It’s Wednesday night already?

Well, Monday morning wasn’t so bad.  My DS was thrilled to be at school and I was too busy all day to worry about him (much).  However I had a mommy’s worst nightmare when his bus arrived at my school and he wasn’t on the bus.  Long story, but basically the driver looked at the address on the my son’s bus tag (not the huge extra large black printing that said he was going to my school!) and refused to take him.  Never mind that the information was there staring him in the face.  Never mind that the address was for a different town – so obviously no bus goes there.  All this happened in front of the superintendent of the school district too.  Needless to say the bus company reps have been extremely nice to me for the past two days and the driver has taken very good care of my little boy since then. 

My son however was awesome.  He just did what the adults told him to do.  He said he wasn’t scared because he knew I would come get him but he was sad because he had been looking forward to riding the bus.  Now that he’s rode the hot bus for two days I think he wishes he didn’t have to ride the bus from one school to another.

I did have time last weekend to play with an awesome new kit by Dani Moy Designs called Dot Dot Dot.  I used it for a speed scrap at ESS and much to my surprise this layout was chosen as LOTD!  I am so flattered!

It’s late and I’m falling asleep typing this so I guess I need to call it a night especially since 5:30 comes so early for this non-morning person.  Thanks for dropping by!  Leave me a little message and I’ll swing by your blog.

Happy Monday

As some of you read this I’ll be back at work with a bunch of new students walking through my door.  I am finally at the point where I’m excited about starting a new year.  When I wasn’t feeling that way a week ago I was worried.   I think it was the combination of knowing I’m going to miss spending a lot of time with my own children, knowing I’m going to miss chatting as often with several scrapping friends (live for the weekend right?), and still recovering from a tough year last year.  But on Thursday night it hit me full force.  All it took was seeing a few of my returning 2nd graders who all ran up and gave me a big hug while their parents looked on (some with a confused look as to say “Who is this woman my child is hugging?”) and then hearing the kids turn and say “This is my music teacher!” 

Their excitement must have been contagious because even though it was a 13 hour day I went home with a smile on my face and a song in my heart.  Tomorrow I get to start meeting all my new 1st grade kiddos and relearn all my 2nd graders names.  704 at last count, but this year is going to be a good year.  Now will one of you remind me of that when I post tomorrow night about crying through the first hour or so of my day because I had to walk my little boy to his Kindergarten class and LEAVE him?  Where did time go?

Now on to the scrapping part of this post…you knew there was suppose to be that right?  Scraps of Ellay has a new kit going straight to her store today called Guinevere’s Beauty.  I had a great time working with this kit and I think you will too.

I have some other layouts to share a  little later in the week.  This week will still be kind of on the slow side because we’re all trying to settle into our school routine but don’t give up on me.  I’ve been working on something really cool and it’ll be coming your way pretty soon!

Still around

I’m still here!  Barely.  Last week I had to enter the work world again with school starting back up.  This week is crazy busy and I’ve let some things sneak up one me.  Once school and my family life settles into a routine I’ll be able to get back to a more regular blog post schedule.

Speaking of school, Stuff to Scrap started a Back to School Sale today.  Click on the flier to be taken off to the store.

Before you go though Scraps of Ellay has a new kit available for free this week only on her blog called Gypsy.

Beautiful isn’t it?  If you click on the preview you’ll go straight to her blog where you can pick up the papers today.

Here’s a layout I did with this kit.  My little girl isn’t so little anymore.  While we were at the lake the last time this summer I was able to catch her just gazing out across the water.  At that time I wondered just what she was thinking about.  She looked so at peace, something hard to come by anymore.

There is a Speed Scrap at Stuff to Scrap tomorrow hosted by Jamie of Every EverAfter Moment Designs. 

I’m pretty sure I have a couple more layouts and goodies to share with you.  I’ll be back as soon as I can with those.  Until then you all have a lot of fun scrapping.  I’ll be catching up on the weekends. 

Hidden blessings

Sad to say it’s my last free Friday for a long time.  Yes, summer is over and it’s time to get back into the school routine.  I’m going to miss my off and on days of scrapping.  I think this has taken on a whole life of it’s own.

I’m feeling a little nostalgic today, not about school starting exactly, but then again, maybe it is in a way.  Something just hit me as I started this post.  Last night I just happened to check my email right before heading off to bed and there was a message informing me that someone wanted to be added as a friend on Facebook.  Facebook is one of those things I had put off as long as I could but found to be necessary recently.  I didn’t recognize the name and thought I would just go on for a minute to check them out and send a note if needed (long boring story behind that).  Anyway, I checked on the person’s profile to see if I could figure out the link to how this person knew me.  Her profile photo looked familiar but I wasn’t sure and the name, the name just didn’t ring a bell!  All the sudden I realized who it was!  She was my very best friend in elementary school.  We were inseparable from Kindergarten until 5th grade.  We had kept in touch through High School but then our adult lives took us in different direction. 

It was just by accident that we reconnected.  Amazing really.  We started chatting last night, catching up on life, 17 years worth.  It was an emotional time for both of us, right now I’m tearing up just thinking about it.  But the point I’m trying to make is this.  You may only be in a person’s life for a moment, a minute, an hour, or a lifetime.  Those moments, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years all mean something.  Make the most of them.  You never know what impact you will have on their lives.

I’ve met some amazing women through this world of digi-scrap.  Many of you I consider great friends.  You have touched my life in many ways.  For some of you this time may be fleeting, with some of you this may be a lifetime journey of incredible friendship.  To all of you I want to say, “Thank you for being who you are.  I am glad our paths have crossed and may they cross many many more times.  May God richly bless each and everyone of you.”

Be a light in someone’s life.  You’ll get a blessing from it, I promise.

Looking for a little Romance?

A+ Designs has a brand new kit in her store today that is sure to conjure up images of sweet fleeting moments.  Check it out!

Beautiful and so much fun to work with!  The kids, DH, and I went on a little family outing the other day.  I love catching them in those unguarded moments.  When I opened Mel’s kit I thought of this right away.

Want the template I based this layout on?  It’s part of A+ Designs Templistic: KaBOOM! set.  She has another set out today called Templistic: Mix It Up.  If you hurry you can catch Mix It Up for $1.00.  Then again all her template sets are on sale for $1.25 each.  I keep coming back to her templates they are just fabulous!

There’s a speed scrap tonight at ESS hosted by Mel.  She has an adorable mini-kit for your participation prize that is sure to tickle your imagination!  New time for the speed scrap 9EST/8CST. 

See you around digi-land!

Templates are my best friend

Sometimes you just need a little push to get you going.  When that happens I turn to my stash of fabulous templates.  AmyM Designs @ SDD is the template queen.  Last month I got to be a guest on her CT and I loved every minute of it!  You’ve seen a lot of the layouts I did with her great templates but I have a whole lot more.  I can’t share some of them quite yet (hurry up Polka Dot Plum and open already!!) but here is a layout I just finished up the other day using one of her templates that she’s giving away this month at SDD in the Daily Download thread.

I used Gavin’s Toy Box collab by A+ Designs and Dani Moy Designs for this one.

Here’s layout I did using another one of her templates you can pick up this month for free.

Remember this one using Scraps of Ellay’s new kit Greased Lighting?  I used Aimee’s Style #4 for it.

If you’ve been reading through my blog during the month of July you saw even more of Amy’s templates.  Are you a designer who wants to add some QP’s to sell with your kits or as and add on bonus to your kits?  Well I have great news for you!  AmyM has changed her TOU’s to make all her template packs CU!  Not only that but she’s having a 50% off sale from now until August 15th while she is in the designer spotlight at SDD.  Check out her store and stock up!

Great kits all around

Scraps of Ellay has a new kit inspired by the musical Grease.  I’ve been working with this kit for the past couple of weeks because I made her a new blinkie with it and then you’ve probably noticed that all her CT is sporting a new matching blinkie too.  I had so much fun making the blinkies.

Then I got caught up in using her kit for a few challenges around digi-land.  It was just the perfect kit to match two of the scrap-a-thon challenges at ESS last weekend. 

Then I used it for a Speed Scrap this week at STS.

You can pick up this fabulous kit @ SOE’s STS Store.  It is 25% off until August 15th.  There are also matching flairs, glitters, and QP’s for sale too! 

I know I said I would be back to show you more layouts that I did over the last 2 weeks.  These are 3 of them.  The ESS scrap-a-thon had 12 challenges and I did 12 layouts in 3 days.  It was insane!  2 of the layouts for today were from then.  Here’s another one I did for the challenges:

I used a new kit by A+ Designs called Bugganopolis for that layout.  You can pick it up here @ her ESS store.  I also used a set of her templates called Templistic: Mix It Up.  That should be in her store soon.

Oh!  If you like some of the fonts I’ve been using a lot of them are Pea Fonts.  I love Pea fonts!  I just can’t get enough!  You can browse and pick out your favorites at Fonts For Peas.

Another kit I worked with last week was a collab by Dani Moy Designs and TrishH Designs called Color My World: Eggplant.  It is a stunning kit!

You can pick this kit up at Dani Moy’s store @ ESS.

Caught up?  Not quite.  I have a new kit by Every EverAfter Moment Designs that I’ll show you in a little while when I finish up the layout I’m working on.  I hope that some of this inspired you to go out in digi-land.  All the sites have new challenges up so there’s plenty to play with. 

I almost forgot!! Do you like templates?  I love templates and I know a way you can pick up 10 brag book templates and 4 12 X 12 templates.  Each day this month AmyM Designs will be giving away a template at SDD in the daily download thread.  Her templates are fabulous!  Here is the direct link to the Daily Download thread at SDD.  You’ll also be picking up a cute kit by Yvonne at the same time.  Two great freebies for just stopping by!

Enjoy your scrapping goodies and stop back by!  Like what you see?  Inspired to check these awesome designers out?  Tell them I sent you by.  :)  Or just say “Hi!” right here.  I sure would like to know you dropped by.

Keep on looking

I’m going to be making several blog posts today (maybe into tomorrow).  I realized that I have not updated and there’s a lot that’s been going on the past couple of weeks.  I have lots of layouts to share but I’ll post them in another post.

I want to share this awesome gift that SuzyQ Scraps has for you though.  You’ll have to visit her blog to get the details of how you can pick up her new kit Celebrate for free.  Yes, I said FREE!  We’re all chomping at the bit for SuzyQ’s new store to open, I know you all need your SuzyQ fix.  I feel so lucky to be on her CT and I’ve been getting to work with the fabulous kits and collections she’s gotten finished for the new store.  It’s driving me nuts that I can’t share my layouts quite yet!!  I have them just sitting on my EHD for the day when we can post them.

Want it?  Then head over to SuzyQ Scraps blog to find out how to get it!

I’ll be back so check back in a bit!