Happy DSD!!! And a FREEBIE!

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Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day 2010!!!

Welcome!!

If you're following the ScrapMatters DSD blog train, you're in the right place.
You should've just come from Becca's blog.

And here is the freebie I have for you....a pretty quick page made with "Many Thanks" collab. by the ScrapMatters Design Team! It's a beautiful kit and don't forget that it's FREE with any $20 purchase this weekend. And on top of a great sale, that is a TERRIFIC deal!

You can grab this freebie HERE.

And here are some layouts that I've done with some of yesterday's new releases at ScrapMatters.

Haynay Designs DSD Grab Bag

A Pirate's Life
A Pirate's Life: Princess
by Haynay Designs

The Magic Is Here by Mye DeLeon Digital Designs (November Guest Designer)


Cerise Noir Collection by Studio Flergs (November Guest Designer)

Your next stop on the blog train is Mye's blog.

And if you should get "dereailed," head on back to the ScrapMatter's blog for the full list of train stops.

Happy Scrapping everyone!!!

Happy Fall!

Well, it officially arrived a couple days ago. Fall is here! I love this time of year. The color pallate is just so gorgeous! We are back into the school year full-swing. LOTS of 5th Grade homework this year! ACK!!!! Seriously. WAY too much homework! The kids are enjoying playing outside now that the weather is not quite so hot. Sugar needs a haircut (that always happens this time of year). We are getting excited about a vacation in November. And the kids are already starting to talk about Christmas lists!

It's been a fun, "computer-problem-free" month scrapping for the designers at ScrapMatters. This month I was scrapping for the wonderful ScrapMuss Designs, Stolen Moments Designs, and Sahlin Studio. Not to mention some great new releases by some of the other designers. Here are the pages I did.....

Today at ScrapMatters there are some new "Twice As Nice" collabs. being released. Design Team members paired up to create some really great kits. Check 'em out!

Enjoy Fall! Savor every moment!

August Scrapbooking

YIKES.....it's September!

C'mon, join the party train!

Welcome!


If you haven't heard yet (but how could you not?), ScrapMatters is turning 3 years old! And they are having a HUGE celebration!

If you've been following the birthday blog train, you probably just came from Jenna's blog. I have a little gift for you too. But first I want to share with you one of my best birthday memories.
I love telling this story because I get to brag on my wonderful husband and how he outdid himself for my 40th birthday. Not only did he plan a getaway trip for just the two of us to Florida (including two Cleveland Indian's Spring training games and a day at Disney World's Magic Kingdom), but he also helped me celebrate my 40th birthday for the 40 days leading up to it. Beginning 40 days before my birthday he would do something special for me each day such as a give me a card, a favorite treat, a gift card, doing a household chore for me that I dislike.....all kinds of different things.....he was very creative. When it first started, I was like "what is he up to?" But after a couple days I caught on and it was fun to wait and see what he came up with each day. It really is a special memory to me because of how thoughtful and creative he was.




So now that you've listened to my lovely story, here's a frame cluster I created for you from this wonderful collab. kit, "Cupcakes & Candles, by the Scrapmatters Design Team....

You can download this freebie HERE!

[Sorry, this freebie is no longer available.]

The next stop on the blog train is Jen's blog. If you should get derailed along our little party train, head to the ScrapMatters blog to see the whole list of freebie stops.



Thanks for stopping by! Happy Birthday ScrapMatters! Here's to many more birthdays ahead!

So let's just call this post "Summer 2010"

Wow, I'm a lousy blogger!

It's been a busy Summer......lots of medical appointments, fun activities, and a little bit of travel. Less than a month and school starts again! YIKES!!

We are still working down the kid's list of things they want to do this Summer. And this weekend we have a family reunion....FUN! We are going to squeeze every last minute out of this summer that we can!

In between all the family moments and computer problems that keep plaguing me, I have managed to scrap some pages. So here you go.....

Savor every moment!!

My, Oh My!!!

Where has the month of May gone??? It seems like just yesterday the month just began and I was anxiously anticipating our trip to Disney World and now Memorial Day Weekend is upon us!

Well, it's been a crazy month with a couple unexpected twists and turns! Mike and I had four wonderful days at Disney World. On the evening of our fourth day I started to not feel so well. I felt feverish and then during the night my leg started to hurt. I spent the next day in bed at our resort with a fever and my leg blew up like a watermelon. The last day and a half of our vacation were spent in our hotel room. I stayed in bed and mostly slept. We flew home the next day, but we knew something was not right!

[I want to interject here that our friends Tina and Brian stayed with our kids while we were gone and did a WONDERFUL job keeping our kiddos in their routine, getting them off to school, helping with homework, etc. We are SO thankful for the generosity of their time so that we could take our trip!]

So, the morning after we got home, we first headed out to a nearby urgent care center, later in the day we went to the ER, and I was ultimately admitted to the hospital for four days. Turns out that I had developed cellulitis in my leg. But not only that, when they did labs, they also discovered that I was SEVERELY anemic! So I wound up getting a bunch of antibiotics and blood.

I've been home for a week and a half now and my leg is finally getting close to normal size. I will have to have some tests next month to determine the cause of the anemia.....but I'm trying not to think of that just yet. :/

A couple days after I got home, Mike had to go on a business trip for three days. I am SO thankful for family who has helped with getting the kids off to school and home from school, making meals for us, and driving me where I needed to go. We are so blessed!
So now it's officially Memorial Day Weekend. And the kids only have three more days of school next week. So that's been our May 2010 in a nutshell!

You can see I haven't had a ton of time for scrapbooking, but I did manage to get a few pages done. Funny thing.....you would think that I would've gotten a ton of pages done while I've been home recouperating. But a couple times when I had the laptop out and tried to scrap, I could hardly keep my eyes open and kept dozing off. I guess pain meds will do that to you. LOL!

Here's some layouts......

Shabby Chic by WM[squared] Designs
Template from ScrapMatters' Black Friday Mega Template Pack
Focus by Page Frocks (collab.)
Template from Inspired By Denise by Darcy Baldwin

My Honey Bunny by Connie Prince

Patriotic Pride

Love Me Some White Space Templates both by Trixie Scraps

Life's Little Surprises a collab. by the ScrapMatters' Designers

Template from ScrapMatter's Black Friday Mega Template Pack

Good Times All Around by Haynay Designs

Have a GREAT weekend!!

Happy iNSD Weekend!!

iNSD.... WHAT???? Tomorrow is (International) National Scrapbooking Day!! Did you know?

My scrapbooking home, ScrapMatters, is having a HUGE celebration!!

I love scrappbooking celebrations because that means GRAB BAGS!!! Love 'em!! I've said it before, but I'll say it again....they are the BEST deal!!

Here are a couple of the grab bags that I've had the chance to play around with this week.....

From Haynay Designs' Grab Bag.....Haynay also has a great collab. grab bag with WM[squared] Designs (unfortunately my layout won't upload......darn Blogger!) If you have any Summer weddings or anniversaries coming up, you're going to want this one!!

And using another great grab bag from Stolen Moments.....

Hope you have an awesome time shopping, scrapping, chatting, and playing this weekend!

Oh, and one more thing.......The Design and Creative Teams at ScrapMatters have put together an AWESOME blog train that will be starting TOMORROW!!! There's over 50....yes, 50.....stops!!! How crazy is THAT??? Be sure to check it out tomorrow morning. The train will be leaving the station from HERE.

Have a great weekend!!

Gettin' Scrappy and STUFF!

Well, a couple more weeks have passed by without a blog post. But I promise it wasn't my fault. Poor little laptop.....had to go to the computer hospital for a few days. But now it's feeling (mostly) better.

Been busy with our home addition. Did I tell you that we're putting an addition on our house? It's a bedroom andhandicapped accessible bathroom for Sam, plus mud room, and garage. It was started way back in the middle of October and we're finally coming down to the home stretch, we think. Hopefully we'll have our final inspection in the next couple weeks. I've made more trips to Home Depot in the last month!

And I haven't told you what else is coming up! Three weeks from today I will be HERE!

YEA BABY!!! Just me and my Honey! Five nights, six days! Just the two of us! We haven't been alone on a trip for more than 2 nights since, well, since we went to India to get Sam! That was definitely a trip of a lifetime....but it was NOT a vacation! So, I'm SO excited! Our dear friends the Riedels are coming to stay with the kids while we are gone. (Bless them, bless them, bless them!!) I've been having fun planning all that we will do.....and now we're only three weeks away. Can't wait!

A ton to do between now and then, between getting the house, new part and old part, in order and just getting ready to go. But it's always nice to have something to look forward to.

I guess that's all of the "newsy" stuff. Here are a few layouts that I've managed to do between computer issues.....

As always, see my gallery for the credits.

Happy Friday everyone!! It's a beautiful day here in NE Ohio! The sun is shining and it's supposed to hit almost 70 today! Ahhh....perfect!! But of course Spring Break is in another week so it will most likely snow! LOL! Oh well, I'll take whatever gorgeousness comes my way!

It seems like all the digital scrapbooking stores are just filled with new Spring-y goodness this week too!

Here's what I've been working on this week.....

" Tumble Time" by Haynay Designs

"Alvean's Beauty Parlor" by Andilynn Designs (and a template by Connie Prince for the 3/16 Tuesday Template Challenge at ScrapMatters.com)

"Jelly Beanie" by Connie Prince and Bella Gypsy Designs and "Project 365 Template Pack, set 2" by Scrapmuss Designs

"Feeling Moments" and "Template #01" by Pri Rocha

"Hard Hat 101" by Erica Zane

I guess that's it! Have a great weekend! Me?.....I'm going on a date with DS11 tonight! And he picked Outback! Woo hoo!! That boy has GOOD taste!

Bye!

Any Disney "peeps" out there?

I just found this great new blog called Walt Disney World: It's Not Just For Kids. Lots of fun information!

And she's having a give-away for a $25 Disney gift card. You just have to go and leave a comment at this post. And there are other ways to be entered too (like following on Twitter.) Go check it out....you might win! (But hopefully I will! LOL!!)

CT Call for Haynay Designs

My friend Heather at Haynay Designs is having a CT call!! Heather's team was the first CT I was ever on and it has been a pleasure to work with her. Her designs are great and she is so layed back and easy to work with. It has been a great "first gig."



So if your interested in giving CT work a try, I would definitely apply!!

You can find all the details at Heather's BLOG.


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