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A fun app: Party Party

I've been having lots of fun lately with this new app from A Beatiful Mess called Party Party. You can make the most fun stop-motion videos and .gifs. Sometimes I download fun apps and then forget about them or I don't use them because it takes too long going through and selecting filters and fonts..etc. This app is super easy and quick! I even used it to make a special announcement for my favorite Hair Salon, Neatbeat.

Here are some of my videos using the app:

I then used iMovie to put a couple of these together to make this special announcement for Neatbeat that I mentioned earlier:

 

 

 

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this is happening | jenn's life | may - july 2014

2014 has been one CRAZY and INCREDIBLE year so far. I got married in January. Then I got a new job in April! I went to training for the new job in May. Our new counter-tops, sink & faucet were installed while I was in training and in June we picked up my stepdaughter to spend summer vacation with us. It has been a whirlwind of a year and I'm just trying to figure out how to manage everything. Here's a peek of life via my instagram feed.

I was hired by Southwest Airlines to be a Flight Attendant, so yeah.. now I'm a pilot in the military AND a Flight Attendant, it's fun for sure. We've had family visits, trips to museums, homemade donuts, painting closets pink, and a couple lazy saturday's thrown in there. It's hard to believe 2014 is halfway over and I've had some many amazing things happen. I feel so blessed!

I've also been working on a friend's website and I can't wait to launch it. It really makes me want to design a new one for 619 miles (which by the way is no longer the distance between me and Kerry, but hey.. whose counting?!?!).

I hope to have some kitchen renovation updates coming soon. I love the new counter-tops so much that it almost doesn't bother me that nothing else is finished....almost!

this is happening | jenn's life

holy cow! So much has been going on lately and I have not been keeping up with the blog. So here's a little quick catch-up on my life via photos:

working on my Illustrator 102 class (nicole's classes)

reading on the front porch

enjoying the beautiful weather & walking Reese

making delicious cupcakes for Andrea's birthday

having Tony visit KY for 2 weeks & deciding to run a 5K on the day of the race (yikes)

realizing that a 9 year old's glasses fit me.... does that mean I have a small head or he has a large one?

enjoying the Gaslight Parade with my man and my dog

being a pirate on talk like a pirate day

working the drop zone on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon

Getting ENGAGED!!

visiting our fellow dog lovers at Bark in the Park

breaking my iphone after a delicious dinner at Mom's

making a wedding mood board

starting to build my ikea kitchen cabinets

life via instagram

Reese apparently has a taste for veggies. If only I could get her to pick them when they are actually ripe!

We played a little twister. Andrea and I were the last "standing", but she beat me.

 

We had a backyard campout with Cam and the neighborhood boys. The storms rolled in, but we managed to get a little smore's making in. Quote of the night (as wind picked up and thunder began): "I don't care about smores I care about my life!"

I've been helping my Aunt Tracy with a whole new color scheme for her house. We tackled the bookcases today and they look soooo awesome!

I stumbled on these hiking booties for Reese when I was cleaning this weekend. I laughed so hard watching her walk in them I was crying. She's a good sport.

pinterest project | crafting with Corinne

My 12 year old niece, Corinne is visiting for the summer and I am so excited to get to spend time with her. She is a totally awesome young lady. Super sweet and funny and adorable. I saw this friendship bracelet project on the blog Noodlehead and pinned it with her in mind. She mentioned that she had been wanting to do some sewing, so I thought this would be something easy and fun to do together. So when she stayed the night a couple weeks ago we got to work!

Corinne made a list of everyone that we needed to make a bracelet for and we guessed on measurements based on our own wrists. She picked out all the fabrics and thread colors and we sewed them together. I LOVE how they turned out and we have been wearing ours everyday since we made them.

She thought Pinterest was a pretty neat site so we scrolled through the DIY and Crafts board and she found several more projects the she really wanted to do. We picked one that didn't require too many new supplies and made glow in the dark "lanterns" after we finished the bracelets. I can't find the link to the lanterns because it was at the bottom of a post of something else I pinned. We purchased jars at the thrift store and some glow in the dark paint. We mixed a little bit of Martha Stewart craft paint with the glow in the dark paint and painted in on the inside of the jars. We covered the lids with fabric too. FYI: the fabric did make the lids difficult to screw back on. In fact, two of them wouldn't really screw back on at all :(

It was LOADS of fun and I just love having her over. 

Huskers Houndstooth Quilt

I don't know about you, but sometimes it seems like I am more productive when I'm sewing things for others. I have a stack of things I want to make for myself, but I seem to sew more for others. I just love to give something handmade that I know they will get a lot of use out of. Kerry's project today is a gift for her new nephew.

 

I had ordered this houndstooth quilt pattern from V and Co. Then when my brother had his first baby and it was a boy I knew this would be the perfect quilt to make for my new nephew. Since my brother is a Nebraska football fanatic I found this 13" patch on ebay and appliqued it to the quilt. I think the final results were pretty great. 

 

 

 

bachelorette party - gift bag goodies

Kerry sent me several blog updates and I'm so excited to share them with you!

My sister's wedding is coming up this weekend and that means bachelorette party! My other sister and I are hosting it so we are putting together a little survival/gift bag. Here is one of the items I made for the gift bag:  

I took some old expired aeronautical sectionals from work and cut them up. The cute little airplane decal on the front is the work of my sister Kate and her creative genius. After she made the airplane towing the banner on adobe she sent me the file and I just printed them out on envelope label stickers. I then mod podged the sectional and stickers onto some flasks I purchased on Amazon. I used the outdoor mod podge but after a few days of drying it was still tacky and had a little more ridge lines then I wanted. So I took some light sand paper to it and then sprayed it with the mod podge matte sealer and it was much better. Since my sister is a navigator in the Air Force and most of the bachelorette party gals are aviatrix of some sort I think they will really get a kick out of these! 

happy birthday - to me

Sunday was my birthday and it was a pretty fantastic day. I had a nice morning call from my roomie, Andrea & her son, Cam. Techonology is so great. I received texts and ecards too! I got to watch my team (GO CATS!) make it into the Final Four. I had a delicious dinner with my man and then saw a rainbow! I received a super sweet email from mi amiga and crafting partner in crime, Kerry. She hinted at a package coming my way... I can't wait! 

I'm hitting the road for work on Tuesday, but I have a scheduled post coming up on Thursday. I got to test this pattern by Michael Ann.

under the weather

I came down with something on Friday and it hit me pretty hard on Sunday. My head was all full feeling... sinuses hurt... I was drowning in a sea of kleenex.

So what is a girl to do when she's feeling under the weather? Yep... snuggle on the couch with a box full of kleenex, the TiVo remote and Reese... of course!

 

 

She's ridiculously cute. seriously.

It turns out that in addition to the sinus issues, I also have an ear infection. blah!

Hopefully I'll have some fun stuff to post soon. Ohhhh like a month's worth of Project Life pages!

project life 2012: week dos

8-14 JAN 2012

This week was pretty much a blur. I worked right through the weekend into this week. Needless to say, come Friday I was exhausted.

It had been unseasonably warm in KY until this week when it got REALLY cold and we had some snow. I did get to hang out with Cameron on Friday, which was pretty cool. I'm amazed at how much he has grown and changed in the 3+ years I've lived with him and Andrea. I didn't take many photos this week, but I like filling in with cool papers and even trying out something that goes across two pockets. I'm excited to try this with a large photo, maybe using up all four 4x6 pockets.