Michelle Carrillo

anything but ordinary... see my blog at: www.chelbug.typepad.com

Balancing my day-job with a startup scrapbooking business (Thunkitup Creations), other miscellaneous crafting projects and a brand new marriage, all while trying to maintain my sense of "SELF"...this blog explores the beauty and drama of my real life, which is anything but ordinary.

I find myself constantly changing and re-inventing myself. Who the individual IS as a person is constantly in motion, changing from one experience to the next. So this is just ME...at the MOMENT.

I try to LIVE my life...experiencing it to the fullest...remembering that WORK is to help me LIVE...I am not supposed to LIVE to WORK. I stole this line from a Keds ad several years ago and have used it for my personal mantra ever since then: Your childhood is not lost...you just misplaced it!

I have been a scrapbooker for as long as I can remember...before I even knew that what I was doing had a name! Constantly crafting, taking photos, and writing in one of my gazillion journals.

I love creating custom items for people...check out my online store at: www.chelbug.etsy.com, or my other store at: www.cafepress.com/chelbug.