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A Winner, More D.A.M. Good Stuff & My Nephew...

Last Monday I was feeling the need to share the creativity and offered a one year subscription to Digital Artist Magazine to a random commenter on that entry....and the winner is:

Sharon, keep your eyes peeled for an e-mail from me later this afternoon...I want to make sure your subscription goes to the right address!  Hopefully you will enjoy the magazine as well as the exclusive monthly digital kits that are included.  :)

Speaking of DAM, the daily blog party leading up to the second anniversary and publication re-launch celebration is still in full swing.  Here's what's going on today, Day 9......

Also, you can still take part in yesterday's activities...you have until Thursday to get in on the chance to win the sweet prizes listed here:

If you jump in on the Day 8 challenge & leave me a comment with a link to your entry I will pick a random participant to receive the August and September issues of DAM. Let's see what you can do with the adorable template freebie for this challenge!
Come on now, show me what you got!!!   LOL

Meet my newest nephew (aka Li-Ley's little brother), John Michael.  Isn't he precious?!?!?!?

Credits: Jofia Devoe - Dream Whispers and Aja Abney - Word Art Snippets

Lookie Here.....

Digital Artist Magazine is undergoing some major changes in the *very* near (like right now!) future. To kick off the celebration of the facelift, as well as the second anniversary, there are some cool things going on daily at the DAM blog over the course of the next few weeks. All you have to do is surf over and you could be the lucky winner of some sweet digi prizes!  What's that? You don't do the digi?!? Well now is the time to get started...no excuses!!!

Here's what's happening right now:

To sweeten the pot I will give a random commenter a year's subscription to DAM, yes, ONE FULL YEAR (I am yelling because I am so excited!!!)...all you have to do is comment before Monday, 12:01am (EST).  Tell your friends...this is something you don't want to miss out on.

All The Rage......

for me at least. That's what I think of The Airborne Toxic Event. Here's the acoustic version of the single, "Sometime Around Midnight", it's good but I love the non-acoustic even more...I can not get enough of this song...just ask KL and Ames, they must have heard me play this song like 20 times in the hotel room! For good measure the non-acoustic version was added to my playlist on the lower left tool bar.

This song has me so wrapped up it inspired me to make this layout on Sunday...

With a little luck I might make it over to the Mercury Lounge as I just discovered they are playing Thursday night!

Cleaning Up...

my desktop and came across these. Not sure if I posted them here before & too lazy to go take a look see.  :D

As seen in Digital Artist Magazine - April 2008 issue:


Page theme was "creative use of flowers"...hopefully I captured the creative use.

Real Paper:
A non-digi mini of Lia......the colors are a bit blown out from all the sunlight but, you get the idea.

Still have loads of photos from CHA to sort through, need to finish painting my room so I can move my stuff into it, finish up a few layouts & other projects in the pipeline and then perhaps I'll be all caught up.

Looks like after the crazy weather we had yesterday the sun is finally peeking thru the clouds...maybe I will get a few minutes at the beach after all...if so, all the other stuff on my to do list will have to wait a bit longer as I have a new love of the great outdoors and don't want to miss one moment more than I need to being outside enjoying Mother Earth! 

Black....

my all-time favorite song....how fitting.

Ignore the video clock running throughout the video, it's worth the annoyance just to watch the {Unplugged} version and the beauty that is Eddie Vedder.

And for those who enjoy a nice view of Ed, here's a little treat over at Flickr

Third Time Is A Charm....

I missed her before she left and now 17 hours later I miss her even more....

Enjoying a bit of bubbly and the company of great girlfriends.

Love you Ames!!!!!!

A Glimpse Of The Last Week....

Me and Li-ley kicked it all week doing "projects" (what she calls crafts), dinner at "Carobbie's" (her pronunciation of Carrabba's until said dinner - now she says "Carrabba's" like a big girl), eating Cake Batter & Strawberry ice cream at Crazees, loving blue & purple ice pops, making our own ice pops, watching fireworks, running thru the sprinkler in our bathing suits & doing water ballet (no, I am NOT showing those photos!  LOL), making Flubber (thanks for the recipe Kate!)...and the list just goes on and on.

Supplies Credits: Jen Wilson @ Jen Wilson Designs

Here's a little project that I finished.... "La.De.Dah" a kit by Ker, aka kl, aka Kerry Lynn Yeary...whatever name you know her by you know her as talented and sheer vintage genius. The La.De.Dah. project is from a class that Ker recently taught and it just felt so good to be able to sit on my couch and put this little jewel together....the kit had enough supplies for 3 flowers so I still can make a few more things!  :)

Not sure why this is turning up so blurry here in Typepad....it was clear until the upload but, I have no time to fix it as I am leaving for work in about 10 minutes....oh, well, it will have to do & besides, you get the idea!  :)

Photo Frame by Nancy Comelab exclusively at The Lily Pad

This is facing the front door so it's the first thing you see when you enter thru the front.  The tags have all our initials and our house number. Lots of Hambly, vintage yummy goodness & papers (by KL herself!) in this little project...I threw in a pinch of Sassafrass Lass for good measure.

If you are into kits and some vintage you should definitely check out Ker's Etsy shoppe where she just uploaded this great kit called "Summer Picnic".

Gotta run....work is calling. Later this week I have to post some pics of a killer secret swap I  received from the talented Melissa O. (aka bzzyfingers).  Turns out she has an Etsy shoppe too and I just could not resist buying these 2 adorable handbags....one was a gift and one for me!  ;)  What a talented and cool chick but, more on that later!  :)

Happy Tuesday!!!

Digi Survey.....

Digital Artist Magazine is doing a really quick and easy survey.....it will take you less than 2 minutes to complete and you could win 1 of 5 really cool prizes just for taking a moment to answer a few questions.

Check it out by clicking the image below...

Back To Basics....

that's where I am at right now.

Just a couple finds from one of our favorite antique places.

The old icebox was buried behind some other furniture and had 2 really bad coats of white paint slapped over a really pretty soft green...the green was almost identical to Benjamin Moore's "Scenic Route", which is a beautiful soft vintage green. The wood is so pretty and in really good shape considering this icebox has gone unloved for quite some time but, I just can't resist painting it...a glossy bright aqua/blue-ish color is what I am thinking to contrast the yellow walls in the kitchen. If that blue doesn't get the green light it will be some shade of bright glossy red. Also thinking of adding some zebra print in the recesses of the doors.

The bench came into the store inventory as we were shopping and I could not leave it behind.....the orange velvet, the fringe and that wrought iron is to die for....cleaned it all up and looks cool in the living room.  :)

I'll be back with pictures of the old scale we found to put on top of the icebox, a killer set of TS&T pottery for the table, a cool framed painting, and a beat up old wooden Coca-Cola soda case. Wish it was a Pepsi case but it will do until until we can score one. Until then it's a little more sewing for me and taping off molding in my art room to prepare for painting.

Have a great Friday!  :)

Integrity.....

not everyone has it which became crystal clear to me this weekend.  It's not like it came as a surprise to find that some people don't have integrity...what was a surprise was to see how many people don't have it and are willing to lie through their teeth, lie by omission, embellish the truth, make false allegations, and all sorts of insinuations just so they can be right, to look good in the eyes of others or to hopefully ride someone's coattails to "scrapbook success". With supposed friends like that nobody would ever need an enemy.

Blech!  None of this is for me and certainly not what I signed on for.

As some have made a point of my loyalty "no matter what". That couldn't be farther from the truth.  Just because someone is a friend of mine doesn't mean I will blindly defend them...I only defend what is right, true  & fair. Had it been anyone else in the crosshairs I would have taken the same position I have taken this past week and am taking today....this week those people in the crosshairs just happened to be my friends. 

Proud...that's what I am of those that speak the truth and care more about their integrity & honesty than being a "player" in the Scrapbook industry.

It's now time for all to move on to better things.....

The Kool-Aid wasn't for me.......