today was the day

This was the good-bye day. Lisa and her kids are flying back to STL in the morning. We celebrated her youngest son's 2nd birthday today at the pool with all of our good friends. It was cupcakes and fun for the kids and a farewell party for all of us mom friends. Three of us decided to give her some pics from throughout this last year. I, of course, scrapped them and then I had our playgroup friends make one personal page each. Everything turned out sooooooo cute and Lisa loved it tons.
Here are the pages that I made ...


















































































I mostly used goodies by myself (Sara Ellis) and Faith True. Please go HERE to see the complete credits. (I'm so sorry about that big space gap between LOs....I could not get rid of it for the life of me..........ugh!!!!!!)

They fly away Saturday morning. Monday or Tuesday will be strange when I won't be able to call her up to go hang at the pool or the park. Oh well, we have cell phones and e-mail. and...Lisa, Mary, and I are already planning a girls getaway weekend for next Spring. hooray hooray!

my PDW debut sale......

expires when June arrives.........

so hurry hurry hurry.........

for 20% off my entire PDW store

excitement...jumpin' for joy!!!!!

woo-hoo!!!!!!!!

I'm a Guest Designer at PDW for June and July............
but I'm making an early debut this weekend

celebrate my early debut with 20% off all of my goodies during the rest of May

click HERE for my Plain Digital Wrapper store

I'm soooo psyched about this newest gig of mine! Please share this news around the globe. I'm sure more people besides me will be jumping for joy.

You can find my Snazzy Snoodles Collection, Torn Up line, Curiosity Kit, and more.

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I'm 40 today!!!

It's my birthday and I'm giving away the farm .........



and...



throw #40 in your shopping cart and get it for FREE with any purchase of at least $1 in my store



***FREEBIE is only at OAKS....my 40% off sale is at both OAKS and HODS***

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exciting news!!!!!!!!!

I got a Wacom for my birthday!!!!!!!!
a Graphire 4x5 ........
now it's time for me to install it ........
I'm sure my stores will be loaded with new kinds of fun goodies soon

It's my 40th Birthday Bash!

It's my big 40th birthday on May 19th........so please party with me!!!!!!!!
Every Sara Ellis goodie in your shopping cart will be 40% off
from May 18th - the 21st (Fri - Mon).
The discount will be applied at checkout at my OAKS store,
but you can see the discount immediately at my HODS store.

Celebrate and Scrap Sassy Silly!!!!

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and.... yesterday I added another fabulous paper pack to my OAKS store, Mr. Bobby Boggle, he's one of Miss Tilly Tuttle and Miss Penny Priddy's cousins,
so you know that he has to be so super cool!!!!!!
Dontcha think????

feel free to get to know him better HERE

Introducing...Miss Penny Priddy

Miss Penny Priddy is Miss Tilly Tuttle's cousin....



aren't they such cuties???? I bet they drive the boys crazy! Dontcha think???

They have 9 patterned papers and 6 solid papers each (all slightly textured)

you can find them HERE & HERE

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as always...please scroll down to find out more exciting news from me :)...
you might even find a little freebie

my baby isn't a baby anymore

It's so hard to believe that Cooper is almost done with high school. He's finishing up his Junior year and he went to Prom on Saturday night. It was his first real date. I think he had a fabulous time with Emily. He's had a crush on her off and on for a couple of years now. Don't they just look so cute together?


This was the first time I made a LO in about a month.
Have I been slacking in that area or what?
Almost everything I used was by the fabulous Faith True.
See all credits HERE.

here's a couple of the pics...so you can see them better...



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wellllll.....get your wish lists ready.............
my big 40th birthday is on Saturday.........
soooooo, you know what that means..........
a SALE!!!!!!! ....
I'm going to have 40% off all of my OAKS goodies
this weekend
........and........
yes...I will be adding at least a couple more things to my store before then

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something pretty exciting....
the 4 Life Charity kit, benefiting Cancer Research



This kit contains over 100 papers and over 65 elements. Contributing Designers: Andrea Designs, Ann-Marie, Cheryl Whitesel, Dawn's Digital Designs, Demurgia Designs, Designs by Mama Moost, Jennifer Barrette, Jomi Designs, L.C. Potts, Rebecca Myers, Sara Ellis, Sarah Meyer, SBB Designs, Scrappy Pony, Shelleyrae Designs, Heidi@DigitalCandy and a font by Darcy Baldwin. (did you see that name in bold???? that's me..my first charity kit..I had to participate with this since it's a dear cause to me ...I lost my dad & maternal grandmother to Cancer, along with some other family members)

just click HERE to grab it

Introducing...Miss Tilly Tuttle

now appearing in my fabulous OAKS store......

Miss Tilly Tuttle's Paper Pack


and...
Miss Tilly Tuttle's Add-On Sampler (oh yea, it's a freebie)


you can grab both of them HERE

ok...after I made my first couple of papers for this fun fun paper pack...
all I could think about was Dr. Seuss....I have no idea why ..........
soooooooooo, I had to come up with a funky Dr. Seuss-like name -
so that's how I came up with Miss Tilly Tuttle ........
Isn't that so silly?
Just like my papers..funky and goofy fun!

This includes 9 patterned & 6 solid papers...all slightly textured.
Each JPG image is saved at a high quality, 300 ppi.

and....as you can tell, a Miss Tilly Tuttle add-on freebie is also available, which includes 3 more coordinating papers and a few accessories to dazzle your papers.

and......more exciting news.....
a new sampler or bargain bin will be added to the OAKS store very soon ......
won't that be incredible?????
Miss Tilly Tuttle's add-on will go in there, as well as fun samplers from the rest of the design team.

my NSD Scrapz Sack REVEALED

get it all together for ONLY $5
.................for a limited time... only throughout May........
and save $4

*Funny Flourishes
*Hudson's Airplanes ~ Alpha add-on
*Ollie Ollie Oxen Free - 2 Quickpages
*Snazzy Snoodles ~ Numbers
*Basics ~ Woodie Buttons

all products are also sold separately for their regular prices

grab the collection HERE

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Thank you very much to everyone that shopped in my stores for my NSD weekend parties!
I truly appreciate it!
My Scrapz Sacks went over pretty well and it was so exciting since that was my first time to do anything like that. I know I will definitely be doing them again, just not sure how often.
Any suggestions???

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I didn't shop too much. I grabbed a couple small commercial items....and a few Grab Bags. My two favorite were from Bren Boone at The Digi Shoppe and Dawn Wilson at One of a Kind Scrapz. Bren still has her grab bag available for $2 right now, so I only have a tiny sampling of a sneak peek for you. Dawn now has her's revealed in her OAKS store for anyone to grab.
and then I just purchased this fun alpha from Metalmama a little bit ago....
it's on sale for only $1.50......you can grab it HERE
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Quirky is now posting a TOP 5 list on her blog.....
and she has some super fab products on there...
INCLUDING my Snazzy Snoodles Paisleys...
I really feel honored because this is one super cool list ....
you might want to bookmark her blog because this is going to be a new weekly feature

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wellllll..that's it for now........
have fun reading some of my prior thread postings............
and then go Scrap Sassy Silly!

NSD weekend: my May Guest CT

Isn't this the perfect time to announce my Guest CT girls for May?

I really love my newest Silly Sisters!
They all have slightly different styles and they all hang out in different forums and galleries.
It will be so fabulous to see all of the different ways they will use my goodies.


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and....please scroll down so you can see some more exciting news from me..
you'll definitely find lots of happiness
(enabler alert, enabler alert, enabler alert)

NSD weekend: Margarita Time

It's Cinco De Mayo
.... one day early...........
and it's NSD Weekend

time to party!!!!!!!



50% off at both my OAKS store and HODS stores ...
that's right, all of my personal and commercial use products
(excluding my OAKS Scrapz Sack)

and.......



hurry now....
everything in this HUGE bag will be sold separately for at least $12 on Monday
......... so that's a $10+ savings now



Happy Weekend and Scrap Sassy Silly!

NSD weekend: The Beginning

Soooo much is happening EVERYWHERE in our fun digi-scrapping world this weekend!

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HODS entire store is 50% off now through Sunday to celebrate NSD....
this is for all personal and commercial products too ...........
and, there are some really fab commercial things in there too

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OAKS entire store is 30-50% off from Friday through Sunday....
and a few on our Design Team is starting their sale today

AND...... every OAKS designer has a Scrapz Sack (a/k/a a grab bag)....
from Friday through Sunday...........
mine is already available .....
with all brand spankin' new never seen before goodies from me.........
on Monday everything will be in the store separately .....
grab it now, while you can - for only $2 .... (it's valued over $12.50)

skidaddle over to OAKS and grab it now..... just click HERE

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today is the last day for my guest CT call......... scroll down to find out the scoop....

and don't forget to sign up for my newsletter (top right corner)...you might be lucky and get a special somethin' somethin' from me once in a while :)

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have a fabulous day ...and Scrap Sassy Silly!

Warm Summer Daze

Dang! I really thought that our OAKS April Freebie with Purchase Kit, The Colour of Spring was a super cool kit.
Well, our one for May is sooooooo super cool.
I'm just loving it soooo very much!

Isn't this spectacular?


You can get this super fab MEGA kit, Warm Summer Daze, just by purchasing at least $10 or more in the OAKS store in May.
Isn't that a super duper bargain??????
You better believe it!


and this is my contribution:

How about playing Where's Waldo?
....by trying to find my parts of the Mega in the big preview


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My early birthday weekend getaway was FANTABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!
It was sooooo very nice not to have any responsibilities for a few days.
I'll give you more of the scoop later.
Hopefully my camera will be working by tomorrow so I can share pics.

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I have an ad in Lena Brandenburg's newsletter again.
YAY!
If you aren't already a subscriber, go check out her blog and sign-up.
She has fab things for everyone (coupons, a freebie, a call, etc).

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I've been receiving some great apps for my Guest CT gig. The call is still open until the 3rd. Please scroll down to check out the details. I'd love to see even more applications.

Guest CT call

Would you like to get my designs for free for at least one month?
I'm looking for some funtabulous scrappers to showcase my goodies in at least 3 galleries and pimp them in the forums too.
I'm super flexible and fun to work with too. I would like you to make at least 4 LOs during the month featuring my products, but you are more than welcome to use other designers products too.

Please send me an e-mail to saranohw(at)yahoo(dot)com with a link to your best gallery, the link(s) to your most active forum(s), along with your username. PLEASE place "Guest CT Call" in the subject line. Thanks!

This call will be open until May 3rd.

I will reply to all applicants on May 4th.

The lucky Guest Scrap Silly Sisters will be creating for me for the remainder of May...and some lucky girl might be asked to become a regular Silly Sister.

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I will be out of town ...... on my 40th birthday girls weekend.... YAY! ........ from Thursday until Sunday night.

see ya back here in a few days :)

Snazzy Snoodles!!!!!

ok...I am sooo excited about my Snazzy Snoodles Collection!!!
I'm sure you all will love them too....
they are just the perfect things to make all of your pages go *POP* and *WOW* more than they already do

here's a sampling...





stars, paisleys, and girl titles are also available for your enjoyment

AND.....my entire OAKS store is 39% off through Sunday, the 29th


enjoy.........and Scrap Sassy Silly!!!!

my 3 boys

first off, let me just tell you that I LOOOOOOVE Nancy Comelab's photo clusters.....they make life soooo much easier. I also loove Faith True's My Amazing Boy Kit. I'm on her CT and I can't believe it took me so long to figure out how much I really love it. I used both Nancy and Faith's items for my fun outside Easter pics in the best 2 pager LO ever. Hudson and Griffin had bunches of fun looking for their eggs, goofing around in my MIL's pool, exploring, and playing in a mud puddle at my FIL's house. Yes, it is nice that we live in Phoenix and that our weather was B-E-A-U-ti-ful!



The first page is pics from my MIL's house and the 2nd one is at my FIL's house. Notice how they have on new shorts for my FIL's? Their cute seersucker cargos were just a tad wet from playing in my MIL's pool.

You can find all credits in my DST and OAKS galleries (see links to the right). For some odd reason, I have barely been able to u/l any LOs to TheDigiChick lately. Apparently they are always too large. I resize them again & they are still too large. It's weird because I'm doing everything like I used to do there. Who knows what's up.

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now...time to brag about my oldest, Cooper.

Coop is finishing up his Junior year in high school right now. It's soooo weird to think he doesn't have much more left before he's off to college (which will be before Hudson even hits Kindergarten). Anyway, he was just honored at an awards breakfast at school earlier this week. Each of the teachers could choose one student that is outstanding and deserves special recognition. Well, he was chosen by a recipient by his Physics teacher. Coop has just under a 3.0 GPA....pretty average..........BUT...... Physics comes soooo easily to him. He has an A+ in there without even trying. He doesn't study for any tests and he gets 100% plus the extra credit on them. It's crazy! I am sooooo very proud of him. At this breakfast, he was given a medal & he had to wear it around school all day. He even gets his name up on a wall until next semester when new the next awards are given. So cool!

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and now.. a little toot for me....kind of

Lena Brandenburg HELLO'd me yesterday about her first newsletter....she asked me if I wanted free advertising by placing a little ad in it....welllll, of course I said yes. If you are interested in getting her newsletter, just go to her site & sign up. There's TONS of cool stuff in it (coupons, interviews, freebies, a plethora of goodies). Just click on her name to begin your fun with her. You can even listen to a fab song by Corrine Bailey Rae while you are visiting her.

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that's it for now....... but don't forget to scroll down to catch some of my other recent stupendous blogging ..I'm sure you'll be happy :)

my early birthday

You know how I recently told you about my girl's 40th birthday party weekend in Rocky Point, Mexico???????

Wellllllllllll...let's get that party started!!!!!!!!

to see more of Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, scroll down :)

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

........is finally available at both HODS and OAKS

it's so unbelievably HUGE!!!!!!!!!



you can get the paper pack only


or the element pack only (not everything shown in the preview)


or get the together and save $$


This is the funnest kit for all of your playground and outdoors playtime pictures! We had a ball making this kit and I am sure you will just have the time of your life with this. You can easily use it for both boys and girls. 3 alphas, 25 papers, and a HUGE variety of elements

Included for your enjoyment:
6 solid papers
19 patterned papers
3 alphas (2 look the same, but different sizes)
1 ball and jacks (the game)
1 bouncing ball
1 chain link
7 doodled colored chalk drawings
2 doodled charms
9 regular black doodles
6 painted handprints
1 heart with arrow
1 hopscotch game
1 nailhead
6 paint splotches
2 trees (one with heat carving)
6 fun wordarts
5 buttons (3 threaded)
1 ripped cardboard
1 long fence
1 short fence/gate
1 latched gate lock
1 unhooked gate lock
1 gate knob
3 flowers
2 flower stems
1 patch of grass
5 knotted ribbons
5 playground signs
1 sign post
1 screw
1 sun
2 zig zag stitches
1 messy triple stitch
and a little bit more :)

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and.......you don't want to miss this.......
Everything is 30% off at HODS on Wednesday...for Wacky Wednesday

including this brand new FABULOUSLY huge kit, Ollie Ollie Oxen Free....

all commerical and personal use items are included in the sale........you have to check it out...there really are some super super cool things

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a few requests...if you don't mind...
1) sign up for my new mailing list (at the right)
so you can find out about all future kits and sales, freebies, plus misc. other things
2) vote for my blog (at the right)
3) scroll below....a Funky Fun Flower freebie (add-on to Ollie Ollie Oxen Free)
and a little Ebayin' too
4) please leave me a comment so I can have reading
...and perhaps visit your blog too :)

sooo very NSBR

ok.....I'm not sure if I've ever blogged just solely about no scrapping stuff at all......

but ..... I just have to let you all know that I finally listed the remainder
of my Silpada Designs jewelry on Ebay

I am not a rep for them any longer .....sooo I've been selling off bits and pieces of the jewelry I don't wear at all or rarely ever wear.........
oh my.....I just absolutely love the multi-strand Turquoise necklace, but I might only wear it once or twice a year........sooooooooooo, it really isn't too practical for me to keep it

PLUS..........I NEED money.........
I'm a broke SAHM and I'm going on a girls weekend 40th birthday party
to Rocky Point, Mexico in a couple weeks.........
it's 5 girls & we are all Alpha Phi sorority sisters from Mizzou (U. of Missouri for the clueless)....
4 of us are turning 40 in May and July, the 5th turned 40 last year..................
can you believe I'll be 40 in a month?
crazy!
I think it will be hysterical since I don't look anywhere close to that old

anyway, here's the stunning Turquoise necklace I mentioned earlier...ETA: it is the necklace in my blog bio pic

to see more about it and to check out my other listings...go HERE

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and....in case you are only interested in scrapping.... you can still shop at my OAKS and HODS stores to help me have an enjoyable birthday weekend (even if it is 3 or 4 weeks before my actual birthday)

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and........ ok...... I couldn't go without blogging scrap stuff after all ......
here's a teeny sneak peek at Ollie Ollie Oxen Free.........
I just had to tease you again, didn't I?????

and....
check out Dale Ann's blog...
she might have a different preview over there ;)

The anticipation is mounting.....

oh my!!!!!!!
Dale Ann (DC Designs) and I are working on a fun fun fun collab together, Ollie Ollie Oxen Free. Oh!!!! You are going to absolutely love it!!!!!!!!
I can't believe some of the coolest things we have for this.
We will have it in both of our stores (HODS and OAKS) this weekend.
For now, the only sneak peek you are getting............
iiiiiiiiiiiiis.......
this blog freebie, Funky Fun Flower ..
This is not in our kit.....BUT....... three similar flowers are in it......
so, this is like a sneak peek add-on
download HERE
(special thanks to Atomic Cupcake)
and please leave me some love if you grab this.....
and please do not share this file...
but please feel free to link people over here :)

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I added 3 new blinkies to my siggie at DST today ....

I have 1348 posts as of this moment.




This is sooo super cool. You all will love this place when it opens it's doors!




TheDigiDepot is a fabulous forum from Alma to share LOs, share new designs, designers sales & specials, and commercial ok items

feel free to grab a blinkie if you'd like
(and while you're at it, grab my wannabee too...it's over on the right)

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and now......
a new LO that I did with my Hudson's Airplanes Page Kit and my Messy Black Alpha.....
you can grab both of them HERE

credits and journaling HERE

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a couple more new things on my blog....
vote for my blog on the right :)
and...
feel free to subscribe to my blog ...you'll know whenever I update my blog

Crazy Griffin...a challenge...and a surprise

this morning started out of so lovely.....
Griffin decided to hop out of his crib...I found out by his cry......so not good...........he'll be 18 months next week so we aren't ready for him to do this on a consistent basis yet....I'm just hoping that he learned his lesson when he realized that he doesn't know how to climb out of it yet without falling.....I guess I'll find out when he's done with his nap
..then....
a little bit later, he decided to shake his sippy cup all over his head (do you think his brother showed him how to do that????).....he looked so sweet with little white drippings of milk dripping from his hair and his shoulders...........this is one of the odd times that I didn't grab the camera before cleaning up the mess...oh well

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welllllll......I'm now hosting the Cheat Sheets Challenge over at OAKS...yay!!!!!! I really love the template I designed for this one...don't you?

and here's the LO I did for it...it's Hudson with Nana playing music together on Easter a couple days ago
credits: template by Sara Ellis for the OAKS April Cheat Sheet Challenge
Cinnamon Swirls and My Dirty Boy Kits by Faith True at OAKS
Easy Peasy Folded Corner set #4 by Karah Fredricks at TheDigiChick
font is Guanine

As long as you participate in at least half of the challenges at OAKS, you will receive a fabulous collab kit. How cool is that?????

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now....just for the fun of it..... for one week...use coupon code crazyGriffin at OAKS and receive 25% off my goodies...all personal and commercial use items .....please enjoy!