I'VE BEEN FRAMED...

Every weekend I try to stuff a weeks worth of work (and relaxation) into 48 little hours.  It's near impossible to do.  I LOVE to sleep late on the weekends, it feels so very decadent.  It's one thing I never allowed myself to do when I had my own business as I always worked 7 days a week, so even the weekends started at dawn. Now that I am gainfully employed I sleep (depressed? Just kidding).  

l do all my Bella Bella work on the weekend which isn't really work to me at all but a complete and utter pleasure.  Every order I send out feels like I am putting together a gift, which is perhaps a bit insane (I am just a little) but I love getting my orders ready for their new home.  That's one of the things I love most about Etsy when you order from an Etsy seller they usually take extra pride in their shipment and the packaging is as delightful as the actual order. Trust me I know this a little too well (I have an Etsy addiction...).

I had a laundry list of things to-do this weekend and I didn't know where to start.  Then I decided after I did the chores and the groceries I was going to do something that made me happy.  So I went to the flea market and bought a broken camera.  I didn't care that it was broken because I just needed the lens anyway:

The above isn't my actual camera.  Mine is rusted and may be some sort of germ carrier, but it was $5 and I wanted it badly.  This is how I can create more TTV loveliness, like these folks:

 

{TTV by m a r i e}

{TTV by Friendly Joe}

Then I decided since I had about 8,000 things that really needed to be done I should do what I am best at--procrastinating.  I made some digital downloads for the shop.  I wanted to make something that I couldn't find when I was searching and I figured that others might be looking for them too.  I am sure they are out there (somewhere) but I'm not the best at Googling and I am impatient.

So this is the first of the offerings:

With these babies you can make your photo's look like this:

Why?  Why not?  Sometimes a photo needs that little je ne sais quoi, or that thing you can't put your finger on...I stole this photo from Toi, I thought it was very Audrey-esque:

It was already a good photo but I knew it could be so much more..

{Framed by Moi}

Okay, so I did a tad more tweaking than adding the frame, but the frame does help, right?