Hey there everybody. This is Jenni Bowlin, and I can't tell you how thrilled I am to have been asked to be a part of Big Picture Classes 4Experts Series for 2011. I actually taught this class as part of the same series in 2009, so this is my second time to teach it. They say the second time around is sweeter than the first, and I'm hoping that that is the case here.

I do want to give you a little bit of background about who I am in case you're not familiar with me. I have been in the industry working and playing for more than eight years now. About three years ago I started an online kit club and have most recently begun to manufacture my own products, actually for the past two years now, under the name Jenni Bowlin Studio. Just to look at my logo you can see that I have a love of everything vintage. In fact, just because I've got nothing better to do with my time it seems, I am also a novice antique dealer on the side so I stay pretty busy. This brings me back to my Big Picture class, if you love the old and the shabby you will feel right at home. We will be taking field trips during the course of the 12 weeks to my favorite sources of inspiration, flea markets and antique shops, but if you don't like the old and the shabby, I promise to reform you…no I'm just kidding, but I do promise that you will learn a little bit about finding inspiration and how to apply it effectively toward your creative work, towards everything you do, and not just scrapbooking. I feel like you do need to know that with this class whereas you will see a strong influence of scrapbooking and traditional scrapbooking and you will see some layouts, it really is more about finding inspiration and how to use old and shabby and fun items with history and creative work in general. I would call it maybe more "lifestyle" crafting.

So enough said, right? I hope you're game. I'm truly excited to get to know everyone and to have this opportunity to share what I love so much with you.