Allison-Kindergarten Scrapbook

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Lots to Do! But it's a good thing.

Lately I have been adding more and more to my to do list. I have taken on more and more and quiet frankly I'm loving it. I love being busy and doing stuff that makes me happy. Scrapping makes me super happy and just working with any kind of design is a lot of fun for me even if it's a challenge. This year like I mentioned in earlier blogs I've taken on the role of assistant yearbook cordinator at my daughter's elementary school. I started the year thinking I'd just see how I liked working on the yearbook, and really just found my passion and what I want to do as a PTA mom/volunteer. So next year I will be the head cordinator. I'm excited and a little scared, but I know I can do this. Aside from yearbook stuff I've also managed to juggle life and my scrapping. I have recently been making a lot of freebies for Scrapping Artistry's blog and also some from Forever Sisters Scraps. I enjoy this part of scrapping, because lets face it we all get bored from time to time with our stuff. It's fun making things for others to use. To add to this on Sunday during the Superbowl halftime I hosted a speed scrap for Missy's Bits and it was a blast. So next week I've teamed up with Robyn Pali from Forever Sisters Scraps and have scheduled a Facebook Speed Scrap on her page that I will be hosting. I'm looking forward to it. So please come join us.



Tuesday, Tuesday...Boring Day Tuesday

After last week's deadlines to get 40 of our 80 pages submitted for my daughter's school yearbook, I have been lazy yesterday and today. I got a little more caught up with some of the scrapping I put off last week.

If you haven't seen it Robyn Pali's got a great new Valentine's themed kit out called "Forever & Always", it is onsale right now for $1.

I also made a freebie Facebook Timeline Banner using this kit that Robyn is offering for free if you "like" her Facebook page and click on her exclusive tab. Go to Robyn Pali Designs right now and "like" her page. 

Oops, I forgot to blog last week. I've already broken my News Year's Resolution. Oh well, I'm here now and ready to share some really exciting new things with you. First, I'm excited to share with you that two of my favorite Designers are hosting a CT call. I love this team they are so laid back and really fun to work with. So get your emails in to these great ladies and I can't wait to see who joins this great team.

Also a new kit is making it's way to Robyn's boutique soon. So be looking for it over at Divine Digital.

Here are some of my newest layouts I've made lately. Also be sure to be on the look out for new freebies I'll be offering soon.

Using Robyn Pali's Kit : Springster

Using KS Designs Kit: I Love Reading

Using My4Princesses Designs kit: So Sassy

Tuesday Taco Dip & New Scraps

Today I prepared a new appitizer dip from something I found on Pinterest for my MOPS group tomorrow morning. It is yummy!!

Skinny Taco Dip by Skinny Taste

 Skinny Taco Dip
Servings: 24 • Serving Size: 1/24th of dip • Old Points: 1.5 pts • Points+: 2 pts
Calories: 59.2 • Fat: 3.6 g • Protein: 2.2 g • Carb: 4.7 g • Fiber: 0.6 g

• 8 oz 1/3 less fat Philadelphia cream cheese
• 8 oz reduced fat sour cream
• 16 oz jar mild salsa
• 1 packet taco seasoning
• 2 cups iceberg lettuce, shredded
• 2 large tomatoes, diced
• 1 cup reduced fat shredded cheddar cheese
• 2.25 oz black olives,

In a large bowl combine cream cheese, sour cream, salsa and taco seasoning and mix well with an electric mixer. Spread on the bottom of a large shallow glass dish. Top with shredded lettuce, tomatoes, shredded cheese and black olives. Serve with baked tortilla chips

I aslo want to share with you a couple of new kits from a few of my favorite designers:

Eskimo Kisses by My4Princesses Designs

My Layout using this kit

Template Set #4 by Robyn Pali

 

Merry & Bright by Robyn Pali

My Layout using both Template Set #4 & Merry & Bright

Weekend in the Country

This past weekend we took the girls and went on a weekend get away in the country at my sister-in-law's company's hunting ranch. It was a great weekend and the girls enjoyed their time playing with their cousins and being spoilled by their aunt and grandparents. We enjoyed our time there to. Keith got to go hunting Saturday morning and I went to sit in the stand with him that evening. My first time to ever sit in a deer stand and boy was it boring...lol! We didn't see any deer even after the feeder went off. We saw a few deer on the way back to the house, but no luck getting one this time.

Today we had lot of rain here in Houston, thankfully are part of town wasn't too bad. I have officially lost my umbrellas and I prayed we would make it to school and back without getting wet. Thankfully, both times for drop of and pick up we didn't get too wet.

Long, long day!

Today was Allison's first day back to school after the Christmas Break. I expected the day to start out rough and it did. For some reason, I guess from excitement, Allison woke up at 3:45 this morning and couldn't go back to sleep. She tried then came back and crawled in bed with us at 5 a.m. I got very little sleep. She was in a great mood though and was ready for school by 6 a.m. so I curled back up in bed for another hour while she watched cartoons. After she went to school Maycie and I went back to my bed to relax and stay warm since it was a cold morning. When we got up we went to pick up my mom for her doctor's appointment. It was a nice visit with my mom today. Allison got home from school and went to the dollar store with my mom. I managed to sweep and mop the floors today and tidy up Allison's room and move some furniture from Maycie's room to Allison's room. All and all today was a pretty productive day. Oh we managed a trip to Wal-mart too.

Last Day of Christmas Break

Today was Allison's last day off for Christmas Break. We've had a great 2 weeks. I'm not looking forward to tomorrow morning and getting up early to get her ready for school. Keith has also been off almost the entire time and goes back tomorrow as well. Today I treated Allison out and kept to my promise of taking her to see Alvin and The Chipmunks:Chipwrecked. We had such a great time on our little date. The movie was probably the best one they've made so far. So funny! I'm sure gonna to miss her company this week as we adjust to live with her back in school. It will be much quieter for sure. At least I have Maycie to keep me company during the day.

Here are some pictures from our day.

Happy New Year!!

I have been such a bad blogger. This year I am going to make a resolution to "try" harder to post at least once or twice a week. I'd like to do this mainly to recap my week so that when I go to scrap those all important moments in life I can have something to go back to and remember everything for the date. I've been working so hard with my 6 year old daughter to write in her journal for her first grade class and while helping her I've realized I really need to work on a journal for myself since most of my scrapbook layouts 'lack' journaling. So here we go.

Today: January 1, 2011....
Today started out with snuggle time with my Maycie bug. I love these mornings and her snuggling close to me after she wakes up and we lay back down in my bed for awhile. Allison woke up excited this morning telling me all about her night after she went to bed and her opening her window blinds so she could lay in bed and watch all the fireworks going off outside on New Years Eve. She described every color she saw and then decided to draw a picture of them and write in her 1st grade journal. After breakfast we went outside to let  Allison ride her bike. Maycie tried riding her tricylce too. It was a beautiful day. After riding her bike we went to Keith's parents house and ate lunch. A little ham, black-eyed peas, & cabbage for our New Year. Keith and I then took Maycie to have her stitches out. Maycie didn't let the nurses hold her down, she had to be restrained...lol. It really only took a few minutes, but being so young and after the trama of having the stitches put in the other night I think she just wanted nothing to do with the ER. After that we came home for awhile and let Maycie nap. Allison made a pot holder with her new weaving kit and Keith finished taking the tree down. When Maycie woke up we took the girls to the park and out to eat at Little Mexico (Allison's favorite). Today was a great day, minus Allison's hour or so of whining about everything, I think she was just really tired this afternoon.

Pinterest

OMG. I signed up for a Pinterest account and am so addicted. If only I could find time to do half the crafts I've pinned on my bulliten board..LOL!

However, I did get a scrapbook layout done yesterday using My 4 Princesses Designs newest kit Periplum and I found the inspiration from a layout I saw on Pinterest.

Here is my newest layout, love the colors in this kit.

Here is the Periplum Kit

You can buy it HERE for 50% off at $1.50 until Monday, 10/10/11

Dressed Up Fun

Last month my oldest daughter had a sleep over with her 2 bff's. That night we gave the girls make-overs and had them dress up in pretty dresses. Allison loved it and was all into it, which is odd for her. So after taking a few pics I've made a new layout for her scrapbook this year.

For this layout I used Sweet Princess by  My 4 Princesses Designs

Find it Here

New Endeavors in My Life

I have been neglecting my blog for so long. Life has been hectic and I've been taking on more and more responsibilty lately. All for the good though, I'm finally enjoying what life is throwing my way. So what are the new endeavors in my life you ask? Well I've decided that I'm going to start getting more involved in different things going on in my life. I've joined the steering (leadership) team in my MOPS group after being in this MOPS group for 4 years and I'm loving it. I'm also getting more involved in my daughter's elementary school, by joining the yearbook commitee this school year. I'm enjoying so much by getting to go to my daughter's school and take pictures of events and just be involved.

So what have I been doing in scrapbooking lately? I've finished my youngest daughter's first year scrapbook album and make a lot of amazing layouts using the great products from my CT's.

Right now you should go over to Scrapping Artistry's Blog for lots of freebies and a chance to win MyMemories Software.

Maycie Grace's First Year Digi-Scrapbook

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Freebie Friday

I have been so busy this summer I haven't had a lot of time to do much with this blog or scrapping. Since I've been slacking I thought I'd offer some QP's I made using some great kits from the CT's I scrap for. Hope you enjoy, and be sure to check out the designer's shops for some other great kits and sales going on right now.

First a QP I made this week using Robyn Pali's new kit Elegance. This is a great kit that can be used in many ways for different pages. I love the color palette she used it's so versatile.

Get it Here for FREE

Buy the entire kit in Robyn's Boutique for 30% off

If you are looking for something a little brighter & fun for summer check out Robyn's kit Beautiful

And here is my QP Freebie using this kit.

Also new in My 4 Princesses' Boutique is her kit Serendipity

Get it for 30% off today

Here is my layout I made last week using this great kit.

Forever Sister's has also opened their boutique at Divine Digital be sure to stop by and get 50% off



Crazy Couple of Weeks & New Scrapping Layout

It has been forever since I've been here and boy it's been crazy around here. First, Friday two weeks ago I noticed we had water under our laminate wood flooring in my hallway when I went to bed that night. So we turned the water off that night (being it was 11 p.m. and no way to find the source that late at night) and went to bed. Saturday morning I woke up and the water had spread into my bedroom and livingroom area along with the hallway. So we started searching for the problem. After a complete day of searching and cutting holes in some of the walls in my guest bathroom we found the problem was a plugged up p-trap for our a/c unit. The builder had plumbed the secondary overflow tray incorrectly and caused the water from the plugged up primary pan to leak down the pipe into my guest bathroom and run under the wall going into my hallway and livingroom. BIG MESS!!
Here are a few pictures of the damage:

Bedroom

Livingroom

Livingroom again

We finally have everything dried out and my flooring is replaced in the livingroom, but my bedroom is still in need of new flooring since we used everything good in there to fix the livingroom.

I haven't had much time to really sit down and just blog. We have been going here and there a lot the past 2 weeks. I'm so exhausted, but it's really been fun.

Yesterday I sat down and actually scrapped a page for my CT teams and so I wanted to share that with everyone. I have a QP I made last week, but haven't had time to upload it for downloads. I hopefully soon will be able to get to that it is on my desktop computer though and I'm not there right now. :)

For now I'll just share my zoo layout using My 4 Princesses Designs kit Zoo-tastic and a template by Robyn Pali Designs Template Set #1.

Here is the preview of the kit. Click preview to buy it in her store at Divine Digital.

Preview of the Template Set #1 from Robyn Pali Designs found at Divine Digital (click here to buy)

Also Robyn is having a big July 50% Sale in her Boutique be sure to check it out

(click preview to go to her store)

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July weekend celebration!

Happy Friday

I have almost survived another week of watching kids. They had a great time in VBS this week at Humble Area First Baptist Church. They were entertained by Dennis Lee a great ventriloquist and man of God. They have learned so much about God's Word and had fun doing it.

Today I managed to get a new layout done using My4Princesses Designs kit Easily Amused. I also used Robyn Pali Design's Template #3 to complete this great layout. You can find both designers exclusively at Divine Digital.

A Sad Day For Enchanted Studio Scraps

Today Trish and Amy announced that Enchanted Studio Scraps will be closing down immediately. They have had issues with their server and just other things going on in their personal lives so now is the time they thought best to move on. I am sad to see them close.

However, moving along with my CT's I will now be posting over at Divine Digital. My4Princesses Designs and Robyn Pali Designs have opened new stores there and will be creating new stuff soon so stayed tuned.

New Layouts

I found enough time yesterday to get a few layouts done so I thought I'd share them with you.

New Adventures

Today I started my first day of watching my husband's cousin's 2 kids Madi & Trevor. They are good kids and really help by keeping Allison busy during the day. It's been a trying day but I know it will get better with time.

Also today Robyn Pali Designs & My4Princesses Designs announced the opening of their new Colab Store at Enchanted Studio Scraps. I'm a member of both designers CT and really enjoy when they do a colab together because they are so great. Be sure to check out their new store.

Forever Sisters Scraps

First Day of Summer Break is offically here

Today is our first day of summer break. It was nice to not have to start my day at 6 a.m. for once. We are looking forward to getting into the lazy summer schedule and just go with the flow around here. I plan to begin taking the kids back to the library for story times once a week and then to Wendy's for a great storytime with Merry Maker's Mrs. Carolyn. Allison has really missed these activities this year after starting school and so have I. I miss my contact with other moms. For the rest of this week though we'll just be hanging out at home and the pool.

I hope to get a little scrapbooking done this summer to so you'll be seeing a lot of my layouts and probably some freebies from my experimenting in designing.

Today I would like to share a layout I made using a template from Robyn Pali Designs & kit from  My4Princesses Designs using Beautiful Baby Girl.

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