I'm so crafty I make people

I already had an idea in my head for the title to this page, and then the Challenge over at The Paper Girls Challenge blog fit so nicely, I just had to implement!

The challenge is to use large letters. I picked the background paper & everything else kind of fell into place. I love when that happens!

Here is a close up of some of my favorite parts. Those Me and My Big Ideas stickers say the perfect things!

Check out my Instagram page (link to the left) for tags of the product companies used. Challenge found here.

Thanks for looking!

Back on the blogging wagon

I have had this little gem for a bit, ever since I traveled abroad during college & wanted a way to share my journey with my family and friends back home. It has been neglected for many reasons. The main reasons being time & lack of important things to say that could not fit into a short Instagram or twitter post. Oh & a toddler. It's hard to get much of anything done with those running around. (And somehow we thought it was a good idea to create another one!? Haha, j/k. I'm excited. And oh-so-ready for #2 to arrive.)

Well I've recently been super interested in other blogs & contemplating going out to be a design team member for some of my favorite products. From my research, a blog is a basic necessity for the design team member, so I'm relaunching! I hope to gain a few followers, to inspire & be inspired! I plan to use this blog now to post projects I've completed for myself and some for contests or whatever else fun inspiration I find online. The travel blog of yore must take a backseat since we do not travel as much due to the aforementioned little ones. However, I will be posting my scrapbook pages of the travels we do encounter, so it's a bit of a two birds, one stone scenario.

Thanks for reading!

Happy New Year!

Well it's 2012, and I'm excited to see what God has in store for us this year. It has been a great ride so far! In 2011 we realized some of our goals, to include a European adventure & Eric obtained his insurance license. (Call him!)

In 2012 we have a grand plan of going to Eric's birthplace, Honolulu, Hawaii. We booked our flights yesterday, I'm super excited!

I also have home improvement projects dancing in my head, so stay tuned for those updates. Eric is becoming better at his wood-crafting, so I have to put it to good use, right?

The following are some recent projects we've completed:

Christmas gift corn hole boards - we made some UT and some Preds





Infinity scarf/cowl










My prettiest card to date!


Thanks for looking!

Finally!

I finished a knitting project & it looks ok!

It's about time!










Dream big, friends!

Take a shot!

Just wanted to share a couple of the photo shoots I have recently done. These are from and engagement shoot and a baby shoot with a little mommy thrown in. It's super fun!
























Not gonna lie, I may have snuck this idea from Pinterest!












Tomorrow I'm doing my first Senior photos ... with a boy! So I hope I can think of enough interesting poses!

Talk about DIY...

So after many a long afternoon we finally finished our outdoor furniture we handmade ourselves! We got the plans for the furniture from the ahhhmazing Anna White.




Here's a closer shot:



I made the pillows by just sewing two simple squares together. Also, much contemplation went into the seat cushion & the husband helped stuff. One side of the cushion is held together with upholstry screws instead of sewn.

These are just a couple more cute pictures of our outdoor, fall, party decor :) The photos are creepy graveyard pictures I took in Savannah, GA.

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Let me know if you have any questions! Anyone can do Anna's projects, just have patience, and do not expect perfection at first! :)

we travelled to Lobelvul(ville)

First things first, the bff and I did sips'n'strokes Friday night - good times! We painted the Arc de Triomphe. Of course, her's was the best in the class... I almost got my hands on it at the end of the night...



Saturday we traveled to Lobelville, Tennessee. (Pronounced lobe'uhl'vul') Literally probably the tiniest town I've been to, but hey, this blog is supposed to be about all travels, huh? We canoed the Buffalo River with a group from our church. It was a pretty relaxing day except the part where all the guys wanted to dangerously jump off rocks. Highlights include: the weather was great, got a great workout, and escaped a near death experience with a Satan spider.





At some point I will do a blog recapping our Europe trip & then from here on try to keep it updated!

I made things

Last night I made two things: a shirt and dinner.
One turned out better than the other...

First, my shirt:



thanks to Ruffles and Roses

I did leave out the ruffles, but the roses are there. Lace bias tape replaced the ruffle. It isn't too bad for about 1.5 hour or less work.

Second, and better of the two:



Bacon Wrapped Cheese Filled Jalepinos. Thanks to my Grandma for the idea!
How to:

cut pepper in half, remove seeds.
mix cream cheese with cheddar cheese, add a dash of garlic.
fill pepper shells.
wrap with one half piece of bacon.
bake at about 450 degrees until bacon crispy, probably about 15-20 minutes.
nomnom

inspired to blog...

note to self: quit being the world's most sporatic blogger eva. just drink more water and eat less, it's not that frickin' hard of a concept to grasp.

note about life: sweet husband struck today with a suprise dry-cleaning of distraught cream coat covered with Christmas coffee. (what an alliterative accident!) super sweet and makes for a happy wife with one less thing to do before excessivly long and cold work training trip to Baltimore in t-minus 2 weeks from today. ahhh the simple things. also, i figure since i'm bullying my journalist friend to blog, i might as well set a good example. i always did want to be a writer as a girl and it's always been a sort of strong suit with me in school. the hard part will be keeping enough interesting things to blog about.
such as how (i feel as though) i'm the only one my age without a stinkin kid or who isn't prego! but that is ok. i don't want to be right now. eventually i will be and it'll be great and good. but for now i will focus on my career and travel and just being with my husband in our lovely home (which is almost complete! pending master bathroom overhaul). i mean i currently have/do everything i've pretty much ever wanted so why not be content with this?? i am. plus i am NOT the only one with out a child, silly dilly.
two spaces after a period, but with no attention to punctuation. it's my blog and i'll be as gramatically picky as i desire.

note to you: check out the following because they will make you smile.
<3 & jajajajajaja.

man, i hope i did that html right... it's been so long!!

Scrapping to do list

Pending training for my new job @ work, I find myself with little to do but surf the internet for anything and all things "scrapbooking". Since I am without my resources of the scrap room @ home, I decided to make a "to do" list of all the pages I want to make, so as to not forget my great intentions!

#1. Christmas "These are a few of my Favorite things" page (in progress: pictures are edited via picnik) Pick papers & print photos in 2x3ish size.

#2. Create square collages with 2x2 photos from honeymoon & Chicago.

#3. Do more 1 photo LOs

#4. Try to do the simplest LOs (think: minimalist, negative space)

#6. Do more LOs of extended family (parents, sibling, grandparents, etc)

#5. Obtain a CriCut! (this will make life much easier)

#6. Eventually, someday, after years (I'm sure) of improving artistic effects and perfecting scrapbooking performance - have a request from someone to publish my project (min. in a blog, but dream big - what about a magazine!? :o) )...

inspiration: www.scrapbook.com

Learning about myself through Google Images

GOOGLE IMAGE TAG

Rules: The rules are simple. Use Google Image to search the answers to the questions below. Then you must choose a picture in the first page of the results, and post it as your answer.

I am...

Eric Dill’s wife

I want to go to...

Spain

And while I'm there, I'll go...

to Barcelona

My Favourite Place...
the beach

My Favourite Things are...
scrapbooking, my maltese-yorkie,travel

My Favourite Drink is...
fruit tea!

My Favourite Food is...
a tie between sushi and mexican

My Colors are...
brown and orange

I currently live in... madison, tn

But was born in... nashville, tn

I attended... Goodlettsville Church of Christ

I love watching these shows... True Blood, The Office, Ghost Hunters

I love doing these... Jazzercise & shopping

I wish for these everyday... millions of dollars!