Tonight, hubby had the last bite of dressing from Thanksgiving. It was a sad moment for him as he says this year’s dressing was the best he ever had. As he was just diagnosed with full blown diabetes he is going to have to really watch his diet from now on. But, he just had to do the last of the dressing. He worked it out so he could get it into his food until it was gone - -it was all he would have for one of his meals each day.

Moving ON

I just have to share with you all one of the sweet moments we had when the grandson was here - His Papaw thought it was time he learned what a sling shot was.Can you tell how excited he was to get to hold the sacred slingshot? I can see it now, down the road a few years, the two of them getting into trouble together.

Yep, the weather is yucky, rainy and we are just hunkering down and staying indoors. Though, I generally stay indoors anyway, it is hard on hubby. He is stuck watching TV. With over 200 channels he cannot find something to watch. I’m sure you all have heard that before though. He finally settled on watching Planet Earth tonight but it is just too tame and slow for me. I get antsy just sitting there watching it.

The Holiday Countdown at NDISB is still going on. Today is day 7 and there is a cute mini kit for free on their site. Click on the animated, countdown banner above and it will take you to their site.

Because I was bored and did not have anything else to do - ya right - I made you all some card stock to use for Christmas layouts. It is amazing how many designers just don’t get it that cardstock needs to have some texture in it. It does not take much, but a plain color fill just is not designing.It is hard to tell with the preview, but there is a nice texture on each of these. Each one has a different texture as well. You could if you want, recolor them as well. They are Commercial Use OK.  These also should go with many of the Christmas kits you have and might purchase.There are four papers and three bows.

You know how we sometimes have bad hair days? Well, I believe there are days when we have bad tech days. Only, it has been bad tech week for me around here.

It started the first of the week when my big momma, the 8G memory machine went down - - Black screen would not turn on –the works. This lady is only five months old, so it should have be giving me problems. But, there it was, would not turn on. I popped the case and discovered that when you pushed the on button, the fan would give it whirl and then die. Then, one had to disconnect the power source and wait a few minutes before it would try again.

But, Dell came through for me and sent a tech type dude out. The poor man arrived after dark in the rain. Our dirt road is two miles of twisting, little bridges and mud when it rains and really is scary in the dark. There are no street lights out here in the country, the cows gotta have their beauty sleep you know. Anyway, he came and installed a new mother board and power module and everything was fine. It also was done in less than two days after I called them. And, of course I had my laptop to help out.

Then, later in the week, on Friday, the DSL went out. Would you believe they sent out a line man THAT very day and he came EARLY? I was impressed. He and hubby looked at the outside box, at the inside box and then it was decided we needed filters on every single phone jack in the house. We already had two, and he had another in the truck and voila! DSL connection again.

Of course, hubby on the laptop had a minor issue last night. He could not get the internet. I worked on the linksys, powering them down, resetting and the like and then, discovered he had inadvertently turned off the wireless on the laptop. It is very easy to do, and thus I generally check it first. But, not this time.

What a week.

Of course, we are also trying to get NDISB back up. Theresa has a home page and the store is slowing coming back together. More TECH WOES!

Don’t forget to drop by and pick up your daily download over at NDISB today. It was released around 10:00 this morning.

Its getting that time again when the weather around here gets chilly and downright cold now and then. The cats start sleeping with me more and start finding warmer and higher spots to sleep during the day. Hubby and I begin to be sure to put on socks to keep our feet warm and the thermostat goes up on the heater. These manufactured homes (read that as mobile, or trailer homes) sure are hard to keep warm at times.

Anyway, Clio found the perfect spot today when hubby got up to work in the kitchen. He had been browsing the web and had left the laptop open by his chair. When I came into the kitchen to see what he was doing as it is not normal for him to do kitchen duties I looked over and saw her. And that my friends, is how the cat bumwarmer was discovered.

Doesn’t she look as if she is just daring me to try and move her?

Moving On

Natural Designs In Scrap Booking (NDISB) is sort of up and running again. Unfortunately the store isn’t back up but the unfinished Home Page is and we are having a Countdown to Christmas. This was suppose to start yesterday but unfortunately again the fates were against us but Theresa has the Countdown Calendar up along with the first download Free Holiday Kit for you. This is going to be an awesome kit by the time you get everything downloaded. So don’t miss out on any of it. Click on the ad below to go the homepage where you can download the pieces. You can get pasts portions by scrolling down towards the bottom and going to the previous days’s posts.

Moving On

OK - the subject line says a freebie, so here it is. I made some stuff to kick off the Christmas Season and to help get us in the spirit of it all. It includes three papers, two fairies and a gnome all in the colors of the season.

Yep, in this land of drought, I am dealing with mud. Obviously, the drought has let up enough to send a little rain and now my road is muddy. I know I have mentioned before that I live down a dirt road off the main roads. It is about two miles to a paved road. What I have not mentioned is the cheap stuff they put on our dirt road to make us think our tax dollars are going for something. It is like a find cement that clogs up and makes mud big time. If you don’t wash it off before it dries you get hard rock on your truck.

So, Saturday, I HAD to go get Thanksgiving groceries. Hubby had gone into to town earlier in the week, but got mad and did not get groceries. (Some how I neglected to give him the new proof of insurance for this quarter and he needed it to purchase a inspection sticker, sigh. My bad.) Anyway, it had rained but I did not think the road would be bad –WRONG

The road was very bad, I almost went off into the ditch several times and that was just on the way out. Coming back was really worse. At one point I lost control of the truck and just knew I was going off the little bridge.  This was after the truck had spun all over the road coming down to the bridge and the brakes had gone out. It was scary!

So, yesterday I got out with the hose to get the mud out of the wheel well. I never knew it could cake up so much. There was at least six inches of mud built up inside. The tire barely had room to spin. Plus, the mud had been slung over the step rail that Ford so conveniently provided. It took me an hour to get it all off. I was not washing the truck, just spraying the mud off the four wheel wells - no soap, no scrubbing just spraying.

My back was yelling at me to quit by the time I was on the third tire, by the fourth tire, I was staggering. But, it is all done and hubby will not have to do it when he gets back from Houston tomorrow. (Sure want to keep hubby happy for the holidays!)

The before photos did not do justice to how much mud there was, so here is the after where you can see the mud sitting on the ground where it fell from the truck - keep in mind a lot of it just dissolved and washed away.

MUD

Moving on

With Turkey day coming up I wanted to make sure to remind you all to keep your fur babies safe. A special friend just lost two of her kitties and my heart really goes out to her. If something happened to my one of mine, I would really be devastated. AS I told her, we get such a short time with our fur friends since their life span is so much shorter than humans. That seems to make them all the more special.

But, lets keep our friends safe during the holidays. A big tip would be to give them someplace of their own when there are visitors in the house. Keep them in a room away from all the noise and bustle and from friends and family who are not so savvy on how to be nice to your loved ones. For example, they might think they are being nice by giving them scraps from the table, when your precious may not be able to handle what is given.

Casters, a great cat site, has a page devoted to keeping your pets safe. Show you care and take a minute to visit the page and scan what they have to say - the url is so long I linked it to the image they have on this page. So just click on the cute cat photo below - -

Whatcha think? I am not too sure about it myself, but maybe it will grow on me. If not, well, I will build another background graphic. Perhaps the items in the backbround are too big? maybe use same items but make them smaller? Gotta think about it. Also, not too sure about the fixed background that does not move. It is a little distracting to me.

DigiScrapStation is having a ovelay sale this week through Thursday. There are tons of overlays there on sale, including all of mine I could weed out of the list. Here are a few of mine that are on sale for just two dollars.

Here are some from the other ladies - though their prices are different

YOU CAN FIND ALL THESE PRODUCTS ON SALE BY CLICKING THIS LINK-

http://digiscrapstation.com/store/index.php?main_page=specials

To get you started in the overlay shopping mood, I have a CU Freebie for you all that is –well overlays!

Overlay Freebie

OOPS gotta redo that graphic for the download now that I have a new background!

Another sale that you all will be interested in is at Groovy Scraps. There is a Halloween Dollar Sale going on there. I have ten of my products there on sale for a dollar –even some of my actions! There are many other products on sale for this special event from the other designers. You just GOTTA check it out -starts tomorrow - Wednesday the 28th of October.

GROOVY SCRAPS PRODUCTS ON SALE MAY BE SEEN AT:

http://www.groovyscraps.com/shop/index.php?main_page=specials

Just had to let you all know that we are having a huge Photoshop Action sale at DigiScrapStation. Click on the specials category in the left column and you will find that ALL of my acitons are on sale for low, low prices. Many of them are one or two dollars with just a few exceptions being more. Karen Stimson of Wool Sweater Street also has many of her actions on sale. Here is a direct link to the Specials category:

http://digiscrapstation.com/store/index.php?main_page=specials

I also want to share with ya’ll the layout I did Sunday night with Jen of GF Designz - she had a Speed Scrap for us all and it was fun.

Guess Who

That little fella is just growing and growing. They were visiting last week and he has mastered the art of pulling up. He crawled to my chair and pulled himself up to look at what I was doing and I had to capture the moment. What a face! Later on in the visit, he did it again and I had my crochet booties on. He reached out to touch and loved how they felt so he put his little, sweet, cheek against my old, worn out booties and loved on them. Now, THAT would have been a great photo, but I just sat back and enjoyed the moment.

We’re moving right along with the Fall Daze at DigiScrapStation. Games, challenges and SALES!

This week there are paper packs on sale, next week it will be elements on sale. I’m sorry that I was not able to get many paper packs on sale, but am going right after I finish this to be sure that I get a bunch of element packs on sale for next week. The sales run Sunday through Thursday.

I have had time to create a few new Photoshop actions. Check out this one - it is my favorite of the new ones. It takes two papers and your choice of colors to create this gorgeous corsage. If you click on it you will be taken right to the page where it is sold at DigiScrapStation.

Corsage Photoshop Action

I used a cream colored paper here, but you could also use plaid, dots or whatever you want for the flowers. I ran it again for you all, but this time using different papers, patterns for both flowers and stems.

Corsage Photoshop Action

Isn’t it amazing how different you can make something by just making a few changes?

This action is not in the other stores yet, but will be soon. I also made an action for wraps using your own papers and another action that has rope silver wire. I really got a move on a week or so ago and got some action making done.Of course, once the actions are made, they have to go out for testing and quality check. But, they are back now and ready to sell!

Moving On

This past weekend I was privileged to be able to help out at a charity event at the local Harley Davidson dealership put on by a civic organization raising money for the Fine Arts in the area. It was a lavish dinner and concert by an Elvis type dude. (He was really good!) Over on the side we took photos of interested people on an awesome Harley and it was my job to print those out. It was one long night believe me, but everyone had loads of fun. At one point the owner of the dealership got on the bike with an eighty year old lady and cranked it up. It was priceless. I am sure they won’t mind me showing you this photo.They sure look like they are having a ball don’t they?

Charity Bike Ride

We worked until after midnight. The lights had gone out cause they were on automatic and they could only be over ridden so many times. But, I finally got those photos printed and the CD’s made that had been paid for. Of course, then a few days later, I had to email everyone’s photos to them as promised. We only printed one photo per setting at the party and promised the rest in the email. It was a once in a life time thing as my daughter has sworn off doing that kind of work again and she was the one who asked me to do the work.

It should not have been very taxing. I sat at the computer for five hours and printed one photo after another. I sit at the computer all day, so what was so different? Whatever it was, we were wasted the next day - good for nothing. We did not even get dressed, hubby and I that is. My daughter said they did not get up until in the afternoon.

Moving On

A Freebie was promised so here it is. It is a CU wrap and ribbon for you to use. There are two - one in color and one in gray so you can recolor it. Please don’t give this away, instead send interested parties here so they can download their own.