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.

designed my 1st tutorial!

this was fun! Special thanks to Janneke & Amber for their help at ScrapStreet.
Here is my (very basic, and meant to be) photo resizing tutorial!

http://www.fromhere2scrapternity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7806&highlight=

sumptin' gone digi diving!

all weekend, was catchin' up on the digi. Besides the fact that I sent my first digi kit to ScrapStreet for listing...which I'm totally (and sillily) excited and nervous about...







I've missed digi, but just lost some mo and jo for it. got 5, i think? maybe 6... done. yay!

just what I needed!

a surprise girl weekend on the Streets! Lookie what they cooked up... with $100 (plus the $15 I saved with my bday coup) in new LSS paper-n-stuff and LOTS of pics from the last 2 months, I'm in desperate need of a girly scrappy slumber party! On my way!!

lately

I've been so crazy busy this July with the nephew in town, but I have managed to sqeeze a few pages out, mostly for ScrapStreet's latest Team contest. You likey?

Don't forget to check out http://MixnMatchSketch.blogspot.com - we're up to sketch #5! One of my newest layouts below is a Mix-n-Match sketch: can you guess which one?

another great TTT crop!

Even though I can't be there nearly as much as I'd like, you should certainly check it out... these crops are always so much fun with great games and fantastic prizes!! Go check it out: TTT Sizzling Summer Cyber Crop

new dt!!

I am absolutely THRILLED to be on the inspirational team for a tiny little, but most importantly FAITH-BASED community, called FromHere2Scrapternity. I wasn't sure if another dt was the thing for me, but FH2S's open welcoming arms are assuring me of a good decision. Anyhow, I'm just getting things back up and moving from being away the long weekend, plus we have our huge family & friend picnic tomorrow for the 3rd of July fireworks, but I'll catch up soon!