I love Christmas and it's almost here I'm anxious to start playing Christmas music more and I'm trying so hard to resist decorating till the sunday after Thanksgiving, but the box of decorations is staring me down. Christmas is the only holiday I like to buy decorations for, but this year I want to handmake some too. So here's my list for my handmade Christmas:
1.) Make ornaments using the Epoxy resin. (I saw this on HGTV a few years ago and wanted to do it since.)
2.) Make Wreaths
3.) Take Pictures and use for decorating and ornament making
4.) Host a dinner party
5.) Make Sockings. I sewed one, it needs more work as far as the shape of it, but it was pretty easy
6.) Make blankets with fleece. They are super easy and super warm and make great gifts!
7.) Make a playlist of my favorite Christmas songs for the blog. Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra will definately make the list!
8.) And Take pictures of everything and post on here (sorry for lack of pictures, I work retail and it's our craziest season, so i'm busy with work)
The Dinner and a movie Party:
So my roommate and I decided we want to host a dinner when we first moved in. I like to dress up for it will be a semi formal, or casual.. I'm not sure. But we plan on cooking a nice meal consisting of: Stuffed Chicken or Pizza (we do like to keep things casual), salad, vegetables of some sort, or breadsticks... and fpr dessert either cupcakes decorated christmas style, pie, cookies, or fruit pizza if we go with the pizza.
And after dinner, or during (we don't have this planned out entirely) watch the movie ELF!
I also want to try to candy too. Like fudge, hard candy, chocolates. Etc...
So yeah that is kinda my plan for my handmade holiday!
And I do promise to take pictures :)
-Jen
OH, P.s. Guess what I bought!?! #1 on my craft list: Stamp Carving kit! I actually carved a stamp that I will share super soon. It's actually really easy and fun! Later!
Friday, November 19, 2010
Friday, November 12, 2010
Craft List
Hello! If your wondering, the businesses are coming a long, slowly. I have some other things to do and getting towards the holiday season, my job is crazy. But I will make time for this. Well for my post today I wanted to share a new list: Craft List! There are a dozen things I want to try, so I thought I would assemble a list, also with some goals related to crafts too. I'll add more later, but here are a few things I want to do!
1.) Stamp Carving
2.) Hard Candy Making
3.) Soap Making
4.) Get better at Jewerly making
5.) Make a whole Scrapbook Album
6.) Finish sewing the various projects I have around
7.) Make my own Christmas Stocking
That's it for now, but I will upate it, and fill you in on the progress!
Well I have to get ready for my job.
Have a good day.
-Jen
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Business Update
Hey everyone!
So i've been on vacation for the past few days, but I feel like its going way too fast... Well my last post I announced that I opened a new business, well, it's still in the working, but business is extremely hard. I'm mostly stuck on making inventory. Hopefully by the end of the week I will be opened, fingers crossed! But as much as I really want to open and get things started, I want to take my time and do things super well. I am super excited and extremely happy to start what i've wanted to for so long. Dreams are nice and should be fulfilled!
-Jen
So i've been on vacation for the past few days, but I feel like its going way too fast... Well my last post I announced that I opened a new business, well, it's still in the working, but business is extremely hard. I'm mostly stuck on making inventory. Hopefully by the end of the week I will be opened, fingers crossed! But as much as I really want to open and get things started, I want to take my time and do things super well. I am super excited and extremely happy to start what i've wanted to for so long. Dreams are nice and should be fulfilled!
-Jen
Monday, October 4, 2010
#8
Hey! So guess what!?!? I'm beyond excited about this... So I haven't actually posted this list on here, but I have a list of 30 things I want to do before I turn 30.. and one of them is starting a business... Well I have. I know Etsy is more popular, but I don't like the fact that they recieve commission and how they listing works, so I went with Artfire. It's kind of an etsy alternative. They have a free basic option and a pro, they don't don't have fees at all, if you go pro you just pay a fee per month and thats all. I decided to take a leap of faith and try it. It will be up and running in a week so I will definitely keep you posted. I've always wanted to run my own business and even more so now. I can't wait to be self employed! Well That's all I wanted to share for now!
“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.”- Proverbs 29:25
-Jen
“Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.”- Proverbs 29:25
-Jen
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
2 Weeks...
Ok... maybe one week since I last posted here. Sorry. It's not that i'm busy, but I am... I'm working on my fall goal list now since it's finally fall! So i'll post more on that and what's been going on in my life lately.
Night!
Night!
Monday, September 20, 2010
4 Stories
Hi! I'm an avid blog reader. I consistently read: A Beautiful Mess, which led me to: Smile and Wave , which led me to many others. Maybe i'll post a list of the blogs I read sometime. But another I check out is Freckled Nest and since i'm new to keeping up and consistently blogging (i have several blogs, I just don't keep up with them... yet :) ) i've decided to maybe get out there more in the blog world, and participate in things.. Well I saw this today and thought it would be cool to do:
Here's my 4 Stories about Swimming:
1.) Camping: Every year my family and I would go camping near Lake Michigan. It was my favorite vacation. And every year the moment we go there I wanted to go to the beach right away, but we had to set up everything. The next day we definitely went to the beach. I loved the beach. Swimming to me normally involved a floatation device, such as a inner tube. So I wasn't much of a swimmer. I would float out in the water and have fun doing it, with the small worry of floating too far out and end up on the other side of the lake, so I'd usually stay where it was semi shallow. We swam about every day. Also on these trips we would go to meijers and and get more food or whatever we needed. I always got a something new for either school ( got a book bag one year) or a toy and an ice cream cone, normally Super man flavored. Well at the checkout I was looking at the papers and there were those fake news, and one said sea monster in Lake Michigan, I was freaked out. (Oh and an important fact to the story, this was when I was about 7 or 8, I was pretty young). The next time we went to the beach I did not swim. I went to this little ankle deep chanel from the lake, but that was it. I looked out into the water to see if I could see anything, but didn't I was scared. I slowly came to realization that it was ok to swim in the lake, everyone else was. And by the end I did go back.
2.) Canoeing: Every year there is a canoe trip for the band students. Being new to the band I was involved in a lot of activities in 9th grade. We got to our desitination, I wasn't sure what to do with the bag I brought with the change of clothes and towel so I brought it with me. I got into the canoe with my friend, and we were off. It wasn't too bad at first. Since I can't actually swim (I can float and kind of swim) I was a tad nervous. It was fun too, till we tipped over... I was soaked and scared, especially trying to hoist myself back into the canoe. It was embarrasing. And all of my extra clothes got wet. I think it was the most embarassing water experience ever. I got over it, of course.. But to this day I will never canoe again.
3.) Lessons: When I was young, probably around 6-9 maybe, I took swimming lessons. I am quite shy and don't really feel comfortable in swim suits (then, getting better now). And changing into them in a locker room (I always went into a bathroom stall) was the worse. So swimming lessons weren't off to a good start, since I couldn't wear my usual t-shirt in the pool. I remember learning the things, swimming with the foam board, being extremely nervous about jumping in (still am), and more things. I do enjoy swimming in pools, at my own pace and for fun. Lessons were not fun. And sadly I did not pass... And I did not try again. Swimming lessons weren't really my thing, clarinet lessons however I did enjoy, but that's another story.
4.) Comfortable: Growing up, other than when I was little, about 3rd grade and up, I also wore a t-shirt swimming. I just wasn't super comfortable wearing a tight swim suit in public. Even though people of all shapes and sizes wear them, I would not. With my youth group, in my preteen age, we went to an amusement park (like Cedar Point, but it wasn't). And in the group was a boy I liked since forever, but we were friends, pretty good friends (and that's it). Well we were going to go on a water slide together, but you could only wear a swim suit on this, he was also a t-shirt wearer, so we both took them off and went down, then quickly put them back on when we got done. I was not liking that, especially that it was with a boy that I was kinda liking. I was so glad in high school at the youth group I went to it was a rule to wear t-shirts, if you wore a bikini style swim suit (for modest reasons, especially around the boys). Up till last year i've been alittle more comfortable, I wore shorter sleeves on t-shirts (still haven't done the tank tops yet), and thanks to a friend, I can wear swimsuit tops (normally the tankini ones) with out a t-shirt! It's kind of freeing.. I know that wasn't really about swimming, but swim wear.
So those are my stories!
Thanks for reading!
-Jen
Here's my 4 Stories about Swimming:
1.) Camping: Every year my family and I would go camping near Lake Michigan. It was my favorite vacation. And every year the moment we go there I wanted to go to the beach right away, but we had to set up everything. The next day we definitely went to the beach. I loved the beach. Swimming to me normally involved a floatation device, such as a inner tube. So I wasn't much of a swimmer. I would float out in the water and have fun doing it, with the small worry of floating too far out and end up on the other side of the lake, so I'd usually stay where it was semi shallow. We swam about every day. Also on these trips we would go to meijers and and get more food or whatever we needed. I always got a something new for either school ( got a book bag one year) or a toy and an ice cream cone, normally Super man flavored. Well at the checkout I was looking at the papers and there were those fake news, and one said sea monster in Lake Michigan, I was freaked out. (Oh and an important fact to the story, this was when I was about 7 or 8, I was pretty young). The next time we went to the beach I did not swim. I went to this little ankle deep chanel from the lake, but that was it. I looked out into the water to see if I could see anything, but didn't I was scared. I slowly came to realization that it was ok to swim in the lake, everyone else was. And by the end I did go back.
2.) Canoeing: Every year there is a canoe trip for the band students. Being new to the band I was involved in a lot of activities in 9th grade. We got to our desitination, I wasn't sure what to do with the bag I brought with the change of clothes and towel so I brought it with me. I got into the canoe with my friend, and we were off. It wasn't too bad at first. Since I can't actually swim (I can float and kind of swim) I was a tad nervous. It was fun too, till we tipped over... I was soaked and scared, especially trying to hoist myself back into the canoe. It was embarrasing. And all of my extra clothes got wet. I think it was the most embarassing water experience ever. I got over it, of course.. But to this day I will never canoe again.
3.) Lessons: When I was young, probably around 6-9 maybe, I took swimming lessons. I am quite shy and don't really feel comfortable in swim suits (then, getting better now). And changing into them in a locker room (I always went into a bathroom stall) was the worse. So swimming lessons weren't off to a good start, since I couldn't wear my usual t-shirt in the pool. I remember learning the things, swimming with the foam board, being extremely nervous about jumping in (still am), and more things. I do enjoy swimming in pools, at my own pace and for fun. Lessons were not fun. And sadly I did not pass... And I did not try again. Swimming lessons weren't really my thing, clarinet lessons however I did enjoy, but that's another story.
4.) Comfortable: Growing up, other than when I was little, about 3rd grade and up, I also wore a t-shirt swimming. I just wasn't super comfortable wearing a tight swim suit in public. Even though people of all shapes and sizes wear them, I would not. With my youth group, in my preteen age, we went to an amusement park (like Cedar Point, but it wasn't). And in the group was a boy I liked since forever, but we were friends, pretty good friends (and that's it). Well we were going to go on a water slide together, but you could only wear a swim suit on this, he was also a t-shirt wearer, so we both took them off and went down, then quickly put them back on when we got done. I was not liking that, especially that it was with a boy that I was kinda liking. I was so glad in high school at the youth group I went to it was a rule to wear t-shirts, if you wore a bikini style swim suit (for modest reasons, especially around the boys). Up till last year i've been alittle more comfortable, I wore shorter sleeves on t-shirts (still haven't done the tank tops yet), and thanks to a friend, I can wear swimsuit tops (normally the tankini ones) with out a t-shirt! It's kind of freeing.. I know that wasn't really about swimming, but swim wear.
So those are my stories!
Thanks for reading!
-Jen
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Good Evening!
Just thought i'de stop by for a brief post. If you noticed, on your right is a new playlist. I think I will change and update these every week. So be sure to check in to listen to new music for your reading and listening enjoyment. This weeks will be All about Jesus. And I tried to get it alphabetical, but that was a little tricky. I'm really inspired by my Savior and Creator. I'll share more on this later, but just wanted to introduce the new side feature.
Have a lovely night.
-Jen
Have a lovely night.
-Jen
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Fall Goal List
Hey! So with fall coming up, officially in 9 days. And I think fall time should be filled with lots of fun moments, and some things can only be done in the fall time. So here is my Fall Goal list, which can be added too (#21!). Hope it inspires you to come up with you own fall goals.1.)Complete a crochet project (ex: scarf)
2.)Take a drive in the country for no reason other than to see the surrounding
3.)Take lots of pictures
4.)Take walks
5.)Walk the trails at Fritzdale Park
6.)Go out to breakfast more often (not everyweek or so, but once in awhile)
7.)Make a homemade Apple pie
8.)Make pumpkin seeds
9.)Go to the Cider Mill
10.)Get a pumpkin at a pumpkin patch and carve it
11.)Watch a Charlie Brown special
12.)Get red highlights
13.)Have a 'Lord of the Rings' movie marathon
14.)Have Craft Night Parties, where a group of people get together and craft, on a regular basis.
15.)Make Caramel Apples
16.)Try a Candied Apple
17.)Sew an Apron or two
18.)Go out for a coffee alternative (ex. smoothie, hot chocolate) at a coffee shop.
19.)Go to a football game
20.)Learn to play the guitar (or start)
21.)Come up with More things to do!
::sigh:: I love fall!
-Jen
Welcome!
Hello!
This is a new blog adventure. If you don't know me, which I think most of you don't my name is Jen. I am 26 years old and am totally in love with Jesus. I'm currently addicted to peanut butter twix, the Office, I Love Lucy, and Wendy's french fries, which I don't eat a lot because I never feel like driving there, but I think about it often (I guess it's in my benefit not to want to go there). I love to make things and create things through sewing, scrapbooking, and photography. I love to try new things in crafting, just not food so much (picky eater). I also like to make list and goals. I think I have time making list than time spent on fulfilling them. So that's why I'm starting this blog, to post list of goals, and document fulfilling those goals! It seems like a fun journey and i'm excited to start this project. Not all list will be goals, but I will throw in some fun ones too.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for reading!
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