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More Blog Challenges

2008-05-06T15:51:00.001-04:00

You Are An ENTP

The Visionary

You are charming, outgoing, friendly. You make a good first impression.

You possess good negotiating skills and can convince anyone of anything.

Happy to be the center of attention, you love to tell stories and show off.

You're very clever, but not disciplined enough to do well in structured environments.

In love, you see everything as a grand adventure. You enjoy taking risks for love.

And if things don't work out, you're usually not too much worse for the wear!

You would make a great entrepreneur, marketing executive, or actor.

At work, you need a lot of freedom to pursue your own path and vision.

How you see yourself: Analytical, creative, and peaceful

When other people don't get you, they see you as: Detached, wishy-washy, and superficial

What's Your Personality Type?

What Your Latte Says About You

You are easygoing and pretty simple to please. You don't put up a fuss... ever.

You can be quite silly at times, but you know when to buckle down and be serious.

Intense and energetic, you aren't completely happy unless you are bouncing off the walls.

You're addicted to caffeine. There's no denying it.

You are responsible, mature, and truly an adult. You're occasionally playful, but you find it hard to be carefree.

You are sophisticated and daring, but you are never snobby.

What Does Your Latte Say About You?

A Few Blog Challenges

2008-04-23T10:29:00.002-04:00

Your Spelling is Okay

You got 7/10 correct.

Your spelling is a bit of a problem. Your instincts on how to spell things aren't horrible, but you often make an embarrassing mistake or two.

How's Your Spelling?

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Your Thinking is Abstract and Random

You are flexible, adaptable, and creative.

There's many ways that you can learn - and you're up for any of them.

You relate well to other people, and you do well working in groups.

You can help people communicate together and work with each other's strengths.

You don't work well with people who are competitive or adversarial.

You prefer to work toward a common goal... not toward conflicting goals.

What Kind of Thinker Are You?

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My favorite SSD Product: I would say Girl Next Door Collection. I say the collection because I simply can't pick just one of them. They are all fab and fantastic. i lvoe them all.

What is ME all about...

2008-02-12T09:07:00.000-05:00

Well I'm a mother of 4 soon to be 5 children. I'm a digital designer. I'm a wife. I'm a daughter. I'm a sister. I'm an aunt (both by marriage and my sister has a sweet little baby too). I don't work outside the home. I don't drive. I don't do much more than clean the house, go shopping, and take care of my kids. I've made over 100 layouts in the last year of my kids, 49 of which are of Madalynne the new baby. I'm sure I've done like 100 more but I'm not totally sure. I've only ever printed out maybe 40 of them total. I don't print pictures except three times a year to show how the kids grow up. I'm the sole party planner in the house. I just finally moved into my very first house. I've been married for 5 years and my daughter is 6. DH and I had her before we got married. She was a surprise but a welcomed one as the other kids that were surprises. The only baby that was planned was Tristan and it took us a long time to concieve him. And then the others just kept coming year after year. This will be my last pregnancy. I will be having a tubal after I deliever this baby. And I think thats a bit about me. So if you want to know more just ask and i'm sure i'll anwser ya.

Introducing my BRAND NEW Blog Store

2008-02-10T11:08:00.000-05:00

Yep I took the plung to a blog store. Its still in its very early stages and to celebrate it this week we have this fantastic Valentine's Grab Bag. But instead of making you guess what's inside I'm just gonna go ahead and show you right here.

There are four Brand Spanking new Valentine's related products.

Vintage Valentine (mini kit)

Sweet on You (paper pack)

Sweet on You Flowers (element pack)

Sweet Thang (full kit)

While you are there. Make sure you pick up this fantastic little freebie paper pack. Its super fab if you ask me.

Yummy Cardstocks Freebie

It is located on the sidebar on the blog store. You can also find all the different categories there to make your shopping easy. All links will be emailed to you to your registered email with Paypal soon as I receive the receipt. Please allow a little bit of time in case I'm not at the computer and dealing with my kiddos.

I hope you have a fantastic day. Please take a look around there are lots of new products as well as so older products too. You can find the link on my sidebar here.

Coffee... Yummy

2008-01-25T12:54:00.000-05:00

and chocolate coffee is the best of course gotta have chocolate creamer too. so according to this quiz i'm a double expresso... HAHA i've never had an expresso before. I know what a boring life i lead lol.

You Are a Double Espresso

Hey Energizer Bunny Girl! Do you ever slow down?
You're a mix of high energy and ambition, perfectly matched with strong espresso
When you want something you get it - by any means possible
You're driven, determined, and no nonsense. Which is just how you like your java.

What Kind of Coffee Girl Are You?

Seriously how funny is that. Thanks SSD girls. I love these little quizes.

Such a Bad Blogger

2008-01-20T09:01:00.000-05:00

i know I've been so bad lately. We have had a lot going on this past month. First Ayden successfully had his feet surgery. His feet looked amazing when they came out of the casts, but since he's been walkin a little without his shoes (which he now has) he went back to walkin the way he used too on the sides of his feet. With these shoes on which is forcing him not to do that they are starting to look better again. We go back to see his specialist tomorrow at 1 pm. Next up Maddie had an undiagonsed ear infection. She wasn't showing any signs of having anything wrong with her except being way fussy. I just figured it was teething as she didn't have a fever or anything like that. Then she got her fever and then i seen the yellow icky stuff coming out of her ear and I just knew it. We have an ear infection. So I made an appt with her doctor to have her seen as soon as she can. We got an appt the next morning which was great. But that is where the good news ended. She didnt have an ear infection she has a ruptured ear drum. They said it will heal up on its own, so when she goes back in April for her 9 month check up we will take a look at it make sure it did heal up. She was put on antibiotics to prevent infection in case it happened and has done great. Back to sleeping good through the night, ok well not waking up every hour on the hour. So that is what has taken me away from here and a few other things too but we wont get into them.

I've been seriously slacking on SSDs From Our Blog to Yours thing. So time to catch up and get me my points.

1/18/08: Fav You Tube Vid. Since I only watch music vids here is mine: Kelly Clarkson ~ Never Again
1/11/08: Scrappin Goals: My personal scrapping goals is to try to keep up with my kids books. I'm very behind on the oldest because well i have had two more since them and they were mostly pre-digital photography. SO that is my biggest goal to get caught up and stay caught up, but I dont know if its a realistic one lol.
1/4/08: My Favorite SSD Challenge: I would say the Cookie Decorating Challenge. I love to use templates and just love the ones that are mimiced after other people who's layouts are always so great and fantab. See one of my layouts: Just Perfect

Well Looks like that is caught up now. But i do have to go for now. My kids needing me and DH is workin a double today and i have TONS of laundry to do. It never ends i swear. have a great Sunday.

Don't you just love...

2007-12-06T08:50:00.000-05:00

Christmas time. Whether its remembering past christmas' or if its all the new stuff this year that you did last year but more special because one more kid that was too young last year to really enjoy it can enjoy it now. It's just the best time of the year. I guess that's why there are so many song's that have "its the most wonderful time of the year" in them in some form or another.

So first up we have a two page layout. Can you believe that I did a two page layout. shocking huh. This is Ayden's first Merry Christmas. This was his first present from my mother. She sent the box of gifts to my Grams and Gramps house and we went ahead and opened them early there because we knew they didn't have anything else to open there and it was nice for my grandparents to be a part of it. This was my Gram's last Christmas with the kids as well. So this time will always be sad in a way for me but so very happy for my kids.

You can click on the layouts and be taken to the credits.

Next up we have pictures from yesterday with the kids and the tree. We got it up yesterday and I let them play with the lights. I came up with quite a few pretty decent ones. But I tell ya I need a new lense. I got a new one now i need another new one lol. So anyway here they are my kids playing with the lights.

I also let them help me put some of the ornaments on the tree too. Unfortuntely they are too young to put my pretty expensive ornaments on there but this is fun for them. And I don't want the other's broken. As they just wont leave it alone.

I hope you all have fun getting ready for this holiday season. The best is yet to come. I know you and your families will have the best Christmas you will have. Have some very happy holidays.

Mashed Potatos

2007-11-25T09:12:00.000-05:00

You Are Mashed Potatoes

Oridnary, comforting, and more than a little predictable
You're the glue that holds everyone together.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?

my way to target...

2007-11-22T23:21:00.000-05:00

I swear you will laugh your behind off.

Wasn't that hilarious? Just had to share sweeties. happy turkey day and early black friday.

Just Sharing Today

2007-11-18T08:34:00.001-05:00

a few layouts from the various CTs I'm a part of. So I have a guest spot this month for Micheline Martin & Laura Deacetis both at Sweet Shoppe Designs. These are both really fab designers and I love their work so very much and they are such sweeties too. So very generous and so sweet.

So first up we have Sleep my Sweet. I made this layout using a template from Bree Clarkson and Runway Chic and Parker (some of the odds and end elements) from Micheline. I really love to watch my daughter sleep. I know it probably seems weird but what can I say. A mother's gotta do what a mother's gotta do.

Next I have a layout from Laura's Coconut Creamer Kit. This kit was just perfect for my boy. A really fab kit that is soft and very boyish colors. Its a bit girlly but not too girly to overpower him.
Next up... I just joined Mellissa Bennett's Ct. This layout was created using a kit from Mellissa Bennett and Faith True. I just had to have this one. Its perfect for them boy birthday party pages I still have yet to do from March this year. Its a really fab kit from two really fab designers.
and last but certinaly not least. I have a layout that is mostly Bren Boone Designs which is my other full time position. She is a really sweetie and I love her to death. I am so very very glad that she asked me at the end of October to stay on full time as she had a spot open. We are a very small and close knit family which is ideal.

Bye Bye Ducky was made with mostly Bren's Jayla Lee kit. Its a really great kit perfect for boys and girls in them nice down to earth colors with flowers and bows and this really cool ribbon frame too.
well that's it for layouts for today. all of the layout are linked in some way and should be able to be found at most galleries. For sure at my DST gallery (link now fixed). I'm a bit under the weather today so i'm gonna go lounge around here for the day mostly. Get a good cup of Joe and go to watch tv with the kids.

have a really great day girls. Dont forget to grab my Christmas Princess Freebie found two posts back.

My Pilgram Name

2007-11-17T10:10:00.000-05:00

So like usually over on sweet shoppe they have this from my blog to yours challenge. These can be so fun. I really liked this one. What's my Pilgram name? Really getting me into the holiday spirit.

Your Pilgrim Name Is

Faith Brewster

What's Your Pilgrim Name?

So here I am Faith Brewster. This site had loads of fun things like this to do. You should all go there and check it out. And you get some sweet rewards for doing it too.

Christmas Princess

2007-11-16T09:49:00.000-05:00

I am so very proud of this new kit. Its my new favorite kit which means it's my new baby. Now I decided with this kit that I should do it in parts. First we have the full kit papers and elements for reg price of $5 and a special price at Digi Scrap Shak of $3.50 and Elemental Scraps of $3.
This time you definatlly can find the links to my stores on my sidebar. Its all right there I promise this time lol. So go grab this up. Be on the look out for more stuff to go along with it.

My CT girls asked me for some more frames for the kit and can I just make frames... No I CANNOT. SO we have tons of other elements to match this fab kit. And you can only get it here no where else. The image is linked.

Well i'll be back in a few days with some news. I have some big news but I gotta keep my mouth shut for now but soon as I can open it I will spill the beans. Until next time. Have a fab day.

New products, Sales, & Free with Purchase

2007-11-10T10:39:00.000-05:00

Oh man do I have a dosey of a post for you today. So lets get down to business....

New Products (all of these products can be found in any of my stores)

So aren't all of these new products so very yummy. I do have more out that i havent showed you so please do check my stores and see what yummies you can find yourself.

Sales...

Well at Elemental Scraps we are celebrating our 2nd birthday. I am so happy to be a part of it all. I am a new designer there but not new to the store. I was on the Elemental Creative Team before I went on to be a designer there. I love it there and to celebrate we are having the most fantab sale I have ever heard of.

1 2 3 Dollar Sale. Everything in the store is either $1, $2, or $3. that includes my commercial use stuff. how freakin awesome is that. You can click on the link at the side for my ES Store to go take advantage of this fab sale.

Also I have two new collabs that are at Elemental Scraps.

not everything is on the previews. You will love them they are totally fantab. i teamed with some very fab designers to bring you these. I also have a secret collab coming out soon too. With a REALLY fab designer.

Well that's it today. I will have a post tomorrow on real life for ya.

Huggles ~ Jeannie and the gang

SSD from our blog 2 Yours challenge

2007-11-01T13:11:00.001-04:00

So we were asked to pick out our ONE favorite layout. I have so many many favorites right now. Its really hard to pick out just one. But I will have to say I like this one the best right now....

it was actually a scrap lift. I am so in love with Fall its not even funny. Ok so i dont like the cold part of it but all the colors and the beauty of it is just well beautiful. So I might have to say this would be my favorite layout right now. Of course as time goes on I am sure my favorite will change again and again and again.

Nothing much to report today

2007-10-14T20:58:00.001-04:00

sorry I dont have much for you today but be on the look out tomorrow for some more of daniel's pictures. Hugs to everyone. Sorry to cut out so short today.

It's Picture Day

2007-10-13T12:52:00.000-04:00

So I'm gonna start this thing where I share a few pictures from this past week on EVERY Saturday. And today is gonna be no exception to the rule. I also vow to update this daily or at least on a more regular basis. So here we go...

I just love this picture of Tristan that Paul got. He did an awesome job capturing it. The boys are still in that phase where they stick things in their mouths. Wonder if they will out grow it.

Now this one is my favorite of me and Ayden that Paul captured as well. Ayden is always so lovely dovey to everyone.

This is a very cute one of Arianna and Tristan. Tristan must be telling her where to go, look how he's pointing and looking at her.

Fall is definitely in there air here. The trees are turning colors and the colors are so very beautiful. I love it all.

Ayden playing with a leaf. I'm shocked he's not eating it lol.

So I did a mini shoot of arianna since she was a little bit jealous of me taking pictures of her cousins. So I took a few of her that day too.

Now I just love this flower pot lol. How neat is this. Its a musical instrument. Ok so I don't know what kind it is though. Anyone tell me?

So there are the pictures for today. Just a few out of many I have taken this week. I will have some more fantastic pictures for you and be on the look out for Layout day too. Ain't sure what day that will be though.

Hope everyone has a fantastic day. And Don't forget to sign up for the mailing list and get exclusive freebies and coupons.

Mailing List and more..

2007-10-12T17:26:00.000-04:00

well looky whats new on the side bar. its a mailing list. With joining this list you will get exclusive freebies, insider info, and much more that will ONLY be avaliable to the members of this list. You can either sign up using the one on the side bar or right here.....

For everyone who signs up till the end of October will get a special little treat to match my Spooked Cutie kit which can be found in my Elemental Scraps store and my Digi Scrap Shak store.

You can get it half off till the end of October at Elemental Scraps. Also the freebie is there too. Well that is all the new news for you. Be on the lookout for a new look on the blog. Gotta get into the halloween spirt of things.

Enjoy your day and please besure to sign up for the mailing list.

Such a Dunce

2007-09-22T10:42:00.000-04:00

I totally forgot that Sara Ellis had tagged me on her blog. I havent done one of these in forever. So here goes.

7 Unique Things About ME
1) Who could do me better than me, I know ME.
2) I secretly would love to have more children like DH wants but I will never tell him that because then he's gonna wanna jump me 24/7, but secretly I would love to have more.
3) I'm probably one of the youngest digi scrappers out here because i get told i'm the baby of the bunch so so so many times, but at times i feel like i'm the oldest. Seems as if i been doing this forever and would NEVER EVER change any of it... well try to get better at it defintatly but not change it.
4) There are days when i wish my 5 year old was in 5 day school rather than 3 day kindergarden. She drives me up a wall at times and is currently doing so now.
5) I have the hardest time describing myself and making layouts of myself. Its the hardest thing i've had to do. Its so much easier to tell about the people around you than you yourself.
6) Back in HS I used to be on a swim team for the Navy base I used to live on. I loved it then I transfered adn got too oldto be on the team anymore. I turned 18. Talk about making you feel old prematurely.
7) I alwasy thought i never broke a bone but according to my mother I have. Can someone tell me what bone i broke?

Now for me to tag....

khristy Schmidt... I havent talked to her in a while but stalk her blog.
Rebecca Myers... she is my doll love her to death
and anyone else who reads thsi you ahve to do it too.. yes i'm mean aint i.

have you seen who;s got a sale

2007-09-22T09:34:00.000-04:00

can you believe it Digi Scrap Shak is turning ONE. WOW HUH! Its been a whole year since the site opened. Now i've only had the pleasure to be on the site for the past month. But i can tell you that I LOVE IT. Everyone there is so sweet and kind. Such a wonderful site to work with. But anyway. Take a look at this ad that Lori made up. Dont it look so so cool. The ad is linked to my store there where everything is HALF OFF. Yes HALF OFF.

And everyone of us made up these little treasure chests for you. They are only $2 so go make sure to grab mine. If you like my girlly kits and my splish splash kit then you are gonna LOVE this. everythign in here is new. That has been sitting around waiting for the perfect time to release it. OHHHH and there is a brand new paper pack in there too. Oh wait i just gave away part of my bag. OH WELL. Image is clickable to the store.

I have a few layouts for you girls too to share now that we got the fun store stuff out of the way. Had to do that first. First up is a layout I did of a kitty we rescued from our new house that the previous tennent left in a pig sty. OOOOO dont get me started on this. A few people have heard my tirants already and can verify that i am livid. Anyway. Isnt he such a cutie.

Credits HERE

This next one is of Tristan and Maddie. Arent they so darn cute together. This is the only picture I have of them. Well the only good one. I have a few others but she's slowly starting to scream lol. Anyway I love it because he's trying to give her a kiss. He Loves to give her kisses and comfort her and she needs loads of it.

Credits HERE

And lastly Maddie's feet. Yes I have gone a little feet crazy lately. Its seriously because I havent been able to take pictures of ayden's feet at all really. I do have a few but not as many as I would like due to his club feet.

Credits HERE

Well it's time for me to get going for the day. I hope you enjoyed the post and I promise to have some freebies for ya soon. I promise. I been playing around in lightroom lately and loving it so I might come out with some more presets for it. Have a fantastic day everyone.

OMGawsh...

2007-09-16T01:14:00.000-04:00

I'm so sorry I seemed to have forgotten about this little blog of mine. Dont it seem. Well I do have a few sneek peeks at kits to come two awesome collabs, one with the fab Sara Ellis and the other with the grunged princess, Jana McCarthy. So far all we have are papers but man once you see these papers your gonna be beggin for these kits.

I'm not gonna tell you which is which person though so you will just have to wait a few more weeks to find out. But I can tell you that both of these kits are to die for. You will be begging to have them.

So what else is new... We had our baby girl, Madalynne Rose, on July 26th at 2:02 PM. I went into labor night before and was admited to the hospital. Contractions about 5 mins aparnt and made me go from 3-5 cm over night. So we broke my water at 7 amish on the 26th. Paul was not there as we sent him home to be with the kids. No since in him being there that night and we would call him if something had happened anyway. Gave me a sleeping pill and i was off to dreamland for a few hours at least lol. Anyway Paul got there contractions going pretty good on their own got stuck for about an hour and ran some pitocin. I'm used to this by now. Got me some pain meds and i went to sleep for a few. Naturally DH takes pictures of me sleepin during labor and on the phone lol. None of me in extreme pain though which is good lol.

When Madalynne was born i was in tears. My baby wasnt crying all that good. Gave her some oxygen and placed her in the issolette with oxygen right on her. Her sweet little lungs weren't quite fully developped yet. We later found out that she was 5 weeks early. We were both taken to Akron Children's Hospital where she spent the first week of her life. That is a very scary place. I know that she didnt have the biggest of problems but to walk in there day after day and see all the other mommy's and daddy's having their babies in there too being changed from room to room due to their baby's condition. It was hard very hard for me.

But she is now home with us and about 7 weeks old. Still very small and having a few minor problems but none with her breathing. She's got some issues with her digestion and her formula. I wish I could have breastfed her now, but my milk didnt really come in like it should have and had been for the other kids. But all will be fine. Anyway here is a cute little layout of my princess and her duck. The only paci that she will take and it also happens to be the one the hospital gave her. And also the only place that has these to buy lol.

The Duck

Credits: Frames by me, Traci Murphy: glitter alpha, button flower, other flowers, Beth @ DigiScrapShak Swirls, M. Martin Alpha Beads

It is getting late here so I should probably get to bed. Paul is at work tonight and I got a little bit of work done as you can tell up top. Ohhhhh another thing if you can guess which collab goes to which person i'll give you one of my new black paper packs for free. You can see them in my PDP store or my brand spankin new DigiScrapShak store. Have a great night.

I know bad bad me...

2007-06-09T09:50:00.000-04:00

I have been totally slacking on updating you girls on our day to day life. Or in this case monthly life lol. So here we go behold this will be a long post.

1. A Few weeks ago Paul twisted his ankle and low and behold he ended up fracturing his leg. Honestly I have been told how it happened although I haven't been able to figure it out lol. I guess I'm in the frame of mind that you twist your ankle then you should have a broken ankle not a fractured leg lol. But hey thats just me.

2. News about Ayden. I think we are pretty sure that he will be getting the next surgery in a few weeks. We go to his doctor in little over a week on the 18th. We found out that he can't have the walking shoes because of something else wrong with his feet. I'm not exactly sure what it is as I didn't go to that appt with Paul and the kids. So I will have to wait till we see Dr. Shrader on the 18th to see if he can shed any light on the subject for me. I'm a bit confused about it myself. So there will be a few more layouts of my sweet baby in surgery. Ok well out of surgery and waiting to go into surgery and stuff like that.

3. Arianna has been all registered for school. Only thing we have left to do is get the tuition paid. Now how stupid is that. we have to pay for tuition for her to go to school at a public school. I'm very unhappy about that. She also has to get caught up on her shots too. I was kind of a bad mommy when she had a bad reaction to one set of shots she got when she was a year old and have been very hesitant on giving them to her. Please don't yell at me girls. I know how important these are. That is why she will be getting caught up on them for school. And the boys as well.

4. Tristan... well not much to report on him. We have started the potty training thing. This is gonna take a while I'm afraid. But he does want to go in the potty but isn't quite making it there. We bought him a little potty for him and first thing he did was put the ring you sit on on his head. You would have thought I would have taken a picture right... nope didn't think of it lol. Oh well I'm sure we will see some potty training layouts soon.

5. Me and Madalynne.... yes that is the final spelling for her name. I dont like the E on the end but thats the way Paul wants it so we will go with it. I am sure I will get used to it. We had our 28 week appt last monday and all is well... well almost well. Madalynne has started to drop already. No special rules for me except that with given past track record and she is dropping already that i"m not allowed to have long trips. No more zoos (although I am gonna get permission to have my maternity shoot done at the zoo. I am sure the powers girls will understand if i have to sit alot during the walkin around). We were going every Saturday afternoon, but that will have to stop for me. and Paul will have to start taking the kids by himself. Wish I could get a few more pictures in for the photo safari but I don't think I will be able too. But I can try lol.

Anyway did you girls hear or look in my DST gallery and see..... I'm one of Gina's girls for June. I am so very very excited about this. You girls have no idea. I've done about I think 5 layouts for here you can see them ALL here in her own special gallery. Ok I was wrong I have done 6 layouts for her. Actually 7 but you girls have to wait to see it till Sunday. Sorry about that. I promise you will like it though. I love it.

I have a new great nephew too. Paul's niece Lily finally had her baby. I'm so happy for her. She looks so happy when you see her with him. We are gonna go visit them today and maybe take a few pictures of the baby too. I'm so excited. I know Lily wants to have lots of pictures of him. So I'm working on a little album for her. Gonna have it printed out for her every few months or when I get it up to 20 pages or so. I am so sure she is gonna love it. He has the biggest little hands I have ever seen too. And its not just how the picture was taken either. But you can see him here and her and him here. Now isn't he precious.

Well that's all I got for us today. I'll come back tomorrow and post a little bit. Not sure how much, but I do promise to show something and write something. Until then Have a Great day.

Ayden Update, Freebies, Product Picks, & Whatever Else

2007-04-25T09:40:00.000-04:00

Hi girls! So first up sorry i been slackin again. Ayden had one of his regular check ups with Dr. Shrader in Akron for his feet. We(I) wasn't greeted with the best of news. After waiting about half an hour in the exam room doc finally came in to see us. I know that we are usually last because its generally pretty easy seeing us. This time was a little bit different. Ayden's feet are still correctable but at the progress they are going it is likely, after paul and i decide, that we might have to go through another surgery. The muscle on the top of his foot is overpowering the rest of his foot causing it to be constantly turned inward. Granted they aren't as bad as they used to be a year ago, but still quite noticeable. It breaks my heart. He says that they are still passively correctable but will take longer than expected and hoped. And ultimately in the end may still have to have this surgery. I was scared to death the first time this time I'm even more scared. We go back to see the doc June and will know a little more then.

So I don't normally do product pics but today I am gonna. As you all know yesterday started the three day Potato Bar at Polkadot Potato. I have some awsome new stuff that came out as well as all the other designers. Over 129 products or exactly lol. So here are the few that I picked up from these awesome designers. If you click on the previews you can be taken directly to the product in the store.

And now for my Items..... we have the following: Circle Brads: Brights, Circle Brads: Muted, Daddy's Closet, Diva Licious QP Set 1, Diva Licious QP set 2, Floral Fantasy Alphas, Elements, Patterns, & Solids; Just Gems, and Template 1, 2, & 3. Now isn't that a LOT of stuff to come out for three days and three days only. Hey wanna see them.... we know you do lol.

I do believe I did say something about a freebie as well. Well its a little something to match with the Floral Fantasy kit. This kit will only be in the store for two more days so get it while you still can.

Download Sampler HERE. Hope everyone has a fantastic day. Huggles and happy scrapping to everyone.

Freebie Ahead

2007-04-17T10:18:00.000-04:00

But you have to listen to all my rambling first HA HA.

So girls how have you been. Me I been pretty busy scrapping lately. I like this little "break" I'm taking from designing. Gives me time to focus on the important things in life. I love how we can do our scrappin this way and just coem back to it when we feel like it or if it don't look right at the time then we can just trash it and not have to worry about what supplies we lost. Here are some recent layouts I've done in the past few days.

Color My World

Credits HERE

Bye Bye Uncle Joseph

Credits HERE

Uncle Joe

Credits HERE

2 Awesome Boys

Credits HERE

Well I was gonna go on and on about various things but my boys arent playing nice right now. Ok more like Tristan is trying to sit on Ayden. And I have to get ready to go give my blood to the vampires. Enjoy your freebie. Please do not direct link the freebie or share it with others. Enjoy.

Hope everyone has a fantastic day. And for those of you waiting for more designs from me be on the look out on the 24th at Polkadot Potato for the ALL NEW Potato bar. We have LOTS AND LOTS to come to you including 12 brand new items from yours truely and even maybe a full size kit or two to keep ya wanting more from me. And I want to send a special thank you to everyone who have supported me throughout my designing career. Love you all very much my extened family.

Still a bit Groggy....

2007-04-11T12:11:00.000-04:00

but at least I'm here now lol. I know I haven't been the greatest blogger again. But I have been busy ya know. With the warmer weather starting to come about, we are starting to take the kids to various places. About a week ago we took Ayden up to the Sandusky Waterfront. I took a lot of pictures there. I wasn't in any of them but I wasn't all that up to taking pictures that day. I had another aunt die this past week. The viewing was down by the waterfront. So I just thought it would be nice for Paul and Ayden. You can even see Cedar Point in one of the pictures as well. So I made them up into a collage instead of doing what I usually do with posting one picture at a time. The frame is by Misty Cato in her Get Framed Collection. Not sure which one it is though.

Another big event was the ultrasound on Monday. I know that you have all heard by now that we are having another princess. Now our only problem is finding a name for her. We haven't been having all that great of luck in this department lol. Here is a few that we have came up with so far..... Araya Elizabeth, Natalyn Rose, and that would be it lol. First one is mine but everyone is saying it sounds too close to Arianna. And Natalyn is Paul's name he spent 6 hours thinking of last night lol. 6 hours and only one name. What am I gonna do with him? But good thing we still have a few months to get the name down. Now just to get a whole bunch of girly clothes and stuff. Oh I'm so gonna love this again.

View Credits HERE.

The Results are In

2007-04-09T20:24:00.000-04:00

I dont have a lot of time to post today. Just wanted to let you see the little peanut. and it is

A GIRL! No names yet so anyone wanna help pick out names i'm more than welcome to them lol.

I'll post more this week. Just a little rundown lately. Talk to you all later.

Wendy Bellissimo Enabling Ahead

2007-04-07T20:18:00.000-04:00

Ok in case you don't know who this person is I will let you in on her. First off here is her website. She is the designer to the stars when it comes to creating their baby nurseries. And lucky me she has brought her line of amazing products to Babies R Us. Which we so happened today decided to finally get our baby registry done at. Granted we don't know if this is a girl baby or a boy baby so I tried to keep it pretty neutral in the items. So I have taken a bunch of pictures off of her website to show you the collection that I have picked out.

I picked the Honey Bee Collection because it will be so versatile for both sexes. And if this so happens to be twins or not... Yes I have slowly spilled my little secret for those of you who have been harboring it for months now. I will hopefully find out both the sex and the number of babies on WED. Yes I said WED. Finally I get to see my baby. I'm so excited.

How cute is this little lamp. It is totally adorable. I just love the little bee on there. Now I am not one for bees as I am allergic to them but then again these ones can't sting me at all lol.

I don't usually do mobiles for the kids. But I have to have this. Like I said I love this collection so there for I HAVE to have all of it for this baby.

Now the shelf not sure if I'm gonna get it or not as I'm not sure if the baby will be in my room for the longest time or if we will finally have a house. I so hope we get a house soon. We have too many kids for this little trailer.

Now this next item. The Moses Basket. I love it. I want it I will definately need it. The baby will be spending lots of his/her sleep time with me in my room and with me and the kids out in the living room. And it will be just so easy to just place him/her into this instead of walkin them all the way to our room to put them in their bed.

This here is the bumper. Now i'm showing you this so that you can fall in love with the little bee. Isn't he to die for.

Now this is Wendy's design as well. I love this. It's not so girly but not too plain either. It is a must have.

But this will be the end of our post today. I will have lots of pictures to show ya soon. We have more snow around here but I have to do a little bit of "work" for my brother tonight on his myspace account so that he can show off his niece and nephews. Oh an me of course. If any of you wanna check out my gift registry you can find it here. All you have to do is put in my last name and first name and my state. Please note that I am not asking for any gifts just thought if ya wanted to see what i got on there that I haven't mentioned yet you could take a peek.

It's Another Birthday Around Here!

2007-04-06T08:27:00.000-04:00

So its time to celebrate Tristan's Birthday. He is 2 years old today. And what are we doing to celebrate. Going out to dinner and the mall lol. We were gonna take them to the zoo tomorrow but its gonna be like 30 outside and that just isn't gonna work.

I know I havent been the best blogger lately with showing ya stuffs. But I do promise that if you click on the link to the side to my DST Gallery and you will find some brand new layouts in there. I don't have a whole lot of time to blog today and I'm sorry for that. But what I do have for you might just remedy that. I have this freebie for you to celelbrate Tristan's birthday. I hope you enjoy it.

You can pick up your freebie HERE at Polkadot Potato. And while you are there take a look at all the new products and the Hot Potato Friday selections. There are some awesome things to pick up there. Also a little birdie told me that the most awesome 99 cents potato bar will be making an apperence this month. I have LOTS and LOTS to fill the store with. So until next time. Happy Scrappin to all.

2007-04-01T16:36:00.000-04:00

So the party was yesterday for the boys. thank you girls for your comments on the invite and the freebie on Friday. I so appreciate hearing them. Ok well reading them. So most of the pictures I have to show you are of cake and cake eating. Ayden fell in love with the cake. Dove right into it.

We got him this cute little pooh and tigger cake. I was in love from the picture of it. Very fun bright colors and the most adorable tigger and pooh. What more could a one year old want for his birthday cake.

I had to take a close up picture of the tigger and pooh. They were just too cute.
Now when we gave it to him. Oh boy did he dig in. Took off all the frosting first. Then dove into the cake. He was a total wreck afterwards. We told MIL we were gonna give him to her to hold while i got his bath ready lol.

Now for Tristan. We got him a Car cake. He really loves the movie. Loves to watch and point out all the neat cars.
There were two parts of this cake that I just had to take an in depth pictures of a few of the little details. Now Tristan wasn't so into the cake as his brother was. He was more tired than anything.
So that's all for the party. I have a really bad headache so I'm gonna cut this short. Have fun everyone.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

2007-03-30T08:23:00.000-04:00

well not you unless your birthday is today too and if that is the case then Happy Birthday to YOU too. Today is my baby's 1st birthday. My baby is a year old. He's doing so good too. He still has one foot that likes to turn in a little more than the other does. But it is getting better. He will be going back to his doctor on the 23rd of April. So we will know a little more about his progress.

So anyway. I wanted to share this picture I took of him the other day. Its so fun. I know he's eating his hand and all but I just love the picture. I think I'll be getting a print for everyone at the party of it. But then again I still have a big order in of pictures for everyone lol.

I took the picture in the car while waiting for Paul to finish getting ready to go pick up my brother from the airport on Wed. I know I haven't shared any pictures of my brother for you all yet, but I promise I will. Honestly I don't like my indoor shots lol. So I will get him outside with the kids tomorrow at the birthday party and take loads of pictures lol.

I did promise earlier this week that I would show you the boy's birthday invites. Well instead of doing two invites I just decided that the one with both of them on there would be the easiest. Since they are at an age where they could really care less what kind of invite they have I got to have creative freedom, but I didn't use much of it lol. I also haven't uploaded this to any galleries so this will be the only place you get to see it lol.

Credits: All Wrapped Up avaliable at Scrap Girls (which by the way is having a big sale so go get some stuff.) Template and fonts are by Kimberly Geswien.

I've Created a little freebie for you all to help me celebrate this day. Check back next friday and I promise to have another one too. Click on the preview to be taken to the download. I have asked the wonderful people, Ben and Ashley, at PDP to host this for me. They have been so good to me. And will also be where I bring my designs back too. So what is on the agenda today for the birthday. Well we have some shopping to do. We have to get all the food. I will be making cupcakes tonight with my MIL. Gotta make sure my camera is all charged up and ready to go tomorrow. Better do that now don't ya think. Nah I'll get it done before i leave today. I am taking my brother with us to get the food and stuff. I know not an exciting outing but hey its more time with his niece and nephews.

So I hope everyone has a fantastic day. Keep busy scrappin its gonna be a wonderful scrappin day.

2007-03-27T11:10:00.000-04:00

** WARNING LONG WINDED POST AHEAD WITH LOTS OF PICTURES. **

ok so now that i got my warning out of the way lol. So it was like 75 yesterday and beautifully sunny outside. What do we do... we take the kids off to the park and we weren't the only ones lol. We all know that I love to take pictures. As if that isn't a given already lol. Anyone who is around me all the time knows this lol. My grandpa was the same way too. I used to wonder why everyone on my gram's side calls him Uncle Flash. Now I understand why. He always had a camera in hand. Glad to know I got this from someone as wonderful as him.

So DH AKA Paul if you don't know that already but I'm sure you do lol. Doesn't particularly like to have his picture taken but yesterday when he seen them first things he says is... "I actually like these pictures... but you know you won't use them." I'm like I only don't use them because you don't like them. So Here is a few with Paul in them.

First up is Paul with Tristan and Arianna walkin' back from the duck pond. Apparently the ducks weren't up for visitors from what I heard lol.
Now we have Paul helping Tristan with the slide. This time he (Tristan) wanted to do it by himself. Of course that didn't last all that long.And lastly we have Paul chasing Tristan lol. If you can't tell by now who had Tristan that would be Paul lol.

I got Ayden to play a little bit but not too much. See we have never felt grass before and we rent too sure about it at all. But all was good. He loves to give us little faces and they are so cute. I took a few of this one face of his. Its like OOOOOOOOOOO sooooooo cute. I love it.

He found the leaves still scattered everywhere too. Naturally what does a 1 year old do with leaves... we eat them. But at least when I told him that it was icky he gave it to me and took the one out of his mouth lol.Now I don't have a whole lot of Tristan and Ayden pictures. I'm finding out that getting a 1 year old and a 2 year old to sit still is not an easy task. Hence why their invites have two separate pictures on them. Oh man I haven't showed you girls those too. Well I promise you will see the invite this week before the party. But probably not tomorrow lol.
Now this girl of mine. She is really into wanting a puppy, but unfortunately right now its not a good time to get one. So she has to go and pick up any puppies she finds when she is there. This one is a husky/cockier mix i think the owners said.
So where did we head after the park. We went to the mall at North Olmstead. I really like this one. Its got the Disney store and a Maternity store. We have two other malls closer to us but this one seems to be the one we keep going to lol.

So what did we get at the mall... well first let me tell you why we went there instead of other ones. I wanted to go to the Maternity store. I wanted to get a new outfit for the boy's birthday party. But instead I come back with blue nail polish and pink nail polish lol. No not from the Maternity store lol. But I guess all worked out good. We did stop at the Disney store and pick up the boy's their little plush toys to match their cakes. So Tristan got a blue car (he wanted the daisy lol), and Ayden got a Pooh with a balloon. These are so darn cute. We will put them out with their cakes when I take the pictures of them lol.

Then we came home and everyone eventually crashed. Tristan has been in my bed lately. He doesn't wanna sleep in his crib but doesn't wanna sleep in his race car bed so only one left is my bed. Cant leave him in the living room where he passes out lol. But had a pretty rough night. I took out the night light and apparently we need this to sleep decently. Or at least I hope that's what he needs lol. I don't like getting beat up lol.

On the agenda today... well we have to clean out the van so that we can go pick up my brother, Joseph, from the airport tomorrow. We go at like 1:30 since it will take about an hour to get there and i tend to like to be there at least 10 or so mins early in case they land early. This isn't the first trip for us to this airport lol. We have picked up my sister many times, and my mom this past fall. So now it is his turn. Now if I don't get lost that will be great. I just gotta find where his baggage will be coming in at lol. I'm sure I will find it. We will be bringing the kids with us. I won't take them into the airport with me, but we will have them with us. This way Joseph gets a little bit of time with them before we take him to Grams house.

So I guess until tomorrow this is all for me. I will talk to everyone later. I will be posting tomorrow but its gonna be short. I have some news and a few layouts to share with ya too. Enjoy your day. Happy Scrapping.

Little Warmer Around Here

2007-03-25T15:20:00.000-04:00

So Spring is finally coming here. Or starting to get here. I took the kids outside in our crappy yard and porch to let them play a little. We were gonna take them to the park today but daddy had to go into work. Darn brother in law but hey gets us money thats worth it totally. Well not totally because Paul wont be back until after the kids go to sleep and I'm about dead to the world lol. But I will get to sleep with my hubby all night long. I really have missed that a lot.

So anyway here are a few pictures of the kids.

Since Ayden still isnt standing by himself I put him in his rocker and gave him a toy. Naturally we are all happy for this. He's probably happy he gets to wear shorts and gets to go outside in the sun without having to have heavy coats on. I bet he loves it. All smiles and giggles I would say so.

Then Arianna don't care about getting dirty or nothing. She's playin in the rocks. Throwing them hiting them tossing them around anything she can do to them. Every so often i got her to look at the camera. Mind you not too often.
Now Tristan was hard to get his face in a shot. I even had the camera on kid mode and very fast shutter speed. and still couldnt get his face in most of the shots. I'm sure I'll do better when we have a nice yard to play in AKA the boy's birthday party next weekend. I'm sure they will all be outside playing just like they were last year.

Speaking of birthday's.... Ayden's turning one on friday. Can you believe it? I know its hard for me to believe and i'm the mommy lol. So to celebrate it I will have a freebie for you. I will let you see the preview now but you will have to contain yourselves for a whole week almost before you can get your little hands on it. And next week I will have another freebie for you to celebrate Tristan's birthday. Yes that's right they are a week apart in their birthday's. But that's ok we get double the fun double the cake double the everything.

So with this freebie your gonna get quite a bit. You will find 8 papers (4 pattern 4 solid), lots of stickers, even wordart templates. Yes its a template. and some hardware too lol. Now the templates are in psd format and tiff format but maybe i can convince my girl to do them in dip format too.

Other than that I have no more to say. I will write more tomorrow. TaTa for now.

The Cakes are ordered.... Plans are finalized

2007-03-23T09:55:00.000-04:00

for the boy's big party in one week and one day. How exciting. My baby man will be turning one. Can I cry now? So we decided to give each boy their own cake. Tristan has a Car's cake and Ayden has a baby pooh and tigger cake. These things are so stinking cute. I wish now i would have taken a picture of the cakes in the book. Dumby wasn't thinking again. Darn me.

But I have managed to get a few layouts done. This first one is Arianna's cover for her Shutterfly book, whenever I get them ordered lol. Next is Arianna's Say Cheese pictures. Well just a few of them. I used stuff i got at Gina Miller's Sale. This is the LAST DAY to get her stuff at 30% off.

Arianna's Book Cover

Credits: All Gina Miller Items
Glitter words: Glitzy Alpha Pink
Flower Stem: Stitched Flowers
Flower Stitches: Stitched Flowers
Flower Paper & Background paper: AATP 2
Felt Frame: Felt Frames
Felt Flowers: Floral Felties
Ribbon: Playground Picks

Say Cheese

Credits HERE

Be sure to take a look at my layout gallery and leave me some love. I have been known to give out some free goodies to people who love me.

I have another announcement as well. So you know how I have been thinking that I totally suck at designing? Well I got a fantastic offer from the lovely Joedee at Elemental Scraps to join her and her team. They have fantastic stuff there. I'll be posting my blinkie and a link to my gallery there as soon as I get it. So how is that for me totally sucking at designs. I'll have my first layout done sometime today. Or I hope so lol.

So that's all for today. i'll be back tomorrow with more layouts and a birdie told me sometime next month that there might be some goodies from me at a certian store. Happy Scrapping!

So what did you get....

2007-03-21T11:39:00.000-04:00

So in case you haven't been there yet and gotten your hands on all her amazing stuff here is some inspiration.. This is everything I bought today. Well for my first purchase I might get more depending on if i get any more money. So if anyone wants to give me a nice little GC gift i'm all for them lol. If you click on the previews you will be taken to the product in her mall.

So how is that for a bunch of new stuff. She does such wonderful work. I just love her stuff. I wish I had more money to spend there is a lot more i could have gotten. Including the new alphas she just brought out. You can see all of them HERE. I had heard that she has lots of new stuff coming to the store in the next little while. So be on the look out Sunday for more of her wonderful stuff.

So whats up today... well Ayden still has a fever. Poor baby. I hate when he's sick. I did manage to do a layout last night of him just laying around sick. Looked so cute laying with his daddy in bed. Paul has to work the station here today. So at least he's here in town part of the day. Hopefully wont get into anything while he's working. I hate when I hear his sirens run. Other than that I'm gonna get the boys down for a nap in about an hour. Finish unziping the new stuff and maybe get workin on a layout or two today. I'll show you what I do with this fantablous stuff i just got.

Happy Scrapping Everyone!

Diggin the new look....

2007-03-18T09:49:00.000-04:00

well i know I am. See I was playing around with the kit: Digi Dare Girls Bundle Up. I also did a few layouts. And had a boy get a hair cut.

So this was our evening on Thursday night. Came home from going to get something to eat and making our usual trip to Target to grab some diapers, formula (so glad this will be my last run for formula well for a few months), Paul got a DVD series; Firefly, got a bunch of other things too. Just the usual stuff. Then we get home and it is storming; you know thunder lighting, and pooring down rain. I get up at 3 or 4 am with Ayden to get him a bottle and now its raining ice. I can hear it on my roof in my room. Then time for the kids to get up and it is covered in snow. So what do I do... I send Paul out to take pictures of it. Figures huh. Then I create a layout with them. Ok just one.

Chilly

Credits Are HERE

So before target I should have said this first. Tristan got his first hair cut. How neat is that? Tristan did so good. Only thing I wish was there was his Aunt Laurie who usually cuts our hair. But she already left for the day. So she's gonna be upset that she didn't cut it. But that is ok. We still have one more boy in the near future... ok well not so near future... that will need his hair cut.

First Hair Cut

Credits Are HERE

So what happened Friday... we just went up to the mall. I bought me and the girl a bunch of nail polish from one of the salons. We got 4 bottles at 60% off and I got a brown lipstick too at 60% off. Arianna natually had to have pink. In case you didn't know from recent layouts that my daughter LOVES pink. She is in such a pink kick its not even funny lol. She also wanted a light purple too. At least these don't blend in with her nail color already. I let Tristan look at the puppies in the mall too. He loves lookin at them. One day we will get them one.

Saturday... we went to my grams house. I got the itenerary for my brother's visit. Be on the look out for lots of pictures of him and the kids. Probably not many of me because i'm always behind the camera lol. Well he arrives on the 28th in the afternoon and will be here till April 11th. Like we did with my sister and my mom we will be going to pick him up and take him to the airport. But since he leaves early in the morning to go home I think that my grandparents will be bringing him here to my house and it will be a little less of a drive for us to get him to the airport on time.

And now is Sunday and Paul is working for 24 hours straight. Well since 11 last night. So I'm stuck here with kids all day till like 11 at night. Which i totally hate. But it brings in some good money sometimes. Whenever his brother gets it to us. So that is all for today. I will be checking in breifly from time to time see if any of you chickys love me like you used too lol.

Happy Scrapping!

Spunky Funky Monkey

2007-03-15T08:47:00.000-04:00

The finished layout. So I asked a bunch of girls at DST to help me find a name for this layout. I just loved my design and the pictures. The kit I picked was so perfect for it. I totally loved working with it. So anyway about the name of the layout... Spunky Funky Monkey. One of the names given was Spunky because of the lady's little girl. Instead of saying she has attitude when she wears a hat she has spunk. It just fit this layout so perfectly. So there we have it a Spunky Funky Monkey.

Spunky Funky Monkey

Credits:
Kit: Be Inspired by Sweet Shoppe Designers & Mrs. Gina Miller
Stitch: Victoria F. @ OAKS Metrosplash
S & Black binder clip: Laura Deacetis Denim Bouquet
Cardboard Overly: Linda B @ Scrap Artist

Going Going Gone.....

2007-03-14T11:38:00.000-04:00

Well all of my current products will be doing this. These are the last few days to purchase any of my items at Daily Scrap and Polkadot Potato. I will be returning to the designing world with some brand new collections towards the end of the year. You can keep track of my progress during the pregnancy and everything else in my life right HERE. I will try to keep this as up to date as possible. Speaking of up to date.... Here is a few more recent layouts. Some of these have not been posted yet and will be posted in a little while.

Spunky Funky Monkey

Credits: Linda B's Cardboard Edges @ Scrap Artist. Kit: Be Inspired by Sweet Shoppe Designers & Gina Miller. Stitches: Victoria F. @ OAKS MetroSplash
(yes I'm aware i still need the title on the layout its still saved in layers lol)

Innocent Child

Credits HERE

So what else is up... nothing too much lately. Ayden's having issues with this darn time change. Thinks that bed time isnt bedtime and when I put him down all he does is scream. Poor baby. I feel so bad for him. He wont take his naps because he thinks its earlier than what it really is. Why oh why do we have to put up with this darn time changes. It totally SUCKS.

Other than that we are all doing pretty good. I had to get my ID renewed yesterday and like usual we have an awful picture. But time to get kids dressed I gotta get daddy up soon to go get a few things. Have fun scrapping girls.

One template... two layots

2007-03-12T20:57:00.000-04:00

So recently (yesterday as a matter of fact) i went to the ever wonderful Gina Miller's site to grab up her new sketch template. Its totally amazing. Wanna see it....

Click on the picture to go purchase the template and enter the contest.

Here is the first layout I did today with the template. I chose a kit that was given away as a freebie a very long time ago. I still love this kit even though there are lots and lots more that have came out since then. But it is still one of my favorites. I wondered if having pink in the layout would make it girly since it was of the baby. And since he's obviously a boy lol I didnt want that lol. So here is the layout.

Oh Baby Baby

Credits click on the layout for.

The second layout I just completed. Its my sweet girl. Pictures were taken a few years ago but I still like them. She doesnt make it easy to take her pictures lol. Hope you like it too.

Oh So Pretty

To get the credits click on the layout.

So that's all for now girls. I wish i had time to do more on here but I wil be back soon. Love to everyone.

Do Ya Like?

2007-02-17T18:55:00.000-05:00

The new header. Yes I have updated the header on here. Figured this is the month for love so I picked out Eve R.'s Candy Giggles kit. Its too cute.

Speaking of cute things... I have managed to do some layouts as well so lets share them.

First up is Tristan. I took him to the mall the other day and let him play in the play place in the mall. He had a lot of fun but needed a little bit of convincing that thats what you do there lol. There wasnt any other kids there yet since school wasnt yet out so it was just him. Once he got the idea he was all over the place lol.

Credits: Miss Mint Playground Pop Freebie Kit

Second up... is my beautiful little girl. Although right now she's more pain in the butt to me lately lol.

Credits: Laura Deacetis: Denim Bouquet & Denim Bouquet Extra Elements

Update on Ayden: his finger is now completly healed. We did find out what was wrong. He contracted a Herpes Simplex One (the not sexually tramsitted one) infection in his finger. I had a cold sore on my face and he must have had a little cut on his finger and the infection got in. I feel so bad for this but it is something that happens. But all is better now and all is good.

Hope everyone has a fantastic day. I'm gonna go rest before chats tonight. Happy Scrappin girls!

Long Time No Post

2007-01-28T10:47:00.000-05:00

hi girls! So i know i haven't been around for a while. I've been pretty under the weather, and I feel that I owe you all an explication for it. As you all know we have three beautiful children, and we have a little announcement. Our baby, Ayden, will be 10 months old in a few days. And in August he will hit a milestone that can only happen once to a child. He will become a a big brother. Yes we are pregnant again. I've been battling all of the worse first trimester stuff as well as a very nasty upper resp infection that is still trying to kick my butt. So we will be bringing a new addition to our family in August of 2007. This will be my last pregnancy. And if mommy intuition is right then I'm in for it. I'm feeling that there might be twins in there. Unfortunately we have not heard the baby yet, so we do not know yet if there is one baby or two babies. Arianna says that there are baby girls in my belly. Tristan gives my belly kisses and hugs and know that the baby is in there.

Other than that big news, we are all doing good. Ayden's got a good bill of health from his specialist for his feet. We have been given the OK to take those shoes off of him during the day and only at night. Unfortunately we have had a little infection on his finger that has everyone a bit worried. When I was really really sick sneezing and coughing and blowing my nose 24/7 I acquired a cold sore on my lip. Ayden had a little cut on his finger and must have touched my sore on my face and acquired the virus on his finger. So we are seeing the doctor/doctors every day until the infection clears. We have been giving him amoxicillin and an antiviral. We got the meds on Thursday and it is now Sunday. The finger is starting to look much better. We were told to also give him some Motrin to help bring the inflammation down. But things are looking better still there but not as bad as it was. We have been seeing his doctor everyday until it is cleared up. Hope it happens soon or i'm gonna run out of meds for him lol. I'm getting pretty down on them lol.

So On that note. We all send our love and hugs to everyone. Oh... about the blog banner contest. I didn't receive one that really fit my style unfortunately. I appreciate everyone making me some and I will be working on some myself soon. Love you all and Happy Scrapping!

Christmas Layouts

2006-12-27T18:19:00.000-05:00

I hope that everyone had a fantastic Christmas this year. I know we all did. We got to spend time with family. Open gifts. Have Hot Chocolate and Cookies while watching the Parade... ok so DH and the kids did I went back to bed lol. So what all did they recieve for christmas... well lets take a look at the layouts and see what we can find out.

Believe

Arianna doesnt like to get clothes but knows that everyone knows that she is in love with PINK. Yes we are on a huge pink kick. So In this bag was two pink outfits. One was a shirt, hoodie, and pants; and the other was a sweat set. She loved both of them.

Dear Santa

Now last year Arianna wanted nothing to do with the big red guy this year we ran up to him and sat on his lap told him we wanted Barbies for Christmas. What did we get instead... tinker bell and friends. And she loves them. Already trying to tear them apart lol.

Glow-E Bear

Now I fell in love with this bear when I seen it in the store. Its a white bear that changes colors to red, green, blue, pinkish, and purplish. I love to look at this bear and he loves it too.

Fur Coat

This was my gift this year. I did get two things for my nails (thats funny I chew mine off lol). He went and bought this for me. He knew I needed a new coat for the upcoming winter. Although I'm not sure if we are ever gonna see the winter lol.

To: Arianna From: Georgia Grandma

Arianna got a new Cabbage Patch Doll from my mother in GA. She has decided to be called Georgia Grandma. I think its cute.

So girls thats what I have so far in layouts. Love you all dearly. Still have a big announcement for you girls but I'm sitting on it for a while.

Merry Christmas Eve

2006-12-24T12:29:00.000-05:00

Hi girls! I just wanted to share with you a few Christmas layouts from me so far this year. I havent done many yet and I'm sure after tomorrow there will be lots and lots more for me to do. So here they are:

Ayden's First Christmas Presents

My mom bought the kids presents this year and sent them to my grandparents house. So Ayden was more interested in box than what was in it. I haven't taken it out of the box so he can play with it but I will after tomorrow. Oh he got an activity walker.

Merry Christmas 2006

I'm so happy that these kids have lots of stuff under the tree this year. We are finally able to give them a good Christmas. I love it.

p.s. click on the layouts to be taken to the full credits.

Well I hope that everyone has a very merry christmas tomorrow. Sending love from our family to yours.

So I have a contest for ya

2006-12-20T23:01:00.000-05:00

Ok girls! I'm in need of a new blog banner stating where i sell. i really hate doing this so I'm gonna hold a contest. First off the rules:

1. Banner must be about the size of my current one. Nicely fitting up there on my blog and can be used in advertizements as well.
2. blog templates may be used IF you get permission to use them from the designer.
3. You MUST use one of my kits in the header. It can be more then one kit.

I think that is pretty much the rules.

The winner will get THREE kits of choice or ALL of my templates. Their choice. Due date: January 3rd at Midnight. THis will give you lots of time to figure something out. You can animate it if you wish or not.

I'll be getting on here and posting again tomorrow its late and We have some news for you just gotta get a creative way to inform ya all. Luv you all!

Sick house

2006-12-15T11:11:00.000-05:00

Well here we are all sick. Started with Tristan then me and i think now ayden. my head feels like its gonna explode and I so hope the babies dont feel like this. But on a good news front Tristan only had it for a day or two so maybe its that 24hr bug. oh man i hope so.

So I have a shameless plug for my friend Rebecca. She has this darlin kit showcased on her blog (click on her name and you will go there) that will be released tomorrow for TDS's Wall of Fame chat. How cool I bet you wanna see it huh. Well take a gander to her blog and you will get to see it.

I don't really have much more energy to post a lot more. I be more active again soon. I promise girls.

2006-12-13T10:26:00.000-05:00

Hey girls! As you know tuesday was yesterday and I was one busy little girl. I put up three new kits. Yes you heard that right THREE new kits. One kit was released at TDS a few weeks ago so its not so new. But the other two are brand new. So here they are:

VaVa Vroom: A kit made for my Ayden. Always trying to vroom away. How cute is he?
Next up is Miaka Collection. This one was a name that I had fell in love with for a baby name its a japanese name so I thought maybe it wouldnt be such a good idea for a baby name. So what do I do I make it into a kit. A kit i REALLY like too by the way.
And lastly we have Diva-licious. This kit was made for my diva, Arianna. And that is just what she is a Diva. Now to just channel it and make and actress out of her.
As Always new releases are on sale for 30% this week only. So enjoy. They are priced very fairly too not my usually 6 or 7 bucks. They are reg priced at 5 bucks each. Thats quite a deal.

And since you girls have sit through my new releases i will be giving you a little freebie. I tried my hand at making some black and white actions. I have a set of four I would like to give you girls for free all I ask is that you give me your input on them. The third action will make your photo VERY bright so it is BEST used on a dark photo like i have in my preview. So Enjoy them girls. Download action HERE.

I'm working on a few more too so be on the look out for them to be released hopefully next week. I know i'm not Michelle Pearson or Holly McCaig when it comes to these actions but They are still pretty cool if you ask me. And no i'm not biased at all, lol. Have a great day girls Happy Scrapping.

Party pictures

2006-12-11T18:45:00.000-05:00

hey girls! So have you been waiting to see the pictures of the party. Well wait no longer here are a handful. So first up we have baby Ayden and his cousin. He's always at peoples faces so naturally we have to capture it on camera over and over again.
Next up is Arianna with her Ice Cream cake. This is the cake she HAD to have. Its middle of winter and what does she want... and ice cream cake. How silly is she?
Next up we have our helper cousin again helping arianna open her presents. Pictured here is a SleepyTime Barbie. Not sure of the exact name of it. But she is soft and pink and that is what she likes... pink.
Lastly we have Arianna "reading" a card from Great Grandma (my grams). It also had a few bucks in there for her for our upcoming trip to go see my sister. I'll get into those details a little later when they are a little more finalized.
And here is her birthday layout. Hope you enjoy.

And i'm just totally pooped today still so i'm gonna go ahead and sign off today. Have a great day everyone.

Happy Birthday to Arianna

2006-12-10T18:03:00.000-05:00

So today was her fifth birthday. So my little girl is 5 years old. How fun huh. Too bad everyone was in a great mood except for her. How rude of her and boy was she rude. All day long. I wanted to really give her away. We were all very disappointed in her attitude today. Everyone is there to wish her a Happy Birthday and she is the rudest girl on the planet.

So anyway here are a few pictures to share. Yes I converted most of them. The first one is of Arianna a few days before her birthday at the mall. They had this thing where you could come get all strapped in and jump away. Oh it looked so much fun. She wanted to go up there so bad so we let her go. We didnt get too high lol. We got scared. Now i'm told I've gotta go up.

Next up is Tristan. So while we were at the mall I like usual took some pictures of all the kids. I got this really great one of Tristan. He just happen to close his eyes the second i snapped the picture. I totally loved it.

And the baby now. Last night I was taking pictures of Ayden. I don't usually take pictures of him a lot because of the shoes he has to wear. So we just got out of the bath. Well he just got out of the bath lol. I gave him the phone and this is him "studying" it. Too bad i cut the phone out lol.

The last one here is a picture i took of the tree at the mall. Isnt it just so beautiful. I just had to show it off.

So I want to send a big thank you to everyone who views my blog and clicks on my links. since the first of THIS month there has been over 450 people that have clicked on my TDS link. How totally awesome is that. Thank you again girls for your continued support of my little hobby. I luv you all.

Girl-less this weekend

2006-12-03T09:40:00.000-05:00

So what do i have for you girls today. Well no freebie today. But I do have some layouts ok well I think only one that i havent showed you girls (and DH) yet. So I have a free weekend without my daughter. She has decided to stay the weekend with her Great-Grandma (my grams). Oh I'm so all for this. I love my free weekends I tend to get a little bit done around the house (clothes are on todays agenda). I have lots to do well mostly fold them and they are mostly the boys too. Doesn't that figure since i do have three of them (including DH).

So I was over at the Digi Dare Ya Blog this week. Don't you just love the challenges. I HAD to do this weeks. We were asked to scrap what we are most thiankful for this year. And I am most thankful for the birth of my third child, Ayden. He has been such a blessing in our lives. So this is the layout i did for it.

Thankful for Ayden

Credits: Sketch Template by Jen Caputo (she has the best templates around or one of the best); Kit parts by Tracy Collins (except the leaf that is by Eve R.) If you click on the picture you can be taken to the full credits in my DST Galelry.

Other than that everything here is going good. My sister finds out if she is having a boy or girl middle of the month i'm so very excited about it. I find myself more excited or just as excited for my sister as I was when I was pregnant with Arianna. How silly huh. But this is my first real niece or nephew not saying that my other ones are real ones just its from my family. I got married into the other ones. But I'm so not complaining. I'm so happy to have a big family to love my kids the way they do. So sending a big thank you to all of my family that reads this blog. You know I love you all.

So that's it girls (and dh) i'm headed out of here for now. I'll yack again soon.

How Many Of You...

2006-11-30T22:04:00.000-05:00

want yet another one of my fantastic free kits. You know you want it but first. I'm gonna show you a kit I did for Black Friday. and its a boy kit. Can you believe that? I never do boy kits. So without furter ado here is... VA VA Vroom.

You can pick it up HERE.

Next up today is Ayden. So I sat him on the floor last night during one of his downtimes for his shoes. And he actually stayed mostly sitting. I know its a bit delayed for his age (8 months today), but it is due to the shoes. They dont let him be free enough to do what he needs to learn so we just have to go with the flow. SO here is the layout i did.

Learning to Sit

Credits: Template by Kimberly Geswein you can find it HERE. Kit is by Khristy Schmidt (generous you) and you can find it HERE.

Next up today is our christmas card this year. Yes I am aware that there is no picture on it yet. We still havent managed to get a family picture done. I havent had one since Arianna was Tristan's age. Thats a long time to wait to have one. I think if nothing else I want that for christmas. Just one good family picture. Ya know. Wouldnt that be great.

Credits: Template by Kimberly Geswein which you can get HERE. Kit by Khristy Schmidt which can be found HERE.

and since you all have been so very patient to get this little freebie here it is.

Mister Man

Download link YSI

It's good for 500 downloads so when that runs out i'll upload one more time then its gone. There is also solids in there too that arent pictured. Sorry about that. Happy Scrapping!

So So Bad I'm So So Bad

2006-11-29T13:34:00.000-05:00

Hi my girls! I know I have so neglected all of you. And those of you waiting on coupons for last weeks challenge I promise to get it to you soon. We Have been having a few family issues lately. Don't worry all of the kiddos are doing great. Ayden has been getting great bills of heath from all his doctors (ped and specialist), Arianna is loving life and is currently in a pink kick, and Tristan well lets just say he's my nudist. How cute huh? I think its potty training time. Lets hope he's ready.

But we have had a few tradgedys in the family in the last three months. Two of which happened in the past few weeks. About 3 weeks ago we lost DH's cousin Glen to his battle with cancer and during that funeral we got to see lots of people from DH's side of the family that we did not see at the funeral for DH's Uncle Paul. One of these people was Paul's Uncle Al. He came from LasVagas. Looked perfectly in wonderful health but took a very bad turn this week. On Monday Al had a heartattack. An hour later he passed away due to it. I fell really bad for my husband. He has had so many deaths in his famlily in the past few months. This one has seemed to taken a very big tole on him. I ask that people who pray please pray for him and his family during this yet again trying time. And those of you who dont pray please just keep them in your thoughts.

So on a slightly brighter note... I have some new layouts for you. I'm sure you have seen most of these in my galleries but here they are anyway.

Live Your Dreams

Credits: Eve Rencillna's Boggie Woggie Who at Sweet Shoppe Designs

Boys and Leaves

Credits: Tracy Collins' 15 Minutes @ Digital Freebies and Retrodiva.net

Autumn Fall

Credits: Tracy Collins' Oktoberfest @ Digital Freebies and Retrodiva.net

So In a few weeks is Arianna's 5th Birthday. I know my little girl is gonna be 5 how scary and exciting. So she is lately into baby dolls. Probably because of her baby brothers. She is so very helpful with them. So I did her card digi style this year. Got them printed up at www.mpix.com and they were amazing. A Little bit of the W in where got cut off but not enough to tell anything. So All is good. I blurred out our phone number so the whole world wouldnt have it.

Credits: Eve's It's My Party

Well that is it for now. I'll yack at everyone later working on getting you girls a cute little freebie as well. Have a great day everyone.

I Dare Ya Agian

2006-11-19T16:06:00.000-05:00

Well since last week was so much fun here it is again for this week. This week I want us to scrap emotions. What I chose to do was scrap pictures of my son, Ayden after his surgery and yesterday when he was crying so much. But my journalling is about how I felt during it. Mostly during the first few hours after he had his surgery on his feet.

Emotions Run HighFull Credits HERE

This weeks Theme: Emotions
I want you girls to scrap outside your box this time again. Most people scrap about happiness and enjoyment, but what I want is you to scrap about something sad in your life or your children's lives. You do not have to use pictures if you do not have any. You can just do a journaling layout and that will do just fine. Enjoy the challenge.

Rules:

please post the layout to a gallery and not just a blog. last week a lot of you posted on your blogs and left me the blog addy. While i do appreciate it just makes it hard for me to pm you a coupon code for the prize.
make sure to give all credit due (except fonts since usually they are hard to remember).
Your layout must be posted by next sunday in order to recieve your coupon.

I hope you have enjoyed this little challenge. I do plan to move this to its own blog as soon as I can think of a catchy name. Anyone have any ideas and if i pick your name you can get a special little gift made special for ya.

Have a happy Sunday.

I DARE YA....

2006-11-12T20:04:00.000-05:00

ok today i decided to do a few layouts. Well one layout i did since my husband is so infatuated with my rear end i did a layout of it. I dont really like it but apparently all the people that like it so much cant be wrong.

Here is the layout:Credits: Kit from the Express yourself Collection available at Scrapbook Bytes by Hunnibunni and Ashley Olsen. Sketch template by Jen Caputo.

Here is my dare for you. You have one week to complete the dare. I dare each and every one of you to create a layout of your rear ends. yes I wanna see them butts. Big butts little butts any kind of butts. Here are the requirements:

1. You have to post your layout to one of the scrap booking community galleries.
2. must post complete credits: i.e. paper credits, element credits, alpha credits, and template credits if one is used.
3. must post your layout by next Sunday at midnight.
4. must leave a link in your comment here in order to get your little gift.

What do you get for doing this???? I am offering everyone who does a layout a half off coupon for my designs at The Daily Scrap. yes you read that right. you will each receive a half off coupon for my designs. How is that for an incentive.

So girls lets get to seeing those butts lol. Have fun girls.

Just a few things.

2006-11-05T14:30:00.000-05:00

So all my kids are sleeping. Isnt that amazing. and shocking that they are all sleeping at the same time. So what do i do. I work on a few layouts. YAY i love layouts. Right now I'm a bit pooped out with kits and what not but when I do come back I will be back in full force. So for now grab what you can you know you will love them.

So onto the layouts. I gave tristan an ice cream bar the other day. Oh man did he go to town on it. Naturally the photo mommy I am I took lots of pictures of it. I bought a kit at Sweet Shoppe Designs called Fudge Dream Supreme (at least i'm pretty sure thats the name of the kit.) and then remembered I had these pictures on my camera. I hadn't moved them yet so I decided to scrap one of them. Now a dear friend of mine Maria (maria in ct) has these awsome big photo templates. I loved the one i used. I loved the idea of it splitting up the photo. Its too cool. So now that I have rambled on and on about this layout. You can see it now.

The Simple Things

You can see a full list of credits HERE.

So next up I have a layout of shoes. Now if anyone of you would come into my house you would see litterally a closet full of shoes. And about 80% of them are mine. Recently I went yet again shoe shopping. Knowing full and well that fall and winter are about to start I buy some open toe sandels. But they were so cute I HAD to have them. Now I always have to have a heal of some kind and one of them actually doesnt have a heal at all. I was so shocked I could actually wear them. How weird.

Shoes for ME

Get all the credits HERE

Our next layout is of Ayden. This picture was taken probably about 3 months old. No casts anymore just his shoes. I really hate these shoes but he has to wear them and it kills me. Ayden has truely been a blessing in our lives. I dont know what our lives would be like without our little surprize baby.

Blessing

Get all the Credits HERE

Our last layout for today is of the kids trick or treating this year. Ok so only two of the kids. So do you see my pirate in there and my little teeny bopper. Arent they cute totally cute.

Trick or TreatGet the Full Credits HERE

Well that is all the layouts i have for you right now. Just a little sneek peek Hint I have joined forces with Maria LaFrance (Maria in CT) and we have created this beautiful boy kit to be released next tuesday at Digital Freebies. We not only have this amazing full kit but we also have a coordinating full 12x12 album with a cover page and 12 pages and even a glass/metal alpha. Here you can see the preivews right here. And run dont walk to get it on tuesday.

Buddy Boy Page Kit

Buddy Boy Album

Ok I think this might end this post for the day. I hope everyone has a great sunday.

so what;s up girls...

2006-10-28T03:28:00.000-04:00

so i did promise to update you girls now didnt I. well this week has been hectic. Lots of personal things going on. Kids playing in the yard (and i will show you them soon). So I am gonna share a few pictures of the kids. Now Tristan didnt like it at first but he did turn into the leaf goer. Now once he did get the hang of it he didnt wanna get out well at least not for an hour or so lol. Then he did get tired of it.

This has to be one of my favorite pictures of him playing yesterday. I really really love it. He looks so happy for not liking it at all.

Now this girl of mine. Of course she loved it. She loves the outdoors just like I did when I was her age. Or at least that is what i'm told lol. I still love to be outside even though its not so easy with three kids and absolutely no yard lol. But we do have Paul's mom's house to go to and play outside.

I hoped over to bath and body works the other day too. Have you girls seen the new smells. I"m so in love with them. I told Arianna she could have any that she wanted... can you guess what she picked out.
Yes you see that Right she picked out the Hot Chocolate. Of all the scents this one is good. But not for me lol. I would rather have the Pecan Pie or Spiced Apple. THose both smelled so good to me. Yes on monday I will be coming home with both of those and some more of my regular smell... Cucumber Melon. That smell has been me for the longest time. I dont know what i would do if they quit making it. I think i just might go nuts.

So tomorrow the kids go trick or treating. Arianna has decided to be a Teeny Bopper. Paul doesnt like the colors of it butits ok she will be cute anyway. Now on to the boy. Tristan is gonna be a pirate. We went to the costume store and just walked around. He picked up one of those play swords so we knew right away what to make him. Ayden is gonna be that adorable Tigger. I promise to have lots and lots of pictures to share tomorrow after we go through all of their candy.

Well it is late here and i need to head to bed. Have a great day everyone.

A Sweet Freebie

2006-10-24T15:37:00.000-04:00

So today is the day that my kit comes out at TDS. I really love this kit. And no wyou can grab an additional freebie to the kit right HERE. Enjoy.

I dont have a lot of time righ tnow to make a big long post so i promise to get back here soon.

Sweetly

2006-10-19T15:53:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls! I been busy behind the scenes lately. I been workin on a kit for $2 Tuesday at TDS for the 24th. Now that it is completely finished i'm ready to show it off. I really really love this kit. Its way cute and precious if ya ask me. And yes I know I'm biased. So here are the previews.

Sweetly Page Kit

In this kit there is the following:
13 12x12 shabby papers (including solids)
2 sets of alphas
glass oblong pebbles
felt flowers
rub-ons
tags
stitched ribbon
eyelet ribbons
stitches
a little bit of hardware
photo corners
torn edges

wow doesnt that sound like a lot in this little bitty kit. Tell you what I am so in love with this kit. I dont knwo what it is about this kit. I dont know if its the colors the patterns the shabbyness or what. Its just caught my attention so so very much.

Now there is gonna be a fun chat at the TDS Chatroom tuesday and during this chat look what you will get from me. This cute little add on freebie. It has 4 papers, a stitch, and a set of alphas. Yes i put its own alpha set in there how cool is that. Oh and you get another felt flower. Yes I love these things.

Now if you participate in the challenge that is give you will get these two quick pages. I made the one with the circles out of one of my sketches in my sketch template sets. If you havent grabed these do so now. Yes right now i demand it... ok i dont demand it but would be nice lol.

Well that's it for today. I'm really run down lately Tristan has really kept me on my toes a lot. Ill yack some more later. Huggles everyone.

2006-10-15T10:39:00.000-04:00

Hey girls! So how have you been. We have been really busy here. Trying to get the boys into one room. This is gonna be fun let me tell ya. We go to pick up the bed today. Tristan will be moved to a race car toddler bed. I hope he likes it. And its a good thing that DH has the day off so that he can keep gettin up with him lol. I so dont think he will stay in there at first but he will figure it out.

On the new products front... I have a sketch set coming exclusively to TDS. Its a set of four templates. I have made a layout with each of these templates as well. Unfortunately i cant show all of them and I"m sorry for that. One of them will be used in the newsletter for RAK (no you dont get the sketch but you can see the layout with it.) You can check out my DST gallery for all the layouts used with these templates.

Just Sketchy Sketches Set 3

A TDS Exclusive

Well that's it for the day. I'll yack at everyone later today.

Are You New to Digi Scrapping...

2006-10-11T11:20:00.000-04:00

Well over at DST we are having a big chat on October 16th at 10 PM EST. Here is just a short list of what you might get while you attend the chat.

* A collaboration kit for any who would like to contribute.
* A tutorial on how to create your first layout
* 3 sketch templates
* A tutorial on how to use the templates
* A drop shadow action or two
* A tutorial on how to use the actions
* A list of common FAQ for newbies
* A brush set
* A tutorial on how to use the brush
Now if you get all of this during the chat I am unsure. As I headed up the collab kit and didnt have much to do with the rest of it. I do hope that all of you can get this wonderful stuff. This will be the perfect set for brand new scrappers. You will have more stuff than you know what to do with.

During this chat we would love to see you bring people that are new to digi scraping. We have a HUGE collab kit that several designers contributed too. I had the honor of putting it all together for you. Collecting all the peieces and everything. Let me tell you from first hand experience that it is fantastic kit.

Would you girls like a sneek peek to it? I know you do its a great kit. So huge too. I was shocked at how big it was.. but anyway here is your sneek peek to this huge kit.

Silly FacesCredits HERE

I'm sure i missed a few designers in the credits and for that i am so sorry. I really did try to get everyone that i used. If i missed you PROMISE its not because i dont like you just missed your name lol.

In other news... well not really too much other news. I'm workin on a big kit with my bestest Khristy. So far this kit is pretty big so everyone will have so much to look forward too when you get it. As you very well know i'm back at TDS. I'll be selling this kit EXCLUSIVEly at TDS. SO you can only get it there. We figure you all love her work and you love mine.. or at least you say you do lol. Why not give you something from the both of us. And let me tell you the colors are AMAZING. Ok yes i'm biased as they were my colors lol.

Well Tristan is too quiet running around with Sissy. SO I will be headed out for now. Have a fantastic day. Dont forget to get my new kit Girls Have Fun avaliable at Digital Freebies.

New Release Tuesday

2006-10-10T09:36:00.000-04:00

Hi girls! This week I only have one New Release at Digital Freebies. I know i've been slackin on you girls. I found these colors and I just had to make a kit. My first kit that i did didnt go too far and if you look way at the bottom of the post you just might get it for a freebie. So we have this week at Digital Freebies:

Girls Have Fun Purchase Kit HERE

On other notes... not too much to report. i have to fold tons of clothes and sit here and scrach my head trying to figure out where they go. Paul should be getting his credit reports in the mail today. Then we can see really where his credit is. And then talk to the church about the loan. I"m gonna try to get some things up at SDK and TDS today. Just some little elemental things. Other than i bet your wondering what this kit looked like to match this. I mean its the same colors but not too sure if it matches it yet so we will see what you al think of it.

Glitter Glam FreebiePlease only use one link as they are all the same file.
YSI Link 1
YSI Link 2
YSI Link 3
YSI Link 4
YSI Link 5

I hope everyone has a fantastic day. Tomorrow I'll have something thats been in the works for quite some time to show you all.

News and A FREEBIE

2006-10-08T09:56:00.000-04:00

So what has this weekend been instore for the Papai's. Well not that much. I do have a bit of news. You girls who have been faithful to me from the beginning will be happy to know that i have moved back to The Daily Scrap in addition to Digital Freebies and Scrappin Digi Kreations. You know what that means... the return of Bargin Basement kits for $1.50 on Saturdays. Also a special sale just over there. I have 6 items up in the store: Boyish Charm, Boyish Charm Add-on, Boyish Charm Album, Girlly Giggles, Girlly Giggles Album, Spring Tulips, & Boy Trouble. All of these are on sale for 25% off until the end of today. So if you haven't grabed them yet please do so now. I might not have another sale until someone's birthday. And just think mine is in February.

In other things... I do have a few layouts to share with you. First we have Ayden. I took this picture at my niece's first birthday party. I really love to watch him sleep. I just think he looks so peaceful. And he wakes up so nicely not crying or anything. That happens later in the day lol. Kind of like it is right now lol. Guess I better take a pause here and go feed him or something. Maybe he's just tired. Oh well Sissy isnt cuting it today. Besides she is gonna drive me nuts. She keeps picking him up lol.

Peaceful

Credits: Eve Rencinella Tranqulity

The next layout is a picture DH took of Arianna and me. We decided to go play in the pool. Unfortuately she didnt like going in there. Once she was in there was no stoping her. Just getting her in there is another story.

Trying

Credits: Jen Wilson Meaning's #3.

Ok now that i have a boy crying too and I mean Tristan. Ayden's just fine now figures huh. I have to get this going off. So as promised here is your freebie. It is a sketch template. In tiff & psd format. Sorry no png+ format this time. I couldnt get ahold of my girl to do it for us.
Please Only use one of these links. They are all the same file. Enjoy girls!

Download Three
Download Four
Download Five
Download Six
Download Seven
If these downloads run out please let me know. They are good for 100 downloads or up to 7 days. I will renew them if you just shoot me an email (papai.designs@gmail.com) and let me know.

6 Months & 18 Months

2006-10-06T11:28:00.000-04:00

Ok how many of you can believe my little baby turned 6 months old on the 30th. I can tell you I cant believe it but if you ask my MIL she says feels like he should be a year old by now. She lost a lot of the summer due to her hip surgery and angeoplasty (i know i spelled it wrong). I so dont think that he should be a year old already. I want him back to being a baby lol. So as with every other month so far here is his layout for turning 6 Months old.

6 MonthsCredits: Eve Rencilla's Hippie Chick

As you can see a kit that is made for a girl can be very well used for a boy. How awsome is that versitility. I really love how versital her kits are. I suggest everyone go and run and get more of them if you dont have the store already. I really love working with her products. They are so much fun to play with.

So for my other boy ... today he turns 18 months old. This one i can see. He is up and walking on his own. Doesnt wanna crawl anymore. I really love it. These pictures were taken at a birthday party we had this month for our niece, Morgan's first birthday party.

18 Months

Credits: Sketch Template by Heather Roselli Kit by Tracy Collin's Spiced Latte

So what else has been going on. Well not too much. Just been farting around the house. We are in the process of getting a credit improving loan. We found out that there is a lot of stuff on Paul's credit report that needs to be cleared up. We really need to get out of this trailer and into a house. This little three bedroom trailer is not fit for three growing kids not to meantion the two adults living here too. So we have a lot of credit repairing to do and Paul's church is willing to help us out with this. I am so grateful for this. We will have to have the trailer apraised before we can go any further and that will cost us $75 to get done. Which right now due to some problems wiht our bank account and my paypal which have been fixed now we will get this done probably next week. SO in the mean time we are just farting around doing some painting here and there to fix some walls that got drawn on. Since we used FLAT paint when we first painted this trailer a few years ago we have to repaint. Which will take a while but will get done.

Ok girls I have to get going Ayden's really getting fussy. Probably needs a diaper change. I will write more later. Dont forget to check out my NEW RELEASES this week at Digital Freebies. Huggles to everyone.

Happy Sunday

2006-10-01T09:42:00.000-04:00

hi girls! how is everyone today? me been better but nothing to worry about just that time of the month i swear times 30 lol. I really hate this period. First it was bleeding a lot now i'm cramping but not bleeding as much. ick this one sucks. I totally hate it.

Ok enough about that. Time for a few layouts. So i've been back into my sketch fad. Ok so only two of the layouts are sketches. All three are tristan. Yes he's more fun to scrap than the others right now. He just loves to make faces at ya. Take a look here.

Dribbles
Optimism
Goofy

If you click on the layouts you will be taken to them directly in their galleries and you can see all the credits there. So how has everyone been. Me and DH well this week we found out more about getting a loan to do some home improvements to this trailer. But we can't get it appraized until next week. I'm a bit worried about it but we were assured that the worst trailer that they appraiseed they appraised at like 7,000. I'm looking around here thinking that its not worth what they think its worth but what am I to say to them. I think you did it wrong. So i'm just gonna sit there and let them do their thing.

Anyway. We have a birthday party to go to today for my niece, Morgan. Not sure if i actually want to go to it since i really dont like her mom and neither does the rest of us lol. But I'm not gonna hold the baby accountable for her mom's actions. But its ok. We bought her this monkey tote. If you move the monkeys head it laughs. Its really cute. I thought about getting one for Tristan too. Since we call him our little Monkey. We call him our monkey because he is just getting into everything. but that is another story and anyone that has an 18 month old knows what i'm talkin about lol.

Right now both kids are ploped in front of the TV watching Courious George. We have been waiting for it to come on DVD for the kids. I'm not all up for takin the kids to the movies. Arianna is ok well for the most part. She went to see Harry Potter for her birthday last year as a present from me and paul. She really likes those movies and she wasnt scared like i thought she might be when all the killin happened at the end. Although the next one I dont think I will be takin her to it. If its anything like the book I dont think I wanna let her see it in the theaters. I'll wait for it to come on DVD for her.

So Ayden turned 6 months old yesterday. I will be scrapping this moment too, but I havent done it yet. CS needs to have a nap. Its being mean lol. I cant believe my baby is 6 Months old already. I'm glad my sister is having a new baby in the spring. I cant wait till there is another little baby around. Ok so the baby will be in GA but if all goes well I'm gonna be down there for the birth. Its something I really want to do. She has always came up here to see my kids after they were born and I honestly think she might want me to be there then. If i cant bring everyone I'll just fly there and take the baby with me. Oh i'm so not lookin forward to that. I would much rather us all go. I would really like DH to see where I grew up at. I really miss it there. Wonder if its all the same. Wait i know its not.

Anyways... i'm getting a super cramp in my hand so i guess its time to end this. Hugs to everyone!

Crocs Rule: In Memory of Steve Irwin

2006-09-29T10:03:00.000-04:00

I will admit I did not contribute to this kit although I really wish I would have now. The girls at Digital Freebies have made this amazing kit to the memory of Steve Irwin.

Psst: if you click on the preview it will take you to the kit in the store.

A fabulous huge kit created by Digital Freebies' designers to honor the work of Steve Irwin - also known as the Crocodile Hunter. Steve has an amazing legacy of conservation and all proceeds from the sale of this mega kit will be donated to the Wildlife Warriors. For more information, check out their website - http://www.wildlifewarriors.org.au/.

Contributing designers include: Jodie Patterson, Maria LaFrance, Pamela Gibson, Bannerwoman, dedicated2digital, Eva Kipler, Heather Heinzer, Amanda Rockwell, and Michelle Swadling.

So lets all run over and grab this kit. Steve was truely a great man even though I thought he was a bit nutty at times.

Got Tagged

2006-09-28T11:24:00.000-04:00

#1 - The Top 7 Songs that I am into... Well what songs am I into right now. Honestly I'm so varied it isnt even funny. Not only do i go back to my roots with country I also love pop, but at the same time i'm actually into some of my daughters songs from the disney channel. I know that seems so weird, huh.

1. "unwritten" crap forgot who sings it lol. But i really like it and Arianna does too.

2. Jesus Take the Wheel Carrie Underwood i fell in love with this song the second i heard it.

3. Young Brad Pasiley Even though i'm young I dont feel that young anymore after having three kids.

4. Hazel Eyes Kelly Clarkson I really like this song. I think mostly because of the video

5. Best of Both Worlds Hanna Montana (this is one of those disney songs lol) If i was a pop star i think i would do what she does be a reg girl and a pop star so the press isnt constantly hounding me.

6. Untitled Simple Plan it shows you what can happen when you drink and drive.

7. 1985 by Bowling for Soup ok had to agree with Eva on this song. I was just a kid then but man i love that song.

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My new CT

2006-09-25T14:09:00.000-04:00

Well we finally have a group of 6 amazing ladies to complete my creative team. These girls are already awsome. they dont officially start until October first but some of these girls are already hard at work.
So lets see these girl's work and give them some much needed lovings.

Sandra ~ DST Gallery
Nicky ~ Shabby Shoppe Gallery
Kellie ~ DST Gallery
Amy ~ SBB Gallery
Emily ~ DST Gallery
Anna ~ The Digi Chick Gallery

Now arent these girls amazing. I'm so lucky to have them. Be on the look out for new things from them. They truely are an amazing team to complete my already amazing unoffical team lol. Loves and Hugs to everyone!

Read all About It!

2006-09-24T09:11:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls! So sorry that I am so late on posting anything. I promise this will be a biggy post. First bit of News. Eve R. asked me to be a part of her creative team. I'm so very estatic about this. She asked me two days ago and could i say no HECK NO i cant do that. I totally love her designs if you all couldnt tell. So I have done 3 layouts for her so far including a CD Calander that i'm gonna print out for family. I think they would like the calander better than the ABC Book so I will keep the ABC Book for myself. (see the slide on the side to see the pages. Hope I have it all in there.
Anyway back to the layouts. First we have Tristan. These pictures were taken at this years Fireman's Festivial. We were sitting in my sister in laws yard waiting for the parade to start. Tristan loves being out in grass or just outside period. Had such a blast before the parade started.
Second up I have Ayden. I took this picture of Ayden the other day on the couch. He just looked at me and when i shot the picture it so focused in on his eyes and when i used the photoblast actions just made them so much more vivid. So I had to title it ANGEL EYES. I so love this. I dont usually do layouts where all the focus is right around the picutre but everyone loves it so we kept it. well I kept it.
Our third layout is of Arianna. While it was still very warm outside we would take the kids to the park as much as we could. Well at one of the parks they had this thing. Not sure what to call it but arianna really liked playing on it. I'm so glad that she did. So I just had to scrap it.
Now for the kredits for these layouts: all three are with Eve's kits. Ayden: Whimisical (simply clean digi scraps), Arianna & Tristan: Rejuvinate (3S). No sketches were used in these layouts. Although I might make similar sketches for ya. You just never know.
Next bit of news for you girls! I'm haveing a sale. YAY how cool is that. Everything with some exceptions will be $2 off starting YESTERDAY until October 2nd. Might not have another sale till end of the month girls. Better get these while you can girls.
I been workin on a few things this week we have sketches and albums. YAY album and sketches. I really like this set of sketches and I hope that you girls will too. Next week I have at least one kit and probably a few more too. Maybe an album as well.
On another note. Thank youg irls for all of your comments about my freebie. I so hope you all enjoy it. I will be deactivating the links today unfortunately. I hope you all enjoyed it.
Well sounds like Ayden needs me so i'm gonna have to get out of here. Talk to you all later. HUGS TO EVERYONE!

PS: if you click on the layouts you can be taken to one of my galleries and leave me some love why dont ya. I would so very love it.

link 5 and 6

2006-09-16T00:52:00.000-04:00

hi girls i'm gonna go ahead and give you the last two links. I dont have a preview for these yet and might get it done tomorrow. but here are the links

Link 5

Link 6

I hope you girls enjoy it. I will post more this weekend.

edited to add previews.

2006-09-14T23:31:00.000-04:00

Hi girls! I see a few of you missed some links i know i said that I wasnt gonna let you ahve them after that day but I will. Here is the preview for day four. We will not be around much tomorrow so i am posting it way early.
Prince Charming Day Four

Day One
Day Two
Day Three
Day Four

There are all the links so far. Hope you enjoy the kit girls have a great day.

Also on another note thank you girls so much for your thoughts and prayers.

Princ eCharming Day Three

2006-09-14T05:59:00.000-04:00

Hi girls here is your LINK for day three not a lot of time though today. we just found out yesterday morning after my post that one of pauls uncles died this week. I will update everything after all the funeral stuff is over. oh and ayden had a clean feet bill of health this month at the doctors.
Prince Charming Day Three
Download Link

Prince Charming day Two

2006-09-13T05:16:00.000-04:00

hi girls! Not a whole lot of time but I wanted to drop you your next links. I will be posting it soon as it is uploaded. It is 5 am and baby just woke up so figured now is a good of time as any lol.

Sorry Kit Gone
Isnt this kit getting pretty cool. as you can tell there is mroe than just papers and alphas lol. I bet you were begining to wonder lol. Well Baby is done with his bottle i will get going now. I will update more later.

New Series & New Releases

2006-09-12T09:30:00.000-04:00

first up today my new releases. remember my boyish charm kit. well it finally made it to the store. as you all know releases only happen on tuesdays at digital freebies. so i have to get things out in spurts so i do promise to get everything out to you girls. i have it uploaded in four parts: Page Kit, Add - On, Album, & Package. All of these are 30% off for this week only.

Next new release is a huge birthday kit. I really love how this turned out. There is a lot of word art in the kit. tons of papers and even more elements. once again a few alphas which are too cute if ya ask me. so without further ado here is my Birthday Treasures Kit.
Purchase Kit Here

I also have two mini albums up for sale as well. they coordinate beautifully with my Boy Trouble & Spring Tulips page kits. Which unfortunately are not on sale anymore but you never know when I'm gonna have one fantastic sale.

Boy Trouble Mini AlbumPurchase Album HERE

Spring Tulips Mini AlbumPurchase Album HERE

Now next up. I am starting a series for a full kit including almost 40 elements, 12 papers, & 2 FULL sets of alphas. This will run for 6 days. each link will be removed by Noon the day after it is released and will have a new link in its place. So if you want this kit make sure to grab it while its free. Then it will go to the store for sale at a discounted price.

Day One
Sorry Gone.

Now remember girls this link will be taken down tomorrow hopefully before we take Ayden up to the doctor for his feet. So grab this now while you can.
Now I beleive that this is it for now. When I post tomorrow kit I will update you girls on what Dr. Shrader says about baby ayden's feet. Talk to you all soon.

Ok I know i've been scarce

2006-09-11T11:37:00.000-04:00

Hey girls! I know i've been a wee bit scarce. I'm sorry for that. I got a few sick kids. Sorry once again. I dotn have a whole lot to show you except more abc pages. but insteand of posting them all on here i'm slowly getting them up on the new blog (link in sidebar). I also have them up in their own album in the DST gallery. You can check that out with the link in the sidebar. At least i'm pretty sure its there lol.
So Like i said I have three sick kids now. It started with Arianna, then went to tristan a few days later, and now ayden has it too. But i think maybe his is just teething after all he is 5 months now. So lets cross our fingers that it is just that. He is quite fussy and has everything in his mouth.
I wish i coul be on here more and tell you all about everything but I do hve to go ayden is starting to get fussy again.

New Product Announcement and a new blog

2006-09-05T22:29:00.000-04:00

hey girls! Well How are things with everyone. I did promise to update you girls as to what is going on in my life. Well first of thing at Digital Freebies is totally amazing. You girls are really loving me there. I am sittin here grinning to ear to ear. You all have really taken to my sketch templates too. I'm soo happy you all love them. I'm workin on getting layouts done with not only the sketches but also several DF products. You girls are gonna love it. I gotta support my partners in crimes lol.
So what is my big announcement. I have started a new blog, but the only thing on there is layouts. All done by me all done with various sketches and all done with a letter of the alphabet. Yes that is right i started the kids abc albums. And since my SIL might be reading this blog now i cant tell you what its for but just think the holiday's are coming up soon. Well you can see the layouts here. How fun are those layouts. I promise to get them posted as i do them. I still have a few to post so they are a bit delayed.
Now for my new releases this week at Digital Freebies. I have my sketches and that is really big for me but I also have the sweetest little kit. i really love the colors in this kit. So here it is.

Sweet and Simple Purchase Here

Well that is it for tonight i have to go to bed early gotta be up at 5 am to tke my mom to the airport. talk to you all later have a great night.

2006-09-04T18:04:00.001-04:00

First thing first lets all welcome my new Guest CT member. She will be my guest from September 1st through september 15th. Here is some layouts that she has completed so far. I'm sure she will have many more. Oh yeah Might want to give you her name silly me. I'm a bit scattered brained lol. I choose Meridith Cardall also known most everywhere is mcardall. You can see her RAK GALLERY here. Now girls give her some love we all need love.

The following kits were used: Shabby Forests and Julies Friendship

Cardall Cabin
Flowers
Lil Cupcake

Didnt she do a fantastic job on these. I certianly think so. I know I havent been around too much lately. I'm so sorry for that. I have my mother visting me right now so I will continue to be scarce for the next few days. We had a family cook out today and it was so fun. Mom and I got to go to the store alone no kids no dh no grandparents. Its something her and I really did need to have.

I have started a new project too for this years christmas presents. I'm giving away ABC albums. Most pages using templates i have found and bought and what not. But I have to get going and I promise to post soon.

Freebie Template

2006-08-31T15:23:00.000-04:00

So I figure that the title will get you girls interested in this post lol. So Tuesday is new release tuesday at Digital Freebies. I have going up these sketches one zip for psp and ps and pse. I have made sure that in psp you will not get error message and if you do you can still use them. I have asked a friend of mine taht used DIP to convert them to DIP format for you girls. How totally awsome is that. Now I dont have much time so here is the preview of all 16 sketch templates.

And here you have a little freebie template.

Download Here

i hoep you all enjoy now back to the kiddos for me.

A Few New Kits

2006-08-28T14:44:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls! As most of you know Scrapmommies is no more. I am so saddened by this decision. But on a brighter note most of us girls have moved on to Digital Freebies. I decided that since this week inparticulary tuesday tomorrow i will have some of my products premeired as well as the other designers that I would do a big kit. A LOT bigger than my usual. U know me girls I usually have like what 20 elements and like 10 papers. We I doubled that. Can you beleive that. I really really loved the colors i picked as well as my theme. I know you girls would really love to see the kit and I really want to show you and I am seriously trying to show you but BLOGGER is being a big pain in the behind. and I guess it is just not gonna let me show you I'm so bumed about this. But anyway. Be on the look out tomorrow for the Digital Freebies newsletter wiht the new releases including 6 kits from me. 4 older kits and 2 brand new big kits. Much bigger than my usual. You might find a freebie from me too but We will let you fin dthat onyour own lol. TaTa for Now. Ill keep tryin to upload the previews for ya girls.

Updated to Add Previews.
So there are the two new kits.

Girly Giggles Winners

2006-08-25T13:39:00.000-04:00

Hi girls! I finally have the winners picked. I decided on Girly Giggles. I just loved that name. I also picked School Girl Crush and Diva Delights for runners up. They were just too cute. You all gave me lots and lots of names. I appreciate all your names. You just might see them in the future.

Now if all the winners could email me at papai.designs@gmail.com with Girly Giggle Winners in the sub line to claim your prize. Enjoy girls. I'll be doing some major updating later today. I have lots to tell you girls.

mini update

2006-08-24T22:20:00.000-04:00

hi girls just a mini note to say I will be picking out names. you girls have made it really hard to pick out a name. I promise soon I will have thenames i promise.

Another Name this kit Contest

2006-08-22T14:30:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls! Well I have another kit for you girls to name. i've been wrackin my brain to try to think of a name for it came up with one but I so dont like it. So here it is for you girls to name. Once again only two names please per comment per commenter. It is a bit girlly kit I totally love it. Workin on the album for it right now its almost half done so be on the look out for that soon.

Formerly name Pretty Girls Now will be named whatever you girls pick
And here is the add on for the kit. LIke I said I really love this kit.
You have until Thursday at Midnight to get yoru names in. Please leave names on here and not in the forums or my email I will only consider names on here.

Hope you have fun.

Here's the deal

2006-08-21T11:40:00.000-04:00

ok girls! i know a lot of you have been wanting the Boyish Charm Package. So here is how we will do it. You can either purchase in parts or the whole package. Here is how it will go:

send an email to papai.designs@gmail.com with boyish charm package in the subject line, if you want just the main kit or the add on or the album put those in place of package.
I will send you an invoice for what you requested.
Prices are as followed and will be the same in the store when they are up there: seperately $4.50 for each part or you can get the package for $10 which is a $3.50 saving from buying them seperately.
I will do this for the first 20 emails i recieve about this.

Here is the previews again. Ok Blogger is being a pain in the butt and wont let me upload previews. They are in the previous posts and i will also post them in my post at DST when I make it. Hope you all take advantage of this oppurtuntiy before they hit the store which is etaed at first of the month. so be on the look out then for that too.

Now that Blogger is nicer once again here is the preview of all three parts to the kit.

Huggles Jeannie

Only got 2 previews

2006-08-19T00:16:00.000-04:00

Hi girls! as promised here is the album. I wil be selling all three parts the add on the main kit and the album in my new store once we are up and going. still in the starting up stages. I wish i could get this out to you girls much sooner.

Next we have Something Girlly. What a fun kit this is . I dont remember if i showed you girls it yet. But here it is and it is finally up in the store at SM.Purchase Kit Here

But i'm gonna cut this super short as it is time for me to go to bed just thought i would share this with ya all. NINI girl!

Boyish Charm Winners

2006-08-18T10:45:00.000-04:00

Now wasnt that so hard. So many great choices. You girls might see some of those names in future kits. So before we get going today here are the winners.

Since two of my girls are on my creative team everyone in this list will get this kit for free:

Pretty Glo
Mellisa
Jessi
Donna

Please if you girls could kindly shoot me an email at papai.designs@gmail.com with "Boyish Charm Winners" in the subject line i will get you the link to this amazing kit. As you already know there is an add on to it and there will be an album for it before the end of the day or tomorrow at the latest. I am so glad you all enjoyed this contest. Good luck to you all the next time around. Hugs to everyone.

Few Things to Share

2006-08-17T15:11:00.000-04:00

so what do i have for you today. Well since the kit you all are naming until midnight went over so very very well I have an add on for it. I will admit when I seen the name in the selection of names and that it was over and over again I knew we had the name for this kit. But I wont say what it until midnght to make it fair and all. So here is the Add on to the kit.

Anotehr thing we have here an alpha set. I lvoe to do alphas and right now they love me too so here we have some colored wooden alphas. Enjoy.

name This Kit Conttest

2006-08-16T19:58:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls Here i am again today. You see Dh is working a double and I have nothing better to do than to run around online well instead of playing on the net i did a kit. I cant believe how fast I'm able to produce these kits lately. Just blows my mind.

OK Here is the deal. Every comment get 2 guesses. Please do not post more than two gets a bit confusing for me when it comes time to name it. You have until tomorrow at Midnight to name this kit. I will pick 4 people who will get it free. One winner, 2 runner ups, and a random winner. So look even if i dont pick your name you still might get it free.

Hope you all have fun naming this kit. I really really like it.

I'm Proud to Announce....

2006-08-16T12:01:00.000-04:00

That I wil lbe starting to sell at a new and upcomming site Digi Design Shoppe. This is a great wonderful team to work with. I knwo the site isnt up and running yet but I priomise we will get it launched soon.

Another thing remember those sketches you all loved so very much. I have made up a set of 12 layered sketches. I will be selling them at this new site. and here are the previews. (these sets do include theones I gave you all which you all so grabed up lol).

There are four sets total of three pages. I really love working with these too. I've done so many layouts with these. i'llshow them to you in the galleries lol. You girls do not know how much I love these. Well Girls that is it for now. I gotta take care of a burned little girl. Tried to take her food out of the microwave. Guess she learned her lesson.

Some Layouts again

2006-08-15T11:30:00.000-04:00

So I'm on a layout kick right now and a sketch kick and apparently my skteches are totally loved. or at least they have been downloaded alot and i mean alot. I cant wait to see all the layouts with them. I'm so excited. Now I have done a few more skteches today and wont have a preview yet until i get a few more done but here are a few layouts to show you some of them off. All layouts are made with Tristan this time around. Now girls get me doing some layouts of Ayden he's really slackin in layouts department.

I'm Lookin At You
Credits: Digi Chick Team kit Summer Splash

Curious
Credits: SBB Team Happiness

Joy
Credits: ColorBlast by Khristy Schmidt

This was not a sketch i made. It was a sketch i found and i'm sorry but I cant remember who made it. So sorry about that. Well Hope everyone has a great day and enjoys the templates. Remember they will be coming down at Midnight so make sure to grab them and use them over and over again. I would LOVE to see any and all layouts you do with them.

Templates Freebie

2006-08-14T18:40:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls! Have a new freebie. With all the rage about Layered Sketches. I've made up some actually 6 sketches. I have used one of them already and I think they are pretty good. But I want to test the waters. So for two days only you can get the sketches for free before I put them into a mall. Hope you enjoy them.

Sorry Times Up its gone. It will be in my new store for all that have missed it.

Exploring
Credits: Rebecca Myers Little Boys

Sneeky Sneek Sneek

2006-08-14T15:11:00.000-04:00

So girls! I am so glad you all love the new alpha. Now here is a sneek peek to the new kit it matches. You girls are gonna love it.
now isnt that wonderful. I dont really have a lot of time today. I'm still feeling a bit under the weather today. Well I woke up when arianna started crying mostly because she got moved from the couch to her bed last night lol. and i could not get up for like half an hour. So I'm a bit down and out again today. Promise I'll be up to par again.
Hope everyoen has a fantastic day.

Some Layouts, A New kit, and a sneek peek alpha FREEBIE

2006-08-13T21:32:00.000-04:00

Read the following with caution. Very Long Post. Ok now that my public service announcement is done I wil get started on the post. So what has all my loyal blog readers been doing. Me well I'm been in pain today. My back flaired up today Like it didnt know how to react to anything except give her shooting pains. I took about 1200 mgs of motrin (its a perscription so its well in my limit). Didnt work for a while then when it did start working everyone in his family came over today. ICK i was about to scream. Bad enough i have to chase a 1 year old i dont need to keep going to the door too. Oh well I'm starting to feel better lets pray it stays that way.

So Girls wanna see your freebie.... well i know you do.

Now if you girls like this freebie alpha make sure you keep a close eye and watch for a new team kit from one of the most awsomest girls at one of the stores i sell at. I know i'm keeping you in too much suspense lol.

Next up... We have some layouts. First is Arianna at her fourth birthday party. Well nto at the party this was at my grams house.

Your Fourth Birthday

Credits: Kit Amy Blesser Lady Pops Sketch by Traci Reed

Next up is Arianna again but this time using my new kit Something Girly. i havent gotten it uploaded yet as I'm reformated and cant figure it out yet lol. How did I do this before someone please tell me.

Little Girls

Credits: Something Girly By ME Sketch by Traci Reed

Last but certianly not least is Tristan. Hes my most sweetest big boy. I love him so much just like the rest of my kids.

Relaxed and Cool Credits: Honeydew by Khristy Schmidt Sketch by Traci Reed

Now that you girls have read through all of this looked at all these layouts i guess you would really like the freebie. well HERE IT IS. Now remember free does not mean free to give your friends send them here and if they miss it I'm sure they will find it again. Have a fantastic night everyone.

A New Kit

2006-08-10T16:57:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls! I have a new kit for you girls! I really am in love with these colors. I picked them for our SDK September mega kit. but my kit is just a little big to be a freebie kit so I will be uploading it for the store and make a mini kit. Which the papers are already done for lol.
Boys

Now we have a layout of my sweet boys. I put them in the playpen together for the first time yesterday. Went pretty good. Too bad it hasnt since then. Tristan kind of stays on his end of the playpen and ayden well he dont do much movin around yet so you can ge tmy drift where he stays. in circles lol.
Other than that not much to report today. Have a great day everyone.

Arianna's in the spotlight today

2006-08-09T18:47:00.000-04:00

So we do have a few layouts today. Every single one of these are of my darling little girl. First up we have "Hot Fun In the Summertime". Kit used was Grab it While Its Hot by Eve R. and Mandabean. You can find it in both of their stores. We took the picture of her at the zoo this past weekend. We decided to go ahead and take the kids to the zoo. Packed them up and headed over there.

Second layout is "My Little Sweetheart". I took this picture last year when i was first learning how to take pictures. Back then they tended to make her look older than what she really is. But thats ok we will survive. I really love to use virtual photographer on my pictures. they are so much fun to use.

Last but certianly not least we have Arianna in a picture I have scrapped before. But I couldnt find a picture i wanted to use wiht this kit so much more than what i picked. This kit was much fun to use its by Laura Deacetis. She does really good work. It was a pleasure to work with her kit. I really like my color blocking too it came out pretty neat.

On another note dont forget to get your August Blog Freebie while its still up. Such an awsome qp album made by my sweet Michelle.

I have been really really busy lately. I have to get my house ready for my mom to come on the 1st. Started a new kit. and obviously done a few layouts. Also getting things ready for a guest CT spot every month wiht my designs. So check your emails and your PM boxes. If I love your gallery chances are you got an invitation to be on the CT. But I think thats all for today. Loves and Hugs to you all.

So what's Up?

2006-08-06T10:14:00.000-04:00

So we took the kids to the zoo yesterday. Went in the rainoforest part which was fun but didnt get too many good pictures. Tried to hit the parts we missed last time we were there. Which was the Rainforest and the Austrailain adventure. We really liked the Austrailain adventure part. got to see walabees and little birds. Didnt see the Koala bears though. Will do that next trip.

So Paul took this picture of ayden and me. I really like the picture. i dont have many pictures of me in there. I'm usually the one behind the camera. and I swear yesterday he wanted to be behind the camera which is ok since it gave me an oppurturnity to get some pictures of me in there. Kids need to know who their mommy looked like when they were little bitty babies.

Simple Pleasures

Credits: Relax and Rejuvinate from ACOT Designers

I dont have many other pictures ready to show yet since they all need to be resized. We did manage to go see butterfly magic too. That was fun but so not something to take the babies in to. They had this one blue butterfly in there so did not want a picture taken. But that is ok we got some other shots of them too. So I think I will survive with what we got in there. Arianna went in with me and got to see some butterflys hatching. She really loved that. After that we decided it was time to head out for the boy's sake. and what does arianna do complain we didnt get to see the Bears. Oh i was so not walkin clear on the other side of the zoo to get to the bears so we told her that she can go back next week after paul gets paid again. And when seh told grandpa what she seen in the zoo first thing she said is she didnt see bears. Oh well she will survive.

Now for an update on MIL. She is home safe and sound. Moving around not too much but a little bit. She has a PT coming in three times a week to do her physical therapy. I really hope that she is better after all of this is finished. Now hope you all have a fantastic day. Stay cool everyone or if you are cool alread stay warm lol.

Updates and a few sneek peeks

2006-08-03T09:45:00.000-04:00

Hi girls! I have a few updates for you and whats been keepin me busy. First thing first, MIL. She is doing great. She has started her physical therapy in the hospital. Yesterday went as well as I expected it too. She got up and walked around but fought them on the PT. Said if they are gonna hurt her then NO NO NO NO NO WAY they are doing it. I told everyone she said she is gonna do that. The kids and I are gonan go see her later today during the afternoon. Its way way too hot here to go during the day. And she cant start getting visitors until 3 pm anyway. that is when they are done with the PT.

Now for the fun part of the post. Well over at one of my stores ( i know you know what site i'm talkin about ) we are in the plannings for this huge celebration. You are all so gonna love this. We have a million things planned for everyone. And this is what will keep me busy for years and years to come lol. As the time approches you will get more and more details.

on another note... how many of you like sales? You do how awsome is that. Well guess what. remember that sale i told you about that you were gonna love. wel here are the detials: (insert picture here because blogger hates me totally). Well here is the text version of it.

SALE
WHO: JEANNIE PAPAI DESIGNS @ SCRAPMOMMIES
WHEN: AUGUST 5TH - AUGUST 7TH
PRICE: $1.50 FOR ANYTHING IN MY STORE.

yes you read that right the whole store is going on sale for $1.50. told you girls you were gonna love the sale. Now didnt I call that. Now dont rush over now rush over on saturday. still have two days. I already had some girls rushin over. Maybe they will buy some things reg price lol.

well that is it for now. i cant post any pictures since blogger hates me. I'll yack at you all later.

August Blog Freebie

2006-08-01T10:31:00.000-04:00

Hi Girls! This month one of my amazing CT girls has made you all an 8 1/2 x 11 album. You can easily resize it to fit your needs. Just remember the spaces will be a little different. I Hope you all enjoy it.

She used my Precious paper pack and made herself a few staples and some arrows. I have included an add on alpha not in the original paper pack. Thank you to Brianna at Atomic Cupcake for her Painted Wood action. I love this action but it doesnt love me as much.

So this weekend we all went to our towns Firemans Festival. IT was very hot. We went to my sister in laws about an hour early while they were in church still. I could have gone inside but see I didnt know that. I was a little upset about that but Tristan had soem fun playing in the grass and tearing it all out. I swear she is gonna have soem holes in her grass lol. Oh well it will grow back someday lol. I will share some pictures with all of you when i get them resized. Took lots and lots of them while I waited for Tami to get out of church. To tide you over here is a layout I did of tristan. Tami gave him a lollipop from the parade. Put him up towards the road in his cute little pooh chair. So without furter ado here is the cute picture i got of tristan eatting a lollipop.

Editted to add the pictures:
First we have Ayden asleep during the parade. Second Tristan sleeping once we got home wiht his new favorite toy. Third: DH in the crusier during the parade. I circle him for you girls lol. Fourth: Tristan sitting in his new pooh chair. Can we detect a pooh theme with him. and lastly Tristan again just crossing his arms lol.

Lollipop Lollipop
I used Khristy's Simply Amusing from her Simple Line. I have been dying to use this kit. As I am all the kits of hers I have bought. They are totally amazing as you all already know. Maybe I can convince her to have a sale soon. I'm sure you all will love that. And speaking of sales you all should look out for a sale from me this weekend. I'll have an add up soon. Its gonna be a good sale and its gonna be a one time thing. So you better get up there and get them while they will be so hot.
So what else is going on here today. Well my mother in law is having hip surgery today. DH went to the hospital with his dad, aunt and uncle. Paul just called said that they are running behind and she isnt in surgery yet. She is all preped to go but hasnt been taken back yet. So I'm still very worried about her. Says that the surgery will take 2 to 5 hours 5 hours being the max if something goes wrong. So lets everyone pray that nothing goes wrong. Please keep her in thoughts and prayers.

Now since you girls have read through all my ranting and yacking. Here are your links:

Download Link 1
Download Link 2

Hope you all enjoy and have a fantastic day.

We're at it again

2006-07-29T10:34:00.000-04:00

Now by we i mean Khristy and me. Who else would i mean. So I made this color chip that we totally loved. This time we did this team kit a little different. We have two totally different themes, mine was flowers (and special thanks to Tracy Blankenship for the doodles to make the papers and some of the elements) and hers was boys. Now I totally love hers. She did an outstanding job with them. I've already used it in a layout too. I really love how this layout came together too. It helps when you have an amazing kit to work with.

Be Yourself
Now girls hop on over to Khristy's blog and put a name in for this kit. You might just win yourself a copy of it. That's all for now. Oh I got a sweet little box from my mom for the kids. It was so nice of her to send it. Lots of clothes for Tristan and some for Arianna too. And what every child needs.... chocolate lol. Also some Halmark ornaments too. Got one special for the baby too for Grandchild's first Christmas. I totally love it its so so cute. Ok That's all for now girls. I'll catch up with you all later.

ACK I Been Tagged

2006-07-27T17:43:00.000-04:00

1. Have you ever been searched by the cops?
Yes dont ask it was a stupid teenage thing.

2. Do you close your eyes on a roller coaster?
Roller Coasters are a big no-no for me.

3. When's the last time you've been sledding?
Never

4. Would you rather sleep with someone else, or alone?
Either with DH or Ayden (as I co sleep) other than that my daughter or my son.

5. Do you believe in ghosts?
Not sure.

6. Do you consider yourself creative?
Very

7. Do you think O.J. killed his wife?
I dont realy have an opinion about this as i was too young when it happened to know what was going on during the trial.

8. Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie? (silly, I know ... but very "now")
Angelina I like her name lol.

9. Can you honestly say you know ANYTHING about politics?
Nope I know nothing

10. Do you know how to play poker?
Yes (another stupid teenage thing lol)

11. Have you ever been awake for 48 hours straight?
Not that I'm aware of I have for over 24 hours when I was having Ayden but that is the only time i can think of.

12. What's your favorite commercial?
Capitol One Commericals.

13. Who was your first love?
A guy I knew in high school

14. If you're driving in the middle of the night, and no one is around you, do you run a red light?
Nope even if i dont drive.

15. Do you have a secret that no one knows but you?
I probably do but cant think of it now.

16. Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees?
Neither dont like baseball

17. Have you ever been Ice Skating?
nope

18. How often do you remember your dreams?
only when i'm pregannt

19. What's the one thing on your mind?
Scrapping

20. wear your seat belt?
yeap

21. What talent do you wish you had?
more paitence

22. Do you like Sushi?
EWWW yuck

23. What do you wear to bed?
That is none of ur business lol.

24. Do you truly hate anyone?
hate No

25. If you could sleep with one famous person, who would it be?
cant think of anyone i would.

26. Do you know anyone in jail?
not anymore

27. What food do you find disgusting?
sushi its raw fish come on

28. Have you ever made fun of your friends behind their back?
NO tthat i can think of.

29. Have you ever been punched in the face?
Nope.

30. Do you believe in angels and demons?
Angels yes

Now I will tag the following people:

Khristy Schmidt

Rebecca Myers

Eve R

Tristan's Layouts

2006-07-27T12:07:00.000-04:00

As you all know i've been doing lots of layouts using Eve's kits. Fun huh. Her kits are totally amazing. and these next two are of Tristan. Gonna do a few more layouts today too got some special things to scrap with Ayden. (will update you guys on ayden today too)

OH so Good
Kit Kredits: Eve R. Posh Petals

Driving Around
Kit Kredits: Eve R. Playful Boy

Now to update on Ayden. We went back to Dr. Shrader on Monday. He gave us all an OK to keep doing what we been doing with the shoes and wearing them as much as possible. We go back in two MONTHS not weeks MONTHS. Isnt that awsome. No more weekly trips to Akron to go see the doctor.

So now i'm off to go take care of baby. He's a bit fussy today. And my head hurts too.

Been Shoppin

2006-07-23T20:19:00.000-04:00

So I been shopping. Well it wasnt today I went shopping even though I did but not online lol. I am so loving all of Eve's kits. I just have to have all of them but gotta do it in spurts or wait for an amazing sale. So these are the ones I have gotten this past week and three of these I have used already. (click on previews to be taken to the store to purchase these kits).

Fresh Delights
Playful Boy
Girlz World Scrapkit
Posh Petals
Sugar Pie

Doesnt she do such awsome work. I totaly love Love LOVE her stuff. You girls have seen my layouts with these so far. I still have two mroe kits to use before I get more. I cant wait to get some more of her most awsome work. Ok Now I'm gone again for the day HUGS!

Having So Many Issues not Even Funny

2006-07-23T10:31:00.000-04:00

I'm Having so many issues today trying to upload kits to stores. Yes my pasliey kit, my Gurbbie boys kit, and my Julie's Friendship kit. All of those kits go to Scrappin Digi Kreations and apparently my zips arent being liked. What the Freak is up wiht this sht. I have been trying for days now. I have all my forms filled out and sent in with the exception of Julies Friendship. So Now I try to upload my Rak August Mega kit. I dont know what was up wiht me but I didnt like the colors too much this time wiht the theme given but I gave it my all but HA HA youc ant see it its a secret SHHHHH. But I can show you this months Kit.

It hasnt been released yet this month so be on the look out for it. Isnt it just too cute. I'm really really proud of this kit. Ok well that is it for the day. Oh wait I have another layout to share with you girls.

1,2,3,4 Sweet Years Old I used another one of Eve Rencillias kit; Girlz World. It was just too perfect for this picture of Arianna. Granted the original had her brother in it too but I loved her face in it. We are allowed to do that brake up pictures there was a big enough space between them lol. Ok Now I'm out for the day. Huggles to Everyone.

Pillow Talk

2006-07-21T13:44:00.000-04:00

SO what are you girls up to today. Well Me I finished a layout and finished Julie's part of the friends kits. Now I have Julie, Kimmy, and Khirsty. Still have at least one more to do maybe a few more not sure yet. So here is Julie's kit.

Julie's Friendship

Next we have the reason for the post's title. So our last layout in the Miss Mint Next Top Digital Scrapper Contest was to do a layout with a converstaion as the journaling. She wanted direct quotes. And who could resist this converstaion I had wiht my daughter about her youngest brother.

Pillow Talk

Kredits: Eve Rencillia Sugar Pie Several stitches from vairous Miss Mint Kits Frame on the picture from Miss Mints Rak Exclusive Tropical Cabanna.

Journaling: well I think its big enough to see, lol. Ok now back to dealing with kids as Arianna just woke tristan up and I just got him down for a nap. So not fair.

So What did I do today????

2006-07-19T17:09:00.000-04:00

I worked on this today. So I had three things to do today. Upload my Rak Prize kit (didnt get done), Work on my SDK Mega kit (not finished but partly finished), and Work on this kit (got done). I am so proud of this kit. I"m not telling you where you can find it but you will find it around August 1st so not too long from now.

Now to get workin on some other things. Sorry they are so short lately. HUGS everyone!