Lately I have had several of you ask what it is that I actually do. Well, I am lucky enough to be a designer for the local scrapbook company Creative Native Crafts. This is by far the best job that I have ever had-and is literally an answer to Trav and I's prayers! It's even better than when I worked for my dad the summer before my senior year in high school and took naps in his office! And even better than being a head server at Tucanos in Provo and being able to give Travis and all my friends free food!
Not only do I have amazing bosses and co-workers (Bella Finau-Faumuina, Delia Parker-Ulima, Jared Inouye, and Candice Hironaka for those of you who may know them) but people, I get to SCRAPBOOK most days! I work 3 and a half days a week and teach classes, do demonstrations, make our marketing materials, do product development, and on Thursdays I go to the Outrigger Waikiki and scrapbook with their guest for 2 hours. Oh and did I mention SCRAPBOOK! I am actually not that great, I'm just an average scrapbooker, but I feel SO blessed to do something that I LOVE!
We also do custom wedding invitations so we recently had a wedding event that you may have seen on several news stations if you are here in Hawaii. We partnered with Hawaiian Moon Clothing and turned their designs into invitations and paper! It is a very cool idea since many brides and grooms pick Hawaiian Moon clothing for their big day! I was in charge of taking the Hawaiian Moon Advertising photos and scrapping them with our new paper. The designs were supposed to be very simple and clean-more simple then I usually do. It was a really fun project and even more fun that they were on the news! Here's some samples...sorry some are scanned a little bit crooked:
This was half of the class that I taught last month. It's my "Its all about Time" clock. It was a blast! What a job!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
It's a tough job- but somebody's got to do it!
Posted by Emily Kikuchi at 4:58 PM
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Wow! I love these! Your job sounds amazing!!! Can we open the Phoenix branch? I promise I'll learn how to scrapbook!
XOXO
Emily, You lucky girl. I have never scrap-booked before. I buy stuff for it all the time, but have yet to start. It's on my to do list, like everything else.......paint the fireplace( we built over a year ago), clean out the garage, organize my holiday buckets, (So I'm not digging for Easter stuff mixed with Halloween stuff.), do my dishes (some of us can sleep with dishes in our sink,no longer than one meal old!), scrapbook, watch tv shows that everyone talk about, join Oprahs book club....just kidding!, etc. etc.
Love you, and have fun at your job.
P.S. Already saw the picture of you on Lisa's blog. Good Stuff.
You've got some serious skills...all this, AND you can take a nap in the bathtub. Amazing.
You guys do beautiful work! I'm so happy for you Em that you have a job that you absolutely love and that you're passionate about. Sounds like so much fun. Well...I don't know if you got my message earlier, but I sent you guys an invite to view our blog because we went private. I only had Trav's email so I sent it to him. Until next time, enjoy beautiful Hawaii for me! :)
SO cool to hear about your job! That sounds awesome. Even though I am not a scrapper myself, I am envious of your sweet job!!!!
emily...kay, i love to scrapbook. i started doing it up in utah with cameron's aunty. actually lately my scrapbooking consists of me buying paper, brads, ribbon, stickers, etc. and saying that im going to scrapbook. it never really happens cause you can't scrapbook without pictures :). i never end up printing my pictures (which i do have tons of). well, your job sounds like a blast. i'd love to do something fun like that.
Great job girl! You have some great talent. If you are going to work then why not do something you love.
Ah! I remember you from the reunion!! Thanks so much on commenting! it makes my job of tracking everyone down ALOT easier. hahaha, oh, I LOVE scrapbooking. I work at a Scrapping company too--but I will tell you about that another time, I'm sure a blog post is in order for the future...it's a little crazy.
Anyways, talk to you soon!
i think you are being to modest. you are an awesome scrapper. i've never done it before, but your layouts are beautiful. what a great thing you got going. i really look forward to your posts. you are just divine!
Em-
I'm so glad you found me! I haven't even posted our Hawaiian vacation yet and one of the things I'm most sad about was that we never got a picture with you guys!! We'll have to go back sometime soon! We really enjoyed you two and I was so impressed with Travis! If only Jeff would be so kind to hold my purse! haha. Also, thanks for helping me fulfill my mission on finding my coin pearl earrings and pendant! I even wore them to church today! Keep in touch...I'm adding your link to mine. Tell Travis we want more of those what are they called? Fried Doughnut deals? Yummy!
Cute pages and clock!!
Thanks for saying hi!!
:)
love your blog too!
how amazingly great to work at a scrapbook store!
What fun!! I love looking at the creativity and I hope to be as creative one of these days. I am trying.
you're so talented. i would love a job where i could scrapbook all day and get paid for it... but what would i do with kai?? i'd love to see more. thanks for sharing.
hey, email us at warner.ohana@gmail.com so i can invite you to our blog.
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