Like the new look?

Just finished getting our house decorated for the holidays and I thought I would get my online home wrapped in the Christmas spirit as well. :)

Cool article...and missing an old friend

Check out this article on CNN.com!

Scrapbooking Goes Digital

How cool is that?!?

Today, after applying for Robin Carlton's creative team, I realized that I never posted this LO I did using her Sugar Cookie kit. I think the reason that I never posted it is that it is one of those LO's that makes me cry. As much as I wanted to scrap a LO about Taz, our family dog for 10 years, it makes me so sad. We have thought so many times about getting another dog, but so far we haven't been able to open our hearts back up to being broken the way it was when we lost her.

(Robin Carlton's Sugar Cookie kit, font Janie HMK)

Journaling reads: Taz was absolutely the sweetest dog in the world. Before you were born, she was our baby. When I was pregnant with you, she would curl up in my lap as if she knew you were there and was trying to be close to you. She was so excited about having a baby in the house and couldn’t wait until you got big enough to play with her. The two of you became fast friends. What she loved most was to be in the back yard running with you. She was your sister, your playmate, and your protector.

Sadly, in 2004 one of her lipomas started to grow and over the course of a couple of months she got very sick. Even you noticed the change in her. You said you couldn’t play with her because she was “too sick”.

On April 24, 2004, at 10 years of age, Taz went to heaven where she could once again run without pain. We still miss her so much and she will forever be in our hearts.

Since winter is on the way...

how about a little winter mini-kit?

I had hoped to have more time to practice making some small kits to offer as freebies here, but since that just hasn't happened and I don't see it happening any time soon...at least until after the holidays, I decided to share one of my first little kits I made this summer.

Hope someone can use it. I would love to see any LO's that you do with this, so please post a link. :O)

Just click this preview to download.

Still doing a little catch-up work...

Here is a LO that I did today using Shabby Princess' Shabby Fall kit. I just love all of the fall colors in this kit and thought that this photo of Cooper from Halloween last year would work great with this kit. I LOVE this photo of Cooper...his eyes just look so beautiful to me.

(Shabby Fall Kit by Shabby Princess, font: Wendy Medium)

Another GREAT kit from Katie

I am sooooo behind on Noah's earlier pages, so when I recieved this Christmas-y kit from Katie the Scrapbook Lady, I knew it was the perfect chance to get some catch-up work done. The kit is "All Spruced Up" and you can get it at Katie's Design Shop

Noah was just the sweetest guy that year. I still remember vividly his excitement about the tree. In this picture he was holding a little bell ornament that we had let him put on the tree himself. He took it off everytime he saw it.

I am so excited!

Thanks to Katie the Scrapbook Lady, Katie Nelson, for inviting me to join her Design Team. I can't wait to get busy with her designs. If you haven't already, please check out her shop and blog at http://www.scrapbooklady.org/scrapbookladyhome.html

Just to give you a taste of what she has to offer, I made this LO of Cooper today. He was playing around with these big ol' beads and just had the sweetest smile on his face! One thing I loved about this kit is that each background came both "bold" and "old" (more distressed version of the bold set).


(papers and alpha from Katie the Scrapbook Lady's Black & White
Double Designs kit at scrapbooklady.org, original tags and rivets, fonts: Pharmacy, CK Holiday Spirit, Fancy Pants, and Zipty Do)

I had to stay up until the middle of the night to do it...

but after over a week with no scrapping, I just had to scrap SOMETHING! This was a photo I took Sunday of Noah at a little Fall Fesival that our MOMS Club held.

He has gotten so particular about how he smiles. Used to, he would make the biggest, CHEESIEST grin. It was his genuine smile, and while it was large and exaggerted, I loved it. This year, all of a sudden, he has gotten self-conscious about how he smiles, so you never know what you are going to get anymore. I miss those big grins so much, but when I saw this photo he looked so sweet and happy that I fell in love with the new smile.

(papers by Janet Parrish, doodle's by Angie Briggs. Fonts: MA Kulot, Angelina)

My mom is slowly on the mend, but it looks like she may be in the rehab for quite some time. That is going to put a crimp in my scrapping time, but I will do my best to get a LO done here and there.

MIA right now...

Sorry...My mom had hip replacement surgery Monday, so not much scrapping going on. She is doing very well, but things are just busy here this week. Hope to be back next week!

Halloween, Part 2...

I can't believe it, but it is only November 3rd and I have both boys' Halloween LO's finished. YAY!!!

Noah has always had to be something "cute" for Halloween, because I am not a big fan of the creepy, scary Halloween costumes. This year he couldn't find anything he really liked, so I gave in and said he could be a vampire. I don't mind so much when he at least had to be a little creative to get the costume together...not one of those completely prepackaged, slasher, blood dripping everywhere monstrocities. UGH! We bought the cape and teeth, but then we colored his hair, painted his face, and provided the clothing ourselves. It was actually pretty fun and he really got into the part and felt like one of the BIG boys.

Oh well...I guess you have to let them grow up sometime, but I am holding on as long as I can, LOL.

Here's the LO I finished today:


( Bat paper by Andrea Victoria: Stiches, purple tag, and ribbons by Danielle Corbitt: Boo Tags and Orange bat paper by Khristy S: Just batty frame by Theresa Hernandez)

Halloween, Part 1

Here is a LO that I finished today. Cooper was so cute...I swear, I could've just eat him up...sounds kinda funny considering he was a chicken, LOL, but you know what I mean.


( Ali Folendore and Dawn Stocstill's Falling For You kit, Shabby Princess' Halloween Kit, ribbons (recolored) by Jenna Robertson, Fonts- Brady Bunch, artistamp, Janie Hmk)