Hey! That's me!

My first reaction when I was checking out my cousin Talia's blog this evening, she has done a great video blog about her favourite crafting tools. Check it out!

Thanks for the plug Talia, I have a slight obession with tags and chipboard letters.

Score!

On Friday I took myself to my favourite charity store to have a search around for some storage containers for our house and also some fabric that I can use to make items for my ETSY shop SuJoh.

No luck on the fabric hunt, so nice printed skirts and a really nice blue set of curtains, but nothing really grabbed me. I also found two really nice silk scarfs but couldn't think of what to do with them so left them where they were. Then right at the back of the store I spotted these....





Great condition, hardly any wear and no rust as far as I can tell. Fell in love! They cost me $3 each, which was all my budget that I had brought with me. The blue basket is alittle smaller than the black one I am planning on storing my veranda garden supplies in it on top of the fridge, and use it when I am picking fruit from our fruit tree down the backyard. Particularly good size for bringing up to the house a large amount of lemons which I use in cleaning around the house (a good substitute for bleach in most situations and no awful bleach smell!).

The larger black basket in currently in use in our lounge room, it is sitting in our TV unit we got from Ikea a few months back (click here). It holds the blankets that we use during those very cold nights when our heater just isn't enough (also love curling up under a blanket with a good book and a hot chocolate). I am just so happy with this find, totally useful and just what I had been looking for.

Open for business!

YEAH!

I have listed my first three items for sale on my Etsy shop SuJoh.

Please pop over and have a look, let me know what you think!

I am also developing an idea for my shop that will allow me to share my love of scrapbooking, and my obsessive love of going to scrapbooking store.

It is called;

Customisable Scrapbooking Pages

Basically I will be designing scrapbook pages and people would send me photo's and I would place those photo's on the layout and send the now completely layout to the person who sent me the photo's.

Still working out all the details, stay tuned for more.

So in love!

I found this background and just had to use it, I think that I am alittle ADHD when it comes to this blog. I just find it fun to play with the look and the feel. I have been very good not to change the name lately, I really like my blog name. It is quite simple but speaks volumes (I think) about me. Take me as I am cause that is all I am. I really feel that God has been working on making me happy with who I am and seeing the value in that person.

Going with my ADHDness I have changed the name of my ETSY shop, it is now SuJoh and combination of my first and last name. I really like the new name and think that it says that this is my store/brand but I can still stand back from it when I need to. I have seen people start ventures like this and they get caught up and ultimately burnt out. I don't want to do that, because I love making the things that I am going to be selling and I don't want to lose that love. That is one of my greatest fears, I don't want this to become 'work' something I just do and not enjoy.

Two days to go before items go up for sale on my ETSY store! Woohoo!

I have an opening....

Due to the birth of my new baby niece I have had to put back the opening of my Etsy store, can't focus on the store as well as all that comes with a new addition to our family.

But I thought that I would give a little preview of some of the things that I have been working on for the store.

I really like the way that the Journal covers have turned out, particularly like the one with the coordinating flowers, bit more time consuming but love how it turned out. Very tempted to keep it for myself.

My new plan is to start selling end of next week (16th July 2010), so exciting to have an official date!

Got my groove back

Since I did this scrapbooking page I have been trying to get into creating another one. With very little success, life seemed to have gotten in my way abit and I just didn't have the motivation or creative spark. Papers did inspire me and I could like of colours that would look good with photo's I wanted to scrap. Not happy :-(

A couple of weeks ago and great friend of mine had me and another friend over to her place for a scrapping day. We use to do these alot of scrapping days last year but things have gotten so busy that we havn't been able to find any common free time. It was wonderful to sit and chat and slowly bring a page together. I didn't finish the page at the scrapping day but that really wasn't the point, I had got things moving though.

Today is my WH (wonderful husbands) day off and we descided to have a TV free day, which has been great definatly recommend giving a TV free day a try. So this morning I put away my scrapbooking supplies away from that scrapping day with my friend (they had been sitting all packed up for weeks!) and cleaned my scrapping desk up abit. Then I got out the half finished page and set about finishing it off, it took me all day of on and off scrapping but I am so proud to say that I finished it! Woohoo!

And I am also happy to report that I now want to go and start another page, but it is almost dinner time so I am joining my WH in the lounge, he is cooking and I am blogging and checking emails. Scrapping time is over for today, maybe Wednesday.

Our family is growing

Friday marked the addition of a new family member, my WH's (wonderful husband) brother and his wife have welcomed a new little baby.

She is sooooo small, hard to believe that her bigger brother who we spend alot of time with and love very much was that small about two years ago. Me and my WH are also little Isabella's Godparents, which was a total surprise and honor when we were asked. Honestly I am not sure about the roles of a Godparent, I have Godparents myself but I only really have a vague memory of them. My sister on the other hand has wonderful people as Godparents, they are cousins of my Mother and live in England. When we were children they would visit once a year or so and always brought amazing gifts and were incredibly generous. When my sister went to England a year and a bit ago she stayed with her Godparents and they treated her as if she was their own daughter. Though I don't really know the offical job of a Godparent I hope and pray that me and my WH can be as important and special to our Goddaughter Isabella as my sisters Godparents are to her and the rest of my family.