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New Digital Scrapbook Pages

This one is from Shae's birthday we took her to ride the Wild Woody Racetrack on the strip in Pigeon Forge, TN

This last one if my new desktop on my computer.

I made these new Digital Scrapbook Pages with recent pictures from our trip to the Smoky Mountains.

My Newest Obsession

. . . Ribbon Covered Clothespins. Here are a few pictures of the ones that I made yesterday.

These are covered with vintage ribbons that I have collected over the years. I seend to have gotten so carried away making them that I have so many now I put a few in my etsy shop.

I Won I won

I won, I won. Blog candy from Splashes of Watercolors. I won a $10 rubbernecker stamps gift certificate. I will have to look a little more, I had wanted Tim Holtz's clear embelishment tiles, but I might just have to get one of the Tim Holtz's stamps.

Who is yout Celebrity Soulmate

. . . . . mine is

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Take this quiz and post it on your blog, then place a link to my blog in your post and leave me a comment with a link to your blog post and I will enter you in my blog candy contest. If you leave a comment I will enter you once, if you take the quiz and then post a link to my blog, and leave me a link to your blog I will enter you 3 times. I will post a picture of the prize later tonight. You have until Friday, Feb. 29, 2008 at midnight to enter. I can't wait to take a trip around the blogs to see who is your celebrity soulmate. As seen here.

Layouts of the Day

I did not realize that I had not posted the past few layouts that I have made. I have them posted in my scrapbook galleries, but I forgot to post them here. Please let me know what you think I really would love some feedback on these. Thanks so much in advance for your replies.

A New Layout

I just finished this new layout and I wanted to share. This one is from my vacation back in September. I go on a Ladies' Retreat with the ladies from our church for a week every year to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is another layout using only the freebes from Designer Digitals.com.

A couple of new pages

I am having so much fun with Digital Scrapbooking. Here is a page that I created using only freebees from Designer Digitals. I am trying to see how many different pages that I can make out of these freebees. There are 48 different sets of downloads and I think that just using these I will be challenging myself. I will be uploading them here as I finish them. I hope to be able to make at least double this number, by mixing these kits. This is one of my favorite sayings. I really want to paint it as a border in my bedroom. I think that this is something that you should always do to your children every night. The years when they want a goodnight kiss is so fleeting that I feel like I need to take advantage of it while I can.

My next page uses Anastasia's favorite quote. " I love you to the moon and back", when ever she tells me that she loves me she will say that to me, and I love if when she says it.

The Camera's Back

I found my camera cord so I can finally post my pictures. So be warned this will be a picture heavy post.

Here are a few of the cards that I have made over the past few weeks. The first two were welcome back cards for the girls teachers. I made them little bags of nugget candy with welcome back on the lables and a card each. I used stamps from a kit that I bought at Michael's it was a huge collection that came with ribbon, ink pads, chalk, wood mounted stamps, markers, paper, stickers, and more. The paper for these cards is All Dressed Up and I used a 1 1/2 in scallop circle punch, with a 1 inch circle layered on top.

The letter stamps that I used for this card are from all night media, the brads are making memories, the stickers are from hobby lobby, and paper is just a blue scrapbook cardstock, I inked the bottom section with distressing ink from the making memories distressing kit.

It is getting late so I will post a few more pictures tomorrow.

Gingerbread and Christmas Cleaning

Today has been spent cleaning out my cabinets and my counters and getting it set up for the luncheon that we are hosting on Christmas Eve.

Here is a picture of our gingerbread house that we made last week. We had to decorate the roof flat while the rest of the house parts dried.

Shae and I also made a batch of Peppermint Bark. She got to use the hammer to crush the candy canes and she loved it. This is the recipe that I use. It is my own and I really like the way it tastes.

12 oz of vanilla bark

12 candy canes crushed

4 drops of peppermit extract

Melt the vanilla bark in the microwave until smooth in 15 sec. spirts. Mix in candy canes and extract. Spread on parchment paper on a cookie sheet and chill to harden. Then breakup into pieces. enjoy

A Post a Day for November

I am going to try to make a post a day for this month.

The subject of todays post is my dream to go skydiving. I have been dreaming about this for the past couple of years. I have wanted to do it longer than that but I started doing reasearch about 2 years ago and this summer I started visiting Dropzones, (this is what the skydiving centers are called), There are two within driving distance of my home.

The most popular one is almost two hours away, at over 90 miles away, it is called The Farm or Skydive the Farm. I liked the way it was laid out and how open the area is, but the drive adds alot more to the cost of the jumps. If it were closer I would do my jumps there.

The other one is called SkyDive Atlanta, it is only 50 miles away, it is located at an airport, so the only area to land is in the middle of the runway. They are very nice there, but the only drawback is they are about $$ more than The Farm but with the gas savings I guess that I will have to do my first jump there. I really wanted to make the first jump this year but the season is ending here as it is getting cooler. I guess I will have to wait until next spring.

I might have to go to the Thanksgiving Boogie which is a jump all day event and the price is lower for jumps and tandems. I have put some links in this post if anyone is interested checking out the info an skydiving. I also thought I might use these post to share some of the Many Layers of Me. Please let me know what you think. I hope with the daily post I will draw some of the lurkers our of hiding and get a few comments.

School Starts

It seems like only yesterday that Anastasia graduated kindergarten and now this Friday is the first day of school for both of my girls. Shae starts kindergarten this year and Anastasia will begin 1st grade. I guess I have to let them grow up. Shae, told me today that I will have fluffy to keep me company, so I do not have to be lonely.

We took the girls the park to let them ride their bikes, they had so much fun and then we took the to the playground and where they both decided to start acting like monkeys.

We had so much fun today, we went to one park and then to the walking track that is about 5 miles from our house, it borders a river and is very beautiful but not much shade so we only stayed there for about 15 min before we went home.

A new image

When I went on my plane ride this weekend I also got some shots of one of the Tandem jumps and I am playing with it in photoshop to make it an image that I can screenprint on some bags and maybe a t-shirt. Let me know what you think. I am still playing around with it, but you can see that there is 2 people being supported by this chute. (The image below is from the above photo.)

A Fun Ride Today

• I went for a ride today in a Super King Air. At Skydive Atlanta, in Thomaston, GA


• This is a jump plane and I got to ride up to jump altitude which is 10000 feet we would have gone up to 14000 but we ran in to rain at 10000 feet and most jumped at 9500 feet. I was one of 14 on board and they say the pilot will normaly do a nose dive after the last jumper makes their exit but he went easy on me, so I enjoyed the trip.


• I got a little woozy but I think it was because I was riding facing the back of the plane.