My new idea

I have been working on getting a side business up and running. You can view some of my pictures and ideas at www.jsdecoratingideasandmore.blogspot.com. If you are interested in me coming to your home or office and looking at your space to see how we cna make it more appealing, please e-mail me at quinn6201@juno.com, or call me at #208-859-5642.

It's time for Halloween!!!!!!

Fall is definitely here. Tonight for FHE we went to the Tingey's house to carve pumpkins. I love our ward and the close friends I have made there. Life is great with such amazing people to surround yourself with! I didn't care a pumpkin, but had such a great time looking at everyone else's pumpkins and awesome creations. I basically ate, laughed and caused havoc tonight, sorry Tingeys!!!

Simply Out of Control...

A week ago, Krista came home from Utah for a visit. Late Friday night I met up with her, Jess and their mom for some good food and laughs at IHOP in Meridian. All I can say is that these three are some of my most favorite people of all time. The lives they live are truly a fairytale. Always shopping, vacationing to Mexico, or just being them. They always make me laugh with their outrageous personalities and humor. Thanks for the great weekend guys!!!! Oh and how can you forget their dog Abbey, they take her everywhere!

A new business idea......

For years now, I have found that I love to create, design, make better the places I live in and visit and see. My imagination runs wild when it comes to color, spaces and designing. I have always wanted to start my own business helping people beautify and change their homes. I want to go into people's homes and help them re-arrange and decorate. It would cost the client no money for me to come and look at the space, create a plan, then see that it gets done. The only part that I would charge, is my actual time that I spend in their home re-arranging. Any thoughts on this??? Would it really work? Is anyone interested in giving me a shot? Let me know, I would enjoy coming to your house, looking at the spaces and furniture you already have, then making the transformation!!!!! I want to do this so bad, really I do, but have been so afraid to make it happen. So today I am taking a stand against fear and doubt, you do the same!

I'm getting a gree thumb!

This past weekend I went to the nurseries with my mom in search of some plants and flowers for my house. I found these beautiful ornamental grasses. They are not very tall right now since they were cut back for the winter. Come next Spring they will be tall and gorgeous. It was fun to help my mom plant on Saturday. This could be a potential obesssion, plants, landscaping and going to the local nursery!

More of my house!

I am completely loving being on my own! Putting my house in order consumes my time and money for that matter, but it is, in a way healing to me. I moved my office home today and I am going to enjoy working at home and not to mention that money saved in gas. Here are a few pics of my new home office and the drapes I put up in my dinning room and living room!

New Chatterbox and 7gypsies!

So yes, I made the acrylic album you are seeing. They are not the greatest photos, but I did the best I could. Most of you know that I work for Chatterbox and 7gypsies, two of the most well known scrapbooking lines in the industry. I am in International Sales and I love my position with the company. I sold only Chatterbox, but since the acquisition of the company in December of 2007, I am now selling 7gypsies, which I LOVE.

Whenever we release new products, I get to try them out and use them. This is a great selling tool for me, since I am not an avid scrapbooker. I have learned many new techniques and tips over the years. Here is one of our new Acrylic Albums from 7gypsies. It is a NEW product that we released at this years Cha Summer Show in Chicago. I was not sure how to us it, how to sell it, or what anyone else would use it for. I am obsessed with acrylic now, and don't think you could talk me into using paper and the original scrapbooking albums. If you are interested in our products, please visit: www.sevengypsies.com and or www.chatterboxinc.com.

I'm slowly making progress on my house!

So I have officially been a homeowner for a week now. I think that the newness of this experience has worn off and I am beginning to settle into my home. It has been fun entertaining and having friends and family over to visit. My own space, my own designs and my own privacy. For the most part, I am all moved in. I have begun to put nails in the wall to hang pictures and dust off all of my decorations that I have been accumulating for the past few years, waiting for this experience of having my own house. Here are a few pictures of the inside and what I have been able to accomplish in a week's time.