Backyard Playground

The Aspiring Digi Scrappers have done it again!!! There are 43 of uz participating thiz month.

You can grab my part here. Follow the linkz for the rest of the kit. Enjoy!

Aeryn Becky Beth Brooke Crystal(digiscrapalicious) Crystal(s.amazed) Dawn Debbie Debi Denise Donna Erika Heather Joni Joy Karen Kathy(carolinagirl) Kathy(scraploft) Kay Kelly Kim Krisi Lara Leaonna Lori Melanie(bygodsdesign) Melanie(scrappinasithappens) Melanie(sweetasmel) Michaele Mollie Monica Nadine Nancy Nikki Patty Penny Rachael Shannon Sheila Stella Sue Tammy Utski

Been having a hard time...

For those of you that didn't know, I lost the twinz. My body just wasn't able to handle all the changez of going off my medz and being so sick and in such pain. It iz devastating to say the least but I honestly believe it just wasn't the time. I need to finish healing before I even think about carrying a child let alone two. I've been away from my computer so much that right now I have over 2000 unread emailz and two weekz worth of bookkeeping to catch up on. Az soon az I can sift through the mail and get some motivation to "create", I'll be back. I'm still planning to finish my part of the "Ocean Friends" collab to benefit the Shriner's but other than that, I'll have to see. Thankz for all the kind wordz and prayerz, they're much appreciated. Hope to be back soon...

I'm on a new CT and I have more layoutz to share!

I'm on Designs by Crazy Diamond'z CT!!! Be sure to check out her blog here. And I've done some layoutz. Az I stated in my tagged post, I scrapped my picz with Stevie Wonder and Frankie Valli az well az one of my youngest DD and my first layout using Crazy Diamond'z kit Somewhere Beyond The Sea. Az alwayz, click on the picturez to see the full creditz.

Popsicle Paradise Release Today!!!

Well, here it iz... You can download my portion by clicking on the preview below and then follow the linkz below to pick up the rest of thiz mega collaboration freebie kit. Aeryn Angie Anne Brittney Catt Chantal Crystal Crystal Dawn Faye Heather Joni Leaonna Melanie Monica Nancy Nikki Patty Penny Sheila Tammy Xandra

Popsicle Paradise Mega Collab Freebie

COMING SOON : The Popsicle Paradise Mega Colaboration : Debuts JUNE 1st

Be sure to check back on June 1st to pick up my part of thiz mega collab kit! Then surf on over to the other participantz blogz to pick up the rest of the freebiez!!!

Having Some Fun And Some New Layoutz

Just playing around and found thiz. My hubby would say NO WAY to several of these pointz. hehe

What Donna Means

You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality. You are well rounded, with a complete perspective on life. You are solid and dependable. You are loyal, and people can count on you. At times, you can be a bit too serious. You tend to put too much pressure on yourself. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Here are the layoutz, click on them for full creditz!!!

Now here’s what I have to do because I got tagged by Kathy and Heather.

1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.


Seven Facts

1. I waz born on my dad'z 22nd birthday. Passed paperz on my first home on December 22nd. My first child waz born December 22nd the following year. Hiz sister followed sixteen monthz later on April 22nd. My second husband waz born on August 22nd. So you guessed it, 22 iz my favorite number!

2. I crocheted my wedding gown with 1,000 glasz beadz in it. I also crocheted three dressez for my wedding party with matching pursez and flower coziez. And my son carried the crocheted ring pillow. I didn't use any patternz, just created az I went. I made it so the bottom of my gown came off at the knee for the reception. (I didn't want to catch the train on anything.) It took me four monthz to complete it all.

3. I spent an afternoon hanging out on Stevie Wonder'z tour buz with him. He iz one of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever met. Thiz waz just a few dayz before meeting Frankie Valli. I have picturez of these two meetingz. Now I have to scan and scrap them!

4. I waz five monthz pregnant with my son when I went to the Bahamaz. I entered a bathing suit competition and when they counted how many full suitz, they stopped at me (the third one in line) and said "three and a half".

5. All three of my girlz have namez that start with T and end with A. And their middle initialz spell my middle name. I didn't plan that but my oldest daughter waz writing out the namez and said "Hey ma, did you know that our middle initialz spell your middle name?" I didn't, but when I looked at the paper Marie, Ann, Elizabeth were lined up and yez indeed my middle name iz Mae. How cool iz that and that she figured it out!

6. I love to volunteer and since I'm a SAHM I get to do that alot. Last year I watched a four year old who'z father passed away from cancer. She waz a sweetie. I waz president of the PTO and full time librarian at the school for the entire school year. I do the church'z bookkeeping. I help out with ridez and other thingz for people who need help. I'm very grateful that I can do these thingz and not have to work a steady job that would prevent me from fulfilling otherz needz which I find very rewarding.

7. I waz dreading getting tagged because I didn't think I had anything to write about, but it wasn't that bad!

Now I have to pick 7 people to tag.
1. Aeryn
2. Andrea
3. Babette
4. Brandi
5. Jasjul
6. Jessica
7. Kirsty

Now off to scan those picturez!

New Layoutz

I've done a couple and wanted to share them. So here they are, click on each to view the full creditz.

WOOHOO!!!

Brandi West, one of the designerz I CT'd for iz back in businesz and I'm CTing for her again!!! She'z now at Digital Scrap Garden and Art & Scrap. Thiz layout waz done using her Heartstrings kit. Click on the LO for full creditz!

Had to update!!!

I went to the doc today to "discusz" the ultrasound resultz. He told me there were TWO!!! I'm only two monthz but look how big I am already. I had to edit my previouz layout. The creditz are available in my previouz post.

Check it out!!!

Leaonna Kizer just reopened Busyscrappin!!!

And I have some exciting newz too....

Click on the image for full creditz.

Some New Layoutz

Short post tonight. Here are some layoutz, click on each one for the full creditz.

OMG!!!

Okay right after posting the freebie, I went to ScrappinDeadGirls to check out a new private message I'd received and guesz what?! They selected me to be spotlighted in their newsletter!!! I'm on cloud nine right now. If you want to check out the site and join the forum (which I highly recommend) it'z location iz: http://www.scrappindeadgirls.com/ and the forum iz in the boneyard. Check it out!!!

My First Freebie

This kit came about from a color challenge at ScrappinDeadGirls. I call the kit Springz Pastelz. I made thiz layout for the challenge (click on the layout for full creditz) and decided to offer the piecez I used az a sampler.

Here is a preview of what'z in the sampler (I had to change the button because of some strange wording in the original layoutz CU item). I hope you enjoy it! Please leave some feedback either here or at 4shared so I know what you think. Constructive criticism is fine but if you don't like it that'z fine too. Just don't download it or delete it. Click on the preview to download.

I just made a LO using a QP freebie from Leaonna Kizer's blog located here and you can click on the photo for the full creditz. The QP waz made from her new kit ... Prom A Night To Remember which you can view/purchase here. It iz absolutely amazing!!! Be sure to check it out!

Just entered a brag book challenge at JFTSOI

While the site has been down, they are using a yahoo group just like Scrapoholic Designs (which by the way you should go to yahoo and join them both) and they are doing a Brag Book Challenge. The cool thing is everyone who enters a page will get to download them all! (And as of right now there are 21 pages!!!) The deadline is March 28th at midnight Eastern Time. Here is the preview of my page:

Leave me a comment and let me know what you think. I read every one and really appreciate constructive criticism, just don't be too hard on me?lol Thankz!!!

WOW Where To Start...

First of all I've redone my blog with a header that I made. I'm still not sure about the new look just yet. Maybe just need to get used to the black background. Anyway, I've been doing a bunch of layoutz for Scrapoholic Designs and LOVE the kitz I have to work with. I started a Fotki album to keep all my layoutz in so I don't have to worry about them being down. You can find it here. So I've gone through all my layoutz and found out I haven't posted alot of them here but you can view them in my Fotki album but I'd like to show you the ones I've done for Scrapoholic Designs. So here they are - just click on the photo to see the full creditz.

Whew, that'z alot of layoutz for one post. I'll try to do better with the updatez! Be blessed on this Good Friday and Have a wonderful Easter!

I have so much to share with you all

Most important of course iz the new CT I'm on. I'm so proud to be on the Scrapoholic Designs team. I had used one of Leonna'z kitz from Stone Accent Studios Design Contest to do a LO (the one posted in my last post) and she posted the LO on her site. Which you can visit here. She iz so talented and such a great friend. She announced that she was joining with another designer and they were looking for some people to join their CT. I emailed her and she actually said she had been thinking about asking me anyway!!! How cool is that. I truly am honored. So I guesz I should show you the LO'z I've been doing lately. There are a couple. But before I get to those I wanted to let you all know that I saw the thyroid specialist and the nodule iz so small he won't even do a biopsy yet. I go for another ultrasound in April. The masz appearz to just be muscular due to the spasmz in my neck from the car accident. WHEW!!! That'z a relief. So for now all iz well on the health chartz and I've managed to gain 23 poundz since increasing the caloriez to 3500-4000 a day. GO ME!!! I know, soundz weird right, but at 5'7" and only weighing 118 I looked terrible. 141 iz much better! On a kinda sad note my oldest daughter haz left the nest. She won't be 18 until April but she really wanted to go and her friend'z family were more than happy to take her in. (She didn't get along with my hubby (her step-dad) too well and we decided she'd be leaving soon anyway so we let her go early.) I sat down with the parentz and all their curfewz and bedtimez and rulez and chorez etc. seemed the same az ourz so I figured it waz time to let her fly. She still callz me every morning and sayz I love you, have a great day. She also posted a comment on my myspace "I'll love you for forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living, my mommy you'll be." It brought me to tearz. OK enough of the drabble, here'z the LOz: (Just click on the pic to be taken to the full creditz.)

There'z also two quickpagez I did for the challenge at JFTSOI so here they are:

That'z it for now, but stay posted. I'm working on more! Don't forget to leave some love. Be blessed!

AAAGGGHHH!!! Finally!!!

I have tried to upload my latest layout in a couple of my galleries and it just won't upload. I'm going to try to get it up here. The kit I used iz from a wonderful friend Leaonna Kizer of busyscrappin called "Jesus is the Heart of the Season". I used a new font to use it in a font challenge at Faith Sisters but couldn't get it to upload there. I tried uploading it other placez az well. I finally decided to just post it on my blog and pray that it workz here. I've put the full creditz below the layout (if thiz all goez az planned). So here I present My Favorite CHRISTmas Tradition:


Journaling readz:
In our home we have a tradition we started when the kids were very young. On
CHRISTmas morning before anything can be opened we take a small gift box and each
take turns putting a foam heart into the box. For we all know the only thing Jesus would
want from us on His birthday is our hearts. We then close the box, sing happy
birthday to Him and finish it with the chorus from come all ye faithful
which is Come Let Us Adore Him. When all that is done we place the box into
the tree branches and then and only then are the kids allowed to start
opening their stockings and presents. We also have a dinner followed by a
Birthday cake just to make sure the kids "get it". It has become my favorite
CHRISTmas tradition and hope that now as the two older children are out of
the home (not having kids for quite a while I hope) that they will continue
the tradition. Even when they come over CHRISTmas day they still ask to put
their "gift" in the box.
Kit used "Jesus is the Heart of the Season" by Leaonna Kizer of busyscrappin
Fontz used: Ellianarelle's Path (title) and BibleScrT (journaling)

Sorry for not posting sooner

Life Happenz!!! I've been doing a little scrappin in-between trying to close the bookz at the church and get the donation statementz done along with the end of year taxez. Not to mention the health issuez. Nothing has changed except for the doctor finally gave me something to help me sleep and some valium to loosen the musclez that really tighten up when the cold weather setz in. Sleeping more than a couple hourz iz such a wonderful thing!!! I've done a few pagez I'd like to share with you all so here they are:

Thiz iz my mother-in-law, she's with the LORD now, but I learned so much from her. She truly left a remarkable imprint upon my heart. Click each photo to read their full creditz.

Thiz iz a photo of my in-laws, I used it for the Heritage Challenge which was vintage weddings.

Thiz pic of my kidz waz taken in my SIL'z backyard. I used it for December'z quote challenge at Just For The Scrap Of It.

Thiz pic iz of my youngest and we were reading the bible while waiting for her sister to get out of school after I read the scripture she showed me how she could fly like an eagle. I used the layout for the Snap It! challenge at JFTSOI which was to be a photo shot at an angle. I really like how thiz one came out!

Thiz pic waz taken at my uncle'z wedding just a couple monthz after ourz. I used Amy Sumrall's new kit Lovey Dovey Days which is available at the JFTSOI store. It was for her Trend Challenge which was layering/clustering.