i can finally smell fall...

Can you believe it? We're finally starting to feel some nice weather here in the sunshine state. It's been beautiful here for the last few days and I pray that it continues! Lately when I walk outside nostalgia hits me! it has been wonderful, indeed. I caught myself singing christmas music today, CHRISTMAS MUSIC and it's just BARELY autumn. I guess I figured I'd get a head start.

I can't even begin to tell you how stressful this week was, but this quarter is finally over and I have a huge pile of art sitting in our room. I'm so thankful that I made it through (thanks to Jake! he's such a huge help and teaches me all sorts of stuff), and with good grades! I actually feel like I'm excelling here and it's great to feel like you are where you belong, doing what you are supposed to be doing. I'm excited for this next quarter, some actual photography classes! but here are some of my favorite pieces from this quarter: 

[complimentary colors]

[monochromatic]

[self portrait, my favorite]

nonetheless, today was one of a kind. I actually got up early on a saturday. crazy I know. We're really into the flea market, especially with this lovely weather! We also grabbed the paper and went to a few local yard sales. I got some more frames to paint for pretty cheap and a new pair of sunglasses for $1. can't beat that. 

Since I finally have a week off after eleven grueling weeks of nonstop work, I'm going to relax! maybe do some scrapping, go and see a movie [finally]. Jake and I are really excited about Fireproof. I can't wait to see it! so that is on my agenda for this week along with taking a much needed day off from work. Then back to the grind on October 6th. Jake starts classes with me, so it'll be interesting going to school together. I don't believe we have any of the same classes, but more than likely at the same time. OH and did I mention we bought a scooter today?! It should arrive sometime next week! geeky as it may seem, we are pretty excited, especially since it get 80-90 mpg. be jealous, lol. Honk if you see us zooming around town on this beast!

g'night!

j&j

flea market finds and such

So this weekend Jake and I decided to go "flea-ing" as it is now known and thrifting just to look and see if we could find any great frames for painting and any other vintage finds that we came across. My first frame turned out pretty good, especially for $.99!


So we went to a few places, found a few things (like so) and then spend saturday night at his parents while I scrapped and he built a shelf! I had fun and this is what I came up with...





Sunday, after church we went to the Oldsmar flea market, which I thought was pretty pricey, considering most of it was junk. but we did find this really cute vintage store where I found some goodies! We found our next kitchen table, it was a chrome 1950'2 style soda shop table, red vinyl chairs included! so I thought the dessert sign thingys that I bought would go perfect! and he gave me a little birdie salt/or pepper shaker for free since we couldn't find it's match, but that was fine with me...still just as cute! But yea, Jake and I have unofficially decided to do a 50's themed kitchen in our next place, which we will hopefully have by the end of october.

A lady at church gave me some old fabric ribbon I had ran across in the decoration storage room, since it would have went to waste...so I can find multiple ways to utilize it!



This week is pretty stressful since it's my last week of class, so pray for us! Oh! and Jake has been scavenging for a scooter, since his underwater car incident HA. He is car-less and we want something that is good on gas, plus, since we will be going to classes together we only really need one car. He wanted a motorcycle (what man doesn't) but I said noooo. did I mention they get 80-90 mpg? I can definitely handle that as geeky as they might look. hehe...

Adios amigos!
j & j

newest creations!

I had some extra time to do some new scrapbook pages this week, therefore I thought I would share them!





I've been in an extremely crafty mood lately. So I'm sure there will be a lot more posts on my recent creations and projects! let me know whwat you think!

Weekend bliss

This weekend Jake and I went to visit my best friend Tasha and her husband Lance in Bushnell. We took pictures and relaxed, and I enjoyed every minute of it...and our pictures turned out pretty well too...