tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66014660191843572232024-03-13T13:04:42.430-04:00steph.a.niesteph.a.niehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008137107593234304noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601466019184357223.post-15648361356045478542009-08-16T00:07:00.006-04:002009-08-16T00:28:51.509-04:00Coming Soon!!!<div><div><div>Well, I have another assignment!!! Just like in school I am catching up at the last minute :)<br />I do have an excuse though - i could not figure out my login info for this blog I started in JANUARY, and I didn't want to start a new one.</div><div></div><br /><div>This summer has absolutely been one of THE MOST amazing/exciting/crazy/eventful/exhausting/busy everyday</div><div> summer I have EvEr had. I am so thankful to have the time and money to do all the things I have done this summer. It totally makes me realize that leaving Verizon last November was the right decision. </div><div></div><div>One of the most memorable moments this summer was on me and Jason's anniversary. We went skydiving!!! I know -- CA-RAZY :P</div><br /><div>Well, being a scrapbooker and shutterbug at heart (nevermind that I havent really scrapped in YEARS) I of course bought the package for each of us to have the video and stills. It was well worth the money and with my Lime Ricky kit from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/UR"><a href="http://www.scrapbookdeals4u.com/shop/">http://www.scrapbookdeals4u.com/shop/</a></a> I am gonna make an AwEsOmE memory book for me and Jason - as if we could ever forget right?!?!??! So here's a little preview of the pics and the kit I will be using.</div><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370412390755343730" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 214px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpKF4DBioxY70HNXp223Vo_pwhyphenhyphenfKGZ6jobvxZ_7s40NPvYNmShOcCowKNhCt2KiAPLOH4CGbwVZn96xpYq2wSKg6yt4Cu72VyxMQY5IfeBLtSaFRDMt8UppV2yPUCCCg1YhYgsvoNhM/s320/IMG_5485.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370412879722029282" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 229px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQR9lrvNydTgQQX2M7R8a0CZqbufiXRypDk1bkUmuACCrBbopssUV3-GuSUhQY8hlrGwhQIBMNAAm2W2aAT43M4s4C8wHvw0kqT6YM-98tx7B_ag5BHMDW7PJd4D_AJQorEdrPrlkEqao/s320/June-kit-2-Lime-Rickey.jpg" border="0" /></div></div></div><br />This kit is gonna be perfect with all the bright colors, the birds, and rub-on phrases like "Jump!"steph.a.niehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008137107593234304noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601466019184357223.post-9752063569625715462009-08-15T22:36:00.008-04:002009-08-16T00:50:36.617-04:00~ Back 2 School Alterations ~<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClQFh9OtMQg3mW5g8Vq99BOv6J7omCkJCCqEw_3XNCNJpZqPMEFEDibQZRcBCSGPhEl38gmlMO0PA2VJ1HSa3fAzjuDk_kiSenruwSxB2Sxs6jUKjwp_d7GfjqVxsLSIUbue1OVPhuMU/s1600-h/100_5875.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370402247198525042" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClQFh9OtMQg3mW5g8Vq99BOv6J7omCkJCCqEw_3XNCNJpZqPMEFEDibQZRcBCSGPhEl38gmlMO0PA2VJ1HSa3fAzjuDk_kiSenruwSxB2Sxs6jUKjwp_d7GfjqVxsLSIUbue1OVPhuMU/s400/100_5875.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JszvE_I70fYEmEGabxHr4QSH_gQpAuj3SXyNfObljQYuXgJLHeVpDNpZNbBJEq52zfrp6NQ0O68GQxg1hpo5MDEyGg-e6do-Bmd7abSZmEjYXpagUurzQaAtCK9r7EHdp60hVIfi-HQ/s1600-h/100_5676.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370402243307983810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3JszvE_I70fYEmEGabxHr4QSH_gQpAuj3SXyNfObljQYuXgJLHeVpDNpZNbBJEq52zfrp6NQ0O68GQxg1hpo5MDEyGg-e6do-Bmd7abSZmEjYXpagUurzQaAtCK9r7EHdp60hVIfi-HQ/s400/100_5676.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vPuWye_9dyu3njDHW6_4wFhyV7gTry7wsNENOE_VJBVUIM1IO9MoinjXZSMVZ_uOxUwaFCvIv1xt7QnNvEcIHO_pSIBPw0__gzpnIapXGUnkuW9XHRdVuMWvVtGucd40LG81gv9BHz4/s1600-h/100_5678.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370402234554715458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 470px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vPuWye_9dyu3njDHW6_4wFhyV7gTry7wsNENOE_VJBVUIM1IO9MoinjXZSMVZ_uOxUwaFCvIv1xt7QnNvEcIHO_pSIBPw0__gzpnIapXGUnkuW9XHRdVuMWvVtGucd40LG81gv9BHz4/s400/100_5678.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmJ6VSB4clVHJ07r711KSQ08V5CL25DzFgam8X_CsT2xxbHIifHAgcSyNbDDoJnTSiqBe9HQ7pBZ3NtWdDdjI3Ws9f1bD2jQKLLo_8ZSGuYXYTVYg85JHgMsrOt0TIRrJOVOCG0qoCXc/s1600-h/100_5538.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370402224076180962" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzmJ6VSB4clVHJ07r711KSQ08V5CL25DzFgam8X_CsT2xxbHIifHAgcSyNbDDoJnTSiqBe9HQ7pBZ3NtWdDdjI3Ws9f1bD2jQKLLo_8ZSGuYXYTVYg85JHgMsrOt0TIRrJOVOCG0qoCXc/s400/100_5538.JPG" border="0" /></a> <img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370402214316397714" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 303px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Wv4RroDjhaXNMtReXNZjMG9JUkhHjNIo9df7krKnq0Zan8puvUP489YZHzcvjNvv3c7SZiQr7821noZH9iHeR7tkX_5AzJU8wz8pWW4Gc-w9jHe9XUtx0A6Mj9YuXVWQUBCI2ei60jE/s400/100_5537.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div><div>So yeah, I guess I am a little behind getting this thing going :)~<br /></div><div>But, now I have more motivation!!! I have become a member of the Kit Club on ScrapBookDeals4U.com...................I will be posting a link on my blog to theirs as soon as I figure out how ;) I totally LoVe this website and I really want to get into the contests and stuff they have for us scrapbookers!!! So here is my first asssignment:<br /></div><div>These are Composition Books I made for my daughter, niece, and nephew. I totally stole the idea of my SIL Lisa - so I can't take all the credit ;)~<br /></div><div>Anyhow, with my daughters (8 yrs old), it was the first one, and mind you the first ANYTHING I have done in years....seriously!!! I have been stocking up on goodies for the last eight months, but haven't acutally used anything *guilty face* I'm sure my husband just loves how much money I spend on scrappy goodies that I wasn't using!! Well, I made hers at night after I talked with her a while about what she wanted, and when she saw it when she woke up she DID NOT like some of the paper I used.....so since it was totally for her I broke down and redid it!!!! I wasnt really paying much attention to the products I used, but I will get better at that as I go.<br />Some of the stuff used was Paper Studio, Prima, Thickers, and Heidi Swapp. Hers is the Purple one.</div><div></div><br /><div>Second, I made my 12 year old niece one.....trying to learn from my mistakes, I took her to the store to pick stuff out. This made it a nice challenge. It was hard enough in the first place to NOT use stuff that I knew was not going to hold up from the wear and tear of a bookbag and schoolyear....but now using specific things I might not have picked, well, that was a whole different world ;)</div><div>Hers turned out very cute though and she is very happy with it as her fave color is green and she is NOT a super flowery girly girl, so she loved her RoCk stickers we found.</div><div>for hers I used: </div><div>>heidi swapp wing rub-ons, </div><div>>k&company "rockstar" chipboard stickers</div><div>>creative imaginations crown brad</div><div>>thickers "gift box" letters</div><div>>American Crafts "teen" paper line</div><div>>inked edges, blinged it and finished it with a ribbon!!</div><div></div><br /><div>Lastly, but DEF not least is my fave 5 year old little nephew!!! I mean his book ;)~</div><div>I love him....er, uh, I mean HIS the best. For his I used:</div><div>>Random Paper from stash</div><div>>VinylThickers "Sprinkles"</div><div>>Making Memories "heidi-white" rub-on letters</div><div>>Inque Boutiqe "Out of this world" felts and chipboard embellies</div><div>>buttons and felt ribbon from Lime Ricky kit</div><div><spare><div>>used silver pigment to ink the edges & Fancy Pants rub-ons "the daily grind" </div><div></div><div></div><div>And FINALLY here are the pics.....I promise I will figure a way to condense my postings from short stories to the summary!!!LOL</div><br /><br /><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370402905424712034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 160px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNu7DIxsy9UJccNp33F5okM7TbvLRK7LmaeUT0DpYctR10z6-UDJz4gWu5DZUEa4LFgmpJQoVwEarOIPiSPBM30eA0aAvSdL_hBem2m8P38E8Ilqgw3UYfl7LnAA5aJ0zPmgtCCH3vIjU/s320/100_5879.JPG" border="0" /><br /><div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div>steph.a.niehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008137107593234304noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6601466019184357223.post-78514539898651396142009-01-20T02:43:00.000-05:002009-01-20T14:13:42.001-05:00<div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;">So I absolutely love visiting my sister in laws blog, at least on a daily basis - despite the fact that she doesn't post stuff daily, and so I think I am going to try out this whole blogging thing.</span></div><br /><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;">I don't know if you HAVE to have a theme for these, but my sisters does and I like that idea, besides, I at least need a subject to ramble about -- so as of now I think the theme of this is going to be my interest in photography. Anyone who knows me knows that I am a complete shutter bug and that I secretly think I am a professional photographer that just hasn't been discovered yet!!!! I'm very amatuer, self trained, with a bit of a lack of equipment. I have a nice camera (thanks LI) but nothing on a professional level. I just love taking pics of my loved ones and anything else I see that looks like it should be imprinted forever on a piece of semi-gloss photo paper. I love how everyday things can become art with the right angle and lighting, unfortunatley half the time I see that, I can't seem to translate it to the picture correctly (hence my lack of technical skills)!!! With that said you will most definately see pics I have taken, probably a few random pics I have found on photobucket that I just like, and maybe a few guest spots from some friends of mine.</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;">So anyhow.......hope you enjoy this - hope I enjoy this ;) and hopefully you dont mind run-on sentences, improper grammar, and a lack of punctuation -- and please feel free to leave comments or email me or post your own pics if you want to share (not sure if that can be done I am still learning) I am a talkative person, but much prefer a 2 way conversation, not to mention how lame it would be for me to be doing this blog and absolutely nobody even visiting it!!!!!</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;"></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;"><strong>Well, let's get on with the show!!!</strong></span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;">The weather outside sucks and so for my first pic I'm going to post one of my all time favorites from summer. I took it on my parents pontoon boat at Cinnamon Lake -- believe it or not this pic was not posed, I just happened to glance at the sunglasses and notice the reflection and thought what a great picture it would make. I wish you could see a bit more of the trees and lake in the backround , but before I cropped that stuff out you didn't really notice that there was a reflection in the sunglasses, also would have liked not to have seen the photographer in the reflection -- like I said, can't always translate what I envision.</span></div><br /><div align="center"><span style="color:#339999;">Nonetheless, I love this pic and the way it capture the essence of summer at Grammas. Let me know what you think ;)</span></div><br /><div align="center"></div><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3I-j2kbjEqsh0pck3ke3rNPT9VAelcxqemwHNDgxYvFVCdZZXZqp8WjrwcP5NVy22zHyq3vKSnsd3y65sTSv8_2WGLTX3vdPq3yjAHO6W95qXdLTSirU9NGAL4OPoZoZ5gi5jnar9CI/s1600-h/IMG_1153.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293231728022488098" style="WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 205px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj3I-j2kbjEqsh0pck3ke3rNPT9VAelcxqemwHNDgxYvFVCdZZXZqp8WjrwcP5NVy22zHyq3vKSnsd3y65sTSv8_2WGLTX3vdPq3yjAHO6W95qXdLTSirU9NGAL4OPoZoZ5gi5jnar9CI/s400/IMG_1153.jpg" border="0" /></a></div>steph.a.niehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01008137107593234304noreply@blogger.com2