tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39092472545092963402011-11-27T18:49:25.244-05:00My life, my loves, my scraps...coinconnoreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3909247254509296340.post-5978777381986794882011-04-27T01:50:00.007-04:002011-04-27T02:09:48.815-04:00

Every day, thousands of babies are born too soon, too small and often very sick. I'm walking in March for Babies because I want to do something about this. And I need your help.I will be walking on of  Robbie's Team. My nephew Robbie was born at 25 weeks, weighing just 2 pounds. (His weight later dropped to a mere 1 lb. 4 oz.). Robbie spent 4 months in the Neonatal ICU. He was too early, too

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Sweet On You Kit Sweet On You Alpha A Monkey Named Oliver Sweet Baby Girl Happy Beautiful Alpha Headline News Alpha For the Birds April Grace Kit April Grace Wordart Best Sister Ever

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My page using this kit:

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Kitchen Window Freebie A photo of my Dad at about 2 years old at his family bungalow

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White As Snow Kit My daughter Pam as we walked her down the aisle -- such happiness. Heart Song KitMy granddaughter Tayler. Paper Rain shotMy grandson Tristan. Swoon kitTayler --loved by me, Mom & Dad Boo kitOur little golfer out Trick or Treating Heirloom Rose KitMy Grandmother Rdna at her graduation with her sisterMy son Gage and his prom date Eunice The Fish StoryGage on the

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I am still a terrible blogger. It;s been a year since my last post. I must do something about that. I am going to try to update once a week and see how that goes. (Don't hold your breath, tho.)

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OMG -- has it really been 4 months since I posted here????Well, the kids are fine. I have had a much needed break from football, although Gage has started weight lifting in preparation for next season.Work has been kind of slow during the week. At least the weekends are still busy. The economy is certainly hitting the restaurant business.Tristan and Tayler grow cuter each day.I had Tayler here

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My daughter Pam and her dear husband Michael had a new baby boy on Oct. 20 -- which just happend to have been my father's birthday (he died when I was 5).He is such a cutie! His big sister Tayler just loves holding him and giving him lots of kisses!!

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If you want to play, just copy and paste this list on your blog, and highlight which ones you've done.1. Started your own blog2. Slept under the stars 3. Played in a band -- I sucked at violin4. Visited Hawaii5. Watched a meteor shower6. Given more than you can afford to charity7. Been to Disneyland -- Well, Disneyworld8. Held a praying mantis9. Climbed a mountain10. Sang a solo --- 4th grade

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to be asked by Jen U to make Quick pages using her designs!! I can't tell you how flattered I am!!! The very first digi kit I ever bought was from Jen U -- her Wild Longstems flowers, which I still use all the time!! To think that she likes my LOs enough to ask me to do this is unbelievable to me!! It is so easy for me to create LOs using her stuff -- it is sooo my style!Here are the two latest I

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My daughter Pam is pregnant!! Yayy!!She and her husband Mike had been trying to get pregnant for about 8 months and had just strted to get discourgaed, when lo and behold, she's expecting!She had a sonogram done (it is the one they do in place of all the other prenatal testing) and she sent me these great photos: She was only 12 weeks so she won;t know the sex of the baby until she has another

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Jen U recently added some great Old Window Frames to her store. And they have started a creative streak agalore! I think I have a series going here --- check out my latest LOs. Images are clickab;e to see credits.)I should have extracted one of the small swags that I made to hang on the chairs at the wedding for this LO, but these digital flowers were just too pretty not to use! Maybe I'll redo

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Yup, this morning I posted the free INSPIRED kit from Tangie Baxter Designs over at our CT blog The Loft.If you downloaded it, don;t just let it sit there --- create a LO using at least 4 of the products in the freebie, post it to any gallery, and link us up here and the creator of the most inspiring LO will get a $10, yes $10, gift card at Tangie's shoppe!And you will be wanting that GC to pick

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I am hosting this weeks challenge over at The Loft (the blog for Tangie Baxter's creative team !!Lucky me, I get to give away a freebie mini kit for yu to create your challenge LO. Be sure to check The Loft on Friday, March 14th to grab this lovely kit that will Inspire you to create a memory.In the meantime, wanna see my latest LOs?? I got quite verbal this week!Both challenges for ADSR required

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submitted their Challenge 2 LO last night for the Amazing DigiScrap Race. I think it came out awesome!! We decided to do a He Said-She Said Lo about our realtionship with our husbands and scrapping. Check it out: credits --- JOURNALING ---CATHY SAID: Honey, can you come look at this?KEITH SAID: Be right there...just one more minute...CATHY SAID: Does this look better here . . . or here ?Which

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Last night I couldn't sleep. My sweet son KC had brought me home a Haagen-Daz ice cream bar and the caffeine in the chocolate kept me up all night. So what did I do? Scrap of course!I did this LO using Tangie's new kit The Bounding Main and Pink Sea. Her kits always have the coolest names! I added some items from JenU's Down by the Sea and the greenery is from Lorie Davison's gorgeous new Water

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Have you been to Jen U's new store yet??? No??? Well hurry and get over there --- you know how gorgeous her designs are and right now she is having a Grand Opening sale -- 25% off !!Her latest toy for me to play with --- these:Jen bought some vintage Italian frames to put in this kit!Recently there was a Designer/Scrapper thread over at DST were scrappers could offer to create a LO for a designer

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So in June my son KC took his first love, Taylor, to is high school prom. They were such a gorgeous couple -- they looked like they stepped out of a fairy tale! She even wore a tiara and a dress reminiscent of Cinderella!So I finally got around to scrapping some of the photos (here is my LO)creditsThe only problem is, they broke up a few months ago and now he doesn't even want to see the photos!

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So, Stephanie (HapEScrapr) and I have entered the Amazing Digi Scrap Race.I didn't enter for the prizes (although they are a great bonus!) but rather for the chance to get to know Steph better, find some great new digiscrap websites & designers, and mostly, to spark some major creativity.Challenge 1--1. You have to use this template:2.Use your favorite color on the layout. Try to make at least

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So my daughter has been married since September -- of LAST year -- and I have recently been inspired to do some wedding LOs.creditsOf course I am supposed to be doing a wedding album for them -- simple and modern -- which I really, really do have every intention of doing -- but right now I am loving taking tiny bits of the wedding and highlighting them in individual pages.I think this is helping

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We're playing a new little game at The Loft! The winner gets a TBD gift certificate.The layout you need to find is in the Creative team superstars gallery. It has 2 framed photos in sepia, and a tag with a date on it is hanging from one of the frames. There is a crown in it as well...Send your answers to TBDloft@gmail.com by midnight (EST) on February 18th, and we'll draw one lucky winner. The

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Yesterday morning I opened my email to find a wonderful surprise --- Annie Manning of Paint-the-Moon Designs RAK'd me her beautiful new Charmes d'atan Add-On kit! I love it!! She is so sweet!This kit is beautifully whimsical and perfect for heritage LOs. I knew everyone would make these awesome feminine LOs using it, so last night I decided to make a "manly" LO of my son Shane with it. I had

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At the TBD Loft we're playing a quick game. You will have to search the shop and find products that match a list of clues. We will draw one $5 gift card for every 5 correct answers. Send your answers to TBDloft@gmail.com by midnight (EST) on February 11th. We will announce our winner on the 12th. Good luck and have fun looking through Tangie's fabulous designs.

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Tangie and Stephanie (HapEScrapr) have done an amazing job setting up a CT blog for Tangie Baxter Designs! Now you;ll find us hangin' out at The Loft...Won't you come join us?? We've even got our first blog Challenge!!In honor of Tangie's newest releases, Her Royal Court and His Royal Court digiscrap kits, we want to know what you would do "If You Were Queen for the Day?" Only a couple of

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I am on a roll using Tangie Baxter's new stuff!! Here's another LO I did using her new Fundamentals papers and tabbed frames. And of course I had to add some of the gorgeous foliage from her Spring Forest Floor kit and her fabulous glitter Natural Influence paper.I always call my son Gage "Mo" -- I don't know why. I just started when he was a baby and it has stuck. So when I saw how cute he

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So today I turned 47.I have officially lived longer than my mother.This fact somehow saddens me at the same time that if makes me feel relieved.My mom died of complications related to kidney disease at just 46 years of age (in fact, she was buried on my 26th birthday.) Of course I am relieved because having had cancer 15 years ago, I have always had that unsttling feeling that I, too, would die

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I love this photo of Tayler taken at Pam & Mike's wedding... so of course I had to scrap it!Journaling says: "Tayler -- I love this photo of you in your new Daddy's arms. You look so content, so secure. So serene. CREDITSShane getting his tattoo. When our son Shane told us he wanted a tattoo as a graduation present, I was not too happy. Yes, all his friends had them, but this is my baby we're

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This LO about Rhonda Jessica, and Heather (my brother Kenny's wife and two daughters) was made with Mikkel Paige's new Love Me Tender kit and her Sweet Princess collab kit with Lauren Grier of Sweet Shoppe designs.These photos were taken at the graduation Party in June for Heather, my son KC, and their cousin Christopher. CREDITS And after a recent snow I looked out in the yard and this was my

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Mikkel Paige has some adorable products in her store at OScraps!I made these LOs using her new Ribbon PopTops , her oh-so-3D Felty Hearts and Jellies and her very versatile Doodled Frames along with ribbons from her Winter Chill Kit, Banded Wraps rubberbands, her Painted Glitter Hearts, Eight Nights Kit, Glitter Sheets papers Cracked Tile Alpha, and Flower Patch Sketches .

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Tangie Baxter has created soooo many new products that I don't know where to start!!!Well first I'll show you some recent LOs I did with her products:I did this LO of my daughter pam at her wedding using The SPRING edition of the "Forest Floor" series:This Christmas LO was made with Tangie's partner (her sister) Molly DeCrow's Holly Jolly Kit.It was perfect for this LO!! My kids always complain

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I've been able to make a few layouts since the holidays. Yay!!I also have been honored by being accepted as a CT member for one of my absolute favorite designers JenU!! She sells her designs at KBandFriends.com When I first started digital scrapping in June, her products immediately attracted me! they were the first ones I PAID for, I loved them so much!!So here are a couple of LOs using jenU

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December was such a hectic month for me! I'm so glad it's over...At work (I am a waiter in a small upscale well-known four-star restaurant in New Jersey) my schedule was crazy! Five 14 to 16 hour days each week for the month of December! Ad if we were lucky we got a half hour break from 4:30 to 5 to eat! I usually work four double shifts each week, but with a two hour break between lunch and

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We had our annual Awards Dinner scheduled for December. Then the day of the dinner was freezing rain and we had to postpone it until Jan. 6. Each year I have made a slide show of the season to show at the dinner. I do this for the kids -- my slideshow isn't about the football stars, it is about ALL the participants, about the entire season's memories.During the year, the football starters get

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I recently saw a CT call for a new designer named Tangie Baxter. I was wooed by her offer to allow you to mix and match items, and that she prefers quality over quantity. It takes me sooo long to do a LO that this was important to me.(I recently guest CTd for a month with another designer and she and her CT team pumped new designs and LOs out so fast I was overwhelmed! I need to take my time,

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No, I haven't had another baby (Mom...)We have decided to adopt a ferret. Her name is Zoe and she's only about 7 weeks old. She is sooo cute and tiny. And is doing so good with her litter box training after just a few days.My kids have been asking for a new pet. My son Shane, 20, has been asking for a parrot or a dog, and my daughter Lynnea has been begging for a kitten or little dog.Bear, our

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So, for the last few months I have been a "volunteer" CT for a very talented up & coming digital scrap designer Mikkel Paige. I had seen one of her LOs and inquired as to where I could purchase some of the elements on her page. I was delighted to hear that she had designed them herself, but dissappointed that they were not availble for purchase.Well, just a few days later, I got an email saying

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Ok, so I've decided to start a blog. Now what????

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