a Fantastic Word Art freebie for YOU!

Can you believe that it is the last day of August?! Wow! The summer sure has flown by! The boys start back to school Wednesday! Tanner will be in the 8th grade... geesh, that means next year is high school for him! ACK! Nick is going to be a senior this year! My daughter is super elated that she doesn't have to, now that she graduated from high school this last spring.

Wow! Not just the summer, but where has the time gone!? My Mom always said it goes faster as you get older and then speeds up once you have kids! She wasn't kidding! I'm happy but then sad at the same time. I sure miss those chubby cheeks, good night kisses and holding hands whenever we would go somewhere! Oh the special moments!

Speaking of moments, this charming word art was created by Royal Muse, Bon using my Coffee Bears Kit and both the Black and White Simple Beads Alphabet Sets.

Download here & enjoy!

New Releases - 6/27/10 - Trying to play Catch Up!

Well, it has been super busy around here! How about I bring you up to speed with just a few of the dandy little highlights, ok?!

To start things off, Tanner had a motocross accident May 15th, which required a hospital stay and of course multiple follow-up appointments, which are still occurring weekly. To make this long story short, he broke his left shoulder blade and had a few internal issues, most of which have healed except for his pancreas. He is still going in on a weekly basis for lab work until the blood levels return to normal. His shoulder blade is on the mend but not quick enough for him! LOL

Kaytelynn graduated from high school on June 8th! I'm so proud of her! She is working, is pretty healthy and is now considering creating fonts and maybe even doodles. I can't wait to see what she does with the Wacom tablet and font software that I got for her. She is quite the artist, whether it's painting or even doodling and she's very talented with a digital camera! Kaytelynn lives with her Grandmother, not far from us. I think she is enjoying her independence and finding out what real world responsibilities are like, without the help of Mom. Of course, I am called upon on occasion... I like that I am still needed! Oh, she has even admitted to me that living at home wasn't all that bad! LOL

School for the year finally ended and Nick passed 5 out of 6 classes! I kmew he could do it but to wait until the last week to pull it off, darn near drove us nuts! We flew Justin up from California to visit for the summer. And it's been nothing but busy, chaotic testosterone in this house ever since! I messed up my schedule/routine of taking my medications during all of this hoopla (hospital visits in April - Kaytelynn & May - Tanner)...well, I did what most people do, I figured it was time to just keep on trying to make a go of it without the meds. Now, I know better, I really do! I know that you shouldn't take yourself off of medications! Well, I did it anyways! Yep, you guessed it...panic attacks! A few pretty good ones while out shopping, even with Eric. I had to leave several stores pretty darn quick. I dang near didn't make it to Kaytelynn's graduation, but managed to somewhat hold it together long enough. Soooooo, I'm getting back into my routine of taking my meds again. It's just not the right time to go it alone yet.

Well, even during all of this stuff, I managed to create a 'few' new items for my store. Instead of posting all of the previews individually, I have 1 big preview of all of the items that were released between May 23rd and June 20th. It includes 2011 calendars, printables, date markers, create your own items, and of course a few kits and alphabet sets.

Now that we're all caught up, here are the new items that were just released today!

New Releases - 7/13/09 & a FREEBIE for YOU!

Wow!

This month has just run away from me! We have been quite busy this last two months! Tanner turned 13 on June 6th and Nick had his "Half" birthday on June 25th (he's a Christmas baby), school let out for summer vacation, we flew Justin, Eric's youngest son, up to visit for a while, visited with some dear friends from high school, went camping (took the dogs too!), took the kids to Bullwinkle Family Fun Center where Tanner and I pretty much rode go-carts ALL DAY LONG (LOL he was too short to ride by himself last year so he made up for it this time and needed someone to race with, why not me?!), received news that a family member of mine in Florida was having heart surgery (quad by-pass no less! All is good so far!), Tanner had another ER visit thanks to moto-x but luckily no broken bones, attended a funeral, made a few digital kits, finally finshed the July Blog Wear and of course the normal and no-so-exciting, everyday living and working. I hope that your summer is moving right along for you and that you are enjoying every minute!

I have had good days and a few not so good days with the panic attacks. I haven’t been able to notice if they are getting better or worse. Eric tells me the truth, so when I think that they seem to be less; he lets me know that they haven't! LOL But he does so ever so gently, most of the time! LOL I really hate it when he has to tell me "Go out to the truck now!" It really ticks me off at the time because I always seem to think that I just must be embarrassing him but once I get outside into the cool air, I realize why he sent me out. His normal response once he gets out to the truck, because 8 out of 10 times this happens while we are out shopping, he will apologize and say something like "I thought you were either going to either hyperventilate or pass out or vomit." He will usually add some kind of smart-alecky comment to it like "and you don't want the firemen to see that, now do you?" or "Mom always said to wear clean underwear in case of emergency! Not sure if firemen check for that?! You ARE wear clean underwear?" See, he teases me about firemen because for as long as I can remember, I've had a "thing" about/for firemen, especially our Vancouver Fire Department! OH-MY-GOODNESS, not one ugly or mean one in the bunch! I swear! I absolutely admire a brave man that can get dirty and sweaty and be that good looking and nice to boot while doing it! LOL Soooo, that is why Eric teases me; it makes me laugh too!

Well! LOL I wasn't planning on telling all of that but oh well it has been typed out, so there it is! LOL

How about taking a peek at my two new kits that have

been released this week in my store at Scrapbook-Elements?!

Eat Your Veggies

The Ark


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Finally!

I was able to sit long enough to get this months Blog Wear finished!

I hope that you like it and as always,

I'd love to see it if you decorate your blog with it,

so link me up!! :)

If you would like to see what it looks like on a blogger blog, click here.

I did make the headers 1000 px wide this time...

no particular reason other than I just felt like it! LOL

Download here & enjoy!

*Free* Classic Elegance September Desktop

I was decorating my desktop with my newest creation Classic Elegance and thought that I would share this with all of you! This is a photo of my daughter Kaytelynn (16 years old), my sons Nick (15 years old) and Tanner (12 years old) that I took at The Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in April of this year.

There are 2 sizes included in the download: 1024x768 px and 1280x800 px

- minus the darling photo of my gang.

Both were created at 300 ppi and are in png format so that you can slip your favorite photo behind it and be done lickity split!

Download here
Password: summer ends