Guest CT call

Would you like to get my designs for free for at least one month?
I'm looking for some funtabulous scrappers to showcase my goodies in at least 3 galleries and pimp them in the forums too.
I'm super flexible and fun to work with too. I would like you to make at least 4 LOs during the month featuring my products, but you are more than welcome to use other designers products too.

Please send me an e-mail to saranohw(at)yahoo(dot)com with a link to your best gallery, the link(s) to your most active forum(s), along with your username. PLEASE place "Guest CT Call" in the subject line. Thanks!

This call will be open until May 3rd.

I will reply to all applicants on May 4th.

The lucky Guest Scrap Silly Sisters will be creating for me for the remainder of May...and some lucky girl might be asked to become a regular Silly Sister.

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I will be out of town ...... on my 40th birthday girls weekend.... YAY! ........ from Thursday until Sunday night.

see ya back here in a few days :)

Snazzy Snoodles!!!!!

ok...I am sooo excited about my Snazzy Snoodles Collection!!!
I'm sure you all will love them too....
they are just the perfect things to make all of your pages go *POP* and *WOW* more than they already do

here's a sampling...





stars, paisleys, and girl titles are also available for your enjoyment

AND.....my entire OAKS store is 39% off through Sunday, the 29th


enjoy.........and Scrap Sassy Silly!!!!

my 3 boys

first off, let me just tell you that I LOOOOOOVE Nancy Comelab's photo clusters.....they make life soooo much easier. I also loove Faith True's My Amazing Boy Kit. I'm on her CT and I can't believe it took me so long to figure out how much I really love it. I used both Nancy and Faith's items for my fun outside Easter pics in the best 2 pager LO ever. Hudson and Griffin had bunches of fun looking for their eggs, goofing around in my MIL's pool, exploring, and playing in a mud puddle at my FIL's house. Yes, it is nice that we live in Phoenix and that our weather was B-E-A-U-ti-ful!



The first page is pics from my MIL's house and the 2nd one is at my FIL's house. Notice how they have on new shorts for my FIL's? Their cute seersucker cargos were just a tad wet from playing in my MIL's pool.

You can find all credits in my DST and OAKS galleries (see links to the right). For some odd reason, I have barely been able to u/l any LOs to TheDigiChick lately. Apparently they are always too large. I resize them again & they are still too large. It's weird because I'm doing everything like I used to do there. Who knows what's up.

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now...time to brag about my oldest, Cooper.

Coop is finishing up his Junior year in high school right now. It's soooo weird to think he doesn't have much more left before he's off to college (which will be before Hudson even hits Kindergarten). Anyway, he was just honored at an awards breakfast at school earlier this week. Each of the teachers could choose one student that is outstanding and deserves special recognition. Well, he was chosen by a recipient by his Physics teacher. Coop has just under a 3.0 GPA....pretty average..........BUT...... Physics comes soooo easily to him. He has an A+ in there without even trying. He doesn't study for any tests and he gets 100% plus the extra credit on them. It's crazy! I am sooooo very proud of him. At this breakfast, he was given a medal & he had to wear it around school all day. He even gets his name up on a wall until next semester when new the next awards are given. So cool!

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and now.. a little toot for me....kind of

Lena Brandenburg HELLO'd me yesterday about her first newsletter....she asked me if I wanted free advertising by placing a little ad in it....welllll, of course I said yes. If you are interested in getting her newsletter, just go to her site & sign up. There's TONS of cool stuff in it (coupons, interviews, freebies, a plethora of goodies). Just click on her name to begin your fun with her. You can even listen to a fab song by Corrine Bailey Rae while you are visiting her.

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that's it for now....... but don't forget to scroll down to catch some of my other recent stupendous blogging ..I'm sure you'll be happy :)

my early birthday

You know how I recently told you about my girl's 40th birthday party weekend in Rocky Point, Mexico???????

Wellllllllllll...let's get that party started!!!!!!!!

to see more of Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, scroll down :)

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

........is finally available at both HODS and OAKS

it's so unbelievably HUGE!!!!!!!!!



you can get the paper pack only


or the element pack only (not everything shown in the preview)


or get the together and save $$


This is the funnest kit for all of your playground and outdoors playtime pictures! We had a ball making this kit and I am sure you will just have the time of your life with this. You can easily use it for both boys and girls. 3 alphas, 25 papers, and a HUGE variety of elements

Included for your enjoyment:
6 solid papers
19 patterned papers
3 alphas (2 look the same, but different sizes)
1 ball and jacks (the game)
1 bouncing ball
1 chain link
7 doodled colored chalk drawings
2 doodled charms
9 regular black doodles
6 painted handprints
1 heart with arrow
1 hopscotch game
1 nailhead
6 paint splotches
2 trees (one with heat carving)
6 fun wordarts
5 buttons (3 threaded)
1 ripped cardboard
1 long fence
1 short fence/gate
1 latched gate lock
1 unhooked gate lock
1 gate knob
3 flowers
2 flower stems
1 patch of grass
5 knotted ribbons
5 playground signs
1 sign post
1 screw
1 sun
2 zig zag stitches
1 messy triple stitch
and a little bit more :)

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and.......you don't want to miss this.......
Everything is 30% off at HODS on Wednesday...for Wacky Wednesday

including this brand new FABULOUSLY huge kit, Ollie Ollie Oxen Free....

all commerical and personal use items are included in the sale........you have to check it out...there really are some super super cool things

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a few requests...if you don't mind...
1) sign up for my new mailing list (at the right)
so you can find out about all future kits and sales, freebies, plus misc. other things
2) vote for my blog (at the right)
3) scroll below....a Funky Fun Flower freebie (add-on to Ollie Ollie Oxen Free)
and a little Ebayin' too
4) please leave me a comment so I can have reading
...and perhaps visit your blog too :)

sooo very NSBR

ok.....I'm not sure if I've ever blogged just solely about no scrapping stuff at all......

but ..... I just have to let you all know that I finally listed the remainder
of my Silpada Designs jewelry on Ebay

I am not a rep for them any longer .....sooo I've been selling off bits and pieces of the jewelry I don't wear at all or rarely ever wear.........
oh my.....I just absolutely love the multi-strand Turquoise necklace, but I might only wear it once or twice a year........sooooooooooo, it really isn't too practical for me to keep it

PLUS..........I NEED money.........
I'm a broke SAHM and I'm going on a girls weekend 40th birthday party
to Rocky Point, Mexico in a couple weeks.........
it's 5 girls & we are all Alpha Phi sorority sisters from Mizzou (U. of Missouri for the clueless)....
4 of us are turning 40 in May and July, the 5th turned 40 last year..................
can you believe I'll be 40 in a month?
crazy!
I think it will be hysterical since I don't look anywhere close to that old

anyway, here's the stunning Turquoise necklace I mentioned earlier...ETA: it is the necklace in my blog bio pic

to see more about it and to check out my other listings...go HERE

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and....in case you are only interested in scrapping.... you can still shop at my OAKS and HODS stores to help me have an enjoyable birthday weekend (even if it is 3 or 4 weeks before my actual birthday)

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and........ ok...... I couldn't go without blogging scrap stuff after all ......
here's a teeny sneak peek at Ollie Ollie Oxen Free.........
I just had to tease you again, didn't I?????

and....
check out Dale Ann's blog...
she might have a different preview over there ;)

The anticipation is mounting.....

oh my!!!!!!!
Dale Ann (DC Designs) and I are working on a fun fun fun collab together, Ollie Ollie Oxen Free. Oh!!!! You are going to absolutely love it!!!!!!!!
I can't believe some of the coolest things we have for this.
We will have it in both of our stores (HODS and OAKS) this weekend.
For now, the only sneak peek you are getting............
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this blog freebie, Funky Fun Flower ..
This is not in our kit.....BUT....... three similar flowers are in it......
so, this is like a sneak peek add-on
download HERE
(special thanks to Atomic Cupcake)
and please leave me some love if you grab this.....
and please do not share this file...
but please feel free to link people over here :)

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I added 3 new blinkies to my siggie at DST today ....

I have 1348 posts as of this moment.




This is sooo super cool. You all will love this place when it opens it's doors!




TheDigiDepot is a fabulous forum from Alma to share LOs, share new designs, designers sales & specials, and commercial ok items

feel free to grab a blinkie if you'd like
(and while you're at it, grab my wannabee too...it's over on the right)

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and now......
a new LO that I did with my Hudson's Airplanes Page Kit and my Messy Black Alpha.....
you can grab both of them HERE

credits and journaling HERE

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a couple more new things on my blog....
vote for my blog on the right :)
and...
feel free to subscribe to my blog ...you'll know whenever I update my blog

Crazy Griffin...a challenge...and a surprise

this morning started out of so lovely.....
Griffin decided to hop out of his crib...I found out by his cry......so not good...........he'll be 18 months next week so we aren't ready for him to do this on a consistent basis yet....I'm just hoping that he learned his lesson when he realized that he doesn't know how to climb out of it yet without falling.....I guess I'll find out when he's done with his nap
..then....
a little bit later, he decided to shake his sippy cup all over his head (do you think his brother showed him how to do that????).....he looked so sweet with little white drippings of milk dripping from his hair and his shoulders...........this is one of the odd times that I didn't grab the camera before cleaning up the mess...oh well

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welllllll......I'm now hosting the Cheat Sheets Challenge over at OAKS...yay!!!!!! I really love the template I designed for this one...don't you?

and here's the LO I did for it...it's Hudson with Nana playing music together on Easter a couple days ago
credits: template by Sara Ellis for the OAKS April Cheat Sheet Challenge
Cinnamon Swirls and My Dirty Boy Kits by Faith True at OAKS
Easy Peasy Folded Corner set #4 by Karah Fredricks at TheDigiChick
font is Guanine

As long as you participate in at least half of the challenges at OAKS, you will receive a fabulous collab kit. How cool is that?????

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now....just for the fun of it..... for one week...use coupon code crazyGriffin at OAKS and receive 25% off my goodies...all personal and commercial use items .....please enjoy!

Happy Easter!!

I hope all of you have one super duper funtabulous Easter with your friends and family!!!!!! We have one very busy day ahead for us. We are starting out at my MIL's house for brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt, then heading over to my FIL's house for an early dinner. Hopefully the boys can squeeze a nap in sometime.

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Well....thank you sooo much for loving my Torn Up sample so extremely much!!!! I really hope you are enjoying it! I've caught a few in LOs in the DST gallery and I have left comments on the ones I've seen so far. I will keep looking around for more too to see how you've used them.

Since it has been d/l almost 1000 times (WOW!), I have now removed the freebie link. Please take a gander over to my OAKS store to catch the beginnings of my collection. I'm sure you will love the assortment in each set I have.

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While you are over at OAKS today, please be sure to play in our fun Easter Egg Hunt game. Today is the 3 rd day to grab the last 3rd of our Easter Egg Mega Collab. All of our fab Design Team chipped in to make this one incredible kit. You can catch some hints d/l HERE.

Happy Easter!!

I hope all of you have one super duper funtabulous Easter with your friends and family!!!!!! We have one very busy day ahead for us. We are starting out at my MIL's house for brunch and an Easter Egg Hunt, then heading over to my FIL's house for an early dinner. Hopefully the boys can squeeze a nap in sometime.

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Well....thank you sooo much for loving my Torn Up sample so extremely much!!!! I really hope you are enjoying it! I've caught a few in LOs in the DST gallery and I have left comments on the ones I've seen so far. I will keep looking around for more too to see how you've used them.

Since it has been d/l almost 1000 times (WOW!), I have now removed the freebie link. Please take a gander over to my OAKS store to catch the beginnings of my collection. I'm sure you will love the assortment in each set I have.

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While you are over at OAKS today, please be sure to play in our fun Easter Egg Hunt game. Today is the 3 rd day to grab the last 3rd of our Easter Egg Mega Collab. All of our fab Design Team chipped in to make this one incredible kit. You can catch some hints d/l HERE.

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It's Tiiiiiiiiiiiime!!!!!

My Torn Up sneak peek has been such a fabulous hit and I am sooo absolutely thrilled about it!
Thank you so much!
If you are ready for more....which I am sure you've just got to be.........
wellllll, the beginning of my Collection is in my OAKS store right now.
Both sets are available for personal and commercial usage.
Something to please everyone! Yay!!!!!!























I really wanted to get the 3rd set in the store at the same time, but that probably won't even happen until next week.

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Besides the announcement of these fab goodies........ OAKS is all about fun this weekend ............
almost every item in the entire store is on sale for 30% off
(personal and commercial...HOORAY!)
.......... AND........
there's a super fun Egg Hunt going on right now too ........
you just have to hop hop hop on over there so you won't miss out!and...if all this fun isn't enough.............there's MORE!...oh yea! you better believe it!
As I mentioned yesterday, our New Gift with Purchase is now a mega collab kit...and it's for the entire month of April
Sooooo...are you just hopping out of your seat excited right now??????
This surely is one funtabulous way to begin your weekend, isn't it???

Splishy Splash

Last night I scored the most fun bath pics ever!!!!!! Hudson was the biggest ham. He's been that way a lot recently, but it takes a bit to get a great smile out of Griffin. Grif has such a fab smile, he just doesn't show it too ofter for pics. Welllllll...it's been probably 3 weeks since I have scrapped anything. I just had to take a break for design stuff and forums to scrap these pics...I just had to do that. It turned out sooooo cute! Dontcha think??????

I'm having the toughest time this morning u/l it to the DST and TDC galleries...so not fun! At least I did get it u/l to the OAKS gallery. You can check out the long list of credits HERE. I used one of my Torn Up corner templates. The Torn Up Collection will be available in my stores this weekend (personal and commercial usage). One sneak peek FREEBIE is below. YAY! Why don't you scroll down and take it for a test drive?

and...can I just say WOW! thank you all sooooooo much for your fab lovin' about my Torn Up sneak peek!!!!!! As of right now it's been d/l over 700 times (even though I've only received 33 blog comments).....and I have had over 1600 hits between yesterday and this morning.... to me, that's impressive! I don't think I've ever had anything quite this popular yet. I'm really really hoping that it is a good sign for the release of them this weekend. I will have 3 sets available for my Torn Up Collection. So much fun! and...time to hit the rewind button...they'll be available for commercial usage too. Look at all the fun that can be had by all!

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a little sidenote about Hudson....he had a good night sleeping last night...YAY! ...that is until some stupid wrong number called at 5:30 this morning and woke him up ..........he still has his lovely sea lion voice from his Croup...but it's definitely better......hopefully we'll be able to get out of the house tomorrow

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another little shameless plug for this little goodie
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you never know what kind of fun surprise could end up your way if I see you sportin' it around? (some day I'll update my side bar and just throw it over there...along with some other blinkies)

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oh!!! I almost forgot..... OAKS has been handing out a mini kit by a different designer every couple of weeks with each purchase over $10 ............welllllll, as of today or tomorrow, each gift with purchase will be a super funtabulous collab kit from our entire DT......
sooooooo, here is our first one, The Colour of Spring...

Aren't you so super anxious already????

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ya know...this blog post was only going to be about my LO.....HA!!!!!...I always have something else to ramble about, don't I?

finally.....a blog FREEBIE

it seems like forever since I have handed out a little goodie to you, my blogger friends ....... soooo, now is the time

I've been in a paper tearing mood lately (all digitally, of course).......in a day or two I will have my fabulous Torn Up templates available in my stores to make your paper tearing life soooo much easier ....

for now....please enjoy this little Torn Up Sneak Peek ... a corner torn paper template ...it is available in both .PSD and .TIFF files so everyone can have a blast with them ....
instructions are included


download REMOVED 4/8/06 go HERE to grab more

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Hudson is a little sicky again. He had a fever off and on a couple days ago and then Tuesday morning it turned into an ugly raspy cough that hurts him. Sooooo, we saw his pediatrician and he actually has something that isn't just a regular virus....he has Croup. So not fun for him...the cough is so much worse at night and early in the morning. At least he's been asleep now for a couple hours. Hopefully he ends up sleeping the rest of the night. Since it's almost 2 am I better go get some sleep myself since he'll probably wake me up before 6....fun for me, huh?

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as always....please scroll down to see if you've missed anything....and then please please leave me a comment when you grab this sneak peek

another SALE...and it's H*U*G*E!!!!!

ok....this is short and sweet.......

I added a bunch of new goodies to my HODS store (link to the right) ........and....everything is 40% off through April 1st.....soooooooo, you better skidaddle on over there super quick!!!!!

this includes all commercial and personal use items...woo-hoo!!!!!!!

here's a little sampling of what you can find ...


ONLY $1.50 - $11.10 while on sale

and


ONLY $1.20 - $3.30 while on sale






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don't forget to leave me some lovin'....I really do love reading all of your comments

Curiosity....the kit and freebie

What? When? How? Why? Where?

Do you ever get tired of getting pestered about those things?

now available in my OAKS store..... Curiosity ....

the Element Pack, Paper Pack, and Alpha Add-On are all available separately.... or you can save a little bit by getting the Element & Paper combo

How would you like to get the Curiosity Alpha for free? Just purchase $5 or more in goodies from my OAKS store and you'll get it at as a bonus at checkout. Hip Hip Hooray for you!



















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now..... to showcase some of My Scrap Silly Sisters' Layouts.... both of these were made with the same template in my Silly Circles Templates Set....Isn't it so fab how they both turned out soooo completely different?


Girl in Flowers by Kille Enna


Baby Feet by Jeanelle Paige

(who knows what I did to make it so that Jeanelle's LO was so much larger than Kille's
but it's going to stay like it is because I don't feel like figuring it out right now)

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ok...now Dale Ann/DC Designs and I are still looking for a fab idea for our collab kit ..... if we choose your idea, you'll get our kit for free (so you better leave your e-mail address with your idea).........and you know it will be so absolutely fab with the two of us working together :)

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Be sure to scroll down....you might find a fun blinkie to pick up and sport around :)

ouchie ouch

Yesterday I went to the Air Show at Luke AFB with Cooper (my 16 yo son) and my FIL. It was a very cool show and we all had a great time together ......... BUT....... I was stupid and didn't wear any sunscreen. HELLO! 6+ hours in 80+ degree temp in Phoenix on a cement airstrip = SUNBURN! I need to have someone take a pic of my face. I look like I was snow skiing with big goggles. Oversized shades do the same thing to a face. I need to even out my lines badly. I have beautiful lines from my shades, bermuda shorts and tank top. We went to the pool this afternoon and I looked hysterical in my bikini (white belly & white bug eyes). Here are a couple snapshots of Coop taking a tiny 5 minute snooze waiting for the Thunderbirds to begin their show and one of my burnt legs (with a couple hours still to go....and what a bad view...it just makes my hips look HUGE).




















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welllll....tomorrow is Hudson's 2nd day of Little People Child Enrichment Class...it's kind of like a preschool to preschool..... it's only 1 hour a week ....it's sooooo super cute... there are only about ten 2.5 - 3 year olds in this class and they squeeze in play time, school time for months, numbers, & letters, story time, music time, and a little bit of coloring all into this class.... you have to keep moving fast to entertain little kids this age

doesn't he look adorable for his 1st day last week?

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yes... I do need to scrap these, don't I????? they are definitely on my to do list

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ok...if you don't already know....I started selling some commercial goodies about a week and a half ago...........
and my latest addition to my OAKS store are my Practical Papers, paper templates (better than overlays)
Every Practical Paper Template has at least 4 layers (including the background) in .PSD format. This will allow you to use several colors for one piece of paper. You can have varied opacities for each of the layers too, as well as adding a splash of a pattern to one layer with CNTRL G. You can have at least 2 colors for every piece of unique paper you create. How fun and colorful!

find them HERE

The PNG versions will be coming soon.







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oh.... I realized I've never shared one of my newest favorite sites with you... it's MissTina's super fun one.... you just have to check it out ...you'll be a huge fan of hers too

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Dale Ann (DC Designs) and I are going to team up for a fab collab kit.... and it will be available at both HODS and OAKS ..........but first we need some help from you....we want to hear from you....what theme would you like to see? if we happen to choose your idea, you will win the finished kit...so please leave your e-mail address in your response :)

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welllllllll......now here's a special goodie for you........
go shopping in my OAKS store and get 25% off your purchase ........
just use coupon code "ouchsunburn" ....
but you need to hurry..this is only valid March 27th and 28th

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don't forget to grab this

you never know what good luck might shine your way if I catch you sporting this around

Vegas Party!!!!!!!!!

I'm leaving for Las Vegas in a couple hours. Sooooooooooooo....I'd like you to party in my OAKS store while I'm partying in Vegas :) ..... Have fun!!!!!!!!



Please scroll down to see my fun fun funtabulous stuff that I blogged about super early this morning. You'll love it soooo mush..and so will Paypal. :)