it pink but it is soooo FRENCH RUSTIC PINK! Okay soooo chippy pink, tons of pretty appliques and to top it off, awesome black glass knobs! Now this mirror is quite shabadelic! Has TONS of the old crazing and black marks from age and wear. We LOVE these! They bring such charm to the piece! And not only is the mirror beveled and scalloped, the middle part has a clamp so you can swivel it up and back any which way you want. Tooo cool! Love these heritage pieces. Soo much fun to shabby and deck up! SO, this baby is sooo sweet! One of my very favorites! Soo hard to find room in the shabby barn for it and our lil princess has no more room in her own castle for it. Possibly going to try to find a home for this or make it's way in our lil cottage store. :) Too fun! Love the process here and yet I have another HUGE project in the works!  Definitely need a few days before I hit this other new project though. WHEW!!! LOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And it is sooo incredibly warm here lately! Just amazing and sooo much like summer! So I took several photos of our dd the other day outside! :) Of course in shorts and pink flip flops! LOL And used one of the pictures for her valentines treats for her class. :) We made cute pink heart cookie lollipops! Each one was pink and had a "C" on them. :) And tied with a cuuuute ribbon to match with the cuuuute lil girl tags! I think they turned out sooo cute! :) I am sure all her lil friends will love these! :) I actually bought the ribbons first and realized that Kristie's Sweet Sprinkles kit matched it perfectly! Love that!!! Okay here it is! :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

OH and just how cuuute is this? My sweeeet dh took our lil princess to a the Father Daughter Valentines Dance! How sweet is that? And he bought her her first corsage! AhhH!!! What a guy!!!! SOooo sweet! This is the thing that makes any mommy's heart melt! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay it is getting late here and I have a huge Kindergarten Valentines Party to go to tomorrow! LOL Soooo, I am hitting the shabby bed! But before I forget, the Shabby Shoppe has it's huge re-grand opening! Make you sure you go nab all those fab new kits! YUM!!!!!! And here is one of my favorite pages using Heather's yummy new kit! Just too fab!!!!!

Have a wonderful Valentines!!!!

Smoooochies!

Jenn

SHABBY TREE

Well I finally scrapped our xmas tree. LOL And I love how this turned out. Usually the layouts where I just pull goodies from just about everyone are my most favorite. :) I used Dawn's cream and sugar papers, Kristie's lovely blue chipboard alpha, Ronna's oh so fabulous sheer ribbon, diamond and most amazing new stitches from her stitches 2 volume coming out soon and Gina Wina's fabulous chipboard star from her new Jubiliee kit coming soon also.

Well gosh...so many sweet people are soooo incredibly generous!!!!  Carrie sent her email list a GC for any free kit on her site and so did Dianne. Very very sweet!!!!

One of my sweet friends sent me a GC to this store...amaaaazingly shabby store and I am sooo gosh amazed at how generous she is. Looks like this is my store! LOL And I'll probably be spending months trying to decide what to get! LOL

Well yesterday was our lil princess' last day of school! I actually am sooo glad I get her all to myself for the next few weeks and I am sure her brother is as well. :) She has done such a wonderful job this past year in school so she deserves a very nice relaxing holiday.

And lately I have been spreading the GOOD NEWS about digital scrapbooking! LOL Have had a few photoshop lessons at some of my sweet girlfriend's homes. Too fun!!!!! Their eyes lit up seeing how this is done! :) Totally fun and I don't think I have converted a few but definitely got their eyes sparkled! LOL

Okay so no school for two weeks and so let the wrapping begin! But only if I can get several breaks in there to scrap some of these pictures! LOL My goal is to get a ton done!!!! Hopefully that will happen!!!! LOL

Well I am off to Shabby Shop for some goodies for some sweeties so I hope you all have a wonderful cool wintery weekend!!!! Don't forget to sip that eggnog or hot cocoa!!!

Oh and my bestest friend just called me from papa haydn having brunch with her mom and another mutual friend and let me just say I sooo wanna be there too!!! Ahhh what a fabulous time!!!!  Jess you need to go there next trip up!!!! It's soo much fun!!!!

Shabby Smoooochies from me!!!

Jenn

Her Princess Tree

Oh I can still remember when she was a teeny weeny lil 2 year old...when I got her this little pink tree, she was sooo thrilled! :) So we got it up this year and she had soooo much fun decorating it! :) She loves this tree too because we don't have to put lights on it. It illuminates when you plug it in..so it's like a big night light! :) She definitely is the little princess!

I love Starbucks in the Fall....

Oh boy and look....These lattes are soooo darn yummy!!! As I drive our sweet lil girl to school every morning, I always have to get one! :) Oh go grab one today! You definitely will enjoy it!

Just a lil update

Okay I way behind in here but ahhhh I guess that is to be expected of a shabby mommy with little ones and chic chaos in my house! LOL I have to say I am more than thrilled that my friend Katyie and Kristie were not affected at all by Rita! Big whews!!! 

To top off my fully busy schedule, I was asked by the project coordinator for our dd's private school to put together a themed basket for the auction coming up in which all the proceeds go to aide victims of Katrina.  Sooo cool!!!   Ahhh so I said yes because I am a total people pleaser at heart! LOL And then to pick a theme, which most of the cool themes were picked..so I put my brain together with a few other shabby mommies and came up with a "Shabby Baking" theme.  I have been scouting the fleas here and finding some great yummy vintage stuff.  It's gonna be vintage shabby pink and cherries! Ahh how cute!!! So I have found some awesome new kitchen utensils that are red! How cool is that!!!

And today another shabby mommy friend brought me this bag from Sur La Table with these darling red "thingies" in it...Oh and some cash to help with the project. But oh my word...how darling!!! This little red silpat rolling pin...mini of course...and red silpat mini muffin pan..Are these just way cute or what?? LOL I love them! They will be perfect!

Of course I have more and the basket is getting full!! LOL Got some adoreable red measuring cups, huge jars for cookie mix and cute ribbon with cherries!!! I think someone will really like this! Gosh I hope so! LOL

Oh and I have been reading Miss Heather's blog and now am hooked on PBK again and am going to order these adoreable stockings!!! The one with the little girl is just tooooo cute!!!!  Soo, can't wait to get these!!!