Hi all! Just a quick hello to let you know I've added a few items to the shop this morning. I scored some beautiful woodland themed paper and divided it up into kits. There's three total and I have a feeling they'll go quick. Each kit includes four cards of the following sizes in a variety of patterns: 2x2, 2x6, 3x4, 4x6. They're made with rich oranges, browns and greens. You can find them here.

I've also listed a few new washi tapes as well. Above you'll find a numerical pattern that looks like it was hand written in black ink. You can find that here. 

This wide width washi has a vintage map pattern and would work perfect in a Travelers Notebook or a travel album. You can find that washi here.

Lastly is a vintage print with a repeating pattern of various tickets. I almost want to keep this one for myself. You can find this wash tape here.

I have a TON of new items coming in within the next few weeks so stay tuned!

Happy Friday folks! I did a quick walk through video of my December Daily foundation pages this morning and wanted to share it with you. (Be nice, it's my first ever video.)

Happy Friday, folks!

I know what I'll be doing all weekend. Hope yours is just as lovely!

Hey there! I'm back with another favorites list for this month. This one is all about apps. And they're all FREE! For the most part these are the apps that I use pretty much every day and they definitely help get me through life. Or at least make it a little easier. Yes, even games. All of them are available on Android and Apple products. 

Cozi - Free

Cozi is an awesome app where I can track everyones schedule (doctors appointments, early dismissal from school, work schedule, etc) and also keep a running list of of grocery items. You can add people to your app so they can add appointments or grocery items as well. This app also stores recipes with corresponding ingredient lists, and also has a chore list!

Sell on Etsy - Free

I use the Etsy app mainly to track my orders. With a quick tap of a button I can view my orders and shop stats, resist an item, update inventory and more. 

Google Photos - Free

This app has been a lifesaver, people. Are you tired of getting alerts on your phone saying you're running low on storage? This app will solve your problem. Sign up with your Google account. When you're connected to wifi, pop open your app and your photos will sync into it by date. BY DATE. Do you know how huge that is for someone like me who can never remember what date I took what phot? It's big. Once they've been transferred over, you can delete them from your phone. Seriously. Boom. Look at all that extra space. To access them, just open the app. You can save them back to your camera roll or email them to someone right from the app.

Instagram - Free

This one is a no brainer. I have a few accounts with IG (personal, my blog IG and one for my small business.) I've been able to connect with some great people and I use it for inspiration when my creative juices are flowing a little slowly. Also, #fionathehippo

OverDrive - Free

I'm definitely the type of person who appreciates the feel of an actual book in hand. However, I can't always make it to the library, or feel like running out when I want to read a book. Meet OverDrive. I'm not sure all libraries participate in this app, but it allows you to check out an eBook and download it directly to the app, or your Kindle/Kindle app. Most rentals are for 7 days. Towards the end of the rental you can choose to renew if you needs a few extra days to finish. They also offer audiobooks as well. I used this quite a bit when we were on our cruise and I was going through books like water.

Homescapes/Gardenscapes- Free

These two apps are from Playrix (love their apps!) They feature Austin the butler and are set up a little like Candy Crush. Each level you play a match-3 game and you earn stars to do various tasks, like install bookcases or chop down old trees. In Homescapes you help Austin renovate his parents house one room at a time. In Gardenscapes, you help restore a garden to it's former glory. This isn't just an easy peasy game. I've almost thrown my phone across the room because I couldn't get past some levels. I'll have to take screenshots to share once I've completed the game :)

What are your go to apps? Anything you can't live without?

I wanted to take some time today and share how I catalog my digital files. If you're anything like me, you have so many that you don't even remember what you have. Folks, welcome to my binder system. I purchased a white Avery 5.5 x 8.5 binder, some page protectors and a pack of tabbed dividers. Each designer gets a section. Right now I currently have tabs for Ali Edwards, Kelly Purkey, Studio Calico and In A Creative Bubble.

For some kits that have multiple sections, like Ali's Hybrid kit, I split each section up by page which you can see above and below. I used Photoshop to create a 8.5 x 11 page, added a title at the top of each side documenting what kit is on that specific page and then loaded the elements under that. 

After a quick print, I was able to fold each page in half and slide them into their page protectors. 

Currently this album only holds the digital files I have stored on my Mac. I need to transfer all of my files from my HP over and make pages for those as well.

Here is one of Kelly's Take Flight digital pages.

For Studio Calico, I just used their master sheet instead of diving up all of the elements. Low key, not stressing about this. Basically I just need to be able to see everything at a glance and know which kit it's in. 

On my Mac I have a master Digital folder that lives on my desktop. Within that folder lives a folder for each designer. And within those are more folders according to kit. Make sense? Pretty straight forward. 

For instance, I can go to my master folder, click on IACB and then the Holiday Prompt Cards and all of the cards above will be there. 

Between all of digital files from Ali and IACB this album helps me SO much. Before I would have to sort through each folder to find the exact element I needed. Now I can just grab my binder and flip through. 

Hope this helps you guys. Let me know if you try it out!  You can find all of the supplies below to get you started.

Happy Wednesday folks! I thought I'd start doing a #workspacewednesday post each week. Well, maybe not every Wednesday, cause let's face it, sometimes my desk is a MESS! You know what I mean, crafters. Recently I cleared everything off my desks and I'm in the process of cutting down my workspace to one desk so Rick can use the other one. Boo for less space but, whatevs. 

I like to keep my most used items handy so I'm using my little wire basket to hold my Happy Planner stickers, scissors, hole punches and some sticky notes. The ceramic egg dish is from Michaels and I usually keep a glue stick, my tape and some washi in it. Behind that is a gold divided mail holder from Target that holds some birthday cards, my Staedtlr markers, a tiny attacher and a photo of my Nana. <3 In between are two binders. The digital one I use to catalog my files - I'll be sharing a post on that soon, and the second one I use to keep lists - blog post ideas, books & movies I want to watch and read, recipes, places I want to go, etc.

I've had this mini-ish canvas album from Michaels that has been kicking around for a while. I'll use it as an everything album - favorite papers, quotes, photos and bits &bobs.

Love seeing my Nana's sweet smile every time I sit down to craft. 

Happy midweek! We've almost made it to the weekend!

Find some of my favorite items below :)

I've been absolute shit updating my PL lately. I started a new job last week (yay!) and had some other stuff to deal with (relationships are hard y'all) so I've been slacking in the craft category. Saturday evening after date night I carved out some time to get caught up. Craft time = happy Jen.

I was super happy that my SC kit finally arrived. There's been quite a lot of talk about the company now that they decided to take down the message boards. (BAD business decision on their part, if you ask me.) It also seems like the monthly kits keep arriving later and later in the month. (What;s up with that, SC?) Anywho, this spread is all about our trip to Buttonwood Park Zoo. The park is lovely with TONS of space for the kids to play and have picnics and even has some really nice ball courts. While the zoo is on the small side, they do have a variety of animals.

Mason got his first ever glimpse at an actual, real live elephant. He was pretty excited. They also had seals, a coyote (I saw them all the time down south, kinda weird to see one behind a cage - also: I typically loathe zoos - that's another post altogether), a couple cougars, some bald eagles and a crapload of ducks and geese.

I love Bison and always feel the need to give them a big wooly hug. This one didn't look too hug friendly so I let him be. :)

We also got to see a local artist by the cougars who was sculpting some clay. She was using the big cats as a reference and it was really awesome to see her piece come together. 

I used three cards and the die cut leaves from this month's Gypsy Moon kit, along with a Documenter card from In A Creative Bubble. The Good Stuff button is from an old Kelly Purkey kit. I'm totally digging the colors in this kit. Jewel tones for the win!