New York Baby!

Finally! I will be taking a vacation! I would have chopped off my right hand to go to NYC in high school and now I can! I am nervous about getting on the right plan and shuttles and AHH! I am the worst with details. THE WORST! It's going to be great to just relax. My mid terms will be over and when I get back to texas I will have Funk Finds and spring break to look forward to.

Am I still living in texas? 2 snow falls this year! it's been wonderful!

The snow clung to the tops of the grass and weeds in our yard and made ice flowers.

I am working on journals for the show and am a bit nervous that I won't have very much merch. I found a cool tutorial on making displays for shows. I stole some doors from the trash pile at the end of our road and I am so excited to decorate them but I can't decide how... blank canvases are so intimidating. My journals are getting better and better. I use the left overs to make little "Demi" books. they are so small and cute I may like them better that the regular ones. I hope they look cute to customers too.

I love the chabby chic fabric flowers that are on everything handmade right now so I tried an experiment and I think they turned out pretty sweet. I call them Flirty Flower Bobby Pins. I hope mom's will want them for their little princesses.

I am trying my hand at growing basil and lavender. They are actually growing!! AHH. I am not much of a green thumb but its soo much fun do see little green thinks peaking out at me everyday.

Greek Geek

I'm 23! I'm old!

What is sexier than a Greek hunk? Well just sit your fanny down in front of "My Life in Ruins" and enjoy! Its my new fav and I think I have watched it like 5 times in 2 days, yeah I have no life. There is just one shot of the Parthenon and it lasts like half a second but it made me tear! What a nerd! Ancient ruins make me misty eyed. The whole movie is like an Art HIstory student's study guide mixed with one of the best love stories. Its the best because its sooo sweet and no stupid plot line where one hurts the other or mistaken identity or something stressful like that. Boy meets girl and they fall in love. Its a refreshing movie. Watch it Meg and Amber. Meg, Harland Williams is in it and WE KNOW HIM sorta.

I have had a break thru in crafting!!! FINALLY I think I found my niche in the handmade world! Bookbinding! Its soooo fun and I have 3 that are ready for Funky Finds in March. I don't get tired of making them so thats good cuz one takes like an hour to finish. So I make mini...(I'm watching My Life in Ruins right now and my Greek God just melted me with a little grin and gorgeous eyes whimper) any way what was I saying? Oh yes, mini journals $15-20 and full sized $25-30. I plan to take them to local book stores and other coffee shops and see if they will sell them. I say other coffee shop cuz the one I have sold my soul to back in 2005 wont sell them even tho they WILL get bought and bring in more money. But am I bitter, naw.

Oh there is also a sexy Australian in this movie.

Nope my Apollo is sexier. Dare I say it? SEXIER than Edward!!! GASP! tis true. I will marry a Greek or Italian man. Meg and Am, he resembles a gentleman who I will not name here, I think you can figure out who I mean. I would still take Mr. X over Mr. Greece. La.

Make something. You'll feel better.

Good day today! Spent the whole happy! I realized that I have not been all that happy when I spent the whole day enjoying everything I did. I won't bore you with the details but I simply did things I planned and things I wanted to do. How spoiled am I?

I started and finished a project which turned out perfect! My original project was a sewn desk organizer from "In Stitches" by Amy Butler which I bought recently and is full of the cutest things, you try and not be inspired to sew. FYI I hate sewing! So I gave up on the desk thing cuz it was a mess and started a frame/ribbon organizer thingy instead. Good choice.

I am going to do 2 more craft shows that are in April 10th -11th and May 8th. That gives me 3 months in a row! OMG! Thats 3 times as many as last year! I am really working on making my stuff as impeccable and professional as I can. But I constantly think up something new and that slows me down. Risk worth taking to find my niche. I do have a clue as to what my niche is, and that clue is paper and fabric sans the machine. Its the machine that I hate about sewing. Bleh.

I am close with a couple of home schooling families whom I cherish. One mom asked me if I would consider teaching her kids a craft once a month or so. I have been thinking and thinking about it and I like the idea. Maybe we could get all the kids in her circle and have Arts and Crafts with Ms. Alicia. I am looking up substantial crafts that would further their art appreciation and still be fun. Any ideas?

College, Crafts and...hmm Coffee

Thats my life. 3C's.

College is coming to an end for me, sorta. I have it planned out so I graduate in December but NONE of my college plans EVER go how I want. But I am taking 3 classes this semester, I hope to take 2 or 3 this summer and then 4 or 5 in the fall. Then what?

Crafting is my blood, its my air. I have Funk Finds in March which is AWESOME! So pumped. There is a show in Addison in May that I want to do, but they require a tax permit... (scary

music here). Getting my sales tax permit is something I have thought about for a year or so, but I always shy away from it because I know NOTHING about Taxes other than the Sheriff of Nottingham squeezed tax money out of the poor peasants in Robbin Hood. BUT I did it! I filled out forms and am an official

Sole Proprietor of AJSnow. AHHH How scary!

I pick January 25th 2010 as my first taxable sales date because it is one of my best friend Amber's birthday and the date that a close friend died so it will be an important date for me.

Coffee is fun to drink and fun to make. Not so, however, when the coffee ship (oops I mean shop) you work at serves 90% food and 10% espresso. I am NOT a cook. I am a barista. I can make coffee, I want to make coffee. I cannot make meals, I do not want to make meals. BLAH!

Mansfield Park

Just watched the 1999 version on Hulu. It was interesting. It was well done, not like most BBC movies. Don't get me wrong I love the BBC, but they just seem to be wanting for film editing equipment. This version had Miss Honey from Matilda in it, which was odd because she plays the arrogant, and deceptive Mary Crawford who is out to ensnare our Edmond! But I was disturbed by a scene they added, which I am sure Jane Austen would never have put into print, about a book of drawings. Tom Jr. is being tended to by Fanny when she finds his sketch book that is full of  renderings of slaves and how they are being treated. The images where horrifying in the midst of a Jane Austen love story. Its real and based on truth but the element was to intense. Fanny's uncle is indisputably a rapists who come to no justice for his heinous act. The rest of the movie was beautiful, even made me cry when I know how it ends, just my thoughts. 

Unemployment

I have one day left at the Anchorage Cafe. Yippy! Sorry Heather. :) Then I get to start job hunting again in Tyler! I would looooove a job at a movie theatre so I can see movies for free. I love movies. Almost as much as crafting, sorry but its true. Having the Hobby Lobby employee discount wouldn't hurt either. But I hate retail most of the time.

Jack Johnson is playing at the cafe and I am supposed to be playing Christmas all the time... HA! I love christmas tunes but we have 5 cd's that play over and over and over....kill me please. 

Gonna go to UT Tyler to finish school I only need 33 more hours and I could be done in a year...HOLLA!! I am an expert at transferring, its sad. 

Right now I am making Christmas present for my best gals and I think they are some of the best crafts I have made, yes they are THAT good! 

Megan and Amber you better tell everyone where you got them. AJSNOW.COM

I love it, I own ajsnow.com. I am a dot com! So cool. 

Made christmas cookies last night with my baby sis. We decided to bake a sheet of cookies then use the cutter to make snowflakes. They have a better shape that way. SO the extra stuff around the cut outs we called Reindeer antlers. It was very Snow-Family. 

December!

My favorite! Yay! I really wanted to have my etsy FULL of christmas crafts, but work, school, and church leave me no time to do what I had planned but I WILL craft this weekend! I want to make some cards like these:

Paper is THE superior crafting medium! Hi Heather!! My first follower! YAY!!!