Just a short note to say Hi

HI!

Did you all enjoy your holiday and black Friday shopping? I did go out to the stores yesterday, but not til 9 am. I was this close to grabbing the EHD at Target, but gave it back to the cashier since technically I was Christmas shopping. Bath & Body Works had their wallflowers and refills on sale for $5, so I loaded up on those. ToysRUs was by far the worse place. They didn't have what I was looking for in store, so now I'm hoping for Free Shipping for Cyber Monday. Last year I found some really good deals online on Cyber Monday. Let's hope it's the same this year.

Spent most of yesterday trying to get the calendar done. I only have 4 months left. I'd show you what's done so far, but I'm at the other office that has the horrible computer and dsl, it would take all day just to upload 1 of the files. Will finish them off after work today. (Hopefully)

Ok, gotta go open the doors. I'm sure it will be a madhouse today since no one's been here since Wed. Just didn't want to go 3 days without a post. Tomorrow will be back to normal - scrappin and info.

Have a great day!!! Until next time, scrap happy.

Give Thanks - Life is good.

Hi there!



With Thanksgiving coming up tomorrow, I decided to stop for a minute and think about what I have to be thankful for. I think that far most I am thankful I live in a country where I am free and I am thankful of parents whose children are fighting to keep it this way. I wish you peace this holiday season from the bottom of my heart. I am thankful for the family I have now and the love that we share. I am thankful for the roof over my head and the love that it contains, the unconditional love of my two dogs and the "even though we annoy each other we still love each other madly" love of the old man. I am thankful for my health and the ability to make a living. I am thankful for the warm embrace of the scrapping community and the friends I have made here.

Look, I made you a little avatar type thingy. Heather, I'm thankful to you for giving me a chance. Kristine, I'm thankful for you cuz you always make me laugh. Cate and Andrea, I'm thankful for you for your unfailing support of me and reading the blog daily. Yen, I'm thankful for you for sharing yourself so freely on your blog and updating us on your little peanut, I'm glad that I can share that with you. Dawne & Traci, I'm thankful for you for showing that a grand idea can grow if you put enough love into it. Fantacy, I'm so thankful for you for giving me such a warm welcome over at SBB and letting me know it's ok to be new. And Kerry, I'm thankful for you for bugging the heck out of me to see my own potential and getting me into the CT scene. Without you, I wouldn't have 90% of the friends I have now. And if you read my blog on a regular basis I'm thankful to you too. If you haven't stopped by the blogs of these wonderful ladies, take a minute. Each and everyone is talented in their own way.

Ok, on to Black Friday. My favorite subject - Shopping. I'm pretty sure that most everyone is having a sale. Some of the designers over at SBB have already started theirs and I grabbed some great closeout products from Michelle Underwood for dirt cheap. (I mean like $.25 and $1.00) And I know that several of the designers over at OAKS are going to have their store on sale at a ridiculous 50% off on Friday only. The good thing is that there aren't any "doorbuster" sales and you don't have to get up at 4 AM to get the good prices. Just make sure you check it out. OAKS ladies will have their grab bags out too. In the real world, I'm debating as to whether or not I'll get up to try to get some of the "earlybird" sales. It seems that they are opening the stores earlier and earlier each year. I mean Kohl's is opening at 4 AM. And the outlet stores at Jeffersonville are opening at midnight. Unbelievable. I'm thinking Target and ToysRUs may be the only ones I try for early. I've given up on the laptop idea.

Make sure you check out the Humpday Hunnies for their fabulous freebies today!!! Start at Kristine's, she has the link to them all. No one has previews up yet. And while you're out looking, make sure you stop by Andrea's and check out her fab new kit Tickle that will be available at DSO. Don't forget about Heather's PSP actions and great new Christmas kits.

I hope that if you're celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, you can be with your loved ones and you can remember what you're thankful for. Right now, I'll be thankful that I don't have to work on Friday. hehehe

Happy Thanksgiving!! Scrap happy.

Scrappers Block and a little something for you.

Hi all!

Boy have I hit a brick wall in my scrapping. Nothing seems to turn out the way I want it too and I can't get inspired. I have tons of great new products so that's not the problem. Anyone have any words of wisdsom for me to get my mojo back? I need to find it soon, I'm way behind on CT stuff but I just can't send out layouts I don't like or think that are any good just to get the kits seen. I don't think that does the designer justice.

Ok, I wasn't gonna do the Black Friday shopping thing, I hate crowds not to mention getting up at an awful hour to do so, but I found this website - http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/ yesterday and spent half the afternoon checking out stuff for ME. How sad is that. I have nieces and a nephew to shop for and I'm more interested in getting an EHD. Remind me again that Christmas is for the children.

Speaking of Christmas, I had mentioned last week about doing an exchange of some sort amongst friends here. I don't know if it should be a card, kit or regular secret santa exchange. What do you think? And is it something you may be interested in? Let me know.

Heather Manning's having a chat at DST on Wed. night at 11 pm EST. If you missed the last chat, you gotta try to stop by for the hysterical fun. And though it may be late, you don't have to work the next day. bwhahaha Cookin turkey's not work. I'd love to see ya all there.


Ok, here's a few freebies that have been in my computer for awhile. Thought I'd go ahead and bring em out to see if anyone one them.
You can get this Thanksgiving word art here.

And the butterfly overlay here. Special thanks to AfriDigiDiva for use of her butterfly. Please don't share the links with your friends, send them here to get it themselves.

Well, I guess that's about it for today. Don't forget to check out the challenges over at OAKS, Digital Scrap Garden and DSO.

Until next time, scrap happy!
Diane

Back to the scrappin!

Hi there!

Hope that everyone enjoyed their weekend. I still can't believe that Thanksgiving is on Thursday and Christmas is right around the corner. Where has the time gone? Well, between my vacation, my pictures and my football team, I've kinda gotten off track with the tone of my blog. It hasn't focused on digiscrapping for awhile now. I'm working on getting that back under control. It's kinda helping that I'm getting a chance to scrap a little bit more.

Here are some fantastic new products from Heather Manning. I'm really loving her new Christmas kits and hoping to get a chance to play with them asap. Maybe even redesign my blog header with em? And look at her new grab bag especially for designers. I love the fact that

she gives you a look at what you're getting in her grab bags. I like surprises, but not in everything. All previews are clickable, so go check em out. (after you finish reading.)

One of the challenges over at OAKS is a brag book exchange. The kit for the second half of the month is by Jennifer Barrette and is 1/2 off until the end of the month. Here's 2 pages I did

for the exchange. The first half of the month exchange got more than 40 pages. I bet that this one gets even more. You can find out more about the challenge here.

Have you gotten this fab collab. kit yet? It's free!!! All you have to do is to join Dawne, Traci & Nita over at the Digital Scrap Garden. The girls have been working so hard to get the site going and they're doing a fantastic job. They also have great challenges going on this month. Stop by and say hi and join up. It's a terrific place and wonderful kit.

Don't forget that Andrea is joining the crazy ladies over at DSO the 26th of this month. I'm looking forward to seeing what she's got cooking for them. I know that she'll do great there, Kristine, Kim and Bunny are good people who are experts at making me laugh.

Also look for new holiday kits from Fantacy (Scrappin Hillbilly Sweetpea Designs) and Kelli (Tallula Moon Designs) to be featured here soon (or as soon as I get my hands on them.) Also I'll try to have a list of Black Friday sales. I know that OAKS is having one.

Ok, lastly here's a lo I did today

. There's just something about a sleeping child that is so precious. Click to see credits. I still need to get the callendar finished. I'm having issues with getting the pictures, I had to email them to myself from work and download them here. It's taking forever.

In case you were wondering, Ohio State won the game on Sat. against Michigan and are the Big Ten Champs and most likely heading to the Rose Bowl in Passadena on New Years Day. Go Bucks.

Until next time, scrap happy!!!!!!