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Cool Scrapbooking Goodies!

My friend Deb returned from CHA in Chicago this week where she had a wonderful time!! Even though she was super busy whilst away she went to Archiver's and found the gorgeous Making Memories Passport line and brought some home for me! It came out about seven or more months ago and this is the first...

Tagged with Random Facts

I've been tagged by Sean. Hmmm. Going to post 8 random facts about myself. I will try: 1) I was the last one in my kindergarten class to learn how to tie my shoes. My Mom still has the gold cardboard shoe with my name on it that I finally received when I mastered the difficult task! LOL 2) Zippers...

This Is What I've Been Doing

Well, this is a *little* of what I've been doing. I've also cleaned out closets, listed items on ebay, organized some of my scrapbook items, and done 2 (as opposed to my usual 10) loads of laundry. I've also made it to Happy Hour at Sonic daily, walked for at least 45 minutes a day, done some...

What To Do Today...

This week I have been enjoying a great amount of "Me" time. My kids are with my parents, so I've had a couple of days all to myself. It has been a very nice and much needed break. I've been able to do whatever I wanted to do when I wanted to do it. Or do nothing at all, which is what I'm going to do...

Mini Paper Packs!

I just listed these in my other shop. I have to say, they are SO adorable. Much better looking in person instead of these odd scans! Each one has about 25 pieces in it, just enough to embellish some cards, scrapbooking pages, journals, ACEOs....the list goes on and on! Great for kids too...this is...

june: the time of my life

(*pictures to come) within the blink of an eye, the school holidays have passed me by. *lets out a big sigh* it's back to school, and i'm nearly the end of the first week of the third term. a positive thing is that my girls have been nothing short of angels since the start of the week, even those...

Stamps 'n' Stitches

Here's another one of my goddaughter. It's a recent school portrait. As I mentioned in my goals, I've been trying to incorporate more stamping on my layouts. I've been having fun using "stitch" stamps as I'm not very good at using my sewing machine on layouts. Cardstock, Bazzill Basics; Patterned...

Bridal Shower

If anything comes out of this Got Sketch 101 class it'll be that I will get around to scrapbooking the photos from my bridal shower and wedding. Note that those events occurred May 2007 and June 2007 respectively. Like most brides, I'm behind. By the time the course is over, maybe I will have...

Cat Nap

OK, I admit it...I was a little down about having to take down Crop Chic. So to cheer myself up, I decided to tackle Sketch 1 in the Got Sketch 101 class. My cat Frasier likes to take naps on my stomach or chest. Sometimes he just leans on me when he's ready to take a nap. He likes to lean and he...

Do You

Do you. This is not a question as in "Do you ever....?" It's a statement...Do you. Do what you are. Be what you are. Or as the old (very old) Hall and Oates song said, "Do what you wanna do, be what you are." In scrapbooking, it's very easy to be intimidated by the "designers" and "design teams" who...

Why I don't buy toys for my cats

And it's not because I'm a mean "mother." I bought this Cat in the Hat toy when the movie came out. The hat is a crinkly bag that's covered with plush fabric to make it look like the Cat in the Hat's hat. Manufacturers make crinkly bag toys because cats like to crawl into bags, scurry around in them...

Got Sketch? I Do!

I'm back from a long break. Actually I was busy building up Crop Chic. I had it set up in Blogger, then I moved it into a content management system called Joomla then I said forget it, I'm going back to Typepad. I was even able to keep my original Typepad name from 2005! Some of you may recall Crop...

My Aching Back

I'm working on doing a layout or two a month that tells what's happened to me during that particular month. I was inspired by a year-in-review project from one of the scrapbook magazines (I'm sorry I can't remember which one). I already completed a January page that lists highlights from that month....

Busy Building Something

I can't believe it's been a month since I've posted here. I didn't realize it was so long. Let's see what have I been up to? Well, looking for a new job, doing some Web consulting for a nonprofit (anyone need a content-management system built for their Web site?) and--most importantly--I've been...

Call Him Sarge

Sargeant Major George is a dog. Yes, a dog is a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. Had no idea. In my job as a public affairs specialist, I was working on a story at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital about all the things they are doing to help wounded soldiers returning from Iraq and...

I [heart] iPod

I did a lot of stamping and scrapbooking today. Should we call it "scramping?" Continuing the iPod/Apple theme as of late, this layout is an ode to my iPod. I was one of the early purchasers of the iPod when it was 5 gigs and a thick brick. I used it off and on and never filled it up. Then my...

DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING

I never knew that digital scrapbooking could be so much fun!!! Ok!!! I love gluing, and cutting... and piecing everything together... but.... going digital means "no mess to clean up"!! and that's WONDERFUL!!! So, that's what I've been doing for the past 2 days!!! but the coolest thing is that you...

Tower Hill Botanic Gardens!

Today was a great day! Jenn had invited Deb & I out to spend the day doing a little bit of scrapbook shopping, lunch and a visit to Tower Hill Botanic Gardens!! There were so many different kinds of gorgeous flowers on display!!! Jenn gave us a tour and even showed us where her parents renewed their...

scrabooking etc.

Right now scrapbooking is all the rage, i have to admit that I want to jump on the bandwagon. I dont even have to see a complete album, i just need to see the notions, the tags, buttons, ribbons, stamps all of it, make me want to scrapbook. So whats holding me back. Simply put, I dont like to mark...