Zach turns 1!!!!

My nephew Zach turned one year old today!!!!! Happy Birthday Zach!!!!

New Bo Bunny

Hopping to the MemoryWorks catalog....Bo Bunny!!!

Alissa
Abbey Road
Grease MonkeyU Bug Me

New Jenny Bowlin

I love Jenni Bowlin's elegant and simple designs. Check out some of Jenni's new products now available in the MemoryWorks warehouse.

Red & Black

Farmer's Wife

MemoryWorks has now welcomed some of Jenni's best new embellishments including chipboard buttons, bingo cards, calendar cards (shown above), letter stickers and much much more!

March MemoryWorks Kit

Our hearts are just quivering to introduce our 2009 March kit...Join in our flight of fancy with our "All-a-Flutter" kit!

Yummy colors like lime greens, oranges, and browns mixed with fabulously fun patterns and packed with oh-so-fun "birdie" elements, our March kit will have your creativity soaring...

Patterned Paper
{1} 12x12 Penny Lane Free Bird - "Passion" Swirly Bird (My Minds Eye)
{1} 12x12 Penny Lane Free Bird - "My Friend" Bonded (My Minds Eye)
{1} 12x12 Nonsense - Sing Song (We R Memory Keepers)
{1} 12x12 Nonsense - Bling Blang (We R Memory Keepers)
{1} 12x12 Off Beat - Casual (BasicGrey)
{1} 12x12 Off Beat - Nonchalant (BasicGrey)

Solid Cardstock
{1} 12x12 Butter Cream (Prism)
{1} 12x 12 Frosted Kiwi (Prism)
{1} 12x12 Papaya Puree Medium (Prism)
{1} 12x12 Blush Red Medium (Prism)

Embellishments
{1} 5x8 Penny Lane Free Bird "Love" - Die Cut Sheet (My Minds Eye)
{1} 4 x 3 Penny Lane Free Bird "Beauty" - Die Cut Shape (My Minds Eye)
{1} 3 x 7 Penny Lane Free Bird "Friend" - Transparency (My Minds Eye)
{1} 6x6 Flowers & Circle Shapes Raw Chipboard (Scenic Route)
{1} 6x12 Sheet Bon Bon Loopy Lous (Doodlebug Designs)
{1} 3 x 6 X-Large Orange Notes Tag - Creative Café (Creative Imaginations)
{1} Orange Puffy Felt Flower - Creative Café (Creative Imaginations)
{1} Lime Puffy Felt Flower - Creative Café (Creative Imaginations)
{3} Chocolate Felt Flower - Creative Café (Creative Imaginations)
{12} Off Beat Buttons - Assorted Colors & Sizes (BasicGrey)
{1} 2" Bird Clear Stamp - Rhonna Farrer (Autumn Leaves)
{1} Yard 5/8" Celery Dot Grosgrain Ribbon (May Arts)
{1} Yard 3/8" Stripped Ribbon (We R Memory Keepers)

Bonus Cards
{1} 5.5x8.5 Butter Cream (Prism)
{1} 5.5x8.5 Frosted Teal (Prism)
{1} 5.5x8.5 Frosted Kiwi (Prism)
{1} 5.5x8.5 Papaya Puree Medium (Prism)
{1} 5.5x8.5 Blush Red Medium (Prism)
{5} 5 3/4 x 4 3/8 Natural Envelopes

New D-Ring Albums & Tiny Alphas

Two new products in the MemoryWorks warehouse that are sure to be a HUGE hit!!!Introducing Making Memories 12x12 embossed leather albums! Each album comes with 10 page protectors and a book plate on the spine. These beautiful albums come in six fabulous colors sure to make your memories something to look at for years to come, and you won't believe the price!!---$20!!!

I am in LOVE with these tiny alphabets by Making Memories!! I'm so excited to welcome these to the MemoryWorks warehouse. Available in 4 different colors.

New Pebbles

I am super excited about the new Pebbles line now on sale through MemoryWorks. This is a new direction for Pebbles and I think they are going to skyrocket with it! Take a look at these bright bold patterns!!!!

Down Town

Linnie Bell

Skipping Along
So Tweet

Forever & Always

Finally getting a few pictures scrapped from my sisters wedding (which was last October!). All supplies are from my February Scrapbook Circle kit (minus the bling and flowers). I used this sketch from Pencil Lines for my inspiration.

Challenge #18: Blurry Photos

Scrap Whispers challenge #18 really is just that!! A challenge. We want you to dig out those out of focus, blurry photos that normally you wouldn't even dream of scrapping! We want to see the bad ones from the bunch and for you to scrap them and make them look pretty!

I decided to scrap some Christmas photos of me and my son playing around with our reindeer antlers. My husband is terrible at taking pictures and they always seem to end up blurry. I printed a few of these off really small so that you wouldn't notice that the resolution wasn't that great. Stop over to the Scrap Whispers blog to see what the other design team member creations!

1, 2, 3--I Love U

I just love these cute pictures I took of my nephew on Valentine's Day. As the journaling reads--"cutest Valentine baby ever!" All supplies were from my February Scrapbook Circle kit.

Challenges:
Scrapping the Music- The title to this layout comes from this week's song at Scrapping the Music "1, 2, 3, 4" by The Plain White T's----LOVE this song!!!
Inspired Blueprints- I followed this layout as my inspiration.

New Dreamstreet

Wow! Such soft pretty colors in the new Dreamstreet paper in the MemoryWorks warehouse.

Secret Garden

Forever Family

Fresh
***This is my personal favorite---love the soft blue and greens!***

New Pink Paislee

More new products in the MemoryWorks warehouse!!!! New Pink Paislee is in the house! LOVE the new bright, bold patterns. Check it out (don't you just love these names?!):

"Fetching"

"Fascinating"
"Captivating"
"Enchanting"

Felt Buttons

This past week I've been busy sewing these cute little buttons! I just love them!! I was inspired by an etsy shop: Vintage Remnants. I've been really into felt lately. It's cheap and you can make just about anything with it! I can't wait to put these embellishment to use in a layout. I also can't wait to make more little goodies---maybe some shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day??!

Spoiler alert!!!! These little felt embellishments will be included in the March Moment's to Remember kit!!!! I'm so excited to contribute to the kit this month and can't wait to share it with you.

Mary: Mrs. A. Lincoln

Mary by Janis Cooke Newman

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
I really enjoyed this book. It was a very long book, but well worth the read. It has sparked my interest into learning more about Abe & Mary Lincoln--and finding out what truths were actually told in the book. I liked how the book moved back and forth between time periods. Definitely recommended especially to those who are into history (or historical fiction).


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March MemoryWorks Sneak Peek

March 2009 "All a Flutter"

Our hearts are just quivering to introduce our 2009 March kit..

Tweet! Join in our flight of fancy with our March 2009 "All a Flutter" kit. Yummy lime greens, oranges, and browns mixed with fabulously fun patterns, loads of embellishments and packed full of oh-so-popular bird elements will have you soaring...

New Lower Price - Now Only $29.95!

Marks Paper Company

Have you heard of Marks Paper Company yet?? They are a brand new scrapbooking company!!! It's always exciting to see a new company--especially when many companies are bailing out right now! Our fabulous charming fairy at Moments to Remember--Ching, is on the new design team. To celebrate the opening of Marks Paper Company, Ching is offering some blog candy!! Ching has a full set of each of the following paper lines to give away--that's 2 winners! Stop over to her blog for a chance to win!!

Challenge #17: You're My Best Friend

This week at Scrap Whispers we are scrapping our best friends. Celebrate your best friends, whether they're your significant other, your pet, your girlfriends, or your children!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use any or all of the lyrics of Queen's "You're my best friend" in a layout, card or altered item. Use the words as your title or journaling. As an extra twist, use the colors pink, red, and white somewhere in your layout.

Here's what I created (with my new Scrapbook Circle kit!!!):


I hand sewed the word "love" onto a small piece of clear transparency (I actually just cut a small piece off of an old page protector). This allowed me to place the word anywhere on the layout. Super cool!!!!

Stop over to the Scrap Whispers blog to check out what the other DT member created. You will also see a You Tube video with lyrics to the song.

Happy Valentines Day!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

New Basic Grey

More new products arriving in the MemoryWorks warehouse---new Basic Grey products!!!! Check out these amazing new lines:

Porcelain

Marrakech

Contact me to place your order today!!!

February 12th

I had so much fun taking pictures all day! Here are my 12 of 12 random pictures for the day:

My little morning helper

Daycare Valentine's Day Party!

Cupcakes!!!

Daycare schedule for the day
Jack enjoying the warmer weather
My little cutiepie nephew
Phish tickets in the mail!!!!
Valentine's from the daycare kids
Adam had a great day at school!
Book I'm currently reading--today also happens to be Abe Lincoln's 200th birthday!
Dinner at the Olive Garden