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?

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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 :)