P-P & Sesame!

Hooray! McKenna, while in the bath, told me she had to go pp on the potty! and SHE DID! We've been toying with potty training, staying very laid back about it as to not stress either of us out (hey, worked for Matthew!) She said, she did - regular toilet, not even with her little insert, books, or anything! She got her fav treat for doing so - a mini marshmallow - and is so proud, that she tried to go all night long... while wearing a diaper, she'd go, then tell me she had to go... oh well, it's a start, right? Not bad for a few weeks shy of 2 years 3 months!

Oh, tomorrow, you'll have to leave me a message bc we're going to Sesame Place! We've got the season passes and we've only used them at Sea World so far, so it's high time! We're skipping school and heading out (Daddy, too!) in the morning. Wish us luck getting some fun in before the storms hit!

Honorable

Look! Ya know one of those new sites I've been visiting? Here are their stats!

Average registrations per day: 11.27
Average posts per day: 259.47
Average topics per day: 22.33

Congrats to Creative Scrappers!

And a little tiny fun honorable toot, too!

Pub Calls

Just was one of those fun sketches I found and subb'd...

See?

Details:
Here is my entry for this sketch, which I loved and will definately use again! I hope digi is ok to submit; my printer broke in the middle of printing for this very challenge. :( However, this digital looks just like a paper layout I'd love to create! Thanks for the consideration & hosting & to the sponsors.
Lindsey

Fish Tanked by Lindsey Krauss. Supplies: Digital Kit: Relax by Michelle "Spink" Boeckermann for ScrapStreet.com; Fonts: 2Peas, Fat; Digital Editing Program: Adobe PhotoShop CS2; Other: fish lure, googled and taken from http://bo.uxcell.com; Sketch: Anam Stubbington.

Journaling: 4.24.08--Bronx Zoo--Matthew loves the fish tank display.It feels like you're swimming right with the fish!

Design Notes: What a versatile sketch! At first I had a difficult time choosing between the many subjects I found for this sketch. I chose these zoo fishtank photos mainly because of the center photograph. I love the way the main photo is almost cut in half - half land, half water - perfect for the design of this sketch. I had exactly three more fishy pictures to adorn the page, easily made into squares. After choosing and cropping all the pictures, it was just then about layering the color-similar "Relax" papers and creating titles and texts. Oh! - and then finding a lure for the page, too!

Memorially

So I never understood the phrase Happy Memorial Day, but I hope you all took a moment to remember. It's a day of tears and of pride for us. We had a great tribute at church, families affected by loss invited to stand. At that moment, my mom & dad's best man lost in Vietnam came into my prayers. They have a great tribute framed in their house... will post one day. I know Dad is more affected than he ever lets on, and he is in my prayers, too. Church tribute ended with a Staff Sergeant trumpeting a chilling taps. We did enjoy our local parade, from where this photo came. This is Matthew, excited for the start of the parade, reaching high at the sight of his Daddy's police department's car.

Upon driving back from the parade (and ice cream, near Daddy's post) we passed the services at the cemetary. Matthew asked about what they were doing. I tried to explain the best I could to a five year old that they were honoring the soldiers that died while fighting. He tells me, "Don't worry Momma, Jesus will bring them life."

Thought that was enough said. Happy Memorial Day.

a bit sketchy...

sketch abound! I'm in heaven!
Thanks to PubCalls for the direction - it's really gotten me going this month!

Back Porch Memories
Busy Bee Scrapbooking
My Creative Scrapbook

Gone digi this month, waiting for the new printer to arrive, but I've gotten so much new yummy stuff from the ScrapStreet digi store, that I've got plenty to use!!

Heaven! I'm in Sketchy Heaven!!
(Aaaaaaaaand.... this makes 3 bloggy days in a row! UNheard of!!) lol

New things...

branching out? not that I'd EVER leave ScrapStreet... EVER! but it's been fun reading blogs and looking for new opportunities in the last few days. I entered another sketch contest (what can I say? I just adore sketches!) and joined two new forums. I said hello at Creative Scrappers blog and forum and The Scrapbook Nook. Why not? Now, I'm notorious for forgetting boards and not going back to visit (in the very little spare time I seem to have these days) so don't be offended if I don't return for sometime. I've also re-found Transparent Touches and will be visiting A Million Memories today as well. These two sites just have such nice lady scrappers! ScrapStreet forever! (we're at Cannes, btw, didja know?) but maybe Lindsey will get to know a few more people in the near future!

K Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Ancestors - Free genealogy software

finally!

not sure what happened, but I couldn't get into Blogger for weeks! Kept saying cookies were not enabled - checked on that and all was good as far as I can tell. Anyhoo, I'm here and all seems well enough. By now you know that we've wrapped up our gymnastics season (apart from 2 more levels with which I am not involved) and that we just got back from Disney! We had a BLAST and have 740+ pics to show for it! Went from a Disney mini-book to a Disney album to a Disney Collection! Haven't scrapped a page yet, but will soon. Having trouble starting know that MIL has more pics on her cam and won't be home till June. Weird, right?

So I submitted 2 pages this month... proud? Becky Fleck and PubCalls both - k, so they're both sketches, but it's a start, right?!?!

So here's what I did today, thanks to Tana @ TTT... just some Heritage fun:

This is unexpected:


This is fun!
This 1st and only to ever tell me this!

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Ancestors - Free genealogy software

McKenna's usually a toss-up when people comment.

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Ancestory - Dynasty

I'm not so sure about these - usually I get from the crowd, "Hey Little Doug!! Ohh, sorry Lindsey."

Oh well. It's something to talk about. Later!

A Tree Grows...

...not well, but it grew. LOL
Whaddya gonna do. If you know me, you know I gotta try it at least once. Not the most amazing tree, but I'm okay with it in the book, if ya kwim. This was done for two challenges, actually; STAR @ ScrapStreet brought bugnsamsmom/Jenn to challenge us to use the title of a book and a line or two from it. I chose my favorite author, Shel Silverstein (never said I understood him, just love him!), from his book WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS, and in the tree trunk is typed out the poem of THE EDGE OF THE WORLD. I do wish that the leaves said 'where the sidewalk ends' rather than what they do, and that might have to be changed for my own sanity. Just not complete till it is, right?

2nd challenge is one from MyKitsAndPieces - one of their 8 weeks of challenges, to use creative journaling. That's where I got the idea to use a journal tree. Anyway, if it works or not, it's done and it's kinda cute. Still love this photo and will probably scrap it over and over!

For someone else...

A college roommate/teammate/we've been through it all together/friend asked me to make an album for her puppy, Roxy - this thrilled me and terrified me! I finally am getting down to it (I gave myself an old package of Aunt Gertie's Garden and 1 week to do it!) and it's not that bad. I have a scrap-a-page-without-photo phobia, so this is really a big leap for me. Here are the 1st four pages... whatcha think? These are all PageMaps, but I am about to lift some right out of CK next. I only have 3 more days to work on it!

I've never done anything like this before, for someone else, so tips/tricks/thoughts all welcomed!

btw, if there are more than 4, I've updated.
and
if you know of any quick lifts or sketches of 4"x6" photos, please, send them my way and I'd be happy to use them for this book! Credit given where credit due.

Nothing exciting...so why post?

We've recently survived every sickness in the book - fevers, the asthma flare up, pink eye, bronchitis, strep AND the stomach flu. I wish they made spray antibiotics. Ya know, so you can just spray it after a cough or sneeze like air freshener.

Printer's back. Canon is AMAZING. my 610 Pixma broke. I'm pretty good at this stuff and even I couldn't find the problem. Apparently we didn't buy the warantee? Whaaa? So called Canon, couldn't troubleshoot, but they have a warantee program of their own. Replace mine for free with a factory refurbished. I know, I thought the same thing - made me a little nervous. My new printer is new. And works like a charm. Perhaps I can scrap tonight? If I can stay up passed 11, that is. Can someone PLEASE tell my kids that 6 am is simply not acceptable as a wake up time? Just trying to make it to the weekend. At least I won't have to adjust their schedules when the time changes.

March goal: Get the new camera fixed. Take more pictures.
I know I have a website check coming and it's time to fix the new camera. You know, the one that was a week old and I dropped it? Time to send it back. And then take pics till I wear it out. My pics lately are adorable, but (1) there aren't enough and (2) I'm just not inspired by them to scrap. Weird.

Went digi for the last week. Will update my albums so you can see. Happy Wednesday.

Welcome, March.

Got a real eye-catcher here for my March Magazine's favorite pick. Love how really truly actually makes me dizzy!
Stop Spinning by Beckie Dreyer. March ScrapStreet Magazine, pg. 22 (Design Square).


I'm hoping March slows down a bit... our gymnastics season will be coming to an end, we can't possibly have any other sickness in this house because we had it ALL last week, ready for a bit of warmer weather, feelin' the need to get outside. Celebrating McKenna's 2nd in a few weeks, but wouldn't mind a low-key month. Please?

Notice some changes around the blog? Special thanks to Dora @ ScrapStreet and her plethora of blog tutorials... still working on it, but gosh, it already looks so pretty, right?!

Sketch #11 Layouts!

Welcome Chrissy, from TTT!

and my own...did ya find it in the Feb. mag? =)

O/T (lol) Facebook

Yup. I joined. Didn't really realized I was missing anything, but now it's so fun, I'm totally addicted! I threw a snowball at all my friends this morning. =)

So come Facebook me... you'll never know what you'll get!

See if this works: http://www.facebook.com/people/Lindsey_Krauss/1087265644
If not, you know how to get a hold of me!

Still Cookin'

at ScrapStreet.com!

Send your Stickers

as per Lisa Bearnson's blog today,
I am pledging to send Brian stickers every month for the rest of the year.

Read more about Lisa meeting Brian here on Feb. 7th.

Brian Nishimoto
5663 W. 11200 North
Highland, UT 84003

Like games?

I do!! Playing 'Dine and Dash Game' at ScrapStreet! One starter and 8 courses - 9 pages and I haven't actually searched for a deadline yet... teehee!

No worries. Been cooking - no - scrapping up a storm! (It's about time and it feels great!)

Here are my 1st courses. eta more courses 2/3!

My starter {had to have COOK on it somewhere}:

My 1st course {sketch}:

My 3rd course {no paper!!}:

My 4th course {4: pics, words in title, elements & papers}:

My 5th course {use a post-it note}:

can't get my slide.coms to work lately... grr.

Big Boy

Matthew turned 5! The day he was born, I could not have fathomed this day. I couldn't quite get passed counting in weeks or months, in diapers, in laundry loads.

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Now here he is, with a mind and body of his own...

We love to see his big boy habits, but it breaks my heart at the same time! He's got a sense of humor like no other (even his teachers pointed it out!), is happy at heart but definately knows what he wants!

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Another gymnastics party while I can still convince him that's the cool thing to do (successfully evaded Chuck-e-Cheese!) and lots of friends and family to celebrate with us.

Here's Matthew's 5th Birthday minibook:

it's still a work in progress, so check back!

*sigh* 220 days till he gets on the schoolbus. *sniff!

Relocation

Ok, so nothing is completely sealed in stone, yet, but we are beginning the packing process. I can pack anything ...anything at all... until I hit the scraproom!! I need to weed, clean, donate, store, and reorganize, all the while, packing a few of the things I use everyday to bring to Mom's.

I need tips!! Please post some tips here for moving the scraproom. We'll be moving in with Mom and Dad for a few months and I'm not afraid to give/donate/trash stuff away. I have some stuff stored in the large Priority boxes (the ones that can hold 12"x12") to keep things in theme. What the heck do I do with those? I know I'll use my brand new Crop-in-Style to bring along my newer papers and kits... but I have no idea how I'll keep all my embellishments with me in a very small space. And what do I do with the rest? Please help! Any and all tips welcomed!

Happy New Year!!

No new resolutions this year - still being weight conscious, would like to find the time to do another show (Pippin auditions coming up soon!), adding TTT's message board to my dailies (or almost dailies), and I'm choosing one super layout from the magazine every month. I meant to do it last month, but never got to it, so today, I'm posting my 2 favs - 1 from December, 1 from January. If I can, I'm even going to try to scraplift it - y not?

This month, as the we're visiting the streets of Barbados (and I can tell you from experience, driving with the locals is one wild and crazy - and a little scary - experience there!!) Kory Ann Dordea's layout, Nothing Stops the Tears is my all-time favorite this month. I just love that it's not your normal happy layout, but it's beauty is not any less. I love this design. I love this concept. Stunning!! See it here.





Supplies: Paper: BasicGrey, Cardstock: Bazzill & Die Cuts With a View, Chipboard Flourishes, Word, Jewels: K & Company, Rub On Alphabets: Making Memories, Other: Sewing Machine & Thread.









Now, last month's favorite is actually from a girl I worked with for the Santa article. I just found this frame by Jenna Franklin so sweet and sparkly! Fun! See it here.

Supplies: Paper: American Crafts, $1 Frame: Michael's, Ribbon: American Crafts, Green Stickles: Ranger, Paint: Plaid, Mod Podge: Plaid, Holly leaves and berry brads: Making Memories, Chipboard letter stickers: American Crafts, Epoxy tax: Making Memories, Vinyl tag: American Crafts.

It's about taggin' time!

I'm so bad at fufilling blog tag duties! My good friend Tobey tagged me today and I'm going tag a few friends, most of whom have tagged me in the past at some time or another!

The rules of the game:
*Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog.
*Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, we all want to know them.
*Tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs.
*Let each person know that they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

Ok, 7 random facts?
Let's see...
1. I despise any food leftover in the sink. Sink must be spotless and foodless!
2. I played piano for about 10 years. I can barely play a song now.
3. I have a heart condition.
4. My daughter loves Big Comfy Couch. My son loves Spongebob.
5. I was a terror as a little girl. I was a terror as a teenager!
6. I went to 10 different schools. Army brat and proud of it!
7. I have a stack of completed scrapbook pages about a foot and a half high that need to be put in albums. That stack is resting on 2 empty albums. =)

So I'm tagging, right here and right now:
Chrystal
Kimberly
Melanie
Jen W.
Mireille
Nicole
Ambearluv
Leigh

another wall comes down.

You may or may not know that I have a 'wall of layouts' downstairs. I get to post 12 of them up on large clips and thumbtacks for all to see. When 12 are hung, and the next one scrapped, I take down the wall. I always take a picture of the wall, intending to blog it, but never get to. Instead of blogging the wall, I made a Slide instead. Enjoy!
Under each is the title and the site I designed the page for: ScrapStreet (SS), Transparent Touches (TTT), Scrapper's Anonymous (SA), or From Here 2 Scrapternity (FH2S).

Who's Kissin Santa Claus?

Kenna's kissin' Santa Clause!
Still can't figure out if there is an e on his name or not, but who cares!
Finally got around to using my Prima Paintable!

Gee, whatever will I work with?

My canvases are blank and my subjects, just beautiful in my eyes!
This is just the 1st of many Christmas photo ops...
and look what I've got to work with!

don't slow down

in the midst of the busiest time of my life (who knew?!) I'm pledging to do a little more blogging about my otherwise boring little world. I mean, at least to blog more than once a month... lol.



I've joined The Amazing Race at Transparent Touches & Tags - "TTT" - home to the world's most wonderful transparencies and personalized customer service... Gonna post a little Slide.com with my layouts... it's winner by draw, but we can stay and design as long as we want. I'm in round two, now, finishing up that layout soon. Oh, and you'll have to view the gallery to see them in color!
Enjoy!

Meltdown

It seems, after 2 weeks of broken printer, unhappy computer, rebuilding time and no editing program, I can see the light! When it rains, it pours. Although my husband did say it was nice to have me "around the house" for a few more hours a day than normal, it feels nice that the end is almost here. It seems that PhotoShop CS2 is on its way home - right now, 9 pm on a Saturday night!
So say hello to a newly cleaned computer, a new Canon scanner/printer, Word programs that actually work for me now, AND CS2... it's the new me!

digital contest --> leads to a c.t. postion!

Visit for details here:
http://scrapstreet.com/MessageBoard/index.php?board=97.0

Digital Designer Contest

This contest will take place during the month of November 2007.On Friday November 2 the first round will begin. There will be four rounds in total in which you will be asked to design a variety of papers, elements or layouts (or a combination).For each round the details of the challenge will be posted and you will have one week to complete the challenge.There will be no elimination during this contest so every contestant will have the same opportunity to show her/his work.

Winners will be announced December 7 and invitations to join the ScrapStreet Digital Design Team will be sent by December 10.

As a ScrapStreet Digital Designer you will receive:
- Unlimited free space in the store to sell your designs. You will receive all money after PayPal fees.
- Free download of all the other digital work in the store.
- Publication of your designs and layouts in the magazine.

As a ScrapStreet Digital designer you are required to:
- Create a minimum of nine digital kits (or paper packs plus embellishments) per year to sell in the store.
- Create a minimum of one free kit per year for the ScrapStreet free monthly kit for the magazine.
- Create a minimum of four layouts or projects per year with other designers’ kits.For more information and details please view the complete digital designer contract here: contract.

How to enter:
Upload to the Scrapstreet.com Audition Gallery either a preview of a kit that you have for sale or a digital (or hybrid) layout or project by November 1, 2007. You need to be a registered member of ScrapStreet.com to have access to this gallery.

Please note: By uploading your work into the Audition Gallery you will automatically declare the following:
- I have read and agree to abide to the rules and details of the contest
- I have read and agree to the digital designer contract
- I declare that I am able to enter the contest. In the event of being successful, I am free to sell my digital designs at Scrapstreet.com, without infringing any other contracts I may currently have.

Rules of Scrapstreet Design Contest 2007
1. All designs and projects must be created specifically for this contest. They cannot have been used, shown or sold (including freebies) anywhere online via a store, free listing site, gallery or blog.
2. All contestants must host their designs for download with a file sharing and storage site of their choice, e.g.. 4shared or rapidshare. Only download links from such a service are acceptable.
3. All downloads must contain your Terms of Use (including a list of commercial credits for any commercial use items) and a preview image of size 600x600 pixels.
4. All elements must be JPEG or PNG files in 300 ppi. Papers must be 12” x 12” and any frames must be standard sizes e.g. 7x5, 6x6, 6x4 inches etc.
5. High quality work is required; please check your work for stray pixels, jagged edges etc. Sloppy or careless work will not be rewarded by the judges.
6. Each round requirement will be posted in the Scrapstreet Digital Design Contest Forum after the preceding round has closed. This should be no later than Saturday 9 A.M. Central Time.
7. You must upload the design previews and projects with any relevant details to the correct ScrapStreet Contest Round gallery at a size of 600x600 pixels. If applicable add a link to the zip files for download in the description. Be sure to list all credits, including credit for anything you used that you didn't make yourself including commercial use items. Do not post any direct links to any other website or blog, personal or business in your gallery descriptions.
8. You are allowed to promote your contest work on your personal websites and blogs provided you link directly to ScrapStreet.com. NO downloads are allowed from your personal or any other website/blog until after the contest.
9. The cut off time for each round will be Friday at 6 PM central time (time is as shown in the forums).
10. You will not be allowed to make ANY changes to your kit, description, links or projects after the cut off time and date for each round.
11. You agree that all registered members of ScrapStreet may download your designs for free personal use.
12. The judges will award votes for each round. These will be combined and the total amount at the end of the 4 rounds will determine the top designers. Based on the results of the contest, invitations to join the ScrapStreet digital team will be sent to those top designers.

Please note: Not observing the rules is grounds for elimination.

PS. Are you not a kit designer, but do you like to create digital or hybrid layouts and projects with digital elements? You may be just what we are looking for! For details see here: Creative Team search:

Do you like to create digital or hybrid layouts and projects with digital elements?
Show us your work!
During the contest the contestants will create digital papers and embellishments which will be free to download for registered members.To show your appreciation and support for the contestants, please download their designs, create some wonderful projects with these and upload them in the Appreciation Gallery!
We may send you an invitation to join our Creative Team!

Memory Mania Masterpieces!!

((Link to/from Resume))

Hey all! These are the layouts that were picked up by Memory Mania Masterpieces!

Enjoy& tfl!

page 9

page 13
page 23
page 27
page 93
page 95

Live your life with arms wide open...

hey! fast forward!! listen here:
http://lindseysscraps.blogspot.com/2012/02/musical-mondays-arms-wide-open.html

SO much traffic comes to this very post, I wanted to share John 3:16.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

If you want more information or want to talk, just leave a comment!  xoxo

Natasha Bedingfield's UNWRITTEN touches me so deeply every single time I listen to it. I've been meaning to scrap the words, especially the arms wide open part for some time. Now, it's time. Lyrics are below. Lyrics are on the blog. Song's on my MySpace and now, on here, too. Thanks for taking the journey with me.

Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

I am unwritten,

Can't read my mind

I'm undefined

I'm just beginning

The pen's in my hand

Ending unplanned

Staring at the blank page before you

Open up the dirty window

Let the sun illuminate the words

That you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance

So close you can almost taste it

Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten, yeah

Oh, oh

I break tradition

Sometimes my tries

Are outside the lines, oh yeah yeah

We've been conditioned

To not make mistakes

But I can't live that way oh no

Staring at the blank page before you

Open up the dirty window

Let the sun illuminate the words

That you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance

So close you can almost taste it

Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

(Gospel)

Staring at the blank page before you

Open up the dirty window

Let the sun illuminate the words

That you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance

So close you can almost taste it

Release your inhibitions

Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

Feel the rain on your skin

No one else can feel it for you

Only you can let it in

No one else, no one else

Can speak the words on your lips

Drench yourself in words unspoken

Live your life with arms wide open

Today is where your book begins

The rest is still unwritten

The rest is still unwritten

The rest is still unwritten

Pure Mania!

Got the book today- it's more fabulous than I could have ever expected! I have 6 layouts in it and Matthew and McKenna both had a ball looking thru it with me, discovering themselves - and other kids! Plus, it came with a lovely kit full of goodies, a canvas bag and the book - all neatly wrapped up in a puzza box! I'd say... they know how to please. ;)
Oh! and "stay tuned for Masterpieces II". I will!!

Why scrap from scratch when you can

scrap from sketch?

to buy the book: http://www.memorymaniac.com/
view the blog: http://memorymania.blogspot.com/

I wanna be a Cool Chick!

Back to one of my lil fav sites...Creative Crafts & Stickers. Cool contest!

Check it out: http://www.creativecraftsandstickers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8099

Info!

Come and check out the summer's COOLEST SECRET....Come and visit Creative Crafts and Stickers for the summer's HOTTEST contest. Come and create some scrap pages, meet some new friends and win some prizes!!Contest begins on Monday August 13th. Contest sign ups will be held up until Sunday August 12th at 12 noon EST.In order to enter, you must sign up to be a member of the Creative Crafts and Stickers message board with a minimum of 25 posts (not including game posts) by the start of the contest.Random prize draws will be done every week for all participants and our last COOL CHICK standing will WIN BIG!!!!A BONUS prize drawing will be held for all of those who sign up before Tuesday August 7th. So come and sign up early for LOTS of fun!To find out more details about this COOL contest, check us out at creativecraftsandstickers.com.