Personally

When this scrapbooking thing is your job, your business, your work, sometimes you don't get YOUR stuff done. I really try to not let that kind of thing happen to me and I try to be really aware of what I am doing since so many people in this “industry” say they never get any of their own stuff done. Sometimes things fall through the cracks! Here are some pages I have been working on, the “crack fallers”:

“Waking Up Happy” was a page I taught in my Six Months In A Day layouts class in 2007. I knew I wanted to use these pics and was SURE I had printed them out…I just needed to find them so I could put them on the page. Last week I finally gave up and ordered the prints again. Check that off my list! LOL

“School Play” was a page I started right after The Scrappin' Table in Placentia opened, somewhere early 2008. All it needed was a title and a place for the program — sometimes I need to remind MYSELF that I need to just stick it down and move on! Everything does not need to be a masterpiece to be in my book–it just needs to tell the story :)

“Friends” was started for the American Crafts Design team call. Missed the deadline. So I decided to use it for a layout contest they were doing. Missed that deadline. So I was gonna do it as a page in a class. Forgot about it in an Art Bin for a few months. I just found it last weekend and finally finished it. And the photo? From 2003 or 2004!!

“Cheesin'” was a layout I did in Kelly Purkey's class at Reflections — I added some stuff, changed a few minor things and finally got these pics finished completely!

That's all for today.

Author: Jennifer Priest

It started with jewelry, beading, sewing, home decor, painting, basket weaving, pottery, and cross-stitch. Marry that to an entrepreneurial spirit & at 9 years old a girl is selling her wares at craft fairs as far as her parents and grandparents would drive her. These days, Jennifer enjoys crafts of all genres from sewing to scrapbooking to jewelry with a little dabbling in the mixed media world. Her style is approachable and she wants everyone who sees her work to feel that they too can embrace creativity and make their home and life beautiful.