This is my personal website where I will share updates about what is going on in my life and updates about my other websites.
About Me (Mod Girl):
I am married with grown children and they have kids of there own also. That would make me a grandma (sheesh, where has the time gone, lol). I retired from web design years ago when the world of web design went to automation and when you could slap together a website with a few clicks here and there with your mouse button. I still create web pages old school using html, but these days it’s much easier to just use a tool to do that for me and all I need to do next is to just add my text to the page later. How simple is that?
Anyway, I love working with graphics and creating new stuff. I was making signature tags for a very long time but recently quit doing that because it was so time consuming and it took me away from things I would rather be doing instead, like crafting. Crafting is my passion. When I found out about junk journals and how easy it was for me to make them, I have been going at that full force ever sense, lol. I’ve made a lot of journals using old vintage items that I have collected over the years. I have also been creating printable papers for journals and that’s how my junkjournalpaper.com website came to be. I enjoy creating all sorts of papers to add to my shop that others might find useful and I use them myself in my own journals too.
Besides crafting, I also enjoying sewing and have made all sorts of items and sewn up many a torn pair of pants, tops and even dresses here and there over the years. I have made hundreds of quilts and at one time years ago I sold them by the side of the road and was labeled the “Quilt Lady” for a long time. I had people from all walks of life purchase some of my quilts. I have also given a lot of them away to friends and family members also.
Besides quilts, I learned many years ago about fashion design and worked for a few sewing factories and even a fashion design company also. It was a rather small job of making sure all the employees got what they needed but I was asked once about my opinion on a piece of sports wear for women and the idea was taken and used later on an article of clothing. I never got credit for that but I didn’t care at the time because I was just happy to have a job, lol.
Oh, and I was also asked once about a quilt that I made where I had come up with an idea and made it into a quilt. A lady from New York stopped and had a look at it and told me to come see her if I ever got tired of sitting by the side of the road, lol. It would have been nice but I had just recently moved from a big city and had no intention of moving back to one, lol. So that was the end of that. I kept her card though. lol.
Anyway, I have done almost every craft you can imagine. If you can think it, I’ve probably already done it at one time or another throughout my life. And there have been some that I liked more than others but they don’t compare to creating journals. I’ve always had a thing about working with paper. Cutting it, pasting it onto something, or even painting on it. It’s simple to work with and you can do a lot with it. Now, most people would disagree with that, but I have made so many things just with paper that you would be amazed at how many. From jewelry to furniture and creating books, decorative boxes and all sorts of other things, paper has kept me busy for a really long time.
Now besides all this crafting, sewing and working with paper I have also done some oil paintings. Not very much, but a few paintings I did many years ago and just found recently when sorting through some old stuff. To me, they weren’t very good, but hubs did like them which is something, because he is known to “tell it like it is” whether you want to hear it or not, lol.
So, that about sums up “ME”, I guess. Nothing more to tell you except that I like to collect books. And omg, do I like to collect books, lol. I have so many books in my house right now that I could open a library if I wanted. YES, there are way too many books here in this house. And the funny thing is, we go to the beach some weekends and do some thrift shopping and what do you suppose I buy? Yup, more books. LOL. Hubs says that he’s never seen anyone have such a fascination with books before. And he would be right, lol.