tongue in chic journalings

More Free Stuff!

I'm in a very giving mood this week :)

The Girly Girl Collection is on sale in the SIStv Boutique! We're giving away a free bottle of Glimmer Mist with every collection purchase!

Plus we have free shipping deal ...and another chance to win a prize! Every order place on Monday, June 30th is entered to win this set of goodies:

Congratulations to ERIN who won the prize from my Thursday giveaway! This package of goodness is on it's way to you now!


If you scrapbook, or you are crafty, you'll want to head over to Scrap In Style Tv Monday, June 30-Tuesday, July 1. We're throwing an Online Slumber Party with games, goodie bags, and lots of PRIZES!

Tomorrow I'll be back to my regularly scheduled blogging + answering my 941 unanswered emails...I do not know what to do about my email. Seriously y'all.

Nashville. Famous People Live Here.

Sometimes people ask me what it is that I do. For a living I mean. And I'm not sure how to tell people. Most of the time I just tell people that I scrapbook for a living. Which is very cool. Not as cool as my friend Celine, who scrapbooks for a living on a beach in the south of France, but cool nonetheless.

I do a lot actually. That website I talk about alot? I do everything behind the scenes. Everything. From admin to PAing webisodes to rearranging the warehouse to teaching classes to just plain scrapbooking. But for the past few months 90% of my job was focused on planning the.big.event.

The big event where we hosted 125 people at the Marriott for a weekend of scrapbooking. And ice cream sundae bars. And trolley rides. And so much more.

Like celebrities.

Okay, so they don't scrapbook. But apparently they put their daughters beauty pageants that just happen to be in the same hotel. And that is how we met Mr. Steve Burton. Is that Jason from General Hospital?

Why yes. Yes it is.

But wait, it gets better.

Is that Jan from The Office? Why yes. Yes it is. Okay, so she doesn't scrapbook either but she does hang out at the Marriott bar.

I did however, miss my chance at becoming best friends with the Olsen Twins. They were in town that weekend for Bonnaroo, but instead of camping outside their bus I went to work and did this instead:

I was rapping. To Ice Ice Baby. In front of 125 people. Which actually has nothing to do with scrapbooking, but you know what I like to say about that: Word to your mother. Ice ice baby. Too cold.

Apparently, I just missed Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban at my local starbucks. But not to worry, the barista said. They go 3 times a week, around 7am. They need to get on their schedule because I don't think I can drink anymore coffee y'all. I'm really hoping that Nicole goes into labor while I am in there. I have experience in this. One time when I worked at a coffee shop, this lady's water totally broke while she was looking at the cakes. And I was all "I'll call 911!" And she was all "No thanks, I'll call my husband." And I could totally do that for Nicole Kidman and then she could name her baby after me.

Then a few weeks ago Miley Cyrus and Tyra Banks were filming the Hannah Montana movie at our Belk. In the ladies shoe department. And dang it if I wasn't too sick to go up there. You know they would have wanted to put me in that Disney movie y'all. I could so have been Miley's 12 year old little sister.

Some supermodel got her hair done next to me 2 weeks ago. I think her name was Taylor.  I learned that I can not make decent small talk with supermodels. I also learned that hair place is much too expensive for me to use again.

Plus, at that pageant that Steve Burton was at? I totally saw one of the little girls and her mother from that Pageant Moms Exposed show on E. And I was all "it's totally those people from E!" and apparently, no one else wanted to own up to watching trash tv.

Barb from our scrapbooking group scrapbooks for Sara Evans.

Oh. And I work next door to Lee Greenwood.

Welcome to NashVegas baby.

I'm giving out coupon codes!

TODAY ONLY Scrap In Style Tv is having a shopping party one day sale and you can save 20% off of your ENTIRE order! Which includes all the new products we have in from Heidi Swapp, 7Gypsies, Making Memories, and more. It also includes these sweet new t-shirts made exclusively for us by Amy Tangerine as well as the Beach Bum collection.

Just enter code ONEDAY at checkout!  You can click on NEW AND HOT in the boutique to see all the new stuff! I love coupon codes! This is way better of a deal than my new shoes from Piperlime. That I have to return. Because they are too big. Alas.

Since we are having a shopping party, if you place an order at SIStv today, leave a comment on my blog and you'll be entered to win a goodie bag filled with new Sassafras, Heidi Swapp, Making Memories, Glimmer Mist, and more!

She works hard for the money

That girl in the pink wig might be singing "I'm A Slave For You"

I won't confirm that or anything.

Oasis Lies Just One Breath Away

I want to write about it, I told my husband.

Don't, he said.

I'm hurting. I was wronged. I have a right to talk about it, I insisted.

I know. But don't, he said.

I trust him. And I'm stubborn. So I said maybe.

Then I laid down with the latest book I'm reading.

It's about discipline.

Ironic, I know.

And I read this:

Come to me, all whose work is hard, whose load is heavy and I will give you rest. Bend your necks to my yoke, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble hearted.

That is not what I wanted to read. I don't want to be gentle and humble hearted right now. I want to be feisty right now. But in the long run, in the expanse of time, I want to go where I'm supposed to when I need rest. Which takes the discipline that I am lacking, but wanting. The choice to be quiet rather than feisty. The knowledge that my husband is almost always right (but don't tell him I said that). So instead, I poured the feeling onto a scrapbook page, thanked Jeff for the months of counsel, and turned off the light.

New Every Morning

Happy Birthday To Me!

It's been such a great day so far. I just wanted to say a quick thanks to everyone for all the e-cards, gifts, and well wishes today. I am so blessed to have so many awesome people in my life.

25 seems so adult.

In honor of that, here is a grown up picture of me at work taken by the fantastic Ulmer Studios.  And here is a 12 year old version of me playing grown up at Glamour SHots...

praise the Lord and pass the ammunition

I just used my Bible study book to kill a spider.

I feel a strange mixture of shame and pride.

Shame that I used the bible study book.

Pride that I whacked the spider all by myself.

But it was either that or my bare feet.

And really, I didn't have much time to decide because that thing was coming at me fast.

I didn't even think about it that much, and the book is currently sitting in the floor waiting for Jeff to move it as I'm afraid that the spider might not really be dead under there.

So Beth Moore, I'd like to tell you that you really have made a great impact on my life. I have learned a lot about the Lord from you, and think highly of you as a person. So if tonight you happen to be in Nashville, get lost, and by some odd stroke of luck find yourself in my guest bedroom before my husband returns from watching the NBA finals and see your beloved bible study being used to squash a man eating spider...please don't judge me.

Because truly, I still think it's doing the Lord's work.

In an mmm bop they're gone. In an mmm bop they're not there.

First: there are only 4 days until I turn 25.

I'm feeling so adult.

Like, first of all, I'm all granola now. I eat all healthy and organic. I use all natural cleaning products. I buy handmade. And I totally shop with canvas bags. At a farmer's market.

I know, right? 

If I run to the store and forget my bags, I cringe at having to use plastic. I've taken to just keeping them in the car all the time. I used to roll my eyes at people who shopped with canvas bags. I mean, how hippie is that? And now, when I see other people looking at me like "why is that twelve year old so earth conscious?" I get all fired up inside and hope they realize that my canvas bags are way better than their plastic, earth killing, pollutant making bags.

More adult things:

I pay all of our bills, and I am mostly always on time. If Jeff asks, I'm always on time.

We're looking at buying a house. A house. With like, a mortgage.

We talk about having a baby.

When my best friend called upset today, it wasn't about a guy, or a fight with a friend, or about how the dress she wanted for formal was sold out. It was about a serious, adult, life issue.

I listen to talk radio.

We had to pay the government a ridiculous amount of money in taxes.

For my birthday, I wanted a practical item rather than a fun, splurgy, type of thing.

This is all slightly freaking me out.

So as much as I really love my birthday, I think I'm just going to stay 24.

kthankxbai.

Transitions

So this move has been a big life transition for me. One of the biggest adjustments for me is that I really miss my friends. And having friends in general. Jeff and I just haven't found a niche yet, and I'm kind of a workaholic so our social circle is really limited. And of my closest girlfriends here, one is my boss and the other lives 45 minutes north. Which is actually not so bad except for the fact that I am a terrible driver who got lost for 20 minutes yesterday in my own town about 10 minutes from my apartment.

I was sort of used to having this social life where I went out a lot. For being such a needy person with all sorts of crippling emotional issues, Jeff and I really have a lot of independence in our marriage. He'd go play sports, or poker, or whatever and I'd go out with my girlfriends. But like I said, we haven't found our niche yet. So no sports for Jeff or malling dates for me.

And normally I make friends super easily. I'd like to believe this is because I'm really fun to hang out with, but it's probably just because I look twelve so people like to take me to the movies and get the child priced ticket.

In any case, I haven't made friends as easily up here, so last week I sent out a personal ad to all the people I've met here so far inviting them to be my friend.

I realize that totally reeks of desperation, but don't worry... I can top it.

I got an invitation to a party a few weeks ago from one of the girl I met up here.

And I went running into the den yelling to Jeff "Someone invited me to a party! Someone invited me to a party!"

And then I had this flashback to the 6th grade and realized that life at age 25 and life at age 12 might not be so different...