Would you look at that rainbow of color there? I'm pretty sure I've told you that I like bright colors, right? I mean A LOT. Well, what better place to have bright colors than on a birthday banner, right?
I finished this banner exactly 35 minutes before Zoe's birthday party. I was talking to myself, freaking out and giving myself stress sweats just trying to get it done in time.
I'm a freak, I know that.
It was a fun banner to make.
So much fun that, will you look at that, I made THREE of them.
One for me and two to give away to two lucky readers to celebrate my Blogiversary tomorrow.
You have until Midnight Monday, June 22nd to enter.
Just leave a comment and answer this question.
Have you lost your bloggin' mojo now that summer has hit?
I know I have. I haven't felt much like reading blogs, writing posts, or even being on the computer at all.
And I'm not a big fan of the outdoors either. I like to be inside. Where's there's no dirt.
I'm a freak like that.
You have 24 hours to leave your comment, and May the Force Be With You.
I absolutely LOVE your blog and these banners! I'm new to blogging, but I tell ya what, now that summers hit, and I don't have work again until august, I'm a blog addict, I need to join bloggers anonymous or something! And I prefer to stay inside as well! When I'm not blogging I'm indoors crafting :)
ReplyDeleteMy email address is: jjkrutsch8@gmail.com
...I hope I win! :)
Your banners are adorable! I don't have a blog but I love reading them. I usually read them late at night when everyone's in bed, so summer or not, I'm still reading!
ReplyDeleteI love the banner! Reading this gives me great ideas for my kids' borthday parties. Summer isn't what has made me lose my mojo...it has been everything else going on around here! :)
ReplyDeleteAdorable! Yes, I have totally lost my blogging mojo. First it was graduation, then visiting family, college orientation, and messing up my knee. All great blog fodder, no? But I think about it and just get lazy. I am not an outdoors girl either so I have no other excuses.
ReplyDeleteOh sister I am all over this giveaway! You are loving that cricut aren't ya?! LOL!
ReplyDeleteMy bloggy energy is down. Summer, yes. Wedding and moving bigger yes. I am sure once I get to WI it will pick back up since I will have some more time to chill. Let's see!!
Your banners are great. I haven't noticed any differance in my blogging mojo. The bloggers I read aren't posting as often so I am spending less time on the computer. I may have a problem if everyone does start posting more often though. I'm enjoying my summer activities and I've been on an organizing/cleaning binge.
ReplyDeleteI have tried to get back into my blogging. This spring was rough emotionally and I didn't feel much like writing. But I still read the blogs and keep up with the world!
ReplyDeleteThose are very cute. I love stuff like this. Oh pick me.
ReplyDeletewell, I thought it was just me......the bloggy mojo has fled north, I thought.....hmmm, it didn't come to your house??? I think I would find some mojo if I could come to your house and play with the Cricut!!! ;)
ReplyDeleteI love your banner, neighbor!! I'd make you cookies if I won!! :)
Suzanne
Those are very cute and would be a wonderful addition to my daughters 1st birthday coming up!
ReplyDeleteTo answer the question...YES I've totally lost my blogging mojo, but it has less to do with summer and more to do with a new found feeling that I don't want everyone to know everything about my life. I need to scale back and make it more of a blog about my hobbies rather than life happenings.
I have not noticed any difference in my blogging mojo. It's just as much hit or miss as it always has been!
ReplyDeleteOn a different note, thank you for introducing me to Mod Podge! After I won one of your awesome clipboards, I was inspired. I have been crazy with the Mod Podge. I might Mod Podge my youngest child if I could get him to stand still long enough!
YES - I have completely lost it and it is so comforting to know others are losing it too! I actually had to apologize on mine this morning since I have been absent for so long. I do love your blog - so I hope you find your mojo and when you do - tell me where to look for mine!
ReplyDeleteWhew! I'm glad it is not just me! I sit at work all day behind this stupid machine and all I have to do is read blogs on my Google Reader... except NO ONE IS POSTING. Ahem. I'm not either so I guess I can't get upset at my regular writers who are not writing. I do love the banners. Did you use your new Cri-Cut machine? My twins birthday is this Wednesday. Oh my! My babies are 11. We are not celebrating until the weekend... Mr.Random Integer please pick me! Beautiful job Jill. Happy Birthday to Zoe.
ReplyDeletePS. I hate dirt too. My friends think I'm spoiling my children's childhood by not letting them get crazy dirty. I think not. :-)
I'm all about birthdays and these are so cute. I'm new to your blog, but love it!! and can't wait for MORE MORE! I'm blogging more lately, it seems, just because we're doing more stuff, I guess, but I'm definitely behind on a lot of other things because of it. Here's hoping this newcomers wins a banner!
ReplyDeleteI would love to win this for Zack's birthday party next month! He would love all the pretty colors!
ReplyDeleteAnd to answer the question, yes... I have lost my mojo! I don't want to post anything. I still like to surf around and read others, but I just feel like taking a blog vacation.
Summer hasn't hit up here yet...school ends in Canada next week so it is the same old same old right now. I just finished a major project last week and look forward to guilt-free blogging since there is nothing else that I should be doing when I am on the computer. I love the banners...but I need it for tomorrow! If I win could you use a magic wand to get it here before my daughter's birthday party??
ReplyDeleteI meant this week...school ends this week! I'm tired!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous!
ReplyDeleteTraffic is down all over the blogosphere. Happy Summer:-)
I've definitely lost my blogging mojo. I can think of a hundred other things I'd rather be doing instead of sitting in front of the computer. But, hey, I did manage a new post today. Stop by and read it. (BTW, love the banners!)
ReplyDeleteLove the banners. I can't make this many decisions, the paper color, the background color the letter style, the ribbon color- my head would explode. This is why I don not scrapbook. Too many choices is a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have definitely lost my blogging mojo. I just went one whole week without a post. I caught up a bit over the weekend, but I feel like I'm reaching.
I love the banners! Ben's having a Star Wars birthday in two weeks...
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question. Not really. My family loves to go back and see the fun things we've done. Me too. It makes me feel like I've accomplished something.
I love to get up in the morning and read other peoples blogs. It gives me ideas, entertainment and a glimpse into how others live. I really hope you don't all stop for the summer!
Love the banner! I am hoping to add more of my "projects" to my blog. I have a garage full of things to do. I am hoping the summer will give me a chance to do it!!
ReplyDeleteand *pick me, pick me* LOL
I just love your blog! it is the first one I read in the morning! and I love all of your ideas. To answer your question I have not lost my blog mojo (for reading that is) I have yet to get blog up and running but I love reading yours! and would so love to win one of your Birthday Banners! they are just too cute!
ReplyDeletei seem to have lost my mojo because I would rather be outside basking in the sun!
ReplyDeleteI love home-made birthday banners!
ReplyDeleteThanks for thinking of us while you were making them!
P.S. I love the fact that its summer, but I could never leave 'the blogs' for more than two days at a time! :)
Deanna
very cute banners!
ReplyDeleteHaven't really lost my blogging mojo; I'm a sub and school's out...for...SUMMER! so, I'm actually hoping I have more time for blogging! :-) In between The Boy saying "I'm Bored" and "I'm hungry" every 5 minutes!
Now how did Zoes Birthday pass by my radar without me reaizing! Didnt even send a card out! what a horrible cousin!!!
ReplyDeleteWow, well tell Zoe happy birthday for me and im sure she had a blast at her party...
and btw those banners are very nice, creative! But stressing....errr, no good! Chill out auntie! Stress causes cancer! and im sure your well aware of that!
I'm glad it isn't just me. I have definately lost some blogging interest lately. I thought I was going thru something. I am glad to see it looks pretty normal. Love the Happy Birthday banner...just in time for Hallie's birthday on Wednesday. HaHaHa!!! Thanks again for the totes. I have to get the energy to transfer of my stuff. It will make getting things out much easier but they do take room...Wow...I can see your dilemma. Thank you, Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI love to read blogs and found yours about a month ago. You have such cute things! I love this birthday banner. I am addicted and find time every day to read all my favorite blogs. Summer hasn't deterred me.
ReplyDeleteSo cute!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have lost my bloggin mojo, but not because of summer. Mostly because we just moved and so most of our days are spent unpacking, organizing and trying to figure out what else to get rid of.
Oh yeah, and not having internet at home...
I sure have lost the blogging bug this summer. This heat just zaps any energy at all! Usually my creativity is the first to go!
ReplyDeleteI could really use this because my little man's birthday (first) is in a couple of weeks and since I just moved I haven't had the time to even think about making something half as fantastic as this.
ReplyDeleteYour banners turned out great! You'll have to teach a class one of these days and let us all come over and make one! And I love your comment about dirt. I'm not a fan either! And to answer your question, no I have not lost my blogging mojo. I'm a junkie! I don't write my own blog, but I read others. And I'm sad when they aren't updated often. SO thanks for always having something new to read! :D
ReplyDeleteI LOVE THE BANNER!! I NEED IT BANNER FOR MY DAUGTHER'S BIRTHDAY!! FROM A KIT OR FROM SCRATCH?? I LOVE BLOGGING BUT IT'S DEFINITELY MORE FUN TO BE OUTSIDE THIS SUMMER...
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, and HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!
ReplyDeleteI do lose my motivation a bit in the summer to blog...being out of town and having relatives visit kinda makes it an activity I want to come home to, you know?
ReplyDeleteHappy, HAPPY Blogiversary!!!!! I am sooooo GLAD I discovered your blog. I love it!!! That Birthday Banner is FABULOUS (as is EVERYTHING you do!!!)...I LOVE it!
ReplyDeleteI have to tell you I have lost some of my blogging mojo. I am down from usually posting 5 days a week to 2 or 3. I am ready for some creative energy to come back but we can't seem to stay out of the pool when we are home right now.
My "crafty" son turns 12 next week! HE would absolutely LOVE that banner. AND since my blogging mojo has NOT stopped & I can't seem to get off the computer to do all the things I should be doing like making my OWN birthday banners, I'm hoping me and my son WIN. Thanks for the smile today! I love your blog!
ReplyDeleteI came across your blog via another blog from another blog :). I have COMPLETLY lost my mojo...I keep telling myself that I'll do it "tonight"--and tonight was about six nights agot. So Far I need to catch up on blogging about my new house, my daughters recital, how fabulous the fathers in my life are, my anniversary (which was a month ago). Its a bit overwhelming! So instead I just read crafty blogs!
ReplyDeleteBut I must say that this banner is too freakin cute so I hope I WIN!!
WOW! Totally love it! I am having a Star Wars birthday party for my 7 year old on Friday and I have been procrastinating because...it's summer. I am sending out the invtitations today. I've told everyone. But I just feel like it's not a birthday party without invitations. I don't blog, I just read blogs. If I make it to a banner it would probably be about 2 minutes before the party! I still have to make 8 noodle light sabers. Who am I kidding? There won't be a banner!
ReplyDeleteKim R. in Hot, Hot, Hot South TX
Love the birthday banner! So bright and vibrant! I must say that I have more time to blog and read blogs in the summer because school is out and I'm home! Of course, not as much as I could since life happens, but much more than when I'm teaching first graders all day!
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Lisa in PA, where summer is slow in coming
Okay. SUPER CUTE banner that I just HAVE TO HAVE!!!
ReplyDeleteMan, you are SO talented.
I actually haven't lost my mojo in fact, this is the first time in a long time where I actually have several posts scheduled in advance. Say what? I know, shocker. Go me!
I guess I'm behind the times, but I just got into reading blogs. My husband showed me how to use Google reader and I keep finding new blogs (like yours) to add to my subscription list. I get so excited when updates are made. It's almost like I have gotten new email to read :). I also love seeing the Creative Memories paper and supplies that are in your pictures. It gives me great ideas on what to do with all my scraps. Hope you get out of your blogging slump soon!
ReplyDeleteCathy in TN
Hahaha! According to that title, I thought I was in for seeing some really pasty white legs! Imagine my surprise when I saw a very pretty banner!
ReplyDeleteSlump? Yep. I dont feel like writing. Not even emails. But I have been reading more and more blogs than usual. Weird?
Luv Ya!
I love the banner. It is so cool! I love summer to be at the beach or in the pool. Other than that, it's indoors for me TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe banners are adorable. It amazes me how some of your crafts reproduce. This isn't the first time this has happened. I have not gotten the blogging blues because all I do is read them. I am always amazed at the many talents people have that they are willing to share. Thanks so much.
ReplyDeleteGaeLyn
Ooh, Ooh Jill! I just haaaave to win this adorable banner!!! I am sooo that non-creative dork who has that retarded cut-out banner from the grocery store that (if you can even believe this) I save and re-use for each and every birthday! But wait, it gets better... I also have "Congratulations" too!
ReplyDeleteYep, that's the level of my creativity :-/ so sad and pathetic really.
And to answer your question... not only have I lost my blogging mojo but my entire computer mojo as well. Since acquiring my son's computer all I've managed to rebuild on it is my email and bills, the necessities of life. I still need to delete all his crap and re-load all mine. Do you know how much CRAP a teenager has on their computer?! OMG! I feel like I'm drowning here... help...
Oh yeah and its my honey's birthday today! I guess I'd better go get my dorky banner up now huh?
That is adorable! What a good mommy you are!
ReplyDeleteI haven't had a ton to post about on my blog so not sure if that is due to loss of mojo or just a boring life.
I'm an inside girl too. I hate being outside getting all sweaty.
i haven't been good about my blog for the past several months now... so yes, i have lost the mojo. but cute banner!
ReplyDeleteLove the banners!! I do not blog but I love to read them. I have more time to read them and craft/cook all the great things I find in the summer. Keep all the cute ideas comin'!! jlhaverdink(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
ReplyDeleteCUTE banner!
ReplyDeleteAs for blogging... I don't blog, just read others, and lately I've been reading even less.
I'm a new fan of yours :) I just found your blog last week and I LOVE it. I'm so nosy, and taking a peak at what others are making is my favorite way to snoop!
ReplyDeleteThose banners are absolutely adorable! I really need to make some. I'll just add that to my list of things I want to make . . .
I HAVE lost the mojo... or, more acurately, my TIME. Lazy days of summer they are NOT.
ReplyDeleteHot Dog, I'd love to win a banner...those are so awesome looking!
ReplyDeleteI've lost my mojo as far as writing but have had no problem reading everyone elses! LOL I feel like I have less time now too and have been wanting to do other things also.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO cute!!! I need to make more banners.
ReplyDeleteI've always wanted to make one of these. I actually have not lost my bloggin mojo. I'm still addicted!
ReplyDeleteI LOVE your blog. I just found it tonight. Both my husband and I were laughing, you are SO funny. Your personality comes shinning through. I love the banners. As far as blogging goes we have only been blogging for about two months now so this is very new, and kind of exciting. It has been really chilly here too so it hasn't been nice to be outside anyway, and the kids are still in school, this week is the last week.Yeah.. Kristy
ReplyDeleteLOVE those banners... and really, I do feel that the force is with me.
ReplyDeleteLove the Birthday banner! You always make the best crafts. You're so right about the blogging thing. I just don't have it in me to blog, I guess there are just too many other things that are distracting me. Love to read your blog though. You're so funny and way crafty!
ReplyDeleteThose are too cute, your so creative.
ReplyDeleteI have lost my mojo for the past few months.
My mojo has been hit or miss so far. I actually made a post yesterday for the first time in a while. I get discouraged because my husband says I need to post more pictures or it's boring...but I don't have the confidence to download the pictures without him around. I tend to make electornics wig out. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely banners! Hope I win...they'll always come in handy about 5 times a year for me! (or more if we have foster kids who celebrate a birthday while in my care!)
see what i get for going out of town for once. I miss things like this!
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