Forever…and new layouts

I know it feels like I have been away from my blog for forever and I wish I had some great exotic secret to share, but I have just been busy.  Of course, two weeks of my silence was because I was visiting the mouse at Disney Which I absolutely loved.  I will be posting pictures of that in the next few weeks as I work to finish my scrapbook.  Since my vacation book from three years ago is still “almost done” and in the project bin, I am determined to finish this one before June.

I have done a few pages since being back that I can’t wait to share with you.

 

And this year’s Christmas page is already done.  I have no idea how that happened already

…maybe it was because I didn’t decorate

National Scrapbook Day...and a Sale

I know that this weekend I am going to be doing some major shopping to enhance my digi-stash and on the chance that you are doing the same :) , I am having a SALE!!.

My store at Enchanted Studio Scraps will be 40% off any purchase of $3.00 or more, (no coupon needed) from Nov 5 - 7.

Available HERE

New Release

I miss Fall….I miss the smells of apple cider, wood fires, crisp cool air.  I miss the sounds of crackling fires, crunching leaves under my feet, and tractors pulling trailers of excited people sitting on piles of hay.  I miss the crisp air, the hot chocolate and fresh pumpkin desserts.  What does this have to do with anything?  I made a kit to celebrate the season and bring back the memories. 

Fall Fling, available at Enchanted Studio Scraps HERE, and on sale until Monday at 30% off or $3.85. 

12 Days of Halloween

Be sure to visit Enchanted Studio Scraps daily starting Wed, Oct 20 to get this HUGE mega kit.

Going out with a Bang! Retiring Life’s Everyday Moments Collection

It has been a GREAT 8 months but it is time to move on to bigger and better so Tammy and I are retiring the Life’s Everyday Moments Collection available ONLY at Enchanted Studio Scraps.

From now until 11/1/10, LEM is on sale for 50% off individual items or $55 for the whole store.

Newest Layouts

I have had time to sit down and work on some layouts with some of the new kits that I have purchased and I can’t wait to show them to you.

Credits for all available HERE

Life’s Everyday Moments New Releases and freebie

Tammy (Polka Dot Chicks) and I released the next installment in the Life’s Everyday Moments Collection today which covers the Elementary School years. 

As a bonus we are including these extra elements

So look for THIS

Available at the store HERE

Also Added today were the Basic School Tags which coordinate with all of the school kits.

Available HERE

These and all the other new releases are 30% off this weekend only.

Don’t forget to pick up my Halloween kits and be on the lookout for a new one next week.

Available HERE

And if you are still here, here is a preview of next week’s LEM kit…and your freebie

DOWNLOAD HERE

** If you want yet ANOTHER freebie, head over to Tammy’s blog for a new QP

New Release…Happy Halloween

I am releasing a new – actually old kit – in my store tomorrow and it is one that you have seen before if you have followed this blog for any period of time.  I had to redo the preview because I realized that my style has changed a lot over the last year.

You can find Happy Haunting and the Happy Haunting Cardstock in my store HERE.  It is on sale for 30% off until Monday.

Things have been abnormally busy around here and I can’t believe all of the tasks that keep piling up on my calendar.  One of my newest things is a cake decorating class that my bff Terry and I are taking and I have actually had a lot of fun.  She knows a lot about me if  she takes me to classes where I can be both creative and messy!!  We are working on flowers and I am finally going to learn how to do the basket weave.  I know, it is crazy but I am actually kind of excited.

Terry, Cherry and I are also working on a really RELEVANT bible study that while it was taped around 10 years ago, God is showing his perfect timing in all of our lives.  We are working on Beth Moore’s Living Beyond Yourself, which is about living in the Spirit and man is the Lord letting me know that I haven’t been doing what I am supposed to be doing.  I love it when He shows me that He loves me.

Oh, if I didn’t tell you…THE CONTRACTORS ARE GONE…FOR GOOD!!!  They finished up last Friday, got their final payment and I don’t have to worry about them waking me up early anymore.  Also the house looks remarkably nice and I am really enjoying spending my time in it. 

We picked up the kitten from the vet’s on Friday.  We finally got him clipped, snipped and shot and it is amazing how much his behavior has changed.  He has settled down so much, doesn’t go out of his way to pick on the other cats and stopped climbing on the curtains.  We also got Nala taken to the vet and her ear mites are now gone.  She is also a much happier cat.

The rest of last weekend was spent painting, sorting through the mess the painter left for us, cleaning up all the laundry in the bedroom and running errands.  So much for a nice relaxing weekend.

Another thing that happened was that Tammy and I released quite a few new items in the Life’s Everyday Moments collection.  Look:

   

You can find it…and all of the other LEM kits HERE.  Tomorrow is also new release day at Enchanted Studio Scraps and there will be more LEM items added.

Exciting News and a new kit

I have news that I haven’t shared with you yet, and primarily because while my head knows this, there are issues keeping it from hitting my heart…Yet.

Wayne and I are grandparents!! 

One of Wayne’s twins let us know several weeks ago that he was notified that he was a father.  Ummmmm, ok.  It seems as though he was playing around with someone who was in a live in relationship and she got pregnant.  The baby was born May 5, 2010 and James was told of her existence right around his birthday at the end of July.  Wayne and I found out about it during dinner one night in the middle of August.  

This is the reason it isn’t quite hitting my heart yet…she isn’t quite real to us yet.  This little girl is almost 4 months old and we have never met her.  I have gotten a couple of pictures forwarded to me on my phone but that just doesn’t make her “real”.

    Seriously ADORABLE.

So now we are all waiting for the baby’s mom to move down closer to James, and while they are not going to be romantically involved, they are going to raise this little girl together, and the rest of us are supposed to be able to do the same. 

I didn’t realize just how much I wanted to be a grandma until the opportunity arose…now I just want to hold her, cuddle her and be “that grandma”.

Since I have not been able to do that yet, I decided to design a digi-kit to celebrate her and capture her introduction to our family.

Here are the papers:

 

If you want to pick it up, you can get it at my store in Enchanted Studio Scraps HERE.  And so that you can celebrate with me, I am giving away a quickpage (without the pictures of my adorable new grand-daughter)

Click HERE to get it

And look for new releases for both Life’s Everyday Moments as well as my personal fall kits this month.