Unanswered Prayers

So, I took the dare. Digi-Dare that is. Here is what it prompted me to create:

So I knew immediately when I saw the digidareya challenge for June 29-July5(?) I would scrap about my nephew Jacob that went to be with the Lord 21 days after birth (2004). The challenge was based on Garth Brooks' song "Unanswered Prayer". Thanking God for unanswered prayers to be specific. The hard part about the challenge was thinking about what my prayers were back when Jacob was being formed in his mother's womb (my sister). At 20 weeks she found out that Jacob would live only 2 min. to 2 hours after birth. Miraculously he lived 21 days. He was so precious and touched my life so deeply in just 21 days. I think I prayed that he would be healthy - I prayed for a miracle. I prayed that God not make my sister and her husband go thru what they did. I prayed that I did not have to go thru what I did. God didn't answer those prayers - at least not in the way I maybe would have liked. He answered them the way HE knew was right. I became a different person thru Jacob and his life - what a blessing. Many people do not understand how and why we (our family) respected God for His decision. We don't always understand how we do either, but this trial has made us stronger.The LO - started with a template (scraplift template of Shabby Miss Jenn's LO) sold now at Kiss Studio. Then as I was searching for the right song lyrics to put on my LO (b/c there were so many songs that applied to that situation at the time) I was browsing my sister Shawn's gallery b/c she had a bunch of LO's of Baby Jacob. I came across this LO:http://www.scrapbook-bytes.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=128372So then my LO took on a similar look and feel - I just went with it though.For the dare- ok ok - I don't have a scanned image and I didn't do something new and different for me. Oh well - I got a LO that I absolutely cherish! Thanks!

(this is what my LO says under it in the gallery so just thought I would copy it into here.

So it's Sat. night as I type this and I am hanging out - waiting for Kyle to get home from the Detroit Tigers game. They lost unfortunately. Sounds like they had SUPER seats though! I didn't see him on t.v, but he thought i might be able to with where they were sitting. Anyway - he left at 10:00am and should be home anytime now. The girls and I had a good day. We swam in the little whale pool on the driveway, played on the deck, had lunch on the deck, took naps (well - not me - I scrapped), then we went to Pizza Hut with Julie and Beth and their kiddos. Played at the park too for a bit after dinner. Then it was kiddos to baths and bed! Last night was a GREAT night out with my siblings and parents (NO KIDDOS!!!) for my parents b-days. It was so nice to go out with no kids with my family. Normally when we are with my family for birthday things there are rugrats everywhere (10 to be exact!), last night was just good adult time. My cousins were nice enough to watch all the kiddos at my parents house so they all got to play with eachother still! OK - Kyle just came home!!! Off to chat with him!!!

Ciao!

As promised:

Here are the pictures from Kyle and Braelyn fishing! They went out on Lake Macatawa and then onto the big Lake Michigan for just a little bit - the fishing boat is pretty small so not meant for big water fishing.

Here is the perfect post for Braelyn! She is loving it - these pictures were all taken with Braelyn's new Fisher Price Digital Camera and I cleaned them up a bit - but I thought they turned out pretty good for a toy camera! Just glad they didn't take my camera out into the water - so it was either these pics or none!

Like Father like Daughter! These two couldn't be more alike if they tried. Braelyn got the Detroit Tigers hat the night before while out shopping and it is IDENTICAL to Kyle's!

Here is the pro hard at work! The night before while shopping we got a call from Kyle's parents to stop by their house on the way home - they had a suprise for Braelyn. They said we needed to pick it up before fishing. Kyle's dad had gotten Braelyn a REAL "ugly stick" brand fishing pole all for herself! It is so cool! She got a great tackle bag too that she took all of her snacks and sunscreen and stuff in! Thanks Grandpa and Grandma!!!

Here is a pic of one of the "sheephead" fish they caught. These are not eating fish by any means - but they say they are fun to catch b/c they are pretty big and they put up a pretty big fight for being on inland lakes! Braelyn loved it!

We are finally getting some much needed rain here! It's been a neat day though b/c it rained early this morning and then got pretty sunny here and then now it is raining again - just perfect b/c it's dinner time! Although now that I think about it we are cooking chicken on the grill for chicken sandwiches - oh well. It has been so dry here and the lawns are really dying. This should help! It has been humid too and I hope this rain takes the humidity away when it is done - the forcast for this weekend looks GREAT! Much cooler and less humid! Being pregnant and having 90 degree humid weather really isn't ideal!

Have to do my mom's nails tonight and one other family friend so that will be my night - Kyle will have to put kiddos to bed again - LOL! He's so good at that! I think it is good for him and the girls since they don't see him at all during the day!

Digital NEWS:

Have you seen this sale? Audrey's word art packs are all on sale for $1!!! That is a steal! I LOVE her wordart! I am not good with wordart and making fonts and what not work good together - this takes the work out of it! Fun to highlight them with some digital paint and stuff too! Here is a LO I did with her new kit too that just came out! Everything in the LO by Audrey!

That's it for today! Hope you all had a great Wed. and have a good Thur. too - work for me tomorrow again.

All things Digi

So this morning I start out with all things Digi. Some fun fun stuff going on out in that part of the WEB!

Who loves Shabby Miss Jenn Designs??? Not only do you probably love her designs you probably also love her LO's! I think what jumps out to me the most in Shabby Miss Jenn's gallery and LO's is that they are so real looking. They look like she did it with actual paper supplies. I think this is my favorite type of style! I love to see the artsy part of digital scrapping, but really - when I put it in a book I want people to feel the page - to wonder if it is paper or digital. I imagine myself looking thru Jenn's books at home on her couch and wanting to touch every single one! Well - another great site I have begun to love is Kissed Studio! If you love templates then this site is for you. I believe you all know I am a template lover!!! Sonja and Katy have teamed up to design a "one stop template shop" that caters to pretty much everyone. Each template set you can buy comes in like 3 sizes, compatible for 3 different programs, etc... - it is amazing! I can't imagine the time these gals have into it! And look at this new pack that is debuting today!!! It is a 10 template Signature Series Pack. Meaning that these gals are collaberating with some great designers and scrappers to get their LO's into templates! Guess who the first designer/scrapper is???

Yep - you guessed it - Shabby Miss Jenn!!! So guess who got to play with a template to show it off??? Yep - you guessed again - ME!!!

Here is what I produced!

THIS is Shabby Miss Jenn's LO at DST that the template was made after!

And then Amy Martin has been having her Featured Product challenge every week and this is my submission for that! Her featured product this week is her WEEBUDS! These are so much fun b/c I remember having these little silk flowers for crafts and stuff when I was younger and in Calvinettes!

Credits for this LO HERE

And finally THIS kit by Dawn - Miss Hunibuni, and Sarah J at the Digishoppe is TO DIE FOR!!! I mean seriously full of fun elements and papers!

Here is my LO I did Sunday afternoon with it!

So the weekend was a ton of fun! Fri. night I did some shopping at Old Navy Maternity and Motherhood and got a few good maternity clothes. I hate to buy too much b/c of the short time that I wear them! I still can fit into some of my own regular clothes. That reminds me - I need to take some preggo pics - keep meaning to do that! Maybe I will get some pics in my new outfit! Braelyn went out fishing on Sat. morning with Kyle and she LOVED it - she took a few pics with her new digital fisher price camera - will have to load those and put 'em up here! Selah just stayed home with me and took a nice nap while I cleaned and did internet stuff (like started this post!!!) Fun times at the pool party we had Sat. night and then Sunday morning was Braelyn's VBS program - so dang cute those kiddos praising God! I was so proud of Braelyn for singing and doing her hand motions! Last night was pizza at the beach - watching the MANY boats going in and out of the channel and walked around the campground and then on to the pier to watch people fishing and jumping into the water. The highlight for the girls was swinging though - they never tire of it - amazing. Hope you all have a good Monday - I have talked enough!!!

OK - ONE more thing before signing out! You MUST all go check out this thread at DST. This challenge is such a rewarding one in more than one way! Not only do you have the chance to win $20 to the-lilypad, but you also have to spend some time in the lilypad gallery which is AMAZING!!! Seriously some of the BEST LO's on the web I think. I feel so inferior posting my LO's in there b/c they do not compare in the least to the other gals - but what matters is that I am making some great memories for my family so I don't let it get to me.

ACM Awards Tim McGraw If your reading this

Some Music.... and stuff!

So this week - though busy has been super good! Braelyn has completed her first 4 lessons of swimming lessons and seems to like it. She also finished Vacation Bible School - which she LOVED! She made some cute cute crafts and came home with little bracelets that each had a different statement on them. God is our protector, God is our Provider, Jesus is our Savior, etc.. Her program is on Sunday morning where she will get her last bracelet and she will sing for us parents and we can see a little bit of what they did! Can't wait to see!





While it is SUPER busy getting her off to VBS by 6:30, it is nice to have a little bit of time with just Selah. And Kyle and I have spent a little time too just hanging out while Selah played - much needed! Last night for instance we were sitting on the couch together and talking and he mentioned that Casting Crowns has a new CD coming out in August so we listened to the little sneak preview HERE. We will for sure be picking this CD up and I have a $5 GC to our local christian bookstore that I got for teaching Children in Worship this year! Then I wanted to play THIS song by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. This is my song to Kyle - it starts by Tim McGraw singing about how he needs whiskey and cigarettes (which isn't really my style - but it is sung to make a point) - he is talking about how he NEEDS things - like Faith Hill. Then she goes on to talk about what she needs like an addiction. Such a love song. One part of the verse is about how the Father and the Son need the Holy Ghost. Interesting enough on Sunday that was part of the sermon - about how one can't be without the other even though they do entirely differnt things. Anyway - it is just a sweet love song and then to see them on the video just sitting there singing to eachother - ugh - melt my heart! Then I thought of a song that our country station has been playing by Tim Mc Graw that is not for sale anywhere yet. He sang it at the Music Awards and you can only see it on YouTube right now (see the top post to listen to song). The song is about the war and about a soldier who died and isn't coming home. It has such strong christian reference to the soldier being in heaven and that he is proud that he fought. There are so many anti-war songs and words put out by celebrities that to hear something honoring these men is AWESOME! It was a great tribute to the families of the fallen! So it was just a night of listening to some great music together and hanging out until it was time to pick Braelyn up!



Today is a relaxing day - totally staying home until Kyle comes home and we are going to eat quick left overs and then head out to the mall! I need to get a few maternity things - which I hate doing b/c you wear them for such a short time, but I am wearing the same 5 shirts and I have one pair of shorts that fit me right now. Braelyn and Selah also need a few things and I am sure Kyle will walk out with something just to not feel left out! Always a fun night at the mall. Tomorrow is pretty relaxed. Kyle wants to take Braelyn out fishing on his little boat so I will hang out with Selah so she can get her nap and all that good stuff! At night we have a big friends "pool" party - although usually no one swims - LOL! Just hanging out with friends and no kids - which is always refreshing! Our weather here has been AWESOME! It is going to get real hot again next week early it looks like, but we have been 80 degrees and no humidity the past week which is nice! A slight breeze makes it just perfect!



I will leave you with one LO here that I haven't even posted yet in my galleries, but here it is for you to see. A couple of you that read my blog asked where this lighthouse is and it is in Silver Lake Michigan - and it was great! Great picture opportunities and most weekends you can actually go up to the top for a $2 fee, and look over Lake Michigan!



























Good Bye for now!

Patriotic Pup

So - the other night I got an email from ShabbyMissJenn which is always exciting b/c it normally means she has a new kit!!! Sure enough she sent us THIS kit to start playing with!!! Here is what I created with it!!!

The minute I saw it I knew that I would scrap a picture of Gauge b/c

A. it has been a while since I scrapped him and I took these pictures last month

B. He was our fourth of July pup 5 years ago

C. I scrap in chronilogical order so that means I have already scrapped my 4th of July photos from last year and obviously it is not yet the 4th of July - LOL! Heaven forbid I use a cute kit like this for just a fun picture non patriotic (insert sarcasm here). I have a hard time getting out of my box!

Short post - not much to talk about really - just getting on with my busy fun week!

Have a good one!

Monday Morning

Good morning everyone! Hope that you are all ready for the weekend that is set before us! I had a GREAT weekend and am ready to start this busy week myself! We have so much going on and so I know that this week will FLY and we will be back to a fun weekend! Braelyn has swimming lessons Mon. thru Thur. this whole week and next - at a neighbor's house. The lady that is instructing is actually the same lady that taught me YEARS ago. I grew up with a pool so each of my siblings and I took swimming lessons from her back in the day! So my mom will bring her for her first day today since she watches the girls on Mon.! Also this week Mon. thru Thur. Braelyn gets to go to Vacation Bible School at a church nearby! The church is one of the only ones around here that offers it to 3 yr. olds - so we are excited for that! I feel like this is a monumental week due to the fact that up until now in our parenting we have not had any real "obligations" to sports or busyness. Now Braelyn is doing her swimming lessons and things that take some remembering and running! This is where it all begins right moms?!

The weekend was AWESOME! We had so much fun stuff going on. Fri. night as I have mentioned a million times I got to meet Janet! It's funny how you can talk to someone online back and forth many times and click and then you get anxious moments before actually meeting in person! I was a little nervous and excited at the same time. You worry that they might not like you in real life or that you won't click in a normal setting. All worries aside - I picked her up and I think it went great! After picking Janet up I picked up three other friends that scrap to go get pedicures and do dinner. After our fun night it was time to drop Janet off after dropping my friends off and we ended up talking in the car for a good hour! It was so meat to have the one on one time too to chat about life! Thanks for the good talk Janet - you are everything i expected you to be and more! Very genuine and sincere! Guess what??? NO CAMERA!!! GASP!!! We didn't hardly even talk too much digital stuff. I am bummed that I did not get a picture of Janet and I! Come on - she is moving down to Florida now - a good 22 hrs away and I got no pictures - what was I thinking?! Anyway - good stuff!

Sat. was me and the girls all day - little of this and a little of that! shopping, swimming, playing.

Sunday was super busy with the dedication of my nephew and then lunch after that with the family for the dedication and for Father's day. Home for naps at 2:30 and then at 5:00 off to Kyle's parents for supper and lake swimming! I got a workout swimming from our "swimming hole" back to the condo! Whew - great for this pregnant body!!! Braelyn did so good too - swam the whole way with her life jacket!

Enough weekend recap - that is probably SUPER boring to all of you. Oh wait - one more thing - gave my hubby a shutterfly book that I won and made and her LOVED it! Too cool!

Got to scrap one LO Sat. night and finished up another - both for my creative teams.

Credits Here - This LO was done with Miss hunibuni and Ali Folendore's collab kit at The DigiShoppe - very cute and fun to play with!!! Pictures are of Selah busting a move - not such a good move either! She is so funny to watch dance!

Credits Here - this LO I finished up too this weekend with Audrey Neal's new quickpage she put out. I added a bit to it and gave it my own touches. How fun though that I did the page in about 20 minutes! I am all about that - just preserving those memories - that's the mainn goal here!

OK - I better get going! Again, hope you all have a great week!

Busy Fun Weekend Ahead!

Whew - this week FLEW by - I mean literally - not a spare minute - ANYWHERE! Looks like this weekend will not be any better! I love the busyness too so it's all good! Fun birthday party for my niece Eva last night. I can't tell you enough how fun it is to watch my nieces and nephews mature and grow. Kiddos are amazing I tell ya. To see them interact and play is just so cool - each with their different attitudes and fun tempraments! With 10 kiddos running around (OK - not all running yet!) it gets MIGHTY chaotic at family gatherings!

This morning we got up and out of the house by 8:30am and headed to the bakery b/c hey - everyone around here seems to be doing it - LOL! We headed into the salon that I worked at last year just to say HI to everyone. Made an appointment for my highlight and cut too - not until July 14 though! Hope I can hold off that long! Then we walked over to the library and realized they don't open until 9:30 so we hopped back in the car and headed over to the car wash. By time we were done with that the library had opened. I signed Braelyn and Selah up for the book club this summer. Braelyn has to read 15 minutes and then she can fill in a circle on her chart. Then every 10 circles or so she fills in the star and can take it in for her prize. Selah can fill in one circle per board book I read to her. It really encourages kids to read and be read too, which is GREAT! I love our local library, but man taking two kids 3 and under is crazy. I can't imagine taking more kids - and soon I will have to - LOL! Selah has NO concept of "quiet" in a library. She also has no concept of books belonging on certain shelves so she tears them out one at a time and I have to figure out where they go again. I quick grabbed 10 books - 5 for each - and headed out. I was going to pick up a new video for them to watch, but they were not being very cooperative. Maybe next time. Next time I will have Selah in the umbrella stroller FOR SURE!

Pedicures tonight with the girls! Meeting Janet at a park and drive and then picking up the other gals - good girls night out! Speaking of feet!!! Here is a LO I did for the Hodge Podge Art challenge this week! One thing I do like about myself is my feet - odd I know! I have a foot fetish of sorts! I love giving pedicures and making other people's feet look beautiful!

Also in the LO I wanted to spotlight Amy Martin's tiny beaded disks - her featured item of the week over at The-Lilypad. They are on sale, but also if you use them in a LO you have a chance to win some money to Amy's shop. Who wouldn't want Amy Martin shop money I say!

Credits for this LO found here.

Here is another LO that I finished up the other night while scrapping at my neighbor's (which was mighty fun I might add!) I did not and will not post this in my galleries b/c it is a COMPLETE scraplift of this fabulous LO by Colleen

When I saw Colleen's LO I knew I needed to do one like it with Braelyn's Dora birthday cake. I just LOVED how she did the title with DORA in it and I just loved the whole thing really! So I am loving this LO - can't wait to see it in print! I used stuff from Shabby Princess, Amy Martin, Kate Hadfield, Natalie Braxton, & Gina Cabrera.

I have done a bit of shopping this month too - hoping Kyle isn't led to look at the credit card bill before I pay it! I had a couple inside sales at The-Lilypad from Natalie Braxton and Kate Hadfield - I can't pass up a sale right??? They only come around once in a while! Also today I got to download a bunch of new goodies from Audrey Neal since I am on her team - she put out 7 new wordart packs and I LOVE me some good wordart quotes!!! Will have to play around with that stuff soon! Since getting all this new stuff my "new scrapping supply" folder is jammed packed which means I need to sit and put it all into ACDC and tag it all - that might take a little while of organizing!

Tomorrow Kyle is pretty much gone all day - fishing in morning and then maybe home for a bit in the afternoon and then off to the races at night with Chad - brother-in-law. I guess I might get a little scrap time then since I am spending this nap time on a VERY long post - LOL!

I think I will just leave you with all that - if I haven't lost you already! I enjoyed writing this one!

BTW - I did update my bloggy a little - like the header and some of my blog links - my sister Kim started blogging!!!

Have a great weekend everyone and HAPPY FATHER's Day to any dad that just might be reading this. (OK - so I am pretty sure that would only be my brother Dino - LOL).

Ciao!

Pics from the weekend!

Just some pictures from our weekend away!

How many kids can you fit into a 3' x 5' sandbox??? I can't get over this pick and how so many kiddos fit in there and actually had fun still!

Kyle took Braelyn up into this lighthouse on the beach - so cool that it was open for tours! Braelyn loved it and it was HIGH!!!

See!!!

Selah stayed on the beach with me since she wasn't tall enough to go up - for fear of falling over that side (let alone the fact that my preggo body would have been TIRED from hiking up those stairs - LOL) She got FULL of sand, but we had so much fun!

So - I really didn't take many photos unfortunately, but I am okay with it b/c we had a really great time! I have a few pics to get of Braelyn riding a go cart all by herself so I will post those as soon as I get them! It was so so cute!

This week and weekend are BUSY!!! Wed. morning we have another showing - same couple coming thru a second time so more CLEANING tomorrow! Wed. night going to scrap with some friends, Thur. night we have a big family birthday party for my niece Eva. Fri. night girls night out. Sat. night - Kyle's night out - he is going out to the races with our brother-in-law. Good Father's day night out doing something they enjoy. I think he may try going fishing too on Sat. which will be good for him b/c he has been DYING to go out! Then Sunday is Father's Day which is also my nephew Owen's dedication at church so we go to their church and then big family thing again at my mom's for that and for Father's Day. At dinner time we head to Kyle's parents on the pond for a cookout and boating! Whew - I am tired just thinking about all this stuff!!! Add work into that schedule and I am not sure how I am going to do it other than the fact that Thur. I don't need to cook dinner - Whoo whooo!!! It's the simple things that excite me. And guess what else??? I get to meet Janet Phillips this week which excites me to no end!!! We haven't nailed down specifics, but we WILL get together!!! She is just an inspiration to me both as a mother and as a person, and of course as a scrapper too! Those of you that know me as a scrapper know that I am not afraid to use templates b/c hey - I scrap for my kids and my memories and if it means I can get more pages done and stay caught up for EACH child then I am all about it! I can still be creative with them and do my own thing. I can re-use them numerous times without anyone really even noticing (especially my kids some day or people who don't scrap and are just browsing my books!) Janet's templates caught me quite some time ago - I think I might have happened upon her blog at one point and just LOVED her LO's. Then as I read her blog daily I realized that she is such an amazing woman. We have become little blog friends and exchange emails and blog comments on a weekly basis. So this is one digi scrapper/designer that I am stoked to meet!

Many of you know I have had the opportunity to meet many a scrappers/designers - so very cool. Not one of them has ever disappointed - all of them way better in real life than in digi-land - which is a COOL!!!

Well, signing off for the night! Hope you all have a great week! If you have made it thru this long boring post - GOOD FOR YOU!!!

Farmer's Market

Do any of you go to your local farmers market? Maybe you don't have one near you. We have a GREAT farmers market in my opinion! They re-did the area for it in our town with some nice canopies - just good stuff! So on Sat. morning we went with kids and hubby and got just one thing - snow peas. Still fun to walk around and see all the stuff and people! Today I went with the girls because we saw some great big tomato plants for our garden so I went to get one of those and one jalepano plant - we had planted the garden already, but figured we would add to it b/c the plants looked so good - and our original plants were SMALL. I also picked up strawberries and watermelon for this weekend to go with my fruit dip. A few tomatos for tonights BLT's too! Anyway - good stuff - farmer's markets!

This week has been great b/c we have just been home every night. No big things going on - so refreshing. Just playing outside with the girls and decent bedtimes!

Here is one more LO I finished up. I figured I better get her first ultrasound scrapped so that I can start working on the second ultrasound pics! I am amazed that in 12 weeks she went from a tiny little peanut in the image to a full figured baby - such a cute profile pic we got in the latest ultrasound! So - this LO will just explain to my daughter why we had an early ultrsound and what we were thinking at that point!

Hope you are all having a good mid week - anybody pick anything up at the Shabby Shoppe sale???

Good Monday morning!

Howdy All!!! Hope you all had a good weekend - we sure did here! Lots of family stuff and hanging out - not too much work either which is always nice!

Kid Updates:

I figured it was time for a little kid update for those of you who don't see Braelyn and Selah a whole lot.

Braelyn: at three years old she is just getting so big. There are times when I look at her and think "wow - she is just beautiful and I am in big trouble". I know, I know - I am her mom and am supposed to think my kid is beautiful, but honestly - I am worried. Also worried that her little attitude will get the best of her too though. One of my fears is that she will be a little snot - I hated the snotty girls in school and DO NOT want my daughter to be one of "them". She mostly pulls the attitude with just us - she is generally well mannered around others! She is so into me having this baby which is so fun. When I was pregnant with Selah she didn't really have a clue - she was 20 months old only when I HAD Selah. Now she keeps saying "mommy - you can't pick me up you might hurt the baby in your tummy" and stuff like that. She is watching my belly growing ever so fast and notices it daily now. Just this morning she pat my belly and said "Mommy, is she getting big and strong in there so she can come out?" So cute! She now is only saying baby sister too which is good. She's off the baby boy kick as we are too! :) Fun stuff - a three year old - she amazes me every day!

Selah: 17 months old. Stinker is my word for her! She is a little naughtier than Braelyn was at this age. Throws a few more fits, etc... So cute and getting so big. I ask her where baby is and she tries to pull down my shirt and makes me flash everyone -LOL. Her latest is singing. Now I love to sing - I sing, hum, or whistle with EVERY song on the radio - no matter if I know the song or not - LOL. Selah and Braelyn have become big singers too. Braelyn sings really good - even on tune most the time. Selah - well she can sing songs like "You are my Sunshine" almost all the way thru. Amazing to me. I guess since I have been singing it to her since she was baby baby that she just has it memorized by now. She sings to a few other songs too with my dad - just not every word. So she too will be about 20 months when this new little baby girl comes along!

And now a few quick LO's I finished up lately!

Polishes - my LO for the Hodge Podge Challenge! This is my second time joining the challenge - love it! This site has inspired two different LO's for me that I would have never gotten to doing probably. The challenge for this was to scrap what makes you a girly girl. For me it's my polish collection and love for painted nails!!!

Rolling - This LO I did for Amy Martin's Featured Product challenge over at the-Lilypad and DST! Lynette won last weeks challenge with Amy's sequin frames - which is super cool b/c I know Lynette a little bit, and found out she won $10 to Amy's store thru her blog entry! Sooooo worth playing along! These painted shapes are 45% off too this week!!!

In Full Swing - Just a for fun LO!!! Can you tell I have been LOVING Nancy Comelab's cluster frames! I have to admit - at one point I was not sure of the frames that were coming out that were "lifted" off the page. My biggest argument of them was "will these look too fake/digital when under a page protector in a book"? That was my question to myself b/c I want my LO's to look "real" not necessarily digital very often! But now that I bought these packs when Nancy had her huge SALE I cannot stop using them! I have even tweaked them a little by taking photos away and still making them work! Very versitile! So this was a fun fun LO for me of Selah!

Just working today, off tomorrow, half day work Wed. and work Thur. - and then Fri. we head up to a cottage with 3 other families for some fun play time!!! Braelyn is so excited to play with all her friends at the cottage! Looks like the weather will be decent - warm for swimming - lets just keep the rain away! Hope you all have a great weekend!!!

Weekend Again???

Yippeee....it's the weekend again! Did that go fast for everyone else??? Nothing monumental planned for out little family - looks like a fairly decent weekend weather wise!

Credits Here

This was such a fun LO to do! I have been wanting to do a LO with diamond cut papers lately - not sure why, but just felt the urge! I followed the diamond theme all the way thru the LO - there happened to be diamonds on the postcard and then used Shabby Princess' diamond gems - too fun! I also used a bunch of different designers stuff which is always fun. Now when I first started scrapbooking I used ONLY one kit - and it had to be a KIT. I have come a long way in giving up that mind-set!

Scrapping these pictures reminded me that we need to do our Sunday night beach visit again. We head out to our state park on Lake Michigan (about a 10-15 min. drive only!) and pick up a hot pizza on the way. Cooler packed, kite stowed away and off we go! So much fun and the kids love it. I love it also for the reason of there is no clean-up really - just throw it all away and wipe the kids with a quick wet-one!

Couple great little sales going on in the digi-world! Little Dreamer Designs is having their grand opening!!! There are so many things by Michelle that I really want, but probably won't buy yet b/c I have gone WAY over my scrapping budget the last few weeks. There are a couple great freebies to start with though!!! Janet Phillips just added her June grab bag to her store! I have bought two of her grab bags and if you like templates and stuff you will NOT be disappointed! I have found that her grab bags are worth well over the $2 you spend!!! I have already spent $22 on this credit card statement and that is $22 more than what I normally do - yikes!!! Hope hubby doesn't see that bill - LOL!!! So needless to say I will not be buying anything else - gotta be responsible!!! And who am I kidding I have a lot of new and fun stuff to keep me busy for a while again!

Had our third house showing last night. Again, the people seemed to really like it and they have their house for sale, but I am sure it will be a waiting game. All three couples gave really nice comments about our house which is always nice. I would hate to go thru the hassle of cleaning and making the house presentable just to have them say "we just don't like it". I am sure that is so frustrating and it happens a ton! So we will wait and see if this comes to anything. We are in NO hurry to sell at this point in our lives b/c of the baby coming and Kyle's work getting busy starting this month, but we will go with whatever happens. In this market we could wait a while for the other people's houses to sell! So that is the word on that for those who have been wondering!

OK - off to play with kiddos - maybe head to the park in our back yard! Have a great weekend everyone!!!