Merry Christmas, Brooklyn!

I've been collecting American Girl dolls for a little while now, and my great-niece has a couple of them, too (at this time I have 19).  When my mother died, I ended up with her car, which she had piled a bunch of her clothes into.  I didn't want to throw all these things out, since some were brand new with tags, but I didn't want them for myself.  I've been going through them to see which ones I can use to make doll clothes, as I have lots of patterns for 18" dolls.  I found a t-shirt in the prettiest shade of green, and I used my Heritage Ruffled T-Shirt Dress pattern from Liberty Jane to make this cute little dress for Brooklyn.  I ordered her a pair of lime green high top cons to go with it.  So cute!!  I forgot to put the shoes on my Nellie while she was so politely modeling the dress for me.  But that's okay, since she loves boots!  LOL!! 

That's our lovely Daisy checking Nellie out.

Inspired!!

I lurk around a lot of digi scrap sites.  And occasionally I participate in a challenge or two, but it's been quite a while since I was inspired enough to just jump in and scrap.  Actually, it's been almost a year.  It was just before Thanksgiving last year when I found out my mother only had a short time to live, and I spent the last 2 1/2 months of her life with her as much as possible.  Since she passed in January, I just haven't been very creative.


But today I was trolling around at Scrappity-Doo-Dah and came upon the Bird Cage challenge for October 16-31.  The designer for this part of the month is LiseteScrap, and she has provided the cutest little mini kit to create with!  The challenge requires that all pieces of the kit be used in your layout.  If you need a fab mini to scrap Halloween photos with, jump over to Scrappity-Doo-Dah and check out this challenge.  You won't be disappointed!   Here's my layout I created with this wonderful freebie.  You can click on the image to go to the gallery and check out all the creative ways this mini has been used. 

Janey Mac Friday Giveaway---Snooty Bird on a Branch!

If you like vinyl wall art, head on over to Janey Mac's blog and comment for a chance to win this beautiful freebie!

You have until midnight Wednesday EST August 18th to enter.  USA residents only.

IN LOVING MEMORY

At 4:32 am on Sunday, January 17, 2010, I lost my sweet little Mother to her battle with lung cancer. I held her hand and told her I loved her with her last breath.

It's so hard to watch your loved ones slowly slip away from you due to a horrible disease.

She loved her little dog, Bandit, dearly. He has lived with her for over 12 years. Now he lives with me.
I'll miss my Mother forever, but I'm so thankful that she is no longer in pain.

Coffee House Pumpkins

I wanted to make something cute for fall, so I made these little hybrid pumpkins.



Coffee House by Designs by TerrellS (The Espresso Scrap Shoppe) at Divine Digital. Perfect Pumpkin templates by Kelleigh Ratzlaff.

Other Supplies: 3D Crystal Lacquer, Stickles gold, red, and green glitter glue, 18 kt. Gold Leafing Pen, Artistic Wire, Straw Paper Wire, raffia, Micro Beads, Prima paper flower, Making Memories square and round gold brads, silk leaves, and tree stick for the stems.

OUCH!!

Did this to myself at work the other day! Mashed my hand between two rollers going in opposite directions at 1200 rpms! If I hadn't jerked it out with my other hand almost the second it happened, it could actually have popped the end of my finger off, instead of just having to put 10 stitches in it. Didn't break anything either, but it sure felt like it, and is still sore. Doctors said it was just severely bruised. Swelled up twice as big as this the first night, and then the stitches on the left side tried to pop open. If it isn't one thing, it's always another, isn't it? !!

Challenge Layout!

I did this layout of my sweet little great-nephew and great-niece for Kathryn Estry's It's Only Words Challenge at Digitals. You can get this wonderful word art to play with, and if you follow her guidelines for the challenge, you get another goodie! Check out her challenge HERE. And while there, check out my layout HERE. I used her word art, plus her wonderful BB5 Grab Bag (Personal Use). If you love angels and fall colors, you should check out this grab bag. Credits are posted in the gallery with the layout. Leave a little love if you like it........LOL!!

Another Child's Play Freebie!!

Here's another freebie for you that coordinates with Divine Digital's Child's Play kit. Let me know if you like it, and enjoy!! Image is linked.

Child's Play Add On Freebie!

If you liked Divine Digital's charity kit last month, Child's Play, here's a little matching freebie for you. Image is linked.



And if you didn't buy the full kit yet, it's still in Divine's boutique, and only $5.00!! So check it out!



Comments are always welcome! LOL!!

New Great-Nephew!!

I'm a great-aunt again! WooHoo!! Meet beautiful little Carson Thomas. My sister sent this photo to my phone, just 15 minutes after he was born!
Maybe it's just me, but I think he looks just like his big sister when she was born!! LOL!!



Baby Blessings by Team Divine at Divine Digital. Tattered Edges overlay by Shannon Fahrnbach. MotherGoose font.

Blog Design Freebie!

Support "TRIO" for Organ Donation

"Have a Heart"

$5.00 MEGA Kit Collaboration

Divine Digital's February Charity MEGA Kit benefiting

TRIO Foundation (Transplants Recipients International Organization)

and we're excited to bring this kit to our boutique so we can help raise awareness

for organ transplants and the importance of becoming an organ donor.

TRIO is an independent, not-for-profit, international organization committed

to improving the quality of life of transplant candidates, recipients, their families

and the families of organ and tissue donors.

ALL proceeds from the sale of this kit will be donated directly to TRIO in the name of Heart Transplant recipient LINDA HOHL.

I have a new freebie that coordinates with Divine Digital's charity kit for this month. This blog header, button and divider match the blog background I designed for "Have a Heart". If you like this freebie, please consider supporting TRIO by purchasing the complete kit in the boutique. Click on the preview of the blog header to download your freebie.


Click on the preview of the blog background to be taken to Divine Digital's boutique to buy this fabulous kit. Don't forget, you must purchase the full kit in the boutique in order to get the background!

ENJOY, and let me know if you like this set!

Action Testing!!

I tested Wendyzine's new 365 Blog Action over the weekend, and I have to say, it's pretty cool! If you are doing the 365 challenge, this is the perfect action for posting a whole week's worth of photos at once! This action will be in her shop at Scrapbookgraphics soon. In the meantime, check out all of her other great actions, templates, and digital tools here. Thanks, Wendy, for letting me play with this!

New Layout!

November 17th was my adorable little great-niece's second birthday. Her home is in Atlanta, but my sister has thrown her a magnificent party here for the last two years. This year she had a "Wiggles" themed party. My sister went online and bought all sorts of things from ebay and carried them around in her car for weeks! LOL!! She also booked clowns and a magic act, and of course, someone was there in a Wiggles dog suit. All the kids had a great time, but Brooklyn wasn't very keen on the idea of having her face painted. She didn't like the feel of it on her face at all!

I used Fairy's Whisper by Queen of Scraps (Joyce Paul) available at Divine Digital. Tattered overlays by Shannon Fahrnbach. Elegant Word Art by Bethany.

Doghouse Blues

We have five dogs at our house, four of which are rescued dogs. Josie is one of the rescued ones. I was driving home from work one day, when I found her sitting in the middle of the road on the top of Buffalo Mountain. Someone had dropped her off up there. She's the only dog I have ever allowed to stay inside my house, and Saturday morning Danielle burst into my room wanting to know if I could fix her basketball warm up pants. Josie had chewed the whole zipper off one leg, plus torn a hole in her comforter she bought about three weeks ago. Fiberfill was all over her room! Needless to say, Danielle is still pretty upset at her. I haven't been able to find out if I can replace her pants. There's definitely no hope for fixing them!! LOL!! Gotta have a sense of humor when you have animals!!

I used Michelle Swadling's wonderful Abby Princess kit for this layout. It's available HERE at Divine Digital. Dymo alpha by Gunhild. FGTina font.

Stand Up and CARE Freebie!

Here's my last freebie for this wonderful kit! Don't forget to support this great cause by purchasing the full kit in Divine Digital's boutique. Image is clickable for your download. Snag it and ENJOY!

The last of my four free SNAPlets that match Divine Digital's wonderful charity kit for this month, Stand Up and CARE, which will be in the boutique soon. I still have one more freebie for this cause, so stop back in tomorrow! Until then, click on the preview for your goodie, and ENJOY!

Stand Up and CARE Blog Party Freebie!

Today's freebie is another SNAPlet to match Divine Digital's fabulous charity kit for the month of December......Stand Up and CARE-The Girl Effect..........soon to be in the boutique. This blog party is coming to an end soon, so be sure to collect all the freebies, and please help Divine support this wonderful charity by purchasing the full kit!

Click preview for your download, and ENJOY!

Christmas Freebie!

I've been playing around again with a few of the commercial use products that I've been collecting, so this is my gift to you this Christmas.

Click the preview to download, and enJOY!

Stand Up and CARE Freebie!

Here's another freebie to match Divine Digital's wonderful charity kit for this month, "Stand Up and CARE, The Girl Effect". Please check out the video and learn more about this project. The kit will be in the boutique soon, but for now, keep collecting all the fabulous freebies offered by the Divine Digital designers for this fun blog party. And check back here every so often, since I still have more freebies to give out! Click preview for download, and ENJOY!

Stand Up and CARE!

Come party with us this month and help support CARE, whose project is The Girl Effect. Check out this video to learn more about this wonderful cause, and help us help girls!! The wonderful preview above is only part of the huge kit Divine Digital's fantastic designers have put together for this event. The kit will be in the boutique soon, but for now play along with us on the blog party and pick up a few beautiful freebies to match the kit. Below is the blog schedule, so check out the listed designers on their posted days.......and check back here once in a while.....you never know when I will sneak in another freebie!


Click preview for download of your freebie!