Update

I know I've been a VERY TERRIBLE blogger.  I really want to start my personal blog this year, but it's been crazy busy around here! I've had an exciting last couple of months since I last did a blog post!  It's hard to blog, well hard to find the time to do it!


I've been busy...
--working 6 days a week at the store.


--doing data entry.. data entry and more data entry!


--creating wedding invitations.  No, not mine just yet, but I have a bit of a design in the works for me! I've had a couple of wedding projects for clients as well as one for my cousin's wedding this summer! SO FUN!


--preparing and attending Scrapfest -- always a great scrapbooking weekend!


--with all that data entry well it was all worth it! Because I launched my BRAND NEW website for my Scrapbooking Store with an online gallery, a forever growing tips and tricks section, as well as an ONLINE STORE, you can shop from home now!  It's been such a long project, an exhausting project, an emotional project, but it was all worth it!  We ship worldwide, sooo exciting!  We would love your support in checking it out our site for your paper crafting needs!  Definitely check it out often, new information, new products, new gallery pictures will be added, so come back as many times as you wish!

www.shopscrapbookmemories.com

Well, my ultimate goal of this blog was to inspire others to create. You will want to go check out all my Gallery posting of scrapbooking pages that I have done on my brand new site for the store, I'll be adding more and more as time goes on.  I've posted over a 100 layouts so far.  Customers, family and friends always admire the work I do, so it's great that I will be able to inspire others too by posting my work to our new Gallery.  I won't stop this blog, I will one day get better at managing my time and get myself posting fairly regularly, but for right now, it will hopefully be something once a month.  I have to give myself a realistic goal, because its hard to make things happen.  I don't have all the time in the world to be blogging!  As much as I wanted it to happen, I have to be real to myself!

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Not that I have enough on my plate, but I have also started as an Independent Enjo Consultant.  Enjo is a line of cleaning fibres.  I'm really enjoying it and I can make it work with my current busy schedule as a store owner and get some extra money for our upcoming wedding.  If you ever want to host a party in your home in the London, Ontario or surrounding area, I would love to come show you how ENJO makes cleaning easy.  Just ask.  I have been personally cleaning my home with Enjo for about a year now and I love the fact that my home is now CHEMICAL FREE.  It's amazing how well these fibres clean and make cleaning so much quicker!  Check out my ENJO Facebook Group! I will be using this facebook page to show specials that are happening, as well as before and after photos too!  For more information on the product you can also check out Enjo's webpage.  If you would like to place an order at anytime, send me a message j_nuhn@hotmail.com and I will get back to you.  I can service your Enjo needs within Canada and the US!  Or if you are looking for an employment opportunity of being an Independent Enjo Consultant, let me know too! I would love to built a team! 


Wedding Plans --- well they haven't been going all that well, but our wedding is over a year away.   I am not to sure how much I can do, I've never done this before. But with that being said, the venue is booked, caterer is booked, and a few things have been purchased.  Next step is I need to go out looking for a wedding dress soon.  But I keep saying to myself I wanna lose weight before I go look because I know I will be slightly discouraged.  I just need to get to it!  I will get there!  I will look the way I looked when Heinrich and I first meet for that day for our wedding day.  I've been crazy addicted to pinterest for collecting inspirational ideas for the big day, in addition to the ones flowing through my head!  So thankful for pinterest! Have you gone on yet?  I'm slightly worried because I've got a high standard to meet, as everyone keeps telling me because of how creative I am, that my wedding will be just amazing and they can't wait to see pictures.  I hope I can pull that off, I hope I don't disappoint!  But I've been enjoying the wedding planning this far, sad that I had to make some changes from it being a completing outdoor affair to just an outdoor ceremony, but I am sure I will have to make a few changes along the way.  I have the most amazing bridal party.  So excited for the big day!


Well, its a beautiful long weekend here, few customers have come to shop today, but with that beautiful weather out there I wasn't expecting to have many.  I can't wait to get home after work to do a bit of gardening before heading out to an Arbonne Party!  Going to enjoy 2 days off with my finance, and I am excited about the plans he has made for my 30th Birthday!  That's right I'm going to be 30 on Monday!  YIPPY!  Well signing off for now! ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL WEEKEND!

Inspiration

A question I get asked a lot is where do you get your ideas, not all of them out of my creative brain, a lot of the time the idea is kick started somewhere else and it just flows into a new idea. Sometimes it's an original creation and comes straight from me. Sometimes it's not an "original" creation at all, but something I loved so much I did it almost exact! I am hesitant on copying EXACTLY, but that's just me, need to add my little flair! I am working on this blog to post some of my creativity and share with others. So if you get inspired by me, I find it a compliment that you like my work and want to copy it for yourself! Just let others know where you got your idea from!

I enjoy getting inspired by others, and as soon as I found out about Pinterest, well I was addicted. There are days where, I just want to do something creative but I just cannot come up with an idea and being able to go somewhere for inspiration to kick start a project is great.

Well for those of you that haven't gotten yourself into pinterest, or wondering what pinterest is?

Pinterest is a virtual pinboard!

"Pinterest lets you organize and share all the beautiful things you find on the web. People use pinboards to plan their weddings, decorate their homes, organize their favourite receipes and of course get inspiration for scrapbooking/cardmaking!

Best of all, you can browse pinboards created by other people. Browsing pinboards is a fun way to discover new things and get inspiration from people who share your interest. To get started go over to their webpage www.pinterest.com and request an invite."

Warning: hours can pass by without knowing!

As I was on Pinterest, I came across this... it made me laugh! Just wanted to show it all to you, I think if you are a pinterest user you will get it kick out of it and laugh too!

Well, Inspiration is flowing now maybe I can get a page or two complete over the weekend! Hope you can find somewhere to inspire you too! Where do you find your inspiration?

Hopefully I will get a moment to post some layouts that I have been working on next week! It's a busy life as a business owner and I been working hard on a HUGE project for my store. Will let you know about it soon!

So Begins... 2012

From reading some blogs over the last couple of days, I got this quote! I really like it and

thought I'd share it with all of you too!

For quite a few years now, I've enjoyed following Ali Edwards blog. In her blog, she has shared her one word concept which has become a tradition of hers. Every January she decides on her new word. A word to focus on, mediate on and reflect upon in her daily life. So this year I thought I would start this tradition. I think its going to be very inspiring over the year.

My One Little Word of 2012 is...... embrace

2011 brought lots of joy to my life. My dear wonderful man got down on one knee here on October 8th at our store and ask me to marry him. I said yes and I cannot wait to begin planning for our 2013 wedding! I am so excited to create everything for our wedding day. I also got the honor of being an aunt for the first time on my side of the family in 2011 to the most amazing twin little boys. It's an incredible feeling to be an aunt (I wonder what if feels like to hold your own baby for the first time because the feeling I got with these two little guys was truly the best day of my life). It's also great being an aunt to twins because I don't have to worry about sharing one baby between my dad and I. *hehe Also cannot forget at the beginning of 2011, moving my store into my beautiful new store front. Even though had some amazing moments of 2011, I'm glad to say goodbye to a wonderful but challenging year. In 2012, I really want to embrace the side of me that makes me happy a little bit more, put a little drive into it and enjoy. This year is going be full of making plans... decision making... and embracing everything along the way. Now off to create my first page of 2012! Bye for now!

Jodie

BUSY! BUSY!

I'm having a bit of design block right now, so I thought I'd take the time to update my blog. I've been busy doing quite a few different projects this month for other people and its been busy. Unfortunately, getting none of the things I had planned completed for myself, but that will be some projects for January! I cannot wait to do something for me! Number one creative priority for January is putting together my December Daily. I have been pretty good at taking pictures everyday and somewhat documenting life in December, but the fun part of putting it all together hasn't been completed.

Is anyone else creating at this time of year? If so what are you working on?

I thought I'd give you a sneak peek in the creative disaster that I have made working away! It's scaring how fast a creative disaster can happen after having your head down scrapping away. Hopefully it won't take to long to clean up when I finish up later on! I'll show you pictures of what I have been working on as soon as I have a creative block again or get a free moment!

Happy Scrappin' or Crafting Everyone!

eeekkkkk... I'm a terrible blogger!

Well it has been a while since I last blogged. It's been a crazy November! I should have maybe started this blog in the New Year, as its coming to that Holiday Season, where I am running around trying to get everything done in the few hours I have left in a day after working. I am normally that person who has all three Christmas Trees in my house up the day after Remembrance Day, but well its November 29th and two down, one to go! The third one is up, just have to decorate it tonight with my fiancee hopefully. I love decorating for Christmas, it brings me so much joy walking into my home after a long days work and seeing the twinkle of the lights on the trees and on our home. It always brings a smile to my face.

For me, Christmas is thinking about others and making time for Family and Friends. It's not about the Gifts, its about family. This year is going to be a special year for us with the new babies on my side of the family. I am sooo excited about our first Christmas with them as I am sure Grandpa and Grandma J are too! They are smitten with being Grandparents for the first time and it being to twins too is pretty cool. I love seeing my dad's face while he snuggles with his little men. Makes me tear up just picturing it in my head. It's just sooo sweet!

This year I've decided to create a December Daily Album. It's definitely been inspired by Ali Edwards. I've followed her December Daily over the last couple of years and I decided this year was the year to create this for me. For me its a journal and a scrapbook for the month of December, documenting traditions and a month that definitely is one of my favourites. I've downloaded Ali's Digital Page Layouts and have printed them off and started to put together my mini album. I'll be doing blog posts about it throughout December.

I have been working on some custom scrapbook pages for a great friend of mine! I love scrapbooking her photos and I love how the pages are coming. I'll give you a sneak peek of some of them after I've finished my project for her. Also working on some items for a friend and customer for her Daughter's 3rd Birthday. I cannot wait to see her pictures!

Well back to cleaning up some scrap papers that have I have hanging around and start prepping for tomorrow night's class "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" I quite like how this layout came together. Still some spots, so if you are interested give me a call at the store 519.474.2665 so I make sure there is a kit for you!

Halloween Part 2

Sunday night we finally got a free moment to put up our exterior decorations! I hadn't had a moment to snaps some photos. I wanted to while Henry is up on the latter installing some tulle on the front of the house and our GIANT spider web, but its kinda hard to take pictures and hold a latter at the same time. I would have loved to get those action shots to scrapbook to tell a bit more of a story to our Halloween Scrapbook pages! There is always next year!

So, I tried taking some pictures last night; Halloween Night of the outside of our house. I managed to get one and the battery died. I think its maybe time to invest in another battery for our Canon Rebel! Some days I just wish I had a camera that just took plain old AA Batteries.

Here is the outside of our home at Halloween 2011!

My only photo I got! I'll be snapping some more before we take all down!

Anyways tonight is another night and I won't have the cute little distractions of last night coming knocking on our door trick or treat'n, and I now have a fully charged battery to get snapping photos of some Halloween Layouts.

If you have kids, hope your Little Trick or Treaters' had a blast last night!

It's Halloween! PART 1

Hope you are all ready for the fun night tonight!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

To be honest, I was never a fan of Halloween until I meant Henry! It's his favourite time of year, so now I really like it too! We enjoy going all out on decorating the front of our home and inside too for Halloween and taking a drive around the neighbourhood to see how others have decorated the fronts of their homes! I too enjoy getting inspired by others.

Halloween Decorations at the Store...

It's always fun decorating the store and being inspired with some paper lines that comes in. This year I was inspired by the My Mind's Eye Mischievous Collection of papers for my decorating palette at the store. I wanted to keep with a simple colour palette of Orange and Black against the blue wall above our Fireplace in the front of the store. I thought it worked out perfectly with the colours from that paper line.

I created a 12X12 Collage of paper with a couple of bats for inside my Bella Blvd Wood Handpainted Frame using the paper collection inspired from a layout I had created previously. Who knows I might even work this collage of papers into a layout later with the photos from the store this year!

The bats on the blue wall were found at another craft store and are reusable. The package came with a lot of them on the sheet. I was able to use them in the store as well as at home! I have cut these types of things out of vinyl before with my Silhouette, but wasn't able to reuse them! So I was excited to find these this year! And I just love using Paper Lanterns (these ones are by Martha Stewart and came with the little accessories to make them look like pumpkins!) They are an easy way to accessorize any decor!

I put together a wee little pumpkin from cardstock using the Silhouette Digital Cutter 3D Pumpkin download! Just had to download this 3D Pumpkin onto my Silhouette as soon as I saw it to put together this year for my display! It's just too cute! It would be easy to make if you didn't have a Silhouette too! Instead of using the stem in the Silhouette design, we put some green ribbon it it!

Pictures of my tiny pumpkin made from paper and ribbon and a couple snap shots of the front entrance Halloween Display at Scrapbook Memories - London, Ontario (our store)

Decorating for Halloween in our Home...

I love seeing all the excited little and sometimes scared little faces. We don't mean to scare away the kids with the fog and scary sounds that surrounds our home, just us big kids having fun! I love seeing all the costumes coming to our door to get some candy.

Henry and I really enjoy decorating our home for Halloween, just as much as I enjoy decorating for Christmas! Just wait til you see that! From the outside of our home, right down to our bathroom, the entire main floor of our home is decked out in Halloween. I wanted to share a couple photos I've taken so far of the Foyer of our home... and our dining room table! I wish I had a chance to take photos of everything, but when I am home its late at night and not the greatest light for taking photos! So I'm creating this blog post into two!

Well, that's all the blogging I can do for today! I have a task ahead of me tonight to snaps some photos of the outside of our home and a sampling of Halloween Scrapbooking Layouts through out the years! Looking forward to completing that tonight, and putting together Part 2 of this Halloween Post hopefully tomorrow! Stay Tuned!