I was chosen on two blogs to receive a special award from friends so I need to choose 7 to give it away to. The problem is I have met SO many great friends in the online scrapping world that choosing 7 seems near impossible. But that’s my directions so here goes…..
1. Michelle - Thanks for believing in me when no one else did!!! And letting me “quit” when I needed to regroup!! Love ya!
2. Lisa - It’s fun to chat with you and get to know you. Thanks for the endless freebies you give out as well as for the motherly advice and the help on my layouts!
3. Terri – She has no blog but I LOVE Terri’s kids and am thinking of adopting them!!! ROFL….Terri has the happiest family I have ever seen! Thanks Terri for sharing your life with me and for all those times of inspiration in raising boys!! (Yes I can do it! Yes it will get better, and they might even smile for every picture one day!)
4. Becky - Thanks Becky for finding endless hours to chat with me and look at my creations!! Thanks for all the kits you have given me!! Keep creating! Your designs are great! Have a great vacation!
5. Jenn - To Jenn for hosting ALL of those Friday night chats that we used to crash. Thanks Jenn for all of your tips on how to make my layouts better!! I have enjoyed chatting with you for the past 2 years.
6. Tess - To Tess for keeping me straight!!! Thanks Tess for helping me SO much in that wild and crazy May month when we moved to Scraphead!! I do appreciate all of your help!! Thanks as well just for being there and listening to me talk!
7. Rachael - Thanks Rachael for taking a chance on me!! THanks for allowing me to be a part of your creative team!! Your designs are awesome and I know I got lucky when I was chosen for your team!!!
Well that’s it. I could only pick 7 but these ladies are great!! On a designing note, Jaydensmama and I have our first collab in the store!! YIPPEE!! It is called “Doggies and Dinos” and it is GREAT for little boys!!! Here’s a pic and it’s on sale today for something crazy like 65% off in our progressive sale at Scraphead. Yep, it’s $1.65 today only!! Also making it into a blinkie causes some quality loss so check it out at Scraphead!!
While you are there check out Michelle’s newest item, Boxxies…….today get all 7 boxes for only $1.18!!!!
Oh my where did this week go????? I went to the city Tuesday to do a few mystery shops and ended spending HOURS there “just looking”. Well at least my dinner was paid for! Have you ever thought of mystery shopping?? It’s a great way to get free food and a little scrapbooking cash. My family LOVES it because that means they get to eat out and mom is not complaining about the price. NEVER EVER pay anyone to mystery shop for them. In fact the only people I trust with mystery shopping are the folks at Volition. They give a list of legitimate mystery shopping companies. ANYWAYS….so Tuesday was my mystery shopping day and……
Wednesday I spent the whole day in my classroom. As a teacher I usually have this dream during the summer about walking into the school on the first day completely unprepared and sometimes *eek* naked feeling so lost. Then I know summer’s over and I get my behind to school to fix up my room. HOWEVER, because I’m starting SO early this year (July 21) I never did have that dream and now it’s less than 2 weeks to the start of summer school which ends the day teachers report for real school. Ugh…..remind me why I offered to teach summer school??? OH yeah the money for gas yep….o.k…….. so I put up posters and created bulletin boards (which is really hard when you teach high school). I focused on believing in yourself this year as I think everyone needs to feel loved. And…..
today I get to go back to school to finish my decorating. Maybe just maybe my laptop will be in by then. I could hope right?? I’m so anxious for my new laptop!!!
In the designing world, a friend and I have a collab kit coming out this weekend at Scraphead. It’s going to be really cute and it’s for boys!!!!!!! This kit is finished in shades of blue, green, yellow, and brown with animals little boys LOVE. I hope you will like it but that’s all I can say for now!!! Well I need to go for today. I have LOTS to do. THanks for reading!
Remember last week when I was talking about my son’s fever on the evening of July 3rd? Yep well he really wasn’t that sick this weekend. We even got to play outside a little bit. BUT when we went to sleep last night, he started screaming and hollering about his left ear. He would just hold it and scream and cry but this is my little drama monster so I put him some drops, gave him some tylenol and put him to bed. No luck….he cried ALL night long (which is worse than talking!) so today I took him to the doctor. Our doctor says that T has the worst ear infection he has ever seen. Nice….. oh yeah and he’s wheezing a lot so the doctor put him on his Pulmicort for basically forever twice a day. I really dislike that nebulizer and I so hoped we would outgrow the asthma although I kinda figured we would not. My 6 year old takes more meds than I do everyday. Poor baby!
Guess who is having a sale?!??!?!?!??!?! Scraphead is and guess who I’m highlighting today???? Here’s a sneak peek!!! Her entire store is 30% off!!!!!!!!!!
How was your Friday? Good I hope. Our weekend should be busy with bar b cues and swimming to celebrate. Anyone visit a war memorial for the 4th of July? We went to a Vietnam Memorial Wall while on vacation but I had a really hard time explaining it to my 6 year old and ended up stopping. I mean how do you tell a six year old that these men gaves their lives for our country when he has no good concept of what death is and why did they have protect our country? Do I really want to get into the whole America has lots of enemies thing? I just don’t know so for now he knows they fought for our freedom but that’s about it. I’ll take suggestions if you have any.
Onto the layouts I promised, these are from last year’s vacation. Our first stop was for one night in Galveston so that the kids could see a beach. It was a terrible nasty day (cold in June no less and misting with dark dark clouds) but we went out anyways and were just about the only people on the beach.
WordPress Tip of the Day – Do you know how to change your font? It’s located under Show Kitchen Sink in the tools bar. Then you can change between paragraph to Heading and so on.
Happy July 4th!!!! SO our little town celebrates Independence Day on the 3rd. Kinda backwards huh……Yep we celebrate July 4th….yes sir we have a HUGE celebration on the 3rd of July. lol…..anyways that’s how it is so…..last night we went to see the fireworks. We didn’t go to the celebration as we were setting up the new pool but we did hop in the burb to get there just in time to see the fireworks. Very nice display. It lasted for about 15 minutes with LOTS of large bursts. Beautiful fireworks!
This was the first time my littlest had seen a “show” of fireworks. He was extremely impressed. Here’s what we heard from the backseat!
“WOW!” “Look MOM!!!” “KEEE YAWWWWWW!”
Yea keeyaww…..I’m thinking whose child is he?!?!??!?!?!? lol
Oh yeah and while I have you cornered….. lol…… how long does it take for these stinking pools to fill up!?!??!?!?! Let’s see 5 hours last night, 1 hour this morning and VOILA, we are HALF FULL!!! ummmmm…..yeah.
Our new designer Creations by Rachael is in her store with a few of her products so I will share a link there this morning! Here’s her new store!
Today’s pieces of the Daily Download are really cute. Here’s a preview!
Thanks to Digiheaven Designs for providing today’s download!! Get it here!
Well that’s all I have for today! Happy 4th everybody!!
I have always said that my oldest will talk in his sleep the most right before he gets sick. I’m not sure that anyone really believes me but I still stick by my story. Here’s an example…….. two nights ago now he and I had this conversation about about 1 a.m.
“mom…….Mom……..MOM!!!!”
“huh? huh? What?” I go to his room.
“MOM!”
“WHAT?!?!”
“You uh wanna play this game show with me?!?”
“No son go to sleep.”
Five minutes later…..
“mom……Mom……..(me snoring pretending to be back asleep
already)…MOM……MMMMMOOOOOOOO MMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!”
“WHAT SON!?!?!??!”
“Is Coco (the cat) in the house? I think I saw her.”
Mind you we have these conversations with his eyes closed!!! This literally went on ALL night and if I ignore him (or pretend to be sleeping) he YELLS until he wakes everyone up so for the sake of letting the others sleep, I play along ALL NIGHT!
And voila’, today, a fever, wheezing and a runny nose. I’m telling you, “Momma knows best!” And of course, no the doctor can’t see him today and no they don’t want to send out antibiotics without seeing him and no we will not be in tomorrow. uhh…..o.k……..our 4th of July should be fun……so much for the pool…. =(
As always, Scraphead is having a daily download today. There are some VERY cute pieces from ScrapShana that you can pick up here!
Also I am SO excited to announce that we are getting a new designer!!!!!!! I just love her work!! We welcome Creations by Rachael to Scraphead!!! She is awesome and I’ll link you to her store as soon as it’s up and running!
I think I’m going to clean today. Now I don’t mean regular old weekly house cleaning, I mean CLEANING – cleaning my hard drive, cleaning up our forums at SH, cleaning out my desk, cleaning things that have waited for a LONG LONG time to be clean. It’s time and I think I’m ready…..maybe…..I hope…..
Oh a good and different note we got a pool last night!! Hubby has been bugging me for one just about all summer. I however was NOT on board with the idea because of the upkeep, the cost, building it, etc. However, he worked a really long overtime day (read EXTRA MONEY) on Sunday and convinced me that he had worked to pay for his pool. How could I argue? =) Here’s an internet pic of what it’s supposed to look like. My boys are very excited!!
Well it’s been two years since I started digiscrapping, two years since my youngest was born, two years since my life was changed for ever! In honor of my two years in the digital scrapping community, I’m giving you a coupon! It is linked to my shop!
Also do not forget about the daily download at Scraphead. The pieces used in my coupon today are two of the pieces available for download! Thanks for reading! See you tomorrow!
Well we have another new addition to our family. Some of you may remember about two months ago we adopted a puppy that needed a good home. He is the most kind and gentle pup with our kids and we are glad we decided to get him. This past week we adopted a kitty whose mommy abandoned her. She is 5 weeks old and could probably have survived even without our help but we took her in anyways. My hubby was excited! =P
Here’s a lookie at our new baby, CoCo!
I have two awesome sets of freebies for you today!! First as part of the ADS group of designers I want to advertise their GIGANTIC, ENORMOUS, HUGE, MONSTROUS kit called Backyard Playground. This is the only kit you will ever need for those playground pics!! Over 40 designers have posted their parts on their blogs around the world!!! Start here at my friend Becky’s blog and then hop along the line to grab every other piece. Just be careful it may crash your HD because it’s SO big!!!
Also this month at Scraphead our theme is Sweet Treats and boy do we have some sweet treats for you. Check back everyday for the daily downloads!!
