About Me

Who am I?

I was home schooled as a kid. I guess that automatically makes me weird. However, I am completely OK with it. I actually embrace it with open arms and a goofy laugh. As a home schooler, I was able to finish my school and not have any homework, which left me ridiculous amounts of time to be bored. I didn't grow up with TV, well, we had one, but we didn't get many stations, and that forced me to find ways to fill the time. When I wasn't playing pioneer with my rag dolls (I had normal dolls, but I liked to be more authentic) or watching my older brother build master pieces out of popsicle sticks and hot glue, I was making something. I would make beds for my stuffed puppies or hats for my bears, or open up a stuffed animal hospital, where I stitched their rips and tears, bandaged them up, and took care of them. When Littlest Pet Shop came to be popular, I had my dad build me a house that was nice and tall so I could have separate rooms for each set. Then I went about making every conceivable thing in miniature for them, from a car to a stove to a mail box. I did the same for my American Girl doll. Whenever I wanted something from the American Girl magazine, I would sit and pout for a while, then get up and make some sort of rickety version of it. I still have a box full of my little inventions for her stuffed away in storage.
The point I'm trying to get at here is that I have craft sunk into my skin, I have frugal ideas for just about everything ingrained into my head. I love to share my ideas, and decided it was about time to do something about that. So I did, and now I will slowly fill up this blog site until it is brimming full and the internet is begging me to get off.

About the Name

Bubble Joy comes from a few things. First of all, I'm obsessed with bubbles and will go chasing after them like I'm a three year old any day. I also adore anything that has to do with water (as a kid my dad called me a mermaid cause I would refuse to get out of the pool). I love that bubbles are clear until they hit the light, then they burst with every color of the rainbow, sliding, dripping and morphing across its surface. They are so delicate, yet they live every bit of their short life lifting in the breeze, showing the world its unique colors as well as it can. When I think of bubbles, I think of happiness, the kind that (wait for it) bubbles out from the deepest parts of us and spreads smiles everywhere. That is part of the reason for the "Joy" part of the name. The other, more obvious reason, is because my middle name is Joy. When I'm not griping about school or groaning about mornings, I like to think that I'm fun to be around. If not fun, I'm at least amusing. I tend to find the tiniest things overwhelmingly exciting, though sometimes I'm completely oblivious to the big things. 

So, Welcome

I hope you stick around for a while, I'd love to make a new friend. As you browse around my blog, feel free to leave comments, suggestions, questions, pictures of your projects, or anything else you can think of, I'd love to hear you and hear about your creativity.

Thanks, and have a wondrous day!