well, i worked at the Gap again today....it was my 3rd day so far...........
I love it.... it's so great to get out of the house and do that..... I actually love straightening the clothes three and don't care for it much at home

I've mainly worked on the women's side... I kind of wish it was in toddlers...but that's probably a good thing too.......I keep picking out things I want to get.... I swear some of their bargains are sooo super incredible it's hard not too.....I mean there are a bunch of super cute bras right now for only $6.99 and some super cute flats for only $12.99 ...and then I have my discount of 30% off............ so far I haven't spent a dime, but it's so hard

I was originally scheduled to work on Halloween night.....I asked to switch with someone so I could take Hudson (Cookie Monster) and Griffin (Elmo) trick or treating..................luckily they realized that there were too many people scheduled and now I get to have fun.............. I really want to find my pink beehive wig to go out with them... I haven't worn it in a few years...I think they would love it

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I'm watching America's Most Smartest Model right now on VH1.... if you haven't seen it yet....you have to.... it is sooooooo very hysterical!


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ok.......it's that time again..............jump and and down...get all giddy and excited....





this is for a 3 month Guest gig (November, December, and January)

requirements:
*scrap 4 LOs/month
*post in 3 galleries (including OAKS and DST)
*be active in CT forum
*love my goodies
*promote me
*have silly fun

how to apply:
*link me with your best gallery
*e-mail me at saranohw(at)yahoo.com, subject line "silly ct call"

deadline: November 2nd (yes, this is a quick little call...hurry hurry)



*ad made with Sweet Water Taffy collab kit by Sara Ellis and Jeannie Papai.....ad designed by Lizzyworks


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please scroll down so you can take a gander at my Scrapz Sack..it's available at OAKS now :)

and.... more OAKS news will be coming very soon

more excitement

if you have trouble viewing the image....please see my blog ---------> http://scrapsillysara.blogspot.com

grab it HERE

it's available from Oct 26th - Nov 5th

Round 'em up!

clusters, clusters, who wants more clusters??????? How about the Round 'em up collection by Sara Ellis??

all the frames are tied up with colored string....... so much fun attitude for all to enjoy


all are high quality, 300 ppi, PNG files


(hint hint.... if you like these..... you will love my Scrapz Sack Oct 26th - Nov 5th)


the paper used is from Road Trip solid papers ....hmmmmmmmm, another Scrapz Sack item

grab Round 'em up HERE - only $1.50 each

it's been a long day...

I left the house at 9am and didn't get back home until 5:30. The luncheon was from 9:30 - 3:30 and then I ran a few little errands.

oh my!!!!!! the luncheon was fun.....it was for all of the MOMS club chapters in AZ (over 80), more than 50 attended with 250 women...........each chapter was asked to bring one raffle basket......wow! were there ever some super super cool baskets!!!!!! one had a $250 visa gift card, along with gift cards to grocery stores, salons, restaurants, and tons of chocolate goodies.....(the theme was the mother's love is sweeter than chocolate)..........many chapters from outside of Phoenix has weekend getaways....some were valued up $2-3000!!!!!! yep, I said 2-3 thousand..... ours wasn't way that extensive......just wait until next year!!!!!!! we will have one super fantabulous one

anyway, Cathy, our chapter's Pres, won one of the best ones... a weekend getaway someone (lodging in a cabin, restaurant gc, 2 one - hour massages, and one or two more things for that weekend), plus a coffee maker, a fire circle (not a fire pit, just a very cool round metal circle to contain a fire), and tons of chocolate.............it was way heavy for both of us to carry to my car

no prize for me...except for one of those Betty Crocker double molten lava chocolate cake microwave packages for completing a mini treasure hunt

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lookie lookie at this exciting news!!!!!!!!!!



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no chuckle today.....

but I do have a fabulous special goodie....feel free to share this with your friends and family.......

"I wish you enough"
Recently I overheard a mother and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.

Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the mother said, 'I love you, and I wish you enough.'

The daughter replied, 'Mom, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Mom.'

They kissed and the daughter left. The mother walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see she wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on her privacy, but she welcomed me in by asking, 'Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?'

'Yes, I have,' I replied. 'Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?'.

'I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral,' she said.

'When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough.' May I ask what that means?'

She began to smile. 'That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.' She paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and she smiled even more. 'When we said , 'I wish you enough,' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough goo d things to sustain them.' Then turning toward me, she shared the following as if she were reciting it from memory.

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.

I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.

I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.

I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.

I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.

I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.

I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

She then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget them.

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now, please don't forget to scroll down to catch up on all the latest buzz from me :)

my new habit

I am seriously going to try to blog every day now. Aren't you impressed? It really will be so much easier if I just have snippets each day instead of huge long lengthy things once a week or so.

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so, guess what I had to do yesterday? ya know the boys spent the night at their grandma's house on thursday night..... well, usually i drive them one direction and she drives the opposite direction..that means that she should've brought them home yesterday......well, I forgot to leave her a 2nd carseat (she has one already)........sooooo, I had to drive back out to pick them up (rush hour drive time and chit chat amount to almost 2 hours).....so much for my nice relaxing afternoon

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last night I tried to scrap.....oh my.....I haven't scrapped in so long...I just can't make any decisions on how to do my first page in ages....I've picked out this picture of all three of my guys....but I have scrapper's block after this
hopefully something will come to me late tonight

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oh! guess what? I'm going back to work....part-time seasonal retail with a nice discount work.... I was just hired yesterday at The Gap...... yay! it's for nights and weekends and not sure how many hours......it'll be nice to get out of the house and not have to cook dinner......and get discounts for Gap Kids

it's also so nice because it's in a boutique shopping strip (no mall and mall parking - woo-hoo!)... and it's a combo baby, kids, women, and body store)

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ok...... today I'll be out all day long attending my MOMS Club annual luncheon.....it's FIVE hours long... I can't believe what will take so long....I haven't seen an agenda, but I know we have lunch and a slideshow....and TONS of raffle baskets....hopefully I will win at least one...every chapter brings one to raffle off and I've heard that there have been some super huge prizes in the past (including Southwest Airlines tickets)

wish me loads of luck! :)

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now for your chuckle of the day......
I received this yesterday from Julie/ ja_field

Men are like....



1. Men are like .. Laxatives . They irritate the crap out of you.
2. Men are like Weather. Nothing can be done to change them.
3. Men are like Blenders You need One, but you're not quite sure why.
4. Men are like .Chocolate Bars . Sweet, smooth, & they usually head right for your hips.
5. Men are like ...Commercials ....... You can't believe a word they say.
6. Men are like Department Stores . Their clothes are always 1/2 off.
7. Men are like .Government Bonds .... They take soooooooo long to mature.
8. Men are like Mascara. They usually run at the first sign of emotion.
9. Men are like.Popcorn . They satisfy you, but only for a little while.
10. Men are like .Lava Lamps . Fun to look at, but not very bright
11. Men are like Parking Spots All the good ones are taken, the rest are handicapped.

Now send this to all the remarkable women you know, as well as to any understanding good-natured, fun kinda guys you might be lucky enough to know !!!!!!!!!!


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jeesh....so much for short and sweet little blog post here....

have a groovy weekend :):):):)

miss me?????

this is the longest I've ever gone without gabbing about this or that....just adding some of my new goodies in here and that's it............sooooooooo, I haven't hopped on the blog train in a few weeks either since I didn't think that was fair to the train passengers just to show them an ad

I'm back now to ramble like I usually do :) ........LOL.... Is that a good thing for you or a little chuckle????

wellll....how about starting with a good chuckle.............

1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died

peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the

passengers in his car."

--Author Unknown

2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you

get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle:

"Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."

--Author Unknown

3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?

There's a support group for that.

It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

--Drew Carey

4) "The problem with the designated driver program, it's

not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into

doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night,

drop them off at the wrong house."

--Jeff Foxworthy

5) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball

and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the

infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."

--Dave Barry

6) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and

we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend

wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice.

There should be severance pay, the day before they leave

you, they should have to find you a temp."

--Bob Ettinger

7) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took

her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said,

'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"

--Paula Poundstone

8) "A study in the Washington Post says that women have

better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the

authors of that study: "Duh."

--Conan O'Brien

9) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm

halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....

I could be eating a slow learner."

--Lynda Montgomery

10) "I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of

people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime

and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough.

Let's go west.'"

--Richard Jeni

11) "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the

impersonators would be dead."

--Johnny Carson

12) "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."

--Paul Rodriguez

13) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida ,

but they turned sixty and that's the law."

--Jerry Seinfeld

14) "Remember in elementary school, you were told that in

case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line

from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that?

What, do tall people burn slower?"

--Warren Hutcherson

15) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many.

Monogamy is the same."

--Oscar Wilde

16) "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a

member of Congress.. But I repeat myself."

--Mark Twain

17) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student.

At least they can find Afghanistan ."

--A. Whitney Brown

18) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog,

and the dog will give you a look that says,

'My God, you're right!

I never would've thought of that!'"

--Dave Barry

19) Do you know why they call it "PMS"?

Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.

-- Unknown, presumed deceased

20) "Everybody's got to believe in something.

I believe I'll have another beer."

- W. C. Fields

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a few days ago I started a thread at DST about roasts because I've always had issues......

I've found out that I never gave them enough time to cook...... I thought I would over-cook them if I let them go all day...well, silly me!............. this thread has turned out to be outstanding..there are soooooo many great tips there.............please feel free to grab a recipe or 2 or 3 for yourself

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now.... time to share my funny bad day from yesterday with you.....

my dh decided to work from home yesterday because he had a headache.... ok, fine...no biggie, right?????? HA!!!!!! Guess what I forgot?????? It was his birthday!!!!!! oooooops! It finally dawned on me when I left to pick up Hudson from preschool. uh-ho! he called me shortly after I picked up Hudson and asked if I knew what today was, I told him happy birthday then & told him he spoiled the big surprise I was going to do later (something I still needed to figure out..which I ended up not doing)...........I dropped Hudson and Griffin off at my MIL's to spend the night. She had asked a few days ago if they could since her dh was going to be out of town. She told me yesterday that she offered so that we could also go out to eat.......for his birthday dinner! ....... HELLO! I told her she should have clued me in to that earlier since I totally forgot about it. Griffin turned 2 five days earlier, so that is the only birthday I was only thinking about. We ended up staying home and enjoyed colossal king crab legs and baked potatoes.....and then he pouted and went to sleep early. MEN! Instead of 41, he acted like he was 4. It was kind of funny.

but....besides that.............. I received a phone call when I was at the grocery store in the early evening from ADT Security.... my friend's burglar alarm went off & I'm the contact for it.....talk about a mini panic......her house/dog sitter accidently set off the alarm ...... OOPS!

then...... at home..... I was rearranging some beer bottles in the fridge (making room for some groceries) and I dropped one..SPLAT! ...it's a good thing we have tile in there

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ok......... I'm super super excited about my newest kit, it's a collab with the ever so fabulous Jeannie Papai called Sweet Water Taffy - so yummy and sweet you can't resist it





8 textured solid papers
18 textured patterned papers
2 strand of beads
1 wavy border
7 ties
6 swirls
3 painted glittered foil flowers
1 painted glittered foil leaf
1 painted frame
1 photo cluster
1 bent frame
3 frames with ribbon wraps
1 plain frame
2 journals
1 glitter border overlay
3 paint splotches
2 curly gingham ribbons
2 black wordarts (easy to recolor)
8 circle stitchings
7 sequin strands
4 satin ribbon flowers
1 painted cardboard flower
1 painted cardboard leaf
1 decorative safety pin
1 alpha (upper a-z)
1 12x12 PSD template

papers and elements packs available separately ........or purchase both of them together for a discounted price (plus get an extra bonus coupon)

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ok..that's it for now.... I have to go hop on that train for blogville and then get ready for a MOMS Club meeting

sooooooooo...if you had fun reading through my rambleness, please sign up on my left sidebar to receive my feedblitz notifications in your inbox :)

Something for everyone........seize the day & make it yours with Karma and Today ..... both available in my shop at DigiScrap Boutique

both are also available in my OAKS shop

it's the big reveal show....

my Scrapz Sack is now open...and all these super fabulous colorful goodies are available individually now in my OAKS store

8 supersized journals (average at least 7-9 inches).... 4 lined & 4 unlined for many possible uses ...... grab HERE


and........
last day for.....

and....



and.....
don't forget this fab deal..... valid 'til the 15th....



all ads are clickable

missin' and a pimpin'

ok.......

I really don't hang out at DST that much........but, dang, I do miss it.......apparently there are server issues.......hopefully it will come back soon......it's already been over 24 hours .......
it's our OAKS Scrapz Sack week and sale week too ....... oh well, at least I've been receiving some fab reviews from some girls on HELLO about my sack so that's super cool of course! :)


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wellllll.....I have another collab at OAKS too...... I think I've been averaging one a week lately .....


this includes:
20 textured papers (7 solids/13 patterns)
3 ribbon wraps bows (1 glittered)
2 bows
2 brads
2 frames
4 glitter strokes
7 individual leaves
2 leaf piles
1 paisley element
3 paperclips
2 pipecleaner elements
1 wordart (frolic in a big messy pile of leaves)
1 tree overlay
2 stitched overlay borders
1 alpha (lowercase a-z, 0-9, and 4 symbols)

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and....
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purchase the Unbe-leaf-able Autumn collaboration kit by Sara Ellis and Jessica David and get the story 4x6 brag book for free until Oct 15th ........or buy the brag book separately


and......don't forget........Royal Chaos mega collab with Danielle Engebretsenand Not So Spooky collab with Faith True...and the coordinating brag book
and.....I have three more collabs in the works .....talk about a roll, huh?


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well, tomorrow is a big day of firsts for Hudson ......

both Hudson and Griffin have their first dental appointments in the morning

and......then......it's Hudson's first day of preschool.......it's sooo exciting!!!!! I'm still just giddy that he's in this program and that it's FREE (scroll down to read all the news about this fab thing)

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ok.......enough for now..... back to designing a few more elements

Scrapz Sack time!!!!!

5 brand new element packs...plus a fab bonus!

and......... ..

35% off everything in my store....... ..yep, I said everything, that includes my commercial goodies ............ . (one tiny exception... my Scrapz Sack is not on sale)

shop HERE

grab all my deals (Scrapz Sack and sale) until Oct. 5th

bunches of other OAKS Scrapz Sacks are in the store now...an more will be coming this weekend

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and..........exciting news update about Hudson's speech therapy......

I had my meeting yesterday with Hudson's preschool teacher, speech pathologist and somebody else..the school psychologist maybe (all from our school district)?? Hudson ended up scoring a 77 on some evaluation and that is the cut-off for being accepted into the 3 day program. If he would've been scored at 3 years, instead of at 2 y 11 mo, he would've scored alot lower which would have definitely put him in the 3 day without any kind of issue. The speech pathologist suggested that the 3 day would be better for him so he can build his social and language skills. I'm so excited about this program! Half of the kids are very normal for their age and have been through testing themselves to be good models for the other half like Hudson that needs extra assistance in some areas. It's also pretty much 50/50 for boys and girls. There is a mixture of reasons that the kids need help for, but there is more of a variety in the morning class. Hudson's is for 2.5 hours each day. There is one girl that has a very bad cleff with her face and one other issue, but no wheel chairs, hearing or vision disabilities. The 4 day program with autistic kids is next door with 4 students. They are mainstreamed with Hudson's class for story and music time. When he improves his language skills, he will be able to move into the 2 day program which is only 30 min & it's sole focus is speech.

I have a huge binder to read and keep all of his info in and two welcome packages. We also have school supply shopping this weekend. There is a different theme and letter as the focus every week. Next week is picnic fun and the letter M.

He's going to start next Monday. yay!!!!!!!!

Tuesdays are going to be crazy because he has his private speech therapy in the morning and then school an hour later, 30 minutes away. Since we'll only have an extra 30 minutes to spare, we won't really have time to get out of the car anywhere for lunch and it won't be fair to go to the park just for a short bit, so we'll probably just opt for fast food in the car those days.

here we go again....

one week since I last blogged.....I'll learn someday.........instead of having this pretty lengthy like I have easily done before....I'm going to try to be as short as possible with each little bit.....
HA! is that even possible with me since I ramble so much???

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ANTS!!!!!!
I am soooo tired of our ants. I don't know if it's because we've had more rain than usual, so our summer hasn't been as dry as usual....we've actually had humidity here in Phoenix............whatever the reason....we've been invaded by ants in various places inside the house and all of our front and back yards.................and......we are not alone...apparently it's pretty common

after the boys found a few more ants in the house last Friday morning and Griffin's left foot getting totally covered by them later that afternoon in the backyard (oh yea, his foot looked black)........our bugman sprayed again on Saturday morning......he said he's gotten so many new customers lately for the same reason.........he found at least 5 ant colonies in the front and back ........ after all the time he spent and potent stuff he put on them, most are still alive......it's crazy! he said the only other thing he could do is basically bomb them, but a couple weeks later, they'll be back.........soooooo, we just need the cold weather to hit us

oh...and Griff's foot....I counted at least 32 bites on his little left foot alone...and 4 on his right one ........he was soooooo good too, all he did was say "ants, ants!" (I was sitting at our little kids picnic table with my back to him).......I immediately picked him up and hosed his feet down ... besides saying ants twice, he never cried or anything...........he's only 23 months old............. if it was me, I would've been miserable

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the only other exciting thing since then is that I have an appt. with Hudson's soon-to-be new preschool teacher and a speech pathologist this morning ........ we've been trying to get him into our school district's special ed preschool for speech & the time is finally here....his evaluation with the district was 3 weeks ago.....it was a very lengthy 11 page report that basically boiled down to the same thing we know....his articulation is horrible...he just turned 3 a couple weeks ago and he is in the 1 percentile range for sounds in words.... he does try to put 2-3 words together, but he can't pronounce anything very well ..............and he's been going to a private speech therapist since June....................

two huge diff with being accepted into our school district's program ---- it's FREE and it's more time with him ........................... today's meeting will determine whether he's in the 3 day program with 2 hours each day or the 2 day program that is only 30 min each day ......... wish us luck with the 3 day one

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ok.........now for pimping time ........



you can get this FREE for the rest of September with the purchase of the coordinating Not So Spooky collab kit by Faith True and Sara Ellis....



see more details and grab it HERE


and.....................
I've been having lots of fun making some commercial usage ok paper textures and templates (personal use great too) this week and they are in both of my stores at DSB and OAKS ...
I have a total of 6 sets available right now at only $3 each...
here's a small sampling of each ....

well...you hopefully have already heard that OAKS is going Collab crazy this month...and I don't think it will stop .........
I have 2 in the store now...with Faith True (Not So Spooky) and Danielle Engebretsen (Royal Chaos)....... ...........................
and.... Unbe-Leaf-Able Autumn with Jessica David should be in the store very soon .......

I am finishing up my portion to another one with a very cool designer that isn't at either of my stores .................... and then I have a couple more that I need to start working on

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ok.....time to go so I can hop on the train...the DST blog train ......... and get back to designing (before my appt that's in a couple hours)

Back in action....

sorry I've been slacking with my blog lately..........just busy with life, kids, designing (even more fun coming soon), and what-not.... I'll try to do better

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I have been the featured designer on Hummie's Blog for almost a week now...I was so thrilled when she asked me to be a part of her weekly featured designers a little more than a month ago.... I shared a tutorial for extracting pictures....... please feel free to check it out and share your LOs with extractions with me...please leave your links here :)


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Royal Chaos is available in the OAKS store again!!!! yay!!!!! (scroll down for previews) we had a few zip issues right after it was put in there and advertised it........and a few delays getting it fixed since Dani and I had to coordinate our schedules again.........this is one huge mega collab from us (over 30 papers, 2 alphas, and a plethora of elements)

but.....as of yesterday, all is fabulous again

oh...OAKS is going Scrapz Duo collab crazy this month....look at all of the goodies in the store now...you have to check it out


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and........last Friday was Hudson's 3rd birthday.......yay! I haven't even u/l the pics from my camera yet (sorry) ........ we just had a little family birthday party for him on Sunday....his fave presents were from his grandparents, a Thomas the Train suitcase, a Caterpillar dump truck that has the bells and whistles (press various buttons to make it automatically dump it's load, go forward and backwards, and the noises too), and a long wooden semi truck. My fave presents that he received was his little black Crocs and his Ikea Brum chair. I've wanted Crocs for both Hudson and Griffin for a while, but my dh thinks they are too girly (whatever!). I was able to get my MIL to get them. (smiles!) And..the chair...well, that was one of the things I got for him. It is just too fun! It was super cheap too! On their website, it's advertised for $59....well, at the store, it was only $19. It's bendy and comfy. I love it!

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oh.... I keep forgetting....... Fantacy tagged me a few days ago...if you aren't familiar with her, she is a super sweet girl and is a fairly new designer at OAKS....her design name is Scrappin' Hillbilly Sweet Pea Designs ......she reminds me of KB & Friends....very cool stuff!

soooo...she asked me to state 7 unique things about me......
here goes......
1) I'm the only me that could possibly be me :)
2) I really love fried chicken livers....but i can rarely ever make them since my dh doesn't like them or the smell.....and very tough to find them at restaurants ...Lee's Chicken in STL has scrumptious ones and so does Jack's Stack in Martin City (KC, MO)..I've never found any here in Phoenix
3) I'm 40 and still active with my sorority, Alpha Phi....as the SW Regional Alumnae Membership Coord
4) I'm so picky with food that I didn't even try corn until April this year and now I absolutely love it (you can find a LO about it somewhere on my blog and in my galleries...I did it for the ADSR).............and I was 35 when I tried mashed potatoes (yum!)
5) I used to look like Molly Ringwald back in the Molly days in the 80s.......believe it or not...it's soooooo true!
6) I used to play varsity doubles tennis at my first high school (my second one didn't have tennis teams then)
7) I've never broken a bone in my body.

ok...........now it's time for me to tag a few girls........
1) Rachel (angelextreme) .... super sweet & on my CT...she's also starting he luck at designing & has some super cute things so far..including a freebie QP with all goodies by her on her blog
2) Dani (Danielle Engebretsen)... another super favulous designer buddy of mine...at both OAKS and DSB
3) Jeannie Papai.... I've just recently gotten to know her...and she is goofy, sweet, and fun....and her super talented designs are at PDP and DSS

I have more fab digi-friends that I'd love to tag...I just don't have the time right now to look up their blogs sinc e my dh will be home soon

ok.......you three.........give me 7 unique things about yourselves........share shar share away :)

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ok...this was extremely long again..........
I really need to blog more than once a week again

two new collabs :)

Not So Spooky, a goofy fun Halloween collab by me and Faith True

there are soo many fab papers and elements that can be used all throughout the year, not just in Halloween



grab it HERE

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Royal Chaos, a fun, funky, crazy collab by me and Danielle Engebretsen

for boys and girls...........
princes and princesses....
rock stars and barbie dolls.......
skaters and divas......

something for everyone.........



papers..


elements...


grab it HERE

(ETA...8:47am Monday...I removed Royal Chaos from the store until a few of Dani's zips get fixed later today...I'm so sorry for any inconveniences...please check back later for the availability)

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and...purchase any 2 collabs at OAKS....you will get a special collab filled with goodies from many designers, including two alphas, two templates, some element sets, and bunches of coupons



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and.......don't forget..



sooooooooooo...purchase two collabs and get two freebies (the special FWP collab and the regualr FWP collab)

more vacation pics..and an announcement

a bit more from our vacation to Ventura last week......


Hudson and Griffin had fun trying on Nana's beach hats...

aren't they goofy?














here they are....being cheesy and cute

















and a couple of us all together....too bad that the best one was of us teeter-tottering...maybe the group one will look better if i make it b&w ..I haven't done anything whatsoever to any of these pics yet

it's a bummer that Cooper wasn't able to join us.....but this was the week that my FIL was able to grab us......and Coop was in school........perhaps he will next year if it's before his college begins (gosh that's scary thinking that he'll be out of high school in the spring)

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a new store for me.......... yay!!!!!!





take a gander HERE

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and this weekend I will have a couple of collabs with other OAKS designers in the stores (OAKS first, then DSB)............they are soooooooooo cute and exciting!!!!

so please stay tuned :)

9-11: The Healing Garden

ok...... I just had to blog for a 2nd time today......

After Hudson's speech class I took him and Griffin to The Healing Garden at Tempe Town Lakes.....

wow! it was soooooo much more emotional than I thought it would be.........

there was a flag for each person that died with a yellow ribbon that had the name, age, and homeplace for each....a few didn't have names.....and then all of the children had special little flags and flowers at the base of each flagpole a lady that worked there came over to give the boys mini flags and within a couple minutes they ran over and laid them down at the base of someone's flagpole.......you know they didn't really know what it meant....but dang...tears flowed from me at that moment......it was so beautiful...it just happened too quick for me to get a pic of them doing it and they didn't want to pose there.........

the boys were actually more interested in the firetrucks that were there....one had a huge memorial painted all over it......and then there were 2 that were there to hold up the Unity Flag that's signed by all of the Senators anyway............oh...I don't have any pics of that flag because it was down because of the wind...they are only hanging it during the special ceremonies (early morning and tonight)

enjoy the pictures ( I haven't touched any up yet, I just u/l a few minutes ago).......... I'll scrap them later