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Saturday, March 29th, 2008

No real title today…just a hodge podge of stuff to mumble about.

Here are some layouts I’ve done since the last post. Most are for the ADSR, just not the Valentines 08 and Defined.

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Credits here for “17″

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Credits here for “Valentines 08″

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Credits here for “Honeymoon”

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Credits here for “Like a Butterfly”

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Credits here for “Defined”

Last night was the first night we did a load in our new dishwasher. Everything worked well…no leaks or anything. LOL Turns out that the 1 1/2 cupboards and 2 drawers we had to give up to get the dishwasher in weren’t really needed anyway because we found a place for everything in it.

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Lastly, I finally put out a new Cheaters Challenge template! You can go here to the thread in my forum to get both 12×12 & 8.5×11 sizes!

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I’ll be putting a new pack of the 8.5×11’s in the store soon from challenges 11-14.

That’s it for me for now! Have a great weekend!

{Happy New Year!}

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

DH and I both made it to midnight! We actually made it to about 1:45…had a good time watching the DVDs of Roswell I got for him for Christmas. At midnight I took pictures of my girls sleeping. It was pretty dark in Kaylee’s room as she doesn’t need a nightlight like Kristen so I couldn’t really see where I was pointing. 3 times was enough even if I didn’t get the “good” pic because I was afraid the flash was going to wake her up. We watched a bunch more Roswell today as I was putting away all the Christmas decorations and the tree *sob* Kristen was out ALL afternoon…like from 11-5 playing with our next door neighbors. Here’s a layout I just finished of the girls last night.

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Credits here for “Ringing in 2008″

Not only did I take down all the Christmas stuff today but I cleaned up all the aftermath and also went through everything underneath the stairs (it was stuffed right to the front) and figured out what was going to be charity, what was to keep and what was to throw away. Took me about 3 hours! So I definitely got my exercise in today. Still need to do the dishes tomorrow though.

Oh! And guess what! We’re getting more SNOW tomorrow! Do you know that we’ve gotten more snow so far this winter than we did the entire winter last year?? Crazy isn’t it?

Here’s a few more layouts I’ve done in the past few days.

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Credits here for “Building a Friend”

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Credits here for “2007 in Review”

Okay, so you like that last layout? How would you like to make one just like it for yourself? Well, it’s the next Cheaters Challenge template so you can go to my forum right now and get it in either 12×12 or 8.5×11 size!

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For those of you who are looking for my last freebie, the Christmas kit, it’s not available on my blog anymore but you can get it for only $3 in my store along with an add-on for only $1 (in the mini-kit section)!

Anyway, hope everyone had a great night last night and didn’t get too much of a hangover.

{Alright already!}

Friday, December 7th, 2007

A certain someone has been nagging me to blog, so here I am. I do have some stuff to show (it has been a month after all) so it won’t be just me babbling. LOL

Firstly, I have made a new Loonie Bin section in my store where you can get items for just a buck! Everything else in my store is still 50% off as well!

My daughter had her first school Christmas concert on Wednesday. She was so cute singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with her little paper antlers on. :) Here are some photos.

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I got her class singing their song and the whole school singing the finale on DVD but I couldn’t see Kristen for the finale because it was too crowded. This was the first time we really used our camcorder since we got it back in March. It really is a cool little thing.

Sunday Kristen is having a little Christmas party with 6 of her classmates. They are going to make a foam reindeer magnet and have some cookies and milk. It should be a fun time! I will definitely take pictures this time because I bought a 15 minute battery charger so even if my batteries go dead, it’ll only take 15 minutes to get them going again!

I got the urge to scrap! Here are the 3 layouts I’ve done since I showed the last one.

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Credits here for “Christmas Braids”

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Credits here for “Christmess”

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Credits here for “Anticipation”

For the last layout I used KristinCB’s “Baby on Board” kit and she liked it so much, she wanted me to make a template out of it. I needed to make one for my Cheaters Challenge anyway, so I made it right then!

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Click here to go to my Playroom and get either the 12×12 or 8.5×11 FREE template!

That’s it for me right now! I hope to be back soon with more stuff to look at and maybe a new special deal. ;)

{Weekend Getaway}

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

DH and I went away to PEI for the weekend last week (late anniversary celebration) and even with the weather not being so nice, most of the stuff closed down for the season and DH snoring, it was a pretty good weekend :) Here are some pics! *click to see it up close*

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So there you have it…our weekend :) The girls had fun with my ILs too…they went to see some Pumpkin People in the Valley (a few hours away). :) Kristen even saw one of her classmates there!

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Cheaters Challenge #13 & 13B are up in the JLD forum! Click here to get one or both free templates and don’t forget to post a link to your layout so we can check it out! (8.5×11 not shown)

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Here’s a layout I did of the pics I took when Kristen had her first schoolmate play date a few weeks ago.  She loved it!

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Credits here for “Schoolmate Play Date”

I have a bit of news in the digi-world, but I’m not going to say anything quite yet. Let’s just say it has something to do with my future :)

Have a great day and I hope to post again soon with a new layout!

{Blah}

Monday, August 6th, 2007

That’s how I feel. Blah. No desire to design much anymore…not for more than a month. Would anyone miss me if I did stop designing? Probably not! I will definitely keep my site since it doesn’t cost that much to run, keep the challenges going and put the occasional designs in the Toybox, but for now, I am not going to force myself to design and put out 3 or 4 things a week. If something pops into my head, I’ll make it. Maybe this is all the summer slows or something, but for now, I’m just going with what I feel is right.

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So Corina Nielsen has this Bucket Full of Fun over at FPD and it’s only $4.50!! SUCH a deal for what you get! Take it from me, if you like her designs, you NEED this bucket! Check out what I made with it!

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Credits here for “Sweet”

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Cheaters Challenge for weeks 10 & 10B are up in the Playroom now! (8.5×11 template isn’t shown)

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Saturday I got a bit of alone time because my family was having a get-together at my Aunt & Uncles house about an hour and a half away and DH doesn’t like those sort of things. I wouldn’t have any fun chasing Kaylee around, so I went by myself overnight and she stayed home with her daddy. The next morning I went to the mall and got Kristen a Strawberry Shortcake lunch bag to match her back pack and a new pair of sneakers for me. Lemme see if I can find a pic online…

They are SO comfy! The website says they are $19.99 but because I’m in Canada, they were $36.99. What a price difference eh? Worth the money though… After I was done shopping I came right home. My parents were golfing all afternoon so I would’ve just been sitting around there by myself anyway. DH said I could stay until after supper, but I decided to come home early. Was a fun day/night anyway! :)

DH is home today because it’s a holiday (Natal Day). We are off to go to the boardwalk then have lunch! Have a great day whether it’s a holiday or not! :)

{They’re home!!}

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Finally, Melanie and her son Kayden are home from the hospital. I can’t imagine what it’s like have to sit in one room for over a week…

I just packaged up the Cheaters Challenges from weeks 5-8 and they’ll be in the Toybox on Thursday!

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So here’s a little freebie for you…you can always find them in my Playroom (as long as you are logged in).

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That’s it for me today…I’ll see about working on a layout later and will share it tomorrow if I do scrap.

{Reunion}

Monday, July 16th, 2007

My family reunion went great! Quite a few people showed up at my grandfathers old farm house. He grew up there, so it was built before 1926 I think. There were many people I didn’t know, but it was still fun. :) Here are some photos I took! (Click on it to see a larger view) I love the one of Kristen and her new Aunt Angela. :)

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Kristen and I left at 11:30 in order to be there by 1. It was really windy out! Because it was windy, I wasn’t hot, so I never even thought about getting sunburned. Didn’t even feel it on the drive home either, but as soon as I got into the house…wham! Felt sunburned…darn it! I had a V-neck shirt on, so it’s burned there on my chest and my arms and my nose is like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. LOL Okay, well not that bad, but still…it’s burned. Kristen didn’t get burned at all. She had a long sleeved shirt & jeans on the whole time and her face is pretty tanned from playing outside, so she didn’t get burned. We left at 5:45 and got home around 7:15! What a long day! I wasn’t online at all until the girls went to bed at 7:30!

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The Cheaters Challenge for week 8 & 8B is up in the Playroom! Go check it out to get this cool template! (8.5×11 not shown)

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Also, there is a new challenge in the Playroom today called Lego my Layout! On the 15th of every month, I will give you a list of items to use to build a layout. Once you are done, come and link us up in the correct Challenge thread and link us up so we can give you some lovin’!

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Okay, so you know I met with Melanie on Saturday right? Well on Sunday they had to take her youngest son (she’s holding him in the picture of us in the last post) to the children’s hospital here in the city because of his cough and wheezing and it turns out he has bronchitis. He is a preemie and has lung problems so he is staying in the hospital for observation for a few days. Please keep him in your thoughts so that he’ll be fully recovered soon! Thank you!

{What a weekend!}

Monday, July 9th, 2007

First, as most parents know, going anywhere with your children is chaos. Then add a wedding into the mix along with a bit of sickness, and all you get is fun fun fun I tell ya! LOL We went to my hometown on Friday afternoon for the wedding rehearsal and just made it in time. Had to shop for something for DH to wear and get something to eat first, so we were a bit rushed. Then on Saturday I had some sharp pains in my stomach. I was thinking it was possibly nerves, but why would I be nervous? Because my girls were in the wedding? I dunno…anyway, right at the time I needed to start getting the girls and myself ready, I started feeling like I was going to throw up and I couldn’t stand up or I felt like I was going to faint. After a bit of laying down on the bed, I knew I just had to get up because no one was going to get any of us ready but myself. (thanks DH). I was doing pretty well once we got going and up to SILs parents house where the wedding/reception was. Still feeling a bit icky, but not too bad.

It was a wonderful wedding! I had to walk Kaylee down the aisle though. They couldn’t hold hands and throw the flower petals at the same time, and without Kristen’s hand, Kaylee just wouldn’t go. The ceremony was very quick. No solos or instrumentals. Just got down to the point and got ‘er done. :)

After the ceremony, my brother & SIL went for ice cream and photos, so the rest of us stayed at the house and chatted while eating some appetizers. Kaylee was a handful to take care of…wouldn’t sit still, and I wasn’t feeling well again. As soon as we weren’t needed anymore for photos, we left. I hated doing it, but I just couldn’t stay there anymore. Here are some photos I took (except for the ones I am in) :) Click on it to go to a larger version.

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I didn’t get permission to show anybody else, so that’s why no one else is in there. I just had to throw in one of the bride & groom, even if you can’t see what they were wearing. :) She was gorgeous though!! I’m so excited I have a new sister! :)

So on the way home I slept. Kaylee had a bad night sleeping in my hometown, as she usually does, so I didn’t get much sleep Friday night. I woke up when we were close to home and was feeling cold, even though it was warm out. I ended up with a fever and chills all night, but felt better in the morning. Just had that weird empty/dazed feeling you get when you are getting over a sickness. Took some Tylenol throughout the day and today I am much better! Good thing too as DH is gone to PEI until Friday!

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The Cheaters Challenges for week 7 & 7B are both up at JLD! Go check out the Playroom to find them and don’t forget to link us up when you post your layout so we can all give you some love! Here’s this weeks template! (11×8.5 version not shown)

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I think I’m going to take a bit of a designing break…maybe a layout one too, I dunno. I just don’t feel like doing either lately, so we’ll see. :)

{The Loot Bag is stickin’ around!}

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

I’ve decided to extend the Loot Bag until the end of my sale on Wednesday night, so if you haven’t picked it up yet, go do it now! A $10 value + a bonus that will never be sold for only $2!

Check this out! I’m Layout of the Week at Funky Playground Designs! So cool! :) I have this layout on my desktop right now. :)

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So I’ve had this layout sitting around for a few weeks but couldn’t show anyone because it was made using July’s DST Gold Member kit by Carrie Stephens called Sunshine & Rainbows. I finally got to upload it today because the DST Insider came out, and this page is in it! Cool eh?

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Credits here for “Shine”

So I’m a day late, but the Cheaters Challenge for week 6 & 6B is now up! Check out the Playroom to get your free template (12×12 or 8.5×11) and remember to link us up in the thread so we can see what you’ve done with it!

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So the shower yesterday was wonderful! My SIL2B is SO excited for this Saturday! She can’t believe she’s getting married! I can’t believe she’s marrying my brother…LOL I’m excited to see them married, but can’t wait for it to be over. It’s going to be such a hassle because Kaylee is such a high-maintenance toddler. She is a crank-pot no matter where we go and I can see her having a meltdown right in the middle of the aisle. LOL

My mom and I went shopping for 6 hours on Saturday. Went to have Chinese food for supper in between, but still…I bought a blouse, capris, sandals & necklace for me, a pair of sandals for both of the girls, and some hair clips for their hair. Not what I wanted, but it’s as close as I could get. I saw the dresses…SO sweet! I brought them home to make sure they fit and they do! Just perfect!

I wish I would’ve had more time there by myself but I had to get home to chat with the girls last night in my Lounge! Thanks to all that came! If you missed it, just wait until next month for another one :)

Have a great day! Don’t forget…30% off sale ends on Wednesday!