Friday, March 28, 2008

High/Low - March 28th

My LOW for the week is once AGAIN my inability to get things done. I feel so behind and unbalanced and stressed out. I feel bad because I really DO love designing but it is starting to not be fun anymore because I have TOO MUCH TO DO. And the worst part of the whole thing is that I totally did this to myself. I feel obligated to sign up for things at my stores because I know it is what keeps the sites going and I want to take part in everything...but I really have piled too much on myself this time. I feel like I am letting everyone down..the store owners, my design teams, my customers, my family....I just feel completely out of sorts. I am having a hard day today. I was keeping up with everything just fine for a long while, but it is now starting to catch up with me. I am not sure what direction to take. I just feel so uncreative! I have canceled as many of my deadlines in the next couple of months as I can, but there is still a lot to do before my brother's wedding. Sorry for the rambling, but I'm just not sure what to do right now. I want to fulfill my committments and do a good job at it and get it all together. Really not sure what happened to make all of this fall apart on me. Anyways, just a hard day. My daughter had to have dental surgery early this morning and she was pretty grumpy but she is actually doing really good now. So I need to post here and send off a Digitals Crop Ad and then I can pack for my little get-away. I'm going on another overnight stay with some ladies in my church. We are once again going to a cabin for some relaxation and fun. Hopefully it will really help me to feel better about myself and to get myself together so I can plow through the things that I need to do! Please be patient with me!

So sorry about all that rambling...sometimes I guess it really helps just to get it all out! But I do have a very good HIGH for this week! So we got a pretty good tax return this year. Some of it went to fixing our old van, some to debt, and my amazing husband bought me a new computer and CS3! My computer is over 6 years old and has started giving me a little trouble and I have been very scared of it completely dieing and not having a computer. But now I finally got a MacBook Pro! Yep, for the first time in my life I finally have a laptop. I'm just so thrilled! CS3 and a 500gb hard drive comes on Monday. I just feel completely blessed. I've been working on getting it all setup! And I am just so excited about how fast it is and the ability to run Windows as well as my Mac OS. I have 4GB Ram and a 250gb internal HD. Much better than my old desktop Powermac G5. I love my old machine, but it was time to get a new one and now I am so happy . I got a good deal on a brandnew still sealed laptop on ebay so we were able to do it. So I'm not completely setup yet and I have to wait until Monday to get CS3, since CS2 won't work on the new Mac system, but hopefully soon I will be all setup and ready to go. Maybe this will help me to be a little more creative as well. Everytime I see my laptop, I just can't believe it! I never expected to be able to get one so soon. Thank you very much to my Joey! He takes care of me so well! Thanks honey! He is so good to me. He admitted that he is completely jealous that I got a new computer and he doesn't...but it will be his turn next time. :)

So here is me and my new Macbook Pro:





Anyways, I need to go shower, send the weekly Digitals Crop Ad, get packed and get the kids stuff together for my hubby. Thanks all for your patience and understanding during my rough time right now! Have a great weekend and see ya next week when hopefully my spirits will be back up!

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Children's Book

Thank you all so much for your comments on my brother's wedding announcement and on the upcoming children's book. And on my upcoming BLOCKZ Kit! You don't know how amazing it is to have such great comments. Thank you!

To answer your questions about the book. It will be called Jada's Princess Secrets and it is written by Jo Ann Kairys. It is about a little girl who wants to be a Princess and she wants to know how she can be one. She asks her animal friends what the secret to being a Princess is. Each animal has their own answer (For instance the zebra thinks you should have stripes to be a princess). In the end she finds out what a TRUE Princess is made of. Anyways, we don't have an exact date when this will be available. The story is written, I just need to get the illustrations done and then we can get it done. The book will be available through Amazon.com and I will let you know more when I get more done!

Thanks everyone! I hope your Easter was wonderful! I got to get back to work! Busy week ahead!

Friday, March 21, 2008

High/Low - March 21st + Freebie

Is everyone's Spring this busy? I STILL am just running around like a chicken with his head cut off. Hopefully it will slow down soon!

My LOW for the week is once again my inability to get things done. I hate that I am so tired and onery (and yes, it is that time of the month again). I'm trying to shrink down this awful to-do list but it's really hard on me that I finally have to admit AGAIN that I can't do everything. I'm trying to lessen up my load just a bit and trying to say NO. :) Someday, I really gotta learn to quit doing this to myself.

My HIGH for the week is that I got to see my brothers and parents this week. It has been Christmas since I saw them last. They stayed with us Wednesday night and then went on up to Idaho for a wedding, but we are all getting together on Saturday on their way back down so it will be good to be with them again.


So guess what? I got my brother's wedding announcement done and I think it looks great. It is 8" x 4" and we are getting it printed through VistaPrint. We should receive them on Monday so I hope they turn out good!

Take a peek at this and let me know what you think:




Other things:

- So my BlockZ Kit is almost done...hoping to actually finish it tonight. It is the Scrap-A-Deal Kit for April 9th at 3Scrapateers...so stay tuned for more information about that.

- I have a SNEAK PREVIEW for you for the Children's book I am working on. It is called Jada's Princess Secrets and it is coming along very well!




- I am going to be starting to work on the next issue of ScrapStyle Magazine soon...please be sure to check out our new PAGE CALL Page and we would love to publish your layouts!

- I'm also working on my contribution to the CD Compilations at 3Scrapateers and am working on my next kit for the My Favorite Things Crops in April.

- I'm hosting the Digitals Blog for a week starting tomorrow. So make sure you visit everyday for some freebies!

- We got our tax return...wahoo! :) But of course we are using it to pay down our debt and take care of some things so of course it is pretty much gone now. LOL


So I'm off to try and get something done! I hope all of you have a wonderful Easter and thanks for everything you do for me! I'll leave you with a quickpage made from my BlockZ Kit! ENJOY!



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Thursday, March 20, 2008

URGENT! CHANGE OF PLANS!!!

Unfortunately, I'm going to have to CANCEL this week's My Favorite Things crop. My parents and brothers are in town and it looks like we are going to have a family thing Saturday night. It was going to be at my house, so I was just going to come do the crop anyways, but now it's at a friend's house about an hour away so there is no way that I'm going to be able to make this happen. I'M SO SORRY.

But here is what I am going to do. I'm going to make this week a FORUM CHALLENGE So here is the challenge and you will get ALL of the remaining SPRING WILL COME as your posting bonus - this includes the regular freebie and the crop bonus!

SO MAKE SURE TO GO TO THE MY FAVORITE THINGS FORUM and get the challenge!

Sorry everyone!

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

My Crops this week!

Please join me in my crops this week! :)






See ya in the chatroom!

Monday, March 17, 2008

Digitals Easter Egg Hunt

Ready for an Easter Egg Hunt? Several designers (including me) @ Digitals have created some little Easter freebies for you! But you have to go on a hunt to find them! Check out THIS THREAD to get the CLUES and visit the designer stores to find the fun freebies.

This is what I have in store for you!




So have fun hunting!

Sunday, March 16, 2008

HAPPY CT APPRECIATION WEEK!

I just wanted to give a BIG THANKS to my wonderful CT members: Catlady, Fran, Keli, Lori, Nighty, Rebecca, Rona and Vickie. Thank you for everything you do for me and for being such wonderful friends!

Check out the OFFICAL BLOG for CT Appreciation Week!

Thank you!

Friday, March 14, 2008

High/Low - March 14th + Freebie

I hope everyone's week has been good. Mine has been crazy busy but I'm finally starting to feel like I am accomplishing something so that is a good thing!

My Low for the Week is once again that I just feel so stressed out right now. I know once I get some of these things done I will feel better, but it is definitely going to slow for me. I really need to learn to say NO....but I just haven't learned that concept yet. LOL

My High for the Week is that I am just feeling so blessed to have Joey as my husband. Yesterday he had the day off and instead of relaxing, he made the day about ME. :) He let me sleep in until 11am and we got JJ off to school and had lunch. Then he took Beth (our daughter) on a date, so that I could have the house to myself to get some stuff done. Beth and her daddy went to the pet store to look at the animals, went to the library, had some ice cream and even brought McDonalds home for all of us. I got to take a long shower and then actually got a lot of design work done. When JJ got home from school, Joey took him and his friend Pete on a tour of Novell (where he works). So I got even more done. And then later we all went out to eat at Cafe Rios. Just a really good day. I love you Joey so much! :)


Well not too much else to say...I gotta get busy and get more done. I can't believe how big my to-do list is...got to get it all done before my brother's wedding! Speaking of...next week I will have the announcement done so I'll be sure to share it with you all!


Anyways, I'll let you all go but first I do have a freebie for you today! I have a little frame that is a SNEAK PEEK into a kit that I am working on...called BlockZ.

Hope you enjoy it! Have a great weekend!




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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Over the Hump Crop this Week

Please join me for the LAST ABC Album Crop!

Friday, March 7, 2008

High/Low - March 7th + Freebie + MORE!

Okay so it's now after midnight so technically it's SATURDAY and I am just getting to my normal Friday posting! So sorry about that. Life has been SO crazy this past week. I don't know if I am ever going to get caught up!

My LOW for the week is that my balance has been SO off the past couple of weeks. I have been inconsistent with my normal schedule of exercising, cleaning, commenting in the scrapbook galleries, etc. And all my time has been spent trying to meet deadlines. I am so far behind and I don't know exactly how it happened because I was doing SO well for awhile. Today I came to the decision that I have to let go of some things (something very hard for me to do), so I decided that I am going to have to leave Scrap Outside the Box. It is my most recent store and even though I have been here for about 5-6 months, I haven't made hardly any money and am trying to put myself out there, but I think I just have too much else going. So I reluctantly gave my notice today. I hate letting things go but hopefully I can move on with the things that I have going in my other stores and I hope that takes some pressure off of me.

My HIGH for the week is...gosh IS there a high this week? I have just kind of had a bummer week. Too much to do.....well I guess I should say that my high was last night...I went to an ACTUAL scrapbook crop. It was a Close to my Heart crop night that my friend invited me to. It was fun to actually make a page and to visit with my friend, and I think I almost have my friend ready to try digital scrapbooking..so that's cool! :)

I had someone ask me to start a calendar of some kind so you all can keep track of all my challenges/chats. And I think that's a great idea. So I checked out Google Calendar and have found a way to record all my events on the calendar for you to check out! So instead of the slideshow of my previews that you saw at the top of the page...from now on there is a calendar! And you can see my events and if you use Google Calendar you can even save those events to your own calendar for reminder! :) So let me know what you think!

I'm crazy busy as usual working on a variety of mega kit contributions, kits, and other design projects so thanks for your patience!

Don't forget to come to my crop tomorrow night!




And YES I finally have a new kit! You can come to the MY FAVORITE THINGS Crops on the 8th and the 22nd of this month and participate in the challenges and get this new kit for FREE! Or I am putting it in the stores either tonight or tomorrow so you can pick it up then as well!

And I have a little freebie for you today that is a quickpage made from my new kit, SPRING WILL COME! I really hope you enjoy it!



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Have a great weekend!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Wonderful Wednesday...

Don't forget to check out the Digitals store TOMORROW (Wednesday)....for another fabulous 30% off sale on selected items! My Hippity Hoppity and Happy Go Lucky will be on sale for $4.20 each! So check it out!

Saturday, March 1, 2008

I'm featured!!!

I'm so excited! I'm featured at Scrapbook Dimensions magazine this week! I won a great hybrid scrapbooking package and that is so exciting for me!

Anyways go here, sign up, and check out my little feature (main page....scroll down a little)!


Thanks!