He's baaaack & some enabling

Let's do the enabling first. That's so much more fun than reading about my life. Kiki Halbert just released a new kit over at PDW called Fierce. If you've got a rebel or a rocker girl, this is the kit for you.

Check out all the tribal elements. And the papers are awesome!!!!

Combine the papers from Fierce with her Wasted Walls paper pack and you've got everything you need for those masculine pages or if you need papers rich with textures and dark backgrounds these are for you. Look at how I used them.

Elements from Jofia Designs, Natali Designs & Birgit Kerr.
This photo is one Shannon took while at Panama City. The journaling is from a Bob Dylan song. The glitter is by Flergs.

Cherie Shields has some great new items over at Gotta Pixel. I'm getting ready to pick them up today, so hopefully I'll have something to show you a little later on. I just love Cherie's frames.

And the pages I've seen her other CT members do with her new Beautiful Soul are gorgeous!!! Love the greens, and so right for the upcoming spring season.

Ok, something really weird is going on at work. I can now read blogs at work, but I can't leave any comments. So if you're a regular here and a regular at the DST blog train, then I want to assure you that I've been stopping by, I just haven't necessarily gotten back on the computer after work to leave a comment. I know the comments are the important part. Now that Shannon's back, he's a bit more demanding of my time and really doesn't "get it". I'm hoping that now I have some pictures from him to scrap, he'll leave me alone some, but I'm not holding my breath. He should be back to work in about a month, which will help. Don't get me wrong, I love him, but he's a total pita sometimes.

Well, gotta jump in the shower and head into work. I had a customer go off on my yesterday cuz the old lady wasn't doing her job right, so it could be a battle royale today. If not, I'm reading The Other Boylen Girl, which is pretty good. Doubt I'll rush out to see the movie though. Anyway, have an awesome day. It's one day closer to the weekend and the kids coming down. yeah!!!!!

Monday, Monday

Yea! It's 55 degrees outside right now. And it's 7 AM. It's supposed to get into the mid 60's today with rain later on tonight. Of course nothing lasts forever and it's supposed to snow again tomorrow. I'd say only in Ohio, but I believe it's really only in the Midwest. I'm truly hoping that the snow that we're supposed to get later on this week is the LAST snow of the year. I'm ready for daffadils and tulips. After all, it's March.

Speaking of March, tomorrow is the primary here for Ohio. If you'd have said 6 weeks ago that Ohio could be the deciding factor on the Democratic ticket, I think a lot of people would have laughed. And then a lot of people thought that having the Ohio primary so far back was pointless. Well it may be for the Republican's. I think that McCain's got the nomination all sewed up. All I can say is I'll be glad not to have to watch all those political commercials again for a few months. Talk about OVERkill. I'm so glad that I have Tivo and will be using it this summer to fast forward past all those commercials.

Ok, on to business. Do you like scraplift challenges? Well, over at Heather Manning's CT blog, I'm running the first of the March challenges. No more coloring inbetween the lines. Scribble and doodle all you want. Check it out here.

And here's my lift. I've never done a scribbly page before, so it was a little bit of a stretch. Frame & other doodles you can pick up in Heather's store. The paper is from her Dirty Snow paper pak.


And Cherie Shields released a new kit at Sophia Sarducci's. Sogni Dolci or Sweet Dreams for those like me who's Italian is limited to pizza toppings. Here are 2 layouts I did with her new kit.


And don't forget about Kiki Halbert's new fabulous paper pack, Wasted Walls. Terrific for those masculine papes, but works great with the girls too. See Em being a Rock Star. The foil elements are by Kiki too, Foil Flourishes & Foiled Again. All are available at Plain Digital Wrapper.



I FINALLY got my Shutterfly Christmas book all done. I know that no one is in the mood to see cutesy Christmas layouts, but you just gotta see these. I've gotta be the only person still buying Christmas kits in late Feb.But I'm glad I finally broke down and picked up Jofia's Warm Christmas. So much fun with this kit. And the alpha is glitter by Flergs. I finally figured out how to load it, lol.
And the last page of the book, us all playing my nephew's game, he didn't get to play it for a few days. lol.
And I among many others, went nuts for Flerg's birthday and here's one of the pages I did. Something about sleeping babies just touches the heart.

Hope you all have a wonderful day! I'm going to enjoy the warm up, even if it's only temporary.

Winter weather warning for only 3 inches of snow?

I've decided that the weather forecasters in my area all need new jobs. For the second time in 2 weeks they've forecasted doom & gloom in the amount of heavy snowfall. The local news last night showing everyone rushing to the grocery store to stock up on supplies. I get up this morning, all the schools in the area are closed. (man, I want a snow day too) And there is about 3 inches of snow on the ground. 3 inches is not a "Winter Storm Warning" amount worth getting upset over. Just ask Cate (hehe). So now the freeways and roads will be in a tangle and what would normally take 15 minutes tops will take 45 at least. It's like a little bit of snow turns everyone's brains to mush and they forget how to drive. There were back ups on the freeway at 6 am already. I just hope we don't get the freezing rain they're predicting.

Check out the new elements to play with from Cherie Shields. They're all available at her store at Gotta Pixel. Isn't that alpha just the cutest. And I love the beads. And keep an eye out for a beautiful new kit coming to Sophia Sarducci next week.

I scrapped some last night, but got stuck on a title. I've got it posted for a little bit of help and CC on a board. Hopefully someone will come up with a terrific title for me. Mine's horrible and must be changed. I just looked and there is a few awesome ideas so I'm sure it will change again.



There will be an awesome new challenge posted tomorrow on Heather's CT blog. Just curious, what do you look for when you're selecting a challenge to do? (Cate, don't answer this one, lol). How much of it's for the actual challenge itself. Do you prefer ones that stretch your limits or do you prefer simplicity? Do you do the challenges based on the participation bonuses or gifts? I'm just checking. Any info would be appreciated.



Well, off to work early, since it's gonna be a long 5 mile drive. Hope you all stay warm wherever you are and scrap happy.