A Magical Place

And this is why I start getting things organized in my mind well in advance! I drive my husband, family and friends nuts because I start something, change gears, do it totally different, change gears again...and on and on and on. But I know that I do this and that's why I do things early on. Ok, I love anything with puppets and muppets. As does the little girl. She loves the Sprites and I happen to love looking at Johnny. I'm married, not dead! And yes, I realize he is a tad bit younger than I am. Nothing wrong with fantasizing. I'm married to someone that is a little over 6 years younger than me. So I am thinking about doing her 2nd birthday with this theme. It's fun, magical and has a colorful twist to it that you can use any color within the theme and get away with it. Doesn't mean that I will not change my mind...but I think I might stick with this theme ... than again... might not. I swear Disney's Celebration Center just gives you way to many options. If you haven't checked out their website you really should - it's really neat. They have a lot of great free downloads that you can use. Anyways, let me know what you think of the Johnny and the Sprites theme items that I did - you can DOWNLOAD HERE to get a better look. Remember to use the password found to the right of this blog.

Kit by Andrea

Hi again, I received an email from Andrea who has created her first kit and has asked if I could post it on this blog. From what she has stated everything is original except that the papers were made using overlays created by Shauna Burke-Smith at Pineapple Plantation designs. Not exactly sure what that means but Andrea asked that I mention it. Please leave Andrea some really nice comments as this is her first kit and she did a great job! Plus, she said that she didn't plan on making anymore and if we all leave her some hugs, love and yes, even some kisses! she may change her mind and create another one! They are not in "zip" format and she has them compressed into rar files. Not a problem! Just Download WinRar. After installing WinRar you can get her kit by Downloading Kit Here. There are 21 papers, 20 elements, and 2 word arts in her kit.

Red Hat Society

Hi all. I received a request from someone that was in the Red Hat Society. I would like to thank EH a/k/a Viscountess of Discountess for asking me to do this. I hope she doesn't mind, but I want to share a part of what she emailed me as I found the "society" rather intriguing: "...I am a member of the "Red Hat Society", a group that was formed ten years ago to celebrate women over fifty. We dress in purple when we go out, with a red hat and lots of Bling. Each chapter has a queen. The other members of the group can choose a royal non-queen name. Different chapters do different things. The website http://www.redhatsociety.com/ tells the whole story. At the recent conference in Vegas, thousands of women, dressed in full regalia, performed a can-can on the strip attempting to break the Guinness Book of World's Records listing. Women younger than fifty can be pink hatters and wear lavendar clothing. We go to plays, teas, champagne breakfasts (in our purple pjs and red caps or bandanas). It is a wonderful organization that encourages older women to "live, love, laugh". Many of us have become "sisters" in a very real way. It is called a "disorganization" because we shun requirements, but many chapters have a historian to record the fun...." Now come on ladies! Who wouldn't want to do all this?!?!?! I hope the kit I made is up to their caliber and that they find it fun. If you are all interested, you can DOWNLOAD HERE. Peace out and enjoy your day!

Better Than a Couch Potato...

I suppose it would be better to be a potato head than a couch potato. I think. Mmmmm ... something to ponder my day away thinking about. I'm not sure if you can use them but 'm thinking that your kids may possibly have some fun with them more than anything. Especially if you are teaching them how to scrap and all. Or, they can just have a little fun with them. Than again, maybe you can't use them at all. No worries. Anyways, if you're at all interested in them you can DOWNLOAD HERE. There are eyes, eyebrows, ears, shoes, hair, hats arms, etc. Oh, do you remember the magnetic set of Mr. Potato head? You know, I think I will make a set for my daughter using these. I bought a couple of sheets of magnetic stripping at the Dollar Store that I have been itching to use. Here I come refrigerator!!! Ok, hope all is well! Keep smiling!

Mr. Potato Head

Coming to a blog near you! I should be done with these tomorrow. I guess it would really be more for kids so that they can design them the way they want them and all ... but hey, you never know. Maybe you will be able to use them for something else. I went to Disney Playhouse Celebration Center and they have some pretty neat birthday invites and whatnot. I think I downloaded every party theme they had. They have some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Ohh and Ahh, Handy Manny, Little Einsteins, and the Pooh with Darby, as well as some others. They have them in pdf format so I should be able to transfer them to photoshop and play around with them. Yeah, I think I will do that. Sorry, I don't have anything to "post" today. Oh, and I'm not sure if you all realize that yesterdays posts was not just papers....it had quite a bit more than that in it. You may want to check it out. Hope all is well with you all and look for Mr. Potato Head tomorrow!

Bow Wow

How many parents have jumped up and down with joy because their child has finally pooped without their knowledge? Well I'm one of 'em. Some of you are most likely rereading the above sentence to make sure you read it right...well, you did. Finally! The 3rd day that my little girl has gone poop without a sound. No stiffening of her body, no horrific look on her beautiful face, and no screaming in shear agony. We tried everything you can possibly think of and we finally broke down and got the Miralax for her. I only give her 1/2 the dosage that she requires and it's working like a charm. Although I did mess up and started giving it to her in her night time bottle. If you ever have to use the stuff make sure you don't take it at night. You will never get any sleep - works better than caffeine because the little girl did not sleep at all. I felt so bad because you could see she was exhausted and wanted to sleep, but just couldn't. But hey, she's pooping fine now! Ok, sorry about the poop talk. Will try and not let it happen again. But I had to share the joy with ya all! Ok, so the reason you come to this blog ... here is a dog kit that I think is different from the other dog kit from several posts ago. If you're at all interested in it you can DOWNLOAD HERE. Ok, gotta get some sleep. Hope you are all doing good.

Being a bit lazy these days. I want to share a site I found last September that I think you will really like. You will find some really adorable tags, paper, journals, toppers, etc. on it. I made a small preview of her work so that you can see some of what she has to offer. As you can see she has pixies, bears, frogs, pigs, babies, dolls and ohhh so much more! Please read her Terms of Use found on her site. She also has directions on how to save her work so that you can use it for your personal scrapbooking lo. Check it out by going to CUTE COLORS. And no, I don't know who Grace Lee is [the creator] so there is nothing in it for me by you going to this site - just thought you would appreciate her awesome talent. I think what I love the most about her work is that she touches upon different aspects. Meaning she doesn't just have blonde girls in her designs. She ranges from black haired to blonde to redheads, as well as, Black/African American to Asian[?] to White/Caucasion. Yes, I'm trying to be politically correct so that I don't offend anyone! Oh, and she even touches upon special needs. How many artists/sites do that?!?! So, until I go to the office and get the kit that I already made or until I make up something new, check out the site as I am sure you will enjoy it! Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Peace Out!

Color Generator

Was a bit under the weather today so I decided to stay home from work today. I guess the good thing about staying home today was I did my Federal and State Income Tax, along with getting the bills paid - well, some of them anyways. Does anyone actually get all the bills paid? And if you do, please don't tell me!!! I might get a tad bit jealous! The unfortunate part of staying home today is that I left the zipped file that I was going to post today at work. I just didn't have the umph to play around with Photoshop today. I did find a link that I had in my IE Favorites that you might like and may find useful. It's a neat little color generator that when you put in a color it shows you what colors compliment it or contrast with it. Not to worry, you don't have to download anything - it will do it on this site. If you're at all interested you can Click Here to go to the website. Until tomorrow! Enjoy your night!

The Cats Meow

Hi all, been a tad bit busy lately. Been a lot going on here so I just had time to make up the post that I have today. I'm really not done with it as there are so many different things you can do with a pet layout that I will be doing a few more items. I will try and make them as different as possible. I don't know if you guys have noticed but I will usually leave a template in the "kit" so that you can add whatever element you want in it. For example, the pet tags - you can add your own saying, design or picture. If you find that I come close to making something you like ... but juuustttt don't hit the mark please let me know. I'll try and implement it in the next one. I hope everyone is doing good and have some peace of mind. So, if you are interested in the cat kit you can Download Here. Enjoy and Peace out!

Mish Mash

Ok. I'm an idiot! So I don't know my geometry. I mean my geology. Wait a sec! My Geography!!! Yeah yeah ... ok ok ... duh to me. LMAO. Yes, as so lovingly pointed out New Mexico is indeed in the US. Ok I'm a chuckle head. Don't know what I was thinking. You want to know what the really sad part of all this is? If there was enough room on the jpg of yesterdays post I would have put Alaska and Hawaii on it as well! I will have to blame my little girl for this loss of intelligence. I used to have, or at least what I thought was, a decent IQ. But I lost it during the pregnancy and just never found it again! Well, I have been getting things back into shape again and am almost there. Did a few little things last night that hopefully you like and can use at some point. It's a little mish mash of things - as you can tell lately, my mind is a mush! So if you are at all interest, you can DOWNLOAD HERE. I will be posting some of my earlier stuff later today for those that are interested or new to this blog. Until then - Enjoy enjoy enjoy!!!