I'm so glad I was chosen to be on the design team at Scrappy Chic! It's really made me have to stretch myself artistically with all the other great designers we have on our team. And it's also great to finally get some layouts done. I hope this can be the springboard to more productivity and maybe even getting published one of these days!

The summer stretches out in front of us now that everyone is out of school. I usually dread this time, but for some reason I didn't this year. My k...
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It's been ages since I have gotten so much scrapbooking done. Being on the design team at Scrappy Chic has been very very good for me. I work well with a deadline and working with a narrow spectrum of materials makes me even more creative that if I had a lot to choose from.

Tomorrow I may be taking my kids over to see their grandparents...it all depends on whether I end up catching the cold that they all have had. I feel a little bit like I am and since I had pneumonia last month, I w...
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To write anything in here...what with keeping up with my regular blog, keeping my online galleries up to date as well as my demo website, it gets a bit fraught at times!

Anyway, last month was the month of getting sick. I came down with influenza on the 11th of February and it turned into pneumonia a couple of weeks later. I'm still getting over that; still have a slight cough and the fatigue, but life goes on.

In the meantime, I've gotten on a design team at a new local sc...
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I was up early and got my shopping done. Actually, if I hadn't woken up because Dan was snoring, I'd never have gone, but since I was awake anyway...

The one thing that makes me glad I make so much food on Thanksgiving is that I don't have to cook the day after. We just heat up a big plate of leftovers and the rest of the day can be devoted to other things.

Today I decided since so many retailers are in the black, I would be scrapped in the black. I had a few layouts that d...
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I say that next year, I will get my husband to take me out to eat on Thanksgiving...

It's just so much work for the amount of time actually spent eating! I started out baking the pumpkin pies last night and then started cooking at 11:00 AM today, finally finishing everything around 4:00 PM. I wasn't on my feet the whole time, mind you, but the last hour I was on my feet cooking. It's a real art getting everything finished at the same time. The first Thanksgiving dinner I ever cooked w...
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