The Days

I cannot believe how quickly December has gotten here. I just realized this is the last day of November ( well, almost...as I am typing it is literally 40 minutes away..lol!). My daughter was sick this past weekend, so we did not get a chance to put up the tree. I was soooo ready to officially introduce Aida to her elf and read the story and all of that...but, this weekend works fine too! I think this will be fun. I have not set a plan for each day...I am just going to go with the flow. I was thinking of him leaving her letter clues to make a word that will give her the opportunity to open one gift early on Christmas Eve, if she can sound out the word. We will see what happens...I am just excited! I am about to head for the bed but first wanted to share a photo that was taken this past weekend of my dd. I love this little cardigan she is wearing. We got it from the clearance rack at JCPenney's a few weeks ago and of course, I had to get a photo of her wearing it.

That Sketch

Yesterday's sketch at the Bella Blvd. blog caught my eye. I had just downloaded the Holiday Idea Notebook from Digital Design Essentials and I knew I had to use that sketch to create a page. More and more paper scrap booking layouts have been catching my interest, and this sketch was calling me. I only used items from the Idea Notebook and I used one paper from the Beyond Measure paper pack and changed the color up just a bit to match the yellow in the Idea Notebook papers and elements. Did that make sense at all?? In my head, it made sense...lol! Anyway...here is my page using some photos of Aida from last year in a dress that her father picked out for her...

Black Friday Sales!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and time with their family. This year we decided to stay home and spend the day with just the three of us. It was nice to not have chaos and to do things on my own time during the day. I was able to style my hair, cook dinner, wash some clothes, create some layouts and "talk" to Santa about a few things a certain little person requested. My stress level was so low, and that meant, no migraine- which is always my ultimate goal.

That Time of Year

With all the Christmas kits debuting in the scrap booking world, I cannot help but get excited about the holiday season ahead. I am ashamed to say I still have plenty of Christmas photos to scrap from last year. I am not sure if it was because I took so many photos and I did not want to edit them, or I was just waiting for the perfect kit; there are a few photos I did not touch. So far- my two favorite stores have some amazing Christmas goodies. :) I tend to lean more towards the Christmas kit with traditional colors - red, white, green, but I love any good Christmas kit that inspires me to create a layout for my photos.

Bright & Early

I hope that everyone had a wonderful Digital Scrapbooking weekend. I know I did. I did not shop too much. I spent quite bit of time in the TLP forums and scrapping a few pages. I really need to catch up on my 2011 album. I have some print credits but have yet to use them. I need to make this next batch worth it. lol! I think that's why I sit back and re-make my pages from the year before. I am so happy with my 2012 pages that I need to feel the same about any I print now.

One of my buys this weekend was the Scrap Pack at Scrap Stacks, the new Pinterest-like gallery for sharing scrapbook layouts or designs. I still have not organized by stacks exactly how I want them- maybe when I have more time. Back to this weekend- the scrap pack was pretty awesome so I had to have it. This first page is with Scrap Orchard's collaboration kit and some more items from my digi-stash. This photo is of my daughter on her way to daycare trying to tote all her "stuff" to the car...lol!

Happy DSD!!!

Yes- my favorite time of the year has finally arrived! Sales, games, challenges, chats, giveaways, facebook/blog hops...every thing you could imagine is happening in one weekend in celebration of digital scrapbooking. This is my third year and I am just as excited! There are so many things going on right now. Before I bombard you with a few pages, I thought I'd list a few "hot" spots to check out.

The Lilypad

iDSD Forum - This is the main spot where all the TLP fun happening. There is a guest Polly call....yes, you...YOU...can submit an app to be on the creative team. There are threads for each TLP designer where you can show your favorite product and have a chance to win. You never know who it will be; I know I played in ALL of the threads last year before I was a Polly. But...I am impatient so I went on quite a shopping spree....lol!! I just love all things TLP...can't help it!