Unprepared

I can't believe it. I went to Waterfront Park and South River Walk Park in Trenton today to take some pics. I brought my dog for some outdoor fun and Dan came with to also check out the scene. I get there, take my first shot and its not focusing. What? What's going on? Oh, I see I forgot to put the battery in after charging!! What a rookie move.

Skip to 2 hours later, I'm going to take a few pics of the West Trenton Train Station for FD Gallery, er I mean FD Subs and I take a pic and look at the display. What? What's going on? I get the dreaded NO CARD message. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I typically carry a spare card in my camera bag but I decided to just grab my camera. FML.

wallflower wall decor

I try to avoid Bed, Bath & Beyond as much as possible but I really wanted something for above my fireplace on either side of the mirror.

So me and sis hit the stores and ended up there. I fully intended on either something tall to stand on the mantle or some sort of metal wall art. Then I found these Umbra wallflower wall decor. "Is it too weird, too trendy?" I thought to myself. My sister reassured me they were cute.


I didn't want overkill so I put up less than half and I totally love it. Now I wish I could paint my wall the color from the website as well.

Disco Fabulous

I finally grouted two mosaic pieces I had finished over a month ago. I hit up Michaels and bought some grout coloring. Five little bottles: blue sapphire, terra cotta, wine, emerald green and charcoal gray. Now I only have to add what dye I want to white grout, and I can create custom colors.

I also made a trip to the glass store yesterday and picked up a couple new pieces. The hunter green will be for coasters that a coworker requested, more on that later. You can check out my mirror vase/candle holder and autumn-colored tea light holder on Etsy.


I these dark purples and white with light purple streaks will look so good together. Now, I just have to figure out what I'm going to make. Any suggestions??

Baby Scrapbook

It's friday night, I'm home sick and bored! I can't really do much so I decided to start organzing for the baby scrapbook I'm making as a gift for a friend. She ordered prints online and I picked them up locally, all 170 pictures! I went thru the pics and organized them into different potential section/pages:

(in no particular order)

• baby and dad
• baby in the wilderness
• clowning around
• mom, dad and baby
• baby fun (museums, parks, playgroups, etc)
• baby costumes (this child own an exceptional about of baby costumes!)
• Chow time
• baby's first day
• baby and mom
• Monthly montage (a picture of the baby holding the card with his age that month)
• Baby and other family members

I'm really excited for this scrapbook for a couple reasons. It gives me an excuse to buy a theme baby set of scraps and because it's a gift. Someone will be able to enjoy my pages for years to come!

NJ Monthly: New Faces NJ

Yea! Emily's article about Timmy finally came out in NJ Monthly, including a photo credit for myself! I hope it will be in the print edition too. Check out the article about Timmy Waldron and his awesome book World Takes...and my pic of course! World Takes can be purchased at Word Riot.

M.I.A.

So I've been slacking on the blogging. Things I've been busy with:

1. working on fdsubs.com (my husbands subshop)
2. working on a new menu
3. working at the sub shop
4. relaxing down the shore

I haven't really done anything crafty or around the house lately but I do have a new scrapbooking project on the horizon. I'm making aBaby's First Year scrapbook for one of my girlfriend's for her son's first birthday. She's giving me a CD of pictures and I'm going to make it into a scrapbook as his gift. I would love for this to become a tradition.

I did get a chance to take some pictures down the shore. That's what I was looking at for the past 4 days, enjoy!