Jennilyn’s Journal

Get 40% off everything at JLD until Tuesday excluding the Professional Use License, Custom Blinkies and Take My Toybox (which has been reduced to only $35!)

I finally made something new! Check out the latest Fold Em Template! You can get it here at Oscraps and here at JLD.

Here’s a close up of the layout I made for the preview:

Credits here for “Cocoa”

Today Kristen is having her first schoolmate playdate Her friend Taylor is here for a few hours. She was SO excited for her to come today! I did take a few pictures so I will be making a layout with them and I already got permission to show her face online.

Tomorrow we are headed off to see my parents for Thanksgiving and will be home on Monday sometime. I’m hoping my brother can take a family photo again this year so we don’t have to make an app’t somewhere. I might just do a photo card of the girls if we don’t get a family one. Most of the family doesn’t care what DH and I are looking like nowadays anyway. LOL

Have a great weekend!

Click here to go to my store at Oscraps!

So I finally went and did a Digi-Dare! They had their 1 year anniversary last week and were giving out a beautiful kit for playing along, so I just had to do it! I’ll be doing more in the future too…it was fun! The dare was to find an artist, style, technique, or topic that you have wanted to try but haven’t yet and try to scrap like that and also use a designer you’ve never tried before. I did a layout using Susan Bartolini’s DiscTalkRadio kit from last month called South End and made a layout with everything in the center.

Credits here for “Daddy’s Little Girl”

So Kristen got into a bit of trouble on Friday..she got 2 sad faces in her scrapbook (yes, the teacher actually called it a scrapbook LOL) because she didn’t listen twice…was too busy chatting. She can’t stop talking at home and doesn’t listen to us, so I knew this would happen and be something she’ll have to work on. Open house is on the 27th so we’ll see how that goes.

I only got about 4 hours sleep last night…it was just one of those nights where my brain wouldn’t shut off and DH’s snoring got the best of me. I finally got to sleep around 12:30 then Kaylee woke up crying at 1:15 then took me a bit to go back to sleep after that, then the girls decide to wake up at 5:30. And I thought them waking up at 6:30 during the week was bad…I really hope Kaylee doesn’t turn out like her sister and start waking up at 5:30 in the morning every day. At least now, Kristen can go downstairs by herself and let us sleep. With Kaylee, one of us would have to get up, and I KNOW it’d be me!

We watched Bridge to Terabithia yesterday. It was really good! Right now we have 4 movies from Rogers Video Direct (like Netflix) so I have to return some soon! At least now they send me movies before they receive the ones I sent them so I end up getting more movies for my money in a month. We just have to watch The Hills Have Eyes 2 and then all 4 can be sent back (The Prestige (was really good!) and Hello Kitty: Princess Dreams are the other 2).

Have a great Sunday and don’t forget to head over to Oscraps tomorrow where a bunch of the designers are having a sale!

If for some reason you can’t get into my site within the next while, it is because no one warned me my domain name was about to expire and I can’t get a hold of the guy who bought it for me. Although, if you are reaading this now, it means my site is up since y blog is connected to it. LOL So, it seems it is an on again/off again thing and you’ll just have to keep checking back to see if you can get in. So sorry for the inconvenience! If you are just looking for my designs though, a lot of them have also been put into my Oscraps store so you can find them there if my site is down. Click on the Oscraps blinkie on the side to go to my store.

Today Kaylee turned 2. After I got up this morning she was able to open her presents. Well, DH & I did because she was scared of the tissue paper. LOL She loved everything! After that, Kristen & DH left for a Fly-In at the ILs Flying Club (they are staying overnight) and I got to sing Happy Birthday to Kaylee by myself when I gave her a mini-cake that my MIL bought. She ate it with her new Wiggles fork

Here are some photos taken She always looks so serious! LOL

So today is the grand opening of the Mega-ByteMall, which my store is a part of. Every store in the mall is having a sale and in the forum there are challenges where you can receive a mini-kit for each part you do! How cool is that! Some are REALLY simple too. Go check out my store to get 25% off everything, including my “Take the Toybox” which is a value of over $250! Since I forgot to send my mini-kit to the owner of the site for the challenge, I will just have to give it away here on my blog. *freebie has expired, check back again for more freebies!*

And here is what all the other mini-kits look like!

The collab kit with Amanda isn’t quite finished yet, but it WILL be out tomorrow!!

So it took me longer than usual to finish an entry for the DNTS because of how busy I’ve been, and it took me a bit to figure out what inanimate object I was going to scrap about. Since both my EHD & my DVD-ROM have crapped out, I only had what was on my HD accessible to me, so I had to go buy some of Miss Mint’s papers to meet the requirement of 3 of her items. I really love how this turned out and it totally sets the mood for the pics.

Credits here for “Not Needed”

I was going to indulge myself and take Kaylee for a walk to the store and buy some pop & chocolate for tonight since DH is gone, but both strollers were in the trunk of the car and DH was too lazy to take them out! Ugh! Oh well…water and popcorn it is I guess. LOL

Oh! I totally forgot…my CT Kelsey has made another desktop for you! Click here to get it!

Have a great Labour Day weekend! Don’t forget to shop those sales!!

My secret…the one you’ve been waiting for….

I am now a designer at Oscraps!!

And along with the awesome designers that are already there, I will be selling with these new designers as well!

• Amanda Taylor
• Amy Teets
• Anita Stergiou
• Becky Vosburg
• Joanne Brisebois
• Laura Alpuche
• Melanie Colosimo (yay!!)
  
• Mikkel Mihlrad

So because I just found out a few days ago, I didn’t have much time to put anything new together. But, I did manage to make this for the new store (120 different thought bubbles!) & a few items from my store are now there too. Here is a coupon code for 25% off my stuff until Wednesday: LovinTheO! 

and here are the items I pulled from my Toybox:

So go here and check it out!

I did a few layouts on the weekend. The first one I animated, which you can see in the credits.

Credits here for “Splish Splash”

Credits here for “Boardwalk”

That’s it for me! Come visit me over at Oscraps sometime! The new designers & I are going to have a little sumpin’ sumpin’ for you all soon.

If you can guess correctly as to what it is, you can win a $10 GC to my store! I’ll take the first 3 people! Here’s a few hints…it has to do with scrapping, and no, I am not pregnant! Be specific in your answers and you are allowed to guess more than once.

*update*

Congratulations to Brynn, Jamie & Elizabeth for guessing correctly! Come back on Monday to find out what my secret is and thanks for playing to all who guessed!

From July 21st-24th, you can purchase my WHOLE store for only $50! That’s a $250 value!

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I finally put weeks 3B-6B of the Cheaters Challenge into the Toybox today, so go here if you missed them in the Playroom the first time!

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I was on FIRE yesterday! Not literally of course, but I scrapped 3 pages! Holy smokes! They are all honeymoon pages of most of the places we went when we spent our week in Prince Edward Island. We are going there again this year as an anniversary present to ourselves too! I can’t WAIT!

Credit here for “Woodleigh”

Credits here for “PEI Preserve Co.”

Credits here for “Honeymoon Suite”

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Remember when Kristen had that accident a month ago and needed to get “stitches”? Well the glue had never come out of her hair but the hair was growing so now it was just sort of hanging there, about a centimeter away from her scalp. She wouldn’t let me pick at it to try and save the hair so I just cut it out. I hated doing it, but it kept getting caught when I was combing because of it being away from her scalp. So there is a patch with really short hair now, but you can’t see it because of the rest of her hair hanging over it. I am going to get her hair cut before school starts so it’ll be a bit longer by then. Here’s her scar. Looks like it didn’t stay totally closed together while it was healing…

That’s it for me today! I’m sure I’ll be back tomorrow with another layout.

I’ve decided to do 3 months terms for my CT and figured it would be best to start fresh, so:

Can’t wait to see who applies!

I finished another layout yesterday! This one took a bit because I was trying to figure out what would be good…I’m not good with grungy stuff. LOL Anyway, someone liked it enough to have it in the Gallery Standouts yesterday at DST, so at least one person liked it!

Credits here for “Pot”

For the treatment on these photos, I duplicated the layer three times. The first was set to Overlay and the 2nd was set to Hue and the third was set to Overlay again. Or something like that…LOL

I started a blog for my partner & I (the East Coast Mommas) for the ADSR! Just wanted a place to stick all of our entries (plus everyone else is doing it) LOL. Check it out here! Not that there is anything there yet, but there will be!

Tomorrow I am set to meet my best friend, Melanie (KeeMacKayMom)! I am so excited!! I have known her for over 4 years and we only live about 2 hours apart, yet we’ve never met in real life. She and her family are coming down here for a few days and are going to stop in! We will definitely take some pictures!

I’ll blog after they leave tomorrow. Until then…have a great day!

When I decided to extend my sale,  I forgot to change the end date in Zen Cart so it went almost a full day with being regular prices! Oops! To make up for it, I upped the percentage to 40, which means now you can get 40% off everything in the Toybox until tomorrow night! Don’t forget about the Loot Bag too! Of course, if you don’t like not knowing what you’re getting, the bag will be opened on Thursday, but it’ll be at regular price then.