Digi Black Friday!

So for those of you who went out shopping bright and early this morning……Did you have fun???!!! Did you get everything you had on your list???!!! Nina – I know you and Dino feel like you did well, so that is GREAT! And Sarah – sounds like you got pretty tired out, so hopefully that means you did well too! I stayed snug in bed and my girls and their cousin slept in their tent until 8:00am – that is a new record for my girls I think! I think they were just so tired from all the activity yesterday and not having a nap!

I put my tree up today, so I feel accomplished. I have a long to do list digital scrapping wise. I need to make my labels for my Christmas cards, get those ready to be mailed, make this advent calendar, send a few important emails, and tell you about these GREAT new kits!!! Shabby Miss Jenn – my most favorite SHABBY style designer teamed up with Kate Hadfield from The Lilypad, my most favorite doodle designer, teamed up to create this FABULOUS collab! I have yet to use it because I stay rather current on my scrapbooking and we haven’t had snow or anything yet, but I am itching to play with it – I am going to just have to scrap a non snow LO – like my love for hot chocolate!!! It’s such a yummy kit though!

And SMJ and TLP both have a bunch of new kits out today – and deals too for Black Friday! Those are my kind of black Friday sales – ones I can get from right here on my couch, warm and comfy in my sweater, and watch some HGTV while I do it! ;)

Here are a few LO’s I have done with the new goods!

SMJ kit – It’s Snowing

SMJ Kit – Sweet Holidays – a pic of my mother in laws table setting on a Sunday – love the simple elegance of it!

Now – I am off to play and create! Have a great Friday everyone!

Where did I leave off?!

I don’t really remember where I left off here. I probably should go and check! Oh yeah – a few weekends ago no – when Kyle was hunting, and I was scrapbooking! Seems like so long ago already. So much has happened since then of course! Kyle came home with his two deer – he was proud as a piper! He and Jeff (his buddy who got a 15 point buck!) thought they were rockstars! It is kind of fun to see them that excited about their sport and their achievement!

The girls were even proud of their daddy!

We’ve made our Christmas ornaments for this year – little porcelain ornaments that the girls painted with glitter paints!

And we’ve celebrated Thanksgiving!

Before Church – my three sweeties:

Before the 20 guests arrived – kids table:

Adults table:

The kids table with kids – 9 to be exact! So much fun, so many little minds!

The adult table – Had 11 adults total.

And once we cleaned up from this party we sat for a brief moment and headed to our next party!

Great conversation with family, I think we all took it pretty light on the food – most of us were still full from lunch!

My mom with Gracyn – Gracyn is all hot and sweaty from bouncing around!

It was an all out bounce party!!!

Selah, Braelyn, and their cousin Sadie – playing something – not sure what you call this?! I guess just rolling the ball to each other.

And now those three little tired girls are sleeping in this fort that Kyle made for them today! Fun stuff! These are the things I did when I was growing up with my cousins! Love it!

So so many things to be thankful for and I am trying not to take a single one of my blessings or hardships for granted! Wish Thanksgiving was more ingrained in my mind like this daily! Simply put: I am Thankful for a God who loves me, friends who put up with me, a family I adore, and so much more! (from my facebook status today!)

I am looking forward to a weekend of recovering and relaxing with my husband and kiddos! No black Friday shopping for me – no money, and I don’t really shop to begin with, so shopping when it’s totally hectic and chaotic is just not something I’ve ever wanted to do! How about you – big plans for the weekend?!

MandaKay

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What a great weekend! As I sit here on Sunday night I can’t help but be thankful for a great weekend! I had a great Friday and Saturday scrapbooking – got a ton done, felt very accomplished, and the food was awesome! We had movie night on Sat. night with the girls – the movie UP

(which we saw in the theater). Today was lunch at my mom’s and just a nice relaxing day! The best part of my day though was when Kyle called to tell me that he shot an 11 point buck! He was so excited – I loved hearing his excitement. He so deserved it and I know it just made his year. And then tonight he called and said that this hunting thing is getting expensive because he shot a 7 point buck! He filled his tags on opening day! He also saw an albino deer, which is pretty amazing! I think his words this morning were “I just had the most incredible morning!”. I think I got a little misty eyed when he said that! I’m such a geek, I know, but I am so happy for him!

So here are the LO’s I worked on this weekend! I did a variety of LO’s – some quickpages from the Lilypad blog hop, Lilypad goodie LO’s and some other fun stuff too! You will notice I am addicted to Karah Fredricks Open Book word bits – they are so great and she didn’t miss a single word I don’t think! I put them on like 3 or 4 LO’s this weekend!

This one is totally not my usual style – I don’t usually “do” fantasy style/extraction LO’s but I got to playing around and did one for some reason.

Hope you all had a great weekend and also hope you have a great week!

MandaKay

Randomness

It's Thursday! For me, that means that tomorrow is the weekend! I love having Friday's off! I can't believe we are almost to the middle of November either! I say it every year, every month, really every week - but time really does fly! I always look forward to Thanksgiving! Kyle's birthday is also in November - the 22nd. But so is hunting - I don't always look forward to that, but oh well. I know Kyle loves it! I am going to a scrapbook overnighter this weekend, so I am looking forward to that! Nice hotel, good food, fellowship, scrapbooking, no kids, it just doesn't get any better than that! My sister Kim and sister-in-law Selena are coming with me - I love them for coming with me! :) We will have a good time I am sure!

We've remained relatively healthy thus far this season, so that is nice. I really am just waiting though for something. My girls have had a slight cough, but nothing more than a cold type cough. They don't seem bothered by it and there are never any other symptoms of anything. I've been trying to get them to bed on time every night so that they get lots of sleep and of course we always stay on course with our vitamins every morning, and then lots of reminders to wash hands! It's so funny to see hand sanitizer now everywhere you go. Every room in church has it, every room at school has it, the stores, my car, my purse, my house, my office. Who knows if it helps, but it's just kind of funny to me! So, I continue to thank God for our continued health, and to ask Him to continue to keep us healthy!

The girls are growing up so fast, it's so fun to watch! I sometimes find it hard to believe that I have a 5 yr. old, a 3 yr. old, and a 2 yr. old. Gracyn - the 2 yr. old is just so much fun! I never really got to enjoy Braelyn and Selah at age 2 because I had a newborn to tend to with both of them. Gracyn is so fun loving and great at playing! Braelyn is doing good in school. Some days she doesn't want to go, but she never really fights it so that is good. I know she likes it when she is there, she is just my child who loves to stay home with Mom or Dad. Selah loves school, the little amount that she is there at least! Selah is also doing gymnastics and she really likes it! Her teacher is fabulous and does really well teaching the little girls lots of things. Selah does a running somersault and lots of little tumbling and balancing things!

Thank you to those of you who hopped over to my blog for iDSD - it was so fun to be involved in a blog hop for The-Lilypad! I was totally intimidated to make a quickpage figuring that no one would want a quickpage from me anyway, so I wasn't going to do it - I was just going to hand out the coupon from Amy, but last minute I decided to make the quickpage off of my LO. It was downloaded almost 200 times - so that is pretty cool! If you downloaded it and create a page with it I would LOVE to see it - I will probably fall right off my chair if I ever see it in a gallery or someones scrapbook!

I guess that's it for today. I hope you all have a great weekend. I am sure I will have lots of LO's to share (at least I hope I get a ton done!) when I pop in next week!

MandaKay

International Digital Scrapbooking Day!!!

This weekend I am definitely celebrating Digital Scrapbooking Day! I have been scrapbooking digitally since fall of 2004. Here was my first LO I ever did digitally:

Things sure have evolved in digital scrapbooking since then! Can’t hardly believe I have been doing this for 5 years! I started out scrapbooking on Dawn Stocstill’s creative team – Miss Hunibuni! Such a fun team. Shortly after being on her team I was asked to be on Amy Martins’s team! And then when Shabby Miss Jenn and Janet Phillips came on the scenes I somehow happened onto their teams! I am so beyond thankful to these gals for their faith in me! I am no longer on Dawn or Janet’s team, but obviously I have been with Amy and SMJ for many years, and now I am on the Creative Team for The-Lilypad store and SMJ store, and I couldn’t be more honored to work with all of the designers goodies! I am so excited as well for how far The-Lilypad has come! This weekend TLP will open up new forums and galleries to anyone and everyone! Post all of your TLP layouts in the gallery and come and hang out in the forums – make it your new home!

Another fun this about this weekend at the pad is the release of the November BYOC! I love the first Friday of the month at the pad! Every month I think the designers just could not possibly outdo the previous months’ BYOC, and then they do. Every. Time! Love it! Here is one of my LO’s with the new BYOC goodies:

And now for the best part!!! If you happened upon my blog thru the first ever TLP Blog Hop – WELCOME! So glad to have you! If you don’t know what a blog hop is, then RUN over to Amy M'.’s blog - that’s the beginning of the blog hop, and at each blog you HOP over to you will receive a freebie of some sort!!! Lot's of quickpages, templates, elements – all great stuff!

Here is the quickpage I am offering:

Look familiar?! It’s based off of the LO I did above using BYOC goodies! Add in your own title and journaling and you have yourself a layout!

Here are the download links.

"If download link 1 does not work, try 2. if 2 does not work, try 3, etc….
DOWNLOAD LINK 1
DOWNLOAD LINK 2
DOWNLOAD LINK 3

DOWNLOAD LINK 4

The next blog you want to hop to is none other than the fabulously brilliant and edgy Rezika! her website is amazing – lots of eye candy to look at there!

And that is not it!!! Amy Martin has given me a coupon to share with those of you who want it!

50% off any order of $4 or more on Amy’s products (code - DSDmarnovty) expires Nov. 8 at midnight, one time use per customer.

I hope you all have a great International Digital Scrapbooking weekend, and don’t forget to check out the TLP new forums and challenges for more freebies!