A Turkey Day Thing

From the SSD Blog to Mine:

You Are Mashed Potatoes

Oridnary, comforting, and more than a little predictable You're the glue that holds everyone together.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?

A Smelly Thing

From the Sweet Shop Blog to mine:

Your Scent is Key Lime

Sassy, real, and totally smooth You're a total flirt who's always ready for a challenge!

What's Your Girl Smell?

This was a fun few minutes in my day. Funny enough, Key Lime is a real favorite dessert of mine! YUM! Try this out! Also...SSD has some FUN challenges going on over there! If you stop by, check them out!

A gemstone thing...

I'm playing along with the "From Our Blog to Yours" at SSD, this week. Here is the fun little activity they had. A quiz about what kind of gemstone you are. I LOVE what was chosen for me. Aquamarine is probably my FAVORITE gemstone.

Your Gemstone is Aquamarine

Intuitive, tranquil, and trusting. You inspire others to have faith in themselves.

What Gemstone Are You?

A New ES Blog Challenge Thing

As you may or may not know, I am onthe site CT for Elemental Scraps. GREAT team, fun girls, fabulous product to play with. Well, anyways-I get to do one of the 2 bi-weekly challenges this week! I even made a layered PSD template to help you along, I'd love for you to check it out!



ES Blog Challenge #4






There are prizes involved, and who doesn't love a good prize?

As for other news, there's not any! LOL, my life is boring, but that can be good, ya know!? My oldest 2 are back to school, my youngest 2are as crazy beautiful, the daycare kids are cute and mischievious, DH is working hard, I'm procrastinating from doing some design work, all as usual. Well, thanks for stopping in and taking a sneak peak of my week. Hope you'll stop by the ES blo, and play along.

A New Collab Thing

Well, Beth Kern and I put our thinking caps on, and came up with a Scrapz Duo. This is a back to school themed collab called Back to the Books. Chock full of themed and un-themed elements and papers, in a color scheme PERFECT for this time of year.



I'm sure this will help get those frazzled "end of summer" brain cells back into the swing of things. I know this is a crazy time of year for me. Seth, my oldest son, who is 8, started 3rd grade on Wednesday. So far so good. He's been excited and enthusiastic about going, so that is a plus! Leah, my oldest daughter, who is 5, starts Kindergarten next Thursday. She is BEYOND excited. Really. The girl has been pushing her "10 days til Kindergarten" countdown chart at me since May 17th. No joke! So FINALLY we've gotten to actually get that bad boy out and mark off some squares! MUCH to her, and my, relief! In other news, my youngest son, Isaac, who is 3, has been a HOLY terror. "In a second.", "NO!", and "I hate you!" are a few of his choice phrases these days. I do not know WHERE my sweet baby boy went, but he's been replaced by the son of the devil(only half joking). I'm hoping this is just a late start to the "terrible two's", but we'll see. Thank goodness for my sweet darling Ruby.She s just as loving as ever. She started walking about 2 weeks ago, and the little pitter-pat of her bare feet is like angels singing! Seriously, it is such a cute cute sound. Both her and Leah had to get shots last week. Four for Leah(OMG-the agony of holding down a child who is literally half of your size and shouts "I hate you!" midway through!) and three shots for Ms. Ruby. I know. I know. It's for the best. It is still a hard thing to do. I can't imagine being a nurse, that may be the worst in that situation. But I am now the lucky mom of 2 fully vaccinated girls. Shew! Well, everyone(ya right...lol!), I'm off to finish up dinner...and maybe scrap for a bit. Thanks for making it this far!

A Free Camera Thing

Mike, from Stay At Home Dad, Geek Style, is having a give-away. He has this blog that talks about his work, which he does from home, in order to stay at home with his daughter. He talks about his day to day routine, his trials and tribulations as a young Dad, and the amazingly funny & entertaining things that happen when you are a stay-at-home parent. It is so interesting to see this from such a different perspective, a MAN! I've enjoyed browsing through his posts and checking out his site.

In his Stay At Home Dad Digital Camera Give-Away, he is giving away a brand new Canon PowerShot SD750, and all you have to do is make a post like this one! Now how easy-peasy is that, Lemon Squeezy? I hope you'll check it out! A scrapbooker can ALWAYS use another camera, right?

A Bug Thing

I'm extending my Birthday Stash until Wednesday! That is 3 more days of HUGE savings. 7 products totaling over 138MB of digital goodness, with a combined value of over $20. This is a great value for those on a limited scrapping budget, or anyone who likes a little bang for their buck. Run on over to OAKS and grab it up!





This was a bsuy weekend for me. I've been re-vamping all of my previews, and let me tell you, this is TEDIOUS work. My family felt abandoned. Poor things. But even with the non-stop computering, we(DH and I) managed to take the kids out for some fun Saturday night. We stopped by Wendy's and grabbed some dinner to go and headed to our local Metro Garden, There is an awesome art display there. "Big Bugs" by David Rodgers. Here are a few photos of the fam:




















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And with that good people, I leave you to do some much needed cleaning!