Pintrest

If you havent found me yet, I am on pinterest. I am nearly obsessed with this site, I have spent entire days off searching and learning. If you havent heard of this site before, you might as well get up to speed now because there is everything possible you can find on this site!  From recipes while im at school or home decor that I am creating for my apartment for pennies.

I put all my pins on one board, i dont have too much time to sort them and that way i get my ideas out and down quickly. I am on Pinterest daily, so go ahead and check me out!

Vintage

Well here is my style these days, vintage home.  Since coming home from school and going antiquing, its a new passion of mine that i want to continue.  I moreso love it for the cost factor and partially the craft factor rather than just buying pottery barn and such.  I have been able to come up with a lot of the same looks and decor without the cost and cant wait to put it all together at my apartment!

Throughout the quarter I realized how much better I create when I'm not enthroned in school.  I am able to let my mind free and learn to stretch my creativity, which is relaxing. So i will be sharing some of that soon, along with more of my hot-to inspiarations on my favorite site, Pintrest. Follow me if you haven't already!  Search: Emily Spurlock

Okay so I have been a little distant, but for good reason.

Came back from CHA (amazing, more to follow), finished my summer class, began working 40 hrs a week, started horseback riding again (me time), bought stuff for my apartment, searched and finally got an apartment,seeing every doctor i have for the last time i leave before school (trust me the list is long) and now im am cleaning my life way, finishing up some PT, getting my pictures taken (its only been like 5-7 years!) and having my early birthday dinner (since i wont be home :[ )


So yes I stated I'm headed back to school this year, if I havent told you I spent this past year back at home being able to work a ton, take community college classes as well as university classes and being able to live at home rent free. I am happy to begin the journey again, and hope for the best this time around, will be sad to leave my family at home and work but I know this is for the best for my future as well as this is not a forever situation. 

I still will be scrappin at school, packed my supplies this weekend, so its time to get creative again with minimal supplies.  Just give me some more time and I will hopefully be back in order, I can always hope.

Always a time to reflect.

With summer, and where I am at with my life in general I often take a lot of time to reflect my future, where I am at now, highs and lows.  While everyday and moment cannot always be sunshine and rainbows, I constantly remind myself of the joys within my job, education, and my age at this moment.
     After switching stores for my job currently, I started regretting my decision for leaving my previous store of 4.5 years and the home I had established there.  But at this moment I could not be more happy, I have a boss young enough to be my sister with appreciation and guidance of a mother, friends from my previous store that I have been able to reconnect with, and a joy in what I actually do everyday for people.  Three months ago let alone a year ago did I think I would find something like that again.  To be within this enviroment of nuturing and acceptance, makes me want to thrive exceeded and preform over the top.
     Although the burden of completing education can stress any particular person out, I have found it hard to find the endurance to pull through.  I HATE school, well what was to be high school and grade school the sense of studying, papers, and god awful subjects.  Persuing a art degree, a dream come true, has its own subjects that I hate, including Art History.  I do have to take plenty of gened's which is certainly not my cup of tea, and for sure is something that makes me feel as though I am wasting my money.  Although the hard slave work and determination I have proved to myself goes to show the different person I am now than from 2 years ago graduating high school.  That isnt to say without the people who have mentored me and pushed me through the ups and highs, just like everything in life. I am now looking forward to powering through my degree with the thought of not everyone gets to do this, I have kicked butt thus far, and I can see my dream at the end of the tunnel.  After a trip to the National Stationary Show/Surtex this year in NYC I see what the insdustry intales, let alone buisness. Its an exciting adventure I am happy to hopefully join someday and hope to learn more about it when i attend CHA in the next week or so! Yep!  I'll be off to Chicago for an industry dream come true, I will be gawking and awestuck the whole time I am sure!  The possibilites are endless, and my education has shown me that.
     My age at this moment, full of dreams, wishes and still somewhat carefree times.  Not having to worry about the roof over my head at this moment persay, and enjoying small things in life are what is to be tresured at this moment in time.  Wether it is a person loving my cake at work, or a classmate enjoying my color pallette. I am at a point in which these are the moments I look forward to in my days and I remember to cherish them for the will not always last forever.  I mean is it really that bad that I get excited to go to work? I frost cakes and get to chat it up with some of my great friends, not sure if that qualifies as work but I am happy to call it my job!
     The lesson out of all this, enjoy the day, reflect on moments that mean the most no matter how small, and seize the moment with the loved ones around you.

Here is my scrappy share for the day, I hope you enjoyed this blog post, I am trying to share a bit more of myself as other bloggers do, and trying to find my own creative niche. 

BTW, PLEASE let me know if you will be attending CHA I would love to meet you!!! =]

 ft. Crate paper's Emma's Shoppe! (LOVE!)

yes I am obsessed with this picture, my favorite riding picture, but I love trying to reinvent it with different collections and designs!

Crate Paper Layout Challenge!

So I was able to scoop up my first Crate Paper collection pack at a LSS closing.  I have waited awhile to get the Emma's Shoppe pack, and have had a fun time creating with it and its vintage southern feel.

This layout features my favorite bakery at school, where every Saturday and ONLY saturdays they make Cinnamonbuns, heaven, devine, and large.  I save up all my workouts and bike rides each weak to indulge before I hit the books at the Library!  My favorite morning treat.

Cosmocricket Challenge Part 2!

I thought I would try to push this challenge to the next level by creating another layout, featuring Vermont; our favorite summer getaway!

CosmoCricket Layout Challenge!

Alright with my slight obsession with Cosmocricket products, I of course have to enter EVERY challenge!  I love the opprotunity to be able to get published, a goal for me that I am seeking to be furfilled.

I mixed Odds and Ends with Circa 1934 with some Social.  I think I fall more and more in love with their products because they are genuwine people making intermixable products, that I can use for just about anything!

We Are

Continuing my recent delivery of Snapfish pictures, this picture by far my favorite from my AP class in Senior year.  This was the night of our final Art Show, that we all worked so hard for.  This spur of the moment picture really captures that year's essence.

I wanted to make it really girly, well since we are all girls. I used Amy Butler, and mostly October Afternoon papers. With such a muted pallet, I decied to ad a few bright pops of color to give depth.

In other news, I am just busy trying to replenish my stockpile that I have happily worked my way through most of my old product! Yay!  This means more room for new CHA, and kits.  It can be expensive, but I find that collection kits are for sure the best of values with included stickers, borders, and alphas.  Let alone I have a Silhouette, which I love and need to use more!

What summer projects are you getting caught up on?

Carefree at 15

Well Hello Everyone!! What a busy fun filled summer we have ahead of us.   I have some great things planned and in store for me so keep on a look out for all that is to come here on my blog! 

I just wrapped up school a few weeks ago, and am completing a summer class as we speak, phew I want to nap.  I have been exhausted and creativitly drained until this week when I got some snapfish photos in and have been diggin through my stash.  If you have not gotten photos from snapfish, for sure it is the place to purchase!  I used to go through Walmart, but Snapfishes quality even on iPhone photos is amazing!

So this layout came about with this great pic I found on my desktop, of just a fun simple photo while I was in highschool, It is a great photo that I wanted to highlight with bright colors.

Since I just purchased a glimmer mist, it has been my new found love, have used it about on everything and have tried to come up with some creative uses. Not to mention I also incoorporated a paint chip sample in here as well, I love the look of the gradient colors.

Products include: Paper- October Afternoon, Sassafrass, Basic Grey Embellies- Hero Arts, Joanns, Making Memories

Alright everyone, that is it for now, would like to hear how all of you are doing and what you would like to see more of here on my blog!  Thanks Everyone!

AP Art

My AP Art class was one of the greatest times I had in High School.  Although I think I could of preformed better, I created lasting memories and learned about myself as an artist. 

The main inspiration for this design was the studio calico paper that features the brushes, I cannot say I find many art related papers, let alone ones I like so I thought it would be a perfect time to feature it.  I bounced it off of some basic grey basics in kraft along with some basic grey orange dotted paper. Added October afternoon paper and some sassafras embelishments, it has become a funky and polished layout!


This weekend has been one of self discovery, a book my mom purchased me entitled "5" has really made me want to strive more and to strive to be greater at everything I do. I want to acomplish more and attack my dreams with passion and drive.  I recommend this book to EVERYONE, its a bit of an eye opener and inspiration for everyone. 
    I was off from work this weekend as well, a few and far between for me because of working in a grocery store.  Its weird and I almost didnt like it because everywhere I went this weekend there were TONS of people everywhere!  I am too comfortable to having weekdays off and being able to enjoy it without so many people, eh you win some and loose some. 

Bloom

So I have decided to finally make this a blog that is mine, in the sense that I want to share my life with my readers, whatever may be going on.

I feel as though I have had a hard time with trust within my life. Anyone I may know I will give them 100% of my trust until they show me that they can no longer.  I delivered information to what I thought would be trustful people in a time of impulse and just plain stress and information that I told them I always wanted them to keep to themselves and absorb it in.  I should completely know better knowing that in this situation I know the consequences and what ended up happening. I am now faced with my choices and the repercussions that effect an important person in my life currently.  Her impact is defiantly greater than I have ever imagined, let alone her guidance is nothing I have ever experienced in my life.  I certainly find that I need to be able to trust within her much more than when she did trust within me.  Since these occurrences she no longer trusts me and from now on I will be forever be striving to get back to the place that we started.  I have never felt this sort of appreciation or actual caring from someone in my life no matter who it may be, and I think it means more to me that it is not someone in my family but rather outside of that who actually stood up for me in times where she hardly knows me or when others would tell her not to.  It makes me anxious that I never took this into effect when realizing what I was doing or even what it was actually about.  I feel like i took 50 steps backward into a person that I was in the sense of being a younger teenager and unaware of actions have consequences.  I am defiantly at the age where I know right from wrong and that I am subconscious of what I am actually saying or verbalizing. This will be with me for a wright of learning and a time to grow and learn to move past and conquer.  But when these sorts of things happen to me, I find they forever burn a hole in my heart.


On a lighter note, here is a layout for the day.

9teen

yes, I am on a cosmocricket kick.  What can I say I have grown to love their products like no other, all the lines have similar colors to mix and match and their prints are fun and vibrant.  I would own every collection if I could, but right now I am just trying to go through some of my old stash to get some new. 

I created this layout in the intent for Scrapbook Trends magazine, if I were to have a magazine idol, they would be it.

I mixed material girl, joy ride, and boyfriend collections from cosmo, because it is so easy to do and they always go together as i said. 

I love this picture for just being nineteen, and the innocence I still try to emote.

CosmoCricket Layout Challenge

Whatcha up to?

Ahh another session of school begins again.  I think I only really had an entire week off from not doing school work.  I am really getting so used to it that stopping feels unproductive, but none the less I will be ready to graduate when that happens!!!

My latest graphic design class that I am taking is all hands on. =D [angels singing]  I am over elated that I get to cut and past for 10 weeks and am taking advantage of it.  My new buddy silhouette will be making my cuts to put my project together (CAN WE SAY PROFESSIONAL!?)  I am excited to use all this scrapbook paper I spend all my paychecks on and just being able to do what i love essentially which is cutting and pasting.  As much as I love graphic design I wish it wasn't so computer based and go back to the old school ways of cutting out every letter and pasting ads carefully together.  Pictured above is some of my things for my first project of the class.  I am sure I will show it to you when I am done.

Scrapbooking has been on hold for awhile with the holidays and my creative fart.  I go through lulls of being overly anxious to create to sometimes months of not even touching paper. I am starting to get an urge again since I just recieved some new pictures so we will see if I end up having free time to devote to this hobby of mine.

yours until the headaches start
emily