Happy i{NSD} with a freebie!

Well, this is going to be a LOOOOONNNNNG post! lol

Quick update on us... Dad, the kids and I leave Tuesday night after work to drive to KY for Blayne's Basic Training Graduation on the 6th. So I'll be offline more than online from the 4th-8th.

Work has flown into full swing with the on-set of prom season which will be quickly followed by senior portrait season. Thank GOD we finally hired a replacement for Sharon - of course, she just started Monday and we were non-stop tuxedo orders for the last 2.5 hrs of the day on Monday. As much as I feel bad for that being her first day it's a damn good thing for me she was there 'cause the boss has a session for the last 1.5 hrs of that same time. I've got to work 10-2 with her this morning, have a couple of hrs off, and then be back in Watertown to work a prom at 6:30... Have I mentioned how much I HATE prom season?!? So busy you can't remember your own name, and now I'm having to train my co-worker's replacement on top of it.

So, moving on... to LOs!

Title: Jaylin - Sweet Dreams

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Birthday Girl

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Jaylin - loving you

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Big Bear

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Believe

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: adore

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Happy Birthday, baby girl!

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: You are everything

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: you are my heartbeat

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Someday...

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: play all day

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: dreams do come true

Credits can be seen here.
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Then we come to i{NSD} goodness!

Lucie was able to get things re-arranged at home, and is BACK! ad77designs can now be found at MScraps! Be sure to swing by her store and check out her great deals to celebrate her grand opening!

Connie has added a SLEW of awesome new kits and grab bags to all of her stores in the last couple of weeks, AND has moved to a new store! As of today you can stop be her new store at Scrapbook Bytes!! Here are some of her newest kits, and there are a TON of new template packs as well!











Designs by Kristine has a 30% sale for 24 hours ONLY! At midnight tonight it goes away so be sure to snag some goodies now!

Dianne Rigdon is also having an i{NSD} sale for one day only – 30% any order over $3. Use coupon code iNSD2010 to grab your goodies today! (Sorry, this can not be combined with any other coupon related special pricing.) AND, she's hosting a giveaway - for more details see her blog.

Princess Lala Designs has a brand-spanking new kit out called 26 & 41 to celebrate her & Royanna's birthdays! (Tomorrow is Laura's - Happy Birthday, hon!) And, it's on sale for just $2 until the 5th!

The last LO above was made using this kit. :)

Royanna has a great i{NSD} sale going on at DigiScrap Warehouse - all CU kits are $2, and spend $10 to get 50% off!! No coupon necessary - just spend $10, and the discount will automatically come up during checkout.


All of us who sell at WenchdGrafix aka Kristine's Place are having an i{NSD} sale so almost everything in the store is 30-50% off! Be sure to stop in to check out those savings. :) And, then... your freebie... a WenchdGrafix Designer Team Blog Hop Collab! Wanna see??





So here is my part:

Elements
Papers 1
Papers 2
Papers 3
Papers 4

password: goodies

(TY, Janie for pointing out I forgot the password. Definitely a DOH! morning! LOL)

These should all be about 20MB so they won't be too hard to download even for dial-up! Please send your friends here - no link sharing - and be sure to leave a comment here or on 4shared. I love to know people like my stuff! :D

Be sure to hit all the stops on this blog hop to grab this HUGE kit!
Kristine - http://kristinesplace/blog
Diane - http://www.carjazidesigns.com/
Jodiann - http://www.jodianncates.com/weblog
Cate - http://www.scrapsationsofcate.blogspot.com/ (You are here.)
Mindi - http://madebyholeycow.blogspot.com/2010/04/long-time-and-collab.html

PHEWWWW! Told you it would be long! LOL If you actually read through all of that THANK YOU! If you didn't, can't say I blame you! LOLOL

Thanks for stopping by, and have a GREAT day!

:)

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Not feeling so creative title-wise today. In fact, feelin' kinda' lazy and tired all around. Would like to just start typing in all lowercase to keep from hitting so many keys! LOL

Have some LOs to share today. The last two haven't been uploaded as yet 'cause I've been a tad bit busy so I'll have to type out the credits on those.

For Xmas my SIL got my brother tickets for all 3 of them to come home for 10 days - well 9 days due to Mother Nature being a witch and canceling all flights through Chicago on the day they were set to leave. Anywho, they hadn't been home in almost 3 years, and I finally got to meet my youngest niece! She really is such a ray of sunshine, and has this giggle that is infectuous. In fact, it pretty much sounds like Tickle Me Elmo! LOL Dad flew my other brother, Kolby in for the first weekend as well because he had to be home in Charlotte the 12th, but we managed to get family pics, a meal, and some hanging out shoved into the few days the whole family was home.

Work is... well, work. We're in our slow period right now so I do have an extra day off a week, but that means losing 7 hrs pay as well. On days that I am at work I try to stay busy with projects like creating indexes of my CU products so I can flip through a paper index when creating papers, etc during our busier times instead of opening files to figure out what I have. (I've found some CU stuff I would dump if it wasn't all ready burned to cd anyway in doing so!)

Thursday was my birthday. Dad and the kids decided to take me to Texas Roadhouse after picking up my BFF of 20 yrs and her son. That was mostly to force me onto the saddle despite my asking them not to though. Good food with good friends made it worthwhile. Haven't had cake as yet, but Micaila's birthday is a week form today so I'm sure I'll get plenty of it next week between making cupcakes for class and cake for home.

I used money from Xmas to catch up two of my favorite book series (I have several "favorite" series! :D ). I got the last two books in the Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton, and the last two books in the Riley Jensen series by Keri Arthur. I'm using the money from my birthday to get a new printer 'cause mine hasn't worked more than it has worked for a few months now. I'd managed to find this printer on sale at TigerDirect for $149.99, and asked Dad to check it out and research inks for me to see if it would be worth upgrading to it. My last printer was bought with birthday money 4 years ago. Dad managed to find the same printer - new in box - on eBay for $129.99 including shipping! And, then found a 15-pack of inks for it on another site for $53! I should be good to go for about 3 months or so before I need more ink. :)

CT change-ups...
Connie has asked me to become a member of her permanent team as her QP creator because the previous QP creator had to step down. That means I get her goodies in exchange for making QPs for her to give away now. :) I'll be a tad bit busy this weekend due to this as she has a HUGE number of new kits and template packs being released within the next week!

And, Lucie aka ad77design, has also asked me to stay on as a member of her permanent team! :)

LOs:

Title: you are the coolest

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: happiness is being near you

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: imagine

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Merry 15th, Krysti!

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: 2010 Wall Calendar

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: absolute joy

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: cousins and friends

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Jaylin - Beauty

Credits:
Papers and elements from the Simply Gorgeous Kit by Royanna Fritschmann; Studio Ra, available at Divine Digital.
Photo by me.
Fonts: Palace Script
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Title: scenes from mount green

Credits:
Paper and elements from the I Wish I Had Wings Kit by ad77design available at Scrapbird.com.
Photos by my brother, Blayne.
Fonts: Pea Chelsea K Script

That'll do me for now. I'll try to get back tomorrow to show you a couple of awesome goodies from ad77design. Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

:)

Neglectful blogger...

I THINK about posting almost every day. Does that count? LOL I mean I only spend somewhere between 10 and 16 hours a day on the pc so it seems like I should have more than enough time to post a little something each day, doesn't it?!? It's Facebook. I admit it. I'm completely hooked. I had FarmTown... then added FarmVille, and spent more time there than on FT... and now my BFF has gotten me hooked on Treasure Mania. I place full responsibility for my issue on Kandie's shoulders! Ha! LOL I even sneak in while on break at work... While at work I'm normally lurking on Pro4um seeking new ideas/inspiration for my boss.

So, what's new at our house?

Well, Micaila has 3 holes in her smile atm, 2 adult teeth, and a wiggler. She doing her normal stellar job at school. She's 3 reading levels ahead of where they expect her to be at this point! Not that it is a shock because both kids have been very involved reading/writing/drawing-wise since they were about 2, but very proud non-the-less. She also received an Art Award at their first Smile Day on Friday morning for her first quarter. Now to work on the attitude/lack of listening at home most days... She's got her first birthday party of the school year to attend tomorrow for a friend from last year who's in a different classroom this year.

Brenden is completely hooked on Lego games for the PS2 and/or actual Legos. You can normally find him doing one or the other. My biggest issue being that he refuses to move the Legos to the middle of the room to work, and is often right in the middle of the doorway. I tripped over him and almost dropped my laptop the other morning. I spent a good portion of our tax return on it earlier this year so was not happy to say the least...

At school he's a mixed bag. Learning-wise he's doing well. Attitude and stubborness aren't helping otherwise though. When he's got a substitute or is with peripheal teachers like art or gym he tends to try to manipulate things to get his own way or out-right not listen. He managed to trick a sub and the head of the cafeteria into letting him charge a breakfast a few weeks ago by saying he hadn't been able to eat at home and we hadn't given him any money. Nevermind that he had eaten and his regular teacher knows he eats at home every morning. Mike had to go talk to the cafeteria staff, and Brenden is no longer allowed to charge anything. Which meant when we had no luncheon meat at home Monday and he went to school with PB&J he managed to scam someone into giving him a hotdog because he "hates" bread. We know he isn't fond of it, but we'd forgotten to pick the meat up. Oh, and if you take him to a diner he orders grilled cheese!! EEEEERRRRRRGGG!! What to do with this boy...

I've had a horrible cough for a week now that started as a tickle last Friday. It was so bad by Monday that I lost an hour of pay to go to the doctor just to be sure it wasn't something serious. He didn't tell me what it was, but said I didn't need antibiotics and the only thing he could do was give me cough medicine with codeine. And, that if it hadn't let up by this Monday to go back so they could check further. The only thing that halts the cough is sipping water so I've had a TON of it this week. In fact, on Monday I drank 1 gallon plus between 9am and 5:30pm!! Work has been really slow for the most part now that the seniors are done. Which means, of course, the boss is getting antsy, and has declared that if it is as slow on this Monday as it was yesterday we'll be doing a FULL cleaning of the building... My only issue with that is this cough has made me super-sensitive to smells. On Tuesday he tried to Pledge the wood paneling in the hallway, and I had to leave for lunch because the smell was burning my nose making it hard to breathe. Pledge does not normally bother me at all...

Mike is, well..., Mike. Still trying to convince me to move back to LI. I still don't want to go. He's had his schedule changed at work twice again in the last week. As of this past Monday he started working 10-7 with Tuesday/Wednesday off, and then came home Thursday (an hour late) to say that as of this coming Monday he'll be 10-7 with Saturday/Sunday off... That means today is probably the last day the kids'll have at the zoo for a while because Grampy won't have them Saturdays - at least until Mike's boss changes his mind again. Mike does have Thanksgiving off though - which is good 'cause I don't want to be up at midnight working on the monstronsity of a turkey... We've got a 25lb turkey and a 10lb ham! Considering we'll have about 12 people (4 of whom are my niece and nephews who eat like they've been starved!) at the house I hope that's enough. LOL

I guess this is long enough that I ought to catch up my LOs now, huh?

Title: Snapper Surprise

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Beautiful Witch

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Fall moments

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Boo

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Costume #2

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Live Out Loud

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Heaven sent

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: The best...

Credits can be seen here.

LO completed for Vera Lim's CT Blog Challenge using fall colors.
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I've also created the card listed in the previous post and 12 monthly calendars as part of a hybrid project I still haven't taken photos of; 1 paper LO, 1 digital I can't share 'til Monday, and 1 digital I forgot to upload to Photobucket prior to work since my last LO post. I think that about covers me for today.

Oh! If you are still looking for Holiday Kits Connie Prince has released 2 more since my last post including a Grab Bag with 5 new products today for only $3!! You can read all about it, and see what's in the bag here.

Thanks for stopping by (and making it through all of that), and have a great day!

:)

Quick LO update...

Title: Thank you for being a friend

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Sisters of the heart

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Sportin' Mama's Glasses

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: everyday miracles

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Summer's End 2009

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Bad Hair Day

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: joyful heart

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: every day Halloween

Credits can be seen here.
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Title: Mr. Attitude

Credits can be seen here.

Gotta' run the kids to school, and pick up my ArtsCow albums at the PO! Thanks for stopping by, and have a great day!

:)