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)

more goodies..hip hip hooray

ok..a few quick things...

first off ......... this morning I was soooooo incredibly shocked and flattered by this thread at DST ... it's about noticing "New to You" designers ...you really have to go check it out...not just to see the comments about me (and from me), but you need to see all of these other fabulous designers stuff too ...please be sure to comment on that thread so you can bump it up (if you haven't already done so)

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Christine Smith started a blog Carnival...it's basically advertising different blogs by categories (tutorials, new products, CT calls, etc)....today was the first day of her carnival and she will be doing this every Monday ... go check it out HERE

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Christina Renee has another blog freebie today .... OH! I am a HUGE fan of hers!!!!! Grab her DigiScrapTags HERE

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I also found another forum today that seems pretty interesting... it's kind of a micro-mini DST ... I mean that just because it seems like it's a great resource area...and it's just getting off the ground ...go check it out HERE

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now....it's FREEBIE time .............
I made a little sampler for my Hudson's Airplanes kit.







































Grab the sampler HERE.

Grab the full kit HERE.

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Please leave me some lovin' when you grab this free sampler. Most of my freebies get d/l several several times, yet I only receive a few comments. I really do love reading all of them. Who knows, maybe I'll come check out your blog too (if you have one).

and...don't forget to scroll down and get caught up...you might get lucky and catch another freebie

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oh...one more thing........ remember Wednesday is my new release day at HODS.... so please mark your calendar! :)

more cool stuff from me & others

grab your own HERE

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Paypal Rebate..

I found out about this fabulous offer over at DST. Get a $15 rebate when you spend $30 or more. YAY! Free money! Find out more HERE.

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Great FREEBIEs...

Christina Renee has another oh so fabulous freebie on her blog. It's DigiScrapWrap. Grab it HERE. Her incredible grundgy Urban Love kit is still for sale on her blog too, for the LOW LOW price of only $1.

I also ran into a super cool blog last night, Heather's Stuff. She lists a bizillion (well, not quite that many...but it's still a whole lot) FREEBIEs from all over digiland blogs on there. You have to go check it out.

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NOW....LO time ...

I finally worked on a couple more LOs for the fabulous Faith True. Here they are.

grab all of the details and credits in my galleries. (links to the right)

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I'm going to try and pull a sampler together over the weekend for my next blog freebie. In the meantime, grab my messy alpha below if you haven't already done so.

til then....have a groovy day....go shop at my store....and Scrap Sassy Silly!

hmmmmm....where to begin....????

I guess I'll start with our Baby Boo..........
Thank you sooooooo much to everyone for all of your kind words this week and the last few weeks since I started talking about her. It has definitely been awkward around here the last few days. The kitchen is the strangest place in the house. We removed the dog dishes and the doggie door from our sliding glass door is gone too. We're also sooo used to her eating the scraps tossed off of the highchair and our leftovers from dinner. Even though she was in pain, she still loved our people food. Jeff even started cutting tiny pieces of his meat tonight, just for Boo. It's a hard habit to break.

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our weather.....
the last couple of days have been soooo absolutely beautiful here....around 80 degrees ....anyone ready to get out of their cold icy weather and escape to Phoenix?????? Oh, I'm so happy I don't live in KC or STL any longer.

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Fantasy Survivor....
I hopped on this little game at DST today........I actually picked Yul as the winner last season during the very first episode....how weird is that???? I doubt that will happen again this time...but it could....I actually picked Boo...I had to just because of his name ...do you think it's a sign????? I haven't read one little word about any of the participants yet, so he could be the one most likely to get voted off first......NOPE, his name is Boo...that won't happen

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my shop.......
today is Wednesday(ok, technically Thursday by the time this gets posted)....that is when my new products are released at HODS ....
check out my new stuff......a nice little variety, I think....

Hudson's Airplanes kit (a total update of the original I had as a blog freebie a long time ago .... and this preview does not show all elements)Hudson's Airplanes sticker pack
(this preview doesn't show up with the gray and black in the store or DST...just here for some strange reason)


Perky Alpha PINK (more colors next Wednesday)

***PSA - all of my new products (over $3.00) will be on sale each Wednesday for Humpday Happiness Sale at 20% off .......... and all other days you can use my friends discount of $1.00 off your purchases at my store ($3.00 min order)...just use code SE1

now....please go over to the shop and check out everyone else's products too......this week so many super incredible items were added......and I'm not being biased....there really are some super duper cool things there .....................and, while you are there, hop on over to our forum, register, and intro yourself!!!!!!

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ok......it's now 12:39am....time to go to sleep for a few hours .......later!
(don't forget to scroll down to catch up...a freebie is still available)

today was the day....

wellllll....after lots of deliberation ....... we put Boo to sleep today. She won't be in pain any longer. It was kind of tough because she acted like happy Boo as much as she could and wagged her tail, but any free moment she had, she would lick and gnaw at her tumor. The last few days she really went to town on it. We had lots of dried blood on our back patio and little bits around the house. Luckily most of it was on our tile. Two of Jeff's very good friends came by during their lunch hours today to say good-bye to her. It was so nice of them to do so. Then, Jeff's best friend came over since they got her together around 15-16 years ago. I took the boys over to a friends house and met Jeff, Dave, and Boo at our Vet's office. After lots of bawling by us and a very quick shot it was over. It put her to sleep so fast. It's so sad, but soooo nice to know that she is in a better place now. About 30 minutes after we came home I cleaned up every sign of Boo and Jeff removed our doggie door. We figured it would probably be best for the boys that way ("out of sight, out of mind"). After they came back home, Hudson just made one quick question wondering where Boo's food and water bowls went. I said they went bye-bye and then he just went on like normal. I don't think either one even noticed that the doggie door was missing yet. Sooo, the next few days and beyond will be weird and very rough on Jeff the most. At least he has a family now..unlike 5.5 years ago when he had to put Otis down. At that time, it was only him and Boo left in the house. Here's some pics from over the weekend. I'm going to try and get some of these scrapped for Jeff for Valentine's Day.

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I feel weird even writing anything else right now. I was going to, but it just doesn't seem right.

what took me sooooo long??

new digi-stuff for me...

I am FINALLY an Atomic Cupcake girl. Oh my! What took me so long to venture on over there to really check out the offerings. It is such a steal I couldn't pass it up. I might have even made a little goodie for everyone since it's been AGES since I've done so.

I ordered a custom brush set by the oh so awesome Genevieve Sass. I can't wait to receive it and play with the brushes to make some more fabulous things for everyone to enjoy!

I also purchased another goodie, Karah Fredrick's Easy-Peasy Folded Corner Template.

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now some sad news...

I called our vet this morning to try and arrange a time for him to come over and put Boo to sleep. Her tumor is just irritating her way too much lately. I started wrapping it with little diapers so she couldn't aggravate it any more, but she eventually takes it off and makes it bleed more. Well, Dr. MacKenzie has to call us back on Monday to let us know if he will agree to it or not. I doubt he'll turn us down. Today was definitely a tough day for Jeff. He even started to dig her burial spot at the side of our house. The next week (plus) is definitely going to be rough.

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some better news for me...

thanks to the wonderful girls at DST....I now have a keyboard that works. I was strongly encouraged to switch to Firefox. I did and (WOW) it's so much nicer!!! I realized that when I upgraded to IE7 is when it started to screw up. So not nice. Firefox is soooooo fabulous! Everyone should use it for the web.

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Serena is the coolest ..still...........

She made me a new blog blinkie. She combined a few of my kits and came up with this.
Isn't it soooo fabulous!!!!?!?!??!



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Now....here's your FREEBIE ....it's a super fun stamped alpha.....add a little funky jive to your LOs with this one .... the set includes A-Z and 0-9
DOWNLOAD here

please be nice and leave me some lovin' when you grab it ... I LOVE reading your comments

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reminder - head over to my store and get $1.00 off of your purchase with code SE1
...Happy Shopping!

yikes! I've been tagged!

Oh that darned Serena! She taggedme with the lovely 5 cool/unusual things lis thingamabob that's been moving around the digiscrap obsessed blog world lately. She evn laughed at the fact I don't have a normal-acting keyboard. Because of my keybord/computer isues, I have to backtrack and fil in missing charcters so everyone can ead his like normal. UGH! soooooo, this blog post is staying lie it appears.....hpefully you will be able to read it ok.

here goes...

1. I used to live in Peculiar, MO (just south of KC) and graduated from Raymore-Peculiar HS (a/k/a Ray-Pec). Nicename for a small hic town, huh? I actually grew up in the suburbs of KC for my first 17 years and thn we moved 20 minutes out to thissmall town for the acreage and horses. My HS has been state champs in Missouri 5A footall fr 3 years in a row! very cool! and their coach is from my grad class

2. I'm still very involved in my sorority, Alpha Phi. I was initiated exactly 20 years ago thisweek. I serve as our SW Regional Alumnae Membership Coord.

3. I ate mshed potatoes for the very first time when Iwas 35. It was a texture thing. I thought they would be so nasty because they looked so boring. Now, yummmmmmmmm! Jeff and I were inChicago at TheHouse o Blues for one f our irst dates (a long weekend vacation date too)

4. Fried chicken livers are my very favorite food. It'ssoooo tough to find anywhere that sells them, unless I mak them myself. That very rarely happens since my dh won't eat them. Fiorella's Jack Stack restaurants in KC have theBEST ones by far. I haven't foud anywere in Phoenix with any. too sad

5. People used to think I was Moly Rigwald back when the John Hughes movies were big. I would get stopped all the time bepeple calling me Molly. I never had rd hair, but I looked like her in very other ay back then. My dh doesn't belive me...but it's soooo true....I wish I was stll in contact with my friens from back then so they vouch. Oh! I lve Sixteen Candes, Pretty in Pink, and Breakfast Club very much still!

now....time for e to tag a few for more fun ........ok, Jennifer B, Dale Ann, Steinlin, Selena, and Leslie ......have fn chickies!

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a little note about Boo...it's been a while sice I've mentioned her ...she is still here for now...her tumor looks prettysad becase shehas been aggravatin it by licking it non-stop, i just looks so raw ...until this morning when Iwrapped her tumor & leg with a diaper ...........Jeff is sill aving the hardest time deciding a day to put her down...it really is thebest decision...she's 15-16 years old and the only way she will be competely bettr is f e amputate her leg

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another recipe for you ...... I'm loving my crock pot ately ........I madethis Tuesday night

Cheesy Potatoes

cream of chicken soup

8 small red potatoes - cut into wedges
1/2 sweet onion - diced

1/2 cup grated cheese (your favorite flavors)

salt and pepper

*pour in the soup and then vrythng else

*cook on high for 3-4 hours
*serves 4-6people

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now ... a couple funtabulous LOs

our engagement, May 17, 2003

yogurt, the new hair gel (shortly after Griffin fed himself yogurt for breakfast)

please see my galleries (links at right) for credits

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reminder - head over to my store and get $1.00 off of your purchase with code SE1

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now it's time for you to leave me some lovin' ...I really love your comments!!!!

(as always please scroll dwn to get caught up with everythig..and to see some of my designs)

new LOs....and something truly beautiful

first off...I u/l a couple LOs today. They are both so cute and so different ...and both are showcasing the fabulous work of Faith True. I really need to scrap someone different than Hudson. For some strange reason, its been all about him lately. He is a fab subject, but I really need to spread the love. Don't I?

You can find all of the credits in my galleries.

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gosh...I am watching What About Brian right now (on ABC). I abslutely LOVE this show. Ok...I have many shows I love, but this is my Monday night must-see. You must get hooked on it if you aren't already! .......and....UGH! Marjorie!! She needs to disappear and go back into whatever hole she went in when she walked away from the alter.

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now....for the really beautiful something ... I received this in an e-mail just a little bit ago....and UGH..it's a power point and I can't figure out how to add it here anywhere .......if anyone has a suggestion, I'd greatly appreciate it! this truly is fabulous! I received it at the perfect time tonight. Dh and I had a pretty rough last half of the day. He was in Vegas since Saturday night and now this stupid yuckiness with us. It is giving me inspiration to scrap some pics of when we got engaged a few years ago. I need happy time thoughts right now.

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I just read Mandy's blog because of the blog train..and....wow!!!!...talk about weird ghost-like experience. Go on over and check out the strange happenings.

Jennifer B has the coolest sneak peek of a kit on her blog. Are you a diva? ok...Go check it out!

Christina has a super cool kit on her blog for only $1. I just grabbed it Why don't you too?

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that's it for now...have a great night! and..please leave me some lovin' and skim below if you'd like to get caught up on some great stuff..............ok off to go hop on the blog train again (smile)

tech difficulties......please stand by

yes....so not fun

at first it was DST's gallery getting it's makeover ......and now HODS is down

everyone over at DST has been so anxious w/out the gallery .... by the time it's back up, it will probably explode from the whole digiscrapworld jumping on it at the same time...now wouldn't that be lovely?

and Claudia is guessing that a hacker somehow got into HODS ...yikes! ... now she has to spend today fixing everything so we can actually get up and running again .... we just had our grand opening on the 26th, now this...but, hey...would there ever really be a good time for this to happen anyway?

oh...there's a new bandwagon to jump on at DST...it's the recipe swap.....I'm pretty psyched for this ... for each category that we participate in, we'll get ALL o those recipes zipped up for a whole bunch of fab new ideas

and now.......yay!!!!...... I just went back to DST to grab the ecipe swap link and Inoticed that the gallery is back up.....so cool ........after I add a couple LOs over there, I'll u/l them here for all of you ...sometime in the next couple of hours I guess...so please stay tuned

(and...please don't forget to scroll down to get caught up...if you haven't already)

The coolest awards...

The coolest girl in the entire world is Serena (surprise! surprise!)! The luckiest girl in the world is me...because of Serena!!!!! You have to go check out her blog today! It is a definite must!

Hurry hurry, please!

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now....the coolest new overlays kit out there is Crazy Daisies. I finished it this afternoon and it should be available at HODS tomorrow sometime. It is sooooo girlie, flowery, and colorful. PLUS, there's more than just overlays. I also have a super cute sign and some daisy stickers too.

It is the must have for anyone with girls!

***super duper friends bonus - use gift certificate code SE1 at checkout and you will get $1 off of any non-sale purchases from my store. ***

updated links.....YAY

I finally added a blog list. Are you lucky enough to be listed??? If not, make me happy and maybe you'll be honored. :)

I also added my store, challenge, and galleries....

BUT.... I couldn't figure out how to add my blinkies. Is there a special trick? I also want to add some tunes with a video or without, I don't care...I just don't know how to do that. Help please.

(and...please scroll down for exciting stuff)

oh....I haven't told you .....I made a newcock pot meal earlier this week....so simple and yummy...so I thought I'd share...
*Chicken Cordon Bleu...
layer in order - 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, 1/2 lb deli sliced ham, 1/2 lb baby swiss cheese, 1 can of cream of chicken soup, then dry stuffing mix (prepared)...cook on low for 6-8 hours..........the chicken is sooooo tender and tasty.............enjoy!

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?

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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 :)