Michelle Clement - A Daily Splash of Color

Camp, camp, camp...

Ah, finally! Some scrappy goodness! All about camping, if you will...(can you tell I want to go again? Our last trip was almost a month ago, now, I think!!)

I wanted to use some of my new paper tags from the shop that I listed the other day to make a few pages - design team pages, if you will, for my little Bubbly Shnooks. :) I haven't scrapped just for fun for me in ages and ages, so it was rad to dig through my vintage bits and papers and my stash of old goodies and just have fun with it!

Here's one of the pages I made:



That's little me in a pink jumper, hanging out with my grandparents by their camper. :) I have crazy fond memories of camping and fishing through the years with them. (sigh). love it!

Anyhoo, I had to use Elsie's cute camping kit on this one, it was just perfect color-wise (and cute-wise, too!). I used some Boygirlparty sticky notes that I found at my favorite paper shoppe, Paper-Ya, on Granville Island - I *heart* Boygirlparty. (I wear this necklace of Susie's every day!)

I also used my new Bubbly Shnooks "Say What?" Jargon paper tags, too. I was a little wary of mixing the slang with such old pictures (seriously, 1985 yo.) but they worked well together, me thinks! I loved the lil pops of color they gave my page! :) Here they be:

I did do about 4 more pages (scrapping machine, I know!) and I need to use my latest Dozens' kit still, too, but I'll share them slowly so as to keep eye candy going on here! lol.

As for me, I need to badly reply to a lotta e-mails, finish planning our trip to Vancouver island in August, start animating a lil video this week (I am such a procrastinator!!), amoung a zillion other things I want to do for fun + working out regularly and having fun cooking. Whew! Tomorrow we're off the lake with some work buddies, it's rad and warm and sunny out here and I'm aching for more tan! lol. Thanks for popping by!

Thanks for the sweet words, too - I've finally had time to blog-hop again, so if you drop by please leave me your blog link so I can say hi! It's great to have time to be back in touch with scrappy friends. :) Happy day, guys!

New as a green banana.

Hi guys! Here I am - I know, within 7 days of my last blog post and everything!! lol...I'm officially done work for a bit, now, so I'm trying to catch up my internet/paperwork self this fine morning (well, very rainy and gray and un-July-like morning, here). Whew!

I'm super-excited to say that I have a cute little camping-inspired guest post up today over at The Everyday Scrapper. I love camping, so I wanted to focus on camping-inspired handmade goodies and page inspiration! Check out my post right here. (And a few lil peeks at it...)

(Photo source)

(Photo Source)

And I finally updated the shop the other day!! (I've had some of these goodies waiting to be entered in there forever!!) Wanna see, wanna see? I put a *lot* of new illustrated back-to-basics paper tags up (all I've had there so far have been some themed goodies, I thought I needed to get some can-use-them-all-the-time cute stuff made!).

There are three sets of 12 new paper strips in the shop: "Feel It" (these say 'nope', 'love', 'sigh', 'yay', 'yep', and 'maybe'), "Place It" (these say 'who', 'what', 'why', 'where', 'when', and 'how'), and "Slang It" (my faves - these say 'yay', 'argh', 'rawr', 'dude', 'rad', and 'boss').

They each come in three color styles - black & white, neutral, and colorful, and they were all hand-illustrated and have super-fun vibrant colors and lovely visual textures. Here are a few peeks at them:

You can find all of them right here. And I'm so excited to use them, myself!! he he...they'd look so cute with a little journalling on them, or peeking out from behind a photo or patterned paper!! Yay! Hopefully I can swing some scrap time soon and post some inspiration pages!

There's also a new set of paper tags up in the shop, too (in both brown or colorful options)! A little net slang:

And some little octopus cards that I've been meaning to list since February. (Yes, February!!) lol. A little girl and couple version of my baby bubbly shnooks card. Cute, no? I would totally love one of these on my anniversary/birthday/just-because day. he he...

And that's all I have to share today! Hopefully a little bit of color in your life in the weather where you are is as dreary as it is here! Ugh! lol...Off I go to munch on an apple and decide what to work on next. :) Happy day, and thanks for peeking!

Yahoo!

Yay for productiveness, I say! :)

I've been feeling non-creative for the last couple weeks, and finally I have a lil mojo back. Hooray! I think mainly the issue is, now, I'm not sure where to start! lol...I have to build websites, redo my work portfolio, update the shop, make new shop stuff, order/design new shop supplies, and I was hoping to animate a lil video and decorate the house. lol...

So far, I've only started the website building and have painted a few wall-hanging goodies. That means I've been trying to figure out some simple code, have been securing web domains and remapping them and blah blah (all that fun stuff), and have managed to get some temporary 'coming soon' web pages up, what do you think? 

My website will live here:

 

The Bubbly Shnooks/Shop website will live here:

 
My blog address will stay the same, so no worries about me disappearing from here! I'm actually using typepad to build the whole site(s) cuz i'm no web guru, so here I am to stay.

I still have a *ton* of work to do on them, but am hoping that they'll be done before the end of summer!! :) So exciting!! I love to dive headfirst into something totally new and figure it out/have it look and work fab at the same time. Wish me luck!

More pics soon of what I've been working on around the house! And, hopefully, some scrapping, too!  Happy day!

Well, hello.

First of all, happy belated birthday yesterday, Canada!

(Lovely photo from here)

It was pretty uneventful for me, I started a cleanse on Tuesday, so it being the second day of not eating anything solid and being invited to 3 barbeques...ha ha...I felt if I got within 10 feet of a hamburger, I'd be a goner. lol. Z went to a baseball game and I have started to make goodies to decorate our lil home. We did catch some fireworks from the Stanley Park seawall last night, though, and that was lovely - it's never been a big party for me, I just like to see some fireworks and enjoy being from such a gorgeous place. :)

Anyhoo - it's been forever since and update, hey? Whew! I don't remember the last time I blogged - or what it was about. The lowdown - we finished a show a few weeks ago, and I had 4 days of to recooperate (really, I was so tired I slept most of the time and had no making-stuff energy). I then started a short new project last week, it took me 3 very long days to learn/animate, I had Thursday off (same deal, caught up on some sleep...lol), and then went in Friday, Sunday, and Monday to finish it. So now I think I'm done...have had a few more days off.

We had a party at our place last Saturday, too - celebrating the new bigger space we have - yay! A barbeque was planned, but got a lil rained out - there was tons of yummy barbeque food, though, homemade guacamole (my fave thing to make!), chips, drinks, you name it. Anyway, our new place was packed full of people and we didn't get to bed til 3. I was totally still dizzy when I got up to go in to work the next day...I had to, or else I'd miss a massive deadline. lol..haven't worked not-even-hung-over-yet since I was 18 or 19? ha ha...funny.

Anyhoo - so that's life. I feel like I just broke through the surface of busy-ness. lol...I'm trying to get some sort of schedule back being at home, now. I started a cleanse on Tuesday - was totally eye-opened to all the great benefits of it from Elsie's lovely post/link to Wikipedia.  I8 spent a lot of time googling and reading about the cleanse and learning about why it's good, and thought it would for sure get rid of the blahs I feel from eating crappy canned food at busy work for the last few weeks and it might help my general lack of energy and my skin a little - more on that, later. Hubby's doing it now, too. Yay!

So that's me in nutshell right now - tons of errands and paperwork that have been neglected to do, planning a trip to Mexico (we think...still deciding!) in a few weeks, deciding when to camp next, dreaming about hotdogs, hamburgers and cheesy fries (I am so hungry!!), making stuff to hang up around the house (finally!), I need to animate a little something-something, and get to work on my portfolio. Sooo..I'm outties! More soon! :)

Blue - the color of our planet from far far away.

Hmm. Sorry, dudes...long time no update!

I started a short lil contract job at the good ol studio on Monday (as an AFX Supervisor, yay!) and feel like I haven't left work since - challenging! Awesome, but challenging. :) So anyhoo - I think I can warrant a break for a moment to say - Regina's new album came out today - it's called "Far". If you haven't listened to it/bought it/thought about it...go! Go now! It's rad, as expected. :) I've had it on repeat all day. One of my faves is "Blue Lips". Til next time, back I go to give her another listen!

 

More soon! :)

An Ode to Stitch + Goings on.

Okay, I've become obsessed as of late. Obsessed with embroidery. lol...

Maybe that's why I've been MIA on my week off. (Horrible!) I know, I know...I promised I'd be here.

First off, I have to say a biiiig thanks to MrXStitch and Feeling Stitchy for featuring my Anthropoid Elvis stitched piece right after I posted it up! :) Thanks guys! And I have to say after needlecraft-blog-surfing, there is some inspiring needlework out there, my friends. In my searches I found tons of stuff I want to collect for myself, here are a few little gems for inspo:

This rad brain & eyeball that I want (from what may now be my most favorite etsy shop) stitched by Mrs. Gibson:


This cute stitched love letter by the lovely Katie Cupcake. :) Love it!!

And these lovelies from Laura Hanley:

Yum, yum! Makes me wanna whip out my needle and thread. :) he he...Oh, man, that sounds so dorky. But it's true.

So what have I been doing in my first few days off (truly off...I have been purposefully un-busy), you ask? Welp - on the weekend we went to Bowen Island for a friends' Orchestra performance and had drinks + yummy food + music there for the day. Very relaxing and rad - the music rocks and there's nothing like ferrying over the ocean on a sunny day. :)

I then proceeded to sleep a lot (I was catching up from the sleepless last week, I think...I was randomnly falling asleep at really early times) and going for daily runs (which I've been dying to do for like, a year!). I made some cookies, made a few dinners, have been reading "My Sister's Keeper". Have been not feeling crafty at all, which is odd, but yesterday I think my brain finally felt rested enough to be creative, so I started work on my websites. We had a barbeque on the roof, too, and walked around the lake multiple times to see baby swans (there's a few, finally!) and various other critters. And, well - it's now Thursday!

So I'm almost 100% recooperated, I think. :) I have a week of work starting tomorrow/Monday coming up, lots of plans whirling and whirling in my brain for summer plans (camping trips, house-warming party, Tofino trip, a week of maybe Italy very soon...) lol. But It's felt good to not let it make me overwork myself and just hold it on the backburner. :) There's a Dozens' kit on my table to be scrapped, so I'll have some craftiness to share very soon!

Oh, and we have a mouse! Agh. I thought they only come in in the winter? In the past 4 days our new resident has bothered us in the middle of the night being loud, knocking things over, eating half a stick of butter on the counter....(sigh). We don't wanna kill him, but what a pain. And I'm not down with mouse germs. We need a harmless way to get rid of him, any ideas?

Happy day, guys!

Omg.

I am alive, yes.

I think the last I wrote last week (that flew by!) was that I was going camping? Ye. Went camping last week and have been working like a madman on the last week of our show. We finished on schedule and that rocks. :) I'm now warding off a cold, but sooo happy at the outlook - exciting things on the fun/work fronts. Yay! Time off. Yay! Time to make stuff and relax and enjoy the summer. Yay!

More soon, very soon. :) Now - sleep.

Wow.

Wow, wow...it's been a nutty week. Our show/production was supposed to be done on Friday, but it's not, and our supervisor is done, so I've had to step in his shoes for the week - whew! Cool, but a lot more to think about...lol. So I was at work every day this week from about 8 - 9. Plus walking time to and from work = about 15 hour days. Ugh. Very sleepy. One more week left of busy craziness for me and the crew, then hopefully I'll be done what's left in less then a week after that. Yay! The end is near! I'ma be very sleepy til then...lol.

So that's why I've been MIA - it's hard to explain production crunches unless you work in the industry and know how crazy it can get...lol. But it leaves little time for life near the end of things...let alone blogging or creative time. My apologies for the lack of eye candy lately!!

That said, Z and I are going camping for the night tomorrow to Galiano Island - a cute lil place we've visited before between Vancouver and Vancouver island. A little camping gear test/enjoy the sunshine time/mental health break...ha ha. So I'm outties!!

Til next time, if you're in the area you should stop by the OC Handmade Brigade this weekend:

 

I totally would be if I lived remotely close to it! lol...check out the website for more details on what's sure to be a rad craft show, and look at all the other cool stuff they have planned for June, yay! :) If you're one of the first peeps in the door, you'll get a Bubbly Shnooks coupon, too.

 Oh yeah! And the shop - I meant to update the shop with new goodies, but won't be able to until early July, now. Sorry, sorry if you've been checking back for new goodies - cute stuff coming as soon as I can sleep and muster it! lol...

Happy weekend, blog friends! :)

Duuuude.

Well, hello. :) I just have to spill that I've had a super-lucky last few days, in the grand scheme of lucky-ness! We had the art show at work and I won a random raffle prize for making something and entering it - an 8 gig ipod! :) Dude! Yay!

And then (while some might not call this lucky...) I left work early that same day (after waking up at the crack of dawn, albeit, so that I could leave early), I walked all the way to my dentist appointment only to find that my appointment had been cancelled, and, since I have no cell phone, I had no idea whatsoever! lol...Oy. So I found myself at home at 5:30 pm, which was totally odd, but lucky. I'm kicking myself that I didn't buy a lotto ticket on the way home!

So then yesterday, I'm about to go lounge on the beach when I win a lil raffle prize from one of my all-time fave shops, Boygirlparty!! :) Eeeek!! (Thanks to Susie for having such a fab raffle/shop in the first place!!). I don't think I've randomly won anything ever - least as far back as that I can remember it - and not twice in one week - so I was psyched and I totally went out and bought some scratch tickets just in case the luck wasn't a fluke. lol...and then I only won 3 bucks. But 3 bucks is 3 bucks, right? lol...

Anyhoo - back to said Art Show project! I finally have some artsy to share! :) I embroidered one of my favorite Tzanko drawings (I've wanted to stitch it for a long while, and the art show at work was the perfect excuse to finally do it!!). I started off with some cotton and dyed it with walnut ink a few times - I used a brush to make the edges darker and splashed it a little to 'age' the fabric.

It took me a few days to stitch all of the crazy details, but I'm so excited that I could pull it off and that it looks exactly like the drawing!! Yay! Here it is:

 

I snapped a picture of my messy walnut-ink staining progress, but the juice seems to have taken center stage in the shot...lol. Ah, well...juice rocks.

 

 

And there it is! :) My lil stitched Anthropoid Elvis! I used the same pattern that I have for sale in the shop - the pattern is about 8 x 10 ish - I traced it onto the fabric using a disappearing ink pen, and then as I stitched I had the print-out right next to me so I could check the details as I went. :) It was totally fun to make something, I haven't had much time to create lately, so it rocked!!

I hope you like him! :) I took some photos of the house today, some new products that will be posted very soon in the shop, and I still have some island photos to share - so there'll be much more soon! Z and I have been busy getting ready for camping, working, doing tons of laundry (ugh!), and and lounging at the beach this weekend...relaxing, but my brain just feels so busy, still. lol...possibly only 2 weeks of work left, so that's exciting!! But I have to sort-of take over for my supervisor this week, so it might get even busier! lol...

More soon, thanks for peeking, and happy day guys!! :)

This day

My mind is here:
 

1. Summer at Bondi Beach, 2. .summer walk., 3. Summer is Waning, 4. Al Capone’s house in Varadero, Cuba, 5. ...A summer scene..., 6. Goodbye Summer, 7. Essence of Summer - 247/365, 8. dusk and summer., 9. Veradero, Cuba, 10. Cuba_Parc Guama, 11. Cuba es dulce por fuera..., 12. Varadero, Cuba - 45 (Sunset - Feb. 12, 2008), 13. Sunday cottage, 14. Camping in Shimoda, 15. Summer mood., 16. Cuba La Habana

On the beach. In dire need of a vacation. Mainly because life is feeling crazy and overwhelming right now - so bad so that I can't even get to the list to get any to-do's  done. Agh. Work is busy, it's exhausting to work 10 hour days + for the last 4 months straight. I feel all piled up and backlogged with no end in sight...boo! Every time the mention of something else to do comes up, I bolt the other way. lol. Odd behaviour for me, I know.

You should also know I started this blog post 5 days ago. hah...backlogged, see?

This weekend I was feeling a little stir crazy, but the opposite of stir crazy - needed to hole up at home and snuggle on the couch and make something finally or I might have gone nuts. So it was chill, for a change. :) I skipped out on drinks on Friday (rare, yes!) to go home and snuggle on the couch. I did work on an intense embroidery project for the work art show (by intense, I mean highly detailed, just started it Friday and needed it done for today.... It took me mostly the whole two days - give or take time for sleeping in, walking by the beach in the sun, and getting groceries.

I have to apologize, too, cuz I told my best friend I'd post pics of our apartment this week (cuz nobody knows what it looks like yet!), but in order to take pictures of ones house, one would have to have at least tidied the place up, and one didn't this weekend. lol. It's a mess (mostly cuz my desk is in it and that's been hit by some creative hurricane...), and I doubt I'll be home in time any night this week to catch the light and take em, and it's still messy! Soon, soon...lol. 

Back to the vacation thing - we're figuring out the summer. Where to go when we can finally make some solid plans! :) Eeek!! Sooo exciting!! We've been talking about some travel for a looong while!

Anyhoo - I have to run right now - hopefully I'll post another post super-soon with my project from the art show, some news on the gallery exhibit we saw, and more fun stuffs. :) Thanks for peeking in!!