Sunday, October 26, 2014
HELLOOOOOO!!!! (yet again) I have missed you so!
So I have been thinking lately....about this blog...about life, in general....actually. I had a friend tell me the other day that I am this sort of "idea girl" which really got my wheels turning....I do have a lot of ideas...I am sure not all of them are popular, by any means...HOWEVER...
I have decided to take a swing at this One. More. Time....lots of ideas....lots of different subjects...as many as I can muster....
so let me back up a bit...it has been quite a while since I posted...I know...WHAT THE HELL, Jen?
About 11 months ago I was in a car wreck...survived...left my husband....still surviving...doing the best I can with what I have got,( in true Jen fashion..)I have re-evaluated my life and have really found the true meaning of happiness...within myself..it has been very freeing....
I made a list of things that I want to do with my life in a prior post...but I really want to elaborate on that....I want to do those things because I want to experience as much as I can, but at the same time I want to be present. I want to appreciate what I am experiencing in real time...the sights, the sounds, the feeling, the smells....I want to take it all in and ...well, just be...I guess, and hokey and that may seem, I just want to be...and I want this blog to reflect that....
So I am hoping that this will become a place where you can find cool things to make, do , see, partake...I will have art and recipes, and home improvement, and basic things that will make you feel happy...
Probably throw in a few pictures of my awesome dog, and links to find things, as well as step by steps, things I have stumbled on, and some cool things to do in Richmond...as possibly where you are if you are lucky enough to be where one of my favorite things are... per usual.
I hope you can join me as I go through this list of ideas I have all jumbled up in my head....its a tangled mess right now, but I am untangling it as I am typing this...strand by strand...
Stay tuned...theres some pretty exciting stuff getting ready to happen, right before your eyes.....
Sunday, June 23, 2013
New website is up.... Up.... Up!!!!
I have spent the biggest part of the day working on my new website... I know.. I know... It's about time right???
Welllllll..... It has finally happened..it's a sort of "one stop shopping" for the revolution...
It includes picture gallery... Contact info...and a whole page dedicated to my blog.... Pretty good stuff.
The website URL is
www.revolutionaryspin.wix.com/therevolution
My new email is revolutionaryspin@gmail.com
I hope you can visit, look around, perhaps learn something about me or from me...of you have any questions or needs ... Shoot me an email from the contact page!!!
I am very excited about the website and expanding it to include a shopping cart soon.
I really like the look of it.. Let me know what you think...
Take care
Xoxo
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Smashbook, smashbook, smashbook! What the hell is a smashbook?
Well, I will tell you...a smashbook is A LOT of fun....
And the Smashbook stuff is super cool, and super cute.....
However, it is a little bit pricey.....
So what do I do, we'll, I buy some of the stuff, like the tabs, and the cute journal squares....
The books are a little pricey...and who really wants the same books that everybody else has? Besides....do you know how much fun it is to make or alter a book.....well, it IS fun...just saying.
So heres the scoop...smashbooking is a new trend in scrapbooking...it is sort of a pseudo scrapbooking...it is a way to get all your mementos like concert tickets, restaurant napkins, and things like misprinted pictures, and whatever is in the bottom of a so-called "junk drawer". It is more about the momentous and less about the photos....it's all about accepting the imperfections, and not worrying about layout...rules of design, and jazz like that...that I feel scrapbooking had really started to get lost in....this is old school scrapbooking ...no rules...just fun...you want to overlap a bunch of stuff...who care? You know what it is...you want to put a picture that printed when you didn't have any yellow in the printer....go for it...it's yours...there is no wrong way...
Now, here's the thing...I like original, not mass produced, handmade things...with a few store bought things sprinkled in....especially when it come to books....so I went to the local thrift store found me a nice square coffee table book for .50 cents and brought it home painted the cover...added a hand drawn title..(dream home) and stamped a date on it... I tabbed it according to rooms and parts of my dream home, including yard, garden, porch, deck....then I hit my Pinterest account and printed a sheet with all the tiny pictures that inspire me....and I started glueing them in my new found book....adding things I already had like letters, stickers, scraps of old scrapbook paper, magazine scraps, and stamps....oh yeah, and punches...
I did my cover, and I did one page and all the tabs in my altered journal version, and I assembled a book from an old composition book and used scrapbook paper, I had on hand to make the pages....this is great because you can make the pages ANY WAY YOU WANT....yeah, I said it, ANY WAY YOU WANT! If you want to use transparencies as pages...go for it...if you want to fold a page haphazardly and use it as a page that folds out to make a bigger page...that is great!...use gift cards, pockets from jeans, Manila envelopes, you name it, you got it...by all means use it! Glue or tape it in...then stamp it...doodle on it...even paint on it...it fun ...it really is..and the results are sooooo amazing!
Here are some pictures I took of the tiny beginnings....
So there ya go...hopefully it will give you an idea of what smashbooking is...
So what are you waiting for!? Go out and SMASH something!
And the Smashbook stuff is super cool, and super cute.....
However, it is a little bit pricey.....
So what do I do, we'll, I buy some of the stuff, like the tabs, and the cute journal squares....
The books are a little pricey...and who really wants the same books that everybody else has? Besides....do you know how much fun it is to make or alter a book.....well, it IS fun...just saying.
So heres the scoop...smashbooking is a new trend in scrapbooking...it is sort of a pseudo scrapbooking...it is a way to get all your mementos like concert tickets, restaurant napkins, and things like misprinted pictures, and whatever is in the bottom of a so-called "junk drawer". It is more about the momentous and less about the photos....it's all about accepting the imperfections, and not worrying about layout...rules of design, and jazz like that...that I feel scrapbooking had really started to get lost in....this is old school scrapbooking ...no rules...just fun...you want to overlap a bunch of stuff...who care? You know what it is...you want to put a picture that printed when you didn't have any yellow in the printer....go for it...it's yours...there is no wrong way...
Now, here's the thing...I like original, not mass produced, handmade things...with a few store bought things sprinkled in....especially when it come to books....so I went to the local thrift store found me a nice square coffee table book for .50 cents and brought it home painted the cover...added a hand drawn title..(dream home) and stamped a date on it... I tabbed it according to rooms and parts of my dream home, including yard, garden, porch, deck....then I hit my Pinterest account and printed a sheet with all the tiny pictures that inspire me....and I started glueing them in my new found book....adding things I already had like letters, stickers, scraps of old scrapbook paper, magazine scraps, and stamps....oh yeah, and punches...
I did my cover, and I did one page and all the tabs in my altered journal version, and I assembled a book from an old composition book and used scrapbook paper, I had on hand to make the pages....this is great because you can make the pages ANY WAY YOU WANT....yeah, I said it, ANY WAY YOU WANT! If you want to use transparencies as pages...go for it...if you want to fold a page haphazardly and use it as a page that folds out to make a bigger page...that is great!...use gift cards, pockets from jeans, Manila envelopes, you name it, you got it...by all means use it! Glue or tape it in...then stamp it...doodle on it...even paint on it...it fun ...it really is..and the results are sooooo amazing!
Here are some pictures I took of the tiny beginnings....
So there ya go...hopefully it will give you an idea of what smashbooking is...
So what are you waiting for!? Go out and SMASH something!
Monday, January 28, 2013
A Year in the Life of an Art Journal: 2013 Sign Ups!
A Year in the Life of an Art Journal: 2013 Sign Ups!
I think I am going to post my 2013 journal on here..and share with others on A Year in the Life of an Art Journal...
Join us if you can, I. Am sure you will be truly inspired...
8)
Jen
I think I am going to post my 2013 journal on here..and share with others on A Year in the Life of an Art Journal...
Join us if you can, I. Am sure you will be truly inspired...
8)
Jen
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Upcycle a christmas tree? Yep!
So I have been wanting a new skinny tree for Christmas....however, paying for a skinny Christmas tree was not what I wanted...especially since the thing costs 500 bucks...how about...no...so I got this idea, do a little research, did a little thrift show hunting, picked out a color.....did the work...now I have a skinny, lime green, super awesome tree!
So I found this white, 3.5 ft wide tree( at the bottom) at goodwill....had a 10.25 tag on it...got it to the register... It was half off!!!!! Yep, a whopping $5.12!!!
Got it home, it was really yellowed.
I took it outside, sorted,fluffed,stripped all the remnants of last Christmas off of it....set up the main part of it, and started painting a layer at a time till I was done.
It is now outside, drying and airing out.
Once it is decorated with all my vintage stuff, I will post another picture. Oh yeah, and all the lights....I can't wait for the lights....
Here are some pictures along the way.
Hope you like it...or maybe not the color...but the idea of it...it vamps up your old tree into a new
So I found this white, 3.5 ft wide tree( at the bottom) at goodwill....had a 10.25 tag on it...got it to the register... It was half off!!!!! Yep, a whopping $5.12!!!
Got it home, it was really yellowed.
I took it outside, sorted,fluffed,stripped all the remnants of last Christmas off of it....set up the main part of it, and started painting a layer at a time till I was done.
It is now outside, drying and airing out.
Once it is decorated with all my vintage stuff, I will post another picture. Oh yeah, and all the lights....I can't wait for the lights....
Here are some pictures along the way.
Hope you like it...or maybe not the color...but the idea of it...it vamps up your old tree into a new
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Yet another recycled fashion
I love pinterest....you probably already know that.... Ha!
I found so awesome outfits on there. They are so cute, cute, cute....the best part is the outfit brings back the pencil skirt....which I LOVE so much....
So here is my inspiration....
The middle one is the outfit is the one I could round up....
Here is the one I rounded up....
I had the skirt....which I purchased at Goodwill this past summer ....and I had the super strappy shoes too...oh goodness...I have had those since I graduated college...I don't even remember where I got them...but I love them. I purchased the pink top today for 1.99...what a deal, I know! I think it's pretty close...for a fraction of the cost.....don't ya just love where inspiration can take ya sometimes?
4 weeks and 5 days till my beach vacay!!!!!! I can't wait!
More on that later.
Until next time.
I found so awesome outfits on there. They are so cute, cute, cute....the best part is the outfit brings back the pencil skirt....which I LOVE so much....
So here is my inspiration....
The middle one is the outfit is the one I could round up....
Here is the one I rounded up....
I had the skirt....which I purchased at Goodwill this past summer ....and I had the super strappy shoes too...oh goodness...I have had those since I graduated college...I don't even remember where I got them...but I love them. I purchased the pink top today for 1.99...what a deal, I know! I think it's pretty close...for a fraction of the cost.....don't ya just love where inspiration can take ya sometimes?
4 weeks and 5 days till my beach vacay!!!!!! I can't wait!
More on that later.
Until next time.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
A new recipe to try
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Here's the link for the recipe. It's a tangerine green tea.....
This is how I am going to make it:
I am going to make a pitcher of green tea, slice up two tangerines and put them in the pitcher. Add a few sprigs of mint and let it sit overnight in the fridge....
It says it will increase your metabolism by 12 % with just one cup.WHO KNEW? Well, I didn't, but now I do!!
I will let you know how it goes....
Here's the link for the recipe. It's a tangerine green tea.....
This is how I am going to make it:
I am going to make a pitcher of green tea, slice up two tangerines and put them in the pitcher. Add a few sprigs of mint and let it sit overnight in the fridge....
It says it will increase your metabolism by 12 % with just one cup.WHO KNEW? Well, I didn't, but now I do!!
I will let you know how it goes....
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