A Little Boost!

We get busy with life [GUILTY!] and we forget to dive in and embrace what fills us up from time to time. Get to it folks.

TOP 3 Favorite Font Sites (in no particular order)

Some commercially free, some free for personal use, some not...
ALL VERY NICE. 

Be good to your type.

For a PARTY or just a fun day... MAKE A PHOTO BOOTH

This particular photo booth was created for my daughter's 16th Birthday Party! Believe it or not there are some awkward moments when kids start to arrive and this was the perfect thing that helped everyone let loose. SO. FUN.

Find/make a backdrop. I used some fringe curtains that I had found at the thrift store some time ago and knew they would be used for something fabulous. I also made some smaller tissue pom poms.

Then to make/find your props. A handful of dowel rods, some tape oh and perhaps some glitter and some FREE printables. Yay! for the free printables. Get creative and make some of your own too!

Download ~ So, very creative Oh Happy Day!

Download this 12 page PDF of stashes, crowns, ties... GREAT PROPS here.

                                     Download the sunglasses from Creative Juice here.

 

                   Download these Batman/Comic book printables from prudentbaby.com here.

Here are the props, ready to go!!

Photo Booth FUN!

Deck Entry Makeover in ONE DAY!

Found an old screen door at the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store. = $5
Some yellow hinges at my local hardware store = $6.50
Found some outdoor paint colors that would make me smile whilst sitting on my deck. $30
And boom. Pretty.

6th Grade Auction Item Complete!

My year to volunteer! I volunteer for this, that and the other at all my kiddo's schools but this year I was a homeroom mom... first. time. ever. (My oldest is 23) I thought it was time to serve in that area of volunteerism... It was no sweat... good moms to work with, that is what makes that stuff bearable. So, while at it I thought I may go for creating the 6th grade auction item for the upcoming ginormous fundraiser this year. I wanted to make it as easy as possible on the parents. I remember being a "50+ hour work week outside the home mom" and I chose to be compassionate to those moms & dads this year... All I asked is that the children finish the sentence "I believe.... " The responses were wonderful!!! Quotes like "I believe in human rights" to "I believe the Steelers are better than the Bengals" I created a tree of life using their quotes as the swirled leaves in the tree and had it put onto 20x20 stretched canvas. Simple and heartfelt from the mouths of babes. Turned out pretty good. Now folks... get your bid on!!!

Inspiration today brought to you by my mickey

Inspiration can come from anything, anyone, anywhere...

Sharing a piece of work done by my youngest daughter when she was 13. Nice work Mickey.

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2014 – 5 Things I am going to do better...

1. Drink more water. So good for me and FREE! As I approach 43 years lived, I am noticing even more lovely body changes, this "drink more water" thing will make my skin happier, my weight happier and my energy level better. Pretty easily stated... now DO IT!

2. Work from lists again. GO LISTS!! I used to be an avid "list maker and checker offer" somehow I stopped and really began handling things like a bubble in a piss-pot (as my mother would tell me). Making and checking off a list for the day/week/month/year helps me to be a bit more focused, feel accomplished, save time(which also means save money... self-employed).

3. Eat more REAL FOOD. There are several blogs out there about clean eating. It really is not that much more expensive, it just takes TIME. Prep time. Prep time. Prep time. But the trade off is worth it... For me one of the biggest payoffs is what I am passing down to my children. Here is a definition of Real Food according to Lisa Leake. In her blog 100 Days of Real Food she does an excellent job of making it seem possible for anyone to make simple changes in their lives to eat for the better! 

4. Call my Dad everyday. Is there someone in your life that you love so, so, so much and they are getting older and have a lot of time on their hands to think about getting older and not much else? I tell you, that daily call could mean the world to them... Sometimes we chat for a couple of hours (which I love when I have that kind of time, he is the BEST to talk to) but most of the time it is a check-in with an I love you.

5. Move my body. Four years ago I was playing co-ed soccer three nights a week. Well, a knee injury (that has been fixed, mind you) stopped that, and getting back into doing something physical on a consistent basis is tough. I have dabbled in TRX, kettle-bells, boot camps, shred videos, spinning and more... My favorite is working really hard outside. Whether it be an organized boot camp workout or digging post holes, I would just rather be outside. So, as I type an watch the snowfall I know a visit to the Y is a necessary evil.

Adobe MUSE! I just built my own webpage with ZERO code.. uh huh!

I have owned www.jenspired.com for about 3 years... I have not had the time nor the desire to learn to build the site... I have been in dreamweaver, cloud access, joomla... it all just made me crazy! It is far from simple to go from primarily print design to web girl. But when you are working in Adobe some things accidentally work, just because they are familiar. ~ did a little dance every time that happened which was often!~  Anyway, it is not perfect by any means but it is a start, I really needed to get my online portfolio up. Check it out!