Yes Virginia, It Does SNOW in the Desert

and not just a sprinkling!

this is for you em...

Journaling reads: you light up my life, you make me strong, your smile brightens my day, you are all i need. Kit Credit: Metalmama's Little Lady Mega Kit, Canvas Overlay Shapes (heart used) - Christine Haskell, Font: Clear typewriter emily is teaching my how to knit...this is how far i have progressed in my "homework"

cool new products...

I thought that Canvas Overlays were just too fun, so I created some in a few shapes for you (see below) & I have been dying to try to create some journaling stamps.

Credits For Canvas Overlays Shapes Layouts

LO-1 (top left)Blue paper & elements by Amber Clegg for the ScrapArtist Apprentice Challenge - The Gazebo
Cream paper - Christine Haskell's Flea Market Finds Kit at DigiScrapDivas.com
Woven Canvas Overlay - Christine Haskell's at DigiScrapDivas.com

LO-2 (top right)Ann Marie created this from papers by K.Fredricks,
pewter plates from Lisa Whitney's ScrapArtist A Beautiful Mess Kit;
Canvas Overlay Stars- Christine Haskell's at DigiScrapDivas.com

LO-3 (bottom left)Little Lady MegaKit by MetalMama available at oneofakindscrapz.com
Heart Canvas Overlay - Christine Haskell's at DigiScrapDivas.com

LO-4 (bottom right)Christine Haskell's Urban Tapestry Kit at DigiScrapDivas.com
Doodles - my own creation, NFS
Star Canvas Overlays - Christine Haskell's at DigiScrapDivas.com

holiday decos

so we are all up & decorated....so fun with a little guy!!!!

in order...
*some of my snowbabies collection
*our stockings and noel banner....yes i realize the stockings are not hung by the chimney with care, but 1) we have no chimney and 2) these babies (the stocking hangers) are H-E-A-V-Y!!! so we dont want them in the q mans reach
*our "little" trees and a collection of animated christmas items
*kitchen garland & bows
* and THE TREE, yes, it is about 4 inches away from the ceiling! :)

pretty cute

we went and had the boys' photo taken in their xmas jammies at target today...THAT was fun, as my mother said "its like hearding cats"
between not listening, annoying one another and their fake "say cheese" smiles, we didn't have a whole lot of good takes to choose from...oh well, we get 'em on the 21st, i will post then.

quinn said something pretty darn cute....he was holding ernie's car keys, and there is a honda logo and the word honda on her key chain, and he said "mama, what do these ABCDs say?"

out of the mouths of babes

quinn is officially 2.5 today. i haven't posted much lately about his vocabulary, so here is some new quinnese:

i have a leaf in my bottom
(translation: durring the summer he was out back with out any clothes on - scandalous, i know - and he sat down to play. well...he sat on a "crunchy" leaf, part of which broke off and found itself stuck on his well, you know. he bent over and had mee look at it and remove it. fun. so when se says this, he is letting me know that something is just not feeling quite right in that area.)
little nemo, big nemo
he calls nemo's dad, whos name is marlin, big nemo, even though he knows his name is marlin
i want to watch magic
means that he wants to watch marry poppins
i want nothing
is his response when i ask what he wants santa to bring him
its charging
is what we tell him is going on when we need - and he needs - a break from watching his movies. he wanted to watch nemo the other night, and tim wanted to watch monday night football....quinn told tim that football was charging!
here mommy, its a rock
is what he said after pulling out at little "hard" goodie from his cute little button nose

okay, not boasting, but i think this is pretty neat-o

i came up with a new product, canvas overlays. in digi scrapping, or in altering your photos in your photo editing software, you can make your picture look like it was printed on canvas, cool, huh?!?! check out the pic below to see what it looks like!!! you can get it at DSD, of course!

get it while its hot

here is the new mega kit at DSD...purdee stuff!

list made check

lollipop check
elmo slippers check
pug coveting the lollipop check
hoodie on and zipped check
just another day in the life of...
quinnerino

neat new product!

check this out....i am super excited about this element pack, plus, here is a coupon code - CHHRW - for 20% off my products at DSD through this weekend only!!!!

A Digi-Scrapping MUST-HAVE

There is a fun & whimsical kit available this friday (Nov 17) at DSD. it will be $5, but if you sign up for the newsletter, there is a coupon in it!!!


Today we tested out some quinn-safe pie crust for thanksgiving. the boys made cinnamon/sugar crisps out of the extra crust. it turned out well, so i think we are in luck. i will post those photos ASAP.

things i have promised

halloween decoration pictures....well, this is all that i took of the few pieces that i put up of the halloween village...the other pics of the haloween decos are in the trash, they were crappy. i put a slide show of q's halloween costume on the side bar, you may have to scroll down to see it.

check out the fine photos of the 4th annual halloween party

Congrats to my first Creative Team

oooo! ooo! new kit

i {{heart}} this new kit....so gurlie...must be 'cause i am inspired by my now nearby clara... :)

i will post halloween pics soon & my CT Call info soon.

CT Call

isn't he beautiful?

sigh...he is so wonderful...anyway, it is just the kind of day i love...cool & cloudy/rainy...we drove to OST (other side of town) this morning for another possible mural project...fun stuff!!! it was 30 miles each way (blech!) but quinn (the kid who HATES car rides over 15 minutes) did great, yeah, i bribed him with a few pieces of candy corn, but 'cumon, who wouldn't?!?!?!

oh, and on an irritated note, wallyworld is out of spider webs (you know, the white stringy kid that you pull apart) how can they be out? it's not even halloween yet!!!! argh!

happy friday the 13th!!!!!!!!

here is my new kit,,,available at DSD in a kit or paper pack

i have been sooooooo bad about posting!

sorry! but i have been way busy (arent we all?) any way i have been working on a new kit that i am excited about...urban tapestry...it comes out tomorrow, and i thought i'd give you a tiny preview... it is called Urban Tapestry and tomorrow you can get it here. oh yeah and here is a little treat too, a coupon for my stuff, it is only good through the end of october CHUTKR enjoy 20 percent off.

32 days!!!!!!!

but who is counting....ME! i got out our halloween decorations this morning and started putting stuff up. if you aren't familiar, i am OBSESSED with halloween. not the scary blood dripping halloween, but the fun magical halloween, oh and we have WAY more halloween decorations than christmas.

so i am putting up the halloween village on the pot shelves this year so the "little hands" can't get to it. and i decided that we need WAY more outside decorations!!!

but, the sad part? last year i bought some of the those mini pumpkins and gourds to mix in with my fakers, but i must have gotten them mixed up. i opened the first rubbermade bin, and wondered to myself...hmmm, THAT smells odd. i looked in, and OH! 11 months worth of mold covered EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!! i had put in some real mini pumpkins and they rotted....ugh! it was on my placemats, candle holders, my cute little "s'mores" tree where the marshmallow guys are in halloween gear...all over garland and so much more. i am totally bummed.

anyway, just stuff i guess...but my HALLOWEEN stuff!!!!

but i did find something cool on the web that i HAVE TO HAVE!
black vodka and they have halloween recipes....totally cool!

new stuff that i am drooling over...and there is SOOOOOOOO much more:

WOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO

OMG i was sooo surprised to see this!!!!!
scrapartist apprentice challenge 2nd round winners

tooooooo exciting!

here is what i created, and YES i did spell my name wrong, and yes alyson, thanks, my OWN name wrong....i know i know....thankfully that was NOT one of the judging criteria!!!!

join me tonight @ 10 pm eastern

stop by DSD and chat with me! you'll get a freebie for just stopping by...

and there will be some prizes awarded!

Wonderland Mini Kit FREEBIE!!!!

Blogger won't let me post a pic of the Wonderland Kit....gggrrrrrr
but you can download it here.

and see it here

If you post a LO at DigiScrapDivas.com with the Wonderland Mini Kit, you will recieve a COUPON for my stuff!!!! (please remember to PM me or email me or leave a comment here with the link, or I may not see your LO)

ALSO... I am having a chat @ DSD this Friday Night (Sept. 22) at 10 pm EST. Stop by and say hey, and join in the fun: Question/Answer & Trivia!

I will have a few goodies for you just for stopping by.

There will also be prizes given out for winners of trivia questions.

Hope to see you there!

gimme a beer and a butterfly cracker

tim's cousin's services were over the weekend...we traveled to CA for them...
Caleb C. Haskell 1978-2006...your wife and family miss you...
the services were unbelievably beautiful.

so we found out that newcastle was his FAVORITE beer...he would not have any other kind...a good friend from childhood got the newcastle logo tattooed on his arm, replacing
"newcastle" with caleb's name and "brown ale" with the years his life spanned.

after the services on the way to the reception, tim and i discussed how tim loves newcastle, but is too frugal to buy it. but that it was on sale this past sunday (the day after caleb passed) and tim bought some. as we were talking about this in the car, a beer delivery truck passed us. now we see these all of the time, budwieser, miller, coors....but the truck was not from these companies...oh no....it was a newcastle truck.

after caleb's father got the news, he sat on his front porch, on the phone to someone offering condolences. a white butterfly landed on the porch next to him, and flapped his wings for the duration of the call, then flew away. later that evening, as family was around, a little girl wandered aabout, munching on crackers. caleb's father told the little girl that he could sure use one. she brought one over and placed it on his knee. it was a butterfly. as we entered the property of the church for the services, a white butterfly circled tim and i. and i am not kidding when i tell you that as we left, in exactly the same spot, a white butterfly passed us. and as we sat in the backyard of caleb's parent's house with friends and family of caleb, another white butterfly visited the backyard.

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”

eskimo proverb

New Page & a Good Read

here is my newest LO...get the kit here

and stop by my dear friend's blog...she writes so eloquently about her memory of Sept. 11...

My Newest Stuff & 20% OFF

check out my newest kits at DSD...and get 20% off this weekend!

Grand ReOpening & Challenge/Chat

join me tonight at 6 pm eastern for my ad inspiration challenge in celebration of the DSD re opening....take a look at a few of my new products too!

toot toot! I am a Diva!!!!!

On September 1st, DigiScrapDivas will reveal a new shop with 21 designers!! We are so excited about this new venture that we thought we would give you a peek at who is joining the design staff......but you'll have to check in each day to see who is on board. We already have a staff of 7......13 more designers will be revealed to you over the next two weeks. Our ninth reveal is CHRISTINE HASKELL!!All of this will lead up to a grand re-opening of our shop on September 1st. There will be chats for 15 hours straight!! Yes, lots of fun and prizes, plus a grand re-opening sale to kick off the grand event. I hope you'll join us!Watch your email each day for the daily reveal.......who will it be tomorrow?! Tune in to see!!

BIG bookplates

get 'em at Liddy's Loft

BIG bookplates...these babies are over 11 inches long!

made of glass & chrome elements will have you experimenting in no time!

big news - i was a few days off!!!

LOL!!!

so you kids will have to wait until the 26th now!

ooooo the antici........pation!

big news is a'comin'

mark your calendars for wednesday the 23rd!!!!!

due to popularity

i have re-uploaded the vine overlay...you can get it here

thanks!

Overlay Freebie

cleaning some things out...here is a 12x12 overlay for you...

i'm back baby

i am back from vaca, so i was experimenting and made this.
if you want it, here ya go.

i will hopefully post some pics of my trip soon.

oh, and i have exciting news...but you will have to wait!!!!

clearance sale

all of my stuff at 2bscrapped.com is 60% off until they "close their doors"


get 'cha sum here

don't fret! i am still designing for liddy's loft dot come

free chipboard elements

here is your latest freebie....i hope you have fun altering these guys! they are chalked with white so you can pretty mush do anything with them. i would LOVE to see what you create!
http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=5DBB161D712A54B4

latest mural endevors...

here is the bubble mural that i completed today for a client's (ooo i should like a big shot! LOL) laundry room. the bottom photo has the truer lavender color that the top photo.

this is an add on to my Playful! kit at 2bscrapped.com

enjoy it

50% OFF SALE!

My entire Refreshing Summer Collection is on sale at 2BScrapped.com! 7 mouthwatering kits! There is also paper packs available & on sale if you don't want the elements.

Kits are now only $2.48 & paper paks only $1.23!!!!!

Splurge and buy the downloadable CD (all 7 kits) for only $14.72!!!!!!

FREEBIE

here she is for your taking! it is 12" high, so it will fit on all page sizes and it is in png format. please give credit. I would love to see this in your LOs!

here is the link.