Happy Easter!!

I hope all of you have one super duper funtabulous Easter with your friends and family!!!!!! We have one very busy day ahead for us. We are starting out at my MIL's house for brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt, then heading over to my FIL's house for an early dinner. Hopefully the boys can squeeze a nap in sometime.

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Well....thank you sooo much for loving my Torn Up sample so extremely much!!!! I really hope you are enjoying it! I've caught a few in LOs in the DST gallery and I have left comments on the ones I've seen so far. I will keep looking around for more too to see how you've used them.

Since it has been d/l almost 1000 times (WOW!), I have now removed the freebie link. Please take a gander over to my OAKS store to catch the beginnings of my collection. I'm sure you will love the assortment in each set I have.

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While you are over at OAKS today, please be sure to play in our fun Easter Egg Hunt game. Today is the 3 rd day to grab the last 3rd of our Easter Egg Mega Collab. All of our fab Design Team chipped in to make this one incredible kit. You can catch some hints d/l HERE.

Happy Easter!!

I hope all of you have one super duper funtabulous Easter with your friends and family!!!!!! We have one very busy day ahead for us. We are starting out at my MIL's house for brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt, then heading over to my FIL's house for an early dinner. Hopefully the boys can squeeze a nap in sometime.

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Well....thank you sooo much for loving my Torn Up sample so extremely much!!!! I really hope you are enjoying it! I've caught a few in LOs in the DST gallery and I have left comments on the ones I've seen so far. I will keep looking around for more too to see how you've used them.

Since it has been d/l almost 1000 times (WOW!), I have now removed the freebie link. Please take a gander over to my OAKS store to catch the beginnings of my collection. I'm sure you will love the assortment in each set I have.

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While you are over at OAKS today, please be sure to play in our fun Easter Egg Hunt game. Today is the 3 rd day to grab the last 3rd of our Easter Egg Mega Collab. All of our fab Design Team chipped in to make this one incredible kit. You can catch some hints d/l HERE.

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It's Tiiiiiiiiiiiime!!!!!

My Torn Up sneak peek has been such a fabulous hit and I am sooo absolutely thrilled about it!
Thank you so much!
If you are ready for more....which I am sure you've just got to be.........
wellllll, the beginning of my Collection is in my OAKS store right now.
Both sets are available for personal and commercial usage.
Something to please everyone! Yay!!!!!!























I really wanted to get the 3rd set in the store at the same time, but that probably won't even happen until next week.

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Besides the announcement of these fab goodies........ OAKS is all about fun this weekend ............
almost every item in the entire store is on sale for 30% off
(personal and commercial...HOORAY!)
.......... AND........
there's a super fun Egg Hunt going on right now too ........
you just have to hop hop hop on over there so you won't miss out!and...if all this fun isn't enough.............there's MORE!...oh yea! you better believe it!
As I mentioned yesterday, our New Gift with Purchase is now a mega collab kit...and it's for the entire month of April
Sooooo...are you just hopping out of your seat excited right now??????
This surely is one funtabulous way to begin your weekend, isn't it???

Splishy Splash

Last night I scored the most fun bath pics ever!!!!!! Hudson was the biggest ham. He's been that way a lot recently, but it takes a bit to get a great smile out of Griffin. Grif has such a fab smile, he just doesn't show it too ofter for pics. Welllllll...it's been probably 3 weeks since I have scrapped anything. I just had to take a break for design stuff and forums to scrap these pics...I just had to do that. It turned out sooooo cute! Dontcha think??????

I'm having the toughest time this morning u/l it to the DST and TDC galleries...so not fun! At least I did get it u/l to the OAKS gallery. You can check out the long list of credits HERE. I used one of my Torn Up corner templates. The Torn Up Collection will be available in my stores this weekend (personal and commercial usage). One sneak peek FREEBIE is below. YAY! Why don't you scroll down and take it for a test drive?

and...can I just say WOW! thank you all sooooooo much for your fab lovin' about my Torn Up sneak peek!!!!!! As of right now it's been d/l over 700 times (even though I've only received 33 blog comments).....and I have had over 1600 hits between yesterday and this morning.... to me, that's impressive! I don't think I've ever had anything quite this popular yet. I'm really really hoping that it is a good sign for the release of them this weekend. I will have 3 sets available for my Torn Up Collection. So much fun! and...time to hit the rewind button...they'll be available for commercial usage too. Look at all the fun that can be had by all!

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a little sidenote about Hudson....he had a good night sleeping last night...YAY! ...that is until some stupid wrong number called at 5:30 this morning and woke him up ..........he still has his lovely sea lion voice from his Croup...but it's definitely better......hopefully we'll be able to get out of the house tomorrow

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another little shameless plug for this little goodie
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you never know what kind of fun surprise could end up your way if I see you sportin' it around? (some day I'll update my side bar and just throw it over there...along with some other blinkies)

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oh!!! I almost forgot..... OAKS has been handing out a mini kit by a different designer every couple of weeks with each purchase over $10 ............welllllll, as of today or tomorrow, each gift with purchase will be a super funtabulous collab kit from our entire DT......
sooooooo, here is our first one, The Colour of Spring...

Aren't you so super anxious already????

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ya know...this blog post was only going to be about my LO.....HA!!!!!...I always have something else to ramble about, don't I?

finally.....a blog FREEBIE

it seems like forever since I have handed out a little goodie to you, my blogger friends ....... soooo, now is the time

I've been in a paper tearing mood lately (all digitally, of course).......in a day or two I will have my fabulous Torn Up templates available in my stores to make your paper tearing life soooo much easier ....

for now....please enjoy this little Torn Up Sneak Peek ... a corner torn paper template ...it is available in both .PSD and .TIFF files so everyone can have a blast with them ....
instructions are included


download REMOVED 4/8/06 go HERE to grab more

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Hudson is a little sicky again. He had a fever off and on a couple days ago and then Tuesday morning it turned into an ugly raspy cough that hurts him. Sooooo, we saw his pediatrician and he actually has something that isn't just a regular virus....he has Croup. So not fun for him...the cough is so much worse at night and early in the morning. At least he's been asleep now for a couple hours. Hopefully he ends up sleeping the rest of the night. Since it's almost 2 am I better go get some sleep myself since he'll probably wake me up before 6....fun for me, huh?

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as always....please scroll down to see if you've missed anything....and then please please leave me a comment when you grab this sneak peek

another SALE...and it's H*U*G*E!!!!!

ok....this is short and sweet.......

I added a bunch of new goodies to my HODS store (link to the right) ........and....everything is 40% off through April 1st.....soooooooo, you better skidaddle on over there super quick!!!!!

this includes all commercial and personal use items...woo-hoo!!!!!!!

here's a little sampling of what you can find ...


ONLY $1.50 - $11.10 while on sale

and


ONLY $1.20 - $3.30 while on sale






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don't forget to leave me some lovin'....I really do love reading all of your comments

Curiosity....the kit and freebie

What? When? How? Why? Where?

Do you ever get tired of getting pestered about those things?

now available in my OAKS store..... Curiosity ....

the Element Pack, Paper Pack, and Alpha Add-On are all available separately.... or you can save a little bit by getting the Element & Paper combo

How would you like to get the Curiosity Alpha for free? Just purchase $5 or more in goodies from my OAKS store and you'll get it at as a bonus at checkout. Hip Hip Hooray for you!



















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now..... to showcase some of My Scrap Silly Sisters' Layouts.... both of these were made with the same template in my Silly Circles Templates Set....Isn't it so fab how they both turned out soooo completely different?


Girl in Flowers by Kille Enna


Baby Feet by Jeanelle Paige

(who knows what I did to make it so that Jeanelle's LO was so much larger than Kille's
but it's going to stay like it is because I don't feel like figuring it out right now)

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ok...now Dale Ann/DC Designs and I are still looking for a fab idea for our collab kit ..... if we choose your idea, you'll get our kit for free (so you better leave your e-mail address with your idea).........and you know it will be so absolutely fab with the two of us working together :)

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Be sure to scroll down....you might find a fun blinkie to pick up and sport around :)

ouchie ouch

Yesterday I went to the Air Show at Luke AFB with Cooper (my 16 yo son) and my FIL. It was a very cool show and we all had a great time together ......... BUT....... I was stupid and didn't wear any sunscreen. HELLO! 6+ hours in 80+ degree temp in Phoenix on a cement airstrip = SUNBURN! I need to have someone take a pic of my face. I look like I was snow skiing with big goggles. Oversized shades do the same thing to a face. I need to even out my lines badly. I have beautiful lines from my shades, bermuda shorts and tank top. We went to the pool this afternoon and I looked hysterical in my bikini (white belly & white bug eyes). Here are a couple snapshots of Coop taking a tiny 5 minute snooze waiting for the Thunderbirds to begin their show and one of my burnt legs (with a couple hours still to go....and what a bad view...it just makes my hips look HUGE).




















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welllll....tomorrow is Hudson's 2nd day of Little People Child Enrichment Class...it's kind of like a preschool to preschool..... it's only 1 hour a week ....it's sooooo super cute... there are only about ten 2.5 - 3 year olds in this class and they squeeze in play time, school time for months, numbers, & letters, story time, music time, and a little bit of coloring all into this class.... you have to keep moving fast to entertain little kids this age

doesn't he look adorable for his 1st day last week?

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yes... I do need to scrap these, don't I????? they are definitely on my to do list

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ok...if you don't already know....I started selling some commercial goodies about a week and a half ago...........
and my latest addition to my OAKS store are my Practical Papers, paper templates (better than overlays)
Every Practical Paper Template has at least 4 layers (including the background) in .PSD format. This will allow you to use several colors for one piece of paper. You can have varied opacities for each of the layers too, as well as adding a splash of a pattern to one layer with CNTRL G. You can have at least 2 colors for every piece of unique paper you create. How fun and colorful!

find them HERE

The PNG versions will be coming soon.







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oh.... I realized I've never shared one of my newest favorite sites with you... it's MissTina's super fun one.... you just have to check it out ...you'll be a huge fan of hers too

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Dale Ann (DC Designs) and I are going to team up for a fab collab kit.... and it will be available at both HODS and OAKS ..........but first we need some help from you....we want to hear from you....what theme would you like to see? if we happen to choose your idea, you will win the finished kit...so please leave your e-mail address in your response :)

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welllllllll......now here's a special goodie for you........
go shopping in my OAKS store and get 25% off your purchase ........
just use coupon code "ouchsunburn" ....
but you need to hurry..this is only valid March 27th and 28th

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don't forget to grab this

you never know what good luck might shine your way if I catch you sporting this around

Vegas Party!!!!!!!!!

I'm leaving for Las Vegas in a couple hours. Sooooooooooooo....I'd like you to party in my OAKS store while I'm partying in Vegas :) ..... Have fun!!!!!!!!



Please scroll down to see my fun fun funtabulous stuff that I blogged about super early this morning. You'll love it soooo mush..and so will Paypal. :)

yay!!!! A name has been chosen!!!!

Introducing............

FUNTAINERS!!!!!
Congratulations to Dale Ann Cubbins for her winning suggestion! Funtainers are now available at OAKS, as well as the co-ordinating Flowerifics.

This fun fun funtabulous Funtainers set contains various flower pots, flower boxes, vases.....in 12 different designs from pretty plain to bright & fun .........and have paint that is crackling off of them .......

ideas for usage:
house one long stem flower,
hold up a picture with a photo prong,
cluster a bunch of flowers together for a cute bouquet
.....or...
how about even using one as a storage container for some cars, crayons, ribbons
......oh my, there are so many fun things you can do with these

Flowerifics is the funnest build-your-own flower pack!!! All items (except for one stem) are crackled paint. The set includes 16 flowers, 4 centers, and 3 stems (one pewter).







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please don't forget to scroll down and grab a groupie blinkie, if you'd like

my 1st contest!!!!!!!

ok..put your funky thinking caps on....for some reason I just can't think of a catchy fun name for my new floral containers

this set contains various flower pots, flower boxes, vases.....in 12 different designs from pretty plain to bright & fun .........and have paint that is cracking off of them .......

ideas for usage: house one long stem flower, hold up a picture with a photo prong, cluster a bunch of flowers together for a cute bouquet.....or... how about even using one as a storage container for some cars, crayons, ribbons......oh my, there are so many fun things you can do with these

soooooooooo.......give me a fab name so I can get these in a store for everyone......PLEASE......think FAST! (ETA: You are only naming the first one...the second is just a fun example) ... my deadline for ideas is Tuesday (tomorrow) at midnight PST .... I'm leaving for Vegas on Wednesday & I want to get them finished before my March Madness fun :) ...................and please leave me your e-mail address with your guess so I can contact you later ...the winner will receive this kit as a freebie (Woo-hoo!)

in case you haven't figured it out .. the first pic is the preview with all 12 floral containers and the photo prong .... and the second pic are some examples of them at work
(all shadows are just for the previews)

I can't wait to see your suggestions ...this will be fun :)
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and...... a HUGE thank you to all of my customers during my sale at OAKS over the weekend!!! my Silly Templates Collection is definitely a crowd favorite ... I might have to consider making a
bunching some of them together to sell as a mega template set ...... I am also probably going to offer these up as my first commercial products :)...but probably not until after my Vegas excursion
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grab this------>
...scroll down to read more about it :)

Spring Forward Sale!!!!!

Who doesn't love a good sale????? Ya know everyone loves 'em...especially when you don't have to stand in line with a bunch of other people at a register. Well, OAKS is having a fab sale this weekend and almost the entire store is in on it too (not just me). So what are you waiting for? Go check out my goodies, as well as all of the other super talented OAKS designers.

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a couple days ago I made some inserts for the new Playtex sippy cups ......they are oh so cute .. now I won't have to label the boys cups when we meet up with our MOMS Club ...I found my cups at Target


(see my galleries for credits...Hudson's was done primarily with my Hudsons' Airplanes kit)
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don't forget to scroll down to see if you've missed anything .... and then leave me some lovin' please....I really love reading your comments

My NEW store ... jump for joy!!!!!!

ok...did you think I was ever going to tell you about my new store????? I'm sorry it took me a couple weeks...........but.........(drum roll now please) .............it's at One of a Kind Scrapz (OAKS) ...
.... I have a few goodies in the store as of this morning...
I've also been revamping my previews and they are looking oh so fun!!!! I'm going to add more items in the next few days so my OAKS store is just going to grow and grow ... I guess you'll have to keep coming back to it to see what's new

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I now have 5 Scrap Silly Sisters for my CT! another YAY!!! all my girls are just so fabulous!!!
Sarah (skygrimwood)
Jeanelle Paige
Leslie (leslie_537)
Serena (HaeleyMouse)
Kille (nosy)

***If you applied for my CT and you didn't hear back from me, please leave me a message here or PM me at one of my stores or DST .... I just found out tonight that my lovely spam box received someone's application...I'm so sorry if it happened to anyone else...I truly haven't just outright ignored anyone***

Do you like this?????? If so, feel free to grab it

who knows...I might ask you to be part of my fab CT as a guest or a regular ...or you might just get a little freebie from me.....IF I see you sportin' this little fun thing around

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now something a little fun.......it's kind of like Scattergories....

Rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following...They MUST be real places, names, things...NOTHING made up! If you can't think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question. Make sure each answer is different.

Your first Name: Sara

1. Actor/Actress: Susan Sarandon (double bonus for me)

2. 4 letter word: stop

3. Street name: Sappington

4. Color: sunshine yellow

5. Gift/present: stereo

6. Vehicle: Sequoia (my car)

7. Tropical Location: St. Thomas

8. College Major: Science (ok..I know that's kind of generic)

9. Animal: snake

10. Thing in souvenir Shop: shirts

11. Boy Name: Steve

12. Girl name: Sally

13. Movie Title: Stepmom

14. Beer: ????

15. Occupation: stripper

16. Flower: snapdragon

17. Celebrity: Suzanne Sommers (another double bonus for me)

18. Magazine: Seventeen

19. U.S. City: Springfield, MO

20. Band/Singer: Styx

21. Fun Place to Have Sex: ok...I'm dumb..I'm drawing a blank here ...S????

22. Ways to get from here to there: skip

23. Alcoholic Drink: seven and seven....YUM!

24. Game: scrabble

25. Thing you scream in anger: Shoot! (did you really think I'd say something else???)

ok..now I'm not going to tag anyone particular....I just want all of you to have fun with this!
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I adore Faith ......

I am so psyched to be getting away for the weekend. It will Jeff's first time for being alone this long with the boys. I'm so excited for him to actually have this opportunity. It will be very good for all of them to have this time together....and for me to be away! I'm flying into LAX this afternoon for my sorority's Regional Conference. I serve on our regional team as our Alumnae Membership Coordinator, basically like an advisor for all of our region's Alumnae Chapter Presidents. It doesn't really start until tomorrow night. We just have prep work and chill time until then.

While I'm there, I think many there are going to be sooooo envious of me. I updated my fun Princess Purse inserts last night. Our theme is Alpha Phi Rocks! and our colors for the weekend are pink and green. Soooo..what do you think??? Aren't these just the cutest???? (Credits to Faith True, see my DST or TDC galleries)
















and.....speaking of Faith......she is the bomb!!! I just adore her soooooooo very much!!!!! She is mentoring me right now for designing and it's just fabulous! I feel like the luckiest girl alive! You have to go check out her goods at all of these stores, she has a slightly different variety at each of them. ....The Digi Shoppe, One of a Kind Scrapz, DigiScrap Divas, and Polka Dot Potato

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All of my Silly Template sets have had a facelift too and they are available at my HODS store. (PROPS to Faith again for her fabulous assistance!!!) I will be working on revamping the rest of my previews and my kits in the next couple of weeks (hopefully I'll have some time while I'm in LA this weekend). Here's a couple of my refreshed ones:





















one other thing to plug into my agenda this weekend....revamping my blog banner...oh does that thing ever need a facelift!

and....remember...I have a CT call going on right now....please scroll below for more details

ok....now it's time for me to go straighten my hair and get the boys off to my MIL's house ... I hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!!!

please leave me some lovin' - I have my comments on moderation now (sorry, stupid story from earlier in the week) ... I will have limited internet while in LA this weekend & will get all of them approved ASAP ...smile to all :)

some exciting news for my Call ....

well....somewhat exciting .....
yesterday I posted a little Cheerleader Tryout Call for my Scrap Silly Sisters......... this morning I decided to add a listing at JustDigitalCalls to garner a bit more interest for my fun team.....
and.....drumroll please ..... I will be at a second store soon ....(shhhhhh!!!!!!) .....I'm so very excited about this opportunity

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feel free to say hi to me .. my HELLO name is mesaraee ... warning..if I ignore you, don't take it personally...I rarely sign off of HELLO when I'm away from the computer

wellll...how much do you love me??...

How much do you love my stuff??? I'm talking about the goods in my HODS store, no other kind of funny stuff you might be thinking about. As of this week, I have three fabulous cheerleaders right now. Sarah, Serena, and Leslie are all so awesome! I am soooo lucky to have them be part of my growing little team. They all expressed interest in my designs and really showed me that they were true fans...all unsolicited by me .......sooooooo, I just had to ask each one to start out with me and they all agreed. They aren't professional CTers with way too much on their plate. YAY! It's kind of scary having a big big CT call right now since I've been so lucky so far. I'd hate to ask and only have one or two apply.

Be a Scrap Silly Sister!!!!!!

Just a simple little request here. No bells and whistles just yet.

*If you are an enthusiastic scrapper and chatter, and you just love my goodies...I'd love to hear from you.
*Please e-mail mPublishe at saranohw(at)yahoo.com.
*PLEASE label your subject "CT Cheerleader Tryout"
*Share your best gallery link with me.
*Do you have any other digiscrap duties? If so, what ET, CT, and/or DT are you with right now?
*Tell me some fun stuff about yourself.

***Call will be open until February 25th***

I call my CT my cheerleaders, more than a Creative Team. I want everyone to have fun, show some Scrap Sassy Silly spirit, and pimp me out to the ever-so-growing digi-land that we all are so addicted to. Most of all...to have fun and truly enjoy what they are doing.

I can't wait to hear from you!

ETA: if you haven't already....please see my latest news posted Saturday, Feb. 17th

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I met my Cheerleader, Sarah, last night for dinner. We only live about 25 minutes away from each other. We had a fabulous time talking about our digi-scrapping obsession and other things i in our lives. It's sooooo cool that we are so close and can be friends in the real world too.

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I got this fun and goofy game from Vanessa's Blog yesterday

Your real name:

Sara

2. Your Gangsta Name: (first 4 letters of real name plus izzle:}

Saraizzle

3. Your Detective Name: (fav color and fav animal)

Pink Dog

4. Your Soap Opera Name: (middle name, and childhood street)

Elizabeth Pawnee

5. Your Star Wars Name: (the last 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 3 letters of mom’s maiden name)

Ellsawat

6. Your Super Hero Name: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink)

Turquoise Water (it sounds more like a Native American name to me...LOL)

7. Your Iraqi Name: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your mom’s maiden name, 3rd letter of your dad’s middle name, 1st letter of a sibling’s first name, last letter of your mom’s middle name)

Alzavkn (hmmmmm....ok)

8. Your Witness Protection Program Name: (grandmother/grandfather’s first name and Jones)

Viola Jones

9. Your Goth name: (black, and the name of one your pets).

Black Boo

Play along at home!

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And.... just in case you are interested....I have more Silpada jewelry listed on Ebay. It is all fabulous .925 sterling silver...some with Turquoise, Onyx, Jade, Amber, and other amazing stones. You can check it out HERE. There are some HUGE bargains available right now.

Hold your excitement!!!!

I have new goodies in my store!!!! It seems like I'm having more fun creating little fun goodies more than big kits. I have 18 products in the store and only 4 of them are full page kits.

MY NEWEST ITEMS~~~
my most favorite of all.....my super funtablulous Sassified Stickers ~ STARS
(36 different color combos)...just the very beginning of this fab collection


the 2nd edition to my Perky Alpha..this time in RED
This includes: A-Z, 0-9, &, $, !, ?, *, [ and ]


2 more goodies for my Silly Templates Collection .. only $2.50 each

and


Please enjoy!
Don't forget my friends discount ---> $1 off any purchase from my store (minimum of $3 order)<---** * ** ---> code SE1 <---

now...shop.....then...Scrap Sassy Silly!!!!

(don't forget to scroll down...get caught up...and grab a freebie or two)