polaroids & mini books galore!

quick quick update --- i finally got my hands on a polaroid camera. phew. for free, with 3 brand new 10 picture cartridges. yey! can't wait to start snapping away ... can't wait to do some sort of mini book project. i will be posting soon, i made a new mini book for keeping quotes that i like in. and i'm almost done with the mini book for my sister.

adventures in babysitting ...

well, sunday marked the beginning of caring for 3 children for the next 16 days. the parents are off to a land far far away (israel) and have left me in charge. a just graduated high school 18 year old girl, a 16 year old girl, and a 12 year old boy. i have my hands full. within the first, yes, FIRST, five hours of them being in my care the oldest two each had a new hole in their bodies. the 18 year old with one in her tongue, the 16 year old with one in her nose. i was not pleased. i don't think their parents will be either. i handled the situation well, as always.

hopefully the rest of the days will go more smoothly now that they know they can't get away with the kind of behavior. seriously, i mean, i remember being a teenager - but seriously?!?

anyway, today i want to cool scrapbook stuff in poway and got a few things - hambly of course (bamboo overlay, some more woodgrain (duhhhh), mod circles) ... some thickers, and some felt letters. i brought over my "travel" scrapbook kit - meaning a shoe box and a 12 x 12 box ... filled with random stuff to work on. haven't yet, but i intend to - gotta work on the book for my sister and just gotta CREATE, since it's been a few days.

alright, gotta take the kiddos to souplantation. wish me luck, i might need it!

bright and early saturday morning ...

ok so my internet is all wonky ... which has thrown off my plans to be super on top of things and post pictures! it only successfully uploaded one picture, so that's all you get.  sorry blogworld. 

i think i should take a class on photo editing / photography in general, and maybe one about web design or graphic design or something.  i think i would get ridiculously frustrated, and i'd probably be terrible at it ... but i see people's awesome things and i'm like grrrr why can't i do that. haha.  i just don't think i have the patience.  i'm all about instant gratification.  

random stuff:  a while ago i remember hearing about ifoundyourcamera and thought it was cool.  today i got linked to it from postsecret and was curious ... what a great site.  i think it'd be so cool to be reunited with old pictures. i'm sure i've lost a disposable or two at some point in my life that i don't even remember and it'd be awesome to stumble across it years later, so i can only imagine how people feel if they've found photos from trips or of loved ones, etc. 

oh, and, i'm currently really loving mandi's stuff ... check out her blog.  amazing things over there!

went over to papertales yesterday after work (seriously, can i hang out there everyday without being considered a stalker?) got some new hambly woodgrain (yey, i was almost out .. i literally use every little scrap of that paper ... mmmmmm ... i hoard it.  i want it in every color.) & a sheet of out on a limb, got some cute little journaling pages (making memories note worthy ... can't find the actual one i bought but i know there's a pic on the papertales blog), some jenni bowlin vintage inspired journaling pages, and some jenni bowlin punctuation raffle tickets, and an awesome sassafrass 12x12 ... (all my heart) 

so now i'll leave you with the one picture that uploaded .... 

a self timer pic of alana & i before the sex and the city pre screening.  sorry it's such a bad pic. 

an update, in list form.

i'm proving to be unreliable with this whole photo thing.  i'll work on it, i promise.  i've been so busy this past week! 

1. i got a new job, phew.  working as a case manager for the ymca child resource service. wow- a job in the field that i think i want to go in to (social work)! go me.

2. the day i accepted the new job i also got a phone call from paper source for a 2nd interview, very exciting.  that's on friday.  i don't have my hopes up, but i'm still going to do it, what the heck.

3. i started on a mini-book for my sister to take with her to south africa when she studies there in the fall.  she wants to bring an album of pictures to share with her host family etc, about her life here in the states.  so i'm putting it together all scrapbook-y and cute. 

4. i just ate an eclair and it was delicious. yummm.

5. i did not do as much art as i wanted to this past week.  i have received rachel's book kit and while i've marveled over the loveliness of it, i've yet to make it, it's sitting on the living room floor in the pile of craftiness that will eventually be made in to several mini books.  why on the living room floor you ask, when i have a perfectly good craft ROOM, yes and entire ROOM of crafty goodness?  well, i have a perfectly good explanation for that - the craft room is a complete DISASTROUS MESS and there's no way i can work up there.  this leads me to number 6.

6. i have yet to be home for a period of time long enough to clean anything in the house.  i just tackled the pile of dishes that had been piling up in the sink for days. there are piles everywhere that need to be put away.  i'm just so tired by the time i get home, and waking up at 5 am has proven more difficult than i imagined.  i'm waiting for a whole weekend of nothingness so i can put our home back together. 

7. i spent part of last week in la with my best friend, alana, and her husband, sam.  alana and i went to the skyy vodka (aids benefit) vip pre-screening of sex and the city on THURSDAY (a day before it was out) in hollywood.  it was fabulous.  absofuckinglutely lovely.  after the showing there was a q&a with michael patrick king and the one and only kristin davis (aka charlotte york).  she looked stunning, and is, honest to god, the cutest little thing.  i loved the movie, and loved spending some quality time with alana.  we also went to the skirball museum and saw the exhibit on bob dylan.  it was good, but i wasn't super impressed.  oh, and how can i forget, we also ate not 1, not 2, not 3, but 4, yes, 4, cupcakes at sprinkles.  ok, it wasn't that bad, three of us shared 4 cupcakes.  they are so good.  we got chai latte, pumpkin, red velvet, and black & white.  if you go to the site, be prepared to drooooool all over your keyboard. no joke.

8. i feel like i had so much more to write about, but i'm kind of drawing a blank. 

i've had a productive sunday morning.  i woke up at the ungodly hour of 6am ... couldn't fall back asleep, the cats were crying for attention at the closed bedroom door, which was peculiar since they had plenty of food and water.  anyway, i read until about 8 when i managed to roll out of bed and clean up around the house.  greg & i finally remembered to get the special stove top cleaner when we were doing errands yesterday - so i cleaned the stove and put away the new kitchen things that we brought over from my moms.  the house is looking more and more unpacked, which is a good thing, considering it's been ... eeek, going on  month 5 since i "unofficially" moved in, and going on month 4 since greg's been out here.  i just want the house to be DONE, but i know that it's going to take quite a bit more time - i have furniture to paint, furniture to buy, art to put up, kitchen stuff to purchase, linens & all that stuff to purchase.  the mixture of hand-me-downs and things i'd purchased over the past few years in anticipation of having a place that was TRULY my (our) own is definitely nice, but i dream of the day that everything in our house is something i've picked out because i LOVE it not because it was free. 

oh, i can dream.

tomorrow the goal is to FINALLY post some more pictures of the craft room and things i've been working on ...

hope you are having a good 3-day weekend! xox.

i just ordered a journal kit from rachel in her etsy shop ... super excited!  

destiny.

does anyone else get excited when people comment on their blogs?  it seriously makes my day, so thanks! 

well, i had a phone interview today for paper source.  FIRST, let me tell you, my lovely fellow san diegans, that paper source will be opening in SEPTEMBER in carlsbad at the forum. yey for us, right?! the forum is also home to anthropologie, zgallerie, and a bunch of other places ... some "mainstream" stores and some boutiques ... for those of you who have never been there. i also hear that free people is opening ... which would be really exciting.  anthro + free people + z gal + paper source, what more could i want?!  by the way my interior decorator friend carrie is the visuals girl at zgal at the forum so if you go there, say hi, haha, she's fabulous! 

anyway, my interview ... so, i have BARELY any retail / management experience.  ya, i minored in small business mgmt in college, and had an internship.  that's about the extent of it.  so i'm clearly not qualified to be the assistant manager of paper source.  i knew that.  but i thought, what the heck, i have nothing to lose.  the lady who interviewed me was a doll, and we had a nice chat and she seemed optimistic about my lack of experience.  she said that other things make up for it, and, worse comes to worse, would i be interested in a shift supervisor position instead.  seriously, i just want to work at paper source.  at this point, i'd be willing to freaking scrub the floor with a tooth brush (oh god, not really). a sample of how the convo went:

paper source lady: so what about the craigslist ad made you decide you'd want to work at paper source? (or something like that)

me: well, actually, i've wanted to work at paper source for forever, and in fact, i often joked about moving to la just so i could work there, even though i hate la with a passion.  gosh, i mean, how could i not want to work in a place that was filled with so much paper and prettiness? it really just makes sense, i mean, i hoard paper.  all kinds of it.  (but it didn't end there, i rambled on for like 10 more minutes about how much i love paper and how the stars and moon and sun must be alined perfectly and it's fate that a paper source is opening and needs employees JUST as i'm job hunting for like the 100th time in the past 2 years.  clearly, destiny at work) ... yes, i was that long winded and dorky. 

paper source lady: oh good, so you're familiar with our store ...

me: yes, i'd say so.