What Day is It Today and easy to make crafts...

Hello Everyone!

I hope life has been treating all of you well.  To reference my title, I honestly have no idea what today is!  I am pretty worried that on a Sunday I am going to wake up, get dressed, and come to work! 

I have been in constant motion lately.  Between, work, school, and house duties half the time I am a day ahead or behind and the other half of the time I am too distracted worrying about school and grades to care what day it is!

To share some good news, I did get an 85 on my statistics midterm!  Statistics may be one of the hardest classes I have ever taken.  I don't think that my brain works like those of you that enjoy math and probabilities, however, I am actually doing well!  I am working my Tushie off, but I am doing well!

Today I wanted to share some random projects with you that I want to try when I have some down time or can't sleep one night.

Creator Unknown (please let me know if you know original owner so I can site!)

Isn't this cool?  I think this would be a fun way to spend an afternoon.



Crafting from Fiskars

How cute are these bookmarks?  Another project that is full of color and fun.


Custom coasters on blog Fellow Fellow



Paper Ornament Lorajean's Magazine

As you all know I Love paper so this little paper project is definitely on the list!
Lots of Love,

Jess

New items listed on LoveUPaperly

Hi All!

I am going to try to do a better job of blog posting this week.

Between school and other necessary life things, oh and working all day, can't forget about that, my blog posts have been suffering.

I didn't think that my time management would be an issue, but it is!

Anyway, I did some shop revamping yesterday and listed some new items that I want to share with you.

The first one is a paper heart bracelet listed for $8 on LoveUPaperly.

Cute, right?  I think it's young and fun and sometimes you just want to wear your heart on your wrist!

I listed a new card as well.

This is a sentiment that I am always expressing to Meridyth because she loves me no matter what, so I thought why not make a card because other people may feel the same way I do!

It is listed on my etsy shop, LoveUPaperly, for $3.

Inbetween my Anatomy studying I have also been making other things that I would like to list on my etsy shop.

For a little background, I discovered of love of creating three-d sculptures in grad school when I did a series of miniature beds that I made to go with a grouping of photographs that I had worked on all semester.

This ties into that idea of making small worlds.  Here is a hint of more things to come!

Lots of Love,

Jess

Lovely Sunday Photograph

"Jea Louvre" by Claude Bencimon

Silence and Lovely Sunday Photograph

Hello Everyone!

I hope all of your Sunday's have been full of rest, food, and family.

I had an exam yesterday in my Anatomy and Physiology class, plus a lab quiz and I think if I had studied any more this week science facts would have been spilling out of my brain!

The real reason for the silence this week on the blog is that on Wednesday I woke up with burning and pain going up and down my left arm which was very reminiscent of what happened last October right before my disc in my cervical neck exploded.

I am trying not to get excited and upset.  Instead I have an MRI set up for Thursday and I am taking steroids which have definitely reduced the inflammation.

Icing and my neck-brace have also returned to the daily routines of my life.  C'est la vie.  For now I will just keep moving and hopefully my body will keep up.

The image below by Elizabeth Messina is how I feel every Sunday should be.

Lots of Love,

Jess

Lovely Sunday Photograph (Quote) and a Happy New Year

To all of those who are celebrating the start of the Jewish New Year tonight I just wanted to say L'Shana Tova, I hope you all have a happy, healthy, and sweet New Year.

I didn't do a photograph today.  I thought an inspiring quote for the New Year would be more fitting.

Lots of Love,

Jess

Inspiring and Funny Quote by Maurice Sendak

Hello Guys!

What a looong day.  Did anyone else feel like the clock was moving backwards today instead of ticking forwards. 

I am so tired (per usual), Mer has a sinus infection, and I have an unbelievable amount of reading to do for Anatomy and Physiology.

However, I found a great quote today by Maurice Sendak that made me laugh out loud at work today:

"Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it."

—Maurice Sendak (found on Bobulate)

 I love this story.  Life can be really beautiful a lot of the time.

Lots of Love,

Jess

Drowning in School Work and my New Nephew Caleb James

Hello!

I haven't blogged in a few days.  The reason is I am DROWNING!  Drowning in classes, work, and house stuff.

I admitted to Meridyth last night after I worked all day, made dinner, and studied Anatomy and Physiology for two hours that this may be one of the hardest things I have ever done.

Learning I love medicine this late in my life and wanting to fulfill my goals of going into this field is not going to be easy.  I am just hoping that all of these nights that I am not talking to the people in my life that I love will go toward that bigger goal.

For anyone else that is working a million hours and going to school I applaud you.  This shit is not easy.

Now onto Caleb James!

My sister-in-law and her hubby had a beautiful baby a month ago and I took some pictures of him and their family.

This is the first baby session I have done in awhile and I think they turned out pretty well!

I'm off now to study and run to work but Welcome to the World Caleb James!  We love you so much already.

I would actually love to do more family portrait work.  It was A LOT less stressful than weddings!

Also, isn't my sister-in-law so pretty?  I was so happy with their family portrait because even the dog is looking!

Lots of Love,

Jess