Excuse the Mess
I’m in the midst of making over this website and we should be finished with the renovations over the next couple of days. I promise, it will all work very soon! Thanks for your patience! Carina
Winners for Dress Up
I’m a little behind from this sleepy, turkey-feasting holiday, but here are the winners for the two Dress Up Fat Quarter Stacks by Random.org: #3 & #5 Gwen Windham says: My favorite Thanksgiving food is my Mom’s dressing! I love it SO much and have tried to replicate it, but can’t ever get it “just [...]
Here’s the Deal With $1 Wednesdays
So many of you know of and buy my digital products on JessicaSprague.com’s $1 Wednesdays. Some of you may be questioning the releases this week, and I thought I ought to offer an explanation. (Deep breath) So here it is: This week, the new releases are items that have been released for $1 in the [...]
Sew Important
My mom was recently in town, and she gave Siri a sewing lesson. It reminded me of when I started sewing at the ripe old age of five years old by my mom’s side (I’m sure not unlike the way Siri was sitting by her in this picture I managed to capture). The amazing part [...]
“How To” Blog
The “How to” Blog I’m speaking of it Design House Digital’s Blog and Classroom. Everytime I click on one of those links I’m amazed by all the inspiration and cool ideas (like this cool art cut out by Deena Rutter). Articles get uploaded to this blog everyday and there’s no shortage of video tutorials, hybrid [...]
Printing a Digital Book
I finally did it! I printed my very first digital scrapbook. I remember when I use to explain digital scrapbooking to people, they’d say, “Digital?…does that mean you just look at them on the computer?” And I’d have to tell them you could but the point is to have it printed and have a BOOK. [...]
When It’s A Birthday
With my fantastic silhouette machine from quickutz, I made these darling die cut happy birthday cards that you can pick up at 2peas. I made them originally for my two brothers-in-law that share a common birthday. These boy-happy papers are from my Bella Bella line. Super easy to make with the files in this folder! [...]
The Sofa Post
It’s Favorite Friday, but I couldn’t limit myself to 5 on this one. It’s my sofa post. Yes, sofa’s I love and links to find them:). It’s taken me two weeks to consolidate this post:). I’m a little ga-ga over these sofas, and although I won’t be buying one anytime soon, it’s always good to [...]
Golfing
I don’t golf. Not even a little bit. I stepped onto my first golf course (as the planner) a year ago, and ironically enough, have been planning golf tournaments ever since. I hardly ever post about my “day job” as an Event Director, but it would be hard not to mention it today because my [...]
Making it Funky
I got two gorgeous old frames at Emily Jane a week ago and decided they needed to be “funkied” up. So I painted them pink and love them! Siri drew me two sketches so I can display her artwork. The sketches are sweet and just right for these frames. Right now they are in the [...]
Layouts of the Garden Vignette Collection
Well, it was a rainy weekend for us in Salt Lake. Once again, we had to postpone going camping, which really turned out to be okay as I had a big design submission to deal with, a work pool party, errands, errands, and more errands, and a Father’s Day dinner to boot (my in-laws included). [...]
PhotoCuts 3rd week of Release
Just thought I would show you next Tuesday’s releases! This is the third week of PhotoCuts. I think you’ll like these (I certainly love using them!).
Jen’s Wedding & Kelly Nicole Photography
As promised, I am posting Jen’s wedding photographer’s info, Kelly Nicole. Her work is SO beautiful, and I was really impressed with the variety of photos she had for this wedding. One of the things that Jen and I both agree on is that you can NEVER scrimp on your wedding photos. I mean, if [...]
Felicity’s Birthday and Paradise Collection Party Kit
Felicity’s birthday was on Thursday, but we celebrated yesterday with Josh’s family. It was a really fun time with an easy dinner of soup, salad, and breadsticks, chocolate cupcakes with pink icing and sprinkles for the kids, and coconut cake for the adults. My extra treat was the white chocolate suckers (see the post before [...]
White Chocolate Lollipops
My friend Carolyn sent me a picture of white chocolate lollipops she made from molds and I had to try it myself for Flissa’s family birthday party. (Carolyn says that she has a blog but hasn’t updated it for a while. I’m trying to convince her to put her gorgeous little girl bows up…if she [...]
Bachelorette Party and Wedding
This weekend was filled with parties and events for Jen’s wedding. But don’t plan on her posting about it anytime soon since she is on her honeymoon. I just thought I would post a couple of tidbits although I don’t know that this will be a very exciting post as I promised to not show [...]
Bella Bella Layout
Last week, something possessed me to take a second away from digital scrapbooking and to actually scrapbook the traditional way. I used my Bella Bella line from My Minds Eye. It’s nice to get off the computer sometimes and really get down and dirty! I think there is something about really feeling the paper in [...]
The Joy of Cooking’s Carrot Cake and The Cure
I recently signed up to do The 8 week Cure with many others at Apartment Therapy. I am currently reading Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan’s Book—Apartment Therapy: The eight-step home cure. “The Cure,” to boil it down, is an eight week program meant to help organize and make healthy our living spaces. There are several things you do [...]
Running with the Leopards—5K Race
No designerly posts today. Just a quick post to say that Josh and I ran a 5k today with his East High alma mater (the high school recognizable for being the place High School Musical was filmed). About 700 people showed for the race. It was cold. This is a terrible picture of us, but [...]
Easter Projects
Easter is fast approaching and I haven’t even begun to think about Easter projects for me girls. Our favorite is the peeps chicks in chocolate nests with jelly been eggs. Siri was just asking to do those the other day. You should also check out the Easter Projects on Martha Stewart’s website. Look how cute [...]
March of Tools: The Wacom Tablet and Card Scan Reader
In honor of March of the Tools, I decided to feature two of my favorite tools: My Wacom Tablet and Scan Card Reader. My Wacom Tablet I’ve had for a out 2 years now and love. Last May, however, when we moved from Minnesota to Utah, my Wacom pen was lost. I had placed it [...]
St. Patrick’s Day Freebie
Here’s a quick freebie for you if you don’t really have much green (I don’t:). So I’ll wear this little badge to work tomorrow (and my kids will wear it just for fun!)! Just download, print, and cut out. No pinching! Download st. patrick’s day freebie
Favorite 5 Friday: All about the Kitchen!
This week all my favorite stuff comes from the kitchen! Enjoy this designerly eye candy! And be sure to continue and scroll down and read the interview with designer Holly Jones and don’t miss out on winning her great giveway (read below!). I’ll have the winner on Saturday morning so you still have a chance [...]
Adding Color to My Life and Another Frame Project
As many of you know, I live in rental that we aren’t suppose to paint. So a lot of my tricks to decorating are things that are “movable.” Well, last week I got the okay to paint the living room and kitchen! What a dream! I’m not done accessorizing and I’ve pulled everything down from [...]