All good things must come to an end *g*

Yes, it's true, tonight's post will give you the link to the final part of the Southwest Shabby Kit - the alpha's! Never fear though - there will be freebies every so often here - I can't NOT give you guys prizes, you know?

The last few days have been really odd here where I live; it's gone from humid and mid eighties to 65 and really breezy in a matter of a day. The meteorologist says it's not going to be on the warm side again until Monday. Heck, he even showed the low temp for Saturday as 48 degrees. 48 degrees?!?!?!?!? I'm not ready for it to be Fall again! I know the kids are going back to school soon (if they haven't already), and that makes some parents breathe a sigh of releif. To me, it just signifies all of the "lazy days" coming to an end, and that makes me a little sad.

Before I forget...here's the last preview and download for the Southwest Shabby kit. Congratulations! If you've downloaded all of the previous links (and I can see that you all have hot download fingers LOL!) then you will have the entire thing. Show me what you do with it - I am really interested to see how you express yourselves creatively!! I also realize that some people don't find rapidshare really friendly. I'm looking into alternatives for that, so be on the lookout.

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We have veggies!

I went out to the garden today and we have one ripe tomato, one pepper that is HUGE and another that is growing. I haven't seen any of the eggplants or the zuccinis yet - the flowers are there, but the vegetable isn't showing yet. My husband is the gardener (thank god) - I have a black thumb (killed cactus plants once). All I get to do is water it when needed when my husband is away. Thankfully, Mother Nature has been seeing to that *G*.

Here's the next installmet to the kit - I appreciate all of the wonderful comments you all have made!

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Weekend Freebie!

Hey my friends! I am so sorry..I did not make my 'regular' post yesterday - the day simply just got away from me. By the time I realized I hadn't given you a yell, it was almost 1:15 am - way too late (or early as the case may be) for me to make sense. Kinda of in a little bit of a funk - the Red Sox dropped both games in the double header to the Yankees yesterday. It just looked like they've run out of gas. Hoping that the remaining three games show them having more energy!

Here's the next portion of the free kit I've been offering - thank you for all of your kind words!

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Happy Humpday!

Yep..I'm REALLY late posting today - my apologies! I was messing with making some ribbons (of course I will share them with you...but not tonight *weg*), and it took me longer than usual to follow the tutorial I was using (some days I just have a teflon brain). Anyhow, I have your next piece of the kit - I would love to see how you use it, so feel free to drop me a line either here or at [scrpgoddess AT gmail DOT com] with a link to your project.

Enjoy!

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Monday Monday

Ick..it's Monday again :P Today it hit me harder than normally because I ended Saturday (and began Sunday) by having an severe insomniac "session". I got up at 8 AM on Saturday, went to bed at 11:30 PM Saturday night, but couldn't sleep. I made myself lay there until 1:42 AM, and then got up to do something other than stare at the ceiling. I was so wide awake I saw the sun come up lol. I fell asleep somewhere around 6:30 AM Sunday, but had to be up no later than 10 AM because I had a hair appointment (yep, on a Sunday *G*). Sunday night/Monday morning, I had to make sure my DH was up to leave for his business trip. So while I slept solidly when I was asleep, I was screwed up from getting up in the middle of the night. Tonight I should be absolutely OBLIVIOUS LOL! You'd have thought with all of that time awake I would have posted another installment of the SW Shabby kit, but nooooo...my remaining braincell was fried (Sorry about that!). Well, let me make up for it today by giving you the next part - some pretty neat brushes (if I do say so myself!).

Before you download...I need to make a request though...and I know it's happening (not telling you how though - you can figure that out heheh). Please do not forward the download links to the parts of this kit - if you want to share these goodies (and I am all for you doing that), would you please send people to the blog itself so they can download it? Thank you in advance - you guys are the BEST!

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Sunny Saturday Freebie

Before I get to the freebie, I have to apologize; I posted the wrong download link for yesterday's goodie! a HUGE thanks to Mary who let me know - the correct link is up on that post now that matches the preview. That's what happens when I'm watching the Red Sox play, carrying on a conversation with my DH AND posting *g*. Incase you didn't catch the game last night, they beat the Baltimore Orioles 9-2 - if you go to redsox.com you'll see some interesting highlights of the game (it had to be a good one, I was yelling at the T.V. again!).

Here's today's free portion of Shabby Southwest - enjoy!

::DoWnLoAd HeRe::

Frrrriday Freebie!

Yes, my friends it's Friday :-) My favorite part of the week is Friday as I am driving home from work, just because it's a time that's FULL of potential for all of the neat things I can get accomplished over the weekend. To celebrate my "favorite time of the week" - here's part two of the Southwest Shabby Free kit. I appreciate all of the nice comments that I've received thus far - you gals can make a girl blush!

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Just for you!!

I don't know how many of you are like this with your projects - but I work SEVERAL projects at once! I have a couple of scarves I'm knitting, a poncho/wrap I'm crocheting, a couple of jewelry projects, and of course the graphics and digital scrapping stuff. (No, I am not exagerating lol, anyone who knows me well, knows how spastic I can be.) I have several scrap bits and kits going at once, and I really wanted to finish ONE so that I could offer it to you. I posted the preview to the entire kit last night, but each night there will be a preview to show you what piece you are downloading for that day. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment, or as Traci Sims says..if you download, leave me some love. (Sorry Traci, I had to borrow that phrase..I love it!)



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Here's what you'll be getting!

I promised to post this yesterday, but as life has an awful habit of doing, plans changed....so here's a preview of the free kit I am offering - it will be downloadable in parts posted ever day (or two days) or so. If you download, please leave me a comment to let me know what you thought of it :-)

I FINALLY did it!!

I finally did it. I don't think pigs are flying, nor hell frozen over, but I posted my first layout in a gallery. I've been at odds with doing one, because I don't have any kids, and the DH isn’t really excited about being in any photographs. So, I did the next best thing, and shot one of his favorite spring/summer pursuits – the vegetable garden. My DH is a very technically minded, fix-anything-that's mechanical kind of guy, so when he first brought up having a veggie garden to me a few years ago, I was clearly skeptical. I have to say, he's got an amazing green thumb though – as opposed to mine which is black and withering *weg* (I killed cactus – need I say more?)

Anyhow, this is the layout I posted about his garden – a shot right after planting, with another taken today. Feel free to leave a comment about the layout – I would love some constructive criticism. And before I forget – I have a new kit that I am going to be giving away a piece at a time here starting within the next day or so. Keep your eyes peeled!

Here are the notes on my layout:

Kit Used: Melon In Paradise by Tracy Simms
Fonts Used: Amorie, Arial Black
Doodle by: Elemental Creations
Software: Photoshop CS2
Equipment: Wacom Graphire 3 Tablet
Journaling: My own (messy!) handwriting

Completed August 6th, 2006

Hot enough for you?

Every time I hear that question I just want to reach over and bitchslap the person that says it!! Obviously if it's hot enough for some fool to ask that moronic question, then it's DEFINITELY hot enough for me to be more than a little edgy.

I don't know what it is, but extreme heat (more so than the cold) seems to make people more spacey, short tempered, and given to saying (and doing) things that anyone with an ounce of common sense would know is a really bad idea. I'm no exception to this *weg*

My DH and I went out to run errands yesterday and found ourselves at 'Wally World' (WalMart), which is my least favorite place simply because there seems to be an abundance of people there who will look you straight in the eye and stop dead in front of something you are trying to look at. We were looking at a display of DVD's, and this family of several adults with toddlers stop RIGHT in front of us and begin looking at the very same display! One of them turned around and looked my DH right in the eye (as he was craning his neck around them to still see), and turned back around to look at the DVD's at their leisure. It was all I could do not to tap her on the shoulder and say, "Please, no hurry, whenever YOU'RE done, we'll get back to looking at the DVD's."

If that wasn't bad enough, I heard and saw no less than three sets of parents with kids allowing them to run wild, be loud, and yell at them because they didn't like what they were being told. Holy hell, if myself or one of my sisters had done that when we were kids, we would have been punished without blinking an eye. I don't have kids of my own, but I HAVE done 'long term rentals' (otherwise known as guardianship), taught sunday school (Yeah, I know...me...in a church...and it didn't implode on me!), and I can tell you that it's becoming more and more apparent to me that in a lot of cases, kids run their households; parents are just a figurehead. It's so sad....

And now that you've put up with my crazy ranting (definitely because of the heat and humidity here), I have a little goodie for you! I was playing around with alternate alpha type sets, and since I am a music freak, thought this was an appropriate start:-)

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I would love to hear from you if you download any of the goodies on this blog - tell me how you're using them! I love to see the different directions people's creativity goes in!

Never Say Never

Well, here I am.


I've visited blogs. I've even left a comment or two. I've NEVER considered actually publishing my own. I couldn't possibly have anything to say that you'd want to read - could I? Doesn't matter really; You are going to get the pleasure of my rambling anyhow :-). If you don't find my sense of humor (sarcastic, silly AND dry all in one shot), or my subject matter appealing, no worries; I won't be insulted. Variety is the 'spice of life' and I'd really hate to think that there wasn't at least one person who disagreed or couldn't relate to me. That's why I really like people who tend to think outside of the box - because frankly, it's awfully dark in there!

Alright, figured I'd provide you with a freebie brush set for scrapping, tagging, etc. formatted for photoshop. However, if you aren't a PS user, I also included the PNG files for you. Here's a preview of the set:

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