I'm still alive...

Unrelated photo...but they're cute, huh?
Well, that was a bit of an impromptu hiatus, wasn't it? I had a lot of stuff going on around the end of April and the beginning of May...finals, and moving back home for the summer, getting settled in... I haven't had a lot of time (or motivation, to be honest) to craft or blog. And, at the moment, I'm without my own computer! I sent it away to get a speaker fixed about a week ago. It should be home soon (within the week, I hope!) and then I can really get back to blogging. I do have a few things to share, but being without a reliable iPhoto program (the one on my mom's computer doesn't play nice with my iPhone, for some reason) and Photoshop makes it hard to get them ready to post.

But, I will be back as soon as I can! I'm planning one or two fun things with my sponsors (I need to give them more attention!) and I have a couple things up my sleeve for the summer that I'll reveal in good time. So bear with me! I can't wait to start blogging regularly again.

xoxo
Emily

Introducing: The Journal in Your Pocket PDF!

Click here for class info or click here to purchase the PDF
Thanks to Natalie's awesome work, the PDF of our Journal in Your Pocket class is now available for purchase! All the prompts, photos and tutorials that we provided during the live run are in this PDF. It's 89 pages long and packed with inspiration! And it's only $13! So go check it out!

xoxo
Emily

Week in the Life: Thursday

1 AM-hung out in the study room with Jordan and Danielle; talked about personality types (as Jordan is wont to do), also foods that we like and don't like
2 AM-went back to my room; cleaned up my scrapbook stuff; turned on Futurama; went to bed
9:45 AM-woke up
9 AM-laid in bed and checked things (Twitter, Facebook, email, etc) on my phone
10 AM-got up and got on the computer for a few minutes; took a shower; got dressed
11 AM-read blogs; watched a Glitter Girl episode; caught up on WitL documentation to blog Wednesday; blogged; Cassidy came in and we made plans for lunch; finished getting ready
12 PM-went to the Union with Cassidy; ate Chic-Fil-A; talked about various things; decided to go to the library before our 2:00 classes; went to the ATM so Cassidy could get out money to print some things
1 PM-went to the library; sat and studied for my Italian quiz while Cassidy printed her papers; supply-lusted over the guillotine printer in the copy room (I want one!); walked to class with Cassidy and talked about what we want to do with our lives
2 PM-Italian class! Took a quiz (I think I did okay); walked home with Ryan
3 PM-hung around in bed and relaxed; fell asleep
4 PM-woke up briefly but then fell back asleep
5 PM-woke up for real; considered going to Scrap but realized it was too late; met Ryan and drove to Dollar General to pick up soda for the Italian party; drove to Susan's house
6 PM-hung out at Susan's house with other Italian students; played a game of bocce ball
7 PM through 9 PM-hung out with people from all the Italian classes; ate a bunch of really good Italian food and desserts; listened to a guy sing opera; said goodbye to Susan and Molly and drove home
10 PM-got ready for bed; hung around and relaxed; surfed the web
11 PM-settled down to sleep; watched South Park

xoxo
Emily

Week in the Life: Wednesday

Last night was very busy, so this post is up a little later than usual! But I'm still liking the project. It's fun to keep track of this stuff and I'm sure it'll be very interesting to me to look back on these posts and my album in the future!

I was sent an email that someone had commented on yesterday's post asking about what I'm capturing photos with. I can't find the comment now, but I'll answer the question anyway! I'm using my iPhone 4S (8 megapixel camera) exclusively to take photos. I take photos with the stock Camera app and run most of them through Instagram.

12 AM-still awake watching the Barbra Streisand marathon on TCM; found out that Cassidy also didn't win HoHA; planned a cookie dough night for after the GA tomorrow to commiserate; uploaded photos to blog about Tuesday
1 AM-went to bed
8:09 AM-woke up
8 AM-hung around in bed for awhile; opened the window to snap a photo of the sky before I turned on the light; got up and ate breakfast; read blogs
9 AM-started getting dressed and ready for class at 10; had Don't Rain on my Parade stuck in my head
10 AM-History class! Had a hard time paying attention today; no class on Friday, though!
11 AM-lunch with Ryan; we argued about whether or not Barbra Streisand is pretty/talented (she is both, Ryan is wrong)
12 PM-English class; more Macbeth; argh
1 PM-English class until 1:20; sat in the hallway outside of Italian and did homework until class started
2 PM-Italian class! Learned about Sicily
3 PM-checked the mail (nothing, sadly); went to Ryan's to get 90's clothes for the GA tonight; went back to my room and bumped into Cassidy outside
4 PM-went to Sack and Save with Cassidy and Jordan for groceries and dinner; went back to Honors and found Nathan but discovered we couldn't use the kitchen due to an induction ceremony going on; formulated plan B
5 PM-went to Nathan's room and cooked taquitos in the toaster oven, along with beans, queso, chips, and salsa; ate dinner and hung out
6 PM-kept hanging out and eating; listened to various 90s/early 2000s songs and danced around; cleaned up and went back to our room to relax and find an outfit for Cassidy
7 PM-acquired a hot glue gun so I could make some accordion flowers (yay!); made some accordion flowers for my sunset layout
8 PM-kept working on that layout while listening to Glee on Spotify (I love Spotify)
9 PM-kept working on the layout (having trouble finishing off the accordion flower); got dressed in my 90s outfit and went down to the GA with Cassidy; left as soon as it was over
10 PM-went back upstairs to the study room; joined by Jordan; talked about a bunch of random stuff
11 PM-kept hanging out in the study room; joined by Danielle
12 AM-Cassidy left with Joe so she could study without distractions; went to my room to change into my pajamas; got distracted by my scrapbook layout and stopped to work on that for a bit; went back to the study room

xoxo
Emily

Week in the Life: Tuesday

12 AM-finished one card for Monday's card layout; uploaded photos to the computer; edited and blogged Monday's photos
1 AM-finished blogging and whatnot; turned on Seinfeld; went to bed at 1:40
8 AM-woke up at 8:00 on the dot, an hour late because my alarm didn't go off; took a quick but relaxing shower; got dressed and ready to go; browsed the Internet
9 AM-packed up my backpack and went downstairs to meet Ryan at 9:10; got to class at 9:22 (Environmental Science lecture!)
10 AM-class ended early; went to the Union and browsed Cracked.com for awhile; got hungry and annoyed at the fact that I have class at 11 when I usually have lunch at 11; headed to class at 10:50; passed the turtle pond and thought about how I needed to take a photo of it for WitL
11 AM-sat down in class right on time; hoped the turtles would be out when I left so I could take a good photo; found out I won't have this class on Thursday (meaning my Thursday will start at 2 PM!)
12 PM-stayed in Philosophy until 12:20; walked to Bruce where I ate alone and read Soul of a Chef until Nathan joined me around 12:45; talked about random things, as usual
1 PM-walked with Nathan to Honors to get his Scholars Day poster; walked to class with him; discussed why we want to go to Free Press Summer Fest and why things that aren't free shouldn't have "free" in their name; got to class around 1:50
2 PM-Italian class! Ryan said we could go to Michaels later (yay!)
3 PM-got back to my room to relax until dinner; did some planning sketches for yesterday's WitL pages
4 PM-continued working on WitL pages for Monday; played with Photoshop
5 PM-left for dinner at Victory with Ryan and Austin; ate some good food there
6 PM-headed from Victory to Michaels, where I bought a Martha Stewart Scoring Board on sale/with a coupon for only $11! Went home and found out that I did not win the HoHA election (I ran for secretary); cried for a few minutes; started a YouTube video where I left off (a flip-through of a Disney PL album...do jealous!)
7 PM-played with my Scoring Board a little; watched some Project Life flips on YouTube; broke out my tablet to design some journal cards
8 PM-still on the computer (I don't do much in the evenings); work on my WitL a little; read an article on Yahoo about Barbra Streisand; made an envelope for practice
9 PM-looked for something on TV to watch and coincidentally found Funny Girl on at 9:15; decided to try scrapping my first 12x12 layout (a photo of a pretty sunset)
10 PM-kept working on the layout (this is hard!)
11 PM-kept watching Funny Girl (which is a great movie!); had a small snack; started getting ready for bed; found out that apparently it's Barbra's birthday, hence the marathon of her films on TCM (no complaints! I loved Funny Girl)

I love this project so far! It's been a lot of fun so far. Two days down!

xoxo
Emily

Week in the Life: Monday

Day one of Week in the Life is complete!
Those 7 photos probably aren't the only ones that will make it into the album (I took quite a few), but they provide a good over view of my day! I kept notes all day of what I did, broken down by hour, and I want to include that here, too!

7:50 AM-awake
8 AM-got dressed and ready, hung out in bed until 8:40
9 AM-got up to eat breakfast and surf the Internet; worked on WitL cover; ran to class 10 minutes later than usual; listened to Paramore; got to my 10:00 class at 9:56
10 AM-History class! Learned about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the most badass of presidents
11 AM-lunch with Ryan, during which we discussed the merits of Queen; heard Sweet Caroline on the cafeteria radio, which then got stuck in my head; walked to my English class
12 PM-English class! Discussed Macbeth; will be glad when this class is over
1 PM-still in English until 1:20; walked up to Italian to sit in the hallway until 2; couldn't do homework because I lost the paper with the exercise numbers on it, oops! Sweet Caroline is still stuck in my head
2 PM-Italian class! I doodled plans for WitL layouts in the margins of my notebook
3 PM-relaxed, read blogs, watched YouTube videos; thought I might try out this week's scrapbook challenge on Two Peas
4 PM-worked on and finished my WitL cover page; played with stamps and watermark ink
5 PM-thought I could wait until 6 to eat but caved and had some Goldfish; read a bit on my Kindle and watched YouTube videos; headed out at 5:50 to meet Nathan at Bruce for dinner
6 PM-ate dinner with Nathan and some other Honors kids; discussed music and homework and shirts
7 PM-got back to my room and resumed sitting at the computer doing nothing
8 PM-continued doing...nothing; called mom but was told she would call me back; thought about working on a layout;
9 PM-talked to mom on the phone about New York trip, kinda stressful; figured I should get some actual work done, so completed online Italian Lab
10 PM-started working on Italian homework (giving directions, which I can't do in English!); thought about changing my text message ring tone; completed Italian assignment
11 PM-started messing with my WitL stuff, just played around; realized I wasn't hungry for once; posted on TwoPeas

And then it hit midnight and I started keeping notes on Tuesday's page! I like this project so far.

xoxo
Emily

P.S. Scroll down for a post about a fun crafty adventure I had and some cute washi tape storage!

Scrap!

Last Friday, I took a trip down to the Denton Courthouse Square, which is an awesome little place full of fun local shops and restaurants. I went with a few friends, and at the end of the trip, I finally got to go into a place I'd been wanting to explore since I first discovered it on my Square adventure with Natalie.



It's a place called Scrap, and it's pretty much a Goodwill, but for craft and art supplies! It was full of fun stuff from vintage sewing patterns to yarn to old National Geographics to scrapbook paper to poster board. I didn't want to just buy up a bunch of stuff for no reason, so without any specific projects in mind, I just picked up a few packets of sequins, which are getting more popular on paper projects these days.



And then, right before we went to check out, I came across this awesome jar! (And I carried my sequins home in it!)



When I got home, I cleaned it off...



And filled it with washi tape!



Even though I don't have much (maybe about 15 rolls), they still filled up the jar pretty much, so I decided to use this container just for the rolls I use the most. I'm going to put the others in one of my craft drawers (which I plan on sharing soon). That way I'll have the ones I use often right there on my desk to grab when I'm working on a project! I'm so excited about it. I can't wait to go back to Scrap and explore some more!

xoxo
Emily

P.S. Remember this card that I made (with washi tape!) for a challenge on Two Peas? Well, I won! I'm so happy. I can't wait to spend that gift certificate!