Sneak Peeks

Simple Girl Scraps has a couple of awesome New Releases coming Friday!  PLUS some freebies created by her awesome CT members!

 

Emjoy the sneak peek and check back here on Friday for the release!!

Get Your Craft On

I've been in a real slump lately in the decorating/crafty department.  I'm the queen of good intentions, but never really follow through.  Well, today I did it.  And all before the 4th!!

I bought some of those decorative glass pebbles a while ago as a fill the jar reward system for Jordan, but never got around to using it.  Then I decided that since I had red, white and blue pebbles, I could make an American flag out of them.  I used my trusty Silhouette and vinyl to cut out the lettering.  Purchased an 8.5x11 frame from WalMart, and I was good to go.

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Needless to say, the kids were thrilled to have something up for the 4th of July.  Now to find other fun, easy craft things to do for myself and the kids.

Designer News

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Check out all the fabulous designs.   You won't be disappointed!! 

What Time is Is??

Summer Time!!!

Jordan's last day of school was last Thursday and he could have been more excited for Summer.  He had a school field day and played outside before heading home on the bus. Melody and I created this fun little banner to put up on the garage door for when he came home.  Jordan was thrilled to see it!

How fast this year has gone, and I just know the summer will pass even quicker.  I'm planning to get some activities/fun stuff for the kids to do to help with summer boredom.  I'm hoping to get a fun banner or display of some sort to put the activities to choose from on.  If I'm creative and get it done, I'll be sure to post.

***Blast From the Past***

Here's Jordan singing and dancing to the opening song to High School Musical 2.  Look how little he and Melody both are!?!

What are your plans for the summer?  Any fun crafty activities? 

Blast from the Past

We were playing Apples to Apples tonight and Loney started singing this song.  I was cracking up thinking of all the times we played this tape as our FHE activity growing up.
 



Good Times!!

Busy Month

I know I've been terrible about blogging more then once a month.  I'm a slacker and I hope I'll get past whatever it is, and post more often.

Simple Girl Scraps has been busy creating kits for the iScrap Celebration over at ScrapDelicious.  They are celebrating their 1 year anniversary with a huge freebie hunt, and lots of goings on in the forum.

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Be sure to check out Theresa's 31 days of Photography.  I'm hoping to be able to post my pictures for the challenge to help make up for the lack of posts so far this year.

I do have a freebie for you though.  Simple Girl Scraps aka Theresa created a mini kit for DigiScrap Drive-In called Just Be Happy.

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It's a free with $5 purchase at DigiScrap Drive-in.  Here's the layout I created with the kit:

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 I decided to make my layout into a Quick Page Freebie.

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Feel free to check out all the fantastic designs created by Simple Girl Scraps.  Her kits are so fun, bright, and fantastic!  You won't be disappointed!!

Spring Awakenings

As the temperature is rising, I look around to the renewal of spring and the birth of new beginnings.

I also reflect on the journey I've been on this past year.  Taking that first step towards a healthier me was a very hard decision. I look at the me a year ago, and I'm appalled that I even thought I was happy.  I was anything but happy with myself and the situation I had put myself in. I was destroying myself from the inside out, spiraling out of control without breaks.

Although I wish I could have been closer to my goals, I'm happy with the progress I've made.  I've got tons of demons I still need to face head on though. Those voices that tell me I'm not progressing so I should just give up.  Or if I make a poor choice with what I eat, I beat my self up and say that's it..may as well keep going.  I've tried really hard to keep those demons at bay, but it's been a little hard lately.

Though it's still a few week until it's officially been one year since starting on my journey, I'm recommitting to ME!  I can do this and no negative thoughts, temptations, guilt, etc will stand in my way.  How can I when I've come this far?