HODS Grand (re)Opening Day!!!

woo-hoo!!!!! The big day is here! We're officially open for business. It is sooooo exciting to actually be a designer and one of the initial team members for this fab store. Right now my Perfect kit is 20% off during our Grand Opening sale. You can get the details and purchase it HERE. Select items from all designrs are 20% off and our Valentines Mega kit is a big hopping 30% off. This cute kit is HUMONGOUS. It contains over 50 papers and over 100 elements . You can get more details and purchase it HERE.

In the last couple of days I have added another template-- Silly Squares, Dirty Frames, and Autumn Butterflies. Autumn Butterflies is much bigger and better than the little freebie I gave away here a few weeks ago. These should be in the store sometime on Friday. I'll give you the first peek at each of them now:

Don't you just love everything? Don't you just want to scurry on over to my store right now????

(click on pictures to enlarge them)

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ok now....some of you may already be familiar with Serena (YAY!)...and for those of you that don't know the ever-so-fabulous Serena, please click on her name so you can check out her blog...and then bookmark it! Besides being my personal cheerleader and one-woman CT (as of Wednesday), she loves to share marvelous freebies and great diginews that she finds surfin' around this lovely digi-land of ours.

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now for a little funny thing that happened to me on Thursday....I heard a little noise in our family room and then all of a sudden I saw a bird flying from window to window trying to get out. We had out slidingglass door open to the backyard earlier, so he must've decided to come in and play during that time After I took this pic, I opened the front door, and he immediately flew outside

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and...m eyboard is still screwd up..I nk I need to take this bak into Best By for the Ge Squa to look atit.....soooo, ju icase he tping looks weird

, that's why (I corrected some of the skipped kcharacterss, but I could've easily missed some

sorry it's been a while...

hey there...I'm so sorry it's been a week.....and sorry for my Gidget lovers, I know I've really neglected it lately...hopefully I'll make something soon to add to your collection

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The Grand Opening at HODS is on the 26th so I've been busy getting things in the store and getting my Scraplift Challenge going. Like I mentioned earlier, our gallery, forum, and store are already open for all of our friends. So please visit, register, and check out what we have to offer so far...and then bookmark us for regular visits. (when you do register...please please please please say hello HERE to intro yourself..say hi to me too). I have a Silly Template Collection in the store that I just love. I hope you will love them too. So far, the Silly Stripes, Silly Circles, and Silly Arrows are available. More will be joining them this week.

I think the 4th Silly Circle template is my VERY favorite. I can't wait to play with that one. It should be soooo fun with all of those little circles everywhere. The only one that I have used so far is my 2nd Silly Stripes one.

my son, Hudson, 12.30.06 (2 yrs)

Silly Stripes templates by Sara Ellis, Cinnamon Swirls kit by Faith True, Basic Cork Board Alpha by Faith True, font is Guanine

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*** now....how would you like to be on a great CT or DT???

HODS is looking for more enthusiastic and creative people for both teams. Our CT is getting a little smaller because a couple members just got promoted to our DT. Yay for Dale Ann and Kathi, boo for our CT! If you are interested or you'd like more info, please contact Caudia at customerservice(at)hookedondigiscrap.com. Please let her know that I referred you.

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ok...now a cute pic that Jeff took last night of Griffin squishing my face....isn't this just adorable? I can't wait to scrap this

but I did scrap this pic that I've been yearning to do something with since I took this picture last Easter ...... Faith True's goodies were so fun and perfect for this...dontcha think? I really LOVE her CT so much! We can mix and match any of her kits, embellishments, templates, alphas..it's oh so fun!

my son, Hudson... Easter 2006........in love with the chocolate cake

lifted Dale Ann's Cowgirl Cutie for our first HODS' Scraplift Challenge, Cinnamon Swirls Kit, doodle corners, Old Photo Edges, and Arthur's Bug Day Alpha by Faith True, font is Colourbars

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ok...this is it for now...I hope to see you again fairly soon

one more new blinkie

Have I been on a roll lately or what????

I am just absolutely psyched about all that's been going on lately (in my digi-world, that is).

I have been with Angela Sharrow's CT for about a month now (my very first CT...yay!). Then a few days ago I joined the Design Team at HODS. .... now....drum roll please.... I am now on Faith True's CT also. She is just incredible too! I've only applied for 4 teams, that's it. I've beenso super picky about who I applied for. I was turned down for the very first one, then came Angela and Faith, the jury is still out for my other one (Andrea Burns...another oh so fabulous designer!!!!!)

oh...so cool!!!!!!!

yummy yummy

ok...a few days ago I mentioned somethingabouta great little peanut butter cafe I wen to ...ell I figured it ws about time o elaborae.......

I met meMIL on Fiday at Scottsdale's Fashion Square's play area and ten we went to PB Loco Cafe for a little lunch withthe boys. Hudsonjust loves peanut butter. We'd never bee there before, but I heard that it was a prtty cool place to go. Oh my! Therewere probably 15 flavors of PBand a whole bunch f sandwiches. I had the RAZZLIE DAZZLIE: White Chocolate Raspberry PB, Marshmallow Spread & Sliced Bananas grilled sandwich. It was soooooo yummy!!!!! It sound knd of weird...but who cares. My MIL had the CINNY NILLA: Sumatra Cinnamon & Raisin PB, Vanilla Cream Cheese, Granny Smith Apple Slices & a Drizzle of Caramel grilled sandwich andloved heres oo. Hudson enjoyd a huge tray of animal crakrs with acouple different types of PB while Griffin just chucke a ew cracers on th floor. Anyways..it is a franchise, so if you have one nearyou....go grab ayummy sandwich today!

****yes..my typing looks like t stinks....sorrry...my keyboad is being stupid and I'm not going back to correct everything right now (likeI'v been doing all morning)

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a little sneak peek

I submitted my contribution last night for our Valentine's Mega kit at HODS. Oh!!!! You all will love it soooooo much! All of the little snippets that I've seen from the other designers so far are just soooooo cute and cool! One of my little bits is a fun alpha .... here's a sampling of it for you...

isn't it sooo girly pink??

oh my....I've been revamping some of my kits to get them store ready....dang, is that tedious....I think after I'm done with the one I'm working on right now I might start a whole new something so my brain doesn't go crazy

I'll throw a little Gidget part 4 together tonight or tomorrow night for you to enjoy...I don't want you to have to wait too long before you get another portion of it

and...........Serena.........Where are you??????? You haven't been around today. What's up?

(don't forget to scroll down for freebies)

ok ok ok ..... what have you been waiting for???

You all just make me so happy. Thank you so much for even caring about my news.

Welllllll......it's official...I'm a full-fledged bonafied designer. yea, yea..I was able to sell one new kit a month at DSC. But, this is soooooo much better!!!!! I'm now on the Design Team with Hooked on DigiScrap. Woo-Hoo! HODS is going through a big remodeling right now and our Grand Opening is scheduled for January 26th. Don't worry, you don't have to wait until then to check out the new digs. The forum and store are ready for our friends. Yes, our friends. We are not announcing this to everyone yet. Feel free to venture on over. I do not have anything in the store yet. It might be a few more days before I get things into it since I am sooooo brand spanking new there. Right now I'm working on my contribution for our Valentines Mega Kit.

I really really hope you will follow me there and fall in love with my soon to be store.

Serena....give me your e-mail address and a couple days to get you a special goodie.

Cheers for now :)

Guessing game

ok....since you all are so funny........I can't believe Serena cried last night.....so funny!

why don't you guess...that's right ...just take a guess ....if you guess correctly you'll end up with somethin' nice from me

I was planning on telling you last night...but this is a little more fun just keeping you on the edge of your seats

ok..now....about Bunco last night.......it was from 6:15 until 10:45 at my house last night....no, I wasn't nervous about it.....just had to get the house ready and dinner ready beforehand for 11 other girlies to be here.....and my dh came home from softball about 10 minutes after everyone left (yes, a doubleheader until 10:30 in a bustling 30 degree wind..not fun)

ok....ciao for now ..and smiles to you for a little while longer ;)

here's the first little somethin'

ok....I really don't have time for this....

I should be cleaning my house more right now because I'm hosting Bunco tonight. I already dropped Griffin & Hudson off to Grandma this morning to spend the night. I prettied up my little fake floral display at my front door, picked up toys. I still have to clean the kitchen, go to the grocery store, get dinner & brownies ready. Oh me oh my!!!!! At least this is the only time I have to host this year. I'm getting over right off the bat. Ok...why am I rambling??? I don't have time for this.

Oh...one thing I have to look up info about ....and then rave about later....a great little PB & J cafe I went to earlier today.

ugh!

ok....here's the first exciting thing .....part 3 of Gidget....yep, FREEBIE time again...it's a beautiful, fun, & funky paisley paper with a fastener....

isn't it so fab???? if you think so...and you'd like to grab it....please leave me some lovin' when you do. I love reading your comments. Serena, you are soooo funny. Like I'm really making you just itch with anxiousness today? LMBO!

ok...download HERE ..... and say buh-bye to Gidget part one, I just made the link disappear

ok...I still have one really really super exciting thing to share.....but you'll still have to wait...until later tonight (after Bunco most likely) I'm just giddy about it...and I really hope you will be too

ok...off to run around and do more stuff around here in this lovely freezing Phoenix weather....it's so not fair...it's supposed to be sunny and warm every day...yea right!

please stayed tuned...

Coming very soon are a couple of super super exciting things!!!!! I am so extremely busy today, so I'll try to find a few minutes later today to let you know more. Trust me...you'll be excited too.

til then....

Gidget FREEBIE part 2

short and simple.......

here's part 2 of Gidget...... it's one smudged white paper, a fabulous overlay, and a cute 4X6 frame
download HERE

Have fun with this....leave me some lovin' ...and Scrap Sassy Silly!

momentary bits and pieces

wellll...tonight I'm going to work on an addition to Gidget....so please stay tuned

Boo is still doing great...despite the fact that she has a large tumor on her knee ....her personality is fabulous again.......yay!

now...I thought I'd let you know that I'm kickin' it with Ebay again. I have a whole bunch of Silpada jewelry listed. I was a rep for three years and didn't renew in September. Ever since I had Griffin, I just haven't had the oomph to conitinue it. Their jewelry is just beautiful! I just have some pieces that I barely wore because I they were mainly for display pieces. I'm definitely keeping my most loved items, but I'm selling off the rest. Go HERE to check out what I have listed (I even threw three of my digikits on there too). If you haven't heard of them, you can check them out HERE. My most popular piece for sale is pictured to the right. It's a necklace of a few leather strands with a removable Turquoise pendant.

ok...that's it for now....I'll be back later tonight (but it could be the wee hours of tomorrow morning)

my purse (AGAIN)...and a FREEBIE...


I jazzied up my purse yesterday. It looks so fab! The ribbons I added really gave it that extra special OOMPH of enviable cuteness. Dontcha think? I really wish my cute little ribbons showed up better for you (they are a thin solid brown, a brown & white check, & brown with fab blue polka dots). Here's the link again for you to grab your own purse.

AND .... now drumroll please .........

Well .... I'm doing a little somethin' different for my next FREEBIE, Gidget. I'm offering just bits and pieces each day. So you'll have to come back often to make sure you grab the entire kit. I will only be keeping one or two downloads available at the same time. Gidget has gone Greek! It's all about sisterhood, but don't fret fans of boys. There will definitely be pieces that will work for you too. Gidget might be meeting a handsome fraternity boy. You may never know what interests she may have until that special day.


Download HERE


please leave me a little bit of lovin' when you grab my goodies (I just fixed my blog so that EVERYONE can leave comments now, sorry it wasn't set up like that earlier)...
.......and then Scrap Sassy Silly!
Have a groovy day too!

(have you grabbed one of my other freebies from this past week??? you better scroll down, if you haven't yet)

my fun, new enviable....

Princess Purse!
no good pics of my purses with the inserts in it....but here are the inserts...

sorry, no pics on them for me...
maybe for the grandmothers at a later date....

I used Tamra Burwick's Some Kind of Wonderful kit
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toots and a Boo update...perhaps other ramblings from me too ....

Boo update: She has a low grade soft cell sarcoma (I think that's the correct name). She's been on her medication for over a week now (1 in the AM and in the PM) and it's doing wonders for her. She has her old playfullness back again. It's so nice. We went from thinking on New Years Eve that we'd have to put her down this weekend to not really knowing when we want to do it now. We definitely aren't amputating her leg or having the tumor removed (no way they can get all of it and have enough skin to cover it back up). Jeff is also doing better now that Boo is doing better for now. Also, her Oncologist doesn't believe that the cancer has spread anywhere, but the Radiologist still has to make the final call on that. Hopefully we'll know that answer by Monday.

a long overdue toot... I keep forgetting to mention that I was selected to be on Angela Sharrow's CT almost a month ago. She has her designs at ScrapDish, Digital Freebies & Scrap Outside the Box. Besides being a creative LO artist, I am also a preview artist, and QP artist. Yay! It's been so fun so far. I love having a deadline to get LOs done. It forces me to scrap more often. Here's a QP and LO that I did for her Serenity duet kit.

See credits and details here.

a new fun toot... KikiScraps held a fun little contest over at DST to name her newest kit....well, guess who won???? yep, that's right, it was me...with Muddy Wonders. Sooo, I won that kit as a prize. yay!

wishing for my 2nd CT... Faith True has a CT call out there right now. She's giving away a cute little kit to any blog visitors and also asking CT applicants to scrap a LO for her with this. Wellllll, since it's a girly kit, I used a pic that I received from my old tennis buddy a couple days ago. I'm so happy that he sent me some pics of his daughters because one pic of Taylor is just stunning and I had to play around with it. I actually think I scrapped one of my best LOs ever with it. I know I definitely received more comments in the DST and TheDigiChick galleries than I have on any other LO I've done. Hopefully that's a VERY good sign for Faith's CT. Click on one of the gallery links above for the credits and details. After looking at this again, I've realized that I forgot to add a few drop shadows to this late last night. I think I need to tweak it a bit. BUT...it's still sooooo precious? Isn't it?

my Princess Purse arrived.... yay! I didn't even check my mailbox until 11pm tonight....and....wall-lah...there it was.......now I have so many fab papers in my library of stuff, I have no idea what to choose for my first inserts. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can learn more about them here (their store) and here (forum with tons of insert pics). Oh decisions, decisions!

no FREEBIE for now...sorry....I still have a couple others listed below....but I just can't even think about what to offer up next. Hopefully something will jump out at me soon for you.

oh....thanks.... Dale Ann, for the info about the Designer's call. I will probably e-mail Claudia sometime on Sunday.

til later...ok.....guess that's it for now.......have a groovy Sunday...since it technically isn't Saturday now (in my part of the world...by 30 minutes)

here I go again.....

first off....I just wanted to let you know that we don't have Boo's biopsy results back yet. She has her same personality back now that her medication has kicked in which is really nice, but she is still licking away at her tumor (not good). My dh has had her as his little baby for 15 years. I've only been in the picture for 4.5 years. Thank you very much to the sweet comments so far. I'll keep you posted.

Now....because I have spent a little too much recently on digiscrap finds and a Princess Purse (click here and here to find out more about these enviable purses)...I finally listed more items on Ebay (some NWT Ann Taylor clothing and a few of my digiscrap kits). Please check out my fabulous goods here. I will be listing more items in the next couple of days including some Silpada jewelry (since I'm no longer a rep) and a few more of my digiscrap kits. I am a SAHM so I need to do a little something at times to make a little moolah somehow somewhere. I just need to do it more often than I do right now. My digiscrapping world takes up most of my available time. Hmmm, priorities?

ok....well, even though I said that I need a little more money...it's time to give away more FREEBIES...because that's what I do (until I get a real design gig...oh that would be sooooo cool!!!!) I made a few little things to help bring in the new year ~ three 2007 wordart pieces to be exact. Please enjoy them and leave me some lovin' because I love reading your comments oh so much!

Download here

****Thanks for loving my Autumn Butterflies mini kit. You've already downloaded it 467 times! WOW! And to think I used to use yousendit to upload the files - that sure couldn't have happened there.

Ok....now I'm off to dry my hair & get ready to run errands, then pick up my guys from Grandma's house. They spent last night with her so they could watch concrete be poured for the foundation of her new house. How much fun is that for two little guys?

oh....before I go.......I'd like to share my New Year's card with you too!!!!!!!

see credits here

now ...have a beautiful hump day!!!!!

I am soooooooooo freaking annoyed!!!!!!! I just typed a whole bunch of stuff...and included a FREEBIE....and then it disappeared as soon as I tried to publish it!!!!!!!!!! UGH!!!!!!

I'm going to go take a shower now....and then I'll come back and ramble again....or maybe I'll do it later tonight...so not fun

bummer of the last couple of days...and more to come

we are so bummed right now, especially my dh......our dog has had a large tumor on her front left leg.......we chalked it up as a fatty tumor for most of this year...I took her to our vet a couple months ago & he referred us to a specialist.......wellllll, I saw a doggie Oncologist yesterday & we went back again today for a biopsy....they won't have the results until the end of next week to tell the degree of the malignancy, but, because of the size, they are already suggesting amputating her leg......welllll, she is my dh's baby, he's had her for 15 years...so we are probably going to put her down instead of putting her through an amputation or radiation ....we're still going to wait until the test results are in......................but, needless to say, it's a sad house here right now

I'm baaaack...and with a mini kit freebie

wow! it seems like forever since I have blogged. The holidays and family in town really made me fall off of my normal routine.

I had a pretty great Christmas (even though my nose is raw from blowing it a zillion times the last few days). We were very busy (like usual) decorating (so last minute!), visiting family, shopping, being festive, eating, & opening presents. My hubby thinks that I am obsessed with the computer and digi-scrapping. Hmmmmm, I wonder why? Do you think it's because I'm on the computer about any chance I can get and I stay up super late enjoying my "me time"? Perhaps. Sooooooo, all of presents had to do with the computer and pictures (a new 19" flat screen monitor, a thumb drive, photo album, & frame), plus some universal AMEX gift cards that can be used at certain stores. ok, let me say this, if you don't already have a flat screen, you need to get one. I can't believe the difference in colors. WOW! It's fabulous! AND....I started shopping yesterday with my gift cards and I came home with something that I never thought I would never own, some Crocs, the Mary Jane style in black. Oh my! They are the most comfiest things in the world and the lightest shoes ever too. I would've grabbed some light blue ones if Dillards would've had them. The Mary Janes are soooooo much cuter than their most common clogs style. My dh and Coop sure aren't pleased with them, but I don't care. I needed some great comfy casual shoes to wear with jeans & I refuse to wear tennies with jeans, these are oh so great for that.

OK.....now time for a freebie...since it's been at least a couple weeks since I've offered any...I retooled one of my first minikits that I designed for DigiScrapCentral. It's been more than three months so I can now offer it up to you. I reworked wome of the papers to give them an aged shabbiness feel.

Take a gander at my preview & enjoy this gift from me to you.

Download here

(I switched hosting services. Thanks to ValGal's suggestion, I am now using SendSpace and loving them so far.)

As always...I really really love reading your comments, so please leave me some when you grab this. Thanks!

new, refreshed freebie links....WOO-HOO

Since TheDigiChick is having one funtabulous big ball of fun right now with the Christmas Party Chick Style weekend........I refreshed the links for my Christmas freebies.......with the exception of my very first Christmas tree since that mysteriously disappeared off of my computer

you'll have to scroll down to see the previews of each (or just be daring and grab them sight unseen...you know you'll love 'em anyway):
wordart
doodles
alpha
papers

so please have fun with these goodies....and if you already aren't having fun with us chickies...you need to scurry on over now & camp out with us for a while...there's a ton of fun to be had :) FUN

Elf!!!!!!!

This is sooo funny! Thanks to the fabulous Kimberly G at TheDigiChick I found some oh so fun. Get your groovin' dancin' boogiein' shoes on......
are they on???????? ...ok...now you are ready to see my mini-me here ....then click on the little memo on the bottom right (you'll know what I'm talking about when you see it) for more good times

Enjoy!!!!!!!!!

That's it...I'll catch up with something else at a later time.

Christmas Goodies no. 5 ...and exciting news...

Oh my...I forgot to mention to you that I am finally on a CT, Angela Sharrow's CT to be exact. I'm so psyched! I've only applied for 2 CTs so far because I've been pretty picky with the designer. I love her stuff! If you'd like to check out some of her goods, click here for her stuff in the Digital Freebies store. She hasn't handed out her first assignment yet, but it should be very soon. I'm actually have 3 positions, I will be a designer on the CT, a preview maker, & a QuickPage Artist. Woo-Hoo! There are a couple more calls on DigiShopTalk that I'm interested (Traci Reed & ShelleyRae). Hopefully I'll be able to get my applications in before the deadlines for those.

For those of you that love my alpha from a couple days ago, here's a card I made for my father-in-law last night with his grandsons (my 2 youngest & their cousin)...I used my alpha for this:

credits here

ok...now....are you ready for my Christmas Goodies no. 5 FREEBIE?!?!? I bet you are!
It's three funtabulous papers. Here's the preview:

Download here

I look forward to your lovin' when you grab my goodie. Thanks!

I want to go on strike!

yep, that's right...I'm ready to run away and let everyone (my sons & dh) fin for themselves. I feel kind of like the old saying "Calgon, take me away!", but I need more than Calgon to do the trick. oh! Last night Griffin and Hudson were up between 3ish to 5:30 early this morning. Griffin was the first one up, then when I put him down, Hudson wanted up for a while. I couldn't get either one to fall asleep in the extra bed so we just hung out in the office. (I worked on my little Christmas Goodie freebie in these wee hours). Soooo, my lovely dh ...all he could do was tell me to get a bottle and ask what their problem was since it was interrupting his dear sleep time. Yes, he's the one that has to get up & go into an actual office for work...and I stay home with our little crazy boys all day, but I am the ONLY one that gets up every single morning no matter what time it is to take care of them. I haven't had a morning to just laze in bed while he gets up with them on a weekend morning in MONTHS....literally. The only extra time I have to lay around is when we are in a hotel without the boys....but I still have my dh there...never just me time to veg in bed. OK....enough of venting about that issue......now...the next one.....(oh yay for you)...well, I rolled out of bed at about 8am this morning. Who knows how long the boys had been playing in their room by this time. I walked in their room to find poop smeared on the floor. (sorry people) I usually duct tape Hudson's diaper to him every night because if I don't he will definitely have it off in the morning. Well, I changed his diaper around 4 or 5, sometime early this morning & didn't re-duct tape a new one on him. He rewarded me with being naked from the waist down with the poop on the floor. Now there wasn't any in his diaper, so that means that he just decided to have a little fun. I think he did feel bad because there were wipes around it & some dirty wipes in the Diaper Champ. But jeez...cleaning that and using the steam vac at 8 am isn't that enjoyable of a way to start out a day. We ended up getting to playgroup about 30 minutes this morning and delighting all of my mom friends there with this story. At least we had playgroup this morning and they are both napping now. I wish I could just take a day & night off. Can't I strike? How would I do this without everything going stir crazy, crazier than it is now? I can't wait for my mom and Coop to get into town next week. My dh usually steps up to the plate a bit more when my mom is here. Plus, I will have a little extra help around here for a week. Yay!

Ok....I guess you are ready for your FREEBIE by now....aren't you? I made this really cute festive alpha...but it really is versatile to use any time of the year, especially if you re-color the alphas or stars. It is an entire lower case alpha, an exclamation point, and an asterick. One fun thing is that each of the vowels all have one fun red star on them. Oh so cute!

Download option one
Download option two

please chat for a sec.... let me know how I can go on strike...and leave me some love about my freebie

you might also be able to scroll down to grab another freebie :)

oh so much to jabber about, it's been a while...






Please forgive me for being away for a whole week. We got back from Vegas on Monday (four days ago) and it's taken me a bit to get back into the swing of things. It definitely was the best (hmmm, maybe next to best) excursion I've ever had there. We started out with a friend's 40th birthday bash in a sweet suite at the Monte Carlo. Oh my! All you could eat jumbo shrimp & crab legs, an open bar, and dancing all night long. Then, the next day I went shopping with the girls and introduced them to Anthropologie. I just oh so love that store. Here's my new fun & beautiful sweater. You can grab one just like it here. We grabbed a pic with some of the gladiators at Ceasar's before we left. (oh...shopping was at Caesar's Forum shops.......the blissful place with a bizillion designers). Nice studly gladiators, wouldn't you say? Welllll, after all of this, I finally got to see my very first Vegas show because we then ventured over to NYNY to see Cirque Du Soleil's Zumanity. It is their sensual/passionate wow of a show. Just simply amazing! A must-see for anyone who's in Vegas. The night kept keepin' on for us. My dh met up with us after the show for more dancing, at Coyote Ugly. this time. You can't go there without getting up on the bar (I'm in the brown top). So, as you can tell, Jen and I had bunches of fun up there (even though I was probably the oldest chick up there...who cares...you have to have fun in life). Usually dh and I just watch sports, bet on games, and play the tables. He's a big blackjack guy and I'm a roulette girl. We still did all of that too, but that wasn't the complete trip this time. It was sooo nice to experience different things in Vegas for once. I know our next trip will be back to the usual since it's our annual March Madness excursion with friends.





Welllll....enough with my Vegas jabbering..............I have to let you know about my newest kit for sale, it's "Frankie". Even though it's made with beautiful blues, greens, and golds (typical boyish colors), it's super fun for girls too. The patterns and textures are funtabulous. Included in this kit:*6 solid textured patterned papers *12 patterned papers (some textured) *3 brads *1 button *1 paisley *3 ribbons *1 slide *1 straight stitchin' *1 corner stitchin' *1 button stitchin' *2 tags *5 words *5 punctuation marks



Grab it here.



Now....since you are probably itchin' for another FREEBIE by now....here you go....it's just some little doodles for Christmas...a cute tree and some ornaments for you to color in

Download here



That's it for now. Please jabber back at me. I love reading your thoughts. Thanks & have a groovy Friday.

Christmas Goodie - Day 2 - woo-hoo!


I am so puzzled. Somehow a couple of my files vanished from yesterday. How can they just disappear???? I don't understand it. I've searched on my hard drives for both my desktop and my laptop, plus my e-drive, and they are nowhere to be found. It's just too weird! One of the files was my goodie tree from yesterday. So now you all have it, but I don't. It was sooo popular the link is already expired. Too TOO weird! Both the files were ones I made yesterday (the other was some sorority stuff I needed). I wonder if I'll find out later than I'm missing something else.

Oh well....time to move on.........and give you your 2nd goodie. Your 3rd one won't come until Monday or Tuesday since I'm heading to Vegas in a few hours. Sooooooo....here is some fun wordart for you. It's not your typical Christmassy colors, but I'm sure it will fit in well with some of those great funky kits out there right now....OR just recolor to better fit your needs (BUT please don't forget to credit me for the design). One, the Happy Happy Joy Joy one, is great for Hanakuh things or just any ordinary fun days too.

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Download option 2
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Dang! Did I just get VERY generous or what???? It was such a speedy upload and since I'll be away for a couple days, I figured I'd be extra nice to make this goodie last a bit longer.

Please enjoy, leave me a comment, scrap sassy silly, and give me credit (no piracy ..please).

December 1 - Day 1 FREEBIE...

Happy happy joy joy.....it's getting closer to that big Santa day! I'm also sooooo thankful that I don't live in KC or STL any more since it's sooooo frickin' cold there right now. I'll have to call my family in a bit to make sure they are all ok & have power. Oh! It's so nice to be freezing in the 30s in Phoenix. At least it will warm up to the 50s or 60s today. And to think I thought I was freezing outside the last couple of days when it was a blistering 57 here. All I need is a nice cup of hot chocolate and I'm good to go for the morning. (no earmuffs, scarves or gloves for me)

And...to make things even better I'm heading to Vegas this weekend for a little fun.

Well...since it's now December, I'm going to do my best to give you little Christmas presents frequently. Just little things, but more frequently. Today you get this cute little tree to adorn your LOs and/or Christmas cards.

please enjoy!
this tree coordinates with my contribution to DSC's December Mega kit

Isn't this so fun & festive? The links for the FREEBIE mega won't start to be available for another week or so. I'll let you know when that happens. BUT....the FREEBIE November links are still up for a bit right now. Grab them here.

More FREEBIES...bunches of 'em too

dang! If you are looking for some goodies...this is the perfect place to find them....WOO-Hoo for you (AGAIN)

To grab one fab freebie of mine, my "Say Cheese Please" mini kit, you can have fun playing with my current Descriptive Word Challenge at DSC. It's all about depicting IMAGINATION. I think that leaves it wide open for soooo many different fun LOs, especially when little kids are involved.
my Challenge Freebie:

my ABC Imagination LO:

I did a LO with these pics in May, but I really didn't like it...now I love it....and now worthy of my ABC book for the grandparents.............as soon as our new blinds were delivered, Hudson just knew the boxes would make the perfect freeway for his vehicles
papers from Jeannie Papai's Boys Boys and more Boys Add-on and Rachel Solenberg's Theresa kits
star is by me (Sara Ellis)
font is arial black

Now...for 9 mini kits (yes, that's right....9 of them) which make up one very large MEGA kit ...you better run fast, before some of those links start disappearing .... DSC's November Mega kit is all about "giving thanks".
My contribution was the last one to be unveiled for it. Just scroll down a smidge and you can see my "Family Dinner" preview.

Last...but not least....... one other LO to share:

journalling: Hudson.... I was so bummed I didn’t have my camera with us while we were in the frontyard waiting for the mail to be delivered today. You were being the best overprotective big brother you could be. Every time you heard a car, you had to go hold Griffin to make sure he didn’t wander down our driveway. I just kept telling you how precious & sweet you were being. It was the first time I’d ever seen you act that way. 11.27.06 ~Mom (Hudson is 26 mo & Griffin is 13 mo)
this is the first time I've ever done a LO w/o a picture.... I just had to remember this moment...it was way too precious!
Annie papers by Sara Ellis (me)
paisleys (colored in) from Tiny Village of Paisleys by Valerie Fowler
doodle heart, staples, and Sooo Cute from Girl Notes by Lauren Grier
font is Hockey is Lif

don't forget:
1) leave me some lovin' ..... I love reading all the comments
2) check back here often (hint hint...bookmark my blog)...you never know when a FREEBIE will pop up (hmmmmm, is one still available now???....scrolling down should become a hobby of yours)
3) Scrap yourself Sassy Silly!

Gobble Gobble...Happy Turkey day FREEBIE

Oh my..this is the longest I've gone without posting a little of anything on here. I'm such a blog slacker, aren't I? Bad me. I've just been busy working on my new ABC book for all of the grandparents for Christmas. I'm now working on "I" for Imagination and working on my newest Scrap Shop kit for DSC. If you don't know, I get to sell one kit a month since I'm on their Elements Team.

Before I share my goodies with you, I wanted to share a little tidbit from a "thankful" thread at TheDigiChick.
What I'm thankful for:
1. I am thankful for having a houseful of boys (including my big boy husband).
2. I am thankful I live in Phoenix with BEAUTIFUL weather (upper 80s this week & we've been hangin' in the backyard listenin' to Christmas tunes).
3. I am thankful that I am a SAHM and can see my little ones do crazy stuff every day.
4. I am thankful that my MIL watches the boys almost any time I want a break.
5. I am thankful that my husband only has a broken rib and didn't puncture anything crazy inside (Friday night stood on a stool, fell on it, pain for a few days, finally went to Urgent care Tuesday...yes, he wasn't too smart).
6. I am thankful that we have duct tape to make sure that Hudson doesn't remove his diaper late at night or early in the morning. (started this three nights ago & it's FABULOUS) :)
7. I am thankful I get to play with the digi chick chickies. How fun.
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DSC has 4 links available right now for their November Mega Kit. So that means you can grab 4 Thanksgiving themed mini kits. How fun for you! The links are only up for a limited time, so scurry on over there now. My contribution isn't available yet, but please check back often so you can grab it. Here's a little preview of mine, "Family Dinner":


This week I've been working on my December Scrap Shop kit, "Frankie". I'm loving it. It's a little retro with great golds, blues, & greens so it's fun for a boy or girl. My little Thanksgiving goodie to you is the Frankie Sneak Peek Sampler. Woo-hoo! All of the papers have a great little texture to them.

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Download option 2

As always, please leave me some lovin' when you grab my FREEBIES.

Now eat yourself silly today and enjoy your family time! We're heading over to both sets of my hubby's parents houses today (no cooking again for me...yay!). It will be another long holiday day for us. Hopefully all of the boys will do ok (including my hubby since his broken rib & medication made him get sick 3 or 4 times yesterday. So not fun for him if he can't eat all of the huge spreads.

oh me oh my....beta blogger..ugh!

welllll, as you can tell....I finally found a great help for beta blogger dummies ...so that helped me get my header banner up ...and I also added a slideshow & stamp for my designs and layouts

BUT....

now those are appearing ABOVE my banner & I can't get them to move below it .....sooooo, later tonight and/or tomorrow I have to search through that blogger dummies blog to see if it can help me once again

in the meantime...I hope you enjoy the craziness of the appearance :)

later

I updated my blog header!

Late last night I updated my header with bits and pieces of several of my kits. I think it looks much more fun than it did before since I made that a few months ago and only with one of my very early kits. Now I just need to update my blog blinkie so it can coordinate with it. Ok....I don't reallyhave much else to say right now. I'm just a bit boring and will ramble ...sooooo...later!


*****WELLLLL...now that I look at it...the new Beta format of Blogger is making things difficult for me...my header has no disappeared so I have to find help to get it back on the page... oh-whoa-is-me

it's LO sharing time again

ok...here's a few LOs that I have recently made...

Griffin's 1st birthday...it's with his Aunt JuJu

Luminous Life kit by Sara Ellis (me) available at DigiScrapCentral's Scrap Shop
template by Victoria Feemster at One of a Kind Skrapz (oodles of challenges there)
font is initial

another birthday pic ...

journaling: It took you a little while to figure out what to do with your cake, you had so much more fun playing with it than you did eating it. Happy 1st Birthday, Griffin!
sketch by Nikki for a sketch challenge at TheDigiChick
Sweet Liberty Paper Pack Essentials from DigitalDesignEssentials
font is Century Gothic

my first All About Me page...me wearing a goofy tiara at my sorority's convention, June 2006

Perfect kit by Sara Ellis (me) available at DigiScrapCentral
Andrea Burns' Sampler rose available at TheDigiChick
fonts are initial, douglas adams hand, convential wisdom

Every game day during the 2004 football season our son, Hudson, had to wear his ASU gear...and Daddy just had to have pics taken before he left for the games......
Sept & Oct 2004 Hudson was 11 days to 1 mo 9 days in the pics (Daddy is the one with the goatee)

Team Sparky kit by Sara Ellis (me)
sketch by Rachel Giallongo for the current sketch challenge at TDC
fonts are initial, century gothic, ms serif

DUCKS! Hudson, Sept. 2006....are we lucky or what? since we live in Phoenix, we can have a beautiful walk to feed the ducks most anyday of the year...it's just very HOT in the summer

journalling: I love the cool fall mornings walking to feed the ducks.
September Sun sampler by Laura Alpuche available at TDC
font is initial

I hope you enjoyed! Now it's time to find a new pic to scrap. :)

I want a design gig...stilllllll

I'm still hoping for a designer gig at a fab shop and I can only offer 1 kit/month at DigiScrapCentral. I get the teeny DSC gig as a bonus for being on their Elements Team. Soooo, I'm just going to offer some FREEBIES a little more frequently now. Right now I really love working on smudge papers. They are just so fun to play with. Because of this, I have a really cute little paper pack for you, "Annie". All 6 papers are textured, 3 are solid smudged and 3 have fab little smudged patterns. I really love my funkied one with flowers and doodles. Hopefully you will too.
Here it is:

I don't want the downloads to run out too fast, so I'm giving out 200 of them. Woo-Hoo!!!
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Download option 2

I also made a couple more LOs this week. Yay for me. I just kind of go in spurts between designing, forum chit chats (TheDigiChick, CreateMyKeepsake, & DigiScrapCentral more so the last couple of days), & working on LOs.
Right now I'm too tired to post my recent LOs, but you are more than welcome to check them out here

night night...it's almost 1am now

****scroll down.....read about my challenge & participate, baby!!!!..........AND you might find another FREEBIE available that's available for a couple more days

Scary Magic Erasers

Non-Scrapping stuff ------ I just found this article about how these can burn your skin. The newest packages now have a warning label, but many out there apparently do not. Please read this to find out more.