Coming Soon: Spink Studio's Etsy Shop

Wonder why I haven't been posting much?? This is why. I have been working on designing cards and personalized stationary to open Spink Studio's very own Etsy shop. Here's a sneak peek of what will be for sale. I'll keep you all posted on a grand opening date.

Let me know if you have any suggestions of items you would like to see!

Coming Soon: Kelsey & Nathan's Engagement Session

I know Kelsey and the rest of her family are dying to see her and Nathan's engagement photos that we took two weeks ago in downtown Denver! I ordered Adobe Lightroom, so I could edit all of these amazing photos we took but it hasn't arrived yet! I narrowed it down to about 300 awesome photos out of the 500 we took. As soon as I get my software, I'll post a whole bunch of my favorites! For now, I'll leave you with a teaser. Check back soon!

Congrats, Kim & Matt!

Sorry for the lack of posting! I am still on vacation and will be for another three days, but I have so much to share. In the last two weeks, Kim graduated from college, we celebrated Mother's Day at our house, I went to Colorado, shot Kelsey and Nathan's engagement photos in downtown Denver (I can't wait to edit and share those photos!), Josh graduated from highschool, Shawn, April and Alex visited us while in Colorado and Josh and I made the long voyage from Denver to Houston. All in the last two weeks!

But the most excited thing is that Matt proposed to my sister-in-law Kim last Friday night! He took her out on the lake for a romantic dinner and asked her to marry him (every Matt Evans style!). I am so, so happy for them and I can't wait to be a part of their special day! It is so exciting!! I just wished I had been in town to celebrate with Kim. Here are some photos that Cari took of their special night. Get ready for some more wedding posting!

He's So Good

So, I've had this pot. My mother-in-law bought it for me a month and a half ago on our girl's trip to Fredericksburg. It's just been sitting in the garage since then. Every Saturday, I've been trying to get Clint to go with me to the nursery so we can pick out some flowers to plant in it. And every Saturday has been way too busy.

I was determined to get some flowers planted in it this week before we have the family over for Mother's Day on Sunday. Because our Saturday is going to be busy again tomorrow with Kim's graduation, I called Clint and left a message at 4:00 this afternoon to see if we could pick up some flowers today to plant tomorrow. He calls me back at 6:00 telling me that the nursery is already closed and we'll have to go tomorrow afternoon. Bummer!

Thirty minutes later, I hear someone knocking on the front door...and it's Clint, outside with a beautifully planted pot! He's so good! He'd gone to the nursery earlier in the day and picked out perfect flowers and snuck home and planted them without me hearing him. Doesn't it look great? He even got me the sweet potato leaves that I wanted! I can't wait until we have our own backyard. Clint is going to turn it into a tropical paradise!



And the even cuter thing...he said, "you better go grab your camera and take some photos so you have something to blog today!" :-D

Two More Seniors

I'm leaving in six days to go visit my family in Colorado and celebrate my brother's graduation. Because I am taking 12 days off work to help my brother move down, all of my clients are needing me to get their projects done before I leave. I have sooo much to do by Tuesday as well as go to Kim's graduation on Saturday and have a wonderful Mother's Day lunch on Sunday.

I had the opportunity to design two more senior announcements before the end of the school year which includes my first guy's announcement! Congrats to Shay and Whitman!

Shay graduating from high school. Photos by the awesome Kristin Bednarz.


Whitman graduating from high school.


Clint and I have both been working for almost 12 hours straight today, so I think we're going to chill for the rest of the night and take a mini trip to Target! Yay!

Happy Anniversary

Happy anniversary to Clint's parents, my amazing in-laws, Chip and DiAnn! They have been married for 31 wonderful years and they set a wonderful example for a Godly, healthy and loving marriage. Love you!


Photo by the amazing Kristin Bednarz

Meetings

Sorry, I don't have time to post anything exciting today. The last two days I have been super busy running errands, working out of the office and meeting clients. Hopefully I can stay in the studio most of tomorrow and get some stuff done. I have some recent scrapbooking projects I want to post.

Currently Not a Legitimate Driver

So, I wake up this morning, get dressed all cute and do my hair and make-up and have Clint go with me the the DPS office so I can get a new driver's license with my new last name on it. I wanted until after my 21st birthday (so I wouldn't have to go twice this year) and I wanted to get it done soon, because next week I am flying and I need a picture ID with my new last name so it will match my plane ticket. So I have all of my proper paperwork and present to the DPS lady...thinking I have it all together and that this should take no time and all...and she looks at my current Colorado driver's license and tells me, "Oh, this license expired 5 days ago, so you are not valid to get a driver's license in another state. You will have to retake the written and driving test to get a Texas driver's license."

I was confused because I originally took my driving test in TEXAS and I have had at least TWO Texas driver's licenses in my short driving lifetime. Well, I guess it was too long ago, because they were no longer valid in the system and I would have to reapply!!

Are you kidding me?!? I am not retaking the driver's written test and getting in a car with someone to take a driving test. Been there, done that like six years ago. Oh my goodness. I don't have time right now to study the Texas Driver's Handbook and memorize all the current DUI penalties! Ugh!

So, I told the DPS lady my situation and that I was needing a picture ID to fly back to Colorado and she gave me a little tip. She said I could renew my Colorado license in Colorado and bring in back to her and it would be valid in Texas and I could legally drive without taking any tests.

All I was trying to do was get out of having to get two driver's licenses in the same year in the same state and because I waited 5 days too long...I have to get two driver's licenses in two different states!

Good grief! Maybe I can renew my Colorado one online....

That's my story for today.

Sick Day

The past couple days I have been feeling congested off and on and today, I am not feeling well at all. I am just hanging out in my jamies on the internet and working on designing some stuff. I plan on launching an Etsy shop here in the next month or two, so I have been playing around with designing some fun product for it! I can't wait to show you.

On another note...Clint and I have been trying to eat healthy and lose some extra pounds that we gained the last four months. This has become one of my favorite drinks.
I buy them in the produce section at the grocery store. My favorite is the Bolthouse Farms Perfectly Protein Vanilla Chai Tea. They also have a mocha one that is yummy and so much cheaper and healthier than getting a Frappacino at Starbucks. I usually drink them for breakfast.

That's about all I can type for today. My head is too fuzzy to write more. More tomorrow...

May Stamp Club

So, like I said last night, May Stamp Club was a huge success! I think this group of ladies are all going to have awesome parties over the next few months!

Last night we did four technique heavy cards. I've been playing a lot with craft ink and since the chipboard is on sale this month, of course we had to use some of that too! Let me know if you have any questions on these cards. I might even post a video tutorial! ;-) This first card was inspired by the card on the front of Stampin' Success this month.

Also, I wanted to mention that I added labels to all of my posts over the past three years! That way if you are looking for an older post, you can just click on of the labels at the right and it will filter through all of my other posts to just those of stamping for example. Check it out.

NOTE TO MY MOM: Don't look too closely! You may be getting one of these for Mother's Day!

Fresh Flowers...always a must!

I just got done with Stamp Club, so I am posting late today! It was a great party and I'll be posting the cards soon!

I think everyone should have something that they do to pamper themselves. Some ladies like to get their nails done, so women go get a massage, some go shopping every Saturday.

My self-pampering is buying myself fresh flowers. Awhile back, I decided that whenever I had a home, I would always try to have beautiful fresh flowers around. I LOVE fresh flowers (no silk-flowers for me!) and I think it is so nice for people to walk in and see beautiful flowers out on the table, or next to the bed, or in my studio where I work. So classy! I love floral arrangements and I love to mix and match flowers and heights and figure out what vase would work best. (I have a large vase collection.) I am definitely not an expert at floral arrangements, but I love the look of them!

The grocery store around the corner from our home has a great floral department that is always bring in different, unique flowers. While I was there today picking up a few items, I spotted this gorgeous bouquet of ranunculuses! Aren't the colors beautiful?!? I love the small delicate shape and I knew they would work perfectly in this small rectangle vase that was left over from a friend's wedding. I hope they last for several days! Most of my flowers last almost two weeks, but I have never bought these before. Ask me later and I'll let you know.

A Post a Day in May

Yep, a post a day in May. Or at least I am going to try anyway! I have lots of things running around in my brain and I have been creating all kinds of different things that I want to post up here on my blog, so I am going to try to post every day for the whole month of May. We'll see if it happens since I will be out of town for 10 of those days! I think I can do it!

Feel free to leave me a comment and ask me a question or let me know what you would like to see me post about this month! And to all my blog lurkers, come out and say hi!

My studio is a disaster because I have been busy creating this week. Tomorrow is May Stamp Club and I just finished up the cards for it. I better go pick up the studio and the rest of the house! More to come later!