Being creative has always been an outlet for me. I think the very first taste of making something with my hands was when I was about 5 as I watched my mom make a dress for me.

If you sew you know that you need to always check measurements right? One day my Mom called me in her room so she can get measurements from my shoulders to my wrists for sleeves and from my waist to the bottom of my knobby knees for the length of a dress! I can still see that 70’s pattern in my head with the browns and orange stripes!!! Ah, you know those colors are making a comeback right!?

Anyways, mom had showed me what she would do with some larger scraps of fabric and taught me how to pin pieces right sides together giving a seam allowance ….. now I didn’t realize at that moment that she was teaching me how to make a little itty bitty body cross over purse with a snap closure!….to match my dress!! I’m literally laughing as I type this! Sweet memory though…really sweet! I LOVE you mom!

I tried making all kinds of things when I was little and of course when it was time for arts and crafts at school I was ready, with a little apron and all!! 

Fast forward, when I started my family I had a camera and like every mom, I took pictures all the time. Of course there were no cell phones 30 years ago like today but I always had a new roll of film at the ready for my little Kodak camera!

All I knew about scrapbooking was maybe adding a little journaling behind a photo and tucking those in an album. Not as fun a s today’s scrapbooking, that’s for sure! There’s SO much you can do now!

In 2008 when I had to leave my job because of a back injury I discovered Youtube and I’m thankful I did! I watched some awesome talented ladies create scrapbooking projects, make cards, creating photo layouts and dimensional projects! It was amazing! I found myself in LOVE with paper!

My recent kick is making invitations for baby showers, birthdays and weddings. Unfortunately I got into that while on a Sabbatical from Youtube so I didn’t share most of those projects anywhere. I will though.

Needless to say, I started my own channel in Dec of 2009! It became my therapy and brought back some light in my life as I began to discover my love of handmade paper projects!

After leaving my job again in 2020 due to my dad having a stroke and passed away in September 2021, I slowly am returning to YouTube.

My love of paper crafts has never gone away…I’m enjoying the invitations and invitation sets (ie., Menu Cards, Table cards/labels, paper fans, confetti) I’m making for my family. You’ll find them here at The Jule Box Studios Blog!