Tuesday, January 30, 2007

And the winning LO is....

Ok..took me a few days to go through the galleries..I wrote down 20 pages I saw that used at least 50% of my goodies and then I went and checked siggies for the blinkies...I now have a winner...

LO #1 was by jsiebenlist at DSS posted 1/24/ @ 9:22 PM



jsiebenlist used a template from my Snappy Scraps Collection 5 (available at DSS) combined with Amy C's "Crash" Her full credits can be seen here.

LO #2 was by Deb06 at SBB posted 1/24 @ 10:24 PM

Debra used elements and alpha from my Adore Kit which is available free on my website (sarahs-scraps.com). Full credits here.


and the winning LO...

by Jannylynn at DSS posted 1/26 @ 6:41 PM




Jannylynn used a template from my Snappy Scraps Collection 11 available at DSS and my Paint and Splatter Brushes combined with "Little Prince" by Denise Bailey and a few other goodies. See her full credits here.

Congratulations to Jannylynn for winning the full Snappy Scraps Collection 11, and congrats to jsiebenlist and Debra as well for being #1 and #2. I'll be PMing you ladies to allow you to select one of the templates in collection 11 free, plus I'll send you a coupon to get the rest of the collection at a discounted price. :)

And....finally. I want to thank all the ladies that had LO's posted in the last week. I found 20 pages with 50% or more of my designs used. All those that also had a blinkie in their siggie when I did the blinkie check tonight at 10 PM Central time will be getting a 20% off coupon good in both of my stores. The following people will be getting PM'd with coupon codes:

  • jsiebenlist (@dss)
  • jannylynn(@dss)
  • wildblueeyez(@dss)
  • deb06(@sbb)

Congratulations everyone! Everyone else...grab your sarah's scraps fan blinkie and be on the lookout for future blinkie related contests. :)

Last chance..winner to be announced tonight

OK I've got a list of 20 LOs I've seen in the galleries, and I've got them all ordered. I will be looking through forums tonight to check for blinkies. This is your last chance to add your blinkie to your signature if you haven't already. My fan blinkie is over in the right side column - be sure to save to your computer and host on your own service.

I'll have a little something for any of the 20 LOs I've seen that have the blinkie when I check this evening. Number 3 will get Snappy Scraps Collection 11 free, and number 1 and 2 will get a small gift as well. :)

Good luck everyone!

Thursday, January 25, 2007

NEW: Card Kits!

Here's a new concept, combining the popularity in templates and card making with a mini kit, all to make it a quick and easy step to make personalized cards easily and quickly. The mini kit can also be used when scrapping a LO.


This first one is for Valentine's day. Pick it up today here and enter coupon code "oneday20" and you'll get 20% off! Only good today, so don't delay.


Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Busy Bee

Another late night (early morning) for me. I've been a busy bee trying to design this week for my stores. I've got a new set of templates up at DSS now, and this week I will have a brand new first in a new series of items that will be available at PDW. I will explain the new series more when I have the preview and am ready to load it to PDW, but here's a little sample of something I made using this new set.

(credits: all papers and elements by me)


Here's the preview for Snappy Scraps Collection 11 available now at DSS.



{fun little contest for my fans}

I'll be on the lookout for someone to give this new template set to for free. Make sure you grab your sarah's scraps fan blinkie and add it to your siggies. I'll be browsing some galleries this week looking for anyone who's posted a LO using ANY of my products. The 3rd person's page I come across that also has my fan blinkie in their siggie will win this template set for free. :)

I'll begin looking on Wednesday, Jan 24. Your page will have to have been posted Jan 24th or later, and at least 50% of the page will need to use any of my designs. I'll PM the winner when and where ever I see the LO. I typically browse the following galleries: SBB, DSS, DST, and PDW. If you post somewhere else other than these galleries, please leave me a comment here to let me know of other galleries I need to be looking through. :) I'll also post the winner here on my blog when I reach #3.

Remember, Post a LO this week using at least 50% of any of my product and have my fan blinkie in your siggie. If you don't post in one of the four galleries I typically browse, leave me a comment here to check out the gallery you post to. :) Good luck everyone. The third person I find that meets these requirements will win Snappy Scraps Collection 11 FREE. (hmm am I getting really redundant? I think I'm really tired LOL)

Well I know this is a short post tonight/this morn..but I'm pooped so I'm heading to bed.

Happy Scrapping


Sunday, January 21, 2007

Today's goal: relax

Well yesterday was a day from hell. Ky woke me up at 8 AM (a little early for her usual time, and only 4 hours after I had gone to bed *yawn*) and had thrown up all over her bed. *yuck* So immediately upon waking I was cleaning. She ate some applesauce and a little bit of cereal and drank some water for breakfast, and all seemed fine. She acted normal, nothing came up, no fever...so by lunch I had forgotten she'd been sick and I just made her a normal lunch like Alyssa's. While we were eating, she threw up everything about 2/3 of the way through lunch. So...off we went to change her clothes again and clean that up again. Then of course she acted normal again up till I put her down for her nap. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned alllll day (the only break was lunch and here and there I sat down for just a few minutes, and I did take a shower while Ky was napping). The cleaning was going so well, I thought I would be done early, have some time to relax before everyone came, and even maybe actually get to my room too (I never get to my room) and maybe even unpack a few boxes in there. WELL...all that thinking was before Ky woke from nap. When she got up, she was fine, but within about 10 minutes she was throwing up. I got her all cleaned up and then we went to the basement to help Alyssa finish picking up some last things so I could vacuum the play room. Eric called in the middle of it and I ran back up stairs to get my list of things I needed him to grab for me from the grocery store, and then I went to put the ham in the oven. As I was prepping the ham, Ky was messing around with my legs and I looked down and she was throwing up again all over my feet. *ugh* So, I stopped cleaned all that up, washed my hands again and threw the ham in the oven, and then went to change her AGAIN, and then I sat down on the couch to put some new socks on my feet. As I got the first sock 1/2 way on, she began to heave again, so I had to stick my hands out to throw up so she wouldn't throw up on her clothes again and the carpet. *ewwwww* Cleaned that one up and gave her a cup to try to aim into the next round, and FINALLY went down stairs to try and finish vacuuming. While I was down here the girls went upstairs, and within a few minutes...you guessed it...Alyssa yelled down to me that Ky was throwing up AGAIN! OMG Just then Eric walked in the door! LOL After I was all down vacuuming, I was upstairs again to change Ky's clothes for the umpteenth time and finally to get myself ready in a hurry with only 30 min left now till people would come. And yes, I hadn't gotten to my room yet! *sigh*

Oh well...the dinner party went well and we didn't have much trouble keeping Ky from the other kids. She was happy to just sit in mommy or daddy's lap and rest. We had no more throwing up episodes (but I had taken the water away as I suspected it was causing the problems). She did end up eating a little rice and applesauce and even a few chips and by the night even a little piece of cake. She held that down and went to bed easily and slept all throw the night. No throwing up yet today *fingers crossed* and the rest of us still feel fine *fingers double crossed*.

Soooooo on to more exciting things than sick kids....

I can't believe I didn't blog all week and haven't put up any of my previews. I'm not sure if I put up my previews up at DST or DSP. I've been so out of it this week. Let's see if I can put some previews in here now...on hello bloggerbot says it's dead - that's how I've always loaded my pictures, so I hope I can get this to work through here. It seems every month there's a new problem with updating this blog.

My new birthstone charms at DSS
















Ok I got an image in here, but now this formatting is irritating me. Let me put in some of the others and I'll have to play more with the format later as Ky is just having melt downs every couple of minutes - thus this posting is taking me allll morning.


My new TWO pager templates available at PDW.



Ok, well I have a few other things I've been working on that I want to show everyone, but since this post has taken forever and my kids are now starving for lunch...I'll have to come back and play with this later to add more and fix the formatting. errr

Lata gatas.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

I really am still here

Things have been so crazy this week, I've barely been on the internet. I have lots of things to share, but I just can't do it all right now. I've been cleaning up the ocmputer room and I've got to get to bed here in a few minutes. I have to get up early with the girls tomorrow while Eric has reservers. I'll be cleaning and cooking all day as we have a potluck dinner party at our house Saturday night. I haven't done ANY scrapping this week :( but I've been designing. Unfortunately (for me and my stores) it hasn't been much for my stores. I did put something new in each store this week though. There are new 2 page templates in my PDW store and Birthstone charms in my DSS store. I'll have previews of these and all the other things I've been doing this week later.

Have a happy Saturday and see everyone soon. :)

Monday, January 15, 2007

BIG NEWS!!!

I'm just bursting to share my news, but I wanted to make sure everything was set up and official before I said anything...so now...

I will now be selling at Plain Digital Wrapper!!!!

I am soo super excited!!!! I just can't WAIT to have some new goodies to put up at PDW!

I'm not leaving DSS; I'm just adding another store. I plan on selling different items for the most part in each store, so you'll still want to be sure to check out both places. I'll need to start the revamp of my sarahs-scraps website asap too so I can have one place you can find all my designs and then click to the store were they are. All with time...for now I need to just design, design, design to get some new goodies out for everyone!

I'm up late ONCE again (surprise, surprise right? LOL) tonight. I finished my two more scrap pages today, so I met the 7 pages for the page-a-day challenge this week, but man that about killed me! hahaha With the new store coming now, I don't think I'm going to be able to push it every week for that any more. Maybe here and there I will be able to, but not that I see in the next couple of weeks.

so, here's the two pages I did today (another 2 pager.) These are some OLD pictures I badly needed to get scrapped; they're from Alyssa's 5th birthday (she'll be 7 in March!).


left page (credits)


right page (credits)

Ok and finally...to celebrate my NEW Store and and exciting new opportunity, I have a new Word Pack that will be going in my PDW store this week, but FIRST I'm giving it away here for free! Get it while you can as I'll move it to the store on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.


Sorry, the free download time has expired. You can pick these up in my PDW store here.
Happy Monday to everyone!

Sunday, January 14, 2007

And the winner is...

Good Afternoon!

Dh gave me his pick for a winner..I asked him to pick a number between 1 and 18 and he said

#12....so

The winner is Krista!

and because I'm feeling generous and I'm so late at getting dh to pick this number, I told Alyssa to pick one too, soooo she picked #7.

which is Angela!

Congratulations to both of you ladies!

I have an email addy for Krista, need yours Angela. You can email me or PM me at DSS, so as soon as the next Snappy Scraps Collection is ready I will email or PM you both your FREE Download link! You'll probably have it before it even gets loaded to the store! :)

Thanks everyone for playing. Remember to display your blinkies proudly as I'll be on the lookout for them, and you just NEVER KNOW what I have up my sleeve for loyal blinkie displayers. hehehehe

I'm off to try and scrap TWO more pages today and finally see if I can carve out some good time for OPA today too since I should have been in New Orleans for my OPA meeting this weekend anyway. :)

WHY am I still awake again?

Once again, it's 3:30 AM, and I am stillll awake! I'm not doing too well on that resolution of getting more sleep am I? Notice this year, I didn't say I'd go to bed earlier, just that I would get more sleep! LOL I haven't really been getting enough this week though as I've been trying to get all caught up on things. I don't really see myself getting too much sleep in the next couple of weeks either with the changes coming soon. I've got a biiiig secret, but can't share just yet. :) hehehe

Thanks sooo much to all of you for your comments and those of you already sporting the nifty new blinkie. :) You all rawk! I'll start watching for those blinkies, and who knows....I just might pick out people here and there sporting the blinkie for little special things....stay tuned for information on this.... OH and for the random comment winner... I told DH he needed to pick a number for me, but he went to bed before he gave me one. I'll ask him again in the morning and then post the winner. The winner will get my next Snappy Scrapps Collection FREE, coming soon. :)

I've had a fairly lazy day. I slept till almost 2 I think! YIKES...told you I haven't been getting enough sleep. Dh was off and had the girls so he just let me sleep and sleep. I caught an impromptu template chat at DSS just in time at 3ish and got another page scrapped. Then this evening I scrapped another one...2 more to make my 7 for this week! Maybe I can do it this week if I can do two more before midnight tomorrow. I don't think I'm going to be able to keep up with this page a day thing much longer. It's adding stress, and though I'm thrilled with all the pages I'm getting scrapped, I'm not getting much of anything else done now! LOL I need to find a little more balance. I do need to be doing more than one page a week, but to bump upto 7 a week right now is more than I can manage, and things are only going to get a little tougher here soon. NOPE...still not telling my news...gonna have to wait. lalalalalala hehe

Ok..here's my pages from today and then I better go to bed. I can't sleep in too long if I'm going to get two more pages done before midnight tomorrow and try to get a few other things done that I need to do.


Alyssa's Self Portraits
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Resolutions
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Ok and with that...I'm off to bed... till tomorrow!

Saturday, January 13, 2007

a little gift, and a random prize

Well, my flight to New Orleans was cancelled. :( United left me a message that they had rescheduled me on a flight that leaves Sunday morning and would arrive in New Orleans at 3:35 PM. That's all fine and dandy, but my return flight leaves New Orleans at 5:30 PM! Not to mention that I'd miss all of my meeting Saturday and Sunday, so what's the point? I asked if they had any other airlines that they could switch me to, and the only thing they could come up with would get me there tonight at 5:30 PM (provided there are no other delays). That would put me in New Orleans for at least 24 hours, BUT most of the meeting occurs on Saturday. I just don't think it's fair to OPA to spend $500 for me to fly out and only end up in about 1/3 of the meeting, so I told the airline to just cancel my flight and refund my ticket. They said no problem, we'll refund you the complete ticket price, BUT it usually takes about 2-3 billing cycles for it to show up on your credit card statement! GOOD GRIEF! *sigh* what can you do? anyway...

I'm about to head to bed. Yes, I've been up all night working on some things and was dealing with phone calls to the airline and expedia trying to resolve this. I'll be back later, but wanted to share a little something I finished up for my loyal friends and customers. :) I hope you like it!


Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting



Please right click on the blinkie and save and then load to your own hosting (i.e. photobucket) service, and then you can proudly display in your sigie lines and blogs! Thanks so much for your support.

OH..and I'll be watching for comments today to pick a random commentor to give my next Snappy Scraps Collection to FREE! :)

I'll be back later....

Friday, January 12, 2007

Thursday, going on Friday

I didn't get a chance to pop on here to blog earlier, so just gonna have to do a very early Friday entry now. hehe

{A little Scrap Business First}
We're having a STORE WIDE sale Friday and Saturday all day at Digi Scrap Shak.



I've got a new set of templates up in the store that are included in the sale, and all of my template collections 1-9 also include PNG files along with PSD and JPG now. These can now be used for scrappers using programs that can't open the PSD layered templates. If you can open PNG files, you can now use these templates. Instructions are included.




{Business of the day}
I didn't quite get done all that I wanted to today, but I did get a few things done. My days this wee have been so thrown off with Alyssa's school bus not running. I needed to get another 2 rooms cleaned today, but just didn't have the energy to do it. Mabye tomorrow depending on how things go.

Friday's goals:




I think that's MORE than I'm really going to be able to accomplish..... but it's what I NEED to be getting done.


{Scrap an Event Chat}
For tonight's chat at 11 PM Est at SBB, we will be scrapping "firsts," as in first date, first bike ride, first birthday, first steps, etc...

Freebie for those that post to the Scrap an Event Chat by Saturday midnight.



{New Scrap pages}
Two new pages today from Christmas morning. These were made using one of the 2 pager templates in a new soon to come 2pgr collection.


Christmas 06 Kyleigh
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Christmas 06 Alyssa
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{Girl Scout Cookies and the Soldiers}
Many of you know my brother is in Iraq, and my daughter is in Girl Scouts. As a gesture of friendship and support our troop selected my brother and his unit as a group to send cookies to. All the girls in our troop are selling Girls Scout Cookies right now, and in addition they're asking if people would like to buy an extra box or two to send to the soldiers in Iraq from our troop. This offers a great way for friends and family that are not near by to get the cookies easily from the girls to still purchase cookies and support their favorite Girl Scout. Our troop will add up all the extra boxes sold in the end and we'll order a variety of different boxes and ship them all to my brothers troop. I think it is such a sweet gesture by the girls to show their love and support to Alyssa as well as for our Soldiers serving in Iraq.

If by some chance you'd be interested in donating a box or two as well, you can paypal me at sarah96 @ aggienetwork.com (obviously, you need to take out the spaces, I just didn't want it to link here and increase the volumes of junk mail I already get hehe). The cookies are $3.00 a box. You can put GS Cookies for the soldiers in the subject and add your name in the description so we can put a thank you letter and sign your name to it in the box we send.

I'll be sure to take pictures to show the cookies and such before we mail them out.

Thanks in advance to all that would like to donate.

Ok with that...it's almost 4 AM now, so I think I better go get some sleep so I can start on that todo list tomorrow. I'll need to have everything done and be ready to go to bed right after my chat tomorrow so I can get up and leave at 4:30 AM (so like 24 hrs from now) Saturday morning to drive to the airport. ugh...

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Hump Day

We're off to a wonderfully fun and exciting Wednesday already! NOT! LOL.

Eric woke me as he was about to leave at 9 am this morning. As I woke up I heard Ky already starting to fuss in her room. Almost within seconds of Eric waking me, my cell phone rang. It was the mailing house letting me know they finally received the OPA newsletter and needed the mailing list now. So then after hanging up (I mean this took like 1 - 2 minutes), I went to use the bathroom real quick and headed into Ky's room to get her out of bed and change her. She was already hysterical by the time I got there. GOOD GRIEF! I mean come on..it had only been MAYBE 5 minutes since I heard her start waking up to when I got in there. *sigh*...why are kids sooo impatient? I won't even go into the details of the next 2-3 melt downs, we'd be here FOREVER if I blogged about every melt down or little thing this kid does every day. LOL Not that it is all bad, but she has got some REAL personality already at this age. She's really a stinker and thinks she is quite the funny girl.

Anyway, we've had breakfast now and I've sent off the mailing list. Getting ready to go upstairs and attempt some cleaning with the lovely help of Kyleigh (that should be a blast huh? LOL). Hopefully the morning will go fairly smooth and we'll wait until after nap for hell to break loose as usual.

So...on the list for today: new templates, OPA website package (OMG!!! I have 3 days left to finish everything I need to for this), dental appointment scheduling, a little more cleaning, and I hope some SCRAPPING tonight. Oh... I do need to start on my freebies for Friday too...we'll see if I can get to that this evening, if not, it will have to be on the list for tomorrow. I've already got quite a full plate to try and complete today. I sent myself an email from my phone (cuz I'd already shut down my computer and was laying in bed when I was thinking about it) last night (ok this morning) with several scrapping ideas I want to do...BUT I think I mistyped my email addy in the phone and so now I didn't get it! UGH...I'll have to see if I can find an OUTbox for my cell phone somewhere. uuugh..



Ok so happy hump day to everyone, and wish me luck on this long list today!

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Terrible Tuesday...on the verge of Terrible TWO

So today has been quite the DAY! I went to bed late (about 3:30) expecting to be able to sleep till about 8:30 (since DH had to be somewhere this morning). I don't remeber what time Ky woke up, but it was MUCH before 8:30. I vaguely remembered Eric saying he didn't realize it was Tuesday not Wednesday, so it didn't have to go in early afterall. He too was for whatever reason tired too, so neither of us wanted to deal with her just yet, and we hoped she would fall back to sleep. NO such luck. We tried bringing her in to lay down with us, but that didn't work either. She'd be still long enough just to let us fall back to sleep, then get up or sing, or something, to wake us back up. At one point she thought she was quite funny to JUMP on us and jumped so hard on my stomach when I was half asleep. OHHH it hurt so much and for so long. After several hours of trying to get enough sleep, Eric gave up and got up with Ky. I still didn't manage to make up any missed sleep as she or Eric would come back in the room, or SOMETHING every like 20 - 30 min. When Eric came in about noon and woke me for like the umpteenth time of the day, I just got up.

Eric informed me at one of the wakeup times that Alyssa's school called about their bus being broken down and that we'd need to pick her up today. So I had told Eric to put Ky down about 12:30 today so she'd be ready to get up by 2:30 for me to get there in time. He also said the school said if we couldn't get there in time she could go to afterschool. Well, little Miss Ky didn't fall asleep until a little after 2, so I called the school and said I won't be there in time (I was NOT going to wake her up after only 30 min of nap) so send Aly to afterschool.

I then took advantage of the couple of hours and worked on my todo list for today, and paid some bills. I got a few calls, and while I was on the phone with a good friend, Ginger, I heard Ky wake up. I went up to get her so I could get ready to go get Alyssa, and discovered that my little munchkin decided her diaper was too stinky to wait on mommy today! She had taken off her pants and poopy diaper at some point and then must have slept some with it off because the bed was also wet. There was POOOO every where! UUUUGH. I totally NEVER had any issues like this with Alyssa. When I walked in Ky said "neeky" (her word for stinky, to tell me her diaper is dirty) and was patting her behind (this is normal when her diaper is dirty - but it's USUALLY STILL ON!). I realized her behind was BARE and she was covered in NEEKY LOL

oooooh sigh..the joys of almost being two! LOL When I found Alyssa changiner her own diaper, I started potty training..but she was almost 3, not 21 months old. Though Ky is very good at telling me her diaper is dirty and doesn't care for it to stay that way very long at all (LOL), I still just don't think she's old enough or ready to start actual potty training. hmmmm

OK...well onto more boring info of the day. LOL here was my to do list for today. I had circled only 3 things to try and do today. I managed to do all of my items marked yesterday, so that turned out well. Today the plan was to make some calls and do some more cleaning, and if all that gone done, I'd try to get some scrapping in tonight.



I finished my phone calls before Ky woke up with the Neeky mess, and then after dinner we spent 2 1/2 hours (OMG...) cleaning Alyssa's room! So, again all goals for today still completed even with the lovely extras. I didn't cross off cleaning because the whole house isn't near done, but I tackled one of the two worst rooms today which was my goal. Tomorrow another room.

Well...I think I may go treat myself to a bit of scrapping tonight and maybe even a few other things I need to take care of still.....

Till next post....

AND THE WINNER IS....

Finally, the time has come to announce the winners for the "Winter Dreams" Contest!

Wow, you should check out all the fabulous layouts in there. 42 in all!

O.K., so here is how we decided to do the judging. Amy and I had two gift certificates worth $25 at the DSS store, one for my store and one for Amy's store. We let each other's CT's do the judging. My CT had such a difficult time choosing just ONE out of so many great layouts.

However, the final choice and winner is: Laurie9585

Congrats to her for her winning layout, "Snow Baby"!




This page is so beautiful. I love the black and white picture contrasting against the color, and the way she used the charm as part of the title. Her design is just gorgeous. You can see Laurie's complete credits HERE!

I'll be contacting her soon to give her a coupon code for $25 off Sarah's Scraps (my designs) at DSS. Have fun shopping Laurie!

And a special thank you to all who played along and the great support we've had with this collection! You can find who Amy's team picked on Amy's blog.

Monday, January 08, 2007

Manic Monday

Well, I suppose it hasn't really been to manic yet (but then usually hell breaks loose around here AFTER nap time...so we'll see how things are in a few hours).

{Business of the Day}
I made myself up a little list to help me keep track of this so it doesn't just get lost farther down in the posts...This way I can keep updating this each day with cross offs and circles for the day's goal.



So for today, I've got 4 things to try and get crossed off this list, PLUS we have Tae Kwon Do tonight. I've been working on the house all morning, so that's probably about as far as I'm going to get on that today. 2 1/2 rooms are cleaned up...will have to get a few more rooms tomorrow morning.

Amy and I did have our CTs vote over the weekend on the Winter Dreams LO Contest, and we determined the winners last night. We need to get the coupon codes now and a little announcement made up so we can post that tonight or tomorrow morning.

{Ma'm, do you live here?}
LOL...last night while I was hosting my hour of the 7-7-7 chat at SBB (about 10:30 PM my time)..I get a knock at the door. I'm thinking WHO the heck is that at this hour. So, I run up the stairs and look through the peep hole to see a single person standing there. I open the door and it's a POLICEMAN. He says, "Ma'm to you live here?" I think OMG!! (Mind you just 10-15 min earlier I had practically CHUGGED a beer down to relax from my terribly stressful afternoon and evening, so I'm feeling a tad bit of a buzz from drinking so quickly). Anyway...to my horror... I learn on of my neighbors called the police because my dog was barking! GOOOD GRIEF! I usually bring them in after the girls go to bed and certainly right away if they're barking at night, but I forgot they were still outside last night, and I was in the basement on the computer and didn't even hear them. I can't believe a neighbor couldn't just walk over and knock on my door or call me to ask me to bring them in. I could see if this was a reoccuring thing night after night, but geesh..ONE night, for about maybe an hour or so? sighhhh Thankfully he didn't give me any ticket or anything and was very nice (almost seemed annoyed that he even had to come out for something this stupid), but he did have to take my name and birthday! UUUGH am I in some database now as as a criminal who allows her dog to bark all hours of the night? LOL anyway....

{Layout shares}
OK..on to some new LO shares. I didn't make it to the 7 LOs for the week in time before deadline last night, but I did get to 5 and then I finished another early this morning, so I've got one up for this week now.

These first two pages go together to form a 2 page spread. I so very rarely scrapbook about things like the tree or our ornaments - I need to do more pages of this sort of thing..more about the "season" and not just pictures of us opening gifts. hehe


Our Tree
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Our Favorite Ornaments
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This one is a picture of Kyleigh last year for her first Christmas. I don't think I've scrapped anything from last Christmas yet, so I figured it was about time to get some of these done, especially for Ky's book.


First Christmas
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And this page I actually did a couple months ago for the SBB Ezine, but it's just now out in this month's issue, so I can finally post it. I started off good with scrapping her month pages, and then life got really crazy with finishing up Grad school last year and I left off after about 9 months, so I'm trying to finish up some of these too.


Ky 10 months
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And, finally this is the last page I finished early this morning. It's the same design as the one I did of Kyleigh, just Alyssa's version with different papers to match her jamies. :)

Santa's Other Helper
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Ok and so with all that...I'm off to work on that to do list today. Alyssa will be home soon, and Ky awake soon and as I said, that's when all hell breaks loose here!

Have a happy, NONmanic Monday.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Scrapped Again

one page done today (2 towards the goal of 7 for the week)


{First Christmas}
Credits: Papers, brad and star from Jen Wilson's Merry Days of Christmas Day 10, Christmas brush from Jen Wison's Merry Days of Christmas Day 12, and tag from Meredith Fenwick's Everyday Inspirations CDsketch by Brenda KempfFont: Tekon Pro

Finally finished all my stuff for SBB. Made the call Friday to f ind out the status of the Chevron, Eric took Alyssa to sell some cookies yesterday, and I had my chat. I haven't yet finished new previews and store items, but maybe later today.... Today I want to do some digi scrapping, and I promised Alyssa we'd do some more work on her paper scrap friends book we started this summer.

Tonight is the 7-7-7 Crop at SBB. January 7th, 7 crops/7 hours, starting at 7 PM (EST). I'll be hosting the 11 PM Est chat. I don't know if I'll be able to be in the many before about 9 PM my time since DH will be working tonight and I'll be trying to get kids dinner, baths, and to bed before that. Hope to see some of you tonight. I'm off for some scrapping today.

Friday, January 05, 2007

My Celebrity Lookalikes

Ok this was kinda funny...found the link for this from that DST post (Sara posted this and now we're all trying out it to get another good giggle)....

anyway...here are my celebrity lookalikes, using my avatar picture. hehe pretty funny...



OH this is cool, dh came home and wanted me to run his celebrity lookalikes too..man is my guy HOT or what? LOL this is an old pic of him (and not a very good one at thta), but it pulled up some real hotties. hehe :)

OMG!!!

Ok, if you need a GOOD laugh today...this thread at DST is COMICAL!


sigh...yes, this is what I've been doing now for like 15 min instead of making that phone call I needed to be making.... LOL..but seriously, I'm ROLLING on the floor laughing! Def made my day. LOL OK..now I really better get scooting before Ky wakes and Aly's home in 30 min! YIKES!

I need to get busy Scrapping

As best as I can tell (from counting pages in my galleries), I only scrapped 61 pages for 2006! YIKES! Tha's barely more than one a week! In 2005 I scrapped about 100 pages, so this was really slow this year. I think it was due to working on my final capstone paper for my masters from Jan -April, then moving in the summer, and then add to that my starting to design this summer and becoming a DTM at SBB. All that has just pushed the scrapping down farther and farther on the to do list. :(

There is a new challenge at SBB this year "Page a Day." I don't know that I will manage to scrap that many this year, but I'm going to try to participate as I can to help me get more pages completed than 61! LOL Check out the challenge rules at SBB if you're interested in participating too. I linked the thread for ya up there where it says "Page a Day." :)

So..today..on my to do list I need to finish up
# 11 (I'm about half way done so far),
#6 (need to make this call today before the weekend comes),
hopefully #1 (so they can be in the store this weekend),
also got to take Alyssa out to sell Girl Scout Cookies this afternoon when she gets home, and I have my chat tonight at SBB.

Tonight's event is "sports." Join us in the SBB chat room at 11 PM Est if you'd like to participate.


And finally, here's my first page posted of the year. I need to scrap a page similar to this of Alyssa still, and I'm working on a two page layout of our tree too. :) Maybe I can get all of these done before the end of the week, PLUS 3 more and complete 7 this week for the challenge! whew...we'll see. hehe


{Santa's little helper}
credits: everything on this page is from Gina Cabrera's (at DDE) Jubilee kit. fonts used were CK cursive and century gothic. :)

Ok with that..I'm off to get some work done and phone calls made before Ky wakes and Alyssa comes home....lata gatas.

Thursday, January 04, 2007

To Do

Ok...I slept like 10 hours! LOL I went to bed about 2 am...Ky slept with us all night and she did wake us up about 8:30 or so, but dh got up with her at some point and I must have just passed out, cuz I never knew they left the room. When I woke up (because dh's cell phone rang), it was almost noon! yikes! I guess I really needed the sleep for whatever reason.

So..I have a little more energy today and am trying to think of all the things I need to get done in the near future. I don't know the order yet, but thought if I write it all down here I can maybe remember some of this and start getting myself organized.

  1. Post png versions of templates collections 1-8 in the store
  2. Get new templates ready for store
  3. Get actions and new element packs ready for store
  4. Finalize OPA website content package
  5. Call DeepBlue (web company)
  6. Call printer and mailing house for OPA to find out status of Chevron printing
  7. Make Doctor appointment
  8. Make Dental appointments
  9. Clean out email
  10. Clean up computer files
  11. Ezine items (article and kit)
  12. Finish scrap pages and post
  13. Christmas thank you cards
  14. Reschedule potluck dinner
  15. Make February girls weekend plans
  16. Clean my house
  17. Determine and announce WD LO contest winner(s)
  18. Revamp Sarah's Scraps website and blog
  19. Complete new CT blinkies
(ETA completed so far today
11. 1/2 of kit done, template for article done & 2 samples collected so far)
12. one page posted, 2 more 1/2 done
wow that's it? sure seems like I did a lot more today...maybe everything just wasn't on this list hehe).

OK..while I'm thinking of things I need to do...here's some resolutions I have for this year:

  1. Get in shape and prepared to try for another kid (am I really this crazy? LOL)
  2. Plan more mommy & alyssa days/activities
  3. Get involved and meet more people here locally (make new friends hehe)
  4. Work towards starting my photography business
  5. Get more sleep
  6. Unpack, decorate house and declutter!
  7. Reduce stress
  8. PRINT DIGI LOs

Ok with all that now written down before I forget it all, I'm going to redownload some things I bought that had errors in it and then get to work on a few things on my list. :)

It's good to have some ambition again today.

I've got the blues

Howdy, Howdy and Happy New Year. I'm home now but I'm still not back.

We got home Tuesday late afternoon and within 10 min of coming in the house Kyleight threw up, and when I took her temp it was 103! So...that didn't help start the return on a good note.

My house was a complete disaster when we left, and it's even worse now with all the crap unloaded from the car that I haven't had much time to put away yet, and the 2 weeks of laundry we are trying to get cleaned up.

On top of all this...I think I'm in a low right now. I have had NO desire to sit at my computer and do anything...I have so much that needs to be done, and I just don't even want to check my email. :( I don't know what my deal is but I'm just tired and non interested right now. I'm on such a "down" at the moment I barely want anything to do with digiscrapping right now. :( I hope this will pass very soon.

One of my resolutions for the year was to reduce deadlines and stress and try to enjoy the little things again, but as I began entering "stuff" on my calendar for this month, I'm already stressing and seeing no change. I felt like all of 2006 was constant go go go and no resting and I really want that to change this year, but I just don't see it starting this month. :( I think this is part of why I just don't have the energy to tackle anything right now. I HAVE go to get a handle on this and even more so I've got to get the mood swings back in check. Each down is getting worse and lasting longer. I told myself I would make the calls this week to get dental appointments for Alyssa and I that we are way behind on and get an OB appt to find out what has been going on for months now. Tuesday night was filled with caring and worrying about Kyleigh and then just going to bed from the exhaustion of driving back, and then today was just long and an insane day..I don't even want to go into it and relive it. ugh... So..I'm going to head up to bed here in just a bit; Eric came home about 2 hours ago and went to lay down with Ky about an hour ago to see if he could settle her...it's been a rough day with her.

I have been gone since the 23rd of December, so I haven't gotten with Amy C yet to pick winners for our Winter Dreams LO contest. I'll try to catch her sometime this week so we can do that and get the announcement made. Sorry for the delay.

I hope to be able to get back into the swing of things in the next day or two, but at the same time, I've really got to slow things down too. I've got to regain control of my life.